https://wildroot.io/c/film-tv/Today’s top posts about Film & TV, ranked by Wildroot’s own model.enSat, 10 Oct 2026 15:55:03 +0000https://bsky.app/profile/atomicanalyst.bsky.social/post/3mxjs6hefhu2qat://did:plc:iwbebt5r65c67xl5vy5iviwj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjs6hefhu2q@atomicanalyst.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 15:22:35 +0000One year ago today, “A House of Dynamite” opened in limited release in US theaters (it started streaming on Netflix on Oct. 24). The film depicts a nuclear crisis in near-real-time from three different perspectives, convincingly showing how US nuclear policies pressure a president to launch quickly.https://mastodon.social/@mtorpey/117415065150367197https://mastodon.social/users/mtorpey/statuses/117415065150367197@mtorpey@mastodon.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 05:55:11 +0000Cats, 1998 - ★★★★★ I’m fond of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and always thought this musical was just vaguely inspired by it. I recently discovered it faithfully adapts every poem in the book almost word for word, an insane idea that couldn’t possibly work, so I decided to watch it. Turns out it’s an unbelievably daring and creative work of sublime genius and no one had bothered to tell me.At first I was just letterboxd.com/mtorpey/film/ca… #film #films #movieshttps://bsky.app/profile/cristianfarias.com/post/3mxidvvky5c2dat://did:plc:jech7rem6vijss4euf4fijao/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxidvvky5c2d@cristianfarias.comFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 01:34:36 +0000I just got out of ‘14th,’ Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary out in December, premiering today at the New York Film Festival. I won’t review it here, but its undisputed star is @sifill.bsky.social, whom the director introduced as “the Meryl Streep of our film.” And that’s not an overstatement.https://mastodonapp.uk/@ishmaellasting/117409954126826738https://mastodonapp.uk/users/ishmaellasting/statuses/117409954126826738@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.ukFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 08:15:23 +0000#LetterboxdFriday ITIM 🇵🇭 Starts and ends with a seance, with a slow-burn 'but nothing happens' ghost story in between ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ HOLLOW MAN 🇺🇸 Sleazy, but overly conventional. The moment Paul Verhoeven stopped subverting Hollywood and Hollywood began subverting him ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD 🇫🇷 Jess Franco Eurotrash, innit ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ THE MAGICIAN 🇸🇪 Ingmar Bergman and the gang in a lighter mood than during most of their get togethers ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #LastFourWatchedhttps://bsky.app/profile/meleemario720.bsky.social/post/3mxjiptm4jk2fat://did:plc:vjiwgjyv3t3jhkiwf2iasjr6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjiptm4jk2f@meleemario720.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 12:33:21 +0000On my trip and saw the new Shaun movie alongside 2D Latvian movie Born in the Jungle 🐒🐑 Jungle had English subtitles while Shaun had the occasional Russian narration for on-screen text, which kinda added to the absurdity.https://mastodon.social/@starstuft/117413073204677388https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116158732256546859/statuses/117413073204677388@starstuft@mastodon.socialFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 21:28:37 +0000#LetterboxdFriday Brilliant mostly classic film week! Heretic : In which an elder Hugh Grant is an absolutely based on theology silly lunatic. And what we antisocial atheists would like to do conversationally! when the mormons knock. Strangelove : In this essay I will.... BRILLIANT Sematary: Herman Munster country bumpkin. Imo one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Dune : classic. Excellent. Spicy Horizon : Hell In Sppaaaccceee Mad God : entirely strangehttps://bsky.app/profile/showerabsolute.bsky.social/post/3mxjl4ikxic27at://did:plc:3pl6l2lnciqjgsc3xtjcrzyg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjl4ikxic27@showerabsolute.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 13:16:13 +0000Sandra Hüller is just absurdly and unnecessarily good in Project Hail Mary. Something always interesting when a director is allowed to cast a not-star non-beauty because they've been Oscar-nominated and it does perhaps show the value of awards. (More Very Late Movie Reviews as they emerge)https://mastodon.social/@RobAtk/117410011603747974https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115815540159888875/statuses/117410011603747974@RobAtk@mastodon.socialFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 08:30:00 +0000Happy #LetterboxdFriday A very solid viewing week. I'd probably get a lot more on rewatch from Memories of Murder. Suicidal Mads Mikkelson was the highlight of the week, even if if the film didn't quite hit like the others. #LastFourWatchedhttps://bsky.app/profile/beckjoneshere.bsky.social/post/3mxjkyfbafs2pat://did:plc:tnmp6467ipf6zorn2ett5vhy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjkyfbafs2p@beckjoneshere.