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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 1h

What the heck - fifteen more

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 1h

Some of the best horror movies, no order

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 2h

Favorite first watches, September 2026 Eaten Alive (Tobe Hooper, 1976) Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963) Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945) Kontinental '25 (Radu Jude, 2025)

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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking especially good today, sir

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're inventing types of being stupid that I could never have predicted in a thousand years

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Heart-Wrenching Movie Scene Immediately Cuts To Liberty Biberty

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026

This guy is FUCKED

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Final boost. Have a great night folks

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Afternoon bump. Thanks to everyone who has read and shared so far, appreciate you all as ever

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For Long Library, I wrote a little about Onslaught, which I enjoyed, but which resorts to pastiche and imitation to a degree I find worryingly emblematic. Hope you enjoy peterraleigh.substack.com/p/onslaught-...

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Onslaught Illustrates The Gravitational Pull of Pastiche

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s The Guest (2014) was a film in some ways just a little bit ahead of its cultural moment.

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danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

new Peter just dropped let’s fuckin gooooooooooooo

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Onslaught Illustrates The Gravitational Pull of Pastiche

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s The Guest (2014) was a film in some ways just a little bit ahead of its cultural moment.

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is probably a more or less consensus opinion among Western decision makers at this point which is a shame given that it's a thing you have to be literally insane to believe

Screenshot of a David Shor tweet from 1/6/21: "I would much much rather live in a world where we see a 4 degree rise in temperature than live in a world where China is a global hegemon."

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Final boost - thanks for reading gang

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi folks. For Long Library I wrote about two very different midcentury films in which Spencer Tracy confronts societies cultivating mass amnesia in the wake of war and atrocity. Read it here if you'd like peterraleigh.substack.com/p/nobody-knew

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Nobody Knew

Spencer Tracy and Postwar Memory in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG and BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Nobody Knew

Spencer Tracy and Postwar Memory in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG and BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Folks, I wrote about Backrooms, which I thought was mostly a failure, and about how it compares to two other works - Silent Hill and Channel Zero - which suggest where it might have gone wrong peterraleigh.substack.com/p/horrors-ha...

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Horrors Half-Remembered

Why Backrooms Fails Where Its Forebears Succeeded

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Final boost of the night. Thanks for reading everybody

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intrusive xi jinping thought @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

i know everyone’s excited and Having A Laff but it’s really funny to post like this on the day it gets confirmed that LeBron will only set foot in the city VIA HELICOPTER on game days and practices

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Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

SVU character: I'm NOT gay. I have relationships with women... and SEX with men. Woke Ice T: That's normal. I'm not going to put a label on you right now

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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Horrors Half-Remembered

Why Backrooms Fails Where Its Forebears Succeeded

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed

Ice detention center leader at the tay swift wedding

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Favorite first watches, June 2026 The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942) Jubal (Daves, 1956) Witchfinder General (Reeves, 1968) Mr. Klein (Losey, 1976) Bullet in the Head (Woo, 1990)

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This week, a stone-cold classic: TEXAS CHAIN SAW and daylight horror, Hooper's remorselessness, and Grandpa Sawyer giving undead vibes. www.deadofnightletter.com/texas-forever/ #filmsky #horrorsky

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Final evening bump; stay cool out there, everybody

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Please help out Alex if you can or share the link around. 2026 has been tough on her & she deserves the world. She is amazingly kind and lovely and brilliant.

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Folks, for Long Library, I wrote about Ridley Scott's Hannibal, its position in the broader context of Thomas Harris's work, and the pleasures of watching a film that holds us in no higher regard than we deserve. Tap in! peterraleigh.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...

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The Joy of Cooking

Ridley Scott's Hannibal

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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The Joy of Cooking

Ridley Scott's Hannibal

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Favorite first watches, May 2026 American Dream (1990) The Raid (1954) Southern Comfort (1981) Chongqing Pink (2026) Twins of Evil (1971)

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Folks, a belated notice of my booklet essay in a lovely new 4K release of The Devil's Backbone, along with a brief note about first encountering the film on the precipice of becoming a high school fuckup peterraleigh.substack.com/p/news-the-d...

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News: The Devil's Backbone Release

With a note about screwing up high school

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Brandon Streussnig 📽️ @brndnstrssng.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feels crazy to say, but Tony Leung and I sat down in a room last week and had a lovely conversation. You can read it here: joysauce.com/tony-leung-o...

