Dominic Busby
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For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.
Freedom Now!: a starter pack of 24 films about the Civil Rights Movement and Black liberation • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Robert Daniels recommends 24 films that shed light on the Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing fight for Black liberation in America.
boxd.it
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.
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A fantastic #FilmNoir on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 00:05am; The Lineup (1958) starring Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson and directed by the great Don Siegel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
A fantastic #FilmNoir on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 00:05am; The Lineup (1958) starring Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson and directed by the great Don Siegel.
Tonight’s movie, BAY OF ANGELS (Demy, 1963)…
January 19, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Tonight’s movie, BAY OF ANGELS (Demy, 1963)…
January 18, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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I was 🤙stoked🤙 write about seven of my favorite LA movies for this list: SUNSET BLVD, COLLATERAL, SHORT CUTS, STRANGE DAYS, SWINGERS, VALLEY GIRL, and POINT BREAK 🌊 Excited to dig into the whole thing—check it out! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The 101 best Los Angeles movies
Our list of the 101 best Los Angeles movies is as sprawling as the city, and includes "Chinatown," "Clueless," "Blade Runner," "Mulholland Drive," "Heat," "Pulp Fiction," "The Big Lebowski" and "La La...
www.latimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I was 🤙stoked🤙 write about seven of my favorite LA movies for this list: SUNSET BLVD, COLLATERAL, SHORT CUTS, STRANGE DAYS, SWINGERS, VALLEY GIRL, and POINT BREAK 🌊 Excited to dig into the whole thing—check it out! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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I’ve been sat on this embargo since November and I am utterly thrilled to finally report that THE BONE TEMPLE whips, slaps, and fucks. It is timely, necessary, and metal AF. Good luck to anyone who has to come after Nia DaCosta this year.
www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...
www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE REVIEW: Nia DaCosta Delivers A Horror Sequel For The Ages
As the follow up to Danny Boyle's 28 YEARS LATER, Nia DaCosta's THE BONE TEMPLE has big shoes to fill. Does the post-apocalyptic sequel live up to the hype? Read our full review to find out.
www.fangoria.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I’ve been sat on this embargo since November and I am utterly thrilled to finally report that THE BONE TEMPLE whips, slaps, and fucks. It is timely, necessary, and metal AF. Good luck to anyone who has to come after Nia DaCosta this year.
www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...
www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...
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Classic Hammer chiller takes creepy to Cornwall with a terrifying femme fatale and serpentine shocks to spare. Brims with vintage venom. 1966.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #hammerhorror #film
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #hammerhorror #film
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Classic Hammer chiller takes creepy to Cornwall with a terrifying femme fatale and serpentine shocks to spare. Brims with vintage venom. 1966.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #hammerhorror #film
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #hammerhorror #film
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It’s Bowie’s birthday.
He had one of the best entrances in cinema in The Prestige.
Although this is how Bowie always entered a room irl.
He had one of the best entrances in cinema in The Prestige.
Although this is how Bowie always entered a room irl.
January 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
It’s Bowie’s birthday.
He had one of the best entrances in cinema in The Prestige.
Although this is how Bowie always entered a room irl.
He had one of the best entrances in cinema in The Prestige.
Although this is how Bowie always entered a room irl.
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The latest World Cinema Project box set, a Nicole Kidman age gap romance, Michelle Pfeiffer looking for her second chance, and every high school boy’s favorite movie all feature in the latest edition of Shelf Life from Katie Rife. https://boxd.it/2Uo
Second Chances: on shelves and screens this month • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
The latest World Cinema Project box set, a Nicole Kidman age gap romance, Michelle Pfeiffer looking for her second chance, and every high school boy’s favorite movie all feature in the latest edition ...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
The latest World Cinema Project box set, a Nicole Kidman age gap romance, Michelle Pfeiffer looking for her second chance, and every high school boy’s favorite movie all feature in the latest edition of Shelf Life from Katie Rife. https://boxd.it/2Uo
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everyone talkes about the work of Gordon Willis in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, for good reason. but I also love the rigorous, oppressive geometry of THE PARALLAX VIEW.
January 7, 2026 at 4:40 AM
everyone talkes about the work of Gordon Willis in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, for good reason. but I also love the rigorous, oppressive geometry of THE PARALLAX VIEW.
Tonight’s movie…
January 5, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Tonight’s movie…
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"I want to go dancing."
December 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"I want to go dancing."
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Denmark rallies it's troops in defence when an aggressive brightly coloured muppet threatens its territory. Thank heavens its only a film. 1961.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Denmark rallies it's troops in defence when an aggressive brightly coloured muppet threatens its territory. Thank heavens its only a film. 1961.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam
Today’s (family) movie.
