“It’s really liberating saying [this will be my last film], then I don’t have to upset anyone.” –Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

New Brunswick, NJ just canceled plans for a colossal AI data center after massive pushback from the community. That's a huge win for people power. AI data centers are sucking up communities’ utilities AND draining state resources — while enriching Big Tech CEOs.

“Alex Cox, in what may be his final film, smartly reconfigures the classic theme of bureaucratic greed in Tsarist Russia into a bold, timely political #Western situated in the borderlands of the 19th-century American West.” #SFIndiefest review: filmint.nu/dead-souls-a... #russianlit #immigration

“My films are meant as polemical statements against ‘barrel-down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator…an appeal for insistent questions instead of false answers….”Michael Haneke, “Film as Catharsis,” 1991 New on FilmInt, by James Morrison: filmint.nu/michael-hane... #filmsky #artcinema

RIP Tom Noonan. Never not good.

Seen on that other site...😆 What's really in the Epstein files!

The Plain Dealer using AI to write stories from reporters’ reporting is ridiculous and a desperation move. Hire capable people, guide and edit them and get out of the way.

This afternoon on #TPTV Monday 16th Feb. All programmes #TPTVsubtitles 12:00 THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946) 14:15 CARRY ON SCREAMING (1966) 16:15 THE LONG DUEL (1967) 18:30 THE VISE (1955)

#crimefiction #thriller #noir #writersconference

#AlexCox will appear tonight at #SFIndieFest at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater for the closing night screening of his new revisionist #Western, Dead Souls: filmint.nu/alex-coxs-de...

Democracy dies in billionaire hands. https://www.avclub.com/melania-budget-paid-every-fired-washington-post-journalist-salary-three-times

What a surprise from Don the Con: theft. Its Use Is a ‘Breach of Composer Agreement’: #ptanderson #radiohead variety.com/2026/film/ne...

“‘Sexpot’…it makes you think of Sex and Dope.” “I think it says it all.” THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN (Joel Schumacher, 1981)

A really sad day in cinema: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

This is one of my all-time top ten favourite films (proven by its inclusion in my Sight + Sound greatest films list in 2022), and it is criminally underrated. One of the most emotionally intelligent and even compassionate serial killer films ever made - a brilliant portrait of toxic masculinity.

Happy birthday, #TobeHooper – here’s Christopher Sharrett’s 2021 essay, “Tobe Hooper and the American Twilight,” excerpted from AMERICAN TWILIGHT: THE CINEMA OF TOBE HOOPER (UTexas Press): filmint.nu/tobe-hooper-... @utexaspress.bsky.social #horror #texaschainsawmassacre

Thank you, @livingcolour.com:

***ONE WEEK LEFT TO ENTER!*** #Booksky

Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th

I have to sit down for this one. Literary titan @tananarivedue.bsky.social has recommended THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS in @peoplemag.bsky.social. I'm stunned and honored. Link to her full quote in comments. Preorder link in comments. @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

Stomping into 2026: #bmoviemaniacs www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Jc...

On adapting Build My Gallows High, the 1946 novel by Daniel Mainwaring (writing as Geoffrey Homes), into the 1947 noir Out of the Past: filmint.nu/from-build-my-gallows-high-to-out-of-the-past-jeremy-carr/ #noir #filmnoir #noirfiction #starkhousepress

Pam Grier (1972)

A few new blu-ray titles I've worked on have just been announced thanks to our friends at @vinsyn.bsky.social! First up, I have a video essay on this stunning new release of Catherine Breillat's The Last Mistress (2007)

#filmstudies #cinemastudies #televisionstudies #streaming #genrefiction #horrorfiction #crimecinema #noir #gangsterfilm

Here is a blast from the past. May the force be with you. And may your vaccines keep you healthy and with long life.

The Insects' Christmas (Russia, 1913). It is a stop motion film directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz. Wikipedia link: it.wikipedia.org/wik... #silentfilm #classicfilm #cinema #film #movie

A poster wonderfully reflecting the film’s bleak tone: tundra planet raid, training slashed with betrayal and emasculation (dark knight pulling the weapon out of John Wayne’s hand), gunslinger turned to stone, and the young knight castrated.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) U.K. poster.

Happy #WinterSolstice

Ida Lupino and Dana Andrews conferring while preparing for the Lux Radio Theatre version of “Daisy Kenyon” on April 5, 1948.

The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.

This entire weekend

As a princess bride fan I am upset

Snowfall in South Jersey:

New on FilmInt Online – a book review (Jonathan Monovich) of Every Movie is a Miracle: A Colloquy Between @leonardmaltin.bsky.social and #NatSegaloff “a heartfelt thank you to movies, the lives they shape, and the friendships they help form” #StickingPlaceBooks stickingplacebooks.com/books/every-...

Every time I teach The Killing ( #StanleyKubrick, 1956) at @rutgersupress.bsky.social , a fan club of hers appears in the class. #QueenoftheBs #filmnoir #noircity

@fulciseyefetish.bsky.social I bet you’ll be first in line!

Coming in July ‘26, edited by Murray Leeder and Gary D. Rhodes, a study of indigenous #horrorcinema in classical and recent works such as The Dead Can’t Dance, #LovecraftCountry, and @sgj.bsky.social’s The Only Good Indians: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477334133/

#documentary #orwell #raoulpeck #alexgibney www.youtube.com/watch?v=npwm...

Agnes Moorehead with her pet cat in the 1940s Moorehead was BOTD in 1900 #Caturday

KUOW - ICE stops Native American actress Elaine Miles in Redmond www.kuow.org/stories/ice-...

Arcs for The Pandemonium Waltz, my collection due out in February, should be available fairly soon. If you are a reviewer for a publication, drop me a line. Cover art by Derek Ford. And there is an interview with me by Kelly Link. TOC in 2 Comments below.

RIP Daniel Woodrell – here’s William Blick’s piece for Journal of NoirCon, from 2021: retreatsfromoblivion.com/2021/09/19/n... #noirfiction #gritlit #countrynoir

RIP Daniel Woodrell #noirfiction #gritlit