Reposted by Brogan MorrisDistorted Frame Film Club @distortedframe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Celebrate spooky season with us with our Halloween screening of Aussie chiller Lake Mungo 📹 Presented in association with SciFrights Podcast & introduced Dr. Lindsay Hallam 😱 📅 Tuesday 27 October ⏰ 7pm 📍 The Castle Cinema Hackney 🔗 Link in bio for tickets and more info 001
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Celebrate spooky season with @distortedframe.bsky.social and @scifrightspod.bsky.social with our Halloween screening of Lake Mungo, the found footage horror that The Guardian called Australia's "scariest and best homegrown thriller". 😱 100
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Her Private Hell is Refn almost beyond narrative, injecting his moods and colours directly into the bloodstream. Intoxicating. Charles Melton the best-looking man I've ever seen. 000
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not all technological innovation is necessarily progress, and AI does seem to be actively setting humanity back (and with remarkable speed). It's shameful that governments have been encouraging these freaks. 000
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026For the BFI, I wrote on films about infidelity, which tell us: don't do it, someone will die! (Or at least go crazy with guilt/jealousy.) www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...bfi.org.uk10 great films about infidelityAs Claude Chabrol’s classic psychological thriller La Femme infidèle returns to cinemas, discover 10 films in which affairs, betrayals and forbidden desires send ordinary lives spinning into obsession and heartbreak. 010
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Autumn is here. Warm yourself on the glow of Jonathan Demme's humanism and the ferocity of Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married, aka "the most beautiful home movie ever made". 📽🍂 Next week at The Castle Cinema, with intro by the amazing @pamhutch.bsky.social. thecastlecinema.com/programme/11... 022
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026For the BFI, I spoke to director Ed Sayers about his all-Super 8 mm film Super Nature, whose gorgeous, impressionistic images bring something of Monet to the nature documentary. www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/h...bfi.org.ukA home movie for Planet Earth: Ed Sayers on his Super 8 odyssey Super NatureThe director of Super Nature discusses shooting wildlife on Super 8, finding hope amid climate crisis and why the grainy home-movie format is uniquely suited to capturing a world at risk of disappeari... 010
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Us folks @distortedframe.bsky.social are bringing Rachel Getting Married to the wonderful Castle Cinema Hackney on Wednesday 9 September. Cringe at Hathaway's speech! Shriek at Debra Winger's slaps! Be reminded of all the reasons why you hate going to weddings! 🥂 thecastlecinema.com/programme/11... 010
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My latest for the BFI, on films by screenwriters about screenwriters writing screenplays (or, in the case of Knight of Cups, drifting through a sterile, gaudy America while not doing much writing at all). www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...bfi.org.uk10 great films about screenwritersWhen screenwriters write screenplays about screenwriters... As Pedro Almodóvar’s meta melodrama Bitter Christmas arrives in cinemas, we look at films that put script-writing in the spotlight, from Sun... 000
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Digital has allowed filmmakers to explore exciting new horizons in cinema, but it's unfortunately also a technology which allows for more lazy and artless filmmaking than celluloid ever did. Great article by @tylekurner.bsky.social. 110
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 23/08/2026As Anne Hathaway summer turns to Anne Hathaway autumn, us folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social will be back at Castle Cinema Hackney with Rachel Getting Married, Jonathan Demme's wedding video-style family drama. Very happy to have the amazing @pamhutch.bsky.social with us to introduce this one. 💐 131
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Taken a trip back to 2000 to revisit What Women Want, starring housewives' favourite Mel Gibson. 001
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Knight of Cups is image after image of stunning emptiness. On first watch I thought that made it an empty film, but it's the world that the character inhabits that's empty, his environment by turns sterile and gaudy, and hosting an endless parade of women and cameoing movie stars. Malick's 8 1/2. 100
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Lovely start to Friday, as Michael Mann takes time out from prepping his billion-dollar Heat sequel to share my article on Miami Vice. I have reached the summit. 3152
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Dirk Bogarde's "Mandarin red and fuchsia is a very chic combination this year, sir" in The Servant is the funniest line reading I've heard in 2026. 100
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Writing "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this" about The Odyssey and then calling Nolan's shot-on-weekends curio Following "powerful" feels like an Armond White-level troll. 100
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 28/07/2026On its 20th, I wrote about Michael Mann's techno-pointillist masterpiece Miami Vice. While other filmmakers were using digital to build "houses stretched skywards" (ie digital films which aped photochemical), Mann used the technology to build a skyscraper. www.avclub.com/miami-vice-m...avclub.comMiami Vice embraced a high-tech look while Hollywood clung to the past20 years ago, Michael Mann didn't want to replicate film with new technology, but make something viscerally new with Miami Vice. 1133
