it’s unfortunate that the world has to be burning down while such a phenomenal year for film came and went - 2025 has been a wild year to be at The Movies

Another day, another academic article laundering so-called artificial intelligence for techno-capital…

Good morning, it’s a beautiful morning — Oklahoma! (1955, Fred Zinnemann). This is the Todd-AO version of the film, photographed on 65mm film at 30 frames per second. The film was photographed twice—once in this format, and again in CinemaScope on 35mm film at 24fps.

minding my own business in Andersonville when @ptklein.com showed up 🙄

October box office was a bust but really 2025 has been a wonderful year for filmgoers. Those of us who are hungry are eating well!!

Tonight’s big screen movie was an absolute banger. It’s weird and wonderful, thoughtful and arresting. It’s why we go to the movies!

Something About the Way You Look Tonight absolutely underrated mid period Elton

Recorded a great episode today with @ptklein.com on "GoldenEye" (1995). It combines two of our main themes for this season: "The End of History/Post-Cold War Culture and Politics" and "Catnip for Millennials".

Rebeef

You would’ve thought Hamilton addressed this exact situation in Federalist 69 and yet

My friend @jakestepansky.bsky.social is building out the @qtlibrary.org, a Boston-based LGBTQIA+ lending library, and needs your help to resource their space and fund their mission 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ If you’re able, support them here:

@ptklein.com must be in me cuz I'm suddenly craving a 🌭

Had a blast talking with @rafstitt.bsky.social and my @coldwarcinema.com co-host @ptklein.com about M (1931). Check it out! screenagewasteland.com/the-canon-po...

This week I spoke with @rafstitt.bsky.social from @sawasteland.bsky.social and my @coldwarcinema.com cohost @jasonachristian.bsky.social all about Fritz Lang’s M, sound, and history. I hope you’ll give us a listen!

In honor of Neil Young’s 80th, I’ll be spinning the underrated and unfairly maligned Trans all day ___ “Sample and Hold,” Neil Young in Berlin (1983, Michael Lindsay-Hogg)

Tonight’s big screen Noirvember presentation:

Live look at me getting ready to discuss Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema today

Had a great time on the Left of the Projector podcast discussing the Reagan-era Cold War movie Red Dawn. We get into all sorts of things: history, theory, and production trivial, and enjoy panning a very bad but iconic movie. Check it out! Link: pod.link/1627324689/e...

Good morning, don’t forget to bring the kenergy today! ___ Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)

At the start of this year, @ptklein.com and I did a big episode on Bond. We’ll be finishing the year with another Bond ep touching on all this open.spotify.com/episode/59p9...

Rewatching Barbie and gotta say it slaps even harder than I remember

Every time I read about Vertigo I am further convinced that most folks haven’t actually watched Vertigo

Real ones just tune in every week for @shane.wlm.sn’s New Music Friday. Trust your bros, not the bots!

I have acquired the Edmund Fitzgerald copypasta

When you get to the last set of a good workout and you know if you just hit the gas you’re gonna crush it >>>

Johnny Cash at San Quentin kind of morning

Alright what movies are we watching tonight, team

Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life

If you need me I’ll be here

Lmao it’s snowing

courage is wildly contagious, and it's so powerfully cool that you can peer pressure cowards into acting like they have it

Turn the volume up

Fascinating use of mise-en-peèn

"If there's one thing I know it is that power can always be made ridiculous. The bigger that fellow gets, the harder my laughter will hit him." - Charlie Chaplin, on laughing at fascists, as discussed in this great @ptklein.com piece: www.howtoreadmovies.com/how-to-laugh...

Bluesky this morning:

Good morning __ “The Restless Consumer” Neil Young

Watched a reel about mortadella and now I can’t stop thinking about mortadella

Had a very @ptklein.com weekend. (Watched baseball and went to the movies)

If you’re just waking up from a late night double feature, don’t miss me in @metroweekly.bsky.social talking about the supreme midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and fifty years of absolute pleasure and queer liberation. 🫦: online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...

Another season come and gone ⚾️ ___ Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)

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Up early club 🥱

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An excellent essay about Rocky Horror's legacy by @ptklein.com ! online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...

1925’s Phantom of the Opera features an incredible color sequence photographed in the Technicolor II process, which captured twin negatives with red and green light filters. Costly to produce and with easily damaged prints, only 32 films, photographed between 1922 and 1926, used the process.

Tonight, on the big screen:

I am once again on my way to the pre-movie lite beer/hot dog place

I can’t articulate how important Rocky Horror is to me 💋 My aunts went to it in the 80s, they had the LP & we used to do the Time Warp when I was 7 I bought the *15th anniversary* CD box set in 1990- I was 12 I dressed up as Frank when I was 13 (cape-pearls-makeup, no reveal lol)

Check it out and be sure to pay attention until the end :) ⬇️