cinematthew.bsky.social
@cinematthew.bsky.social
PhD candidate (Media, Cinema, & Digital Studies) & Grad Teaching Assistant at UW Milwaukee | Film exhibition, media technology, & American cinema | he/him
When you're a pet owner (especially of two), there are days when it is more glaringly apparent that you're sharing your home with two animals. Today has been one of those days...
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
When you're a pet owner (especially of two), there are days when it is more glaringly apparent that you're sharing your home with two animals. Today has been one of those days...
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No one mourns the "Wicked."
January 22, 2026 at 3:28 PM
No one mourns the "Wicked."
Ehrlich's videos are always joyful tributes to cinema in all its genres, modes, and national and industrial permutations. A great lunch break watch!
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Ehrlich's videos are always joyful tributes to cinema in all its genres, modes, and national and industrial permutations. A great lunch break watch!
Worth remembering that despite many missteps, Kathleen Kennedy also shepherded one of the best big-budget studio films of the 2010s (The Last Jedi, a franchise best) and perhaps the single best television series to debut so far this decade (Andor)
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Lucasfilm Replacing Kathleen Kennedy With Dave Filoni, Lynwen Brennan as New ‘Star Wars’ Bosses
Lucasfilm has lined up replacements for Kathy Kennedy when she steps down from running the company behind "Star Wars" this year.
variety.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Worth remembering that despite many missteps, Kathleen Kennedy also shepherded one of the best big-budget studio films of the 2010s (The Last Jedi, a franchise best) and perhaps the single best television series to debut so far this decade (Andor)
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
The Golden Globes are a fun time because you have celebrities taking up airtime with unfunny comedic bits and cutaways to Polymarket ads while Jafar Panahi is sitting there about to be arrested by his government for making films
January 12, 2026 at 3:01 AM
The Golden Globes are a fun time because you have celebrities taking up airtime with unfunny comedic bits and cutaways to Polymarket ads while Jafar Panahi is sitting there about to be arrested by his government for making films
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GSO is planning a new webinar series—and we want your input.
Current topic ideas include:
Academic Freedom
Research Methods
Job and Career Pathways
We welcome additional suggestions and feedback. Please share your ideas using this form:
forms.gle/GtyCF5ZtEq6a...
Current topic ideas include:
Academic Freedom
Research Methods
Job and Career Pathways
We welcome additional suggestions and feedback. Please share your ideas using this form:
forms.gle/GtyCF5ZtEq6a...
December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
GSO is planning a new webinar series—and we want your input.
Current topic ideas include:
Academic Freedom
Research Methods
Job and Career Pathways
We welcome additional suggestions and feedback. Please share your ideas using this form:
forms.gle/GtyCF5ZtEq6a...
Current topic ideas include:
Academic Freedom
Research Methods
Job and Career Pathways
We welcome additional suggestions and feedback. Please share your ideas using this form:
forms.gle/GtyCF5ZtEq6a...
The deadline to sign up for the #SCMS26 mentorship program (as either mentee or mentor) is next Friday!
The GSO is also looking to connect first-time attendees with more experienced grad students. A reminder email was sent out this morning with more info and sign-up links
The GSO is also looking to connect first-time attendees with more experienced grad students. A reminder email was sent out this morning with more info and sign-up links
SCMS-2026 GSO Mentorship
GSO is hosting one-on-one mentorship meetings (in person at SCMS or virtual) connecting grad students,recent grads, & precariously employed scholars with advanced academic & alt-ac mentors.
👉 Mentor & mentee sign-up forms are linked and available via QR codes in the flyer.
GSO is hosting one-on-one mentorship meetings (in person at SCMS or virtual) connecting grad students,recent grads, & precariously employed scholars with advanced academic & alt-ac mentors.
👉 Mentor & mentee sign-up forms are linked and available via QR codes in the flyer.
January 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The deadline to sign up for the #SCMS26 mentorship program (as either mentee or mentor) is next Friday!
The GSO is also looking to connect first-time attendees with more experienced grad students. A reminder email was sent out this morning with more info and sign-up links
The GSO is also looking to connect first-time attendees with more experienced grad students. A reminder email was sent out this morning with more info and sign-up links
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Avatar: Fire and Ash is now in theaters, so it's as good a time as any to re-plug my article on high frame rate projection
Now available digitally: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Avatar: Fire and Ash is now in theaters, so it's as good a time as any to re-plug my article on high frame rate projection
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GSO Spotlight Program
We’re thrilled to introduce a new initiative! If you’ve recently been published, completed your dissertation, received an award, or have other exciting news to share, we want to highlight you.
Submissions can be made here:
forms.gle/dpyQDLCoNKtL...