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 13:13:55 +0000The Birthday Party was received well in Oxford, but the "comedy of menace" closed after just a week in London. Now it's considered a classic. Playwright, screenwriter, actor and director, also husband to writer Antonia Fraser, #botd in 1930. #writers #drama #filmsky #movieskyhttps://hachyderm.io/@thomaswilburn/117416172977566070https://hachyderm.io/ap/users/115990686558190128/statuses/117416172977566070@thomaswilburn@hachyderm.ioFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 10:36:55 +0000#10 Curse of Frankenstein (1957) This one is fun because I've almost always seen Cushing as Van Helsing or similar roles in the various Dracula movies. But here's he's Dr. Frankenstein, and the doctor is a real dick: a philandering, murderous moral void, which Cushing really leans into. Christopher Lee's monster can't really compete with the iconic Universal makeup, but he does some very nice physical work as well.https://bsky.app/profile/pgwodelouse.bsky.social/post/3mxizt732rk2mat://did:plc:nu6e6ejnso2dkkbbcokotzys/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxizt732rk2m@pgwodelouse.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 08:06:48 +0000Also watched The Whisper Man (Ashcroft, 2026) which was highly watchable but so full of holes and tenuous links joined up to drive the plot that it had me thinking it would be rejected by most lit mags if submitted as a short story Michael Keaton is brilliantly creepy in it, mind youhttps://mastodon.social/@chumblyface/117412215035169009https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116048271336555618/statuses/117412215035169009@chumblyface@mastodon.socialFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 17:50:22 +0000It's Chuckies all the way down for #LetterboxdFriday - my family was doing our annual "Chuckathon." The first 3 Child's Play movies are the real classics! Things start getting wild (and bad, imo) with Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky, but then Curse of Chucky and Cult of Chucky are pretty fun. Next we're going to start the TV series. #LastFourWatchedhttps://bsky.app/profile/starcrossed2018.bsky.social/post/3mxj6h6czck2nat://did:plc:ctoujpadqaajxkwepvpj7mrv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxj6h6czck2n@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 09:29:33 +0000King Henry: Hotspur is brilliant; my son Harry, though? Not so much #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... John Gielgud as King Henry in Chimes at Midnight (1965), the combined Henry IV dir. Orson Welles. It creaks, now, but the cinematography is amazing.https://mastodon.social/@MikeyMcFilms/117413179435842374https://mastodon.social/users/MikeyMcFilms/statuses/117413179435842374@MikeyMcFilms@mastodon.socialFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 21:55:38 +0000My ★★★★ review of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma on Letterboxd: boxd.it/gHLTFd #265MovieReview #movieshttps://bsky.app/profile/lwlies.com/post/3mxjnqpws3c2dat://did:plc:apnkdg3j3ceoz2ypvmsexvhv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjnqpws3c2d@lwlies.comFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 14:03:19 +0000Brad Bird's Ray Gunn is a dream feature animation, redolent of the works coming out during Pixar's golden era. Our first-look review from its London Film Festival premiere. lwlies.com/bfi-london-f...https://c.im/@didgebaba/117412115570207391https://c.im/users/didgebaba/statuses/117412115570207391@didgebaba@c.imFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 17:25:04 +0000La Sierra (Spanish, with Subs.) More than 30,000 people were killed in ten years in Colombia’s bloody civil conflict, in which left-wing guerrillas fought against the government and illegal right-wing paramilitary groups. Guerrillas and paramilitaries sought to control marginal city neighborhoods, urban gangs aligned themselves with each side. In this way, the national conflict was translated into a brutal turf war that pitted adjacent barrios against each other. The documentary La Sierra explores life over the course of a year in one such barrio (La Sierra, in Medellin), through the prism of three young lives. La Sierra is an intimate, unflinching portrait of three lives defined by violence, and a community wracked by conflict. Over the course of a year these lives, and the life of the barrio itself, each undergo profound changes, experiencing victory, despair, defeat, death, love, and hope. In a place where journalists are seldom allowed, Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez spent a year filming, interviewing, and building trust. The result is a frank portrayal that not only includes startling scenes of graphic violence and its aftermath, but also reveals intimate moments of love and tenderness, and shows the everyday life that manages to coexist with conflict. soulvlog.blogspot.com/2009/11/…https://bsky.app/profile/nicolakerr.bsky.social/post/3mxhxyhq5t22fat://did:plc:5xfclwyeti6vlb7fxnk3rtkm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxhxyhq5t22f@nicolakerr.bsky.socialFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 22:01:17 +0000Wild Horse Nine 🗿McDonagh's new dark comedy about the CIA running amok