Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hey, am I nuts or is this an AI cribbing from Artemisia Gentileschi [badly] that was used to make this Magic Card for the new Secret Lair Set? That sucks on a couple of levels 110
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Sure but who’s going to be the last trillionaire… 000
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyAmber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026ICYMI! For @brightwalldarkroom.com I went long on Kong - but not the Kong you’re (probably) thinking of. “it’s only in the 1976 film that we locate the true beauty and the beast story, love blooming in the wake of revulsion and horror.” www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/05/18/s...brightwalldarkroom.comSome Guy in an Ape Suit: Why the ‘76 King Kong is Good, ActuallyTo my mind, the 1976 version succeeds better than any other Kong remake, simply because it understands one key idea—King Kong is a story about an ape. 8578
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Working on some "vintage" data bending of images of the Sitka plantations out here. Quite fond of this one that looks like it's from a Tarkovsky mood board... 010
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 21/02/2026If you feel like directly supporting things that are made by real humans with love & care—with no ads, hot takes, or AI—a reminder that we're still dealing with the effects of this, and that literally every subscription gets us that much closer to ensuring we can keep doing this for awhile! 04026
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 06/02/2026OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The world is a lot right now, so we’re going a different direction for our next issue & are looking for essays on films you go to when the world overwhelms you, the one you can count on, your comedy happy place. Deadline: 2/21 Details: brightwalldarkroom.com/submissions 08527
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeySean @flyingwalruss.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I know this is corny to say but this is the real America, man. This is what it’s all about. This is what those freaks are trying to destroy & we won’t let them 02125682
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeySight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍 3446223
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026The fact that someone calculated that a $25,000,000 political donation in a six month period was a rational business decision says a lot about how precarious the people pushing AI think the fate of the technology is. 20549161
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 20/12/2025Holiday sale! $19 for an entire year of Bright Wall/Dark Room, including full access to the 1500+ essays we’ve published since 2013. Each subscription *directly* helps support independent media & the writers, editors, and artists who make each new issue possible. Coupon code: HOLIDAY2025brightwalldarkroom.comSubscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room$29/year — Full Access Subscribe now to receive full access to Bright Wall/Dark Room, including each new essay we publish & our entire 140+ issue archive! Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent,… 01313
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Record breaking prices for artwork sales do not, sadly, represent an investment in art and artists. Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage. 27729
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 18/11/2025New today on the site: “Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.” - Bryan Millerbrightwalldarkroom.comThe Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973): Weaponized ExpectationsIvan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat By the Door is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet. 48528
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 15/11/2025One of the kindest, most thoughtful, committed platforms for film writing out there. You get so much beauty with a subscription! 0104
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 11/11/2025New today: "At its core, HIGH NOON is a parable about civic abandonment, the inherent danger in waiting for the moment to act & discovering that no one will stand beside you—a quality which makes it an apt tale for our current political moment." - Riley Womack (🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)brightwalldarkroom.comHigh Noon (1952): Wait Along, Wait Along…At its core, High Noon is a parable about civic abandonment, the inherent danger in waiting for the moment to act and discovering that no one will stand beside you. 16217
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 30/10/2025New today! "Seen through the prism of Samsara—the Buddhist cycle of rebirth driven by ignorance & attachment—BARTON FINK becomes a spiritual classroom wherein karma serves as teacher & each turn of the wheel offers the same lesson until it's learned." - J.D. Biard (🎨 by @mosesleeart.bsky.social)brightwalldarkroom.comBarton Fink in the School of Samsara: The Eternal StudentSeen through the prism of Samsara—the Buddhist cycle of rebirth driven by ignorance and attachment—Barton Fink becomes a spiritual classroom wherein karma serves as teacher and each turn of the wheel ... 1264
