Only thing I love more than watching HEAT is talking HEAT with podcasters who come slinging HEAT The rare movie where you think everything's been said about it before, but a podcast can only crack a fraction of the film (shoutout @kransekage.bsky.social for making this an excellent guest tag team)

Wired publishes an article that starts a massive discourse about the band Geese being a psy-op. What's the band's biggest song called? Taxes. When did they publish the article? April 14. What happens on April 15? This goes so much deeper than you even know.

Wow, even more Michael Mann podcasting! This time I got to be on with @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social who is brilliant and had some characteristically incredible film takes to share.

HUGE episode: Two of our best guests and bunches of great takes. Something for everyone here, no matter how you feel about HEAT or Mann

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

Poster for Saturday night's screening of PINK FLAMINGOS that I'm hosting at the Heights Theater Come be my kind of people (and not the other kind 😉) ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/640...

Now you can listen to me talking Michael Mann's THIEF with some great fellas! Even though they are making big profits from my work, my risk, my sweat. But that is okay, because I elected to make that deal. But now, the deal is over. I want my end, and I am out.

THIS SATURDAY NIGHT!!! Have you gotten your tickets yet?? If filth is your politics and filth is your life, come out to the Twin Cities' filthiest film screening of 2026!

"Mrs. Sims had no complaint to offer." (The Minneapolis Journal, Sunday, February 2, 1913)

Strapping a couple Baker’s Wife donuts to my chest like an IED

You believe you have a chance to recover — but it is too late — you’ve proven yourself to this chamber closer in temperament — and indeed, moral stature — to the short downspout, efficiently ejecting rainwater directly into the backfill — through porous foundation walls — and back into your own home

Wife made muddy buddies

A film that feels almost impossible to comprehensively talk about in the span of two hours, but the Trylove guys always find a way! Noise music, being a woman in an industry built on misogyny, Internet-era decontextualized dehumanization, Gina Gershon's "I ❤️ Gossip" shirt... we talk about it all!

𝕀'𝕞 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕝 𝕠𝕗 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘. @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social knows noise when she sees it, and DEMONLOVER (2002) is chock-full of it. Olivier Assayas's aggressively Web 1.0 look at power, sex, control, and subjugation — a movie that self-destructs while you're watching it. (links in 🧵)

Nevermind that it's already almost April — here's what's coming to the pod through June! 🎞️= 35mm THIEF 🎞️ HEAT COLLATERAL 🎞️ MIAMI VICE FAMILY PLOT 🎞️ A HEN IN THE WIND 🎞️ SANSHO THE BAILIFF 🎞️ THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA DRAGNET GIRL or 80s ACTION (if we can get tickets)

Marty Scorsese shirts da shop. Had to do it for the big man - much love stay sick www.snipershirts.com

Who would have thunk we’d get a guy who actually STUDIED a subject to discuss that subject on our PODCAST??? (We’ve done this a few times, actually) Still, a great chat about American labor and the Coal Wars!

Tickets for the next screening I'm hosting are now live! Come join me for John Waters' infamous 1972 testament to filth, PINK FLAMINGOS One show only, April 11th at 9:45 pm, at the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights, MN ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/640...

𝕀 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞 𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙. Not so much an adaptation of Hamlet as a take on the source, THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960) has earned an... odd place in Akira Kurosawa's body of work. Does it deserve better? We discuss in today's episode! (links in 🧵) #filmsky #movies #podcast

When that one guy I’ve been waiting for shows up in DUNE PART 3

Hierarchies that shift and adapt to changing social conditions, where an explicit ruling class becomes an ostensibly liberalized society controlled by private monopoly and public corruption... Antiquated notions of honor and personal responsibility that do not... Love a "house always wins" ending!

I like to read a Natalie review while listening to the record it’s about. This time, I got to her commentary on a track just as it started playing, and it turned out to be a pretty perfect inventory of my real-time reaction to it

It’s gotten to the point where I’m liking these videos before I even turn on the volume

I know it feels like the day-to-day intensity of the ICE occupation in Minnesota has calmed down, but there are so many lagging problems that need solving, right as people’s attention goes elsewhere. Financial assistance, like help with rent, and legal help for the detained. These horrors persist.

There are times when I wish I hadn't gone on Trylove. There are times when I feel . . . compelled to do it.

MISTER E. A MYSTERIOUS BOOK. AN ISLAND. They're mocking us.

I didn’t really think about it until Abbie brought it up, but the way this movie frames everything so tightly despite a lot of landscapes is really part and parcel to my understanding of it now. Intimate and distant, always something lurking just outside the scene. Fantastic takes on this episode!

Been a sec since we've run one of these threads: Hey there, we're Unwinnable! We've been publishing 100% independent pop culture criticism since 2010. Since we mainly count on reader funding, our writers write what's on their minds -- not what's best for the algorithm or investors.

Attn: @everyone the NGDVs have arrived in my neighborhood

An incredibly fun conversation about one of the best movies of the century. What a picture!

Some news: I'm hosting a screening of Gregg Araki's THE DOOM GENERATION at the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights, MN! This Saturday night (3/7) at 9:30 pm! Come by, say hi, support an indie theater showing cool queer films! ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/629...

We are not covering BLADE RUNNER for @trylovepodca.st (blame @aarbypls.bsky.social idk what to tell you), so I wrote a Perisphere piece on it instead. Big thanks to Perisphere editors @finnematic.bsky.social and Olga for putting up with my tardiness! www.perisphere.org/2026/03/01/h...

New shirt in the shop! Printed on American Apparel 1301 Heavyweights. Available until March 5. Been working on a drop that’s a bit tamer, and while I’m excited to get that one going, it also made me wanna do a “classic” Sniper shirt, if such a thing exists. www.snipershirts.com/product/pre-...

this is going to kill people

URGENT NEED FOR SUPPORT! March is right around the corner, and our neighbors need our help to stay in their homes. Our neighbors in Central are doing amazing work to help meet this need, and there are 175 families still in need of urgent support which means $249,000 are needed.

God, this movie rules. This is your sign to go see the breathtaking animated feature GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND (1985) at the @trylon.org. Last showing today at 4:45, not many tickets left: www.trylon.org/film/gwen-an...

"must see TV" is EXACTLY jacob frey's leadership style, thank you miles taylor for crystallizing it. it's acting for cameras only and putting on a show for people who aren't his constituents

𝕄𝕒𝕪 𝕚𝕥 𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕤 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕪. Writer and returning guest @kinoventura.bsky.social is back to discuss the Turkophobia, performances, and Giorgio Moroder's classic score in MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978), a true prison break story. More emphasis on the "prison" than the "break." (links in 🧵) #filmsky #movies

𝐈’𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲! THE TIME MASTERS (1982)'s unapologetic weirdness and sincerity hold it together despite a confusingly flat plot. Check out our new episode on this French cult classic (links in 🧵) #filmsky #movies #podcast

Sign seen in South Minneapolis. "FUCK ICE" "NEIGHBORHOOD OBSERVATION & RESISTANCE IN FORCE" "IF I DON’T RESIST MY NEIGHBORS WILL" February 2026

Bit of Trylove lore around this movie: We saw it in a private screening, all masked up and seated rows apart. I think it was the day after @aarbypls.bsky.social moved to Chicago On top of being a jaw-dropping movie, it was a huge comfort during the pandemic and this ep remains a personal favorite