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I just like movies. Especially horror movies. - whitlockandpope.com - boxd.it/eSY9 Member: Horror Critics Group | Film Critics Association

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 16d

Two decades apart, kids click the wrong link and summon something unexpected. In 2004 it’s a slapstick ghost and plenty of hijinks; in 2021 it’s a predatory male and gender dysphoria. I explore the unexpected links between two films.

I Downloaded a Gender

Exploring the uncanny rhymes between I Downloaded a Ghost (2004) and Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), where digital hauntings mirror adolescent identity.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 4h

Uncle Sam poster captioned
JARED LETO
WE DON'T WANT YOU

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 4h

I enjoyed Ares’s instantly iconic catchphrase, It’s Tronning Time

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 9h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 5h

Farewell Diane Keaton
Forever one of the greats.

Clockwise from top left:
Baby Boom
Looking For Mr Goodbar
Manhattan
The Godfather

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 6h

Thunderbolts is the best MCU movie since Endgame.

Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 6h

#NowWatching "Thunderbolts*"

Best superhero film of the year by some distance.

A meditation on superhero fatigue, the death of American exceptionalism, a reframing of the Obama era “Avengers” framework for the Trump era, millennial disillusionment and existential ennui.

Cleanly told, well-made.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 6h

HAMNET is another new movie that has “This film may not be used to train AI” in its credits. Interesting to see this kind of thing from smaller films and larger films alike (Hamnet has Universal distribution.)

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 10h

Hallelujah! He is busy.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 10h

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 11h

darwin and gumball from the amazing world of gumball are crying with tears coming out of their eyes

ALT: darwin and gumball from the amazing world of gumball are crying with tears coming out of their eyes

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 11h

Hamnet really is that emotional juggernaut for which you’ll be on board or not. Despite a slightly intrusive score and some over-egged face-acting from Buckley at the end… reader, I *sobbed*. ★★★★½

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 11h

He’s so far underwater James Cameron is making a documentary about him.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 12h

Casting Noah Jupe as Hamlet and Jacobi Jupe as Hamnet? Chloe Zhao, you maniac.

(Film excellent)

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 14h

“an” LFF screenings starting tomorrow? Once again my ADD love of last minute edits but aversion to proofreading bites me on the butt.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 14h

Annapurna Sriram’s FUCKTOYS played for London press today, ahead of an LFF screenings starting tomorrow. It remains one of my films of the year. Glorious, glorious bad taste cinema, and deliciously funny with it. 🗑️ 💕

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · Jul 24

Trash-heads, get on it…

Annapurna Sriram’s FUCKTOYS blows the roof off the Fantasia Film Festival.

Fantasia report: I have seen the future of trash, and her name is Annapurna Sriram

★★★★★ I have seen the future of trash, and her name is Annapurna Sriram. It was Alex Cox who said, “One thing cult movies do have in common is that they are all genre films… They share common theme…

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 18h

“Hi, just back from 1600s feudal Sephora”

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

*And, post-70s, Raging Bull at #25. The closest thing to a New Hollywood canon-disrupter in 1992!

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

For example, here’s the Sight and Sound Greatest of All Time critics list from 1992. Only three 1970s Hollywood films in the top 100: Nashville (at 54), The Godfather Part II (at 58), & Apocalypse Now (at 66). That’s it.
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Sight & Sound 1992 Critics List

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

As i said, “even after new Hollywood” eg those 70s directors didn’t truly disrupt the upper echelons of the canon until the 90s. People did not rate Scorsese as up there with the greatest of the greats until then. They were even sniffy about Goodfellas - good filmmaking but not a great film.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

Tokyo Story has long been considered one of the greatest of all time… but even though he’s long been considered one of the best, his star has risen. I think that’s to do with the availability of his wider body of work.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

I’m an unc. The answer is that even after New Hollywood the big three were still seen as Kurosawa Bergman and Fellini. The there was a two-stage canonical revolution: one caused by the brats of the early 90s, mainly Tarantino telling people about eg Ringo Lam. Then the social media/streaming/LB one.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

tweet by @Caol_MacCormaic that reads, uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to remember the big three that permeated mainstream consciousness in (eg) the 1980s or early 1990s as being Kurosawa, Bergman & maybe Fellini. If you had a cinephile character in a comedy sketch he’d be gabbing on about one of them. I think Bergman & Fellini dropped off a bit in that regard.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons rejoin forces in BUGONIA, playing tonight in London at the LFF. This darkly goofy, paranoid, sci-fi mystery comedy is a rare example of a western remake that surpasses a Korean original (Save The Green Planet). Recommended!

My ★★★★ review from Venice:

Bugonia – Venice review

Yorgos Lanthimos remakes 2003’s Korean genre gem Save the Green Planet! for an age of managed decline, and produces a darkly comedic fable about the end of the world… or is it? ★★★★ Two young men (…

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, sorry, I’m trying to delete it.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

Jay Kelly 2025
* * ½
Watched 10 Oct 2025
Mild Strawberries.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

Mind The Gaaaaaaap 🧟‍♂️

Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to announce that next Tuesday's London Miskatonic has Sold Out!!
Still tickets for our Online session on Hypnosis in Horror Cinema - billetto.co.uk/e/sunken-pla...

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

💀 The living heart of cult horror beats on, in London!

The @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social 2025 lineup is a delirious mix of drag, gore, ghosts & pure underground gold - from Queens of the Dead to Dracula: A Love Tale. Runs 21-23 Nov in Brixton & 27-30 online. #SuccumbToSohoHorror

🕯️Our full preview:

Soho Horror Film Festival 2025: The Living Heart of Cult Horror Beats On

Soho Horror Film Festival roars back this November with its fiercest lineup yet — a defiantly independent celebration of cult, camp, and cutting-edge horror across two weekends in Brixton and onlin…

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

The LFF Surprise movie was Tuner.

Very Sundance. Even though it premiered at Telluride… very Sundance.

★★★

Tuner – LFF review

Turner may have premiered at Telluride, but it feels like pure Sundance (derogatory).

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