Last night at Locarno Film Festival — world premiere of documentary ‘Dangerous Citizen: The Life & Times of Abraham Polonsky’ on the Blacklisted writer-director. Really engrossing, loads of archival footage including interviews w/ Polonsky (a true mensch!) Congrats @eddiemuller.bsky.social + team!

Her name is Sister Rosetta Thorpe. Known as the "Godmother of rock" that inspired Elvis.

Coming on August 26 -- my first entry for @nightmare-magazine.com’s “Plumbing the Depths” column, on #gangsters in the #horror genre: www.nightmare-magazine.com #scarface #gangsterfilm #keylargo #jdsrevenge #blaxploitation #prohibition

"Maria" is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves and sleeves to protect herself against the lemon thorns. She shares, "I will work any job to feed my children." Today Coachella temps are predicted to reach a high of 118°. #WeFeedYou

Been VERY hard keeping news of this Jodo box under wraps, but its now on pre-order from old mates at Umbie. Includes critical extras from @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social @bjcolangelo.bsky.social @sabinastent.bsky.social @mdconterio.bsky.social + more, and my brand new video essay on Santa Sangre!

Alejandro Jodorowsky Collector’s Edition

Across these films, sacred and profane imagery collide in dazzling tableaux; myths are broken apart and reassembled; and every frame pulses with the director’s relentless pursuit of artistic and spiri...

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Good old Dolly! #BookSky

Congratulations, @genni.bsky.social — looks great!

A.J. Calvin@ajcalvin.bsky.social · 4w ago

New book review! With a style that I can only describe as poetic, Crimson in Quietus by Eugen Bacon is a tale of two women, the magic of sound and silence, and the hunt for a serial killer. A great read! Full review: fanfiaddict.com/review-crims... #bookreview #booksky @meerkatpress.bsky.social

News flash — AI is now handling IMDb thumbnails: “Forget it, Ray…it’s Green Town.”

Coming from @illinoispress.bsky.social, Jill Craigie: Film and Feminism in Postwar Britain, on an unsung documentarian and screenwriter, her solo narrative feature, BLUE SCAR (1949), an intriguing low-budget entry on Welsh coal mining: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #womenfilmmakers

Had a wonderful time hosting Jennifer Maritza McCauley at Inkwood Books, Haddonfield, NJ to discuss her new collection, NEON STEEL — thanks to Al-Lateef Farmer for hosting our first Black Spec Fiction open mic To order NEON STEEL from Inkwood (shipping available!): www.inkwoodnj.com/item/XqhQepe...

Vote for our documentary 1000 Women in Horror! It's easy to vote and will take you only a few minutes max 💜

Phil Nobile Jr.@philnobilejr.bsky.social · last mo.

Okay, enough of your bullshit. www.fangoria.com/chainsaw-vot...

Coming soon from #StarkHousePress’s Black Gat series, #HoraceMcCoy ‘s 1938 #Hollywoodnovel: “this is why I waited for the darkness, for the nighttime. This is when Hollywood is really glamorous and mysterious….” #noirfiction #1930s #booksky

Riddle #poems meet the #MysteryMachine:

Open Mic this coming Tuesday at Inkwood NJ Books, Haddonfield, hosted by Al-Lateef Farmer, followed by an appearance by author @maritza4770.bsky.social -- hope to see you there! #booksky #anime #sf #specfic

Destined to star in Videodrome.

AMERICAN RAIN@americanrain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Debbie Harry 1978 💛

I am a VERY newly annointed single mum and the circumstances leading to this newfound status have been really ugly - deeply unpleasant, upsetting and destabilising. If you've ever enjoyed my books, blu-ray work or horror documentaries, now is the time to help a sister out!

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas@horrornonna.com · 2mo ago

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!

Fontaine offers a special kind of haunted, as if her character’s rotting from the inside. #horrorsky #filmsky

@horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Something wicked's afoot in the English countryside. Again. Underrated Hammer folk horror with a fabulous Fontaine and superbly satanic Walsh. 1966. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #hammerhorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #horror #film

New in home video from @severinfilms.bsky.social, with contributions by @horrornonna.com:

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas@horrornonna.com · 2mo ago

The Severin/Yellow Veil box set The Worlds of Lucile Hadžihalilović is exhaustive and essential, and includes two of my video essays - one on The Ice Tower (2025) and the other on Innocence (2004)

New on FilmInt – #DavidGreven on Andrew Haigh’s #LOOKING: “Moving beyond caricature and never trying to goose the audience, LOOKING consistently offered quiet, introspective scenes like these that took character development and interaction further….” #queercinema #hbo #televisionstudies #tvsky

The Beauty of Looking: Andrew Haigh’s Queer Television Aesthetic - FilmInt.nu

By David Greven. Moving beyond caricature and never trying to goose the audience, Looking consistently offered quiet, introspective scenes like these that took character development and interaction fu...

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#Roman #bath #clog: The world's oldest #showershoes were found at a fort along #HadriansWall www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Roman bath clog: The world's oldest shower shoes were found at a fort along Hadrian's Wall

The Romans were the first to wear clog-style footwear to the baths to protect their feet from the hot floor and to better navigate slippery surfaces.

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Not the best of the #SUSPENSE episodes, the wrong man tale “Too Hot to Live” (CBS Radio; May 15, 1951) borrows from #DARKPASSAGE but is worthwhile for SUSPENSE star #RichardWidmark, with all his vocal power and occasional hissing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGs... #filmnoir #noirsky #oldtimeradio

Aaron Neville and Ernie sing “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon”: youtu.be/2WsXtCPE7Ww?... @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social #childrenstv #muppets

Not gonna lie, this is a badass museum donation. 🇺🇸 Shonda Rhimes donated the Oval Office set from Scandal, the same one fictional President Fitzgerald Grant called home for seven seasons. Now it’s part of the Obama Presidential Center Museum

"Popiół i diament" ("Ashes and Diamonds") by Andrzej Wajda, 1958.

#Terminator hunter #MichaelBiehn interviews an author about her Terminator-tribute story (and her new collection, NEON STEEL):

Dr. Jennifer Maritza McCauley (she/her)@maritza4770.bsky.social · 3mo ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZEw... In which the legendary @Michael Biehn (The Terminator, The Abyss, The Rock, Tombstone, it goes on and on) and I chat about writing, storytelling, acting and Pittsburgh, amongst other things :) <3

New development: some now describe defending human ideas as “anti-AI bullying.”

It was a treat to interview Jennifer Maritza McCauley about her new story collection NEON STEEL in my first piece for #PittsburghReviewofBooks & how anime, cultural movements and figures, and her work in teaching have inspired her #booksky #sciencefiction #blackspeculativefiction #cornerstonepress

Moving Pittsburgh into the Future: An Interview with Jennifer Maritza McCauley - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Pittsburgh native Jennifer Maritza McCauley’s new collection of stories features a fairy tale-like tone, straightforward and committed to her characters. Her

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#DumpAIslop

Stills of despair…on the right, from Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974): #filmsky #resist #newgermancinema

Earlene and I had a wonderful time seeing Dr. Monica A. Coleman, Professor, Africana Studies, University of Delaware, give a talk on pluralistic faith and how colonialism stopped faith traditions from overlapping, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Cherry Hill, NJ. monicaacoleman.com