FFC #Telluride25 review: FRANKENSTEIN, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

I lose interest in conversations with people who call relatively recent movies old and I don’t care if that makes me a snob. For me, if it’s a talkie, it’s not old.

chomp

It's show announcement Sunday! This week we're FINALLY tackling the heavy-hitter CAN'T HARDLY WAIT, and we're joined by the always brilliant @nikostratis.com! Episode drops on Thursday. IT'S PARTY TIME!

SUBMISSIONS for SALEM HORROR FEST 9 are now open! filmfreeway.com/salemhorrorf...

I would love to talk to some folks on the ALIEN: EARTH production design and wardrobe teams. They’re doing such stellar work combining late ‘70s and futuristic aesthetics. I geek out every single episode over new details.

give me back the mass market paperback you cowards

I love the word “enervating” and I’m pleased to see it deployed so hilariously here. Beautiful writing. You can see the steam rising from each word. “I can’t believe y’all made me read 85 pages of this shit.”

it would be a pretty good week for Rolling Stone to have a TV critic

If you're democratic candidate for anything and you're not all-in, and I mean all-the-fuck-in for trans rights, go ahead and take a walk over to the republican party where you belong.

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

Vulcano - I Put A Spell On You [Bulgaria, Disco] (1982) https://redd.it/h0hvj3 https://youtu.be/2fTlZR2TJ1k

I’m bummed (but not surprised, based on the trailer) that HIM is getting such awful reviews. American pro football is a perfect topic for the horror genre. There are so many avenues to explore: capitalism, gender, racism, fame, body horror, etc., etc. I can’t wait for the movie that gets it right.

The only way I could possibly be excited for a remake of SLEEPAWAY CAMP, a movie I love, is with a trans writer, director, and cast.

"June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray." - Chuck Jones, animator and director. #filmsky #moviesky #botd

Made sure our Robert Redford tribute was mostly focused on his incredible face (@chlopinions.bsky.social actually did all the work) www.avclub.com/robert-redfo...

i should go to sleep so i’m rested for another day of The Horrors

Remember, making art and being happy is resistance. It’s also fine to protect yourselves online in terms of what you share. This is all made up. You don’t have to share anything you don’t need or want. You don’t even have to be on social if you don’t want to. Protect yourselves & your families.

ah, well

Happy birthday to the queen, Elvira. Thank you for everything, including the only costume contest I ever won.

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

The money quote:

Trying to get anything covered by your health insurance in the U.S. is an unpaid full-time job.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

Every new Democratic think tank looks like this

it’s remarkably easy!

Robert Redford's passing reminds me of the best idea I've ever had for a movie that never existed: Redford as Hal Jordan and Paul Newman as Barry Allen in Green Lantern & The Flash: The Brave & The Bold

Maybe the real posts we put in a “not sober enough to skeet” folder were the friends we made along the way

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

I’ve fallen in love with glass art after taking some classes. There’s a huge makerspace studio just a few miles down the road from me that has a kiln I can use. I’m so, so excited to keep learning and experimenting (and so grateful I have local resources!). Make art! Support your local art scene!

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Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

A giant has left us. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS today! 13 coming-of-rage stories including the return to print of "Benny Rose the Cannibal King" about the monstrousness of adolescence and those who will do whatever it takes to get away, or get even. Out now from Titan Books! 😈 tinyurl.com/prhdemons

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

Oh hell yeah. Please support the cause and repost. #WarrenZevon

Turns out Tully is an old-school splatter girl. She is *loving* THE WIZARD OF GORE.

I love female scientists in Atomic Age horror movies. They either dress like Ellie Satler or Ms. Bellum from The Powerpuff Girls.

Landscapers are working next door and every time there’s a loud thump my brain yells at me to go hide in a closet. Fun Times at the CPTSD Corral.

don't care about the emmys BUT: a+ good old-fashioned television-ass television winning, hell yeah

You absolutely love to see it. Noah Wyle is doing astonishing work on THE PITT and I’m thrilled to see him win. Truly, his performance is so compelling and artistically inspiring. #Emmys

I need to go on a life-changing road trip with Sarah Paulson.

Xenomorphs bleed acid and Walton Goggins bleeds swag. #Emmys

“Fuck ICE and free Palestine.” That’s my wife, folks. #Emmys

Obsessed with the queer folks in the audience singing along most enthusiastically to “Thank You for Being a Friend.” #Emmys

THE PITT sweep starts here, let’s gooooo

I’m very proud to have contributed an essay to this collection. I’m also blown away by how cool these perks are. Please check it out and share!

One thing they don’t tell you when you grow up in a dog household is that cats hug you with their tails and when they do it feels like all the love in the world is being beamed directly into you.

Hold your friends close. Fuck the Long Walk. Fuck the Major.

I already knew David Jonsson was incredible after seeing him in the fantastic RYE LANE, but seriously…why is he not in every single movie? I know he’s in THE LONG WALK, which I’m going to see as soon as I can, but the world needs more. Cast David Jonsson in everything, please.