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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 17h

Always wild to me that in the year 2000, Robert Zemeckis made a Brian De Palma film while Brian De Palma made a Robert Zemeckis movie.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 18h

One of the most calming images in cinema. Like a cool mint breeze blowing through my mind.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 18h

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 20h

I have an ever-growing piece on TIGHTROPE I am dying to find a home for before it takes over my life any further.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 20h

Tuesday at the movies.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite film discoveries of 2025. Incredible. A crisscrossing web of kink and terror, all cradled within a hothouse city seemingly always descending deeper and deeper into a fever of faceless bodies all lithe and leatherclad.

Vinegar Syndrome @vinsyn.bsky.social · 1d

31 Days of Syntober continues! Get a staff pick at 50% off—plus 4x VSMC points—one day only, 12:01PM ET to 11:59AM the next day: vinegarsyndrome.com/pages/31-days-of-syntober 🩸

DAY 7: WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR?, picked by Justin LaLiberty, Director of Operations, OCN & Manager, Cinématographe

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 1d

Writing about David Fincher's THE GAME and--

🚨🚨NEW KINK ALERT🚨🚨

--like Michael Douglas in THE GAME, I too would like Deborah Kara Unger to drug me, dress me in BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA cosplay, bury me alive in Mexico, and leave me for dead.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 1d

Mean but fair.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 1d

Not even a text or a phone call that you were working on this? What the FUCK

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 1d

oh man fuck you

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 6d

I better see this film on all your Halloween watchlists this October.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 6d

Happy to have contributed to @letterboxd.social's 24 Underseen Horror Films by writing about my favorite feature of horny, depressed filmmaking--Larry Fessenden's HABIT.

Stop what you're doing and watch this Cassavetes castlevania of toxic love and vampiric sex RIGHT NOW.

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 6d

To honor the hallowed Halloween season, Letterboxd staff and contributors recommend 24 underseen horror ﬁlms, spanning from ’60s noir witches to ’70s psychedelic vampires to ’80s against-type Colin Firth.

Read about each pick on Journal: boxd.it/2Ko

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 6d

To honor the hallowed Halloween season, Letterboxd staff and contributors recommend 24 underseen horror ﬁlms, spanning from ’60s noir witches to ’70s psychedelic vampires to ’80s against-type Colin Firth.

Read about each pick on Journal: boxd.it/2Ko

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 4d

Meiko Kaji, aka “the first lady of vengeance,” interviewed by writer-director Sean Baker at Beyond Fest.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 5d

“I think this Beyond Fest is quite special.”

MEIKO KAJI IS HERE MY GOD

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 5d

It was just about like that.

Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 5d

The dissonance of sitting across from Karen O at a diner while Nickelback blares from the juke.

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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 8d

Anyway, pre-order my book about America and violence (but I repeat myself)

Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 25d

A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE takes the neon-soaked world of EVERYBODY KNOWS and irradiates it - an art-pulp epic of blood and sleaze and even hope, set in the American now. A jagged chunk of something huge and heavy that sizzles in the night.

Pre-order it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jorda...

The cover to my new novel A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE

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Gilbert Martinez @gilpym.bsky.social · 6d

On my @letterboxd.social watchlist now! Travis @aheartofgould.bsky.social called this a "Cassavetes castlevania of toxic love and vampiric sex" which not only makes me want to watch it immediatley but displays in a phrase why he's one of the best film writers out there.

Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 6d

I better see this film on all your Halloween watchlists this October.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 6d

Now streaming on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social: CHRISTINE.

I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social about CHRISTINE as John Carpenter's unfairly neglected masterpiece, "a painful meditation on lost youth, cruising deep into the heartaching horror of aging, change, and time’s unstoppable drive forward."

The Fury of Time in 'Christine' (1983)

In John Carpenter’s 1983 adaptation of Stephen King’s haunted-car novel 'Christine,' the road to hell is paved not with good intentions, but with time.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Vinegar Syndrome has really been giving his films a great treatment. They just dropped DEPRAVED today!

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 6d

I better see this film on all your Halloween watchlists this October.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 6d

Happy to have contributed to @letterboxd.social's 24 Underseen Horror Films by writing about my favorite feature of horny, depressed filmmaking--Larry Fessenden's HABIT.

Stop what you're doing and watch this Cassavetes castlevania of toxic love and vampiric sex RIGHT NOW.

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 6d

To honor the hallowed Halloween season, Letterboxd staff and contributors recommend 24 underseen horror ﬁlms, spanning from ’60s noir witches to ’70s psychedelic vampires to ’80s against-type Colin Firth.

Read about each pick on Journal: boxd.it/2Ko

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 7d

You’re welcome.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 7d

Spooky season has officially arrived so here’s Freddy Krueger with tits, everybody.

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