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"We’re all just sitting by the monitors like this. [Mimics a guy nodding, supportively, at another guy tossing body parts in his direction.] But I’d rather be doing that than anything else." I talked to Osgood Perkins about his morbid horror-comedy THE MONKEY: filmmakermagazine.com/129728-inter...

As a former Manitoban who’s been dating a Persian for 5 years - the film Universal Language was so special to us both. It re-imagines Winnipeg through cross cultural relationships, with pops of political commentary. This interview answered so many of our curiosities about the film 🫶

So this is insane

The country that was here is gone:

HOWLING II: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF, followed closely by its original title HOWLING II: STIRBA-WEREWOLF BITCH

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

“The stunning and immovable madness of someone close to you dying is what’s at the center of this movie. It’s only because what happened to me happened long enough ago, and lots has happened since, that I’m able to approach it with humor and surreality.“ I talked to Osgood Perkins about THE MONKEY.

Proud to stand with the LGBTQ+ community as an ally in the fight.

When right-wing “free speech” demonstrators attempted to march in Boston the week after Charlottesville, thousands of us counterprotestors were there to shut them down. Here’s hoping the town shows up to kick the shit out of these bozos once again.

Making my debut for @pastemagazine.bsky.social, I sat down with RaMell Ross for one of the most enriching conversations I’ve ever had. On a polytheistic lens, reaching into past lives via camera and SO much more. Really proud of this one: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/ramel...

Great interview with rad director @scottderrickson.bsky.social on the super fun and visceral The Gorge, AI, and more 💥🎥💥

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

"[AI] is a class-warfare tool... It’s in the power of a few people. It will be utilized and structured to continue both information and misinformation in manipulative ways, to put the lesser down and bolster the few." I spoke to Scott Derrickson about THE GORGE, his career in horror, AI, and more.

With UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE expanding to more theaters, can’t urge you enough to see it with an audience. Iranian and Canadian cinematic cultures swirling together into something fresh, poignant, and wonderfully strange — a surreal comedy of dislocation, every sequence rich with humor and imagination.

“The stunning and immovable madness of someone close to you dying is what’s at the center of this movie. It’s only because what happened to me happened long enough ago, and lots has happened since, that I’m able to approach it with humor and surreality.“ I talked to Osgood Perkins about THE MONKEY.

Outside of The Ringer, what publications do you read that exist at the intersection of film and sports culture?

What! A! Cover! I’m honored to be among this issue’s roster of contributors, pulling double duty on all things FINAL DESTINATION. Check it out!

With his sci-fi romance THE GORGE out now, I’m grateful to @scottderrickson.bsky.social for taking the time to discuss his latest leap into the unknown and a career spent contemplating not only the existence of evil but the catharsis we seek in confronting it, for @thedailybeast.bsky.social.

"We’re all just sitting by the monitors like this. [Mimics a guy nodding, supportively, at another guy tossing body parts in his direction.] But I’d rather be doing that than anything else." I talked to Osgood Perkins about his morbid horror-comedy THE MONKEY: filmmakermagazine.com/129728-inter...

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

For those keeping notes, a literal Bond villain has assumed creative control of the James Bond film franchise, as if that series wasn’t ideologically self-defeating enough already.

Something Dems need to confront explicitly is that there is no good version of the future where this man and a lot of the people who have been working for him aren’t in prison for the rest of their lives They literally can’t be allowed to remain free, it’s too dangerous to the rest of us

TFW you pitch a story so perfect and so directly aligned with everything an outlet is about, and their editors still pass without a second thought — how did any of you get to where you are, and what is any of this about?

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

For the evening crowd…

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE is miraculous, a funny and humane fantasy of cultural exchange — I was delighted to find Matthew Rankin as hilarious and insightful in person as I’d hoped given the intensely surreal and cinematic qualities of this wonderful film: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/i...

What! A! Cover! I’m honored to be among this issue’s roster of contributors, pulling double duty on all things FINAL DESTINATION. Check it out!

actually it ignited spontaneously

‘An exhilarated hatred now parades as freedom, while the freedoms for which many of us have struggled for decades are distorted and trammeled as morally repressive “wokeism”.’ —Judith Butler in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of my favorite performances of last year, an actor absolutely understanding the material and turning in what if Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood started reading theory?

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE is miraculous, a funny and humane fantasy of cultural exchange — I was delighted to find Matthew Rankin as hilarious and insightful in person as I’d hoped given the intensely surreal and cinematic qualities of this wonderful film: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/i...

Oh, no.

HEARTBREAKING: Person with 20+ unfinished projects has a new idea for a project.

Not over the cold shoulder given this awards season to the craft achievements of MEGALOPOLIS, a film I found frequently dizzying in the strength and imagination of its images.

This made me appreciate the movie more. Cool to hear his perspective.

Oscilloscope aren’t on Bluesky so I’m dropping this here as they’re still the boldest company in the biz. Go support them. store.oscilloscope.net

With his sci-fi romance THE GORGE out now, I’m grateful to @scottderrickson.bsky.social for taking the time to discuss his latest leap into the unknown and a career spent contemplating not only the existence of evil but the catharsis we seek in confronting it, for @thedailybeast.bsky.social.

"Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges out of 40 years of Discount Furniture commercials. There’s something absurd about putting those two together, yet that is the world we live in." Matthew Rankin and I discussed his UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, out Friday.

An incredible and powerful speech from Lola Pettigrew after winning the IFTA for their excellent performance in Say Nothing youtu.be/-4DHVJXtjEE?...

I’m immensely proud of this release and this is the best deal you’ll get on it! Please help sell it out if you don’t already own it or just share if you do 🥰