lives up to the promise of the trailer. Malkovich and Rockwell a great pairing and the former has to be a strong contender in awards season.https://dice.camp/@edchivers/117413243617856023https://dice.camp/users/edchivers/statuses/117413243617856023@edchivers@dice.campFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 22:11:57 +0000Mrs C and I watched the pilot episode of "Northern Exposure" on DVD with the youngster this evening. I think he liked it, certainly he's said he's happy to keep watching it. I loved this show as a teenager, and I've watched the whole run a few times over by now, and I still love it. When I first watched it, it was set in the present day. Each time since, it's got further away. And now, that pilot episode in 1990, well it feels a hell of a long way away... #tv #NorthernExposurehttps://bsky.app/profile/cskwriter.bsky.social/post/3mxj2fkiie22rat://did:plc:ndxd4h47nhylsdfke4x4arlk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxj2fkiie22r@cskwriter.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 08:17:04 +0000The 1985 dark fantasy film "Return to Oz" is (unintentionally) actually a pretty good Halloween movie. It is creepy AF with more jump scares than you would expect in a movie supposedly intended for young children, which is why it was a notorious studio bomb.https://dice.camp/@humanadverb/117412790983778195https://dice.camp/users/humanadverb/statuses/117412790983778195@humanadverb@dice.campFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 20:16:50 +0000I know it's technically television and they don't give Oscars for that, but Matthew Lillard deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for the "life in prison, Bill" scene of Twin Peaks the Return.https://bsky.app/profile/artistsince05.bsky.social/post/3mxjg4w6ut224at://did:plc:aak5mvjoe75z4bfj4xoiuh5a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjg4w6ut224@artistsince05.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 11:46:59 +0000Treated myself this Saturday morning of the second episode of Knights of Guinevere from Dana Terrace and Dead Sound's Dinosauria with the Great Maia. Without spoiling both, the two were genuinely fantastic. Go watch both KOG and Dinosauria while you can! 💙 #indieanimationhttps://dobbs.town/@WeirdXmas/117411338927276245https://dobbs.town/users/WeirdXmas/statuses/117411338927276245@WeirdXmas@dobbs.townFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 14:07:34 +0000Time for my annual reminder that old postcards heavily influenced Over the Garden Wall. #otgw #overthegardenwall #wirt weirdchristmas.com/2017/10/03/…https://bsky.app/profile/znotetaku.bsky.social/post/3mxjdxlacuc23at://did:plc:4p4kxlj2gufwjdgxov4ej6jw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjdxlacuc23@znotetaku.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 11:08:12 +0000“Harmageddon” is one of the most important anime films you probably haven’t seen or heard of. A kind of test drive for what would become “Akira” at the end of the decade, it helped usher in the unofficial “realism” movement of the 80s. Morimoto Kouji, Nakamura Takashi, etc. worked on the film.https://dice.camp/@timsbrannan/117411410347957285https://dice.camp/users/timsbrannan/statuses/117411410347957285@timsbrannan@dice.campFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 14:25:44 +0000October Movie Challenge: Invaders from Mars (1986, 1953) While not listed as a horror flick, this one has all the elements of one. I also decided to rewatch the original. More of my 'Horror Comes Home' theme. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2…https://bsky.app/profile/falcondalejan.bsky.social/post/3mxivmqxjh22aat://did:plc:4lbuprvd5cyd3cgn7tz7ckzc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxivmqxjh22a@falcondalejan.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 06:51:37 +0000East of Eden on Netflix - I am only 3 episodes in and it's a fantastic drama, but it's reminding me of how I struggle with Steinbeck and his era of male-writers-writing-women, generally. Cathy was written to be evil, but a grain of sympathy creeps in our modern hearts; Steinbeck might be surprised.https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@RYStorm/117416560776378342https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/RYStorm/statuses/117416560776378342@RYStorm@mastodon.gamedev.placeFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 12:15:33 +0000Saw Digger. It’s a movie for the people who made Don’t Look Up. Which is admittedly a small audience, and probably explains how it’s currently doing. Awesome production design though. Incredible sets. Top tier. Haven’t seen better in a long while. Great acting too. Just a shame about the plot.https://bsky.app/profile/jordanpfot.bsky.social/post/3mxhf5ysdts2aat://did:plc:pscnslxqvtupsjws3dt35izp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxhf5ysdts2a@jordanpfot.bsky.socialFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 16:24:22 +0000Just caught up with Rose of Nevada. Terrific film. Kind of like The Wicker Man if The Wicker Man was about the weaponised nostalgia of the Reform Party. I kept returning to that Mark Fisher quote about the "slow cancellation of the future" while watching it.https://mastodon.world/@scotthgilliland/117411657761434485https://mastodon.world/users/scotthgilliland/statuses/117411657761434485@scotthgilliland@mastodon.worldFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 15:28:39 +0000The Remotes ★★★★ TIFF 26 John Torres’ The Remotes is an ambitious, atmospheric thriller that hypnotises as much as it will frustrate.... upcomingonscreen.com/the-remot…https://bsky.app/profile/gregt314.bsky.social/post/3mxj645ptrs23at://did:plc:axkxxsqzii2jxhyp53tssooo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxj645ptrs23@gregt314.