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A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …
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Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …
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Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Michael Koresky launches A Few Great Pumpkins XX: “This is dark, silly, but also genuinely nasty stuff, and, while keeping its horrific violence off-screen, THE BAD SEED gets under the skin in ways unlike any other movie.”
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A Few Great Pumpkins XX
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October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Michael Koresky launches A Few Great Pumpkins XX: “This is dark, silly, but also genuinely nasty stuff, and, while keeping its horrific violence off-screen, THE BAD SEED gets under the skin in ways unlike any other movie.”
@reverseshot.bsky.social — reverseshot.org/archive/entr...
@reverseshot.bsky.social — reverseshot.org/archive/entr...
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The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
Geeta Gandbhir
Once we committed to the body camera footage, we were determined to live in it. We wanted to build and recreate the world that this community existed in, which you couldn't do otherwise. So, it was ch...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.
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happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...
All the Predators
Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscape�and beyond.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...
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All five essays of the Reverse Shot mini-symposium on Hideo Kojima, his career, and his themes, have officially made it up. I encourage you to read through them if you ever want a journey through his work told by five unique writers.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
All five essays of the Reverse Shot mini-symposium on Hideo Kojima, his career, and his themes, have officially made it up. I encourage you to read through them if you ever want a journey through his work told by five unique writers.
reverseshot.org/series/12/to...
reverseshot.org/series/12/to...
Adored Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, playing this week at NYFF and releasing soon. The film uses the breakdown of Rodgers and Hart's creative partnership to tease out age-old paradoxes between art and commerce, hope and despair, commitment and compromise. My review:
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October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Adored Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, playing this week at NYFF and releasing soon. The film uses the breakdown of Rodgers and Hart's creative partnership to tease out age-old paradoxes between art and commerce, hope and despair, commitment and compromise. My review:
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We're in the thick of our ongoing coverage of NYFF 2025. Check out our in-depth reviews with more titles added daily.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We're in the thick of our ongoing coverage of NYFF 2025. Check out our in-depth reviews with more titles added daily.
reverseshot.org/reviews
reverseshot.org/reviews
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...
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September 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
The exquisite, deeply moving SUNSET SONG today at 4 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image with star Agyness Deyn in person!
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
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This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
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September 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The exquisite, deeply moving SUNSET SONG today at 4 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image with star Agyness Deyn in person!
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
movingimage.org/event/sunset...
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
movingimage.org/event/sunset...
Day 3 of MoMI's Terence Davies series features a triple dose of sublime cinema: his sole documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY, Gena Rowlands in THE NEON BIBLE (in 16mm, with costar Jacob Tierney in person), and Davies's devastating final film, BENEDICTION.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Day 3 of MoMI's Terence Davies series features a triple dose of sublime cinema: his sole documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY, Gena Rowlands in THE NEON BIBLE (in 16mm, with costar Jacob Tierney in person), and Davies's devastating final film, BENEDICTION.
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
If you don't know THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY—his first 3 shorts—then you don't know Terence Davies. Some of the most indelible images you'll ever see.
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
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Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
movingimage.org/event/the-te...
September 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If you don't know THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY—his first 3 shorts—then you don't know Terence Davies. Some of the most indelible images you'll ever see.
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
movingimage.org/event/the-te...
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
movingimage.org/event/the-te...
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We're talking ROPE tomorrow with Michael Koresky on our first ever Hitchcock pod! Michael wrote about the film extensively in his latest book—Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness—which you really REALLY should get your hands on soon
Sick and Dirty
A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood P…
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September 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
We're talking ROPE tomorrow with Michael Koresky on our first ever Hitchcock pod! Michael wrote about the film extensively in his latest book—Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness—which you really REALLY should get your hands on soon
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BOYS GO TO JUPITER, with its timelessly melancholic portrait of youth situated in a ravaged economy, is one of my fave films of the year. I talked to Julian Glander about how Blender changed his life, eggs, and being on Jeopardy! for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...
Julian Glander (Boys Go to Jupiter)
One takeaway I hope people get from the movie is that through all of this rot and through everything, there are things that are worth paying attention to, and they're happening all around you. And I t...
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August 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
BOYS GO TO JUPITER, with its timelessly melancholic portrait of youth situated in a ravaged economy, is one of my fave films of the year. I talked to Julian Glander about how Blender changed his life, eggs, and being on Jeopardy! for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...
