In honor of his 75th birthday this weekend, here’s my @brightwalldarkroom.com interview with Abel Ferrara about his memoir, his life, his addictions, the end of the world, and his thoughts on redemption (and how the Bad Lieutenant would react to the 2025 World Series).

hello from my vacation in northern michigan, where everything is absolutely fine

Love this piece by @lindseyromain.bsky.social on DISCLOSURE DAY for @brightwalldarkroom.com Read: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/07/10/s...

One of the best pieces of criticism I have read this year!

One of the best pieces of writing about film this year. Masterful.

"In DISCLOSURE DAY, empathy itself is the speculative leap. The genre function is inverted: science fiction stops speculating about aliens & starts speculating about us. Aliens are ordinary. Human compassion is extraordinary. The sci-fi is us.

i wrote about disclosure day, steven spielberg, and human compassion as sci-fi for @brightwalldarkroom.com

It’s called elevated horror, T. It’s when the dracula is actually that your family sucks.

gonna be on vacation all of next week and therefore gonna miss all of the early odyssey discourse and i’m elated. will be touching grass while brain worms infect the rest of you 🫶

i love to listen to my comfort podcast episode (Twister rewatchables)

angelica showed me this movie last year and i can confirm it does indeed FUCK

a friend bravely confessed to me tonight that she used to fuck a guy who played a blue man in the blue man group

i feel that disclosure day has been out long enough now that i can say this: they were already on their phones watching the news because world war 3 is literally about to happen!!!!!

Are you enjoying the Kartoffelklöße? Refill your kinderpunsch, you’ll love this next part.

love that matthew rhys’ flashback wig is the same in the americans and widow’s bay. one little bang hanging in his face.

From thrilling to perplexing, come and join @lindseyromain.bsky.social  and @oneblakeminute.bsky.social  on #TheDecadeProject to discuss the aesthetically beautiful and morally ugly #NocturnalAnimals

pretzel bun sandwiches. incredible.

my hair has been falling out of my head and apparently it’s because i’m low on “iron” ??

girls on zoom

i’d pay a million dollars to never have to hear about the tom holland umbrella lip sync dance again. let’s move on!!

god she's so funny

"Watching ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN in 2026 provokes a gentle aching because it documents an ecosystem of institutional faith that no longer exists—that truth, once uncovered, possesses the power to shift the world." - @lindseyromain.bsky.social

I fully support Knicks fans being absolute psychos because if the Lions ever won a super bowl Detroit would look like Stalingrad.

not to be a 37-year-old teenager but the new olivia rodrigo album is so damn good - felt every word, queen!

i will simply never understand when people talk about spielberg like he’s held back by sentimentalism. i would argue he’s one of our most repeatedly cynical directors.

Nicole Kidman was originally cast in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. @pmiscove.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social  and @lindseyromain.bsky.social  break down why that alternate universe film would be a completely different movie. Full ep on Patreon. #mrandmrssmith #angelinajolie #nicolekidman

basketball :)

"So, in a way, humor is what saved my life, and that is political, always." For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke with the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters!

disclosure day: a movie so fucking good it prompted a post-screening bar chat with pals. been a minute since i had one of those!

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

Cold news for me

This week on @podcastlikeits The 2000s @emilystjams.bsky.social and I continue our Angelina Action 2000s miniseries by talking Mr. & Mrs. Smith with @lindseyromain.bsky.social! We discuss all things Brangelina, Doug Liman and if this movie makes any sense, Spoiler: it kinda does?

chicago beaches just casually the most beautiful shit in the world

i was just walking down the street and i tripped on a RAT

need to know if kane parsons has a relationship with the navidson record

this note in my blood panel results lol

“Truth—remember when that mattered? Try, if you can, to recall the newspaper in your hand, the bleeding ink on your fingers, the weight of it, as physically dense as the words impactful. Truth was once something you could run your hand over.”

i’m ready to fucking fight

It's been a bit of a lean month for print sales, so I'm doing one last little push before the monthly bill collector comes to call! www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

New today on the site! "ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN tells the story of Woodward & Bernstein’s Watergate reporting, but it also tells the story, incidentally, of the loss of form—the texture of news that made it real." - @lindseyromain.bsky.social (art by @mosesleeart.bsky.social)

i wrote about all the president’s men for @brightwalldarkroom.com — i get into how the film’s texture and tactility gives literal weight to the reporting onscreen, and lament the loss of physical news mediums as a sensory connection to the reality of politics and power.

saw backrooms last night and then had nightmares about backrooms! i never get nightmares from movies! backrooms!!!!

lower wacker is also a liminal space full of imagery that’ll haunt your dreams. saw this there tonight.

we are in a movie naming crisis. why is everything a generic title like obsession, pressure, tuner, the drama, forge? there are like 20 movies called passenger. now we have new atonements and leviathans? every movie out of cannes is called something indistinguishable like the unknown or another day

this photo cracks me up

watching one Robert Altman movie all way through without their phone would send these people into a full-on dissociative coma