That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao
Article with the headline ‘It’s about time a female director depicted the Bride of Frankenstein’ accompanied by an image of Jessie Buckley in The Bride!
I’m back in the journal, this time writing about cinematic depictions of the Bride of Frankenstein 🧟♀️⚡️ www.curzon.com/journal/it-s...
I wrote about the whitewashing of Gothic literature on screen for the Curzon Journal: www.curzon.com/journal/why-...
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
Mood in minneapolis right now
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
“Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.” lithub.com/renee-nicole...
If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
"I want to go dancing."
Happy New Year with love from all of us at the Prince Charles Cinema. See you at the movies!
and I’m really glad I managed to write for Paste’s movies section one last time in October. I’ll miss it. here’s hoping 2026 is kinder and gentler to us all ♥️
www.pastemagazine.com/movies/the-v...
I also got to write about the genius of Clueless for Polyester www.polyesterzine.com/features/cel...
2025 was horrible for me personally but I did get to write a few bits that I’m proud of, like this piece honouring the life and career of Souleymane Cissé for Little White Lies lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
Bakri gives such a moving performance in All That’s Left of You. It’s painful to think that this will be the last time we see him on screen, but in many ways his role in this film feels like a culmination of his life’s work. A grandfather of Palestine bidding farewell. God, what an icon he was 💔
I’m so devastated to learn of the passing of Mohammad Bakri. I think about his film Jenin, Jenin constantly. That he was able to build such an incredible career as an artist despite being the target of Israeli authorities is inspiring in ways I can’t describe. My heart is completely broken
i am excited to watch it but if you’re adapting an ancient greek epic for the screen you cannot be this afraid of men’s thighs
In a year that made us feel like we were standing by, dumbstruck, as the world fell apart, I wrote about the 2025 movies that bore witness to all that was taken from us www.avclub.com/2025-cinemat...
“The prison demands that we be alive on their terms – but now it’s on our terms, and we have the power that they hold over us in our hands, in our bodies and in our empty stomachs. I wish I could convey how much energy resistance brings you.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib have been on hunger strike for 46 days.
They are at serious risk of death.
They are in prison because the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide.
The Home Secretary must intervene.
“Trying to hold yourself together when you’re falling apart all over the place is extraordinarily weird, and most of the time, I feel like I’m about to topple over or faint. My mother says this feeling only lasts for 4 days.”
Eve Babitz’s journals. buff.ly/B9OTKrO
The new guidance also removes a suggestion in an earlier draft that those running services could in “necessary and proportionate circumstances” ask to see a birth certificate or gender recognition certificate (GRC) if they suspected someone was lying about their sex. The final code instead says it would “unlikely be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex” even if doubts were raised. It said “there is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex” because people can change their sex on passports and driving licences without a GRC.
Under the new guidance, places such as hospital wards, gyms and leisure centres will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others. If there is doubt they are telling the truth about their sex, they could be banned from using those services once those running them had considered “relevant factors”.
But it says that if there is “genuine concern about the accuracy of the response” it may be proportionate to exclude a transgender person anyway.
Shot - chaser - finisher
The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork.
Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes.
Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans.
A recipe for utter chaos.
Letterboxd Video Store. Coming early December 2025. 👀
More info: boxd.it/2OU
A new photo portfolio by Stephanie Keith captures the daily routine at 26 Federal Plaza: where masked ICE agents haunt the hallways — and arrest and hustle away immigrants as they exit courtrooms.
Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."
"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."
"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"
"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
jamaica has never been hit by a category 5 hurricane in recorded history and someone is still going to argue that climate change is a hoax
josh o’connor cradling art: a triptych
lining up a Hamnet/Die, My Love double bill and calling it the Women Abandoned By Their Husbands evening
On shelves now!
Our print ode to one of 2025’s best films: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
But it you’re not sold on cover alone, let’s take a little look at the innards…
