Kyle Stevens
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
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Kyle Stevens
@cinementalist.bsky.social
· May 12
Sneering at, or with, “The White Lotus” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Kyle Stevens examines the farce at the heart of the third season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.”
lareviewofbooks.org
I wrote about The White Lotus! I start with Parker Posey’s sneer and end up talking about why we need more farces. (Hint: Class anger.) lareviewofbooks.org/article/snee...
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Give your lady what she *really* wants this Valentine’s Day — to read, like, and repost her WUTHERING HEIGHTS review for @newrepublic 💕
newrepublic.com/article/2063...
newrepublic.com/article/2063...
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Is Fan Fiction
The new movie smooths out the novel’s difficulties and plays fast and loose with its romantic elements.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Give your lady what she *really* wants this Valentine’s Day — to read, like, and repost her WUTHERING HEIGHTS review for @newrepublic 💕
newrepublic.com/article/2063...
newrepublic.com/article/2063...
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The president of OpenAI has donated almost as much to Trump as the DNC has cash on hand www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Democratic donors have spent a year frozen, largely out of justified anger at the consultant class, the spammy texts, and lack of leadership from some elected leaders.
That anger, however, is also hurting outside groups doing critical work — and that could hurt us in November.
THREAD 🧵
That anger, however, is also hurting outside groups doing critical work — and that could hurt us in November.
THREAD 🧵
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The president of OpenAI has donated almost as much to Trump as the DNC has cash on hand www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
All About Eve
The Women
My Favorite Wife
Sabotage
In many ways predictable! And Kate knows I love Now, Voyager, The Letter, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, most of Crawford’s pre-code work, etc. etc. But one must be honest, mustn’t one?
The Women
My Favorite Wife
Sabotage
In many ways predictable! And Kate knows I love Now, Voyager, The Letter, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, most of Crawford’s pre-code work, etc. etc. But one must be honest, mustn’t one?
"Every man has a go-to McConaughey film, a go-to Pitt film, a go-to DiCaprio film, and a go-to Gosling film."
Every man has no such thing.
Every man has a go-to Bette film, a go-to Joan film, a go-to Irene film, and a go-to Sylvia film.
Every man has no such thing.
Every man has a go-to Bette film, a go-to Joan film, a go-to Irene film, and a go-to Sylvia film.
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
All About Eve
The Women
My Favorite Wife
Sabotage
In many ways predictable! And Kate knows I love Now, Voyager, The Letter, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, most of Crawford’s pre-code work, etc. etc. But one must be honest, mustn’t one?
The Women
My Favorite Wife
Sabotage
In many ways predictable! And Kate knows I love Now, Voyager, The Letter, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, most of Crawford’s pre-code work, etc. etc. But one must be honest, mustn’t one?
Blue Moon: Golly, do I run hot and cold with Linklater. I loved it! I love a theatrical movie! Hawke is truly fantastic, as is the screenplay. It hits so many big ideas so effortlessly. A real movie!
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Blue Moon: Golly, do I run hot and cold with Linklater. I loved it! I love a theatrical movie! Hawke is truly fantastic, as is the screenplay. It hits so many big ideas so effortlessly. A real movie!
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Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
www.siliconrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
Death is a Caress (Edith Carlmar, 1949): Norway’s first feature directed by a woman! Fascinatingly, aggressively sexual, with open hetero marriages that would confound American indies today. (I’m looking at you, Splitsville!!) And pro-abortion!!
February 8, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Death is a Caress (Edith Carlmar, 1949): Norway’s first feature directed by a woman! Fascinatingly, aggressively sexual, with open hetero marriages that would confound American indies today. (I’m looking at you, Splitsville!!) And pro-abortion!!
Caught Ophüls’s Sans lendemain at the Metrograph last week (natch, 😏) and haven’t stopped thinking about it. In many ways it’s the French Brief Encounter. Stays true to the darkness of its own premise in a difficult but honest, and so, beautiful way.
February 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Caught Ophüls’s Sans lendemain at the Metrograph last week (natch, 😏) and haven’t stopped thinking about it. In many ways it’s the French Brief Encounter. Stays true to the darkness of its own premise in a difficult but honest, and so, beautiful way.
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You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
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Name them
shame them
shame them
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Name them
shame them
shame them
Thank you to her. She gave us so much! I was so young when I found d her. This scene changed me.
January 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Thank you to her. She gave us so much! I was so young when I found d her. This scene changed me.
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For the snow day crowd! For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about the anti-authoritarian turn in recent prestige series, and the morally courageous characters of The Lowdown, Pluribus ,The Pitt, Andor, et al lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...
Opposition Party | Los Angeles Review of Books
In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 26, 2026 at 2:59 PM
For the snow day crowd! For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about the anti-authoritarian turn in recent prestige series, and the morally courageous characters of The Lowdown, Pluribus ,The Pitt, Andor, et al lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...
