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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 12h

Many, MANY thoughts on this and am always here for those going for a big swing. But the hold on the Cassavetes poster early on, for a move whose twist we aren’t meant to spoil, is WILD. #Digger

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The terrific new Sexy Beast release from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social is out today! Among the stacked extras is my new original video essay: ‘Beast Mode - Creating Don Logan’. It was a real blast to put together, so you’re just going to have to turn this opportunity to watch it YES.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Revelatory episode on a revelatory song.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As a corrective to famous gobshites like Trump lying about helping on 9/11, there’s Steve Buscemi, who put on his old firefighter gear & reported to his old Engine Company 55. He helped look for survivors & victims in the rubble for days afterwards. He did it anonymously & avoided cameras.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Saturday Night Fever video essay - plain mozzarella vs. spicy sausage versions ⬇️📼🕺🎞️⬇️

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John Travolta Eating Pizza in Staying Alive

ALT: John Travolta Eating Pizza in Staying Alive

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Save Britain's Juries

Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I know, I know, anything after 3 is suspect but I found a lot to enjoy here. And THAT scene is about as ruthlessly engineered to elicit tears as When She Loved Me…

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A disgusting and devastating miscarriage of justice. Our government, and the way the legal system is being abused, is a disgrace.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Should you get a copy of this very well-written and critically astute book? Yes, Bleasdale! Yes, Glazer! Yes! Yes!! YES! YES!! YES!!!! (that’s Sexy Beast’s Don Logan recommending the book, btw)

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Wild to think it's a whole spin around the sun since #DavidLynch left us, just a year and four days shy of his 80th birthday, which would’ve been today. Here's my video essay on my favourite of his films, MULHOLLAND DR., and why it epitomises his whole body of work. vimeo.com/223150206?sh...

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MULHOLLAND DR. - THE ESSENTIAL DAVID LYNCH FILM

Why Mullholland Dr. is the essential David Lynch film. Examining how Lynch 2001's film combines and expands upon many of his visual, aural, stylistic and thematic…

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Jonathan Wakeham @jonathanwakeham.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Lucile Hadžihalilović's THE ICE TOWER is my favourite film from last year. You can watch it now on BFI Player alongside this really warm, generous and insightful interview with Hadžihalilović by @leighsinger.bsky.social about the film and her creative collaborators: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

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Watch The Ice Tower - Extended Q&A - BFI Player

Writer-director Lucile Hadžihalilović explains how she spun her own dark fairy tale out of Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Such a pleasure to talk in depth with Lucile Hadžihalilović about her hypnotic film (and one of my favourites of 2025), The Ice Tower. Interview available for free on BFI Player (and so is the film)!

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Inconceivable. RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. And for the director of my favourite comedy of all time, as well as many other great films he directed, and facilitated through Castle Rock, an incredibly tragic end to an incredibly meaningful life.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

an absolute honour to talk with one of the most significant creative forces in American film & TV for over 50 years. James L. Brooks on making his kind of comedy-dramas today, his fave Simpsons episode, Wes Anderson Jack Nicholson is coming back anytime soon & more… www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...

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James L. Brooks on his return to directing: “The word ‘content’ is not my favourite”

From The Simpsons to Broadcast News and the Best Picture-winning Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks has been a driving force in American film and TV for more than half a century. As Ella McCay, his ...

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

For anyone not familiar with Lucile H’s haunting body of work, I also wrote a primer for BFI online. And don’t sleep on Innocence (2004), one of the best films of the 2000s. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

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Where to begin with Lucile Hadžihalilović

As her latest dark fable The Ice Tower arrives in cinemas, we track back through the career of a French-Bosnian filmmaker who conjures up surreal, foreboding cinematic songs of innocence, evolution an...

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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen. @leighsinger.bsky.social reviews The Ice Tower, out today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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The Ice Tower review: Through the looking glass

Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 05/11/2025

🎥 32 years ago today, Peter Weir’s Fearless hit theaters—a profound journey through trauma, survival & rebirth. Revisit this underrated masterpiece in our deep dive: cinephiliabeyond.org/fearless/

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

@lffstubs.bsky.social I have 1 ticket going for Lucrecia Martel's LANDMARKS screening this evening at 18:00 Thursday 16th October @BFI Southbank, NFT1, with director Q&A. Ticket face value £18.00, ono, get in touch asap! whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

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Landmarks | BFI London Film Festival 2025

Artistic ambition and political advocacy meld in Lucrecia Martel’s documentary, a bold and beautiful reflection on the death and legacy of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar.

