Happy to spotlight this wonderful new film — go check it out if you’re in SF!

The Shock The Indiana-born filmmaker Lambert Hillyer remains best known for his 1943 Batman serial, which inspired the later Adam West series in the 1960s. Although the Caped Crusader no longer resembles his ci...

This week, @nicopsetzer.bsky.social on The Shock, Lambert Hillyer's Lon Chaney-starring, SF-set gangster melodrama, screening this Saturday at the @nilesessanay.bsky.social

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A Letter to Columbia <i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA </i>’24<i>. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detaine...

"While they sit comfortably behind their screens, their actions have very real consequences for the rest of us. If I am deprived of my child in the first moments of his life, the people responsible will have been, among others, these students." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

My own apologies, I must issue a correction.

The Eight Avivas: An Interview with Todd Solondz about Palindromes Todd Solondz and his cinematic worldview of discomfort and sorrow burst upon the American indie filmmaking scene with the festival success of his second movie, Welcome to the Dollhouse, in 1995, and i...

Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes (2004) is getting rereleased this week. I interviewed him for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/eig...

This is huge: Screen Slate named the second most important newsletter in @markkrotov.bsky.social's life in the New York Times

Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon “a man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

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Every time I write about a film at Doc Fortnight I stumble upon an interview that reveals the film in question has a little lie at its center—a smart trick of sorts. And so I restart, to celebrate a trickster’s cinema that is sometimes clichéd, and mostly charming.

Thank you!

Feedback Loop: Catching Up I have been doing a lot of catching up this January, as I often find myself around a lot of bright and learned film critics and film viewers whose history with the artform exceeds my own. The sense of...

A new year. A new app. A new piece of writing. Here is my my latest for @screenslate.bsky.social :

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