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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Credit to the LFF for securing the world premieres of the season’s two most anticipated animated films, but quite cruel to follow Netflix’s so-so RAY GUNN just 24 hours later with Laika’s ravishing WILDWOOD, which thoroughly eats its lunch. variety.com/2026/film/re...

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‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Most Ambitious Feature to Date Is a Richly Textured, Transportive Fairytale Epic

From director Travis Knight and with a voice cast including Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali, Laika's 'Wildwood' is a lavish stop-motion spectacle.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for the great review!

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Probably both, with a spray tan thrown in for good measure.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bracing myself for the next time I spot Jeff Wells in person

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whatever your stance on DIGGER, it is objectively funny that it landed $85 behind PRIMETIME.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyway, a movie culture without the possibility of insane overpriced whiffs will be a less healthy movie culture, and I'll eat these words the day that I can say that David Ellison has taken at least three big creative gambles, but I'm not holding my breath. x

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think the material is trashy at all, though it is discomfiting — but either way, it’s not the kind of film that wins someone an Oscar.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sorry, Tom Cruise, you were out of the club even before Digger hit the rocks

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Something I just realised about this year’s three Best Actor frontrunners:

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just saw one VERITY review headline saying “Anne Hathaway’s winning streak had to end sometime,” and I know she’s been very *present* in 2026, but “winning streak” seems generous.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really enjoyed the moment in VERITY where Dakota Johnson gauzily looks out at a frozen lake and earnestly says, "Is that a field?" But I don't think that was meant to be the high point. My review of this weirdly low-energy erotic thriller: variety.com/2026/film/re...

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‘Verity’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway Drift Through Another Listless Colleen Hoover Adaptation

Michael Showalter shows no feel whatsoever for the erotic thriller genre in 'Verity,' starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Credit to Warner Bros. for rolling with the reviews they got. m.youtube.com/watch?v=G3vD...

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Never afraid to tell the truth. #DiggerMovie

YouTube video by Warner Bros.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That song was huge, huge news in my fifth-grade class in South Africa. There were dance routines.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jesus Christ. That’s not how your brain works, dude, that’s how your phone addiction has programmed it.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not gonna lie, I wish LA BOLA NEGRA had as much dick in it as Jeff Wells thinks it does.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think it’s time to bring the Macklemore haircut back in this guy’s honour

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Look, I’m happy Heathrow is mostly up and running again, but moving a flight *earlier* is some sicko shit

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

To be fair, he is an equal-opportunity posthumous body-shamer.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As someone who had never previously realised that Carole Lombard was not, in fact, a Japanese geisha, I was grateful for the observation.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There truly is nobody like him

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“What happened to the celebrated Lubitsch touch” — I think it died in 1947, Jeff

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Jeff Wells coming in hot at Venice with the scoop on “Ernest” Lubitsch

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So Romania has rendered this new rule moot by submitting FJORD as its Oscar entry anyway, despite it already being eligible. You could have had two shots on goal, guys!

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thank you! You’ll have fun.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me, a person this year attending his 18th Venice and his first TIFF: hey guys, maybe these festivals should actually be further apart

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Does DAYS OF THUNDER have any real enduring cultural presence? I’d have said it’s pretty far off TOP GUN, but maybe I’m wrong? Does anyone really want this? variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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Anne Hathaway Joins Tom Cruise in ‘Days of Thunder’ Follow-Up; Paramount Sets Release Date (EXCLUSIVE)

Anne Hathaway will hit the road with Tom Cruise as co-lead in the "Days of Thunder" sequel at Paramount Pictures.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Same. Joyful Noise is not by any definition a particularly good movie, but she’s such a life force in it.

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Dark Entries Records @darkentries.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There will never be another Dolly Parton 🕊️ 🎥 Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing “Shortnin’ Bread” using just their acrylic nails in 1987.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’d say she was the best to ever do it, but what she did was so incredibly particular, she’s more like the only one to ever do it at all. Feast your eyes on this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DzZa...

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Joyful Noise | God Didn't Make Plastic Surgeons So They Could Starve | Warner Bros. Entertainment

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Entertainment

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Your average Ford Fiesta can also outrun Usain Bolt.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Funny thing about allegations

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don’t know, it sounds like you’re doing exactly what I described in my original tweet.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

But in this case, it’s not something generated and released by an AI system, as the author himself acknowledges — it’s just very standard graphic design.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I really hate AI, but I think using “AI slop” as a catch-all for anything you don’t like — in this case, a logo that confuses anyone unfamiliar with a cursive ‘r’ — is not very helpful.

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s just a film about humans in situations, and those are the films I love to see.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I guess it kind of does by making its characters so passively and contentedly comply with it — “Let’s wait a year, it’ll be worth it!” But at this point I really can’t tell what the filmmakers thought they were making.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The ONE NIGHT ONLY interviews just get weirder and weirder. “We wanted to show both sides” — of this dystopian fascist scenario that you made up? Why?

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You know, I don’t think this was the guy to make a sex comedy. variety.com/2026/film/fe...

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yep, that struck me too. It’s New York at its prettiest, but still looks like a place where people actually live.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This film’s predecessor was the single worst thing I’ve ever seen in Venice, but it looks like they’ve found a new low! m.youtube.com/watch?v=sF4O...

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Run Hide Fight: Infidels | Official Trailer

YouTube video by The Daily Wire

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It only gets weirder in the full movie! Really has to be seen to be believed: perkiest dystopian horror I’ve ever seen.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh my god, I’d forgotten that one — though ‘who directly emailed a filmmaker to request behind-the-scenes nudes of his star’ will also do

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Why consult only the most widely discredited person in the industry when you can have the two most widely discredited people in the industry?

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