In celebration of the “confirmed bachelor” this Valentine’s Day.

Get yr mind out of the gutter, it’s a turnip.

And to think there was a time the idea of ‘Fine Art photography’ was resisted. Look at this voluptuous root vegetable!

The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire The disappearance of the sex scene in American cinema, the suppression of the body under the moral imperative of commodities in neoliberal capitalism, and Verhoeven as antagonizer.

Great read. The new puritanism and four-quadrant strategy isn't just boring for old perverts like me and bad for films. It's bad for culture and humanity to replace desire with nostalgia.

And from an independent record shop, too! If you'd only known how many hours you'd spend in them from then on...

You saw the Weill show?! That musta been great. I saw her touring Kissin Time, and she was incredible but there were people in the crowd clearly unfamiliar. Gasping and giggling at the dirty words in "Why D'ya Do It" and "Sliding Through Life on Charm." It was very strange. Bust she was a charmer.

Marianne Faithfull Dead At 78 Marianne Faithfull, the English singer and actress known for hits like “As Tears Go By” and films like The Girl On A Motorcycle, died today at 78, BBC reports. “It is with deep sadness that we announc...

I’ve loved her forever. So long, Marianne.

Glad I got to see her on tour in 2002—she was incredible. A true rebel and survivor, her autobiography, Faithfull, is essential reading.

Cinderella Body Horror Movie 'The Ugly Stepsister' Made Someone Vomit at Sundance It's always a sign of a good horror movie when it's making audiences squirm and even vomit in their seats, and this year's first horror movie to meet

I call that a rave review.

Cher-Produced LITTLE BITES Heads To Shudder This February The Cher-produced monster horror LITTLE BITES heads to Shudder this February.

Are the gay horror gods trying to comfort us with an R-rated, Cher-produced monster movie starring Heather Langenkamp and Barbara Crampton? Could it possibly be as good as all that?

Only a few hours in and we’re already being gaslit with Nazi salutes and Jan 6 insurrectionists called “hostages.”

Not surprising just exhausting.

The blinding light of love Underneath the darkness and surrealism, the work of David Lynch contained a pure, earnest belief in beauty and love. He will be missed.

"He was our poet laureate of kitsch, the artist who understood the gleaming artificial surfaces of American life, and their filthy undersides, better than anyone. He loved those surfaces, too, and knew intuitively that dark and light were two sides of the same coin. And he meant it, every time."

They don’t call it a cockpit for nothing, honey: Airport—ranked! The series that invented AND had to catch up with the disaster movie craze. Never respectable, and only got trashier as it went along, as all great franchises should.

Increasingly melodramatic and ludicrous as they go along, the Airport series is the ideal way to recuperate on the couch.

A ★★★★ review of Death on the Beach (1991) Homoeroticism and homophobia collide awkwardly but fascinatingly when a repressed, entitled asshole returns from boarding school early after a teacher has been brutally murdered. He’s a dick to everyo...

Been on a killer queers kick, and getting into Mexican auteur Enrique Gómez Vadillo’s wonderfully odd way of applying his queer sensibility to irresponsible storytelling. #filmsky #queerhorror @vinsyn.bsky.social

I love it when @vinsyn.bsky.social brings a new crop of queers, perverts, and satanists home for the holidays.

A ★★★ review of Shopworn (1932) “I could cuss when I was six and say ‘no’ when I was fourteen!” An ugly and dreary little pre-code that proves in her prime Barbara Stanwyck could make anything watchable. An exaggeration of the typic...

Stanwyck salvages this mean little pre-code with one of her best early performances. Society tries to destroy her for daring to like a guy undeserving of her. So on a whim—a totally offscreen!—she becomes a rich and famous theater star. It's a mess but she dazzles.

Barbara Stanwyck educating herself with the dictionary… right up to the word “ejaculate.” #filmsky #precode

All I wanted for Christmas was film theory—and I got it! @horrornonna.com #filmsky

Aside from that fun scene of Lukas Gage personifying the “your brain on drugs” commercial, why is everyone into Smile 2? What am I missing?

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda

Me trying to get into the holiday spirit. #filmnoir #filmsky

Franz Kafka by Andy Warhol at The Morgan Library in New York City

Warhol’s Kafka. Beautiful weirdos, and a reminder to rewatch The Trial.

Sure, it's tough to find a guy as committed and willing to compromise as Sam Neil. And even when he tries to move on it's with her look-alike. There's a compliment in there!

A ★★★★½ review of Possession (1981) Andrzej Żuławski’s notorious ‘divorce as exhausting horror show’ is a stunner of physical and emotional brutality. And exhibit A for the case that Isabelle Adjani is one of the most powerful performer...

Chose our wedding anniversary to finally convince my husband to watch Possession.

A ★★★★ review of Desert Fury (1947) Psychosexual melodrama so queer that Lizabeth Scott may be the least-gay part of it. She has the hots for John Hodiak, who decades ago had an affair with her butch mother (Mary Astor), and he currentl...

Psychosexual melodrama so queer that Lizabeth Scott may be the least-gay part of it. John Hodiak lives with his very jealous boyfriend, “Johnny,” who picked him up in Times Square! “I went home with him that night… we were together from then on.”
#filmsky #queersky #queertheory #filmnoir

A ★★★★ review of Totally F***ed Up (1993) “I think the Kamikaze Dildos are playing at The Hellhole.” From this depressing, terrifying, and idiotic new reality we find ourselves in, it's oddly comforting to revisit this chosen family of queer ...

It's oddly comforting to revisit this chosen family of queer kids who've inherited a death sentence and respond with, ‘whatever.’ Surrounded by stupidity and oppression, they have each other, a lot of style, and a fantastic soundtrack.

#filmsky #queersky