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
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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!
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In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
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An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
July 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
I'm becoming a reading annotation evangelist with my summer class. I've assigned the intro to Noble's Algorithms of Oppression a few times and never gotten very good discussions out of it. Incentivizing student reading with these required annotations has produced some super animated reactions!
July 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm becoming a reading annotation evangelist with my summer class. I've assigned the intro to Noble's Algorithms of Oppression a few times and never gotten very good discussions out of it. Incentivizing student reading with these required annotations has produced some super animated reactions!
WGA coming in hot
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
WGA coming in hot
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WHOA.
The frog, she is boiled.
The frog, she is boiled.
Holy shit. CBS is killing Colbert’s show. “This is a purely a financial decision,” says the network. Right.
July 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
WHOA.
The frog, she is boiled.
The frog, she is boiled.
I was irked by yesterday's Emmy noms and then I remembered that Industry S3 was eligible and now I'm even more irked by yesterday's Emmy noms
July 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I was irked by yesterday's Emmy noms and then I remembered that Industry S3 was eligible and now I'm even more irked by yesterday's Emmy noms
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb. I've been working on and off for the last year on a side project about the way specialty film production and exhibition formats contributed to a larger project of making a spectacle of the bomb... 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb. I've been working on and off for the last year on a side project about the way specialty film production and exhibition formats contributed to a larger project of making a spectacle of the bomb... 🧵
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Rewatched North By Northwest last night and was of course thinking about me and @davidkocik.bsky.social 's favorite Simpsons cutaway: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yutf...
Corn Field - The Simpsons
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July 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Rewatched North By Northwest last night and was of course thinking about me and @davidkocik.bsky.social 's favorite Simpsons cutaway: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yutf...
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Pretty clear that this will be the vehicle SCOTUS will use to deny equal protection to transgender people. While the case will be about sports, that decision would essentially strip all rights on transgender status or sex for trans people.
It would make virtually any law permissible.
It would make virtually any law permissible.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Pretty clear that this will be the vehicle SCOTUS will use to deny equal protection to transgender people. While the case will be about sports, that decision would essentially strip all rights on transgender status or sex for trans people.
It would make virtually any law permissible.
It would make virtually any law permissible.
A bizarro recent archive find: Movie theaters can be built to withstand nuclear bombs!
July 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A bizarro recent archive find: Movie theaters can be built to withstand nuclear bombs!
Is @ptklein.com okay??
Denis Villeneuve is going from 'Dune' to 007. The filmmaker has been tapped to direct the next #JamesBond movie, the first from AmazonMGM bit.ly/4laj3Vy
June 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Is @ptklein.com okay??