randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have
lindsey romain
@lindseyromain.bsky.social
chicago-based writer/critic; CFCA (bylines: bwdr, nerdist, vulture, thrillist, etc.)
i had TWO different dolly license plates when i lived in tennessee and i woulda kept getting them forever!!!! 💗
i LOVED i want your sex!!!! olivia wilde you never lost me girl
MovieJawn@moviejawn.com · 3w agoMJ’s @lindseyromain.bsky.social says I WANT YOUR SEX is “A film that only he could make, and a film that provokes all the necessary questions about the state of sex in 2026.” #IWantYourSex is in theaters now.
In honor of his 75th birthday this weekend, here’s my @brightwalldarkroom.com interview with Abel Ferrara about his memoir, his life, his addictions, the end of the world, and his thoughts on redemption (and how the Bad Lieutenant would react to the 2025 World Series).
Always Trying to Get Beyond the Veil: An Interview with Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara recently spoke with Bright Wall/Dark Room from Rome about his new memoir, Scene, his films, and his life as an artist.
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hello from my vacation in northern michigan, where everything is absolutely fine
Love this piece by @lindseyromain.bsky.social on DISCLOSURE DAY for @brightwalldarkroom.com Read: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/07/10/s...
"In DISCLOSURE DAY, empathy itself is the speculative leap. The genre function is inverted: science fiction stops speculating about aliens & starts speculating about us. Aliens are ordinary. Human compassion is extraordinary. The sci-fi is us.
Bright Wall/Dark Room@brightwalldarkroom.com · 2mo agoNew today on the site! Our brand new Summer Blockbusters issue begins: The Speculative Empathy and Radical Hope of DISCLOSURE DAY - @lindseyromain.bsky.social
i wrote about disclosure day, steven spielberg, and human compassion as sci-fi for @brightwalldarkroom.com
The Speculative Empathy & Radical Hope of Disclosure Day
For most of Spielberg’s career, science fiction has been the mechanism through which he learns and teaches empathy. But in Disclosure Day, empathy itself is the speculative leap
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It’s called elevated horror, T. It’s when the dracula is actually that your family sucks.
gonna be on vacation all of next week and therefore gonna miss all of the early odyssey discourse and i’m elated. will be touching grass while brain worms infect the rest of you 🫶
i love to listen to my comfort podcast episode (Twister rewatchables)
angelica showed me this movie last year and i can confirm it does indeed FUCK
Angelica Jade Bastién@angelicabastien.bsky.social · 2mo ago"His body is a storybook only she can open." My latest MOVIES THAT FUCK column is about Wong Kar-wai's 2004 film, the hour long version of THE HAND. Come for the great film criticism, stay for the romantic melancholy and achingly personal memoir. angelicabastien.substack.com/p/movies-tha...
a friend bravely confessed to me tonight that she used to fuck a guy who played a blue man in the blue man group
i feel that disclosure day has been out long enough now that i can say this: they were already on their phones watching the news because world war 3 is literally about to happen!!!!!
Are you enjoying the Kartoffelklöße? Refill your kinderpunsch, you’ll love this next part.
love that matthew rhys’ flashback wig is the same in the americans and widow’s bay. one little bang hanging in his face.
From thrilling to perplexing, come and join @lindseyromain.bsky.social and @oneblakeminute.bsky.social on #TheDecadeProject to discuss the aesthetically beautiful and morally ugly #NocturnalAnimals
THE DECADE PROJECT: NOCTURNAL ANMIALS w/ Lindsey Romain
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my hair has been falling out of my head and apparently it’s because i’m low on “iron” ??
i’d pay a million dollars to never have to hear about the tom holland umbrella lip sync dance again. let’s move on!!