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Popping over to check the Twitter feed after a while away:
Having checked our Google Analytics for the first time in months, apparently a whopping 0.04% of our readers are reading our articles on a 4K smart TV. #purecinema
January 29, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Having checked our Google Analytics for the first time in months, apparently a whopping 0.04% of our readers are reading our articles on a 4K smart TV. #purecinema
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We're back! With spicy takes like "tech-noir" isn't a real genre.
Our pod is back! In the first of our new TAKE ONE Presents series, @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss The Terminator: “tech-noir”, 1980s-ness & interesting sense of temporality; the immediacy, sexual politics & feminism through action heroines; nuclear anxiety & AGI ideas:
TAKE ONE | Episode 1 - The Terminator (1984) | Pod With Us if You Want To Live
TAKE ONE Presents… is back for a new series covering the Terminator franchise. In this first episode, Simon and Jim discuss James Cameron’s THE TERMINATOR. We talk about how the film came about…
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January 28, 2026 at 10:34 AM
We're back! With spicy takes like "tech-noir" isn't a real genre.
Our pod is back! In the first of our new TAKE ONE Presents series, @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss The Terminator: “tech-noir”, 1980s-ness & interesting sense of temporality; the immediacy, sexual politics & feminism through action heroines; nuclear anxiety & AGI ideas:
TAKE ONE | Episode 1 - The Terminator (1984) | Pod With Us if You Want To Live
TAKE ONE Presents… is back for a new series covering the Terminator franchise. In this first episode, Simon and Jim discuss James Cameron’s THE TERMINATOR. We talk about how the film came about…
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January 28, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Our pod is back! In the first of our new TAKE ONE Presents series, @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss The Terminator: “tech-noir”, 1980s-ness & interesting sense of temporality; the immediacy, sexual politics & feminism through action heroines; nuclear anxiety & AGI ideas:
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“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always a prelude to fascism.”
- Guillermo del Toro
- Guillermo del Toro
January 25, 2026 at 7:54 AM
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always a prelude to fascism.”
- Guillermo del Toro
- Guillermo del Toro
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‘Reports about Alderaan’s explosion are conflicting,’ reports BBC News. ‘The Emperor says a “defensive shot” was fired, while others claim the planet was destroyed in an unprovoked attack’
January 25, 2026 at 7:49 AM
‘Reports about Alderaan’s explosion are conflicting,’ reports BBC News. ‘The Emperor says a “defensive shot” was fired, while others claim the planet was destroyed in an unprovoked attack’
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Little slow to publication with my review of MARTY SUPREME, but have a read - it's a film I had (but also needed!) a lot of time for. Review for @takeonecinema.net below!
"By the time MARTY SUPREME finishes batting balls at you and falls to the floor in exhaustion, the chaos left in its path is at once maddening and impressive." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: buff.ly/Jx0aOUJ #filmsky #cinema
Marty Supreme | TAKE ONE | Reviews
By the time MARTY SUPREME finishes batting balls at you and falls to the floor in exhaustion, the chaos left in its path is at once maddening and impressive.
takeonecinema.net
January 15, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Little slow to publication with my review of MARTY SUPREME, but have a read - it's a film I had (but also needed!) a lot of time for. Review for @takeonecinema.net below!
"By the time MARTY SUPREME finishes batting balls at you and falls to the floor in exhaustion, the chaos left in its path is at once maddening and impressive." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: buff.ly/Jx0aOUJ #filmsky #cinema
Marty Supreme | TAKE ONE | Reviews
By the time MARTY SUPREME finishes batting balls at you and falls to the floor in exhaustion, the chaos left in its path is at once maddening and impressive.
takeonecinema.net
January 15, 2026 at 1:56 PM
"By the time MARTY SUPREME finishes batting balls at you and falls to the floor in exhaustion, the chaos left in its path is at once maddening and impressive." - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: buff.ly/Jx0aOUJ #filmsky #cinema
The Feb 25th opening gala of @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social will be EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET: a new film from Nae Pasaran director Felipe Bustos Sierra covering the Kenmure Street protests in May 2021, when neighbours & locals induced the release of two men taken from their home by the Home Office.
