And here we are The final essay in my TWIN PEAKS series. Episode 18. Let's return home. www.patreon.com/posts/147251...

I started this series in 2020 to stay sane during the pandemic, and I've been going through the show episode by episode since. It has been my heart and soul. I love Twin Peaks, and I love David Lynch. I hope that your appreciation of the series has grown with my analysis. Thank you <3

And here we are The final essay in my TWIN PEAKS series. Episode 18. Let's return home. www.patreon.com/posts/147251...

I don't know why you'd need to use ChatGPT to name your baby when it is likely your one and only chance to gift someone with a Thomas Pynchon-esque name. You could name your son Ringo Florp and there's nothing anyone can do about it, unless your child decides to transition later and become a Bailey.

Today I read @willowcatelyn.bsky.social’s in-depth retrospective of the TWIN PEAKS pilot, from David Lynch’s palpable love for Laura Palmer to the “incantation of feminine intuition” that haunts this life-changing first episode 🌲 www.phantasmag.com/articles/twi...

Working in publishing means reading out of time. I read a bunch of things that aren't out yet. And I read other great books that I either don't own because I got a galley or borrowed from the library etc. But because it's the end of the year, here's a selection of the best things I read in 2025:

I'm sure the dolls already know this, but just in case you didn't, the second Silent Hill film was written and directed by trans woman M.J. Bassett

This January, I'll be returning to SILENT HILL for my horror column

TWIN PEAKS ends on Friday www.patreon.com/willowcatelynmaclay

casting a little bottle with a message inside of it off to sea on January 1st, 2026, as a wish, and on that tiny slip of paper, it reads simply "Klute on 4k when"

😎4 week winning streak 😎 However, I am playing against the team with SGA this week.

I'm in the process of writing the final essay in my Twin Peaks series & it feels bittersweet that it's happening in the final days of the year that David Lynch passed away. The tone of this series changed in January. Each piece since then has been an outpouring of my love for him & his art.

I wrote a short essay on the pilot episode of TWIN PEAKS. It's a perfect episode of television. Almost everything that you need to understand about the series is shown in the first half hour. www.phantasmag.com/articles/twi...

I want to thank everyone who took the time to read CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS this year. It was a labor of love for Caden and I to bring the subject of transness in cinema into the light. For trans readers in particular, I hope it gave you a healthier relationship with film & with our history. 💙

Support @phantasmagpress.bsky.social if you can! They are very very cool. And consider this essay an appetizer for my final essay in my Twin Peaks series. I'll be looking at Carrie Page, and the final half hour of The Return next week.

I wrote a short essay on the pilot episode of TWIN PEAKS. It's a perfect episode of television. Almost everything that you need to understand about the series is shown in the first half hour. www.phantasmag.com/articles/twi...

I wrote about A MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS and EMMET OTTER'S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS for my reader's choice series. Happy holidays everyone. I hope they're kind to you. This post is free. I don't believe in putting the Muppets behind a paywall. www.patreon.com/posts/146603...

Submitted a ballot and wrote a few words on LET THE RIGHT ONE IN & THE WILD BOYS for Kyle's Queer Cinema at the quarter century list. It's awesome to be included with so many great writers. Check it out

A lovely Christmas surprise: thank you @willowcatelyn.bsky.social for mentioning The Butcher’s Daughter at @thequeerreview.com as one of the queer works that helped get you through the year 🖤 thequeerreview.com/2025/12/24/t...

Both of these movies are on youtube in full If you'd like to watch either of them this holiday season.

I wrote about A MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS and EMMET OTTER'S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS for my reader's choice series. Happy holidays everyone. I hope they're kind to you. This post is free. I don't believe in putting the Muppets behind a paywall. www.patreon.com/posts/146603...

It's so bizarre that A CHRISTMAS STORY wound up being canonized, because it is a deeply weird movie. It's subversive (as many other Bob Clark movies are), and clearly made by someone who was born in the States, immigrated to Canada, and with distance, saw the gun fetishism of America & satirized it

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

I find it moving that David Lynch loved IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE so much he couldn't talk about it without crying. His sincere belief in the redemptive possibilities contained in that film and what it said about people seems to me like a key element of understanding his own work.

