Alex Long
@historybuff381.bsky.social
Latin/Greek Teacher; Languages; Early Church, LXX nerd; Cappadocians Stan Account. 4w5 “Hot toddy, brainly speaking”
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'Hail, Caesar!' cultural/critical reevaluation time
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
'Hail, Caesar!' cultural/critical reevaluation time
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and you can have it all, my empire of dirt / i will let you down, in
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
and you can have it all, my empire of dirt / i will let you down, in
Rustic Caps for me, I’m an early Medieval guy really
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Rustic Caps for me, I’m an early Medieval guy really
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Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.
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ok this cheered me up
November 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
ok this cheered me up
This was a discovery for me too this year! So good! Great Oscar-nominated performance by Fredric March, fantastic cinematography and effects (for the time of course)!
Crossed the ‘31 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde off my Halloween list tonight. Damn, this was so immaculately shot and directed. Those transformations! That first-person opening! What a film.
a black and white photo of a man with the word veed behind him
ALT: a black and white photo of a man with the word veed behind him
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October 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This was a discovery for me too this year! So good! Great Oscar-nominated performance by Fredric March, fantastic cinematography and effects (for the time of course)!
GODZILLA (1954) and THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) would make a really interesting double feature showcasing the mounting fears of the first decade after the nuclear Pandora’s Box was opened. Makes lizards big and men tiny!
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
GODZILLA (1954) and THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) would make a really interesting double feature showcasing the mounting fears of the first decade after the nuclear Pandora’s Box was opened. Makes lizards big and men tiny!
Looking forward to watching Joan Crawford girlbossing in MILDRED PIERCE this Noirvember! 📽️
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Looking forward to watching Joan Crawford girlbossing in MILDRED PIERCE this Noirvember! 📽️
Watching the 2007 Beowulf, Polar Express meets Game of Thrones in an unholy and misguided union, and I can’t help but think of this when Beowulf constantly raises his arms and shouts “Beowulf!”:
October 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Watching the 2007 Beowulf, Polar Express meets Game of Thrones in an unholy and misguided union, and I can’t help but think of this when Beowulf constantly raises his arms and shouts “Beowulf!”:
NW: OUT OF THE PAST (1947), and it’s a little disorienting to see a young Kirk Douglas & a young Robert Mitchum, who I have historically confused, Old Hollywood’s two most famous cleft chins!
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NW: OUT OF THE PAST (1947), and it’s a little disorienting to see a young Kirk Douglas & a young Robert Mitchum, who I have historically confused, Old Hollywood’s two most famous cleft chins!
Just watched A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, the new Kathryn Bigelow movie, and am very conflicted. On the one hand, it’s well made, well scored, highly entertaining filmmaking. On the other, it’s clearly trying to say something, but the clear analog for this movie is Sidney Lumet’s FAIL SAFE (1964), 1/x
October 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Just watched A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, the new Kathryn Bigelow movie, and am very conflicted. On the one hand, it’s well made, well scored, highly entertaining filmmaking. On the other, it’s clearly trying to say something, but the clear analog for this movie is Sidney Lumet’s FAIL SAFE (1964), 1/x
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Perhaps the first use of “I can’t function until I’ve had my coffee”, in my unscientific experience! 📽️
October 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Perhaps the first use of “I can’t function until I’ve had my coffee”, in my unscientific experience! 📽️
Now watching the Shape of Water prequel: Creature from the Black Lagoon! 📽️
October 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Now watching the Shape of Water prequel: Creature from the Black Lagoon! 📽️
Funniest line in the OG Mummy!
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Funniest line in the OG Mummy!
Crazy how they called their shot right at the very beginning! 📽️
October 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Crazy how they called their shot right at the very beginning! 📽️
Seeing One Battle After Another on Saturday!
a cartoon of spongebob wearing a captain hat
Alt: a cartoon of spongebob wearing a captain hat, biting his bottom lip in anticipation
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September 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Seeing One Battle After Another on Saturday!
Watching the horror movie about the writer having a bad time in a remote wintry location…no not that one, the other one!
September 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Watching the horror movie about the writer having a bad time in a remote wintry location…no not that one, the other one!
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thanks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for introducing me to this movie poster, featuring a tagline that made me hyperventilate with laughter
September 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
thanks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for introducing me to this movie poster, featuring a tagline that made me hyperventilate with laughter
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I have to say I’m not really interested in most J-Horror remakes from the 2000s, but currently watching The Ring remake, and it really does feel like a J-Horror Lite (coloring, etc.), which is not nothing (distinct Fincher vibes too) 📽️
August 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I have to say I’m not really interested in most J-Horror remakes from the 2000s, but currently watching The Ring remake, and it really does feel like a J-Horror Lite (coloring, etc.), which is not nothing (distinct Fincher vibes too) 📽️
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what folks get wrong about lynch is they think he was trying to expose nice, normal communities as hotbeds of darkness and violence, but that's not it. he tried to figure out how nice, normal communities can co-exist alongside hotbeds of darkness and violence. I think it genuinely mystified him.
August 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
what folks get wrong about lynch is they think he was trying to expose nice, normal communities as hotbeds of darkness and violence, but that's not it. he tried to figure out how nice, normal communities can co-exist alongside hotbeds of darkness and violence. I think it genuinely mystified him.
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a lot of filmmakers believe in evil but Lynch was the rare one who genuinely believed in good
August 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
a lot of filmmakers believe in evil but Lynch was the rare one who genuinely believed in good
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is that what i think it is
August 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
is that what i think it is