Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Thanks, Daryl. That’s interesting and understandable; also reassuring. I mainly do journalism and by necessity have multiple assignments on the go, which can be sometimes schizophrenic. But I am a singleminded tortoise on a creative project. 110
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Being nosey here, but do you work on overlapping projects, Daryl? Looking forward to Porcelain Sisters. 100
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Good to see the picture (bald man pointing at CRT screen) that launched a thousand digital effects publicity poses. I feel compelled to post this classic meta image, a witty satire of wheels within wheels, that graced the pages of Cinefex 77. 062
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I went through this with The Glitch, Paul (somehow 18 years ago 😳). DM me if you’d like a DVD (gratis) with my nearly hour-long, tell-all video diaries, prep to fests. Most, I never put online; but, it’s great fun when fests do accept 🙏🎥🧦⚡️ www.youtube.com/embed/P9aqfb... 010
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dear Lauri, I thought this might be of interest: shop.a24films.com/products/mov...shop.a24films.comThe Encyclopedia of Movie CatsCats have always found their way onto our screens. They act as pets, villains, and accomplices, travel on spaceships, wear human clothes, inherit large sums of money, and drink spilled blood to morph ... 012
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Drusilla, I shared your pics with Ken Russell's son, Xavier, who's a friend from years ago. Pardon me, I neglected to mention photo credit, but Xav reposted and he was tickled to see this cardboard monolith to his dad's naughty classic at the Burbank AMC: www.instagram.com/p/DdmvBizjP_w/ 👼👿❤️🔥 120
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think I saw him chasing people around in “Backrooms” 030
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This means something. This is important. Well, to me it is. Still obsessing over this film… flashfilms8.wixsite.com/flashfilms/p...flashfilms8.wixsite.comDuck Dodgers in CE3KHow Chuck Jones's classic toon fits into "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" 020
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I noticed they didn’t leave him in the sun too long. 010
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 13/09/2026From my research: this was a Century Projectors 35/70 JJ-model projector (vintage 1959). Looks like the 70mm horizontal platter feed and takeup spools came from Christies. Projectionists apparently assembled prints from three reels. Here's how it's done, in Oregon: youtu.be/tN05nzk9oT8youtu.beBeing a Projectionist for The Odyssey in 70mmYouTube video by Radioactive Drew 000
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I was just imagining these as delicious, chewy, zingy gummy treats. 010
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Amen to that. I had the privilege of climbing inside the film and interviewing many of the filmmakers for Cinefex magazine, back in the day. A few years later, I penned a purple-prose review of the film for my blog, archived at the ugly URL below: img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e3... 001
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I love finding old tickets tucked in the back of a book. Instant time machine. 010
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Michael, it’s no longer on display. At least, it wasn’t there when I visited in January, and no longer appears at the AMPAS Museum website. 000
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Yep, sounds awesome, now showing at The British Museum: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... My adaptation: flashfilms.us/1066-screenp... ⚔️🏹🐴🌊💫💔🦁🦅🏹⚔️theguardian.comThe Bayeux tapestry: a stupefying, thrilling, horrifying masterpiece that shakes the earthThe greatest battle ever depicted in art is here at last – and it hurtles along, making your heart pound with its sense of doom and destiny, culminating in fires and corpses on a battlefield full of p... 020
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yeah, it's a really cool show; but it's based on the work of Swedish graphic artist Simon Stålenhag, not Spielberg or Azimov. Showrunner Nathaniel Halpern adapted his own intriguing mythology from brief narrative descriptions that Stålenhag had for his evocative sci-fi art pieces. simonstalenhag.se 010
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yes, it’s beautiful and haunting. But headline is misleading. Spielberg and Asimov are the Screenrant reviewer’s referents; neither had anything to do with the series. 110
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Thanks, me too! Sorry. This was my last and only update: flashfilms8.wixsite.com/flashfilms/p...flashfilms8.wixsite.comAlien Encyclopedia Revealed‘Alien Film Franchise Encyclopedia’ revealed. 010
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Jabba’s Baroque Recital, man… just sayin’ — phew-ee, is it hot in here? 💋 100
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Stella, the artistry is still there. I have covered many Weta shows, including LOTR and other productions mentioned here, and I interviewed a couple of Weta artisans last week for a beautiful upcoming film (under NDA). I wouldn’t write them off. It’s up to the filmmakers. My humble 2¢. 010
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Oh, I missed that. "Species" was a grueling gig, despite the charms of its leading lady. I noticed it streaming on Amazon at the moment (with new key art that makes it look like a 1980s Roger Corman production) and, I admit, I hovered over the 'play' button. But I haven't seen it since 1995. 000
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'm not used to blabbing in front of a camera, but I did that for the upcoming Arrow Films release of John Badham's terrific 1983 nuclear war A.I. thriller "WarGames." My thanks to Scott, Sam and Mike. UHD will be released November 15. flashfilms8.wixsite.com/flashfilms/p...flashfilms8.wixsite.comWar StoriesJoining Arrow Video for their upcoming UHD release of "WarGames." 131
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Ah that’s where it came from. Add me to the list. 010
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026🤢 mm-hmm, nice and toasty, broiling in the summer sun 110
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Because you put this image in my head, Pablo, I present to you, the Donald T. Rump Memorial Meat Pool. 130
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Bond Bug! Also used forTatooine landspeeder guts (minus the caravan trailer). As a lad, I used to see a lot of these on the road, and I thought they were so cool because of the Bond connection— but, I guess I was mistaken: 007 would not be seen dead around one! britishclassiccars.co.uk/bond/bug/britishclassiccars.co.ukBond Bug: Reliant's tangerine three-wheeler (1970-1974)The Bond Bug is the tangerine, wedge-shaped three-wheeler Reliant built from 1970 to 1974, styled by Tom Karen of Ogle Design. Its origins, why a car this … 030
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Feast your ears, Jenna (and RENEW!) www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail...www1.screenarchives.comLOGAN'S RUN -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT 011
Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 12/08/2026My mum, for her every sneeze, used to politely utter “atchoo” in a very loud and posh-sounding falsetto, like a character in an Oscar Wilde play. We were not posh (Essex, UK) so, as a boy, I always cringed when Mum sneezed in public. People would turn and frown. I sneeze like an angry elephant: 🐘 💨 010