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 30/10/2025Still reeling from this, still need a whole lotta help to cover next year, if you feel so inclined, consider a subscription? 02832
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 30/10/2025Watching the Wheels: Finding Meaning and Purpose in PATERSONbrightwalldarkroom.comWatching the Wheels: Finding Meaning and Purpose in 'Paterson'In the world of Jarmusch’s film, the purpose of work lies not in external achievement, but in the personal satisfaction of doing. 0206
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 11/09/2025New on the site! Our brand new Teachers issue kicks off with @dodgyboffin.com's Double Features column on ROAD HOUSE and MAGIC MIKEbrightwalldarkroom.comDouble Feature: Road House (1989) & Magic Mike (2012)Both Road House and Magic Mike are about learning how to be a person in society—which is far easier to learn when there’s a teacher involved. 79914
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 17/08/2025Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.brightwalldarkroom.comSubscribe - Bright Wall/Dark RoomSubscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 135+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl... 3311279
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025It’s still shocking and still painful. The venture capitalesque dismantling of public good continues. To see these ghouls care so little of our great civic accomplishments is a boot heel on my soul… 010
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Ugh, what was the other bisky topic of the day? This is exhausting, you all live like this? 000
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Patriarchal society tells men that they can only experience tenderness in a sexual context, then capitalist agents exploit this fear of being unloved in order to sell them nonsense. This leaves young men at loggerheads with the communities and avenues they’ve been pitted against 100
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyCharlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 30/07/2025MOTHRA - Premiered in Japan this day in 1961 0163
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 29/07/2025New today on the site! “Consider how THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS revolves around vision. Not only perception, but empathy and hindsight, and the non-empirical prick of intuition, where vision exceeds the reach of training.” - Veronica Fitzpatrick (art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social)brightwalldarkroom.comWhere to Look: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)Consider how The Silence of the Lambs revolves around vision. Not only perception, but empathy and hindsight, and the non-empirical prick of intuition. 27712
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 23/07/2025My professor Steven Bach, producer of Heaven’s Gate, once took me to task in front of our entire class for suggesting Gummo was a film worthy of notice. It’ll always have a place in my heart for that. Go read Nathaniel’s piece. Gummo is good actually 020
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 19/07/2025BW/DR continuing to be the most interesting film writing around, a truly thoughtful report on a fascinating slate 071
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 17/07/2025"In principle, apocalypse might imply a clean, sudden ending, but in practice, it’s a drawn-out and uneven descent. I can think of few works of art that understand this better than THE LEFTOVERS." - @sophiastewart.bsky.socialbrightwalldarkroom.comWhy Wouldn’t I Believe You? - The Leftovers | BW/DRThe Leftovers makes two competing claims: that other people are mostly what gives life meaning; and that, despite guaranteed loss, we have to invest in them anyway. 0287
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 15/07/2025New today on the site! The Jonathan Demme issue continues, with @lindseyromain.bsky.social on RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social)brightwalldarkroom.comRachel Getting Married: Yesterday Is Gone & Tomorrow Is Not HereSo much of Jonathan Demme's 2008 film Rachel Getting Married is about needle-fine moments of grace and clemency. 24816
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 11/07/2025New today on the site: Our new Jonathan Demme issue kicks off with post @eccantwell.bsky.social on Talking Heads, Demme, STOP MAKING SENSE, absurdity & anchors, existentialism, bodies in motion, and the transcendent joy of art in this moment (🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)brightwalldarkroom.comStop Making Sense: One Must Imagine Talking Heads HappyThe Talking Heads are strange truth-tellers, joyfully angry people, persistently interested in the power of art. And collaborating with Jonathan Demme elevated their music to something truly transcend... 36926
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Today I’m learning that a lot of people don’t read biographies of directors that they like. Which is fine! But also, I’ve got some bad news for you about a lot of other directors… 100
