Monocle on Culture: Robert Bound sits down with Tim Robey to discuss his new book, ‘Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops’, an alternative history of cinema that recounts the industry’s biggest bombs monocle.com/radio/shows/mo…

'In the streaming era, Robey laments, it can be hard to know how floppy a flop is' 📽️leafarbuthnot reviews Tim Robey's Box Office Poison: telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Sympathy for all those who did not make this bewilderingly terrible decision but still have to suffer the consequences of it. I’m even sorry (somewhat) for those who made it

Publication day in UK! Loved chatting flops with Schmear Hunter for this podcast, should you need distraction from hell in handbasket open.spotify.com/episode/59Tgr2…

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Is it time to stop worrying and learn to love the dancing cockroaches? Tim Robey, author of ‘Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops’, on ‘Cats’ at 5. timeout.com/london/news/ca…

'What makes this a five-star book is the way Robey weaves in the wider context so deftly that you barely notice . . . wildly enjoyable.' Box Office Poison by Tim Robey is Guardian Books Book of the Day. It's out now, read the review here ⬇️ theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

#bestfilminlondontoday Nov 11 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. Tim Robey intros 35mm FREAKS (1932) BFI ‘If the heart of the horror movie is the annihilating Other, the Other has never appeared with more vividness, teasing sympathy & terror’ Dave Kehr capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/10/capita…

To introduce the new season of the MUBI Podcast, an excerpt from Tim Robey's book "Box Office Poison" offers a primer on Hollywood’s flops, fiascos, and disasterpieces. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

"They’re the medium’s weirdos, outcasts, misfits, freaks. They can be reappropriated after the event as camp treats; they can linger, Ozymandias-like, as monuments to studio hubris, hobbled and crumbling; or they can electrify decades later for reasons of genuine artistry as

Tim Robey discussing his brilliant new book ‘Box Office Poison’, Hollywood’s story in a century of flops’. BFI MK3D available to buy now from BFI Shop!

Bristolians! A week tonight, trot to the Watershed to watch Joan Collins writhing in Egyptian bling in LAND OF THE PHARAOHS, the deliciously derelict Howard Hawks romp that forms the 1950s chapter in my book. And spread the word. Faber Books @bookhaus2 Tix: watershed.co.uk/whatson/12861/…

I very much enjoyed reviewing Tim Robey’s Box Office Poison, with its especially memorable demolition of the dismal Cats, for this week’s The Spectator. spectator.co.uk/article/a-cent…

The latest season of the MUBI Podcast continues with a trot down the mean streets of BABE: PIG IN THE CITY, exploring why director George Miller thrust the beloved Babe the pig into a family-unfriendly nightmare. Listen and subscribe at mubi.io/podcast

Film critic and author of Box Office Poison, Tim Robey discusses a century of Hollywood flops on BBC Radio 4's Front Row – you can listen now 🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Yikes! If you're an uncle, you're in the garden, and there's a lawnmower, a trampoline and a shard of glass nearby, beware... Here's Tim Robey's highly entertaining review of the operatically gruesome Final Destination: Bloodlines: telegraph.co.uk/films/0/final-… Final Destination Bloodlines Warner Bros.