Andrew Pope
@andrewpope.bsky.social
I just like movies. Especially horror movies.
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Member: Horror Critics Group | Film Critics Association
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Member: Horror Critics Group | Film Critics Association
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100 Horror Movies in 92 Days - 2025
A list of 100 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Weapons (2025), Alpha (2025), Hallow Road (2025), Ju-on: The Curse (2000) and Boorman and the Devil (2025).
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By the skin of my teeth I completed
“100 Horror Movies in 92 Days”
(h/t @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social)
Here’s what I watched, and yes, I did what you should always do with art - I ranked them.
“100 Horror Movies in 92 Days”
(h/t @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social)
Here’s what I watched, and yes, I did what you should always do with art - I ranked them.
She’s back, and she’s smaller than ever.
Cinema’s favourite micro-bitch returns in ORPHAN 3: ORPHANS. Now filming with Isabelle Fuhrman in Budapest, this is reportedly “the wildest Orphan movie yet.”
Cinema’s favourite micro-bitch returns in ORPHAN 3: ORPHANS. Now filming with Isabelle Fuhrman in Budapest, this is reportedly “the wildest Orphan movie yet.”
Isabelle Fuhrman returns as filming kicks off on Orphan 3: Orphans
Filming is underway in Budapest on Orphans, the third Orphan film, with Isabelle Fuhrman once again playing cinema’s favourite micro-bitch.
whitlockandpope.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
She’s back, and she’s smaller than ever.
Cinema’s favourite micro-bitch returns in ORPHAN 3: ORPHANS. Now filming with Isabelle Fuhrman in Budapest, this is reportedly “the wildest Orphan movie yet.”
Cinema’s favourite micro-bitch returns in ORPHAN 3: ORPHANS. Now filming with Isabelle Fuhrman in Budapest, this is reportedly “the wildest Orphan movie yet.”
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As we look toward next year & make preparations for horror events, organizers, I IMPLORE you to diversify your Women in Horror panels!
Perspectives are SO important in the genre, so let me help you. Starting off:
160 BLACK WOMEN IN HORROR.
Find wherever books are sold! Find your new faves here. 👻
Perspectives are SO important in the genre, so let me help you. Starting off:
160 BLACK WOMEN IN HORROR.
Find wherever books are sold! Find your new faves here. 👻
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
As we look toward next year & make preparations for horror events, organizers, I IMPLORE you to diversify your Women in Horror panels!
Perspectives are SO important in the genre, so let me help you. Starting off:
160 BLACK WOMEN IN HORROR.
Find wherever books are sold! Find your new faves here. 👻
Perspectives are SO important in the genre, so let me help you. Starting off:
160 BLACK WOMEN IN HORROR.
Find wherever books are sold! Find your new faves here. 👻
Another round with the lads today: Ryan Coogler, Miles Caton, and one out of either Michael A. or Michael B. Jordan.
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Another round with the lads today: Ryan Coogler, Miles Caton, and one out of either Michael A. or Michael B. Jordan.
Reposted by Andrew Pope
And he ended it with a quote from Byron. Give me a fucking break. I quit
Mary Shelley: I am going to write a novel about how men, to the misery and folly of the world, think they understand everything better than women, including making new life!
Male filmmakers: I understand the story of Frankenstein much better than its author
Male filmmakers: I understand the story of Frankenstein much better than its author
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
And he ended it with a quote from Byron. Give me a fucking break. I quit
I’m still on the hunt for anything that might break into this, but as things stand this is looking like my top dozen of the year. 📽️
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I’m still on the hunt for anything that might break into this, but as things stand this is looking like my top dozen of the year. 📽️
Rewatch confirms:
Five stars, film of the year.
Five stars, film of the year.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Rewatch confirms:
Five stars, film of the year.
Five stars, film of the year.
Box set cover art pictured below.
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Box set cover art pictured below.
I’m into end-of-year catchup mode.
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I’m into end-of-year catchup mode.
Sentimental Value is out today in some US locations. UK/Ireland on Boxing day. It’s (and please excuse my poetic turn of phrase here) very good.
Sentimental Value – LFF review
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value – winner of the Cannes Grand Prix – is his most intimate film yet: a tender reckoning with art and family, anchored by unforgettable performances from …
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November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Sentimental Value is out today in some US locations. UK/Ireland on Boxing day. It’s (and please excuse my poetic turn of phrase here) very good.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to think this! GDT’s Frankenstein makes the subtext text, and falls over itself to protect the unimpeachable innocence and moral superiority of its creature. Mary Shelley was smarter than this. Beautiful gowns though.
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to think this! GDT’s Frankenstein makes the subtext text, and falls over itself to protect the unimpeachable innocence and moral superiority of its creature. Mary Shelley was smarter than this. Beautiful gowns though.
