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Graeme McCutcheon

@graememcc.bsky.social

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Software developer, lapsed Mozilla contributor graememcc.co.uk

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My 2025 in film (5/5): Saddest rewatch of 2025 was "A Man From Nowhere" (Lee Jeong-beom, 2010). RIP Kim Sae-ron. First Lee Sun-kyun and now Kim Sae-ron. South Korea, please fix this toxic celebrity culture that's literally killing your leading lights.

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My 2025 in film (4/5): My 2025 first-time watches top 10. So many of my non-2025 viewings were rewatches that the top 10 list is almost the complete list of non-2025 first time watches! Tilted towards dad-movies, but "Linda Linda Linda" was an easy number one.

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My 2025 in film (3/5): My 2025 releases top 10. Am certain "Anora", "28 Years Later", "Mickey 17" and "The Phoenician Scheme" would have featured had I caught them.

Screenshot of the movie tracking site Letterboxd, showing the movie posters of my top 10 ranking of the 2025 movie releases I saw.

They are as follows.

1 - One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

2 - Baby Asassins 3 (Yugo Sakamoto, 2024)

3 - My Dead Friend Zoe (Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, 2024)

4 - Sinners (Ryan Coogler. 2025)

5 - Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)

6 - Project Y (Lee Kwan, 2025)

7 - Zero (Jean Luc Herbulot , 2024)

8 - A House Of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow, 2025)

9 - Sharp Corner (Jason Buxton, 2024)

10 - Ghost Killer (Kensuke Sonomura, 2024)

(Yes, most of these are listed on Letterboxd as 2024, but were only released in the UK in 2025!)

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My 2025 in film (2/5): Started with a rewatch of "12/12: The Day" (Kim Sung-soo, 2023) - a historical movie is doing something right when you're so gripped you forget you know historically how it ends. Squeezed in "The Devil To Pay" (Lane & Ruckus Skye, 2019) just before 2026

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My 2025 in film (1/5): A terrible performance for me this year, just desperately short of time to watch films. Last year I screenshotted my first and last watches - this year can fit them all in

A screenshot from the website Letterboxd showing the movie posters for the 53 times I logged watching a movie in 2025. That is too many to list here, but should be available in accessible form at the URL https://letterboxd.com/graememcc/year/2025/

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Glasgow Film Festival just started, and has been good to me thus far. And to be slightly mean, because you often make me jealous when tweeting what you've been watching 😃 I'm going to reciprocate with a sneak preview of some of my next watches!

A photo of my Glasgow Film Festival tickets for some movie screenings that are - at time of post - coming up in the next few days.

The movies are:

Baby Assassins 3 (aka Baba Assassins: Nice Days) (Sugamoto, 2024)

Ghost Killer (Sonomura, 2024)

Nocturnal (Kim Jin-whang, 2025)

Zero (Herbulot, 2024)

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" - classic Shane Black "Lone Star" was a last-minute decision to go watch the 4K restoration of a movie I'd never heard of when it was showing at Glasgow Film Theatre. Bought the bluray the next day. "Phantom" - I love me some Japan-occupation set Korean period capers.

Screenshot of the movie tracking site Letterboxd, showing my top 10 ranking of older movies I saw for the first time in 2024.

They are as follows.

1 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005)

2 - Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)

3 - Phantom (Lee Hae-young, 2023)

4 - Motorway (Soi Cheang, 2012)

5 - Veteran (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2015)

6 - To Catch A Killer (Damián Szifron, 2023)

7 - On The Edge (Herman Yau, 2006)

8 - Viva Erotica (Derek Yee, 1996)

9 - Extraction 2 (Sam Hargrave, 2023)

10 - The Village Of No Return (Chen Yu-Hsun, 2017)

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My 2024 in film (3/3): My 2024 first-time watches top 10. "Lone Star" was a last-minute decision to go watch the 4K restoration when it was showing at Glasgow Film Theatre. Bought bluray the next day. "Phantom" - I love me some Japan-occupation set Korean period capers.

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My 2024 in film (2/3): My 2024 releases top 10. Saw very few 2024 releases. "Love Lies..." might rise on rewatch - some guy brought 4 kids into screening (WTF?) who chatted noisily throughout, taking me out of movie. "Jericho Ridge" only released in UK in 2024, so counting it

Screenshot of the movie tracking site Letterboxd, showing my top 10 ranking of the 2024 movie releases I saw.

