Yeah, that. Due to real life stuff, the review for the week is not actually ready. The Twitter feed (@deadbeatfilm) launched for realsies the other week though; check it out. Aside from site stuff, I have picks of the day from what's on the TV.

Still, you've stumbled on a secret post, because I want something in the blog feed for this date.

What to say, what to say…? May as well give some recent impressions:

Widows' Peak: One of Rank's post-Fried Green Tomatoes films. This is probably the most obvious attempt to recreate that film's success. It's an amusing trifle, like Mapp & Lucia except with more attempted murder.

Beauty and the Dogs: Harrowing drama/thriller. The plot's perhaps a bit cliché, but it seems like that's the point.

The Wayward Cloud: A musical about isolation and pornography. Beautiful and vulgar, and increasingly disturbing.

Anyway, touch wood, the review will be done next week. Well, the next post will probably be for Robert Altman's semi-obscure 1969 thriller thing, That Cold Day in the Park, though there's also a review of 2002's Luster sitting around part finished. Some others more vaguely lined up wound up being delayed for some more research; mainly stuff based on books where it feels like they'd be best served by being more familiar with the source material, such as Absolute Beginners and Memoirs of a Survivor.

Also, anyone who saw the prototype version of the site might remember, a review for the Monkees' film Head. It was the first thing I wrote for the site, and have decided that it was a bit crap, so it'll get redrafted at some point. One of the other proto-reviews, It Follows, might get done at some point too, as that's also a bit…