While I found Bi Gan’s Resurrection to be a bit of a curate’s egg, it does have some of the most glorious flourishes in modern cinema. It’s nothing if not a series of big swings, some connecting, some not, and for anyone who loves cinema as transcendent dream-dive it’s an absolute must-see.
Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
While I found Bi Gan’s Resurrection to be a bit of a curate’s egg, it does have some of the most glorious flourishes in modern cinema. It’s nothing if not a series of big swings, some connecting, some not, and for anyone who loves cinema as transcendent dream-dive it’s an absolute must-see.
“General Intelligence” in “key tasks.”
So, not general.
So, not general.
AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here on.ft.com/3JERVRg
AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here
Tech leaders say systems now rival human intelligence in key tasks, further fuelling the superintelligence debate
on.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“General Intelligence” in “key tasks.”
So, not general.
So, not general.
Insane how many people are angry at this article on the basis of its *sarcastic* headline. Simply not even checking the content, straight to social media to sound off instead!
Something something media literacy.
Something something media literacy.
People are doing that thing where they're getting mad about a clickbait headline that does not represent the content of the actual article. David French's "How Woman Destroyed the West" is a direct rebuttal/criticism of a speech made by a conservative woman who made the headlines argument.
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Insane how many people are angry at this article on the basis of its *sarcastic* headline. Simply not even checking the content, straight to social media to sound off instead!
Something something media literacy.
Something something media literacy.
Britain’s newest national treasure 🥰
a man in a suit and bow tie stands in front of a chandelier with his eyes closed and # taskmaster written on the bottom
ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie stands in front of a chandelier with his eyes closed and # taskmaster written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Britain’s newest national treasure 🥰
He’s busy trying to remember which order those zoo animals came in.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
He’s busy trying to remember which order those zoo animals came in.
I love getting these subscription emails. It’s already paid for, long ago, so it feels like a gift from past me to current me. Some months I might be getting three movies. This month… wait… thirteen? ❤️🔥
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I love getting these subscription emails. It’s already paid for, long ago, so it feels like a gift from past me to current me. Some months I might be getting three movies. This month… wait… thirteen? ❤️🔥
I cannot emphasise enough that they had to reshoot almost the entire third act of the movie, because it broke a 90s settlement clause with one of Jackson’s abuse accusers - one that forbade the Jackson estate from portraying him as a villain. Apparently that’s exactly what the original ending did. 🙃
Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in the new biopic ‘MICHAEL’
In theaters on April 24, 2026.
In theaters on April 24, 2026.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I cannot emphasise enough that they had to reshoot almost the entire third act of the movie, because it broke a 90s settlement clause with one of Jackson’s abuse accusers - one that forbade the Jackson estate from portraying him as a villain. Apparently that’s exactly what the original ending did. 🙃
[george costanza voice] hey, I’ll be honest, certain events in the film were created for the purposes of dramatization
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
[george costanza voice] hey, I’ll be honest, certain events in the film were created for the purposes of dramatization
THE BLACK PHONE 2: The lads have done it again!*
*Delivered a watchable 3-star horror film that’s reasonably entertaining but fails to rise above its influences.
*Delivered a watchable 3-star horror film that’s reasonably entertaining but fails to rise above its influences.
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
THE BLACK PHONE 2: The lads have done it again!*
*Delivered a watchable 3-star horror film that’s reasonably entertaining but fails to rise above its influences.
*Delivered a watchable 3-star horror film that’s reasonably entertaining but fails to rise above its influences.
Interesting that US critics are enjoying Predator Badlands a lot more this week than UK critics did last week. Differing tastes? The UK critics seemed to include a lot more horror journalists, who were disappointed in its “PG-13” quality, and seemed to think it was weak sauce
with no visceral punch.
with no visceral punch.
a poster for predator badlands features a woman
ALT: a poster for predator badlands features a woman
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Interesting that US critics are enjoying Predator Badlands a lot more this week than UK critics did last week. Differing tastes? The UK critics seemed to include a lot more horror journalists, who were disappointed in its “PG-13” quality, and seemed to think it was weak sauce
with no visceral punch.
with no visceral punch.
I was going to say “live laugh legislate” but then I remembered about the separation of powers.
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I was going to say “live laugh legislate” but then I remembered about the separation of powers.
If you like Japanese crime cinema, surely there’s no label on Earth more exciting than @filmsradiance.bsky.social right now.
🇯🇵❤️🔥
🇯🇵❤️🔥
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you like Japanese crime cinema, surely there’s no label on Earth more exciting than @filmsradiance.bsky.social right now.
🇯🇵❤️🔥
🇯🇵❤️🔥
Good job everybody.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Good job everybody.