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I recorded a commentary track for THE FIRST DEADLY SIN—not just Frank Sinatra’s final film, but a shocking fusion of ‘70s New Hollywood noir with ‘80s Cannon Films sleaze. A shattering detective film that prefigures SE7EN. Out now via @vinsyn.bsky.social: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

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A ★★★ review of Her Private Hell (2026)A fetish object about fetish objects, this carries about the same kick as a xerox of a xerox. Much as Pino D. reworks the themes to Dressed to Kill and Body Double into this film’s score, this is NWR ...boxd.it

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A ★★★½ review of I Want Your Sex (2026)“You’re all dying to fuck but you’re too chickenshit to admit it.” Gregg Araki’s Skittles-colored and porn-bright 21st century take on Sunset Boulevard (but with more pegging and Charli xcx) essential...boxd.it

Sunday.

HER PRIVATE HELL Q&A with Nicholas Winding Refn and Charles Melton via the @amcinematheque.bsky.social

Forty-five years ago a new film dropped with an incredible Pino Donaggio score (BLOW OUT), and today it’s happening again with HER PRIVATE HELL and I just think that’s beautiful.

Happy 45th to BLOW OUT— I wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com about the whirlpool of Zaprudic anxiety, libidinous cinegraphic pleasures, and illusory tease of control offered by voyeurism and filmmaking that VERTIGO-spirals throughout Brian De Palma’s 1981 masterpiece. 🎨: @briannaduggan.bsky.social

A Shot in the Dark - Bright Wall/Dark RoomBlow Out marks the moment when the split in the screen between De Palma’s early films & the sleaze-noir terror of his erotic thrillers fell, merging in a high-low interrogation of our need for comfort...www.brightwalldarkroom.com

“Fan-dabby-dozy-tastic.” Absolutely jacked to have my essay included in this STACKED @secondsightfilms.bsky.social 4K box set for Jonathan Glazer’s surreal anti-heist heist film, SEXY BEAST. Big thanks to @phillipescott.bsky.social for having me aboard. Get it: diabolikdvd.com/product/le-s...

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The Fuck NoirFilms noir that fuck.  Noir-ish erotic thrillers and erotic films noir. I know them when I see them. Chronologically ordered, 1980 to present. List in progress.boxd.it

Update

Not only does this essay find something NEW to say about BACK TO FUTURE, it is just staggeringly well-written and extremely entertaining. Dive in:

In honor of his 75th birthday this weekend, here’s my @brightwalldarkroom.com interview with Abel Ferrara about his memoir, his life, his addictions, the end of the world, and his thoughts on redemption (and how the Bad Lieutenant would react to the 2025 World Series).

Always Trying to Get Beyond the Veil: An Interview with Abel FerraraAbel Ferrara recently spoke with Bright Wall/Dark Room from Rome about his new memoir, Scene, his films, and his life as an artist.www.brightwalldarkroom.com

For those who dug NIGHT NURSE, I highly recommend CALL ME, a low-budget, high-style erotic thriller that intercourses between two parallel plots: the story of a woman increasingly unhinged/aroused by obscene phone calls, and a gritty nYC neo-noir drug caper, both lustily rubbing against the other.