December 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today’s (family) movie.
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A brand-new interview with the great István Szabó on his masterpiece MEPHISTO in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
‘Collusion does not require a dictatorship’: István Szabó on his Nazi actor masterpiece Mephisto
As his 1981 film is rereleased, the director talks about his Oscar-winning fable about an actor’s Faustian pact with the Nazi party – and its new relevance
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A brand-new interview with the great István Szabó on his masterpiece MEPHISTO in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
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I’ve been working on this one for a minute.
With Criterion releasing DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA, for @letterboxd.social I surveyed Spike Lee’s rich history as a musical director.
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/spik...
With Criterion releasing DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA, for @letterboxd.social I surveyed Spike Lee’s rich history as a musical director.
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/spik...
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I’ve been working on this one for a minute.
With Criterion releasing DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA, for @letterboxd.social I surveyed Spike Lee’s rich history as a musical director.
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/spik...
With Criterion releasing DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA, for @letterboxd.social I surveyed Spike Lee’s rich history as a musical director.
Read: letterboxd.com/journal/spik...
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Next week we close out Season 2 with "the most influential film ever made"...
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Next week we close out Season 2 with "the most influential film ever made"...
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Great piece this
Seven straight Warner Bros. pictures earned over $40 million on their opening weekends. Warner Bros. led the Golden Globes noms. It's having one of the best years critically and financially in its history.
Why is it auctioning itself off?
The answer explains a lot about the modern economy.
Why is it auctioning itself off?
The answer explains a lot about the modern economy.
Why Is Warner Bros. for Sale at All? - The American Prospect
Its product has never been more critically or financially successful. Why is it auctioning itself off?
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Great piece this
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December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A thing what I wroted. Usual caveat: everything in these BFI listpieces has to be currently in print in English-friendly form, preferably on a UK label, but I reckon I'd have gone for most of these even if I'd had a completely clear run at the entire corpus of Hungarian cinema.
10 great Hungarian films
From a seven-and-a-half hour masterpiece to one of the most beautiful colour films ever made: as a trio of István Szabó films arrive on Blu-ray, we present a 10-film primer on the glories of Hungarian...
www.bfi.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A thing what I wroted. Usual caveat: everything in these BFI listpieces has to be currently in print in English-friendly form, preferably on a UK label, but I reckon I'd have gone for most of these even if I'd had a completely clear run at the entire corpus of Hungarian cinema.
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The first must-read best-of film list of the year is here, and it’s John Waters’. Spots one and two won me over completely (even if he sees fit to put the terrible Empire in there at number ten). ❤️🔥
The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters
All the brutalist sci-fi, cockeyed cunnilingus, and sequel horror you need to have seen this year.
www.vulture.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The first must-read best-of film list of the year is here, and it’s John Waters’. Spots one and two won me over completely (even if he sees fit to put the terrible Empire in there at number ten). ❤️🔥
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💥NEW EPISODE!💥 Kicking off our new Tastemakers bonus series, Tim sits down with John Ramchandani, Head of Video Production and Online Programming at the BFI, to discuss the BFI's role in curating titles for home entertainment release.
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
💥NEW EPISODE!💥 Kicking off our new Tastemakers bonus series, Tim sits down with John Ramchandani, Head of Video Production and Online Programming at the BFI, to discuss the BFI's role in curating titles for home entertainment release.
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Scorching actress
Too much for censored Hollywood to handle, really
Too much for censored Hollywood to handle, really
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Scorching actress
Too much for censored Hollywood to handle, really
Too much for censored Hollywood to handle, really
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Time to give thanks that I’m not a teenager anymore.
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
The Plague – Review
Charlie Polinger’s The Plague follows a boys’ water-polo camp where a rumour about illness reshapes the group into insiders and outsiders. A cool, unsettling study of othering, built from sharp obs…
whitlockandpope.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Time to give thanks that I’m not a teenager anymore.
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
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‘An eerie and unwholesome spell is cast in this film’ @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social Five-Star review of a film that ravishes with every frame. THE ICE TOWER is out today at BFI and beyond. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
The Ice Tower review – Marion Cotillard focus of obsession and idolisation in death-wish fairytale
Cotillard plays a movie actor starring in a production of The Snow Queen in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s unwholesome story of yearning
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
‘An eerie and unwholesome spell is cast in this film’ @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social Five-Star review of a film that ravishes with every frame. THE ICE TOWER is out today at BFI and beyond. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...