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I watch The Odyssey, and I think back to the @rememberthispod.bsky.social The Old Man Is Still Alive series. Tenet hinted it was coming, but I think The Odyssey confirms Nolan has entered his old man phase. At 55, with nothing left to prove, Nolan's fixating on his interests and getting weird. 020
Reposted by Brogan MorrisMidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 19/06/20266/19/74: The Parallax View D Pakula/DP Mr. Willis w/Beatty, Prentiss, Daniels From Us: 70s Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/1IO6... @slate.com: slate.com/culture/2017... More @nathanheller.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @broganjmorris.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comThe Parallax View: remember when Hollywood made potent political cinema?This Warren Beatty thriller puts all the anxieties and tension of the 70s into a blender – and delivers a perfectly paranoid pulp mystery 6215
Reposted by Brogan MorrisMidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 03/06/2026BOTD Tony Curtis! MCCT5: 5)Last Tycoon 4)Boston Strangler 3)Spartacus 2)Some Like it Hot 1)Sweet Smell of Success More: @michaelmusto.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/tony-curtis-... @broganjmorris.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/fin... Jackson Arn/ @forward.com: forward.com/culture/4757...forward.comThe gorgeous desperation of Tony Curtis — an actor who never played it straightBorn Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx to Hungarian-Jewish parents, Tony Curtis was a true-to-life Hollywood rag-to-riches story. 291
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 02/06/2026For @theguardian.com, I wrote about The Misfits to celebrate the centenary of THE film star. Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter are all at their finest, and still Marilyn Monroe is the best actor in this. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comThe Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s final film showed her capacity for playing painfully knotty charactersWritten for Monroe by then husband Arthur Miller, the role of Roslyn is contradictory and complex. It signalled a potential new phase in her career 010
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Techno-pointillism. Digital images got sharper, but maybe no film has more artful or expressive digital images than this one does. It's like you can feel that world with your eyes. 010
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Got friends round? Got Miami Vice for lunch! Showing today at The Castle Cinema Hackney. Mojitos on sale at the bar. 🍹 011
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Marilyn Monroe is the best actor in this scene. Watch the eyes: everyone else is playing the lines, but Monroe's going deeper, a thought given to every word and gesture. She deserved to play dramatic roles for years after this, but still, what a final performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzba...youtube.comThe Misfits (1/11) Movie CLIP - How Gay Lives (1961) HDYouTube video by Movieclips 000
Reposted by Brogan MorrisBrogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 18/05/2026In London? Like Miami Vice? We at @distortedframe.bsky.social have three FREE tickets to give away for our 20th anniversary screening of Michael Mann's digital-era masterpiece at The Castle Cinema Hackney, this Thursday at 6:15pm. DM me to claim. 001
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 18/05/2026In London? Like Miami Vice? We at @distortedframe.bsky.social have three FREE tickets to give away for our 20th anniversary screening of Michael Mann's digital-era masterpiece at The Castle Cinema Hackney, this Thursday at 6:15pm. DM me to claim. 001
Reposted by Brogan MorrisMidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 13/05/2026HBD Harvey Keitel!!! MCCT5: 5)Who's That Knocking 4)Death Watch 3)Ulysses Gaze 2)Bad Timing 1)Mean Streets More: Mowe/ @eyeforfilm.bsky.social: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2015... Langmann: www.esquire.com/entertainmen... @broganjmorris.bsky.social / @thequietus.com: thequietus.com/culture/film...thequietus.comWho Paints These Houses? On Harvey Keitel And Martin Scorsese | The QuietusThe Irishman feels like a send-off. Directed by 76-year-old Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro (76), Al Pacino (79) and Joe Pesci (76), three men circling a shared drain of American mob and p... 1276
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Bubbling fascism, the erosion of democracy in an increasingly corporate age, violence done by the US at home and abroad - Hollywood cinema in 2026 has hardly anything to say about these things, so I looked back 52 years and wrote about The Parallax View. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comThe Parallax View: remember when Hollywood made potent political cinema?This Warren Beatty thriller puts all the anxieties and tension of the 70s into a blender – and delivers a perfectly paranoid pulp mystery 120
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Very excited to be showing Miami Vice, Michael Mann's "demented masterwork" (bilgeebiri.bsky.social, Vulture), at The Castle Cinema Hackney on Thu 21 May, with intro by @sam-wigley.bsky.social. Been 20 years since I first (and last!) saw this beauty in a cinema. 🍹 thecastlecinema.com/programme/10... 011
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Huge thanks to Julian Alexander for introducing his short film Whiteface and Spike Lee's furious satire Bamboozled at Victoria Dalston on Sunday, and for keeping the discussion going after the film! @distortedframe.bsky.social will be back next month at The Castle Cinema Hackney for Miami Vice. 🍹😎 020
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 24/04/2026We’re all out of £9 tickets, but still have final release tix available for Bamboozled this Sunday (26 April) at The Victoria Dalston. Spike Lee's excoriating media satire, screening with intro and short film by academic and filmmaker Julian Alexander. 🔥 dice.fm/event/53brey... 010
