Peter Raleigh
@petreraleigh.bsky.social
movies, socialism, occasionally history. newsletters on film, horror novel in progress. he/him
https://peterraleigh.substack.com/
https://peterraleigh.substack.com/
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Keepers of the Hidden Sins
Power and Complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut
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For Long Library, I wrote about paired visions of elite depravity and individual complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut. This one's been cooking for awhile, hope you enjoy!
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Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today
January 31, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today
Lmao
By their own numbers, almost 50% of what Bluesky moderation gets up to is just manually labeling replies as rude. 👍
January 30, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Lmao
It remains very funny that Trump is so explicit about this, maybe the most irreconcilable contradiction in American domestic politics
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
January 29, 2026 at 7:58 PM
It remains very funny that Trump is so explicit about this, maybe the most irreconcilable contradiction in American domestic politics
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For Long Library, I wrote about paired visions of elite depravity and individual complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut. This one's been cooking for awhile, hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
Keepers of the Hidden Sins
Power and Complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut
peterraleigh.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
For Long Library, I wrote about paired visions of elite depravity and individual complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut. This one's been cooking for awhile, hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
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really gutted. dan was such a sweet guy and it was so so wonderful to work with him for so long. ah man.
Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
defector.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:51 AM
really gutted. dan was such a sweet guy and it was so so wonderful to work with him for so long. ah man.
Evening boost! Apologies for spamming this one a bit today
For Long Library, I wrote about paired visions of elite depravity and individual complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut. This one's been cooking for awhile, hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
Keepers of the Hidden Sins
Power and Complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut
peterraleigh.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Evening boost! Apologies for spamming this one a bit today
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“Have a scotch. Sign the paper. Close your eyes.”
Great stuff here from Peter, also does it look like she’s negotiating
Great stuff here from Peter, also does it look like she’s negotiating
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
“Have a scotch. Sign the paper. Close your eyes.”
Great stuff here from Peter, also does it look like she’s negotiating
Great stuff here from Peter, also does it look like she’s negotiating
For Long Library, I wrote about paired visions of elite depravity and individual complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut. This one's been cooking for awhile, hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
Keepers of the Hidden Sins
Power and Complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut
peterraleigh.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
For Long Library, I wrote about paired visions of elite depravity and individual complicity in Michael Clayton and Eyes Wide Shut. This one's been cooking for awhile, hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/keepers-of...
This is today if you're interested. Join us!
Our conversation with @gamingthepast.bsky.social, @petreraleigh.bsky.social, Makeba Lavan and @chipam.bsky.social is in a week!
Jan. 27 | Webinar: "Media, Pop Culture & History” 🎥
Since the dawn of film and television, writers, directors and actors have sought to retell history. How have their depictions shaped our view of the real-life stories behind the screen?
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4s0cbOo
Since the dawn of film and television, writers, directors and actors have sought to retell history. How have their depictions shaped our view of the real-life stories behind the screen?
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4s0cbOo
January 27, 2026 at 7:39 PM
This is today if you're interested. Join us!
Can feel my mania for 70s BBC horror gradually reaching crisis proportions
January 23, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Can feel my mania for 70s BBC horror gradually reaching crisis proportions
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The People vs. ICE
Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.
nymag.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Even if you don't plan on buying this disc (which you should, if you collect that sort of thing!) I hope you'll check out this movie, which really merits renewed attention. Late-period Hammer has a number of unduly neglected pictures and this is absolutely one of them
Very pleased to say I have a booklet essay in this upcoming 4K release of the absolutely fascinating late Hammer film Demons of the Mind - a cryptic, unsettling Gothic tale that deserves a much wider audience. Coming in April!
