# international film (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover international film. Page: Feed: --- ## [The late Jason Arday: Gulliver among the Lilliputians?](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/the-late-jason-arday-gulliver-among) _2026-08-22 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ And other highlights of my week ## [Academia: from inefficient effectiveness to efficient ineffectiveness](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/academia-from-inefficient-effectiveness) _2026-08-16 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ The great failure of university reform wasn’t intensifying competition, but gormlessly ignoring the prior question: what institutions and public goods govern what competitive success looks like? ## [Defending the West](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/defending-the-west) _2026-08-15 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ And other highlights of my suburban week ## [Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Full guide](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/melbourne-international-film-festival-e4d) _2026-08-12 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ ChatGPT's sleuthing of independent reviews for your guidance ## [The public goods we couldn’t imagine](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/melbourne-international-film-festival-716) _2026-08-12 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ All ChatGPT knows and all ye need to know ## [Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) guide](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/melbourne-international-film-festival) _2026-08-11 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ ChatGPT's sleuthing of independent reviews for your guidance ## [Monoculturalism anyone?](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/monoculturalism-anyone) _2026-08-08 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ And many other things encountered along the way ## [One-line spoiler-free movie reviews for July 2026](https://martinbelam.com/2026/movie-reviews-july-2026/) _2026-08-07 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ This month featuring: animated Minion slapstick, the profound sadness of Blue Heron, bleak Welsh decision-making and a Soviet drag-crone Baba Yaga (among others). Minions Monsters (2026), Pierre Coffin and Patrick Delage Perfectly cromulent non-stop action and slapstick that... ## [One-line gig reviews for July 2026](https://martinbelam.com/2026/gig-reviews-july-2026/) _2026-08-04 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ Gosh. I went to a lot of gigs in July, including a three-day residency at Alexandra Palace wearing all the hats that annoy my partner with impunity, a gull supervising a legend in Margate, and Kylie Minogue showing up with... ## [A one-line review of everything I saw on my Once In a Lifetime day at Latitude 2026](https://martinbelam.com/2026/latitude-2026/) _2026-08-04 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ I was struck by a sudden fear of never seeing David Byrne play songs by Talking Heads again, and so made an ill-advised last-minute Twickets purchase to go to the Latitude Festival for the day on the Friday. It was... ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kqvFrQkaA9Ds) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Social fabric: The Price of What Survives](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/social-fabric-the-price-of-what-survives) _2026-08-02 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ Some reflections on the social fabric (which we've taken to calling 'social capital') ## [On becoming less full of shit](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/on-becoming-less-full-of-shit) _2026-08-01 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ And other fine things I discovered on the net recently ## [Synthetic (AI) generated towns](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/synthetic-ai-generated-towns) _2026-07-26 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ Starting with this article I got intrigued and infuriated in equal measure because the journalism didn’t explain what was going on. ## [Rearranging the deckchairs on HMS Unserious](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/rearranging-the-deckchairs-on-hms) _2026-07-25 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_ And other things - not just the new British PM ## [The ghost in the spam folder: Remembering Mark Smith](https://martinbelam.com/2026/the-mark-ghost-spam-folder/) _2026-07-21 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ A strange thing happened to me a little while ago. I was waiting for a verification code for a 2FA login, and it hadn’t arrived, so by chance I looked in the spam folder of my work email. About ten... ## [One-line gig reviews for June 2026](https://martinbelam.com/2026/gig-reviews-june-2026/) _2026-07-11 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ I know, I know it is mid-July and I am fashionably late with June s gig reviews, but it turns out when you spend the entire month running around venues across the country, it takes a moment to recover. This... ## [One-line spoiler-free movie reviews for June 2026](https://martinbelam.com/2026/one-line-spoiler-free-movie-reviews-for-june-2026/) _2026-07-03 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ This month featuring: spooky basements, cursed wishes, alien conspiracy and plenty of John Waters and Divine (plus one of the queerest sci-fi cartoons in history). Repo Man (1984), Alex Cox – Bar Trash at Beer Merchant s Tap, Hackney Wick –... ## [Local characters, fake ads, and a woman with a bag on her head – Walthamstow International Film Festival 2026](https://martinbelam.com/2026/walthamstow-international-film-festival-2026/) _2026-07-02 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ At the weekend I spent a couple of hours at the lovely Walthamstow Trades Hall for the 17th Walthamstow International Film Festival, which was showing some 80-odd short movies over the course of a few hours. One of the things... ## [The death of Doctor Who (hopefully an exaggeration)](https://martinbelam.com/2026/doctor-who-1963-2025/) _2026-06-10 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ Urgh, I ve already had to live through two eras of They aren t going to be making Doctor Who anymore and it looks like we are just about to enter a third, with the announcement today that there won t be a... ## [One-line gig reviews for May 2026](https://martinbelam.com/2026/gig-reviews-may-2026/) _2026-06-08 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ In this month s round-up: Why sitting in the front row for Milton Jones is a high-risk health hazard, the unexpected joy of reconnecting with Super Furry Animals in a brutally sweltering O2 Academy Brixton, and how a post-pub wait for... ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AOOBmBiPqVVU) _2026-06-08 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [One-line spoiler-free movie reviews for May 2026](https://martinbelam.com/2026/movie-reviews-may-2026/) _2026-06-02 · Martin Belam · Martin Belam_ This month featuring: the perfect folk horror, a Brazilian mistake, Stevie Wonder stealing John Lennon s show and road-trip horror going off the rails (plus why the big light ruins David Lynch). Power to the People: John Yoko Live in...