We’re thrilled to introduce a new initiative! If you’ve recently been published, completed your dissertation, received an award, or have other exciting news to share, we want to highlight you.
Submissions can be made here:
forms.gle/dpyQDLCoNKtL...
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
GSO Spotlight Program
We’re thrilled to introduce a new initiative! If you’ve recently been published, completed your dissertation, received an award, or have other exciting news to share, we want to highlight you.
Submissions can be made here:
forms.gle/dpyQDLCoNKtL...
We’re thrilled to introduce a new initiative! If you’ve recently been published, completed your dissertation, received an award, or have other exciting news to share, we want to highlight you.
Submissions can be made here:
forms.gle/dpyQDLCoNKtL...
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Seven straight Warner Bros. pictures earned over $40 million on their opening weekends. Warner Bros. led the Golden Globes noms. It's having one of the best years critically and financially in its history.
Why is it auctioning itself off?
The answer explains a lot about the modern economy.
Why is it auctioning itself off?
The answer explains a lot about the modern economy.
Why Is Warner Bros. for Sale at All? - The American Prospect
Its product has never been more critically or financially successful. Why is it auctioning itself off?
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Seven straight Warner Bros. pictures earned over $40 million on their opening weekends. Warner Bros. led the Golden Globes noms. It's having one of the best years critically and financially in its history.
Why is it auctioning itself off?
The answer explains a lot about the modern economy.
Why is it auctioning itself off?
The answer explains a lot about the modern economy.
Greatly enjoyed reading Ramzi Fawaz's essay on Andor in the new issue of Film Quarterly, where he shrewdly argues that the series "sits resolutely within the history of global revolutionary media." doi.org/10.1525/fq.2...
December 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Greatly enjoyed reading Ramzi Fawaz's essay on Andor in the new issue of Film Quarterly, where he shrewdly argues that the series "sits resolutely within the history of global revolutionary media." doi.org/10.1525/fq.2...
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Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
Wow... One of the formative movie theaters of my childhood in the Twin Cities colliding with the formative movie theater of my college years in Chicago!
BIG NEWS! We are excited to welcome the HEIGHTS THEATER to the Music Box family!
In January 2026, we will be taking over ownership of the iconic Columbia Heights cinema. We're excited to add to the legacy of the Heights, and bringing a touch of the Music Box to Minnesota🎞️
In January 2026, we will be taking over ownership of the iconic Columbia Heights cinema. We're excited to add to the legacy of the Heights, and bringing a touch of the Music Box to Minnesota🎞️
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Wow... One of the formative movie theaters of my childhood in the Twin Cities colliding with the formative movie theater of my college years in Chicago!
Super stoked that our panel on independent film exhibition was accepted! 🎉 See you all in Chicago in a few months!
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Super stoked that our panel on independent film exhibition was accepted! 🎉 See you all in Chicago in a few months!
(GDT's Frankenstein is the best movie I'm seen so far this year and deserves to be seen in theaters. Achingly personal, staggeringly archetypal. Seen it twice and sobbed both times)
FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!
Where do I even begin? Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social has created an absolute masterpiece. I only wish I’d had the chance to experience it on the big screen. The story of Frankenstein has been told countless times, but never like this.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
(GDT's Frankenstein is the best movie I'm seen so far this year and deserves to be seen in theaters. Achingly personal, staggeringly archetypal. Seen it twice and sobbed both times)
Summer from Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the end of Portrait of a Lady on Fire comes to mind
What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?
Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.
Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien
Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.
Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Summer from Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the end of Portrait of a Lady on Fire comes to mind
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RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.
He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.
He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.
He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.
He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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That’s gotta really hurt. (And I am stunned.)
September 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That’s gotta really hurt. (And I am stunned.)
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Writers Guild protest is starting now at the Disney gate in Burbank….
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Writers Guild protest is starting now at the Disney gate in Burbank….
Now available digitally: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
September 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Now available digitally: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Twas sadly never going to win for series, but very happy Andor's superb writing was acknowledged. Hope this persuades some folks to get over the Star Wars of it all and give the show a go
‘ANDOR’ has won the Emmy for Best Writing in a Drama Series.
See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25
See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25
September 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Twas sadly never going to win for series, but very happy Andor's superb writing was acknowledged. Hope this persuades some folks to get over the Star Wars of it all and give the show a go
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Publication day! Just got the new issue of Film History in the mail, which includes my article on high frame rate projection and the way contingent formats get held up as inviolable aesthetic norms. Certainly a good way to welcome the new school year!
September 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Publication day! Just got the new issue of Film History in the mail, which includes my article on high frame rate projection and the way contingent formats get held up as inviolable aesthetic norms. Certainly a good way to welcome the new school year!