Anton Bitel
@antbit.projectedfigures.com
Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
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The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
"society as a sinking ship, and revolution as a mere rearranging of the deckchairs": Ruben Östlund’s broad, grotesque seaborne satire TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022) is back in @curzon.com Cinemas today. projectedfigures.com/2023/12/20/t...
Triangle of Sadness (2022) - Projected Figures
Ruben Östlund’s broad, grotesque satire TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, society is a shipwreck, and revolution a mere rearranging of the deckchairs
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November 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
"society as a sinking ship, and revolution as a mere rearranging of the deckchairs": Ruben Östlund’s broad, grotesque seaborne satire TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022) is back in @curzon.com Cinemas today. projectedfigures.com/2023/12/20/t...
Face business, falling down: George A. Romero’s dark, violent satire BRUISER (2000) "asks what happens when we don the blank mask of our own id". Available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from @filmsradiance.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/11/26/b...
Bruiser (2000) - Projected Figures
Face business, falling down: George A. Romero's dark, violent satire BRUISER asks what happens when we don the blank mask of our own id
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November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Face business, falling down: George A. Romero’s dark, violent satire BRUISER (2000) "asks what happens when we don the blank mask of our own id". Available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from @filmsradiance.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/11/26/b...
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As today is the (55th) anniversary of Yukio Mishima’s death, my son has proposed that we watch the Paul Schrader biopic this evening. This is why I love my son.
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
As today is the (55th) anniversary of Yukio Mishima’s death, my son has proposed that we watch the Paul Schrader biopic this evening. This is why I love my son.
today I am writing like there’s no tomorrow
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
today I am writing like there’s no tomorrow
"pits an alienated, increasingly injured teenager against an Alpine alien conspiracy": Tilman Singer’s in every sense loopy horror CUCKOO (2024) lives up to its name. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/25/c...
Cuckoo (2024) - Projected Figures
Tilman Singer's in every sense loopy horror CUCKOO pits an alienated, increasingly injured teenager against an Alpine alien conspiracy
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November 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"pits an alienated, increasingly injured teenager against an Alpine alien conspiracy": Tilman Singer’s in every sense loopy horror CUCKOO (2024) lives up to its name. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/25/c...
nothing sinister without sister
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
nothing sinister without sister
I've seen the future, and it is old
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I've seen the future, and it is old
"dances a life backwards to the beginning (of the end)": Mike Flanagan’s bittersweetly apocalyptic Stephen King adaptation THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2025) is on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD via @studiocanal.co.uk. Short review here: projectedfigures.com/2025/11/24/t...
The Life of Chuck (2025) - Projected Figures
Mike Flanagan's bittersweetly apocalyptic Stephen King adaptation THE LIFE OF CHUCK dances a life backwards to the beginning (of the end)
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November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"dances a life backwards to the beginning (of the end)": Mike Flanagan’s bittersweetly apocalyptic Stephen King adaptation THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2025) is on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD via @studiocanal.co.uk. Short review here: projectedfigures.com/2025/11/24/t...
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The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
No windswept unless winds wept
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
No windswept unless winds wept
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I'm looking for people who love murder mysteries and whodunnits. It's for a thing! Can you connect us? Thank you.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I'm looking for people who love murder mysteries and whodunnits. It's for a thing! Can you connect us? Thank you.
"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". On UK/Irish digi channels from today via Blue Finch Film Releasing. Astonishing. projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...
A Desert (2024) - Projected Figures
Joshua Erkman's metacinematic feature debut A DESERT is an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths
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November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". On UK/Irish digi channels from today via Blue Finch Film Releasing. Astonishing. projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...
Paradise lost: Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s erotic thriller BONE LAKE “sees a fracturing couple forced to share shoreline vacation space with seductive, predatory strangers”. Now on Digital HD via @signatureuk.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/bone...
