It's #FirstPageFriday, so here is the first page of my horror script Beast With Two Backs, which was a Top 20 at this year's FilmQuest

#NowWatching #FilmSky #FirstTimeWatch Tremors (1990) Dir. Ron Underwood

When Mae told me she was starting this new podcast and sent me the list of movies she and Caitlyn were covering and asked me to come on as a guest, I immediately jumped to do The Devils

Beast With Two Backs was in the top 20 at FilmQuest this year, so that's pretty cool

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Give this a watch and then check out our episode discussing the movie and erotic thrillers. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Can’t believe it’s been 1 year since Perfectly Good Moment came out. I’m sharing one of our alt posters. I’ve learned so much about the filmmaking process, and I’m still shocked we got it done. Of course I wish our movie had found a wider audience, but we’ve definitely built up some dedicated fans.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

folks we still got prop 50 coming in CA if you’re in line to lib out stay in line

For the sake of my friends in New York, I really hope Mayor Mamdani is everything Candidate Mamdani was. But even if he isn't because, well, politics, it is truly lovely to watch a racist sex pest piece of shit like Andrew Cuomo lose TWICE in the same year.

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

#NowWatching #FilmSky #FirstTimeWatch The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Directed by Orson Welles

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

When Nick emailed me to be a guest on his podcast and asked if there was anything I wanted to talk about, unsurprisingly, I immediately said erotic thrillers

I got to break out the film history dork this time

Five reasons why Hellraiser is a Christmas movie 1) Gift boxes 2) Pins everywhere 3) Addictive overeating 4) Slightly odd relatives 5) Sexual deviancy, human sacrifice and inter-dimensional sadomasochism

When @eversonpoe.bsky.social asked me to come on her new pod with @caitlynofthenorth.bsky.social I immediately said yes. Can't wait for you to hear us discuss The Devils

10 Horror movies to get to know me no particular order. 1. The Innocents (1961) 2. House on Haunted Hill (1959) 3. Hellraiser (1987) 4. Carnival of Souls 5. Panna a Netvor 6. Teeth 7. The Cat and the Canary (1927) 8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) 9. Rebecca (1940) 10. Diabolique (1955)

Update on this, maybe I do actually know how to write

As a Gay Texan, I think it's important for people not from Texas or who say we "deserve" when Republicans hurt us that there are many, many Texans who do not support Republicans. We just have the worst gerrymandering in the country and large financial donors who buy their way.

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

Sometimes I just want a non white male perspective on things like womanhood and motherhood. Guess I'm wacky that way.

Having one of those days where I open up things I've started writing and thought "what is this shit?" And then closed them, so that's fun

The job market is so bad that not only is it impossible to find work, it is also impossible to get an interview. You better be the exact match of that purple unicorn with pink dots & yellow stripes that they’re seeking. Missing a stripe? Well, there are about 10K people who aren’t that also applied.

Gavin Newsom can fuck all the way off

It also extra sucks that this is the movie that broke through and made huge amounts of money (some of which is owed to her) when there are countless other amazing, low-budget horrors and thrillers that didn't abuse anyone and took care of their casts/crew, that only a handful of people have seen

Oh great, another story about a woman being made to feel uncomfortable by men and then not getting paid fairly

AND NOW, YOUR #Daily_Awesome:

I have Gemini turned off, but guess what: this was checked on. Everyone check your Google Drive settings!

Mamdani supporters: This should worry you. Do not underestimate the money and power behind the campaign against him. Go vote.

The incredible Amanda Jane Stern uncovers a Disney Channel legend for our Halloween Special this year, Don't Look Under the Bed (1999)!! Hear the full episode at www.movieoubliette.com

Me: really need to find a new gig, but where to even look. Maybe I can also use this time to do some more writing Also me: Oh look, a book

#NowWatching #FilmSky #FirstTimeWatch Night of the Demons (1988) Directed by Kevin S. Tenney

Just saw an ad for AI where a guy uses it to plan a trip and if that isn't a great premise for a horror movie where a guy plans a trip with AI and doesn't double check if any of these places are, Idk, abandoned, haunted, inhabited by a serial killer. No AI was used in my coming up with this idea

Apparently it's #TubiTuesday so if you want to watch a relationship thriller, please watch Perfectly Good Moment on Tubi tubitv.com/movies/10002...

Every once in a while we get a review for Perfectly Good Moment from someone who has gotten out of a toxic relationship and is actively seeking out movies that deal with that saying how accurate the depiction is to their experience & how cathartic watching was for them and that really means a lot

And if you want to know what Beast With Two Backs is about, here's some info on it from the Filmquest page

#NowWatching #FilmSky #FirstTimeWatch Cannibal Mukbang (2025) Directed by Aimee Kuge

#NowWatching #FilmSky #FirstTimeWatch The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Directed by James Whale Impossible not to think of Young Frankenstein or From Beyond while watching

If you want to turn some piece of tech into your pocket friend so badly may I recommend a tamagotchi

Just saying, now would be a great time for me to get to make my queer, erotic creature feature Beast With Two Backs. Which is currently an official selection in this year's Filmquest script competition

Never got around to sharing this here, but a couple weeks ago I got to talk about The Princess Bride on Elissa Sussman's podcast But How's the Sex? As a fan of her books and The Princess Bride, I couldn't have been more excited to talk about the 6-fingered man. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

And it's that time again that I'm looking for a new gig. Just wrapped an events gig. Looking for writing, true crime research, events production, podcasting, also acting jobs. Adding photo of me at Chelsea Film Fest in case that helps more people see this

Spooky season continues as David Dassau joins @amandajanestern.com @zachdale60.bsky.social in our annual discussion of V/H/S Halloween. Available in all your favorite #podcast apps! #horror #movies #filmreview podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith which is a dangerous assumption tbh

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

Writers should be paid a living wage. I know, totally fucking unhinged. Someone lock me up.

Sex scenes are almost never "gratuitous" or "unnecessary." You learn things about characters and relationships during sex that you can't really learn any other way, such as whether they're into fisting.