Did you guys know that BLACK CHRISTMAS is my favorite movie about abortion? I wrote about it from that angle and how the violence of the picture overlaps and is linked to the central question of the right to choose. It's one of my favorite movies in general. www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

It's frustrating that Kevin O'Leary is in Marty Supreme. I won't be watching it because he's in it.

I think I love PEE-WEE'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL so much because it invites an audience who are not normally catered to in Christmas specials to participate and have fun.

My fantasy basketball team is now on a 3 week winning streak. Let's all cheer for Double Team VHS Tape

THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS is on TCM right now, and in the opening one of the teenage girls introduces herself as Kim Novak, which reminds me that I flirted with the idea of naming myself that 10,000 years ago when I came out. I showed great restraint in not doing that, but restraint is for cowards.

The second of my reader's choice articles will be going live on Christmas and it'll be on the two holiday themed Jim Henson pictures made for TV: EMMETT OTTER'S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS and A MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS. Hope everyone has a good week.

Did you guys know that BLACK CHRISTMAS is my favorite movie about abortion? I wrote about it from that angle and how the violence of the picture overlaps and is linked to the central question of the right to choose. It's one of my favorite movies in general. www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

Today's the last day to pre-order the deluxe edition of PERSONA and you'll want to do that! It's incredible. www.littlepuss.net/persona-pre-...

I wrote about SALO for my reader's choice series. I hadn't seen the film since I was a teenager, and rewatching it was a necessary, difficult experience. It's something we should all probably do every ten or fifteen years. It's not the easiest movie to write about! www.patreon.com/posts/145367...

Things have been a little slow on my site this month because of the holidays, but we will be returning tomorrow with an essay on BLACK CHRISTMAS. It's my favorite movie about abortion.

I wish my handwriting was as lovely as Therese's in CAROL.

Going to steal "whorehouse decor" as a descriptor but use it as a positive tbh

The perfect movie to watch on a drowsy Saturday

It was an absolute joy to work on CALVAIRE and I'm very excited for folks to check out my video essay! I dove into the Gothic elements at play, and how perceiving a final girl is free from bio-essentialism. This strange horror movie has more than a little in common with "Stag Dance."

Thrilled to announce this spectacular new blu of Fabrice Du Welz's glorious nightmare CALVAIRE (2004) I co-produced with the legendary @neilsnowdon.bsky.social for Arrow. Extras by @bjcolangelo.bsky.social @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social @willowcatelyn.bsky.social @antbit.projectedfigures.com + more!

BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

RIP Rosa von Praunheim. An icon and pioneer. It was a privilege to screen his works, a few of which are featured in Corpses, Fools & Monsters. Learned this news via @schlockvalue.bsky.social. One of the most uncompromising chroniclers of our histories.

For Rosa von Praunheim. www.patreon.com/posts/146082...

Forever in our hearts 💔

🌺Rosa von Praunheim 🌺

Voted in the Indiewire poll and you can see the results below. My individual ballot can be found over at Film Comment. As always, these lists are best seen as a temperature gauge of the current moment rather than something locked in place. I'm happy Rose Byrne took acting & Blue Heron was featured

Here's me on EYES WIDE SHUT In honor of the recent Criterion 4k release of the film & our presentation of it this week for my little movie club in my hometown. curtsiesandhandgrenades.com/index.php/20...

MULHOLLAND DRIVE was on at 8:30 in the morning on Canadian television. My mother heard "I’ve Told Every Little Star" from another room and started singing along; she hadn't heard it in maybe 50 years and remembered every word. The power of Lynch compels me.

It was embarrassing at the time, but I find it charming in hindsight that I didn't know Spinal Tap were a fake band when I was 11 or 12 and getting into classic rock. "Stonehenge" sat on my ipod alongside Iron Maiden, Dio, etc. My 6th grade science teacher broke the news to me. He had a good laugh

THIS IS SPINAL TAP might be the funniest movie of the 80s.