Bone Lake (2024) Review | FrightFest
Paradise lost: Mercedes Bryce Morgan's erotic thriller, Bone Lake sees a fracturing couple forced to share shoreline vacation space with seductive, predatory strangers
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November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Paradise lost: Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s erotic thriller BONE LAKE “sees a fracturing couple forced to share shoreline vacation space with seductive, predatory strangers”. Now on Digital HD via @signatureuk.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/bone...
"captures a desperate man – and nation – in economic and moral freefall": Matías Szulanski’s stressful midlife, midlapsarian drama A SUMMER TALE (CUENTO DE VERANO, 2025) re-screens 9.30pm tonight at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/19/a...
A Summer Tale (Cuento de verano) (2025) - Projected Figures
Matías Szulanski’s stressful midlife, midlapsarian drama A SUMMER TALE captures a desperate man - and nation - in economic and moral freefall
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November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"captures a desperate man – and nation – in economic and moral freefall": Matías Szulanski’s stressful midlife, midlapsarian drama A SUMMER TALE (CUENTO DE VERANO, 2025) re-screens 9.30pm tonight at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/19/a...
"a disgraced ex-fighter and a Taiwanese restaurateur struggle to keep their heads above water": Jurgis Matulevičius’ bleak drama CHINA SEA (2025) re-screens 9pm tonight at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/18/c...
China Sea (Kinų jūra) (2025) - Projected Figures
In Jurgis Matulevičius’ bleak drama CHINA SEA, a disgraced ex-fighter and a Taiwanese restaurateur struggle to keep their heads above water
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"a disgraced ex-fighter and a Taiwanese restaurateur struggle to keep their heads above water": Jurgis Matulevičius’ bleak drama CHINA SEA (2025) re-screens 9pm tonight at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/18/c...
"reveals the drives of sex and gender as something beyond all understanding": DEAD LOVER (2024), Grace Glowicki’s camply mannered comic take on the Frankenstein myth, screens 8.45pm tonight at @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/02/02/d...
Dead Lover (2024) - Projected Figures
Grace Glowicki's mannered comic take on Frankenstein DEAD LOVER reveals the drives of sex and gender as something beyond all understanding
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November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"reveals the drives of sex and gender as something beyond all understanding": DEAD LOVER (2024), Grace Glowicki’s camply mannered comic take on the Frankenstein myth, screens 8.45pm tonight at @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/02/02/d...
"sets a grieving ornithologist among a ruthless gang of smugglers": Ignas Jonyas’ father-daughter frontierlands noir BORDERLINE (SIENA, 2025) screens 8.45pm tonight at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/20/b...
Borderline (Siena) (2025) - Projected Figures
Ignas Jonyas’ father-daughter frontierlands noir BORDERLINE sets a grieving ornithologist among a ruthless gang of smugglers
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November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"sets a grieving ornithologist among a ruthless gang of smugglers": Ignas Jonyas’ father-daughter frontierlands noir BORDERLINE (SIENA, 2025) screens 8.45pm tonight at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/20/b...
"four Muslim grandmothers restaging Shakespeare": Mokhtaria Badaoui and Nabil Ben Yadir’s Brussels-set metatheatrical tragicomedy THE BARONESSES (2025) re-screens 6.45pm today at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/11/20/b...
The Baronesses (Les Baronnes) - DMovies
Mokhtaria Badaoui and Nabil Ben Yadir’s Brussels-set metatheatrical tragicomedy has four Muslim grandmothers restaging Shakespeare - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nigh...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"four Muslim grandmothers restaging Shakespeare": Mokhtaria Badaoui and Nabil Ben Yadir’s Brussels-set metatheatrical tragicomedy THE BARONESSES (2025) re-screens 6.45pm today at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/11/20/b...
"shows the making-of a propaganda porn film, while stripping down its cast and crew": Richard Hawkins' World War II drama THINK OF ENGLAND (2025) re-screens 6.15pm today at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/14/t...
