Happy birthday to the split diopter king, Brian De Palma. 🎂

Happy 84th birthday to a moviemaking icon, the great Brian De Palma.

Another festival screening for Diagnonsense, this time at Superfest Disability Film Festival in San Francisco Superfest Disability Film Festival in which it's won Best of Festival (Fiction) huge congratulations to everyone involved and watch the film for free via the BSL Zone bslzone.co.uk/watch/diagnons…

Super excited for this one and Alice Lowe has written a fascinating article in this month's Empire Magazine on making an ambitious time travel romcom on a tiny budget.

Another film I'm super excited about, a haunted house story told from the POV of a ghost and best of all, it's Soderbergh doing a supernatural film.

Pleased to share the news The Letter is being shown at BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying Bolton Film Festival, huge congratulations to everyone involved and watch the film for free via the BSL Zone bslzone.co.uk/watch/the-lett… (Photo of Lisa Kelly by Becky Bailey)

Kick-starting my James Gray marathon with Little Odessa (1994) #NowWatching

Rebel Ridge; another triumph of a Saulnier film, echoes of Reacher, McQuarrie, and 90s thrillers, a magnificent Pierre with his steely calm demeanour and his fierce intelligence, refreshingly choreographed action sequences, a smart script throwing up surprises and a superb cast.

Thought this was such an assured feature film debut by James Gray exploring family estrangement set in the world of Brighton Beach’s Russian immigrant criminals and elegantly and classically-made.

Going for big, silly action fun for my Saturday night double bill #nowwatching

Moving onto the next James Gray film, absolutely loving his filmmaking style... #nowwatching

Moving onto yet another banger of a James Gray film... #nowwatching

Lynch noir

Now I would happily just use this neat 15 second promo to promote my film without resorting to overlong and spoiler-filled trailers.

And once again, yet another gem of a James Gray film... #nowwatching

Managed to find a decent-priced copy of the first of Jeff Bridges' Pictures books and as ever, his Widelux camera wonderfully captures the privilege of working on film sets.

Synecdoche's Conversations with James Gray is an absolute must-read hence my current marathon of his films, a fiercely intelligent film writer / director with a huge passion for cinema and doesn't waver when he strives for quality filmmaking in his uncommercial stories.

1995 really had Bad Boys, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Desperado, Crimson Tide, Goldeneye, Heat, Mortal Kombat, Rumble In The Bronx, Tank Girl, and Sudden Death within MONTHS of one another no wonder youse Oldheads haven't moved on yet I understand

Yet more stills of mine for S3 of Alice Oseman Updates See-Saw Films and Netflix UK & Ireland’s Heartstopper