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM
The Feb 25th opening gala of @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social will be EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET: a new film from Nae Pasaran director Felipe Bustos Sierra covering the Kenmure Street protests in May 2021, when neighbours & locals induced the release of two men taken from their home by the Home Office.
RIP to the legend Béla Tarr. We were lucky to have Mike O'Brien, now trustee of @camfilmfest.com, reflect on Tarr's career all the way back in 2012 in the wake of the UK release of The Turin Horse: takeonecinema.net/2012/focus-o...
Focus On: Béla Tarr | TAKE ONE |
Mike O'Brien takes us through the work of Béla Tarr, the "most uncompromising of filmmakers" whose film THE TURIN HORSE is on release this week.
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January 7, 2026 at 9:22 AM
RIP to the legend Béla Tarr. We were lucky to have Mike O'Brien, now trustee of @camfilmfest.com, reflect on Tarr's career all the way back in 2012 in the wake of the UK release of The Turin Horse: takeonecinema.net/2012/focus-o...
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Loved @takeonecinema.net’s analyses of the M:I, Jurassic and Alien films, so very looking forward to this.
Seems a good time to mention our new series on ‘TAKE ONE Presents…’: Pod With Us if You Want to Live, covering all films in the Terminator franchise. We’re changing the title format, but not the approach. Join @jimgr.bsky.social & @simonxix.com Jan 28 for The Terminator! buff.ly/JYP0K7v
Pod With Us If You Want To Live | TAKE ONE | Podcasts
‘TAKE ONE Presents…’ is back for a new series covering the Terminator franchise. Once again, Associate Editor Simon Bowie and Editor-in-Chief Jim Ross look to contextualise the franchise, looking at…
takeonecinema.net
January 5, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Loved @takeonecinema.net’s analyses of the M:I, Jurassic and Alien films, so very looking forward to this.
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We're starting a new series of TAKE ONE Presents podcast for 2026. If you've never listened before, @jimgr.bsky.social and I do semi-naïve readings of blockbuster franchise films, attempting to situate the films in their historical context and read them without the cultural baggage.
Seems a good time to mention our new series on ‘TAKE ONE Presents…’: Pod With Us if You Want to Live, covering all films in the Terminator franchise. We’re changing the title format, but not the approach. Join @jimgr.bsky.social & @simonxix.com Jan 28 for The Terminator! buff.ly/JYP0K7v
Pod With Us If You Want To Live | TAKE ONE | Podcasts
‘TAKE ONE Presents…’ is back for a new series covering the Terminator franchise. Once again, Associate Editor Simon Bowie and Editor-in-Chief Jim Ross look to contextualise the franchise, looking at…
takeonecinema.net
January 5, 2026 at 10:59 AM
We're starting a new series of TAKE ONE Presents podcast for 2026. If you've never listened before, @jimgr.bsky.social and I do semi-naïve readings of blockbuster franchise films, attempting to situate the films in their historical context and read them without the cultural baggage.
Seems a good time to mention our new series on ‘TAKE ONE Presents…’: Pod With Us if You Want to Live, covering all films in the Terminator franchise. We’re changing the title format, but not the approach. Join @jimgr.bsky.social & @simonxix.com Jan 28 for The Terminator! buff.ly/JYP0K7v
Pod With Us If You Want To Live | TAKE ONE | Podcasts
‘TAKE ONE Presents…’ is back for a new series covering the Terminator franchise. Once again, Associate Editor Simon Bowie and Editor-in-Chief Jim Ross look to contextualise the franchise, looking at…
takeonecinema.net
January 5, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Seems a good time to mention our new series on ‘TAKE ONE Presents…’: Pod With Us if You Want to Live, covering all films in the Terminator franchise. We’re changing the title format, but not the approach. Join @jimgr.bsky.social & @simonxix.com Jan 28 for The Terminator! buff.ly/JYP0K7v
We hope to bring you more of our great writers’ reviews and thoughts on cinema in 2026 - a whole fifteen years since we launched! This week we’ll be posting some of our favourite pieces from each person who contributed in 2025, as well as sharing some of our plans for this year!