January 22, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Even if you don't plan on buying this disc (which you should, if you collect that sort of thing!) I hope you'll check out this movie, which really merits renewed attention. Late-period Hammer has a number of unduly neglected pictures and this is absolutely one of them
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There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
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thinking recently of @petreraleigh.bsky.social's tweet about how the Democrats are like major Hollywood movie studios: structurally incapable of learning from their mistakes
January 22, 2026 at 6:44 PM
thinking recently of @petreraleigh.bsky.social's tweet about how the Democrats are like major Hollywood movie studios: structurally incapable of learning from their mistakes
Very pleased to say I have a booklet essay in this upcoming 4K release of the absolutely fascinating late Hammer film Demons of the Mind - a cryptic, unsettling Gothic tale that deserves a much wider audience. Coming in April!
January 22, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Very pleased to say I have a booklet essay in this upcoming 4K release of the absolutely fascinating late Hammer film Demons of the Mind - a cryptic, unsettling Gothic tale that deserves a much wider audience. Coming in April!
This should be a really interesting discussion, tune in if you're interested!
Our conversation with @gamingthepast.bsky.social, @petreraleigh.bsky.social, Makeba Lavan and @chipam.bsky.social is in a week!
Jan. 27 | Webinar: "Media, Pop Culture & History” 🎥
Since the dawn of film and television, writers, directors and actors have sought to retell history. How have their depictions shaped our view of the real-life stories behind the screen?
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4s0cbOo
Since the dawn of film and television, writers, directors and actors have sought to retell history. How have their depictions shaped our view of the real-life stories behind the screen?
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4s0cbOo
January 20, 2026 at 4:35 PM
This should be a really interesting discussion, tune in if you're interested!
It's getting really difficult for jokes like this to stay ahead of what conservatives are actually explicitly saying
Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor https://theonion.com/conservatives-say-renee-good-was-brainwashed-by-bible-into-loving-thy-neighbor/
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
It's getting really difficult for jokes like this to stay ahead of what conservatives are actually explicitly saying
I read so much Bloom County as a kid. Every Bloom County puchline is about Caspar Weinberger or the mujahideen. I never understood practically any of it and I absolutely ate it up
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I read so much Bloom County as a kid. Every Bloom County puchline is about Caspar Weinberger or the mujahideen. I never understood practically any of it and I absolutely ate it up
It's pretty funny to me that even his ideological allies will always associate him with the character of Dilbert when a key early sign of his right-wing turn was that Dilbert's boss became the hero of the strip
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
It's pretty funny to me that even his ideological allies will always associate him with the character of Dilbert when a key early sign of his right-wing turn was that Dilbert's boss became the hero of the strip
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Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny
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Over on Patreon - Carlee (@deepimpactcrier.bsky.social) discusses the mode of mythic storytelling as an antidote to the anesthesia induced by the Language of Empire and Danny Boyle's 28 YEARS LATER as a modern example of epic poetic form. See below.
January 9, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Over on Patreon - Carlee (@deepimpactcrier.bsky.social) discusses the mode of mythic storytelling as an antidote to the anesthesia induced by the Language of Empire and Danny Boyle's 28 YEARS LATER as a modern example of epic poetic form. See below.
Never gonna not be a little strange to see Bill Kristol posting like this
"YouGov has ICE at 39% favorable, 52% unfavorable...But this top line really understates the intensity of public backlash to ICE and its tactics. In February 2025, just 19% of Americans held a strongly unfavorable view of ICE. Today, 40% do."
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high
Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Never gonna not be a little strange to see Bill Kristol posting like this
(Almost) everything I saw in theaters in 2025
January 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
(Almost) everything I saw in theaters in 2025
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Loading screen tip that says "You should be ashamed of yourself."
January 6, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Loading screen tip that says "You should be ashamed of yourself."
Long overdue but I've been working my way through the Ghost Story For Christmas films Lawrence Gordon Clark did for the BBC in the 70s and I think they are beginning to fix me
January 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Long overdue but I've been working my way through the Ghost Story For Christmas films Lawrence Gordon Clark did for the BBC in the 70s and I think they are beginning to fix me