J. Horton
@hortonj.bsky.social
Recovering Academic // PhD in Film Studies // Writing about movies and memory at materialghosts.substack.com // 🔴🟢🔵
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Muting Tom Brady, turning on the Philly police scanner
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Muting Tom Brady, turning on the Philly police scanner
Per the film review site Movieguide, M3GAN is an “anti-feminist,” conservative family film, while AMISTAD fails to account for the “extremism” and “fanaticism” of the abolitionist movement. Inside the logical contortions of one of the Right’s most insidious sites:
open.substack.com/pub/material...
open.substack.com/pub/material...
The Gospel According to Movieguide
Decoding the Bullshit of One of the Culture Wars' Most Insidious Operators
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February 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Per the film review site Movieguide, M3GAN is an “anti-feminist,” conservative family film, while AMISTAD fails to account for the “extremism” and “fanaticism” of the abolitionist movement. Inside the logical contortions of one of the Right’s most insidious sites:
open.substack.com/pub/material...
open.substack.com/pub/material...
I badly want see Guadagnino’s QUEER alongside Van Sant’s MALA NOCHE. Despite vastly different visual approaches, they feel of a feather. Picaresque queer love and longing.
December 15, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I badly want see Guadagnino’s QUEER alongside Van Sant’s MALA NOCHE. Despite vastly different visual approaches, they feel of a feather. Picaresque queer love and longing.
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Dads in Boston describing their gay children
December 5, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Dads in Boston describing their gay children
I spent some time with Clint Eastwood's THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES in an attempt to understand what made my late father love it so. New essay:
open.substack.com/pub/material...
open.substack.com/pub/material...
Repetition Compulsion: 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976)
Why was Clint Eastwood's revisionist western the only movie my late father would bother to re-watch?
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December 6, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I spent some time with Clint Eastwood's THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES in an attempt to understand what made my late father love it so. New essay:
open.substack.com/pub/material...
open.substack.com/pub/material...
Just learned of a one-night only, 35mm screening of Saló: The 120 Days of Sodom coincides with my birthday. I shall sneak in a piece of cake to celebrate.
December 5, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Just learned of a one-night only, 35mm screening of Saló: The 120 Days of Sodom coincides with my birthday. I shall sneak in a piece of cake to celebrate.
Not to yuck anybody’s yum, but I am baffled that people actually enjoy the Macy’s parade.
November 28, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Not to yuck anybody’s yum, but I am baffled that people actually enjoy the Macy’s parade.
A single shot, four minutes in length, transforms THE SPECTACULAR NOW (Ponsoldt, 2013) from a very good teen romance into a great one.
My new essay:
open.substack.com/pub/material...
My new essay:
open.substack.com/pub/material...
One Perfect Scene: The Spectacular Now (2013)
It's one thing to describe being drunk and in love. It's quite another to make the viewer feel it.
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November 22, 2024 at 10:04 PM
A single shot, four minutes in length, transforms THE SPECTACULAR NOW (Ponsoldt, 2013) from a very good teen romance into a great one.
My new essay:
open.substack.com/pub/material...
My new essay:
open.substack.com/pub/material...
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This man's jersey is going into the divorce court rafters
@davidjroth.bsky.social CYBERTRUCK AT HOOTERS!
CYBERTRUCK AT HOOTERS!
CYBERTRUCK AT HOOTERS!
November 18, 2024 at 8:55 PM
This man's jersey is going into the divorce court rafters
The cybertruck is like an Affliction tee for tech bros.
November 16, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The cybertruck is like an Affliction tee for tech bros.
Re-watched the episode of The Bear where the pastry chef stages in Amsterdam. It feels like the show cracked its knuckles and showed a gear I didn’t know it had. Lovely stuff.
July 8, 2023 at 12:49 AM
Re-watched the episode of The Bear where the pastry chef stages in Amsterdam. It feels like the show cracked its knuckles and showed a gear I didn’t know it had. Lovely stuff.