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@sam-moore94.bsky.social
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writer, artist, editor, “too niche.” (They/them) Books: All my teachers died of AIDS; Long live the new flesh; Search history Bylines etc: linktr.ee/Sam.Moore94 commission me: sam.moore@hotmail.co.uk

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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Wrote about the dreadful Return to Silent Hill and the problem of adapting horror games for @gamesradarplus.bsky.social www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
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Return to Silent Hill is a disaster, and further proof that Hollywood still hasn't figured out how to adapt horror video games
OPINION: Hollywood has finally started to do right by video games, but horror classics like Silent Hill and Resident Evil are still being lost in translation
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Wrote about cartography, the impermanence of maps, and my beloved Always Coming Home for @recessedspace.bsky.social
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Back at @anothermag.com with a look at the life and career of Bela Tarr; a filmmaker who was always challenging what his art form -- and its meaning -- could be www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
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How to Get Into Béla Tarr, a Master of Slow Cinema
As the Hungarian auteur passes away, we present a five-point guide to the philosophically challenging films of Béla Tarr, and discover why Gus Van Sant is a fan
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This absolute beauty from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social arrived today. Thrilled to have contributed an essay on the ghosts of ‘Elevated Horror’, and West’s desire to make something new from its remnants
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Had a lot of fun writing about Chainsaw Man: The Movie for @gamesradarplus.bsky.social: www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
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Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc review "Storytelling just as compelling as the chainsaws, devils, and visually excessive fight scenes"
The latest Review,,,reviews, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at GamesRadar+
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Back in the Substack salt mines, deleting the old newsletter in the hope of making something readable from the ashes! Named for a symbol in Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, Heyiya-If (and other possibilities), will be a place for slower criticism: heyiyaif.substack.com/p/heyiya-if-...
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Heyiya-If and other possibilities
What to expect from another newsletter
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Not to be hyperbolic and extra, but Vulture's placement of 'The Outing' in their ranking of Seinfeld episodes in one of the worst takes I've ever read, so here's my essay about why it's great and Seinfeld is a messy queer masterpiece: www.intomore.com/entertainmen...
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Everyone in "Seinfeld" is Queer, Actually - INTO
How gay was Seinfeld, actually?
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Very grateful to have been able to write a small introductory guide to the work of Edmund White for @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
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“The Patron Saint of Queer Literature”: How to Get Into Edmund White
Following his death earlier this month, we offer a five-point guide to the American writer’s life and work, from The Joy of Gay Sex to his biographies of Proust and Genet
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Art Spell @artspell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'The Rise of the Anonymous Critic' by @sam-moore94.bsky.social for Frieze. How writing negative reviews under a pseudonym can free criticism from the social constraints of the art world—and the importance of avoiding the tasteless writing it can inspire.
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The Rise of the Anonymous Critic
As secret voices on platforms such as spittle and Hollywood Superstar Review shake up cyberspace, Sam Moore examines the rewards and risks of masked critique
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Back at @lwlies.com (and back to promoting work) with an essay on political violence, Salo, and more: lwlies.com/articles/fas...
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Spectacles of suffering and fascism in cinema
Across the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guillermo del Toro and Brady Corbet, the evils of fascism come to light in horrifying detail.
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recessed.space @recessedspace.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
White cube/black box: sculptural light from Germaine Kruip & Anthony McCall @sam-moore94.bsky.social sees the light at The Approach & Tate Modern galleries. recessed.space/00255-Germai...
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00255 - Germaine Kruip and Anthony McCall — recessed.space
White cube/black box: sculptural light from Germaine Kruip & Anthony McCall Two exhibitions in London use...
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Very glad to have been able to contribute my top ten film of last year to @cinemayearzero.bsky.social! My ballot (and all the others, from some of my fav writers on film), is here: www.cinemayearzero.com/p/2024-poll-...
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2024 Poll: The Ballots
Raw data for raw cinephiles
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Of course a week after I write this, Cena does a heel turn…
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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“i’ve had a rough year, dad” “i know you have, chassie” always stays with me. how fragile their voices sound. the question of whether it’s not too late to at least try. a very, very important movie to me
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Friends fear she has another idea for a niche film newsletter
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Screenslate but for London send Tweet (I don't know what these things are called)
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I just know I’m gonna be one of those people that writes a piece on substack about their relationship to Lynch’s work
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
this has always been my favorite picture set of david lynch
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The best to ever do it. I vividly remember the joy, shock and singularity of watching Twin Peaks with Joe and dad; seeing Mulholland Drive in Oxford and understanding it’s the best film I’ve ever seen; being terrified by Inland Empire; moved by Sandy’s dream in Blue Velvet. “Fix your hearts or die.”
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 21/12/2024
I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024)
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This is one of my favourite things I wrote all year and it remains deeply surreal and special that I got to be involved writing about one of my favourite movies with so many of my favourite writers
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Refusal to play healers in hero shooters is a microcosm of a society made selfish by capitalism and neoliberalism, in this essay I will…
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hershey’s at the forefront of Big IP film adaptations with Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
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Joseph @moonmoneyismine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Gonna do what my former colleague Jeff Goldfarb called "the politics of small things." Weave the texture of the life we want in everyday life. It's not enough but it's not nothing.
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filthburger @filthburger.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
she calls me murnau because she fw me
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Retro Commercial Screens @retrocommercials.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Vanya on 42nd Street The Witch’s Mirror Angel’s Egg High and Low Santa Sangre The Raspberry Reich Distant Voices, Still Lives Beau Travail Under the Silver Lake The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Already getting followed by my first weird looking bot-adjacent account; it’s like I never left The Other Place
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 19/11/2024
Wes Craven's analysis of America from this interview he did in 1988 feels like it could have been from yesterday
Wes Craven on America: " you cant create a disneyland without also creating a texas chain saw massacre. The one creates the other"
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’ve decided to be one of those people that does a 🧵 of their publications
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
First bit of shameless self promo on the new app, in which I return to AnOther to explore the queer history of photography: www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
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A Vital New Survey of the Queer History of Photography
Drawing on one of the oldest and largest photography collections in the world, Calling the Shots offers an unprecedented view of the history of photography through a queer lens
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
letterboxd: boxd.it/mW3
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Sam Moore’s profile
Sam uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 1,770 films watched. Favorites: Blue (1993), Cure (1997), The Sacrifice (1986), The Tree of Life (2011). Bio: Internationally tolerated writer and ...
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I always forget how bad I am with any social media/platform building, and it becomes this weird, incredibly self-conscious/self-aware thing of posting into the void. Like that one scene in Girls at the end of ‘All Adventurous Women Do’
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sam moore @sam-moore94.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My toxic trait is getting commissioned to write a feature on the art world being chronically online, and then joining a new social media site
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