Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Minnesota Wilderness

"The Boundary Waters belong to all Americans. The Boundary Waters are our public lands, all of ours." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...

Weird Wednesdays: The 4th Man — Hyperreal Film Club Verhoeven trusts us to take in an onslaught of religious parallels and florid symbolism and come to our own conclusions on what it all means—if anything.

had so much fun w verhoeven’s THE FOURTH MAN, which features a triple-threat bisexual Catholic alcoholic as its protagonist hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/the-...

Joan Samson

Cover of The Auctioneer

Last month's paperback horror: Wonderfully moody, Lottery-esque story filled with creeping dread and a villain who'd fit just as well in our current political climate.

Joan Samson's only novel, released just prior to her death from brain cancer; the new afterword from her widower brought tears.

It Haunted Your Childhood Video Store. You Were Probably Convinced It Was Real. It Was—More Than You’d Like. Faces of Death was “banned in 46 countries.” It claimed its shocking footage was all real. Some of it was.

Loved this retrospective on FACES OF DEATH from @samadams.bsky.social slate.com/culture/2026...

SXSW '26: DreamQuil — Hyperreal Film Club Alex Prager’s directorial debut DreamQuil, which had its world premiere at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival, is a study of contrasts. Prager’s DreamQuil is a tonally confused and mostly incoherent mov...

DREAMQUIL has many ideas, none of them meaningfully followed through on; does win for best world-building though hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/sxsw...

SXSW '26: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come — Hyperreal Film Club Ready or Not was a runaway hit and instant cult classic, and with that success comes the inevitable sequel. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which had its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film & TV Fest...

it's the most wonderful time of the year! belated #SXSW roundup starting with READY OR NOT 2, a bigger and bolder sequel that is also dumber hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/sxsw...

Josie and the Pussycats was released on this day 25 years ago 🥁

thinking of getting really into swamps and bogs this spring...stay tuned

Originally produced for PBS’s American Playhouse, Lynne Littman’s Testament is one of that program’s standout entries, a vision of nuclear apocalypse whose horrors are felt rather than seen. Available next week on Criterion Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/4xkfppnd

riven with envy, need AFS to do this for me personally

More old horror: a ‘70s haunted house story steeped in southern atmosphere, adapted into a 2006 Lifetime movie I might brave watching.

Anne Rivers Siddons mainly wrote women-centered dramas; as her only entry into horror, the eeriness comes second to the characters and setting

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Last book of 2025 is this '80s gem that has everything you want, if what you want is a psychic journalist facing Cthulhu horrors, feral kids, hellhounds, blood monsters and cocaine-fueled satanic rituals in New York subway stations

Ella McCay: A Swing and a Miss — Hyperreal Film Club Brooks politically neuters the movie to the point of inanity in his attempt to show that a pure heart can win

i am grateful this year to auteur directors giving me the challenge of reviewing baffling, philosophically incoherent films hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/ella...

2025 Austin Film Critics Association Award Winners Thurs, Dec. 18th – The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announces its 2025 award winners.  One Battle After Another leads the way, winning 5 awards from its 12 nominations in 11 categories – …

THE AFCA is pleased to announce the recipients of their 2025 Film Awards.

Congratulations to all the nominees and our winners, who reflect a great year of cinema. 🍾🎬

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AFF '25: Interview with Austin Kolodney on Dead Man’s Wire — Hyperreal Film Club This year’s Austin Film Festival witnessed a true full-circle moment for filmmaker Austin Kolodney. In 2022, he premiered his short film Two Chairs, Not One at AFF; in 2025, he came back to screen his...

At #AFF this year I got to chat with DEAD MAN'S WIRE screenwriter Austin Kolodney about class rage, Bill Skarsgård fancams, and working with theee Gus Van Sant hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/inte...

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baby's first awards season 💫

Elle Fanning as Thia in Predator Badlands

Elle Fanning as Tessa, also in Predator Badlands

Elle Fanning (with Stellan Skarsgard) in Sentimental Value

run don’t walk to your local cinema for an absolutely incredible 3-for-2 deal on elle fannings right now

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures YouTube video by SearchlightPictures

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TIFF '25: Bad Apples — Hyperreal Film Club In director Jonatan Etzler and writer Jess O’Kane's new dark comedy Bad Apples, Saoirse Ronan plays Maria, a primary school teacher who takes matters into her own hands after an onslaught of personal ...

Had a decent time with BAD APPLES, but I wish it had leaned more into its darker impulses hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/tiff...

TIFF '25: Hamlet — Hyperreal Film Club Aneil Karia’s Hamlet, one of two Shakespeare films at TIFF '25, brings the play in its original Early Modern English to contemporary London. Despite an excellent performance from Riz Ahmed, Karia’s h...

Wasn't a fan of 1/2 of this year's Joe Alwyn-supported HAMLET movies (Riz Ahmed innocent though) hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/tiff...

TIFF '25: Sentimental Value — Hyperreal Film Club The crux of the movie is the relationship between Nora, Gustav, and Agnes, and it’s brought to life with both Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt’s deeply thought out family dynamics and the real chemistry b...

#TIFF50 roundup 🧵

Started off by waxing poetic on Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE, a frontrunner for movie of the year hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/tiff...

2025 TIFF Preview: Hedda, Blue Moon, Roofman and more — Hyperreal Film Club This year’s Toronto International Film Festival will premiere over 300 movies from debut directors and established auteurs like Guillermo del Toro, Chloé Zhao, Park Chan-wook and Claire Denis.

can’t wait for #tiff50! hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/2025...

Caught Stealing Review — Hyperreal Film Club Aronofsky has met and exceeded the hype, crafting a crime thriller with real emotional heft.

i loved CAUGHT STEALING and its star, noted lesbian icon austin butler hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/caug...

Thrilled to rep Hyperreal Film Journal as a new member of the Austin Film Critics Association 💫

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

In Defense of the Traditional Review Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

Every word of this, from @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...