Matthew
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Talk to your buds about movies you watch! This week I was lucky to program & guest on Episode 750 of The Gentlemen’s Guide to Midnite Cinema. Hear us yak (nearly 3 hrs) about Gakuryu Ishii’s atmospheric 1994 thriller ANGEL DUST + the narco-Eighties action mindmelter, FISTS OF STEEL. [LINK IN BIO]
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As we enter the Yuletide season, this is my annual reminder to all of you that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film.
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
As we enter the Yuletide season, this is my annual reminder to all of you that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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I wrote about DOG DAY AFTERNOON and its complicated legacy among trans viewers for my reader's choice series. My co-writer Caden Mark Gardner will be discussing many of these same topics tonight on TCM before this film is shown. Please tune in!
www.patreon.com/posts/144308...
www.patreon.com/posts/144308...
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I wrote about DOG DAY AFTERNOON and its complicated legacy among trans viewers for my reader's choice series. My co-writer Caden Mark Gardner will be discussing many of these same topics tonight on TCM before this film is shown. Please tune in!
www.patreon.com/posts/144308...
www.patreon.com/posts/144308...
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Seriously, just one of the best onscreen presences to ever grace the silver screen. The definition of raw magnetism. RIP, Udo.
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Seriously, just one of the best onscreen presences to ever grace the silver screen. The definition of raw magnetism. RIP, Udo.
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10 days left to enter!!
$10 donation to any food bank/pantry and you're in!
I have some cards and stickers on the way too, so there may be a few additions...
$10 donation to any food bank/pantry and you're in!
I have some cards and stickers on the way too, so there may be a few additions...
🚨PRINT RAFFLE!!
excited to announce I'll be giving away four limited edition test prints of my collages.
All you need to do to enter is donate $10+ to any food bank and upload your receipt using the form link below!
Open until Nov 30th! (US entries only, sorry)
form.jotform.com/253136257434...
excited to announce I'll be giving away four limited edition test prints of my collages.
All you need to do to enter is donate $10+ to any food bank and upload your receipt using the form link below!
Open until Nov 30th! (US entries only, sorry)
form.jotform.com/253136257434...
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
10 days left to enter!!
$10 donation to any food bank/pantry and you're in!
I have some cards and stickers on the way too, so there may be a few additions...
$10 donation to any food bank/pantry and you're in!
I have some cards and stickers on the way too, so there may be a few additions...
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FIVE ELEMENT NINJA has everything I love about Shaw Brothers in one movie. Colorful characters, costumes, crazy weapons, that red paint for blood and acrobatic high octane martial arts action choreography. Pure unadulterated cinema!!
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
FIVE ELEMENT NINJA has everything I love about Shaw Brothers in one movie. Colorful characters, costumes, crazy weapons, that red paint for blood and acrobatic high octane martial arts action choreography. Pure unadulterated cinema!!
Talk to your buds about movies you watch! This week I was lucky to program & guest on Episode 750 of The Gentlemen’s Guide to Midnite Cinema. Hear us yak (nearly 3 hrs) about Gakuryu Ishii’s atmospheric 1994 thriller ANGEL DUST + the narco-Eighties action mindmelter, FISTS OF STEEL. [LINK IN BIO]
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Talk to your buds about movies you watch! This week I was lucky to program & guest on Episode 750 of The Gentlemen’s Guide to Midnite Cinema. Hear us yak (nearly 3 hrs) about Gakuryu Ishii’s atmospheric 1994 thriller ANGEL DUST + the narco-Eighties action mindmelter, FISTS OF STEEL. [LINK IN BIO]
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Dance Dance Dance House Energy - 08 - JOCX-TV - January 1992 : 1131s
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Dance Dance Dance House Energy - 08 - JOCX-TV - January 1992 : 1131s
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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𝙏𝙤𝙠𝙮𝙤 𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔 : 𝟖𝟑 𝐦𝐢𝐧
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐢𝐣𝐮𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐳𝐮𝐤𝐢
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𝙁𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧
𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜!
𝙏𝙤𝙠𝙮𝙤 𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔 : 𝟖𝟑 𝐦𝐢𝐧
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐢𝐣𝐮𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐳𝐮𝐤𝐢
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𝙁𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧
𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜!
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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𝙏𝙤𝙠𝙮𝙤 𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔 : 𝟖𝟑 𝐦𝐢𝐧
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐢𝐣𝐮𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐳𝐮𝐤𝐢
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𝙁𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧
𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜!
