Andrew Male
@andrewmale.bsky.social
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist. Cultivating the echo chamber since 2011.
I am all in for William Basinski’s new look on Instagram.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I am all in for William Basinski’s new look on Instagram.
Few things delight me more than newspaper headlines from old Universal horror movies. This one from The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936)
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Few things delight me more than newspaper headlines from old Universal horror movies. This one from The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936)
If you've never seen Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri today would be a good day. Not only is it one of the greatest films ever made (and one of the most beautiful) it's also a piercing critique of the ruling classes, systems of power and how oppression often masquerades as "tradition".
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
If you've never seen Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri today would be a good day. Not only is it one of the greatest films ever made (and one of the most beautiful) it's also a piercing critique of the ruling classes, systems of power and how oppression often masquerades as "tradition".
#NowPlaying Reply with a shoddy compilation that’s also the artist/group’s best album.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#NowPlaying Reply with a shoddy compilation that’s also the artist/group’s best album.
Watching Murders In the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932) and marvelling at the cute little ape letterhead on the writing paper of Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), Dr. Mirakle who is abducting women and injecting them with ape blood in order to create a mate for his murderous sideshow ape. Pre Code, yes.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Watching Murders In the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932) and marvelling at the cute little ape letterhead on the writing paper of Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), Dr. Mirakle who is abducting women and injecting them with ape blood in order to create a mate for his murderous sideshow ape. Pre Code, yes.
Lots of work to do today. Luckily I’m doing it on the cross-country Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico ghost train from Los Mochis to Veracruz.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Lots of work to do today. Luckily I’m doing it on the cross-country Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico ghost train from Los Mochis to Veracruz.
This also has a falling leaves vibe as does a lot of Ka’s stuff.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This also has a falling leaves vibe as does a lot of Ka’s stuff.
I promise you, I was already sold on It: Welcome To Derry 🎈long before Taylour Paige showed up but her presence is most welcome.
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I promise you, I was already sold on It: Welcome To Derry 🎈long before Taylour Paige showed up but her presence is most welcome.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. I just wanted to post the cover of Pentastar.
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. I just wanted to post the cover of Pentastar.
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I got this at a knockdown price because somebody had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead but between you and me I bought it because someone had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead.
I got this at a knockdown price because somebody had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead but between you and me I bought it because someone had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#NowPlaying
I got this at a knockdown price because somebody had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead but between you and me I bought it because someone had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead.
I got this at a knockdown price because somebody had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead but between you and me I bought it because someone had written “yall” on Barbara Cheeseborough’s forehead.
He fucked around. He found out. Blocked.
November 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
He fucked around. He found out. Blocked.
Ha! I would also recommend these two as well. Less well known but just as wonderful.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ha! I would also recommend these two as well. Less well known but just as wonderful.
Pronounced "doubt that".
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Pronounced "doubt that".
#NowPlaying
A recent record, yet somehow also twenty years old.
A recent record, yet somehow also twenty years old.
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#NowPlaying
A recent record, yet somehow also twenty years old.
A recent record, yet somehow also twenty years old.
I have a low opinion of anyone who says "no offense but".
It's up there (down there) with "just sayin'".
File alongside: "Unsolicited advice on social media is always intended as criticism".
It's up there (down there) with "just sayin'".
File alongside: "Unsolicited advice on social media is always intended as criticism".
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I have a low opinion of anyone who says "no offense but".
It's up there (down there) with "just sayin'".
File alongside: "Unsolicited advice on social media is always intended as criticism".
It's up there (down there) with "just sayin'".
File alongside: "Unsolicited advice on social media is always intended as criticism".
Clip from the night. Full-on noise.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Clip from the night. Full-on noise.
By their morning post shall ye know them.
Thanks to @hellothisisivan.bsky.social for the Joan Fleming rec and to the amazing Sublime Frequencies label for this utterly deranged release.
Thanks to @hellothisisivan.bsky.social for the Joan Fleming rec and to the amazing Sublime Frequencies label for this utterly deranged release.
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
By their morning post shall ye know them.
Thanks to @hellothisisivan.bsky.social for the Joan Fleming rec and to the amazing Sublime Frequencies label for this utterly deranged release.
Thanks to @hellothisisivan.bsky.social for the Joan Fleming rec and to the amazing Sublime Frequencies label for this utterly deranged release.