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Until we meet again. #ThankYouPAC #AEWDynamite

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This celebration of life was just that and brilliantly done. Other people have said this but with how long and how often you can watch wrestlers, it does feel like you know them. If, god forbid, you have to say goodbye unexpectedly, I don't think you could ask for a better way.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 4h

Wrestling is special. Only a community like this can band together in moments of absolute darkness, put on a show that illustrates why you love this artform so much, and make you see the light.

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TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 4h

#AEWDynamite

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 4h

oh I am a mess. Dragon & Moxley 💙

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 7h

I am not emotionally prepared for AEW tonight. Not in the slightest.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 11h

I wrote about EIGHT TAELS OF GOLD, and Mabel Cheung's extraordinary abilities to tell romantic stories. She's an unbelievable director and I hope she will be widely rediscovered someday. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

The organic quality seen in her pauses, her integration of characters within the space, and the accumulation of little moments building to a whole is also emblematic of the strengths in her romantic film Eight Taels of Gold. Some films feel as if they hold the entire world in the frame, because they are so lovingly detailed that our emotions feel as though they emanate from the characters. We’re right there with them. Cheung’s characters in these two films encounter the great swell of meaning that can be achieved through romance, and her characters grasp its greatest possibilities of fulfillment and heartbreak. This sometimes even occurs in the same scene. The great David Bordwell called the temperament of Hong Kong cinema, “an unabashed appeal to emotion.”, and I think about this movie when I read that phrase. Romantic films are usually prone to contrivances of separation and reintegration—those operas of want—and while Cheung’s films may seem like they contain those devices of conflict, she makes them seem quotidian. It is a very hard trick to pull off, but she does so with the elegance of a David Lean, whose Brief Encounter (1945), remains the model for all romantic films.

a still image from EIGHT TAELS OF GOLD of a young couple (a man and a woman) approaching an older man who is sitting by a tree.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 14h

Movie titles have become such a bore. A movie about a man trapped inside of a whale's belly is called Whalefall? Cowardice. That movie should be titled "Swallowed By Whale: Must Escape!". I'd buy 10 tickets.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 14h

I keep alienating my horror friends by saying things like, "everyone loves the scary movies from the 80s because they always got on base. Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna were hitting doubles, and most Slasher movies were at least a single. Power guys like John Carpenter were so pleasure. Tobe Hooper h

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EIGHT TEALS OF GOLD on the patreon tomorrow. One of the boutique labels needs to usher in the great Mabel Cheung renaissance. I've seen two of her films now and I think they are among the finest examples of the romantic form that I've seen.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I watched the Dinosaur Jr documentary yesterday, and it's not really great, but it is a fascinating watch because the documentary form has never encountered someone as unwilling to "expand on that" as J. Mascis.

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Katie @feminaridens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

willow writing about one of my all-time favs!!!!!

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wrote about RIVER'S EDGE. I've always thought RE was a spiritual sibling to TWIN PEAKS for the corpse that suddenly, shockingly makes the world strange, and for its teenagers without answers. It feels like it belongs to the 90s, but it only makes sense in the 80s. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

A still image from RIVER'S EDGE of the teenagers who do not know what to do about a corpse.

$The Replacements 1982 sophomore album “Stink” doesn’t open with the screeching sound of Bob Stinson’s aggressive live or die guitar playing, but with the shrill intercom of a Minneapolis police officer announcing over a telecom that the party is over, and no one has to get arrested if they do what he says. The beer-swilling bastards of young can be heard booing in the background, and this goes on for another thirty or forty seconds, until the song kicks into high gear. The song is called “Kids Don’t Follow”, and it’s a fist pumping guitar-driven car-crash of an anthem about growing up hard. It could be called punk rock, but it’s also fitted with an undercarriage of ugly beauty thanks to vocalist and lead singer Paul Westerberg’s poetic turns of phrase, “In my face, out my ear, kids won’t follow, what you’re sayin’, we can’t hear.”. The underground 80s—the stoners, the deadheads, and the kids who were having trouble—are not the pretty plastic people of the popular John Hughes films that have become shorthand for the yuppie decade. There had to be a heavy contrast for what those films suggested, and it had to emanate from somewhere displaced, forgotten, rotten, but true. The disconnects and fractures of the monoculture were apparent in that decade, and they were quite pronounced in the true-crime moral fable of River’s Edge. Director Richard Linklater called it a teen movie for the end of the world, and critic Roger Ebert asserted that it was the best true crime picture since In Cold Blood. Shot in Nowheresville, California, but looking a lot like the Pacific Northwest of Twin Peaks, and the stomping grounds of Soundgarden, Nirvana and Mudhoney, River’s Edge foreshadows the decade to come by being honest about the decay of the 80s. It opens with a pubescent boy, androgynous in denim, and with a Jane Fonda in Klute hair-cut, taking a doll belonging to his little sister and dropping it into a muddy, raging river. This symbolic image is the movie in miniature....$

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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For those who missed it, I've launched a newsletter on Substack to write about movies and other stray thoughts. If you like my writing, I'd love if you could subscribe! afilmdiary.substack.com

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Red Room Rantings | Substack

Justine Smith is a writer who has been published in Little White Lies, Roger Ebert and Ultra Dogma. She programs the Underground Section at the Fantasia International Film Frstival. Click to read Red ...