𝙏𝙤𝙠𝙮𝙤 𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔 : 𝟖𝟑 𝐦𝐢𝐧
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐢𝐣𝐮𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐳𝐮𝐤𝐢
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𝙁𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧
𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜!
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“The taxes were illegal but it’s just too much money for the government to give back” sounds like something you would have been tarred and feathered for saying in 1773.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“The taxes were illegal but it’s just too much money for the government to give back” sounds like something you would have been tarred and feathered for saying in 1773.
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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some of my collages have been selected as part of a group gallery show in Queens.
work will be up until Dec 14th...
work will be up until Dec 14th...
Off the Wall - Affordable Fine Art Fair 2025 - Opening Reception - Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 6-9pm<...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
some of my collages have been selected as part of a group gallery show in Queens.
work will be up until Dec 14th...
work will be up until Dec 14th...
A movie you’ve seen more than seven times with a GIF
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A movie you’ve seen more than seven times with a GIF
Thought Partner + Friends as Rilo Kiley for Halloween (@ Deep Cuts in Medford, MA). They thoroughly smashed the assignment.
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thought Partner + Friends as Rilo Kiley for Halloween (@ Deep Cuts in Medford, MA). They thoroughly smashed the assignment.
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Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet
A few seasonally appropriate shots from the vault. Happy Halloween to all you ghouls and boils!
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A few seasonally appropriate shots from the vault. Happy Halloween to all you ghouls and boils!
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I was trying to figure out why David Ellison's face looked so familiar to me, and then I remembered...
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I was trying to figure out why David Ellison's face looked so familiar to me, and then I remembered...
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Bruce LaBruce’s fave gay horror films:
“I once made the outrageous claim that all horror movies are based on homosexual panic, and although I might have overstated the case a little, it’s certainly true of many of my favourite works of horror”
www.dazeddigital.com/artsandcultu... @dazeddigital.com
“I once made the outrageous claim that all horror movies are based on homosexual panic, and although I might have overstated the case a little, it’s certainly true of many of my favourite works of horror”
www.dazeddigital.com/artsandcultu... @dazeddigital.com
Bruce LaBruce’s favourite gay horror films
The cult horror director is about to have a retrospective at New York’s MoMA. Here, he sifts through the best gay horror films he’s ever seen
www.dazeddigital.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Bruce LaBruce’s fave gay horror films:
“I once made the outrageous claim that all horror movies are based on homosexual panic, and although I might have overstated the case a little, it’s certainly true of many of my favourite works of horror”
www.dazeddigital.com/artsandcultu... @dazeddigital.com
“I once made the outrageous claim that all horror movies are based on homosexual panic, and although I might have overstated the case a little, it’s certainly true of many of my favourite works of horror”
www.dazeddigital.com/artsandcultu... @dazeddigital.com
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Well this is embarrassing, but necessary. Insurance just doesn't cover enough. gofund.me/8f49a0c27
Donate to Support Needed for Vital Lung and Heart Care, organized by Kiley Fox
After 10 years of starting GoFundMe's for others, I have to swallow my own prid… Kiley Fox needs your support for Support Needed for Vital Lung and Heart Care
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October 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Well this is embarrassing, but necessary. Insurance just doesn't cover enough. gofund.me/8f49a0c27
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i maintain that the single greatest movie special effect is setting an actual guy on fire
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
i maintain that the single greatest movie special effect is setting an actual guy on fire
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It you’d like to donate to a food bank near you, you can find one via the nonprofit Feeding America. You can also donate to its network of food banks on its website: “Every dollar you give can provide at least 10 meals to families facing hunger” Please repost. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It you’d like to donate to a food bank near you, you can find one via the nonprofit Feeding America. You can also donate to its network of food banks on its website: “Every dollar you give can provide at least 10 meals to families facing hunger” Please repost. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
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'The Farmer and The Shark' explores the life Craig Kingsbury, and his impact on the production of Steven Spielberg’s classic, #JAWS.
Our interview with producer Jim Beller & director John Campopiano goes live on at midnight PST/8am GMT.
Link in the comments.
Our interview with producer Jim Beller & director John Campopiano goes live on at midnight PST/8am GMT.
Link in the comments.
October 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
'The Farmer and The Shark' explores the life Craig Kingsbury, and his impact on the production of Steven Spielberg’s classic, #JAWS.
Our interview with producer Jim Beller & director John Campopiano goes live on at midnight PST/8am GMT.
Link in the comments.
Our interview with producer Jim Beller & director John Campopiano goes live on at midnight PST/8am GMT.
Link in the comments.