Think of England (2025) - Projected Figures
Richard Hawkins' World War II drama THINK OF ENGLAND shows the making-of a propaganda porn film, while stripping down its cast and crew
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November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"shows the making-of a propaganda porn film, while stripping down its cast and crew": Richard Hawkins' World War II drama THINK OF ENGLAND (2025) re-screens 6.15pm today at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/14/t...
"an allegorical account of circular addictions, needy narcissism and tentacular trauma": Addison Heimann’s sort-of sex comedy sci-fi TOUCH ME (2025) screens 6pm today at @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social. projectedfigures.com/2025/01/29/t...
Touch Me (2025) - Projected Figures
Addison Heimann's sort-of sex comedy sci-fi TOUCH ME is an allegorical account of circular addictions, needy narcissism & tentacular trauma
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November 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"an allegorical account of circular addictions, needy narcissism and tentacular trauma": Addison Heimann’s sort-of sex comedy sci-fi TOUCH ME (2025) screens 6pm today at @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social. projectedfigures.com/2025/01/29/t...
"a nostalgic family portrait and a kaleidoscope of distorted memories, in a movie that will have you wanting to watch it again": Adrian Sitaru's Romanian o(d)dyssey BLINDSIGHT (2025), 4.45pm in Tartu for Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/11/19/b...
Blindsight (Piatră Foarfecă Hârti) - DMovies
Romanian o(d)dyssey offers a nostalgic family portrait and a kaleidoscope of distorted memories, in a movie that will have you wanting to watch it again - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 2...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"a nostalgic family portrait and a kaleidoscope of distorted memories, in a movie that will have you wanting to watch it again": Adrian Sitaru's Romanian o(d)dyssey BLINDSIGHT (2025), 4.45pm in Tartu for Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/11/19/b...
"a lonely, damaged woman still longs for the ‘chosen family’ whose violent dissolution she witnessed": @cassiekeet.bsky.social 's ‘cult’ drama of denial, desire and doubt ABIGAIL BEFORE BEATRICE (2025) screens 12.45pm today at @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/22/a...
Abigail Before Beatrice (2025) - Projected Figures
In Cassie Keet's 'cult' drama ABIGAIL BEFORE BEATRICE, a lonely, damaged woman longs for the 'chosen family' whose dissolution she witnessed
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November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"a lonely, damaged woman still longs for the ‘chosen family’ whose violent dissolution she witnessed": @cassiekeet.bsky.social 's ‘cult’ drama of denial, desire and doubt ABIGAIL BEFORE BEATRICE (2025) screens 12.45pm today at @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/22/a...
No country for old men: Jalmari Helander's post-war sequel SISU 2: ROAD TO REVENGE (2025) reconstitutes the original - and Eighties anti-fascist action films - timber by timber. In UK cinemas now. Review for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/reviews/sisu...
Sisu: Road To Revenge review – a Suomi western
Jorma Tommila reprises his role as "the man who refuses to die" in this vengeance-fuelled sequel to 2022 sleeper hit, Sisu.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
No country for old men: Jalmari Helander's post-war sequel SISU 2: ROAD TO REVENGE (2025) reconstitutes the original - and Eighties anti-fascist action films - timber by timber. In UK cinemas now. Review for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/reviews/sisu...
"makes a spirit war and a monster movie of a young modern romance": Katsutoshi Furuya’s weightless multi-genre mash-up MIEMIE - SHE CAN SEE (2025) re-screens 10pm today at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/11/18/m...
MieMie ~She Can See~ - DMovies
Katsutoshi Furuya’s weightless multi-genre mash-up makes a spirit war and a monster movie of a young modern romance - from the Rebels with a Cause section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festiva...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"makes a spirit war and a monster movie of a young modern romance": Katsutoshi Furuya’s weightless multi-genre mash-up MIEMIE - SHE CAN SEE (2025) re-screens 10pm today at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/11/18/m...