They are as follows.

1 - The Order (Justin Kurzel, 20204)

2 - Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier, 2024)

3 - Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang, 2024)

4 - The Beekeeper (David Ayers, 2024)

5 - Land Of Bad (William Kaufman, 2024)

6 - Hit Man (Richard Linklater, 2024)

7 - Fall Guy (David Leitch, 2024)

8 - Dune Part 2 (Denis Villeneuve, 2024)

9 - Jericho Ridge (Will Gilbey, 2023)

10 - Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, 2024)

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My 2024 in film (1/3): Started out with rewatch of Zhang Yimou's frosty spy movie, ended (literally - credits rolled 5 minutes before midnight!) with @vycevictus.bsky.social favourite: as he puts it, a 3-star movie with 5 stars worth of entertainment.

A screenshot of a portion of my stats page for 2024 on the movie-tracking site Letterboxd. It shows the movie posters for the first, 50th, and last movies I watched in 2024.

They are as follows.

First movie watched: Cliff Walkers (Zhang Yimou, 2021) (rewatch)

50th movie watched: Joint Security Area (Park Chan-Wook, 2000) (rewatch)

Last movie watched: The Beekeeper (David Ayers, 2024)

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Finally watched Phantom (2023, Lee Hae-young) after blind-buying the bluray from Korea. Loses a bit of magic once it exits the hotel setting, but still top-notch pulpy fun. Trailer: youtu.be/8E-6lXi8-wk

Still from the 1933-set Korean movie Phantom (2023). In the shot, we see female character Park Cha-kyung (played by Lee Ha-nee) through a cafe window. She smokes a cigarette whilst looking out the window. The poster from the 1932 movie Shanghai Express is reflected in the window.

Still from the 1933-set Korean movie Phantom (2023). In the still, a row of soldiers, illuminated by banker's lamps, sit behind a switchboard and listen in to conversations.

Still from the 1933-set Korean movie Phantom (2023). In the still, the character Kaito Takahara (played by Park Hae-soo) shelters behind a wall, pistol in his raised, red-gloved hand. He is sweating, his Chief Guard's uniform is dusty, and he has a bandage on his right cheek.

Still from the 1933-set Korean movie Phantom (2023). In the shot, we see female character Park Cha-kyung (played by Lee Ha-nee) driving a car, one hand on the steering-wheel, whilst another cradles the head of another character (I'm not revealing who, as that would be a spoiler for the movie). The car's windscreen has a bullet-hole. In the background, the direction they're driving away from, flames and soldiers can be seen.

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Apropos of nothing, “The Man Standing Next”, “12:12 The Day”, and “1987: When The Day Comes” are great South Korean movies based on true events (I’ve listed them in historical order). Could also make the case for “Hunt” (between 12:12 and 1987) and Kingmaker (after 1987)

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

And I forgot to add the tags #LetterboxdFriday and #LastFourWatched. Of course I would mess up my first post on Bluesky. Anyway, wanted to say I still think about this amazing shot in Motorway

A still from the 2012 movie Motorway (director Soi Cheang).

The shot is from a high perspective looking down a hillside at night. Hence, most of the frame is dark shadow with little distinguishable, though the shape of foliage can be seen towards the top. The edge of the hill is clearly visible, running in a more or less diagonal line from the top left-hand corner. Behind the hill, the high rise buildings of Hong Kong appear in dark blue hue. Near the bottom left of the screen, there is a small area of illumination: it comes from a sports car snaking it's way up the winding road on the hillside. The car, and the very immediate surroundings are lit by the headlights of the car.

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Graeme McCutcheon @graememcc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A day late, but had a good run recently.

A screenshot of my last 4 movies logged on Letterboxd, showing the movie posters, and the rating out of 5 I gave each movie below the poster.

In order from most recent:

Land Of Bad (2024, director William Eubank) - I rated it 3.5 stars
Veteran (2015, director Ryoo Seung-Wan) - I rated it 4 stars.
Joint Security Area (2000, director Park Chan-wook) - I rated it 4 stars. This was a rewatch.
Motorway (2012, director Soi Cheang) - I rated it 4 stars.

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