My second article in as many weeks on #StrangerThings is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social ! reactormag.com/the-best-mom...

My article on the awesome cult classic #Krull is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social Go read it and enjoy what they think a #glaive is! reactormag.com/krull-deserv...

My roundup of the best in this year’s tv lineup is out in this month’s @artforum.com www.artforum.com/lists/tyler-...

My season 4 recap/review ahead of the final season of #strangerthings is up at Reactor!

My article on @realgdt.bsky.social ‘s #frankenstein is up at @artforum.com It’s a fantastic excoriation of Byron that, like every GdT film, wants to find the humanity even in its most vile monsters (Victor). www.artforum.com/columns/guil...

My newest #80sFantasyFilmClub article is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social. This time we’re looking at the childhood nightmare, #ReturntoOz. Go and comment. Share the article. Marvel at Fairuza Balk’s best performance! reactormag.com/return-to-oz...

My article for @reactorsff.bsky.social on Ridley Scott’s #Legend is up! Go comment and bask and reshare! reactormag.com/legend-faeri...

#Alien:Earth uses #PeterPan as a focal point and uses the same quote from #PeterandWendy to anchor its read as I used for the backbone of my dissertation chapter on it. Noah Hawley’s a smart guy—what can I say?

Where there’s a whip… My article on the horrors of revisiting a beloved flop is out at @reactorsff.bsky.social Comment on the site or share it here. My god though, what a nightmare. reactormag.com/the-animated...

My #80sFantasyFilmClub article on the Bakshi and Frazetta “masterpiece,” #FireandIce, is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social As one canny commenter already said, “it’s the only film where every frame could be spray painted on the side of a van.” Go and comment!

A few days late, but my article on #theneverendingstory for @reactorsff.bsky.social is up! It’s the latest in my #80sfantasyfilmclub series and (perhaps) the most traumatic! reactormag.com/the-neverend...

I’ve seen a lot of posts, aimed at non-Angelenos, about how it is all business as usual here. About how there are no rioters, no looting, no urban warfare with “military-aged illegal aliens.” The details are true.

Always happy when the winds of fortune blow our sociopathic opportunist governor back onto the vaguely right side of history. I’ll enjoy the next few days of it!

Fire at the Protests in DTLA. Was not close enough to see the source though, if reporting is accurate, I believe this is a burning WayMo (Google’s self driving rideshare vehicle).

#BurkeAndHare (2010) the wacky, buddy comedy about the famous graverobbers turned murderers is #GreatestShowman levels of tonally misguided.

My article on #ClashoftheTitans is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social for the #80sFantasyFilmClub! It’s the only Ray Harryhausen/Laurence Olivier collaboration in existence so treat it with reverence. Make @lisarinnaofficial.bsky.social proud!

My article on #Yellowjackets and the weaponization of Xennial nostalgia is up at @artforum.com Share it far and wide! www.artforum.com/columns/yell...

My newest article in the #80sFantasyFilmClub, on the transformationally campy #Beastmaster is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/the-beastmas...

This #ARealPain #AlienRomulus double feature I accidentally arranged for myself is real weird

My unfortunately timely #Willow article for @reactorsff.bsky.social #80sfantasyfilmclub is up! The late #ValKilmer is every bit as charming as you remember reactormag.com/willow-lesso...

#TheGorge has big “this was written during Summer 2020” energy

This is how we sleep when I sleep alone: CPAP in, flat on back, cat on chest #catsofbluesky

Formatting academic drafts to, in line with their publisher’s guidelines, remove a Oxford commas is a disorienting and, ultimately, terrifying experience. May I never get used to this.

#Mickey17 was broad and silly and delightful. Robert Pattinson is essentially playing a Tim Robinson character. Also Taskmaster’s Tim Key!

Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East all give fantastic performances in #Hereticmovie but man that film ran out of compelling ideas about halfway through

The inaugural article in my #80sFantasyFilmClub is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social It’s on the dark cult classic, #Dragonslayer

I didn’t think #TheSubstance was going to be They Live levels of unsubtle. Not necessarily a complaint.

Check out my postmortem on #whatwedointheshadows for @artforum.com It was a lovely show I felt honored to be able to write about

A podcaster I really like was needlessly mean to me on the internet today. Can 2025 get any worse?

My dear friend Katie Oros was unexpectedly laid off by her corporate job this week. She is an immensely talented photographer so if you ever wanted to get some vanity photography, or a fantasy shoot, or some graphic design done—now is the time to send her an inquiry! #photography katieoros.com

30 Days has Septemeber/ The 7th month in Rome, remember/ The Kalends’ on the first regardless/ But Ides and Nones aren’t so flawless/ For Hollow months it’s Ides 13/ And Winter’s interstitial then/ Leap Year: the height of human folly/ All the rest have 31

My article on Robert Eggers’ excellent remake of #Nosferatu is on Artforum’s website today. It has spoilers for the film, including a couple of differences from the Murnau and Herzog versions so be forewarned. This one meant a lot to me! Go enjoy! Then go see Nosferatu again! @artforum.bsky.social

The most representative photo of my psyche as described by objects imaginable #nosferatu #blackpink

Bill Skarsgård-looking motherfucker. #catsofbluesky #billskarsgard

Sofia Falcone is a fucking style icon. #thepenguin

Super late to it, but #thepenguin has the best Yellow Wallpaper reference in seventy years

Been thinking about Trump’s return to the White House and getting a familiar feeling of dismay because of the fatphobia his presence inspires in people. Let’s be clear Trump is a fascist, a r*pist, and a bigot. Those things are enough to condemn him without commenting on his size or his diet.

To the tune of that one Drowning Pool song: “Let body keep the score.”

It’s not like I was ever expecting Pod Save America to be unimpeachably on the right side of history, but @jonfavs.bsky.social had one of the worst Luigi Mangione takes I’ve heard from someone who supposedly share my values. Woof.

So the moral of Interstella 5555 is “Record Company Executives good; Talent Agency CEOs bad.”

I think that painting the Claims Adjustor as a folk hero is a grim and necessary sign of our country’s thoroughly broken social contract. 1/4

Late to the party but I just finished Scavenger’s Reign and holy shit. What a perfect, fucking season. Shame that we will have to live with only the one.

Ultimate LA evening: a date at the Edendale where I saw three coyotes and Judy Greer

Viserion gives the most withering of stares.