Reposted by Greeaahmalobeyslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 28/06/2025sorry i don’t think Zohran’s win indicates how state or national races will go. Zohran campaigned against unaffordable basic needs and an old pervert. problems that are unique to new york city and no where else in the country 1096144907
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 28/06/2025You should subscribe to some of the best film writing around! Support independent film thoughts. Find joy! 043
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyAmber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Hey guys! I got to go long on the complex beauty of community in Miyazaki’s films over at @bwdr.bsky.social - thank you to @chadperman.bsky.social for helping shape this into something I’m really excited for you all to read www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/06/27/c...brightwalldarkroom.comComing from a Place: Community in the Films of Hayao MiyazakiCommunity isn’t just for comfort in Miyazaki’s world; it's a hallmark of interdependence, a vital theme in almost every one of his films. 711235
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 24/06/2025New today on the site— The Community issue continues, with @thisishannahkim.bsky.social on KINDS OF KINDNESS and WOMEN TALKING: "A certain kind of kindness and a certain kind of despair start to sound like the same tune."brightwalldarkroom.comKinds of Kindness & Women Talking: Kindness as ComplianceIn both Kinds of Kindness and Women Talking, a certain kind of kindness and a certain kind of despair start to sound like the same tune. 0226
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 18/06/2025“Setting your house on fire is just meant to distract you from the other house fires!” Oh really? You ghouls, you absolute cowardly revenants 010
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 18/06/2025“Killing these people is a distraction from these other people they’re going to kill!” Like… okay? Seems like the right thing to do is pretty obvious 000
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Again, the single greatest problem (among the many problems of being ruled by 9 Wizards In Robes) with SCOTUS is that its "conservative" members systematically ignore science, history, data, empirical evidence, & statistics. The fascism comes robed in parlor game theories, gut feelings, & anecdotes. 219347
Reposted by Greeaahmalobeyonion person @junlper.beer · 18/06/2025transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it 61130543608
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/06/2025We're living through unfathomably terrible times for civil rights and human rights. If you've got the chance to vote in a primary this year, I recommend voting for the furthest left person on your ballot. The "centrists" are not ready for these times and will bargain away our rights. 4465139
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them. 1461761302
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 16/06/2025New today on the site: The community issue continues, with @rileywomack.bsky.social on John Sayles' LONE STAR (1996) (art by @mosesleeart.bsky.social)brightwalldarkroom.comLone Star (1996): No Wild and Aberrant StarThe driving force of Lone Star isn’t the suspense of discovery, but the moral weight of what’s already known—and what people choose to do with it. 010422
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 11/06/2025New today on the site! The community issue continues, with @amembrey.bsky.social on SHORT TERM 12brightwalldarkroom.comShort Term 12: So You Know What It’s LikeShort Term 12 provides validation for the frequently invalidated and offers a stunning portrayal of a perpetual liminal space where time together is fleeting. 1208
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Feels a little weird to publish an essay that’s about my personal LA depression while people are in the streets fighting for the very soul of our community. Be safe, fight, don’t bow to fascism, not now, not ever 010
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeySam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/06/2025I hate the caricature of Americans as couch potatoes who don’t do anything about fascism. People in LA and NYC are doing the international legacy of stuff like the Battle of Cable Street proud. 41086154
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Incredible thank you to Bright Wall/Dark Room for allowing me to be weird and personal about this film. It's so colored with my personal story that I didn't know if I had the goods to write about it. Could not have done it without them. Go read it! Go watch Perfect Days! Go be kind to the world! 081
Reposted by GreeaahmalobeyBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 30/05/2025New today on the site! The Community issue continues, with @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social on love, laughter, connection, and community in the JACKASS franchise: "One of JACKASS's perpetual charms is that it feels like it can belong to anybody, that anybody can become a part of it."brightwalldarkroom.comJackass: Laughing With the PainOne of the perpetual charms of Jackass is that it feels like it can belong to anybody, that anybody can become a part of it. 0396
Greeaahmalobey @gmaloney.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Going to see Ran in 4K today… all those horsies are going to look so crisp! 020