I'm sorry too! I thought it was soooo mean and funny lol. Every sight gag of the guys wearing the camera rigs killed me. Gonna watch more Brooks expeditiously

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

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City Wide Fever — Josh Heaps [Review] | In Review Online A new film review of City Wide Fever, directed by Josh Heaps & released by Factory 25, for film review site In Review Online.

a lo-fi delight, Josh Heaps' City Wide Fever plays select Drafthouse locations starting tomorrow. Shot on a Sony DSR-PD150, the same camera Lynch used for Inland Empire! A few words here: inreviewonline.com/2026/04/14/c...

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Man, @petreraleigh.bsky.social's stuff is always good, but this is a particular banger of an essay.

Very much appreciated dude!

The Wolves in the Picture Martin Scorsese's American Gangsters

On the occasion of its recent 4K release, I wrote about Killers of the Flower Moon
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Evening boost - thanks very much to everyone who has read so far!

So kind of you, very much appreciate it!

Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much Sean!

🙏🙏 thank you for reading!

The Wolves in the Picture Martin Scorsese's American Gangsters

On the occasion of its recent 4K release, I wrote about Killers of the Flower Moon
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That Sheeran and Ernest are not without sentimental attachment, nor even wholly without guilt, is part of what seems to fascinate Scorsese about them; it’s explicitly what drew him to Ernest, but it’s clearly something that he sees in Sheeran as well. Sheeran murders his best friend, Ernest attempts to murder his wife, and if both men seem quite clearly to regret it, still neither is capable of a real moral reckoning, a true confrontation with himself. Both men, in the final stretches of their films, find themselves offered an opportunity to confess, Sheeran to a priest (not to mention the FBI), Ernest to Mollie; both men fail in this final test, though neither seemingly fails to see it for what it is. “What kind of man makes a phone call like that?” Sheeran asks, in a rare, ultimately fruitless moment of introspection. The same kind of man, Scorsese might answer, who could look Mollie in the eye and tell her those shots were just insulin: a kind of moral half-person, missing something crucial that the real people have.

@petreraleigh.bsky.social on Killers of the Flower Moon

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What the hell is going on

I am going to 100% watch Undine and Afire, I've been hitting Petzold fairly hard and plan to continue. (Catching Miroirs by me was what started me back on the Petzold kick, though I'd previously loved Phoenix and Yella)

I simply do not understand the ways that people read books anymore

11. Transit Christian Petzold’s movie is like some sort of hybrid mythical beast; it has the head of an allegory, the body of a thriller, and the heart of a love story. That it excels in each of these genres independently while still feeling like a cohesive work is a testament to the fluidity of Petzold’s screenwriting, the way he weaves rich emotions and gripping suspense into a complex tapestry of dystopian terror. One of his boldest strokes is to set Transit seemingly out of time; its electronics and flat-screen monitors suggest the present day, but its setting—a fraught Paris occupied by a faceless tyrannical regime—recalls the war-torn haunts of Casablanca. This epochal ambiguity lends a political charge to a film that’s already teeming with intrigue and incident. Franz Rogowski is quietly vulnerable as a savvy loner scrambling for his freedom, while Paula Beer is mesmerizing as his… seducer? Sucker? Co-conspirator? Transit toys with mysteries of identity and duplicity in ways that are legitimately surprising, but it amounts to far more than an elaborately constructed piece of cinematic rug-pulling. Rogowski’s stricken hero just wants to flee, but with a movie this hypnotic—this full of drama, deception, and longing—there’s no escape. – Jeremy

Transit LET’S GOOOO

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That's RIGHT

Fabulous picture. Petzold has not missed for me

Favorite first watches, March 2026

Tender Mercies (1983)
Breaker Morant (1980)
The Stendahl Syndrome (1996)
The Flower of Evil (2003)
Transit (2018)

He was unfortunately extremely real for this

Unbelievable for a guy who's been writing as long as I have to do the ol' "eh, no need to write it down"

It Happened To Me: I had a writing idea in the middle of the night, told myself I would remember it easily upon awakening, and now cannot remember even generally what it was about

Just when I thought I was out, I pulled me back in

Nah just hopped back on lol.

Been laying pretty low on social media during the month of March but very much hope everyone is doing well!

Thrilled to have been of service tbh

Thanks so much man! I owe Josh Tait for the book rec here.

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