Daniel Kraus: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life Join bestselling horror writer Daniel Kraus as he discusses the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead with film critic Adam Nayman.

Toronto! On March 31 I'll be hosting a chat at
@torontolibrary with Daniel Kraus about his terrific new book PARTIALLY DEVOURED, about the history and legacy of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Sign up below. www.eventbrite.ca/e/daniel-kra...

Modern Fairy Tales on Film: Phantom Thread Join host Adam Nayman as he discusses P.T. Anderson's masterpiece with critics Manuela Lazic and Haley Mlotek.

Starting on March 24 I'm beginning a virtual lecture series with
@torontolibrary
on modern fairy tales on film. The first episode is about Phantom Thread, with guests Haley Mlotek and Manuela Lazic; information below. eventbrite.ca/e/modern-fai...

Have you read anything I’ve written on GDT

Emerald Fennell’s Pursuit of Provocation ‘Wuthering Heights’ promised to revel in bad taste, but was ultimately afraid to get its hands dirty—a recurring theme in the British director’s filmography

On “Wuthering Heights,” for @the-ringer.bsky.social ” www.theringer.com/2026/02/17/m...

Notes from the Peanut Factory: Matt Johnson on “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” Toronto’s most dynamic alt-comedy duo leaps to the silver screen (and travels through time…and scales the CN Tower).

Talked to Matt Johnson about lenticular storytelling, being annoying, and studying Norman McClaren in film class mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Sounds of Freedom: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part Three | Los Angeles Review of Books The third installment of ‘The Biden Years On-Screen’ considers the cinematic fallout of cancel culture, the overruling of Roe v. Wade, and the 2022 midterm elections.

In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social today with the third installment of The Biden Years On-Screen with pal and mentor @brofromanother.bsky.social. nobody better. thx Ellie Eberlee, AJ Urquidi and @paulxt.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/joe-...

The Subtle Mysteries of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother The movie, starring Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett, probes a web of quietly intriguing family relationships.

On Jim Jarmusch’s lo fi enigma machine FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Something Is Rotten in Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet” The movie starring Paul Mescal makes the life of Shakespeare a melodrama.

on HAMNET, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Indeed I did

“Sentimental Value” Is an Upper-Middle-Brow Crowd Pleaser Joachim Trier’s skillful, literate movies tick a lot of boxes.

On SENTIMENTAL VALUE, for @newrepublic.com

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Cronos, Mimic, Blade 2, Devils Backbone, Pinnochio… I like Ron pearlman in hellboy and some of the staging in crimson peak.

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Plays It Too Safe The Netflix movie, starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, is lavish and meticulous—and strangely hollow.

On FRANKENSTEIN for @newrepublic newrepublic.com/article/2027...

In ‘A House of Dynamite,’ the End of the World Is Ho Hum Kathryn Bigelow’s latest feature, hitting Netflix this weekend, documents doomsday from the too-static confines of a situation room

On Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/10/22/m...

that's very kind, and thank you so much for coming

After the Hunt Would Like to Touch a Nerve Director Luca Guadagnino has turned transgression into its own sort of comfort zone.

On Luca Guadagnino's enervating AFTER THE HUNT, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Chess an example of how a show doesn’t have to be good to be good

Love Chess

Jafar Panahi’s Revenge Road Trip Masterpiece “It Was Just An Accident” reckons with cruelty and repression.

On Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS ONLY AN ACCIDENT, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Sunken Places: Hypnosis in Horror Cinema (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies Horror cinema's obsession with mind-controlling mesmerists illuminates something essential – and unsettling – about the very nature of film spectatorship.

This is next Tuesday afternoon; excited to talk about this group of movies. Hope you'll consider joining the session. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...

‘One Battle After Another’ Is Paul Thomas Anderson at His Best A director who never misses is back with his most urgent film to date, about the messed up world we’re passing on to our children

On Paul Thomas Anderson's phenomenal ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/09/24/m...

Sunken Places: Hypnosis in Horror Cinema (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies Horror cinema's obsession with mind-controlling mesmerists illuminates something essential – and unsettling – about the very nature of film spectatorship.

A few years ago I did an online lecture for @miskatonicihs.bsky.social
on SPOORLOOS and had a blast; in October, I'll be doing another one on motifs of hypnosis in horror cinema, including clips from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, CANDYMAN, CURE and GET OUT. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...

That’s right mutt-benny

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Is a Mirror. Like What You See? The Big Picture · Episode

EDDINGTON is the movie of the year. Maybe of the decade.

Amanda, @brofromanother.bsky.social, and I dive into it on The Big Picture. Then Ari Aster joins me to talk about his new film.

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Thanks for taking the time for all that, I did read it. I will say that only one of these three movies that feels like art to me— which is open and risky enough to "give myself over to" as you put it, and which is dealing with reality as I recognize it, albeit in a funny, stylized way— is TRAP.

On SUPERMAN, for @the-ringer.bsky.social

OK, I'll bite: what are SUPERMAN's terms? And what are TRAP's terms? Which parts of these reviews (newrepublic.com/article/1844...); www.theringer.com/2024/02/29/d... do you disagree with? You tagged me, soI'm asking with genuine interest.

‘28 Years Later’ Is Infectious Two decades removed from the frenetic glory of the first films, anything was possible with a return to the franchise. Consider what we got a best-case scenario.

There’s no discharge in a war, and no iPhone charger, either. On Danny Boyles’s goofy and moving 28 YEARS LATER for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/06/20/m...

Materialists review: Match me if you can Celine Song’s second feature starring Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker for rich New Yorkers aims for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the mark.

On Celine Song's MATERIALISTS, for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

fantastic piece. Parts of Materialists bothered me in ways that reminded me of one of my least favourite movies ever (Up in the Air).

On THE REHEARSAL season 2, for @thewalrus.ca