Thomas Britt

@thomasrbritt.bsky.social

Professor of Screen Ethics and Screenwriting. Commissioning Editor of Cinegraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media. Editor at Caméra-Stylo. Music critic. Add some music to your day.

I was happy to join The Seat Struck Movie Podcast again to talk more about David Lynch. In this episode, we cover 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.' Discussion of the film starts at 17:10 (TWO NUMBERS OF COMPLETION; WOW, BOB, WOW!) www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the...

Episode 188: David Lynch Watch Series #7 (TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, 1992)

01:45:54 - "Fire...walk....with....me! MEEE!" For the latest David Lynch canon installment, Curtis and Dr Thomas Britt join forces to take on Lynch's…

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I wrote about 'Independence Day,' which was released 30 years ago: 'Global unity and cooperation do occur in "Independence Day", but only because a superior alien force poses an obliterating alternative...the globe is united in war, which results in peace.' spectrumculture.com/2026/07/13/r...

Revisit: Independence Day - Spectrum Culture

Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day remains today a film that suggests overthinking matters of who struck first and how is a matter for wimps, not warriors.

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Do not, under any circumstances, *ever*, feed someone else's work into an LLM without their explicit permission, if you use the things at all, which you shouldn't. It all becomes training data for the LLM, which means you're helping those things steal their work.

I reviewed the new Muse album for @spectrumculture.bsky.social. ‘If [Muse] cannot recapture the glory of “Absolution“ they could stand to be a bit more judicious about how they deploy what works and jettison the less successful experiments as cosmic debris.’ spectrumculture.com/2026/07/01/m...

Muse: The WOW! Signal - Spectrum Culture

After a deep discography of sci-fi epics, dystopias and spiritual yearning, Muse varies the formula a little — but fails to wow.

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