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if you have not seen the House of Mirth, then you haven't seen one of the best movies of the last 25 years
Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
August 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
if you have not seen the House of Mirth, then you haven't seen one of the best movies of the last 25 years
Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
August 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
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I wrote about the classic queer film TAXI ZUM KLO for Reverse Shot ( @reverseshot.bsky.social ). It's currently playing at The Metrograph in NYC and you should definitely go watch it if you can.
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Taxi zum Klo
This column focuses on the dynamic or below-the-surface nature of queer representation in international cinema.
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August 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wrote about the classic queer film TAXI ZUM KLO for Reverse Shot ( @reverseshot.bsky.social ). It's currently playing at The Metrograph in NYC and you should definitely go watch it if you can.
reverseshot.org/features/334...
reverseshot.org/features/334...
Come to Museum of the Moving Image in September to celebrate one of the greatest artists the cinema has ever known. Announcing the complete retrospective Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past – Museum of the Moving Image
Join us in celebrating the life and career of Terence Davies with this complete retrospective, the first in the U.S. since his death. From the unfathomably moving, aesthetically revelatory autobiograp...
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August 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Come to Museum of the Moving Image in September to celebrate one of the greatest artists the cinema has ever known. Announcing the complete retrospective Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past:
movingimage.org/series/teren...
movingimage.org/series/teren...
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For @reverseshot.bsky.social I talked about alienation, sigma cinema, and the master Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie Cloud reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
Cloud
Like Pulse, the conceit imagines a nightmare scenario in which an aspect of technologically modulated human interaction breaches the borders of reality�here, online harassment.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For @reverseshot.bsky.social I talked about alienation, sigma cinema, and the master Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie Cloud reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
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I’ve been an avid reader of Reverse Shot and its marvellous coterie of writers for years, so it’s a honest thrill to make my debut there, on Ari Aster’s prickly, perverse, brilliant EDDINGTON. (Thank you to Michael Koresky for being a dream editor.)
Pleased to have the estimable @guylodge.bsky.social on Ari Aster's savage and brilliant doomscroll western EDDINGTON:
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July 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve been an avid reader of Reverse Shot and its marvellous coterie of writers for years, so it’s a honest thrill to make my debut there, on Ari Aster’s prickly, perverse, brilliant EDDINGTON. (Thank you to Michael Koresky for being a dream editor.)
Pleased to have the estimable @guylodge.bsky.social on Ari Aster's savage and brilliant doomscroll western EDDINGTON:
reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Pleased to have the estimable @guylodge.bsky.social on Ari Aster's savage and brilliant doomscroll western EDDINGTON:
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Great talking to Nic!
Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Michael Koresky on Hollywood's queer history defector.com/two-steps-fo...
Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Michael Koresky On Hollywood’s Queer History | Defector
The history of mainstream filmmaking is prone to whiggish readings. The story is that Hollywood, an industry of entertainment and representation, has moved forward in a pleasing, gradually…
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July 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Great talking to Nic!
Tonight!
Patiently waiting for Monday's screening of SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER featuring post-screening book signing and Q&A with Michael Koresky, moderated by film critic Melissa Anderson.
Nominated for three Oscars. Arguably the best Tennessee Williams adaptation!
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Nominated for three Oscars. Arguably the best Tennessee Williams adaptation!
www.ifccenter.com/films/sudden...
June 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Tonight!
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At Crooked Marquee this week I wrote about Michael Koresky's fantastic new book SICK AND DIRTY: HOLLYWOOD'S GAY GOLDEN AGE AND THE MAKING OF MODERN QUEERNESS. This is what great critical writing is all about. (Not mine, his.)
Subtext and Text: On Michael Koresky’s Sick and Dirty — Crooked Marquee
Michael Koresky’s new book chronicles how queernness slipped through the cracks of the Production Code.
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June 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
At Crooked Marquee this week I wrote about Michael Koresky's fantastic new book SICK AND DIRTY: HOLLYWOOD'S GAY GOLDEN AGE AND THE MAKING OF MODERN QUEERNESS. This is what great critical writing is all about. (Not mine, his.)
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📅 Tues. 6/10 @ 7PM: We are exicted to welcome Michael Koresky in store for a discussion of his new book "Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness". He will be joined in conversation by arts journalist Loren King. Learn more: buff.ly/ptCRQG9
June 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📅 Tues. 6/10 @ 7PM: We are exicted to welcome Michael Koresky in store for a discussion of his new book "Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness". He will be joined in conversation by arts journalist Loren King. Learn more: buff.ly/ptCRQG9
Publication day!
After many years in the making, I'm very excited to share the news that my book "SICK AND DIRTY: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness" is coming from @BloomsburyPub in June. You can preorder now! geni.us/sickanddirty
June 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Publication day!