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Here's hoping that Sam Altman continues praising Donald Trump, that his remarks are widely disseminated, and that all those using or considering using ChatGPT hear them.
"President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country." Such a courageous statement from Sam Altman to OpenAI employees.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Here's hoping that Sam Altman continues praising Donald Trump, that his remarks are widely disseminated, and that all those using or considering using ChatGPT hear them.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
This shit really gets my goat. I haven't seen the film, but I'm sick of gay directors' films being called "excessively decorous," or some such euphemistic suggestion they should stay in the worlds of interior decorating and flower shops. It has plagued directors from Almodovar to Tom Ford.
“It is a notorious tendency of the scholarly folk tradition to place combustible content in neat boxes and much the same happens to the emotional content of this sensitive but excessively decorous film”
Jonathan Romney reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Jonathan Romney reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The History of Sound review: muted desires
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor’s tale of gay love and folk music set in early 20th-century America is handsomely made but lacks emotional intensity.
www.bfi.org.uk
January 23, 2026 at 3:33 PM
This shit really gets my goat. I haven't seen the film, but I'm sick of gay directors' films being called "excessively decorous," or some such euphemistic suggestion they should stay in the worlds of interior decorating and flower shops. It has plagued directors from Almodovar to Tom Ford.
Watching the excellent cozy period murder mystery Bookish on PBS, and aside from many charms it has given me the phrase “I’m in a state of advanced refreshment” as a euphemism for drunk. 🙏
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Watching the excellent cozy period murder mystery Bookish on PBS, and aside from many charms it has given me the phrase “I’m in a state of advanced refreshment” as a euphemism for drunk. 🙏
I think Jesse Plemons might be so good that people forget he’s acting his ass off.
January 22, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I think Jesse Plemons might be so good that people forget he’s acting his ass off.
While we’re mulling over the Oscar nominations (which is usually about what we would’ve done), I’ll say that my own supporting actress category would’ve included Celia Weston for A Little Prayer.
January 22, 2026 at 5:16 PM
While we’re mulling over the Oscar nominations (which is usually about what we would’ve done), I’ll say that my own supporting actress category would’ve included Celia Weston for A Little Prayer.
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The most dangerous place in the world is between a straight liberal and an opportunity to call someone a faggot
Newsom shows off knee pads for CEOs 'selling out' to the Trump administration
Newsom shows off knee pads for CEOs 'selling out' to the Trump administration
The Governor of California showed off knee pads that he suggested were for leaders "selling out" to the Trump administration, during an interview at Davos.
cnb.cx
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The most dangerous place in the world is between a straight liberal and an opportunity to call someone a faggot
Partner surprised me with a visit to a used/antique cookbook shop today. I usually hate surprises but not this one!! Amazing.
January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Partner surprised me with a visit to a used/antique cookbook shop today. I usually hate surprises but not this one!! Amazing.
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Fuck it, Norway should hold a festival where they celebrate every living American who won the peace prize. Have Barack narrate the filmed version.
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Fuck it, Norway should hold a festival where they celebrate every living American who won the peace prize. Have Barack narrate the filmed version.
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So to keep people in the loop, one of the biggest school districts in the state is closed Tuesday and Wednesday because they need to give teachers time to build hybrid options for families worried about their children getting kidnapped on the way to school by lawless masked armed federal goons.
January 18, 2026 at 7:38 PM
So to keep people in the loop, one of the biggest school districts in the state is closed Tuesday and Wednesday because they need to give teachers time to build hybrid options for families worried about their children getting kidnapped on the way to school by lawless masked armed federal goons.
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Oh, it's Cary Grant's birthday? Let me once again beat the drum for Holiday, one of the five movies that raised me—but don't let that stop you! It's a delightful, human portrait of youthful middle class anxieties about facing a life of labor ahead.
January 18, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Oh, it's Cary Grant's birthday? Let me once again beat the drum for Holiday, one of the five movies that raised me—but don't let that stop you! It's a delightful, human portrait of youthful middle class anxieties about facing a life of labor ahead.
There it is.
Slop doc flop rots at box.
January 18, 2026 at 3:35 PM
There it is.
Brett Ratner directed the Melania slop doc flop!?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
January 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Brett Ratner directed the Melania slop doc flop!?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, it's Cary Grant's birthday? Let me once again beat the drum for Holiday, one of the five movies that raised me—but don't let that stop you! It's a delightful, human portrait of youthful middle class anxieties about facing a life of labor ahead.
January 18, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Oh, it's Cary Grant's birthday? Let me once again beat the drum for Holiday, one of the five movies that raised me—but don't let that stop you! It's a delightful, human portrait of youthful middle class anxieties about facing a life of labor ahead.