January 3, 2026 at 9:50 AM
We hope to bring you more of our great writers’ reviews and thoughts on cinema in 2026 - a whole fifteen years since we launched! This week we’ll be posting some of our favourite pieces from each person who contributed in 2025, as well as sharing some of our plans for this year!
Your recyclables…give them to me, now.
January 1, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Your recyclables…give them to me, now.
Happy New Year! May 2026 be a great year for you and cinema! 🎉
January 1, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Happy New Year! May 2026 be a great year for you and cinema! 🎉
Mia Humphreys talks to the Director of HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE, Eleanor Mortimer, about her experience living with ocean taxonomists for two months, her filmmaking inspirations and the limitations of being an observer: takeonecinema.net/2025/eleanor...
Eleanor Mortimer & How Deep is Your Love | TAKE ONE | Interviews
Director Eleanor Mortimer talks about her experience living with the taxonomists for two months, her filmmaking inspirations and the limitations of being an observer.
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December 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Mia Humphreys talks to the Director of HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE, Eleanor Mortimer, about her experience living with ocean taxonomists for two months, her filmmaking inspirations and the limitations of being an observer: takeonecinema.net/2025/eleanor...
Merry Christmas! 🎄 🎁
December 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Merry Christmas! 🎄 🎁
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Merry Christmas all! @simonxix.com & I bring you our last episode of ‘TAKE ONE Presents’ for the year, and it’s our wrap up episode of The Impossipod, where we take a step back to reflect on the franchise as a whole and give our series rankings.
The Impossipod wraps up: @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss the overall trajectory of the #MissionImpossible franchise, what the directors went on to do, the politics, their franchise rankings, & how this ties into wider thoughts on blockbuster franchise filmmaking: buff.ly/MsIOxWa #filmsky
The Impossipod | Podcasts | TAKE ONE | Episode 9: Outro
Simon and Jim wrap up The Impossipod series with a discussion about the overall trajectory of the Mission: Impossible franchise, what the directors of these films went on to do, the politics of these…
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December 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Merry Christmas all! @simonxix.com & I bring you our last episode of ‘TAKE ONE Presents’ for the year, and it’s our wrap up episode of The Impossipod, where we take a step back to reflect on the franchise as a whole and give our series rankings.
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Listen to our final thoughts on the turbulent Mission: Impossible franchise. We return next year to cover a different blockbuster franchise.
The Impossipod wraps up: @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss the overall trajectory of the #MissionImpossible franchise, what the directors went on to do, the politics, their franchise rankings, & how this ties into wider thoughts on blockbuster franchise filmmaking: buff.ly/MsIOxWa #filmsky
The Impossipod | Podcasts | TAKE ONE | Episode 9: Outro
Simon and Jim wrap up The Impossipod series with a discussion about the overall trajectory of the Mission: Impossible franchise, what the directors of these films went on to do, the politics of these…
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December 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Listen to our final thoughts on the turbulent Mission: Impossible franchise. We return next year to cover a different blockbuster franchise.
To say this in the year Brett Ratner directed and produced a Melania Trump political documentary with a $40M budget and premiering at the Kennedy-Von Clownstick Center seems to be an egregious error.
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
To say this in the year Brett Ratner directed and produced a Melania Trump political documentary with a $40M budget and premiering at the Kennedy-Von Clownstick Center seems to be an egregious error.
