Cyberpunk and transness have always been linked. For the first time, that connection will be explored in-depth. This book will also showcase the amazing films, games & stories being made by Trans+ creators. Be part of the new cyberpunk canon. 🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

A couple of essays worth reading on WHAT HAPPENED WAS Sheila O'Malley for Film Comment: www.filmcomment.com/blog/present... Adam Nayman for the most recent DVD release: letterboxd.com/brofromanoth...

It occurs to me that the perfect person to do a commentary track for the Wuthering Heights Blu-ray would be Alan Partridge.

I wrote about Deleuze, Timothy Speed Levitch, and the ideology of common sense for the APA Teaching and Learning Video Series. blog.apaonline.org/2026/02/18/c...

I saw Problem Child in a theater in Florida and there was a guy sitting a few rows ahead of me, smoking a cigar and laughing loudly. Can you believe it?

I highly recommend Tom Noonan's film WHAT HAPPENED WAS. He was a fantastic writer and director in addition to being one of the great character actors his generation. WHAT HAPPENED WAS is a romance for people who have been worn down by life and themselves and who don't trust love, but still want it.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Not just a great actor, but a great writer and a great director.

i was reading an old wachowskis interview from a year or two after bound came out and this answer might be in the egg hall of fame. www.gadflyonline.com/archive-wach...

I mean, that about captures it www.axios.com/2026/02/17/t...

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Associate editor @812filmreviews.com offers thoughts and an excerpt on programmer and author Ashley Clark’s book, THE WORLD OF BLACK FILM: A JOURNEY THROUGH CINEMATIC BLACKNESS IN 100 FILMS.

Funny, I was just thinking that, despite his admiration for Friedkin, he could never make a film as great as Sorcerer and I think one of the reasons is that, despite his eclectic taste, he can never rise above his pre-adolescent sensibility.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Writing ranked lists can feel like a hot-dog-eating contest at times, so please respect @bilgeebiri.bsky.social for a 32 (!!!)-film WUTHERING HEIGHTS list that includes a contemporary high-school take from the producers of SHARKNADO. You're required to subscribe IMO: www.vulture.com/article/the-...

America produced the genius of the Chess, Motown and Stax/Volt artists that the Beatles and Stones built their careers covering.

Raspberry. Definitely raspberry.

I never eat steak because it's expensive to order out and then sometimes I remember you can just ... make steak at home and sometimes it's on sale? anyhow, I remembered again so I am making this today www.alisoneroman.com/recipes/stea...

sports equinox is when all major U.S. pro leagues have at least one game. sports solstice is when none of them do. we get them in the summer sometimes but in the winter only when the NHL goes on break and the NBA has its all-star-weekend during that break

Happy Valentine’s Day from Bob & Liz

Emerald Fennell's Story of the Eye.

Yes! Rather than chasing Trump's policies, they should chase his strategy of shaping public perception.

#MikhailShaidorov just won Olympic #iceskating gold to "The Diva Dance" from the Fifth Element, that made me so happy! I got to write about this incredible piece of music for @brightwalldarkroom.com if you'd like to know more :) #Olympics2026 www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/02/29/t...

was Pam Bondi trying to un-hibernate Auto-Tune the News?

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

Ranch Dressing is the one thing here I won't eat.

So many adaptations of Wuthering Heights and not one adaptation of Wind & Wuthering.

It can be dispiriting to see Trump temporarily occupying (and temporarily vulgarizing) that big White House. But it’s heartening to remember that when the Trump era is consigned to the ash heap of history, the example of Lincoln will remain.

An early crush and the inspiration for my own teenage funeral home escapades RIP Bud Cort 🖤

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So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

“The foundational piece is defining people by their biology—to essentially see women as people who have one manifest destiny to fulfill.” Read @msjpauly.bsky.social on the woman behind Trump's effort to erase trans people & how some see it as pursuing a deeper goal of enshrining gender roles in law

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

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“Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said in an interview Tuesday that he and other New York City-area politicians would reraise the flag at the federal monument Thursday.”

“Until someone builds a Badder Bunny.”

Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

pretty cool M.C. Escher could draw all that stuff and still find time to rap

wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me type-click-type.ghost.io/tell-em-mich...

I’ve got an essay in the @imprintfilms.bsky.social super deluxe release of John Woo’s The Killer viavision.com.au/shop/the-kil...

I want to leave you with this, from @mostlybree.kitrocha.com:

Be like @veradrew22.bsky.social and get your Castration Movie Scarf at louiseweard.com

I went to see The Testament of Ann Lee and thought about the psychic link between the religious fervor of 18th-century Shaker worship and the larger-than-life choreography of 20th-century movie musicals. A good movie, a massive swing:

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le