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Tony Leung on connection and the consciousness of plants

The iconic film star on his process for choosing films, his storied career, and his latest project, "Silent Friend."

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If you'd like to read an essay by me about this film, the poliziottesco, and the Years of Lead, you can purchase this very fine edition!

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Past me cut some admin and bookkeeping corners that are punishing current me in a *big* way as the semester comes to a close

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

a lo-fi delight, Josh Heaps' City Wide Fever plays select Drafthouse locations starting tomorrow. Shot on a Sony DSR-PD150, the same camera Lynch used for Inland Empire! A few words here: inreviewonline.com/2026/04/14/c...

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City Wide Fever — Josh Heaps [Review] | In Review Online

A new film review of City Wide Fever, directed by Josh Heaps & released by Factory 25, for film review site In Review Online.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Man, @petreraleigh.bsky.social's stuff is always good, but this is a particular banger of an essay.

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

On the occasion of its recent 4K release, I wrote about Killers of the Flower Moon open.substack.com/pub/peterral...

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The Wolves in the Picture

Martin Scorsese's American Gangsters

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Evening boost - thanks very much to everyone who has read so far!

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

On the occasion of its recent 4K release, I wrote about Killers of the Flower Moon open.substack.com/pub/peterral...

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The Wolves in the Picture

Martin Scorsese's American Gangsters

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fabius @fabius.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

@petreraleigh.bsky.social on Killers of the Flower Moon peterraleigh.substack.com/p/the-wolves...

That Sheeran and Ernest are not without sentimental attachment, nor even wholly without guilt, is part of what seems to fascinate Scorsese about them; it’s explicitly what drew him to Ernest, but it’s clearly something that he sees in Sheeran as well. Sheeran murders his best friend, Ernest attempts to murder his wife, and if both men seem quite clearly to regret it, still neither is capable of a real moral reckoning, a true confrontation with himself. Both men, in the final stretches of their films, find themselves offered an opportunity to confess, Sheeran to a priest (not to mention the FBI), Ernest to Mollie; both men fail in this final test, though neither seemingly fails to see it for what it is. “What kind of man makes a phone call like that?” Sheeran asks, in a rare, ultimately fruitless moment of introspection. The same kind of man, Scorsese might answer, who could look Mollie in the eye and tell her those shots were just insulin: a kind of moral half-person, missing something crucial that the real people have.

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I simply do not understand the ways that people read books anymore

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Jeremy Beck @moviemanifesto.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Transit LET’S GOOOO www.sportsalcohol.com/the-best-mov...

11. Transit
Christian Petzold’s movie is like some sort of hybrid mythical beast; it has the head of an allegory, the body of a thriller, and the heart of a love story. That it excels in each of these genres independently while still feeling like a cohesive work is a testament to the fluidity of Petzold’s screenwriting, the way he weaves rich emotions and gripping suspense into a complex tapestry of dystopian terror. One of his boldest strokes is to set Transit seemingly out of time; its electronics and flat-screen monitors suggest the present day, but its setting—a fraught Paris occupied by a faceless tyrannical regime—recalls the war-torn haunts of Casablanca. This epochal ambiguity lends a political charge to a film that’s already teeming with intrigue and incident. Franz Rogowski is quietly vulnerable as a savvy loner scrambling for his freedom, while Paula Beer is mesmerizing as his… seducer? Sucker? Co-conspirator? Transit toys with mysteries of identity and duplicity in ways that are legitimately surprising, but it amounts to far more than an elaborately constructed piece of cinematic rug-pulling. Rogowski’s stricken hero just wants to flee, but with a movie this hypnotic—this full of drama, deception, and longing—there’s no escape. – Jeremy

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Favorite first watches, March 2026 Tender Mercies (1983) Breaker Morant (1980) The Stendahl Syndrome (1996) The Flower of Evil (2003) Transit (2018)

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It Happened To Me: I had a writing idea in the middle of the night, told myself I would remember it easily upon awakening, and now cannot remember even generally what it was about

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Been laying pretty low on social media during the month of March but very much hope everyone is doing well!

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 10/03/2026

GIVEAWAY Hello, I published a book breaking down the 2015 film Steve Jobs one perspective at a time, and I'd like to give a copy away to one (1) lucky winner! Want a free book? Like, follow, and quote this post with the caption STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH Giveaway open to US, UK, and Canada

B.C. holds a copy of STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH

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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Final boost of the night; thanks for reading everybody

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