updated my *website* and feeling mighty!! i want to write, host, mentor, edit, consult for you and all your friends!!!!

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Emerald Fennell gives Isabella Linton the roses and thorns she deserves in new Wuthering Heights (2026) Or why Alison Oliver's puppy play and humiliation kink amps up the libidinal charge of an oversexed film.

Reporting from the Wuthering Heights HQ, on humiliation kink in Emerald Fennell's oversexed, overblown new film, for OBSCENES:
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OBSCENES is my substack dedicated to sex on film where i finally put my thoughts down re: PILLION as it’s released in the US ⛓️ ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/obscenes...

lol wuthering heights multimedia so unserious for treating commissioned writers like the plebs HAHHAHA *screening full* yes full of INFLUENCERS AND THEIR +1s

national treasures!!! wish it was more talked about Bulgarian folk song renditions in Banshees for example, or Josephine Decker’s Butter On the Latch 🥹

i felt slightly let down by ISLANDS last year but the world has turned progressively bleaker since so no worries if you’d prefer a Canary islands-set thriller to reality

this is the price you pay for being my friend i don’t make the rules

PETZOLD in the @quinzaine.bsky.social 🥹🩵🥹

‘The dumbest thing I’ve ever done’: spy trial’s tales of scheming, bluster and a love triangle Trial of three ‘minions’ in spy ring for Russia heard of chaotic errors, tangled relationships, a cancer lie and a red button

I’m having an identity crisis and Radu Jude wishes he was Bulgarian so he could make a movie out of this bs 🤡🤡
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Cannes Review: Renate Reinsve Proves Brilliant in Halfdan Ullmann Tønde’s Debut Armand How is a child’s life different from that of adults today? What is it like growing up around stimuli, in a world that is always-online, and with varying degrees of supervision? Is complete safeguardin...

Shot empathetically and on beautiful 16mm, Armand is a tribute to the powerhouse female characters of Bergman and Cassavetes: those who dance while the world falls apart around them.

Read @savinapetkova.bsky.social's review as the film opens in U.S. theaters:

'Babygirl' finally shows us what subspace feels like Halina Reijn’s film gives rare insight.

finally got to share some work on here: for mashable, i wrote on BABYGIRL (!) and its cinematic exploration of subspace; long live kinky cinema 🥛
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oh no! let me try to fix it!

Milk, Memes, Masochism We're all going crazy for Nicole Kidman's dairy consumption

i’ve started writing *obscenes* for y’all in the form of my newsletter on the topic of film and sex! happy babygirl day folks 🥛
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ariana doing it for all of us

'Babygirl' finally shows us what subspace feels like Halina Reijn’s film gives rare insight.

finally got to share some work on here: for mashable, i wrote on BABYGIRL (!) and its cinematic exploration of subspace; long live kinky cinema 🥛
mashable.com/article/baby...

this one! will be in my best of decade list 🥺

tarantino goes on joe rogan and TV is the problem? lmaoooo sure dude

ballot:::::

still can’t believe i was asked to contribute 🥹🥹 fantastic to see a film with so much heart and soul top anora

any tips on how to make it less lonely being on this app?? asking for myself

Nightbitch review: Mothermorphosis Amy Adams brings wholehearted empathy to Mother, an exhausted suburban woman whose animalistic transformation offers a release from the frustrations of parenthood.

first work shared on the new app - i reviewed NIGHTBITCH for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social as resident metamorphosis specialist 🐕
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Sight and Sound magazine is now on Bluesky!

We will be announcing the results of our 2024 Films of the Year poll here, this Friday

omw to Leuven to greet all six participants in our film criticism workshop and i can’t wait! their reviews will be published at talkingshorts.com stay tuned!!!

somebody ban vampire puns in review headlines already we have literally seen them ALL lol

romcoms are the best therapy

went to FICX in Gijón again this year and i saw movies, surfers, a mop-style dog, and the bottom of many a wine glass - thank u España for nourishing me so 🫶

oh god it’s the horror of the blank page all over again