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ptklein
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Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures at U Michigan. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, in Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
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Live look at me getting ready to discuss Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema today
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Good morning, don’t forget to bring the kenergy today!

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Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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If you need me I’ll be here
A still from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956). Four men sit at an outdoor hot dog counter called The Hot Dog Show, lit up against the black night by a neon sign in the shape of a wiener dog advertising “charcoal broiled” delights.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Not me in the front row like
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Bluesky this morning:
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Good morning

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“The Restless Consumer” Neil Young
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Watched a reel about mortadella and now I can’t stop thinking about mortadella
A sobbing little girl from the “why can’t I stop dreaming about waffles” meme with the doctored caption “Crying about [mortadella] intensifies.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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If you’re just waking up from a late night double feature, don’t miss me in @metroweekly.bsky.social talking about the supreme midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and fifty years of absolute pleasure and queer liberation.

🫦: online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...
Screen grab of the first page of PT’s article “Let There Be Lips: Fifty Years of Absolute Pleasure and Queer Liberation at The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in Metro Weekly magazine.
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Another season come and gone ⚾️

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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
November 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Okay but hear me out
A still from One Battle After Another (PTA, 2025). A wide shot of Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) raising a fist in revolutionary solidarity.
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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As an American citizen I demand to know what time it is!
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Tonight, on the big screen:
Poster for The Phantom of the Opera (1925, Rupert Julien)
November 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Not Maria 😭
A portrait of Maria Callas
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Good morning (ominous)
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I like to think so! Plus we have spooky music and sound effects playing all night.
PT’s porch decked up for Halloween, with a spooky swaying spectre and jack-o-lanterns. The ghost glow green, and the windows on the first and second stories of the house are lit up in various orange, red, green, and purple hues.
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Your dads hope you’re having the happiest Halloween!
PT, G, and Woody the fog on a spooky porch passing out candy for Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Happy Halloween 🎃 Here is an objectively correct ranking of the Halloween movies:
A ranking of Halloween movies: 1. Halloween (1978) 2. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later 3. Halloween Ends 4. Halloween (2018) 5. Halloween II 6. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 7. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers 8. Halloween III: Season of the Witch 9. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 10. Halloween Kills 11. Halloween: Resurrection 12. Halloween (2007) 13. Halloween II (2009)
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Happy Halloween!! 🎃💀🧙

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, Tommy Lee Wallace)
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Hard to compete with Dracula. The use of mattes and light, especially, remain remarkable.

Consider how the matte in Dracula’s castle doubles its height and extends its depth, or the way that light catches swirling fog to frame a signpost in silhouette as a cross.
A still from Dracula (1931, Tod Browning). A matte painting of the jagged, craggy peaks of Borgo Pass dominate a live action carriage on a winding road at the bottom of the frame. A still from Dracula (1931, Tod Browning). Heavy fog enveloped a carriage, its headlights and team of horses hardly visible in its billowing depths. A signpost stands in silhouette, taking on the image of a cross. A still from Dracula (1931, Tod Browning). A close-up of a mysterious carriage driver (Bela Lugosi), shrouded in a heavy shawl and brimmed hat. Against the heavy shadows on his face, lights catch his vibrant, mesmerizing eyes. A still from Dracula (1931, Tod Browning). A wide shot of Dracula’s ruinous castle. Matte work extends the gothic arches and windows to soaring heights, and create massive cobwebs against a grand staircase.
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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They come a little later when Renfield arrives at the castle!
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Good morning ⚰️

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Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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A film still from Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, Tommy Lee Wallace). A kid in a melting pumpkin mask clutches his head in agony as he is transmogrified into a goopy pile of meat, bones, bugs, and snakes.
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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A memeified still from Scary Movie 2. Chased by a skeleton, Brenda (Regina Hall) admonishes Cindy (Anna Faris), saying, “This is a skeleton! This is [a twink]!”
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The uncanny visage of the Lisa Rinna M&M with a speech bubble.
October 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM