Need to know what movie the girlies saying “I also like movies to make sense, like I need things to be realistic” at the AMC we’re walking out of

Best new Chicago film podcast hosted by a Music Box employee and a Chicago journalist - Chicago Reader Like so many podcasts, Four Stars: A Chicago Film Podcast grew out of talks between friends.

Thank you to @anotherkylel.bsky.social for the kind write-up in @chicagoreader.com's Best of Chicago issue: chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

so glad we are using "the great Timur Bekmambetov"

had an amazing time talking about so many different things on what is the longest episode of Four Stars yet, you're welcome (and/or I'm sorry lol)

Had to stop myself multiple times from butting into conversations to tell people that the Park movie is not called “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Film festivals!

leaving the it's/its typo cause I can face my shame

CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC Review: Beautifully Animated, Slightly Repetitive Blast A note at the start that Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (just "Reze Arc" going forward because wow, what a title) is entirely accessible to the curious who have not seen the show. Some ongoing thr...

Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc is as good and fun and beautiful as it's title is bad

My review at @screenanarchy.bsky.social

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Review: Delightful, Overlong, and Politically Dubious Paul Thomas Anderson directs; Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti star.

One Battle After Another made me laugh a lot, but it goes on far too long & I couldn't help feeling uncomfortable laughing at white nationalists & anti-imperialist revolutionaries when one is more deadly than ever & the other more necessary than ever

My review at @screenanarchy.bsky.social

got an email about Marvel Zombies so checked out the trailer and oh my god why does it look like that?

Poster for Crucemos Al Otro Lado at the Music Box Theatre, September 14-24, 2025, featuring El Topo (by Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1971) on 35MM, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (by Robert M. Young, 1982), and Life Within the Lens: Chicago, Alli, Y Mas (a shorts program).

Poster for Reeling 2025, September 19-28, the 43rd Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival.

As Chicago continues to be used as a rhetorical device by the right, I want to highlight the abundance of Latin American and queer film screenings (starting this week through the end of Sept) between @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social's Crucemos Al Otro Lado programming & @reelingfilmfest.bsky.social!

CAUGHT STEALING Review: Messy Crime Romp Saved By Great Performances Austin Butler, Regina King, and Zoe Kravitz star in Darren Aronofsky's comic crime thriller.

Caught Stealing is a mess that stalls halfway through and never recovers its momentum or tone, but the performances from everyone involved and hot people being hot together make it worth seeking out

My review at @screenanarchy.bsky.social

So excited to be joining some of my favorite critics in the CFCA!

lol whoops, first watches of July*

Letterboxd favorites: Forbidden Letters, Passing Strangers, Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Planted Trees

Day of the Dead (1985)

Gay USA

Cafe Flesh

yes I'm late again, but fave first watches of August

huge shout out to @zackpaslay.bsky.social for programming and recommending the 3 films by Arthur J. Bressan Jr. here (Forbidden Letters, Passing Strangers, Gay USA)

QTV065 — ACELERO, by Crizin da Z.O. 14 track album

& finally, dk enough about Brazilian music, but I found a site that described Crizin da Z.O. as "an explosive mix which of Carioca funk, rap, Pagodão Baiano, drum'n'bass, punk, tamborzão, industrial and batucada"

I do know it rips

Bedroom Sessions #1, by Desistance 2 track album

really thought I got @aifeith.bsky.social's releases as DESISTANCE already but I had not

2022-23, by mis sueños son de tu adiós 11 track album

and a bunch of mis sueños son de tu adiós cause they do skramz good

Here, is the skynn turned into the Centre, by Onorthochrasaei 5 track album

bought a bunch of Onorthochrasaei stuff cause no one's doing noisegrind like this

a temporary stay, by flowersforpersephone 4 track album

flowersforpersphone goes hard as hell
flowersforpersephone.bandcamp.com/album/a-temp...

embryo, by agdi 4 track album

Just discovered Alta Gracia Dies Irae who have already put out a bunch of shit this year and may be my new favorite band

Kyle's collection | Bandcamp Chicago, Illinois • Metal • 1095 collection items • 76 followers

happy bandcamp Friday!

Picked up a bunch of new stuff, you can find all of it here, some highlights in the thread

I should have put this up here earlier, but I'll be introing the 4K restoration of In My Skin at @facetschicago.bsky.social in two days (Thursday the 24th)

Come see me talk about & then join me in watching a masterpiece that means a lot to me

Gut, by Baths 11 track album

Baths - Gut (electropop but extra gay, horny, and sad)

Foxes in the Snow, by Jason Isbell 11 track album

Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow (folk/country; big oof of a divorce album)

Only Dust Remains, by Backxwash 10 track album

Backxwash - Only Dust Remains (hip hop with a lot of big feels about suicide and the state of the world)

Goldstar (24-bit HD audio), by Imperial Triumphant 9 track album

Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar (weird black metal/jazz metal; one song features Slayer’s drummer and Meshuggah’s drummer which is fun)

[EGxHC] Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power - 2025 (Full Album) YouTube video by XstekkahX

Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power (pretty black metal)

Black Respite of Oblivion, by Toughness 9 track album

Toughness - Black Respite of Oblivion (death metal with that real good snare sound)

Harvest Of The Killing Fields, by Trichomoniasis 10 track album

Trichomoniasis - Harvest of the Killing Field (wall of sound type goregrind/death metal)

3, by BODYBOX 10 track album

Bodybox - 3 (dumb, super blown out death metal/deathcore)

More heat to the fire part of fire, by UTO 14 track album

UTO - More heat to the fire part of fire (electropop ish; I’m cheating cause this is an extra tracks version of their album from last year, but I only discovered them this year so we’re going with it; also the extra songs include a v good “White Flag” cover)