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Get your tickets now for our Sunday 26 April Victoria Dalston showing of Spike Lee's furious 2000 comedy Bamboozled, with intro and short film 'Whiteface' by academic and filmmaker Julian Alexander. 🎭 Tickets £9: dice.fm/event/53brey... 000
Reposted by Brogan MorrisDistorted Frame Film Club @distortedframe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026On Sunday 26 April, join us at The Victoria in Dalston for Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled'. Controversial & divisive on its release a quarter-century ago, critics now call the film "prophetic", "demonically inspired" and "utterly vital". Screening with short film 'Whiteface'. Tickets in bio & on DICE. 012
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Distorted Frame is BACK at The Victoria Dalston next month, with a film so incendiary we're probably not going to be able to show any images from it on social media! £9 early bird tickets now on sale! 000
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Robert Aramayo is very good in I Swear, but I've seen so many artless, saccharine Sunday teatime British dramas I couldn't help saying "Why are British films LIKE this?" out loud ten minutes into the damn thing. Careless script, no technical imagination. This kind of British cinema must be stopped. 010
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Gus Van Sant's first feature in eight years is here, so to celebrate I wrote about some great films involving kidnap. I describe Tony Scott's Man on Fire as 'MTV Peckinpah', and I mean it. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...bfi.org.uk10 great films about kidnappingFrom The Searchers to It Was Just an Accident, kidnapping stories have provided tense movie drama ever since the silent era. As Gus Van Sant’s new thriller Dead Man’s Wire goes on release, we pin down... 100
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Lol never been more excited to announce a @distortedframe.bsky.social screening. 🛥️🍹📹 000
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The depth and maturity that Tony Kushner has brought to some of Spielberg's best mid-late films is miraculous. Watch Munich again - it's the giddy dynamo behind Raiders (a film I love!) thoughtfully grappling with the whole Israel/Palestine thing, and for near three hours. www.gq.com/story/tony-k...gq.comEven Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making ‘Munich’Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get ... 010
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 19/02/2026To celebrate the upcoming release of The Secret Agent, I spent some time in the mad, paranoid world of the political thriller for the BFI. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...bfi.org.uk10 great political thrillersWith The Secret Agent coming to cinemas and a Kathryn Bigelow season at BFI Southbank, we look at the tense, paranoid world of the political thriller and how filmmakers have used the genre to expose i... 140
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I wrote about Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, an imperfect adaptation (as all WH adaptations are) that gets closer to approximating Brontë's style and meaning than any other has. www.avclub.com/andrea-arnol...avclub.comAndrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights remains the novel's truest adaptationIf you want Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights came to the screen in its best form 15 years ago thanks to Andrea Arnold. 171
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Andrea Arnold didn't like the film, but watching her Wuthering Heights again now it looks like an (imperfect) adaptation which gets much, much closer to putting the book on screen than any other version has. My word, Robbie Ryan's cinematography for this... Elemental cinema vérité. 111
Reposted by Brogan MorrisGraham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 28/01/2026A new episode awaits so I thought I'd better hurry up and post this from the previous one! What dark forces are lurking within cyberspace? @lindsayhallam.bsky.social and Liam with special guest @broganjmorris.bsky.social cautiously take a peep at our haunted motherboards. rss.com/podcasts/sci... 083
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Arriving right at the end of the year, Marty Supreme is the 2025 film I most look forward to revisiting. Every actor, from the top-billed cast to the extras, seems handpicked, while each character reads as so alive and complicated it feels like you could follow them into a film of their own. 000
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 19/12/2025My contribution to the 2025 Sight and Sound critics' poll. Toyed with putting Bugonia in here instead of Harvest (which had the best film cinematography of 2025), and It Was Just an Accident would have made it in if I'd seen it in time, but you'll have to pry The Naked Gun from my cold, dead hands! 000
Reposted by Brogan MorrisBrogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 13/12/2025If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄 013
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 13/12/2025If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄 013
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 07/12/2025It was either this or Elf: this festive season at Hackney's Castle, we'll be showing Sean Baker's Tinseltown fairytale Tangerine on its ten-year anniversary. Come on down, have a mulled wine, see a great film (the second best Xmas film ever, says The Guardian): thecastlecinema.com/programme/10... 020
Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 10/11/2025My primer on the films of Lynne Ramsay and all their sensational loneliness. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...bfi.org.ukWhere to begin with Lynne RamsayWith her fifth feature, Die My Love, now in cinemas, we track back through the uncompromising career of Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and her jagged tales of human complexity. 010