there's this movie I really love from a couple of years ago called "attachment" and u should watch it if u haven't it's really good I like it a lot

I loved Faces of Death!!!!!

they SHOULD let me INTERVIEW LARRY FESSENDEN

I'm gonna need people to understand that "men women and chainsaws" is an examination of why men like/watch horror movies. as such, the "final girl" figure, as clover defines her in the book, isn't some discrete feminist icon, she is an encapsulation/embodiment of masculine pleasures and fears.

do you guys think I'm dumb and a bad writer? I feel like I'm at this very rare point in my life where I feel happy about social stuff but I feel terrible about myself as a writer. I'm scared I've become a bad writer I'm so scared it guts me

u guyz I think I'm in love

u ever just cry

I think I have a very defeated sort of sadness, like, it's not at all the kind that inspires people toward action (violent or more vibrant or spiky moods), it's very given-up or just tired, despite my ideological anarchism I'm very still when I'm sad and I think that's why I like quieter art

Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.

u ever have period pains so bad it feels like you're swimming in your skin

Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith slicing off head of Holofernes. No prettifying this story from Artemisia Gentileschi in 1611. Today is her day.

I have this theory that is probably totally unfounded that people don't rewatch movies like we used to, due kind of to the competitive/performative nature of letterboxd and Internet

the thing about shudder allowing users to leave comments under films is that people love to say "this is not horror" and so you'll see a sea of comments under a film like "baise-moi" saying "this is not horror" and you just hafta laugh

I have my little list of films for fantasia I can't wait I love movies :)

The great Hollywood photographer George Hurrell worked until the very end of his life. He died in 1992 at 87, but photographed a new generation of stars before the end. Sherilyn Fenn, looking very Old Hollywood. Hurrell's light is like a halo.

I got to interview Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin and I am so incredibly proud of this piece exclaim.ca/film/article...

I am covering Fantasia! i am doing a dispatch sort of thing for a publication, but I think I also want to write up a handful of reviews for my own substack, I'm just in the mood to think and write

I was impossibly happy yesterday :) I love my friends

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEL BROOKS!!!

my goal for this year is to write more and well, to read more, challenge myself in thinking and to never ever give up writing and being curious. I want to work hard for myself. I will be good and I will be smart, I promise to myself. 🩷 I want to try to be proud of myself. I won't give up.

happy birthday to me I hope I have a good year

I really want to write book reviews are there any places that publish book reviews?

I think I've lost the ability to hope. I say it sometimes, "I hope x" or "I hope y" but I don't really believe it. I think it's gone forever maybe

did u guys like my Mel brooks piece? did I do a good job?

I am gene Wilder, gene Wilder is me

is everyone mad at me

new book!

is there a way to not feel like a failure all the time

I really liked The Invite!!!!!

is chili a soup?

never a bad time for soup

I have an author's page now!!! which is the best birthday gift ever :))))) www.rogerebert.com/contributors...

A celebration of Mel Brooks and Silent Movie!

This reminds me of how foundational Brooks was for me as a kid. Saw Silent Movie before any silent movies, High Anxiety before any Hitchcocks, Young Frankenstein before any Universal horrors. Like MAD magazine, the parody came first

in case you missed this yesterday -- a little bit of a different piece from me, a celebration of Mel Brooks and SILENT MOVIE i hope you will have a read :)

what should I write about next :)

I have a boyfriend now u guys and this is what I've been saying in my head all day youtu.be/sF6edaCAZKA?...

it's Mel's and my birthday on the 28th so you better read this as a gift to us

"Because many of society’s problems seem to be repeating themselves and even getting worse, SILENT MOVIE’s heart continues to thrum under our floorboards." @alishamgl.bsky.social looks at Mel Brooks’ classic ode to the silent comedy a half century on:

I wish I had a staff writing job I'd love to work with an editor to think up cool ideas and then to like go and research ideas and figure them out

hellooooooo

Mel and Anne had this framed in their home and Anne's parents thought it was a terrific da Vinci reproduction

the best part about writing about Mel brooks is Mel brooks

depressed right now I think

aw hell ya

why didn't you tell me about The Chair Company

pNuT buTrrrrr

Judy Garland uses a personal recording machine in her MGM dressing room circa 1940. Photo by Earl Theisen.

BIG THINGS COMING WATCH THIS SPACE

I applied for EI today