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favorite thing about The Departed is that Judith Butler was once asked about guilty pleasures, and said something like "the worst movie I like is The Departed". I like The Departed too, Judith. Very excited to check out this episode.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The best videos you can watch on youtube have titles like "Claire makes a pumpkin loaf step-by-step" and the worst videos you can watch on youtube have titles like "dingus malingus ranks the sight and sound top 250"

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And if you've read the article and want two hours of follow-up conversation, have I got the podcast for you.

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Film Formally | Restoring the Dollars Trilogy with James White & James Flower of Arrow Video

YouTube video by Film Formally • How Would Lubitsch Do It

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is one of the greatest honors of my life to say that I helped with @arrowvideo.bsky.social upcoming 4k release of BLUE VELVET. I wrote an essay to accompany the film. www.arrowfilms.com/p/blue-velve...

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Blue Velvet Limited Edition 4K UHD | Arrow Films

Shop Blue Velvet Limited Edition 4K UHD at Arrow Films. Free UK Delivery

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The Bastard Child Kris Chaos @realbigkriscfromaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lance Archer today at Warrior Wrestling in Wisconsin talking about PAC's passing 🤼‍♂️

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pac vs Orange Cassidy from Feb. 2020. One of my favorite "comedy matches" ever and a real bright spot to continually look back on once that year took a turn. youtu.be/7W63y_mCcg0

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FULL MATCH: PAC vs Orange Cassidy | AEW Revolution 2020

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My 15th Bugs Bunny piece is up. There's some great stuff in this short revolving around Bugs using hypnosis to turn Elmer Fudd into a doppelganger of himself, breaking the fabric of accepted Bugs Bunny cartoon reality. A pretty good early Freleng/Maltese Bugs short.

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The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942)

Premiering in cinemas on October 31st, The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942) isn’t soaked in Universal Monster or German Expressionist gothic imagery like future Bugs Bunny scare-fests Hair-Raising Har…

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am going to a 16mm show tonight at the microcinema and they're apparently showing a Canadian sex ed movie from the 70s & I am just as excited about seeing this as I am about catching PRIMETIME tomorrow.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If the Jays had won the world series then that would certainly be the best TV of the 21st century, but they did not. But, If one were a silly goose, who took things too far, I suppose one could argue that the devastation was synonymous with the equally upsetting finale of Twin Peaks s3.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

arrowfilms.com

Blue Velvet Limited Edition 4K UHD | Arrow Films

Shop Blue Velvet Limited Edition 4K UHD at Arrow Films. Free UK Delivery

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's very funny that the restoration of THE DEVILS and the new Nathan Fielder doc are coming to cinemas on the same day.

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One watch and it’s no wonder Tim Hunter was asked to direct episodes of #TwinPeaks. The film is a stunner, from start to finish and based on a true story.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's driving me absolutely nuts that I initially missed that this says "vocalist and singer" and not "vocalist and lyricist" in the sample paragraph lmao, but this is why editors are angels. Being edited is a gift. I fixed my draft. I still think the piece is otherwise strong haha

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw a reportedly full length version for the first time in the 00s as a nihilistic teenager looking for the seediest of movies in unseemly places on the internet. It is bizarre that it is getting a big theatrical push this year, but I'm happy it is. Its notorious reputation is deserved.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 18/09/2026

Bluesky cuties, consider this a good old fashioned call-out for work! I've landed safely thanks to your support, but financially things are still a little struggletown. This thread is really to remind commissioning type folks, producers and editors of the kind of work I do. Signal boosts welcome! 🧵

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's a movie whose beauty is only matched by its disgust. The melodrama is pummeling, but it keeps fracturing in the mise-en-scene // mirroring her sense of self (and Fassbinder's identification w/ her) & for most of the film she seems so fragmented in the frame, too far away. can't be saved.

a still image from IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS of a man and a woman in a hallway that keeps going on and on

a still image from IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS. A wide frame of rectangular lines revealing at the back of the frame a trans woman in a visible vertical space

$an image from IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS of lines, carved up, the right end of the frame a square, the rectangle on the left is thin, in the incoherent shape of the frame a trans woman stares up a mirror that appears fractured, but is not.$

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Matt R. Lohr @mattrlohr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jack Haven is a vital part of one of this year’s best films. And they’re in need of some help. The film industry, man… www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqB5...

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Are You Casting?

