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We should make the longevity influencer guys watch slow cinema. They've got the time.

Seems bad that we have our whole lives on our devices and government policy allows invasive device searches, with no suspicion requirement, at border crossings. www.theverge.com/report/97214...

Agents just took your phone at the border. Is it legal to wipe it?Courts are split on the constitutionality of warrantless phone searches.www.theverge.com

The next time I have a captive audience I too will begin preaching (probably about Claude Chabrol’s oeuvre or whatever).

It’s been almost a year since I started publishing weekly and I’ve spent some time making my many pieces browsable with a guide and index. www.deadofnightletter.com/organization... #filmsky #horrorsky

Everyone hates data centers because they provoke so many overlapping cultural moods—environmental justice vigilance, standard-issue NIMBY feelings, tech pessimism, and AI fear/anger.

If Nolan wanted to really cook he would announce Ulysses as his next project and cast Damon, Hathaway, and Holland as Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus.

Took in The Big Sleep on the big screen today and and how can one movie contain so much charisma?

In honor of The Odyssey, here I am griping about Oppenheimer. letterboxd.com/mattsimon_/f...

A review of Oppenheimer (2023)The trouble with biopics is that history can be elusive and the genre can be self-serious. Biopics on major historical figures tend to insist on the weight and gravity of their perspective. They speak...letterboxd.com

my Ebenezer

This week I’m recommending Denzel Washington hunting a demon in moody, misty, 90s Philadelphia. www.deadofnightletter.com/exhilarating... #filmsky #horrorsky

Good news about the reopening Cinerama Dome—no in-seat food service. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

On Caddo Lake and making “eco-horror out of time travel.” www.deadofnightletter.com/exhilarating... #filmsky #horrorsky #eco-horror

"Slowness here doesn’t feel slow. It feels alive, vulnerable, and fragile." New at Dead of Night on Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. www.deadofnightletter.com/exhilarating... #filmsky #horrorsky

“… though the story and lore are fully Evil Dead, it doesn’t feel like Evil Dead—which has always balanced real horror and genuine mayhem with goofiness and comedy.” On Evil Dead Burn. www.deadofnightletter.com/a-perfect-vi... #filmsky #horrorsky

“I’m confident I could convince anyone unfamiliar that it’s a vampire movie based on any number of stills …” On Queen Margot. www.deadofnightletter.com/a-perfect-vi... #filmsky #horrorsky

reposting for the nighttime crew

"The Night of the Hunter’s otherworldliness, its artificiality decisively unmoors the story from its time and place." New Dead of Night. www.deadofnightletter.com/a-perfect-vi... #filmsky #horrorsky

pssst … a quiet evening drop of the new release … on villainous preachers and more … www.deadofnightletter.com/a-perfect-vi... #filmsky #horrorsky

I hate the beloved cool guy movies of 1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Top Gun. (Why are you booing me? I'm right.)

Everyone rewatching Sam Neil movies and being like, "he rules even harder than I said before!"