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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Just a reminder of what an absolute c*nt Farage is: he wants to scrap the benefits of people who legally work and pay their taxes in Britain, yet the greasy f*cker happily slurps down his fat EU pension - paid for by the very European citizens he spent years spewing bile at. Parasite in a suit.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

pleasure to be back on the @lwlies.com Truth & Movies podcast, talking The Long Walk and the longer trudge that is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to one of my all-time favourites that flirts with a certain infamous two-word review.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It’s like, how much more disappointed could you get? And the answer is… none. None more disappointed… As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review: Metal fatigue

Rob Reiner’s follow-up to This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has plenty of great gags, but without the sharp satire of the original, it feels too close to the hagiographic music docs it once mocked.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

More of Kirk’s “reasonable opinions”

Someone else shared this.
Various comments Kirk has made.

-Gay people should be stoned to death
-Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane
-Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband
-No one should be allowed to retire
-Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
-British Colonialism was what "made the world decent"
-The guy who assaulted the Pelosi's should be bailed out
-Religious freedom should be terminated
-Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots"
-MLK Jr was "an awful person"
-The Great Replacement Theory is reality
-Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID
-Vaccine requirements are "medical apartheid"
-Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment
-Women's natural place is under their husband's control
-Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control
-George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't
-The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake"
-Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates
-Mamdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11
-Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization
-Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Charlie Kirk was a private citizen Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” Werner Herzog (Happy Birthday!)

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

It’s that time again… A pleasure as ever to be involved in selecting films for the #LFF. Among the high-profile draws there are some real unsung gems that I’ll flag up closer to the festival. Meantime, feast yer eyes! whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 22/08/2025

Hit like if you read film criticism weekly and repost if you read film criticism more than that

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Met him once to talk about his… chocolates. But such a down-to-earth guy, zero pretensions & talent to burn that, despite impressive credits, you felt was often under appreciated. Still, Billy Budd, Collector, Teorema, Madding Crowd, Superman II, The Hit, Priscilla QOTD, The Limey… RIP Terence Stamp

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This is so depressingly true re: the arts / of criticism. But in the bigger picture I also go back to shitheel Tory politician Michael Gove’s phoney Brexit shibboleth that British people “have had enough of experts” to justify anti-intellectual, knee-jerk populism & how to control / profit from it.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Et tu, @bsky.app? If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...

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Weapons (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Amy Madiganwritten and directed by Zach Cregger by Walter Chaw Zach Cregger’s Weapons is joy. It’s nostalgia without an obvious anteceden...

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience… have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London

Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This is fantastic, urge you to listen, especially if you think Still Bill is one of the most underrated albums out there…

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🚨new video essay 🚨 How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever? The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it… How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience for @lwlies.com. Full video here: youtu.be/KSniVr7-2_c?...

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

New album cover art drop, courtesy of the fab European Film Festival Palić, FIPRESCI jury

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

no words... but also no action taken by any governments to this ongoing slaughter, so it just continues. insanity.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A Penguin editor looking around their office this morning.

The cop at the end of Usual Suspects looking around his office and seeing the objects that inspired the story

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“Your producers were so preoccupied with whether they COULD, they never stopped to think about…” yadda yadda yadda, rinse & repeat

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A really insightful interview with David Cronenberg by @hannahstrong.co.uk for @lwlies.com

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

All just a little bit of prehistory repeating… reviewed Jurassic World Rebirth for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

in this utter sh*tshow of a world, we need to celebrate the positives when they come. fantastic news from NYC #ZohranMamdani

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A highly personal look at three films that get more resonant and poignant as time goes by, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE… trilogy. New video essay for @lwlies.com, full link is here: youtu.be/7My0TSarYqA?...

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alexjmoss.bsky.social @alexjmoss.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

@secondsightfilms.bsky.social release of The Nice Guys is typically brilliant. Beautiful transfer and @leighsinger.bsky.social video essay “Lethal Weapon to Nice Guys” is a treat.

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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Delighted to have my new video essay ’From Lethal Weapons to Nice Guys: How Shane Black Reinvented the Buddy Movie’ featured on the stellar new Blu-Ray release of THE NICE GUYS from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social

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