YouTube video by Jack Haven

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The films that I'm dying to see out of TIFF are THE UNKNOWN and EVERYTIME.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My favorite thing that I've learned while doing research on RIVER'S EDGE is that Dennis Hopper's role was initially offered to Harry Dean Stanton, but he passed on it. The casting agent said, "He gave everything he didn't want to do to Dennis, and if Dennis didn't want to do it, then no one would."

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is this website making me feel fucked up? Totally, but every social media website is so w/e. I am just going to keep posting about movies and sports. Jays are way up today, which is great. I love that. It thrills me. We should all be like Brett Bateman and get on base every single day of our lives.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I tend to like the RESIDENT EVIL movies, and I liked this one too, but in a disposable sort of way. It's certainly one you'll want to see with an engaged crowd. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

There’s a tense action sequence in Resident Evil when the fuckboy protagonist Bryan (Austin Abrams) finally figures out how to use a pistol, and he uses the last bullet to great effect and he triumphantly shouts “video games!”. It’s meant to signal that at last video games and cinema have become bedfellows. The truth of the matter between video games and cinema is far murkier, and has a complex history of its own. The prevailing idea for decades has been that video game movies are routinely bad, and while this is essentially true, it is not entirely comprehensive either. There have been imaginative directors who brought their own spin to the source material of video games to great effect, including Paul W.S. Anderson’s numerous Resident Evil films. Anderson’s pictures were intelligent about the respawn mechanic in video games and showcased this through the heroine Alice (Mila Jovovich) and her increasingly fragmented and warped sense of identity. By the time of Resident Evil: Retribution and The Final Chapter they had become downright Oshii-ian in her search for closure around her identity as a woman, a hero, a program and a mother. Those films were not especially well regarded in gaming communities because they never directly addressed what it was like to play a Resident Evil game, and they were not especially interested in recreating the narratives of those games either. Anderson’s films were better regarded among modern genre fans who saw the idiosyncrasies of his work and analyzed them in the growing kineticism of the language of action movies alongside directors like Tony Scott and Michael Bay. The conflict, perhaps, between those who have been saying that director Zach Cregger has finally gotten a video game movie right, and those of us who have found things to admire in video game movies of the past, seems to come from a question of grammar: “Must a video game film look or behave like a video game?”. I’m inclined to say no.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I tend to like the RESIDENT EVIL movies, and I liked this one too, but in a disposable sort of way. It's certainly one you'll want to see with an engaged crowd. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Probably going to watch THE WEIGHT next week & I am excited to do so because the trailer is leading with the fact that there is a rickety bridge that must be crossed.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love being on this horror podcast with my local friends because it's a very laid back atmosphere, and recording this one on MAY was so much fun. I love this movie so much

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a kind of life that you can live now and everyone will be happy for you and excited to see you.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK is coming to the Criterion Channel next month. It is one of the most essential films directed by trans people. Make sure to check it out.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wrote about David Cronenberg's THE FLY for my reader's choice series. I compared it with Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", and how Cronenberg usually approaches stories of transformation and identity. This movie rules. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

In Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” Gregor, a young man, living a banal life as a travelling salesman spends a night at the family home in Prague, and wakes up the following morning having transformed into a very large beetle, probably of the scarab family. One might expect that the natural conclusion would be horror upon this realization, but Gregor situates into his new insect context with bemusement. He approaches the day like he would any other, and his internal monologue shows him thinking with some urgency about his need to catch the train for work. Meanwhile, he can’t seem to rock his hard-shell back with enough force to roll over so that his many wriggling insect legs can send him on his way. The horror is reserved almost exclusively for Gregor’s family, who react to their new insectoid houseguest with disgust and confusion. It is darkly humorous that they concede that this large bug must be their lovely Gregor, but they cannot entirely adjust to his new reality. Gregor’s younger teenage sister is the only member of their bourgeoisie family that tries to engender a sense of connection for their new reality when she leaves out various food scraps and moves the furniture around Gregor’s room to better accommodate the new facts of his mobility. Kafka does not induce a binary of strictly human-or-bug upon Gregor, and over the course of the novella there is an obfuscation that occurs between the stated realities that a bug or human life might imply. Gregor undergoes a series of miniature realizations and deaths to his identity without subsuming his humanity entirely. For example, he realizes that he cannot see very well out of the window that he once cherished, or that he now gets more pleasure from crawling up the wall and hanging from the ceiling, diminishing the burden of the heavily weighted-shelled back he now possesses.................

a still image from THE FLY of Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum in bed with one another

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I regrettably must wade into the wrestling discourse (which is something I try not to do anymore) Jon Moxley is extremely hot and him being hot is one of the bigger reasons why I started watching in the first place & continue to watch when I have time.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

shout out to the nerds who labelled the post too sexy. I am sure Cronenberg would find that funny

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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Widow's B'y

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