I interviewed Sepideh Farsi about her stunning new doc Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk and about the light that was Fatma Hassouna. Free Palestine. inreviewonline.com/2025/11/14/b...

I interviewed Sepideh Farsi about her stunning new doc Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk and about the light that was Fatma Hassouna. Free Palestine. inreviewonline.com/2025/11/14/b...

"An image doesn’t have the responsibility to say something; they have to 𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑘𝑒 something." Sirāt director Oliver Laxe talks with @brndnstrssng.bsky.social about remaining tethered to an increasingly broken, tenuous world:

Excited to say that I have an essay featured in this release of The Stunt Man which goes into the history of and breaks down the myth of the stunt performer in cinema

Excited to say that I have an essay featured in this release of The Stunt Man which goes into the history of and breaks down the myth of the stunt performer in cinema

gotta say @brndnstrssng.bsky.social goes deep on this lovely interview with Robert Englund, on the occasion of the latter's new star on Hollywood's walk of fame. letterboxd.com/journal/nigh...

Happy Halloween! I went long with Freddy himself, Robert Englund, for Letterboxd. Surreal to have him do the voice at you. You can read it below. Yes, I ask him about killing Burt Reynolds onscreen, don’t worry. letterboxd.com/journal/nigh...

With a gruesome new 4K boxset of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise hitting shelves, Brandon Streussnig sits down with Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, to look back on the inimitable horror series. boxd.it/2Ni

Happy Halloween! I went long with Freddy himself, Robert Englund, for Letterboxd. Surreal to have him do the voice at you. You can read it below. Yes, I ask him about killing Burt Reynolds onscreen, don’t worry. letterboxd.com/journal/nigh...

This year has basically been all about willing all the shit I've ever wanted to do into existence for myself. Can't wait to share this sometime down the line.

An honor of a lifetime to chat with Radu Jude, one of my favorite filmmakers of all time. I was left unsatisfied by his thoughts on AI but so moved on his take that TikTok has become the tool for modern folklore. A walking contradiction and I couldn't have hoped for anything less. Read it below.

An honor of a lifetime to chat with Radu Jude, one of my favorite filmmakers of all time. I was left unsatisfied by his thoughts on AI but so moved on his take that TikTok has become the tool for modern folklore. A walking contradiction and I couldn't have hoped for anything less. Read it below.

Few filmmakers mean more to my sensibilities than Larry Fessenden. Never would’ve dreamed I’d get to write some words about one of his best let alone spend a Friday night with him helping out at his signing. Always meet your heroes even though he’d bust my balls for saying that

INCREDIBLE interview between two of my favorite people! I cried when Tina talked about what she would hear her Dad saying in her head during times of stress. Please read Brandon's legitimately insightful interview of Tina Romero for the release of Queens of the Dead!

Out here in Brooklyn slingin @vinsyn.bsky.social wares until Midnight and tomorrow from 10 to 10. Come on out and show some love 🫡

Out here in Brooklyn slingin @vinsyn.bsky.social wares until Midnight and tomorrow from 10 to 10. Come on out and show some love 🫡

As her wonderful debut Queens of the Dead hits theaters this weekend, I interviewed fellow Pittsburgher Tina Romero about the film, following in her father's footsteps and bringing the Zombie into the future. Read it here: inreviewonline.com/2025/10/24/a...

As her wonderful debut Queens of the Dead hits theaters this weekend, I interviewed fellow Pittsburgher Tina Romero about the film, following in her father's footsteps and bringing the Zombie into the future. Read it here: inreviewonline.com/2025/10/24/a...

What a privilege to contribute to this beautiful release of one of my favorite filmmakers’s very best films

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Always loved The Warriors

Always loved The Warriors

I really liked the film Alpha directed by Julia Ducournau :) Hated out of Cannes, Loved by Me, well worth the trip to the Bronx to see it in one of the two theaters it’s being hidden away in

There really was a rapture, but only for Rob Schneider and his follows

if only we had an app where we could find out what rob schneider is up to

I love that this reads like they disappeared with him

I think Barbarian is fine, often very fun but it's so much more free and alive than Weapons ever is. A deeply self conscious film that's "about" a whole lot, never interested enough in any of it and at its best when Cregger lets go. Wish he'd just commit the the latter.

Post-NYFF 2025 favorites

I did the commentary on this. You should go out and buy it. Just want to note that I recorded this well before the findings came out about Buford Pusser killing his wife. I’d like to apologize in advance for all the times I said “Pusser was a great man who never did anything wrong” in the recording

Just kinda doing whatever

Openly weeped watching ET at the theater at this mall some years ago. Then I walked across the hall and saw the Hallie Myers-Shyer romcom Home Again. I’ve Mallratted at this mall. Still do, tbh. Gonna hate to see it go.

Walmart just bought the mall last week - everyone was just waiting for the other shoe to drop, and this was it. Sounds like they’re planning to start tearing the place down in 2027 - exactly 50 years after Dawn of the Dead was filmed there.

It feels a little dumb to mourn a mall but hearing the iconic Monroeville Mall from Dawn of the Dead is set to be torn down in the next few years kinda bummed me out. Grew up going there. Hope they keep some sorta landmark with the George Romero bust up somewhere at least

Guy on the other end sounds familiar… bsky.app/profile/lett...

Shoutout to MVD for sending over this killer Radiance release of Malpertuis. Been wanting to check this one out for quite awhile

Guy on the other end sounds familiar… bsky.app/profile/lett...

I’ll be working the table while Larry signs the Goods. Come on out, it’ll be fun

Just saw an old guy in a backwards kangol hat Kangol Winter, mark that down

Seems like many folks are making the jump which means I should stop forgetting to post here. Have a few things coming in the next couple months but for now, here's me on The News last months talking the late great Robert Redford

Warranted or not, the perception is that this is the Scold Website. If you actually want anyone to be here, you're gonna have to get a little cooler about people understandably having to navigate the declining number of social spaces

Caught By The Tides :)

Incredibly proud to have my Arrow essay debut included in such a great film. So proud of this one

I saw this movie several months ago in advance of a piece I was working on that never materialized. I thought about it ever since. Definitely one of the best films of 2025. Absolutely the best leading-man performances.

A gente precisa dar logo um CPF e um cartão do SUS pro @brndnstrssng.bsky.social por todas as críticas maravilhosas que ele faz dos nossos filmes.

The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho): Less an ode to movie palaces than it is to the people who used to occupy them. Even then, who owns that memory? Those of us who view it through treacly sentimentality, or those who were there but can barely remember at all? It's great.

Incredibly proud to have my Arrow essay debut included in such a great film. So proud of this one

A life highlight hanging with Lav Diaz for a bit

A highlight of the festival hanging with Brandon Streussnig and finally getting to meet the amazing Isabel Sandoval.

Also, the scene where Graham and Merrill talk about miracles is astonishing. Just really beautiful writing. Tak shot the shit out of it too. My gf rewound the scene last night because she immediately wanted to watch it again.

A movie I did not like at 21 or 22 when I first saw it, watched again in 2023 and loved it. One of my biggest personal turnarounds on a movie and proof to me, myself, that you should never totally write off anything that was made with real care and heart. you change, see what changes for you.