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Travis Woods

@aheartofgould.bsky.social
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Professional obsessive. BYLINES: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Southwest Review, Letterboxd, Fangoria, etc COMMENTARY TRACKS/BOOKLETS: Cinematographe, Fun City Editions, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Imprint, Shout Factory linktr.ee/black_neon

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 22h
HOLD ONTO YOUR TITS, ITS THE RELEASE OF THE YEAR! Includes my commentaries on Latin Quarter + Lighthouse Keepers, and (with @thehorrorchick.bsky.social + Mr B) video essays on Wizard of Gore + the many adaptations of Andre De Lorde's proto home invasion play Au Telephone (Lois Weber! DW Griffiths!)
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Caught Looking Magazine @caughtlooking-mag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our official editorial stance is that the Douglas/Tripplehorn sex scene in BASIC INSTINCT > any other sex scene in BASIC INSTINCT.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What a brilliant and beautiful piece this is. A pleasure to read and think about.
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Second Sight @secondsightfilms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Out Now! #SexyBeast Order here: bit.ly/4z1mrc0 #physicalmedia #limitededition #britishfilm #jonathanglazer
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So happy to write about two of my favorite films—1990’s AFTER DARK, MY SWEET and THE HOT SPOT—and how both tell the same desperately erotic story, but in very different ways. Get the new issue of THIS IS @cine-matographe.bsky.social from @vinsyn.bsky.social: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎃🍂A few seasonally appropriate prints available in ye olde shoppe!🍂🎃 www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Taking it to the limit one more time with Beyond Fest.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In an alternate (better) timeline, Julia became the returning star/monster of the HELLRAISER franchise (rather than Pinhead), spending 10+ films ripping apart time and space to repeatedly find, fuck, and kill Frank.
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Caught Looking Magazine @caughtlooking-mag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CAUGHT LOOKING. A magazine of writings on erotic cinema. Coming Spring 2027.
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 30/09/2026
From sizzling drifter noir After Dark, My Sweet to sweaty, New Orleans-set Zandalee, Justin LaLiberty serves up twenty deep-cut erotic thrillers you probably haven’t seen. Read the full story on Journal: boxd.it/3o4
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Well, if the pay's right, I'll do it." M. Emmet Walsh as Private Detective in Blood Simple
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The packed and stunning 4K restoration of SEXY BEAST by @secondsightfilms.bsky.social is out now! My essay on the subversion of the heist genre, “Insinuendos,” is included in the set’s 160-page book. Get it (US): diabolikdvd.com/product/le-s... Get it (UK): secondsightfilms.co.uk/products/sex...
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Second Sight @secondsightfilms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Out now!! #sexybeast Order the limited edition here: bit.ly/4hQCLGJ #limitededition #physicalmedia #britishfilm #jonathanglazer
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Get SEXY BEAST here: US: diabolikdvd.com/product/le-s... UK: secondsightfilms.co.uk/products/sex...
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This @secondsightfilms.bsky.social 4K SEXY BEAST set is *beyond* comprehensive. The film looks amazing, the discs are stacked with bonuses, and there’s an entire 160-page book of essays (including mine) on the great crime film of the century. Big thanks to @phillipescott.bsky.social for having me!
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This @secondsightfilms.bsky.social 4K SEXY BEAST set is *beyond* comprehensive. The film looks amazing, the discs are stacked with bonuses, and there’s an entire 160-page book of essays (including mine) on the great crime film of the century. Big thanks to @phillipescott.bsky.social for having me!
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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well, goddamn, Bill's gone and written PAPER MOONSTRUCK. A crime novel that begs to be directed by Norman Jewison or the Cohen Bros.
The cover of Bill Boyle's new novel HEAVY SUGAR, featuring blues jeans, a baseball, a subway train and a lot of style.
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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Megan's debut novel THE NEED is out today. It's got cannibals and family drama and it's great. Buy it, you fools! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803620...
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The Need by Megan Mostyn-Brown: 9798217093984 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Every family has its secrets. But in this electric, provocative, and dizzyingly fast-paced horror debut, some families have The Need. “An instant contender for horror novel of the year.”—Joe...
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
LATE 2026 MENTAL HEALTH STATUS: Stoically crying to this mix of mid90s R&B jams playing at my barbershop.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So happy to write about two of my favorite films—1990’s AFTER DARK, MY SWEET and THE HOT SPOT—and how both tell the same desperately erotic story, but in very different ways. Get the new issue of THIS IS @cine-matographe.bsky.social from @vinsyn.bsky.social: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 22/09/2026
“Michael Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.” - @aheartofgould.bsky.social on MIAMI VICE
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Michael Mann's Miami Vice at 20: Death of the Cool
Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely jacked that my essay, “Insinuendos,”is included in this definitive 4K box set for SEXY BEAST from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social. This is truly one of the great crime films of this century. Stateside shoppers can get it here: diabolikdvd.com/product/le-s...
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A bit of what's available in ye olde shoppe! www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely jacked that my essay, “Insinuendos,”is included in this definitive 4K box set for SEXY BEAST from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social. This is truly one of the great crime films of this century. Stateside shoppers can get it here: diabolikdvd.com/product/le-s...
