In her new adaptation of #WutheringHeights, Emerald Fennell has both Cathy and Heathcliff sit on eggs while also deploying sensual imagery and BDSM themes. Would her talents and preoccupations have been better suited to an adaptation of The Story of the Eye? In this essay, I will…

Had a weird day yesterday, and then a rotten evening. Am utterly exhausted and melancholy today. But at least haircut is vg! Subscribe to my Substack: johnnywrites.substack.com

#FBF go-go pics for the algo [???] Subscribe to my Substack: johnnywrites.substack.com

#Pillion! #Twinless! #BlueMoon! #PeterHujarsDay! Check out my mini-reviews [gay thoughts] of these and other recent notable gay films! #FilmThreads #MovieThreads #AwardsSeason

I feel genuinely privileged to have somehow largely missed all the shitty #Sinners *discourse*. It’s been nothing but people adoring this tremendous film in my feeds and actual life since last April. 😌 #Oscars #FlimSky

V pleased [smug] to say I only have three major #Oscar films left to watch. (With respect to Bradley Pitt et al, have zero interest in the car movie) #FilmSky #Movies #AcademyAwards

“Like the Cass Review before it, the trial is in all likelihood an elaborate pantomime to generate a false sense of scientific legitimacy for what is purely a moral panic about gender related healthcare – with the enthusiastic collaboration of most of the UK’s politicians and news outlets.”

I hate that I live in a timeline in which Michelle Pfeiffer is in a Taylor Sheridan show. 😖

Fierce canine companion guarding my archives. Considering purchasing spiked collar. (Also badly needs bath!)

I don’t watch #Traitors. Anyone want to explain that overalls guy to me?

Why yes this was tonuit’s double feature. Iss agoofun! #filmsky

Amanda Seyfried rocks my world as per uszh. #TheTestamentofAnnLee #FilmSky

On Tuesday, the attorneys general of 12 states filed a lawsuit challenging HHS’s “conditioning [of] hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding on states’ agreement to discriminate against transgender people,” according to a press release from the Oregon Department of Justice.

Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in women’s single-sex spaces over a period of three years, according to advocacy group TransLucent.

The administration has been relentless in their dubious (to say the least) characterization of Good and progressive activists as “domestic terrorists.”

Forced to flee home office due to internet outage. At Starbucks now. Feel strongly that internet companies should be obliged to reimburse customers for expenses incurred during outages (eg nonfat latte, ham & cheese toastie). Elizabeth Warren or similar should get on this.

Wanda Sykes wins the night, and actually made me root for Ricky Gervais over Brett Goldstein. #GoldenGlobes

Such a bummer that Amy Poeler had to thank Spotify. #GoldenGlobes

Did the #GoldenGlobes red carpet always have these #MetGala stairs?

So stupid that #GoldenGlobes occur during #DryJanuary! Badly desire champagne but would contravene New Year’s resolution.

🏓 🥜 boxd.it/3dJnD #FilmSky @letterboxd.social

Welp. After several weeks of hesitation, avoiding purchasing, then having to order from eBay (as is sold out everywhere), this finally arrived. Expect sporadic commentary, e.g. Author’s overuse of “release” when she mean “c*m” already making me slightly regret this endeavor. #HeatedRivalry #BookSky

First first-time watch of 2026. #filmsky #DeadMansWire @letterboxd.social

I think The Gashlycrumb Tinies should be a musical. I’m not sure how it would work, but this just popped into my head & I think it could happen

NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION! SAT JAN 10TH Find your protest at mobilize.us & GET IN THE STREETS #Portland, we start at the Oregon Maritime Museum on Naito Pkwy at 11 AM CHINGA LA MIGRA! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #ICEOutForGood #ICEOutOfPortland #ICEOutOfMinneapolis #ReneeNicoleGood

Anyone else v interested in the sexy mustache guy with the crutches and the OnlyFans haircut on #ThePitt? Hope he gets a storyline, and that it also involves the outdoor shower and #NoahWyle.

The #BridgetJones content no one was clambering for in January 2026! But hey, give a guy some credit (likes, shares, subs, etc) for finally finishing a little passion project! #FilmSky

Literally the point of Xmas lights, greenery, etc, is to bring light, symbolic spring into the home at the darkest part of the year, so I say leave the decorations up til April.

2026 Substack preview (in manner of HBO or similar). Subscribe at johnnywrites.substack.com. #TVsky #InterviewWithTheVampire #HeatedRivalry #TheVampireLestat #gayTV

Picture of the staff who operate my account

Am trying to find a restaurant that will deliver turkey curry… #BridgetJones #NewYearsDay #TurkeyCurryBuffet

Should you find yourself on the couch today enjoying the traditional #NewYearsDay #BridgetJones marathon, perhaps you will also enjoy some supplemental reading to enrich the experience:

Every book I read in #2025 (not counting audiobooks) #BookSky

One thing I will literally never get over is how wrong all the Muppets sound now.

FYI, am also counting this as #HeatedRivalry content. Read it here: johnnywrites.substack.com/p/bridget-jo...

Happy #BridgetJones Season! Long-awaited Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2 part recap is my special New Year’s treat for all of you! Read, like, share, subscribe (for free)! #FilmSky

Just realizing that Aunt Glady is 100% the template for Aunt Gayle. 🤯 #BobsBurgers #HomefortheHolidays

Spooky Season 2025 movie syllabus on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/Pd7OS #Filmsky

The Disney & ABC boycott is WORKING 🔥 Let’s keep going! We the PEOPLE have the power. Sinclair, the broadcasting company that owns hundreds of ABC affiliate stations, has BACKED OUT of airing a remembrance of Charlie Kirk, posting a YouTube link instead. #BoycottDisneyABC #Sinclair #JimmyKimmel

“In the days since publishing my recap I’d rewatched the episode and some episodes of #SexandtheCity, and I’d read all the reviews and listened to all the podcasts about #AndJustLikeThat that I’d avoided while covering the show myself, and I found myself… becoming irrationally angry.“

Can anyone point me toward some really smart writing about #AlienEarth by trans critics?

Here it is: the final #AndJustLikeThat recap. Prepare yourselves for some real tonal whiplash at the end!

The gentleman wondered what he had gotten himself into… (It was Carrie. He had gotten himself into Carrie.) #AndJustLikeThat

You know what’s terrible for depression? THIS SHOW! #AndJustLikeThat

The way everyone is like “Stevie and Lindsey are making nice!” When actually they’re just promoting a rei$$ue. #BuckinghamNicks (She’s v cynical today, folks, sors.)

Oh hey btw Johnny Writes… is on @serializdapp.bsky.social now. srlzd.com/u/JohnnyWrites

Unpopular opinion, obv, but, like, this is basically the Carrie-and-Aidan-sending-each-other-blank-postcards of classic rock, right? #FleetwoodMac #StevieNicks #LindseyBuckingham

I… swear I watched a new episode of #AndJustLikeThat last night, but… all I seem to recall now are random darkened images, as if glimpsed through a scrim or by candlelight, of people coming in and out of rooms and saying things. Was it a dream?