The Mind of Sai Marie podcast is thrilled to welcome journalist and film critic Albert Lanier this Groundhog Day for an exclusive breakdown of the 2026 Academy Award nominations.

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Despite Lynch's refusal to saddle us with his concrete intent there remains this enduring necessity to take him apart and lay him out piece by piece, to vivisect, log and categorise the man. We gave his body of works a genre of its own - "Lynchian" -, synonymous with other. Like a human puzzle we start at the edges of the very man himself and seek to build an understanding from without.

An old post, re-uploaded + some equally old art.

Read it here -> gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/c...

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Kneel Before Zod | John Semley The new Big Bad is the American Way itself.

Hollywood stopped roasting foreign villains.
Now the bad guys are tech bros, billionaires, and the cops.
Because, well…
we are the baddies.

Great read.

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Discussing Unsettling Moments in Hereditary #hereditary #horror #moviereviews #horrorfans #filmcrit

May 17th is Dennis Hopper's birthday. He would have been 88 if he'd stuck around. To celebrate I have resurrected my Substack for a brand new long-form essay on Hopper’s Cinema of Loneliness.

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#dennishopperday

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The Buckingham Murders with Kareena Kapoor on Netflix sparks controversy due to jarring Hindi dub. Critics question dubbing quality and absence of original audio option. #FilmCrit https://fefd.link/zKFOO

Her, Artificial Intelligence and the Trademark Desolation of Our Era Jonze’s film professes in its tagline to be a “love story,” signaling a focus on the complexity of relationships and intimacy in a world of broadening social isolation and loneliness rather than the dangers of AI.

When Spike Jonze made 'Her,' we thought AI romance was sci-fi. Now we're all basically dating our apps 🤖💕
My piece on 'Her' addresses our AI situationship-and why we should think twice before giving ChatGPT our hearts (and data)
#AI #DigitalPrivacy #FilmCrit
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Name a movie which doesn't entirely rely for its successful conclusion on the villain being an arrogant bellend? #filmcrit