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Second Sight @secondsightfilms.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One week to release date! #SexyBeast Pre order now: bit.ly/4hny7Pd
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Movies used to star Deborah Kara Unger.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My DSM-5-level horny dumb ass taking critical notes on literally any movie ever made.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Was literally telling a fellow writer last weekend that Alexandra is not only the best in the game, but she creates work as entertaining and enriching as the films she covers. Her commentary track for THE HITCHER gets as much play in this house as THE HITCHER itself. Work with Alexandra.
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He gave us… Beef. Rest in peace, Gerrit Graham. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
A glam rocker holding a mic
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My contribution to the Is Casual Sex Bad? Discourse™️ happening on Twitter is that everyone should read my essay on David Cronenberg’s CRASH and then have sex with a friend in their car. letterboxd.com/journal/cras...
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Cruising the Death Drive: David Cronenberg’s auto-erotic Crash at 30 • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As the 2026 Cannes Film Festival draws near its end, Travis Woods salvages David Cronenberg’s chaotically horny and subversively hopeful Crash from the smoldering wreckage of its Cannes premiere 30 ye...
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RIP to a legend variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Gerrit Graham, Actor in ‘Phantom of the Paradise,’ Screenwriter and Grateful Dead Collaborator, Dies at 77
Gerrit Graham, actor in "Phantom of the Paradise" and many other films and TV shows who co-wrote a song for The Grateful Dead, died Tuesday.
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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Im still yelling at ppl to read the best LA Noir novel in 25 years A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE by Jordan Harper. Its a tour de force of existential malaise and philosophical morality set against the Day-Glo false artifice of Hollywood, where there are no rules only prices ( thats a line from the book😎)
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
'Tis the season (almost) 🍂 To celebrate, Fantastic Mr. Fox prints are coming back to the shop! A limited run of 15. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products...
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You really haven't lived until you've listened to an Abel Ferrara commentary track.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Got a lot on my plate right now but I am remembering to meditate on that time when RAMBO III-era Stallone was photographed in his office while taking notes on a dictionary beneath the work of erotic photorealist painter John Kacere, as I am wont to do from time to time.
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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My essay, “Like Knifemetal in Neon Moonlight,” is included in the upcoming @imprintfilms.bsky.social box set for FULL CONTACT, Ringo Lam’s 1992 act of hyperkinetic action lunacy. Pure pornograffiti glam like you’ve never seen. Go get it. viavision.com.au/collections/...
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Full Contact (1992) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray SteelBook + Hardcover Booklet i
Released the same year as Hard Boiled, and also starring Chow Yun-Fat, Full Contact is a blistering revenge-driven action flick from the golden age of Hong Kong cinema.
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
::Reign in Blood plays softly in the distance::
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
FANGORIA COMPENDIUM is a monolith of monstrous beauty, compiling every cover, vintage writing from old heroes, new pieces on FANGO history, & guest commentary from horror gods. Congrats to Compendium editor @mereborders.bsky.social, SVP/EIC @philnobilejr.bsky.social, & FANGO teams of past/present.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In light of this INSANE news, gonna be a whore and share this @brightwalldarkroom.com piece I just wrote on the 20th anniversary of Michael Mann’s stealth masterpiece, MIAMI VICE. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/09/03/d...
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Michael Mann's Miami Vice at 20: Death of the Cool
Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In light of this INSANE news, gonna be a whore and share this @brightwalldarkroom.com piece I just wrote on the 20th anniversary of Michael Mann’s stealth masterpiece, MIAMI VICE. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/09/03/d...
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Michael Mann's Miami Vice at 20: Death of the Cool
Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Anyways here’s that time William Shatner covered “Common People” by Pulp.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com about MIAMI VICE, "a darkly sumptuous masterpiece of eroticism and romanticism, of action and abstraction, of fragmented flows of raw and overwhelming emotional information whose meanings only gain momentum with time." www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/09/03/d...
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Michael Mann's Miami Vice at 20: Death of the Cool
Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.
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Jon Abrams @jonabrams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s the first one for me! 😎
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In case you missed it: I wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com about why you find Michael Mann’s MIAMI VICE to either be a beguiling, blood-hot masterpiece of postmodern melodrama, or a failure of big-budget action film expressionism. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/09/03/d...
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Michael Mann's Miami Vice at 20: Death of the Cool
Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After watching some Abel Ferrara flicks on the Criterion Channel this weekend, check out my interview with the man for @brightwalldarkroom.com (no paywall). We get into it: The films, the drugs, the women, the guilt, the gods, the life. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/11/03/a...
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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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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"That’s what the Buddhist practice is: You focus on the breath. You live in one breath at a time. With the sobriety, the mantra is one day at a time. But you really live in one breath at a time, one moment at a time. OK?"
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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Did an interview for TRUTH TO POWER yesterday and I was really proud that the interviewer got that "A strong man isn't always swinging " Can't wait for you guys to see how strong Luke really is😎
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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After watching some Abel Ferrara flicks on the Criterion Channel this weekend, check out my interview with the man for @brightwalldarkroom.com (no paywall). We get into it: The films, the drugs, the women, the guilt, the gods, the life. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/11/03/a...
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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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