Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026FFC’s Dracula is full of old and new (in the 90s) special effects and gorgeous color. Just watch it on mute. I also love the weirdness of Altered States and the grime of Kurosawa’s Pulse. 150
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The first—and likely last—time my dissertation research has been helpful was when I corrected @davidlsims.bsky.social and @jjdotbiz.bsky.social put it in the Blank Check newsletter 010
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One of the great phone movies! Right up there with His Girl Friday 010
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There’s a whole movie about it they can watch if they want more on that subject! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...en.wikipedia.orgProfessor Marston and the Wonder Women - Wikipedia 0261
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I really love this movie. Ford is flexing everywhere but it doesn’t feel it 000
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I wrote about Teenage Sex and Death, Cube 2: Hypercube, and Twilight Zone: The Movie to think about millenial media consumption habits. Contains an explication of why I found that one scene with that one song so moving and fun. alexsthompson.com/bce/an-omniv...alexsthompson.comAn Omnivore’s Diet: Jane Schoenbrun’s Millennial Taste, and Mine — Alex S. ThompsonIn Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma , Jane Schoenbrun’s phantasmagorical slasher-cum-orgasm-comedy, Hanna Einbinder’s Kris laments her childhood: “I think I watched too many movies at a young age... 020
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I have decided it is very rude of the Apple doc about the UConn Women’s Basketball team to rush through my years there watching Maya Moore and company kick some fucking ass on the daily. Like 30 seconds were spent on ‘06-‘10. Cater to me better! 010
Reposted by Alex Thompsongita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I’m going to see this in theaters and I will scream the whole time cause he is in a WHALE 5531
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I’m two thirds of the way through a triple feature at the movies. Tony is a wonderful Bildungsroman with a great cast. The Rivals of Amziah King is a must see if you like little movies with big impact. Hoping Camp Miasma rounds out a lovely day at the pictures 021
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026All this work and no mention of the obscure term I made up for my dissertation that nobody read? alexsthompson.com/bce/what-is-...alexsthompson.comWhat is an Elegiac Sequel anyways? — Alex S. ThompsonA looser, more bloggish version of the part of my dissertation that explains why I coined the term “elegiac sequel.” I hope it will also give me a bit of a push to continue adapting segments of my dis... 100
Reposted by Alex ThompsonPeter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 10/08/2026This is someone who never had to work before grad school, never move around multiple times following a series of postdocs, never once adjunct a single class, all to tell us that he knows the real horrors of academia because he once heard a land acknowledgment at a conference. 3294
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026But you see that this article was written by Gita Jackson and is taking Wilson’s article in good faith by responding to it with sound evidence and reasoning, right? It is possible that people are being assholes to Wilson AND Wilson’s argument has major flaws 020
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Wilson is very good at talking about adaptational choices. What she is less good at is talking about the way films are made and experienced because she has devoted a lot of time and energy to her work. This is common in the world of academia, and it isn’t really a problem, it’s just a tendency 110
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026If you think Gita Jackson is a boor (or bore), fanboy, or misogynist, I invite you to actually read their article. I also don’t understand why you can’t admit that someone who doesn’t have much experience writing or thinking about filmmaking as an art form might not have the best film criticism(1/2) 110
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Right, and other people can respond to her writing. This is how communication works. Welcome to it! 120
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Look, anyone can have a good opinion about art. Equally, anyone can have a bad one. Knowing more about the form in question usually helps to develop a stronger opinion. What Gita is saying in the article is that Wilson’s opinion on the movie does not evince an understanding of how movies work 180
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026She is allowed her opinion! Of course! And yet, we can also understand that her opinion on filmmaking (something film critics develop by seeing a bunch of movies and studying the form) is not as well founded as her opinion on the classics. This is what the article you’re responding to is about 180
