Happy to spotlight this wonderful new film — go check it out if you’re in SF!

This week, @nicopsetzer.bsky.social on The Shock, Lambert Hillyer's Lon Chaney-starring, SF-set gangster melodrama, screening this Saturday at the @nilesessanay.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/sho...

"While they sit comfortably behind their screens, their actions have very real consequences for the rest of us. If I am deprived of my child in the first moments of his life, the people responsible will have been, among others, these students." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes (2004) is getting rereleased this week. I interviewed him for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/eig...

This is huge: Screen Slate named the second most important newsletter in @markkrotov.bsky.social's life in the New York Times

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

You can now watch THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED with a Disney+ subscription. Support independent American cinema.

Every time I write about a film at Doc Fortnight I stumble upon an interview that reveals the film in question has a little lie at its center—a smart trick of sorts. And so I restart, to celebrate a trickster’s cinema that is sometimes clichéd, and mostly charming.

A new year. A new app. A new piece of writing. Here is my my latest for @screenslate.bsky.social : www.screenslate.com/articles/fee...