IN A VIOLENT NATURE PART 2: The Duality of Fantastic Fest Man: Roller Coaster Resident Evil and Slow Cinema Slasher Sequels What a joy. The scope of this is so delicious, yet offers new variations of the intimate gruesomeness that made the first film so singular. #FantasticFest
Julian Singleton @ #FantasticFest2026
@juliansingleton.bsky.social
CODA. Bi/Polyam. 👻🎃 🍅-Approved 📝 @cinapse.bsky.social / Rue Morgue / Nighttide 🤝 Austin Film Critics / GALECA 📀🎙️ Arrow / Imprint ❤️ Equitable 🎬🎞️ Access. Doing OK so far. Opinions my own. Professional inquiries: juliansingletonfilm@gmail
Bluesky cuties, consider this a good old fashioned call-out for work! I've landed safely thanks to your support, but financially things are still a little struggletown. This thread is really to remind commissioning type folks, producers and editors of the kind of work I do. Signal boosts welcome! 🧵
My 2026 has been a divorce-shaped Stygian nightmare of housing insecurity, drifting between Airbnbs, couchsurfing + housesitting. But the goddess just blessed me with my own tiny apartment! I need to move/furnish it for myself + kid almost from scratch: a humble call for help if you can to do so!
The perfect way to end another great day at Fantastic Fest? Getting home to contributor copies! Major thanks to Tom Mes for including my essay on J-Horror’s linguistic origins in his exhaustively researched and entertaining guide to Japanese horror movies!
IN A VIOLENT NATURE 2!!!!!!!!
THE SPIRAL is absolutely the twin of THE HOLY BOY, here charting over decades one mother’s desperate attempt to escape pain to Faustian and incrementally apocalyptic ends. Paolo Strippoli is such an epic, empathetic composer of dread—hell of a film! #FantasticFest
Come find our Zine at Fantastic Fest!!
We’re on the ground at #FantasticFest and for the first time ever… we’re in print! Thanks to co-founder @davideo.bsky.social for assembling our 1st #zine! Grab a free copy at the front desk to check out some passionate film writing from some real human cinephiles.
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
The hell is this preshow
This may be the largest (legal) collection of Kiyoshi Kurosawa films in one place ever, beating the 2017 French collection by FNAC (though with diff titles) 🚨🚨🚨
DIRECTED BY KIYOSHI KUROSAWA 📹 Coming to the Criterion Channel in October!
With apologies to Dale Cooper, Mulder, Scully, and Hellboy, Kudo from Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasgui! is the greatest paranormal investigator in the history of horror fiction. His combination of suicidial self-confidence & willingness to punch anyone & anything w/ zero hesitation is undefeated
So many Kiyoshi Kurosawa gems are coming to the Criterion Channel in October!! Door III!!! Also, Joy Ride, Duel, Salem’s Lot, You’re Next, The Omen, Possession, The Wailing, Dead Ringers, lotsa Dario Argento, The Keep, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and more!!
KK coming to The Channel
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Fantastic Fest Eve is always old horror classics and meal prepping a week’s worth of great meals because you can only have so many royales with cheese or pizza before you go insane
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*
Begin your morning completely doubled over
Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days
how i like to believe my wife sees me when i get a jar open or kill a spider
Breaking: Tommy Stone has joined the Ed Sheeran tour
Breaking: Brian Slade has withdrawn from the Ed Sheeran tour
It's always such a damn joy to write about what should (and hopefully will) be considered one of the best sequences of the year.
Ed Sheeran sits on a barstool for his new stripped-down tour, until the barstool sends an Instagram post saying it cannot, in good conscience, allow Sheeran to sit on it
Our commitment to you is that we report without fear or favor. www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-n...
Leading LGBTQ+ newsroom confronts parent company over board member’s MAGA support
Two weeks after equalpride CEO Mark Berryhill expressed “full confidence” in Jay Katari and told employees to prioritize meetings with him, the company halted those conversations.
advocate.com
A message from our editorial team.
We should start calling these Cronenburgers
New nightmare burger just dropped
I loved eating Chik-Fil-A. Can't remember the last time I ate there. I used to go to Hobby Lobby weekly. Haven't walked into one in over a decade. I enjoyed Harry Potter, past tense. My life is not wanting of joy without these things the way it would be without all my LGBTQIA+ friends. Choose love.
kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.