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 09:23:23 +0000Film #154 for 2026 is "Coyote vs Acme" (2026). I concur with basically every other review - it's far better than it had any reasonable expectation of being, and genuinely moving. Recommended. Also, that is not how courts or congressional hearings work, even a little bit.https://mastodon.social/@ekimellnea/117410178295251188https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115400477731551602/statuses/117410178295251188@ekimellnea@mastodon.socialFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 09:12:24 +0000The Mark Wahlberg film is worth watching. But the book gives you Luttrell's real voice — the grief, the humor, the full weight of it. #books #bookreview #LoneSurvivor #MarcusLuttrell thisgrandpablogs.com/lone-surv…https://bsky.app/profile/jmritchey.bsky.social/post/3mxihdn2ktk2gat://did:plc:7ddftkomtzz7a3jqlrxwmtbj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxihdn2ktk2g@jmritchey.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 02:35:58 +0000The Spine of Night (2021). Animated fantasy in tribute to the Heavy Metal-inspired titles of yore with some of their weaknesses but also a good deal stronger than many of them. It's strength is in taking its setting seriously, and peeling back myth to suggest original sin is hoarding knowledge.https://social.coop/@ideogram/117411273642333190https://social.coop/users/ideogram/statuses/117411273642333190@ideogram@social.coopFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 13:50:58 +0000I can't work out if I don't much like films, (that is, they are somehow an unsatisfactory format and seeing as we only have television series, serials, plays, and feature films as the way to present drama in our culture which is really odd when you think about it) but I can never work out which genre or types I like and it always feels a bit random until I'm watching them. Oh, I watched Army of Shadows (L'Armree des Ombres).https://bsky.app/profile/austinlouisray.bsky.social/post/3mxiggev27k2dat://did:plc:rwx2icsdnpjnmtsnvoe72533/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxiggev27k2d@austinlouisray.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 02:19:36 +0000watched MEN IN BLACK with the 9yo and the 4yo tonight and not only were neither of them too scared by the aliens BUT the movie mostly held up, recommended for the next time you need a Family Movie Night feature presentation imhohttps://dice.camp/@E_T_Smith/117409877080175866https://dice.camp/users/E_T_Smith/statuses/117409877080175866@E_T_Smith@dice.campFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 07:55:48 +00001/2 #TalesFromTheDarkside #Rewatch Episodes 26-30 No Runners-Up in this batch. After the Best, the rest are just mid. "Halloween Candy" S2E05, the series second Halloween ep, directed by Tom Savini at that, is a special disappointment -- it feels like a weak shadow of the pilot ep. "Trick or Treat." But two are The Best! "Parlour Floor Front" S2E04 is an uncompromisingly direct condemnation of gentrification, with a property-value obsessed racist yuppie whose comeuppance is well-urned.https://bsky.app/profile/t3kg33k.bsky.social/post/3mxjojqdw722rat://did:plc:djvo7auhiggrisqrilhxdjxg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjojqdw722r@t3kg33k.bsky.socialFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 14:17:19 +0000So "Carrie" turned out to be more of a horror story than any other horror story in history. Mostly because it was too close to current real life. It was a very accurate portrayal of the current state of humanity. Most specifically because of the way social media has become. Along with that horror...https://universeodon.com/@CoachJZ/117413953570241291https://universeodon.com/users/CoachJZ/statuses/117413953570241291@CoachJZ@universeodon.comFilm & TVSat, 10 Oct 2026 01:12:30 +0000Spooky Season movie number 9. "My granddaddy's buried here!"https://writing.exchange/@ernie/117412878184622510https://writing.exchange/users/ernie/statuses/117412878184622510@ernie@writing.exchangeFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 20:39:01 +0000“Emmy Rossum, despite being a very popular and critically acclaimed TV actress, has never been nominated for an Emmy.” And someone give Oscar the Grouch his Oscar already tedium.co/2026/10/09/nominativ…https://tilde.zone/@nytpu/117411746605039071https://tilde.zone/users/nytpu/statuses/117411746605039071@nytpu@tilde.zoneFilm & TVFri, 09 Oct 2026 15:51:14 +0000Your average film academic/reviewer that hates lighthearted/simpler movies gets home in the evening after a tiring day and goes "yep, time to pop on Come and See (1985) as a nice way to unwind"