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The difference between these two things is that Martin Scorsese knows a lot about filmmaking and moviegoing, whereas Wilson is commenting on an entirely different artistic form than where her area of expertise is. Wilson shows that she doesn’t understand several key aspects of filmmaking 2120
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.static.klipy.comNight Of The HunterAlt: Night Of The Hunter 010
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026More dissertation-turned-blog, this time with a categorization that I couldn't find time to actually put in the dissertation! If you ever wondered why some legacyquels were, for lack of a better word, deeper than others, I might have the answer for you! alexsthompson.com/bce/elegiac-...alexsthompson.comElegiac Sequels: From Reverent to Revisionist — Alex S. ThompsonPart 2 of the ongoing blogification of my dissertation on what I call elegiac sequels, aka legacyquels. In this part, I begin to talk about a spectrum on which elegiac sequels lie based on the stance ... 010
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Sure, or amazing. Really important to figure out why each movie gets its premature designation, and who gives it out. Are racists on X declaring The Odyssey a woke money grab the same as people complaining about the umpteenth Marvel trailer looking the same as all the rest? No, and with imp. diffs! 000
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026My biggest question with Doomsday is whether or not they’ll let Marsden do what he has consistently done during his current hot streak and be incredibly charming and charismatic or if they’re gonna lock him into what 2000-Marsden was doing (nothing) 001
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I don’t think it’s very anticommunist. The solidarity within the core group of astronauts/scientists is contrasted with the state’s secrecy and surveillance throughout. There’s some stuff around the edges about life in the USSR that feels a little propagandistic but the rest is solid 020
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If you read his latest collection of short stories you will see evidence of an old man terrified of getting “cancelled” 052
Reposted by Alex ThompsonMichael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026if you have your own physical media collection, you can do your own version of the Criterion Closet where you stand in your basement by yourself and saying "oh wow, In the Mood for Love, what a film" to absolutely no one 21638336
Reposted by Alex ThompsonJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026"With Lander's victory in NY-10 and Stevens's refusal to trade Jaylen Brown, it truly was a Brad day." - lede for a newspaper article relevant to me and like twenty other people 1435315
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Blogged about my experience watching Diabolique and the difference between the howcatchem genre and a ghost story. alexsthompson.com/bce/diaboliq...alexsthompson.comDiabolique and Columbo and Ghosts, oh my! — Alex S. ThompsonA short essay about Diabolique (1955), genre, twists, ghosts, and Columbo. 010
Reposted by Alex ThompsonDanielle H @danielleceltics.bsky.social · 05/06/2026They are giving Janelle the Jayson Tatum treatment 0111
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Blogged alexsthompson.com/bce/what-is-...alexsthompson.comWhat is an Elegiac Sequel anyways? — Alex S. ThompsonA looser, more bloggish version of the part of my dissertation that explains why I coined the term “elegiac sequel.” I hope it will also give me a bit of a push to continue adapting segments of my dis... 010
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026static.klipy.comLuke Kornet CelebrationALT: Luke Kornet Celebration 010
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I write a real blog post for the first time in like a decade. Isn’t that fun? alexsthompson.com/bce/the-best...alexsthompson.comThe Best Movies of 2026… So far — Alex S. ThompsonWow, who would have thought there were 10 great movies already released in 2026? Here are a few capsule reviews of those 10. Hope you enjoy horror! 110
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Really good (so far) scary psych ward show with Dan Stevens and a bunch of other fun people. It’s on AMC+/Shudder 030
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I think you can easily argue that he did make everything dramatically worse by not doing more to make sure Trump didn’t return, including not running for a second term 0110
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026It’s absurd that they can’t correct this during a break like checking if a shot is a 3 or a 2 000
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026No, sadly. He was nearing the end of his career so he basically just told us grammar rules. He was very strict too 010
Alex Thompson @alexthompson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I took a class taught by Pickering in my first semester at UConn as an undergraduate. He never brought the movie up, nor did he really show any signs of being super inspiring (though it was a grammar class, hard to be inspiring there) 110