The Impossipod wraps up: @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss the overall trajectory of the #MissionImpossible franchise, what the directors went on to do, the politics, their franchise rankings, & how this ties into wider thoughts on blockbuster franchise filmmaking: buff.ly/MsIOxWa #filmsky
The Impossipod | Podcasts | TAKE ONE | Episode 9: Outro
Simon and Jim wrap up The Impossipod series with a discussion about the overall trajectory of the Mission: Impossible franchise, what the directors of these films went on to do, the politics of these…
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Impossipod wraps up: @simonxix.com & @jimgr.bsky.social discuss the overall trajectory of the #MissionImpossible franchise, what the directors went on to do, the politics, their franchise rankings, & how this ties into wider thoughts on blockbuster franchise filmmaking: buff.ly/MsIOxWa #filmsky
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Finishing up my year by banging on about a second really good football doc. This time we’re going global with my spiel about football & football fandom as a tool for understanding communities & societies, with Ragnhild Ekner’s ULTRAS out of #LFF a couple of months ago. Review for @takeonecinema.net!
“[#ULTRAS demonstrates that #football] is not an escape from society, or even a reflection of it – it is a key thread running through the tapestry of communities across the globe.” - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews the documentary on fanatical fans from #RagnhildEkner: takeonecinema.net/2025/ultras/
Ultras | TAKE ONE | Reviews
ULTRAS highlights how football is not an escape from society, or even a reflection of it - it is a key thread running through the tapestry of communities across the globe.
takeonecinema.net
December 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Finishing up my year by banging on about a second really good football doc. This time we’re going global with my spiel about football & football fandom as a tool for understanding communities & societies, with Ragnhild Ekner’s ULTRAS out of #LFF a couple of months ago. Review for @takeonecinema.net!
“[#ULTRAS demonstrates that #football] is not an escape from society, or even a reflection of it – it is a key thread running through the tapestry of communities across the globe.” - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews the documentary on fanatical fans from #RagnhildEkner: takeonecinema.net/2025/ultras/
Ultras | TAKE ONE | Reviews
ULTRAS highlights how football is not an escape from society, or even a reflection of it - it is a key thread running through the tapestry of communities across the globe.
takeonecinema.net
December 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“[#ULTRAS demonstrates that #football] is not an escape from society, or even a reflection of it – it is a key thread running through the tapestry of communities across the globe.” - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews the documentary on fanatical fans from #RagnhildEkner: takeonecinema.net/2025/ultras/
“HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE is a thoughtful & beautiful exploration into one of the last holdouts of unexplored territory; a gentle yet deep dive into a world we seldom have access to & that director Eleanor Mortimer urges us to try & protect.” - Mia Humphreys reviews: takeonecinema.net/2025/how-dee...
How Deep is Your Love | TAKE ONE | Reviews
HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE is a thoughtful and beautiful exploration into one of the last holdouts of unexplored territory; a gentle yet deep dive into a world we seldom have access to, and that director Eleanor...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE is a thoughtful & beautiful exploration into one of the last holdouts of unexplored territory; a gentle yet deep dive into a world we seldom have access to & that director Eleanor Mortimer urges us to try & protect.” - Mia Humphreys reviews: takeonecinema.net/2025/how-dee...
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Some reviews from me over the next short while to round off the year. First up is KENNY DALGLISH, which I had an obvious interest in, but it’s really good beyond the football. If you’ve been avoiding as non-football-fan, then don’t. Review for @takeonecinema.net: takeonecinema.net/2025/kenny-d...
Kenny Dalglish | TAKE ONE | Reviews
KENNY DALGLISH provides an extended example not only of how sport, politics, and social justice can intersect, but also of why they should, whilst being mindful of the cost to those who feel they must...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Some reviews from me over the next short while to round off the year. First up is KENNY DALGLISH, which I had an obvious interest in, but it’s really good beyond the football. If you’ve been avoiding as non-football-fan, then don’t. Review for @takeonecinema.net: takeonecinema.net/2025/kenny-d...