sam moore
@sam-moore94.bsky.social
writer, artist, editor, “too niche.” (They/them)
Books: All my teachers died of AIDS; Long live the new flesh; Search history
Bylines etc: https://linktr.ee/Sam.Moore94
commission me: sam.moore@hotmail.co.uk
Books: All my teachers died of AIDS; Long live the new flesh; Search history
Bylines etc: https://linktr.ee/Sam.Moore94
commission me: sam.moore@hotmail.co.uk
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sam moore
@sam-moore94.bsky.social
· Jan 9
It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu
This absolute beauty from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social arrived today. Thrilled to have contributed an essay on the ghosts of ‘Elevated Horror’, and West’s desire to make something new from its remnants
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This absolute beauty from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social arrived today. Thrilled to have contributed an essay on the ghosts of ‘Elevated Horror’, and West’s desire to make something new from its remnants
Had a lot of fun writing about Chainsaw Man: The Movie for @gamesradarplus.bsky.social: www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc review "Storytelling just as compelling as the chainsaws, devils, and visually excessive fight scenes"
The latest Review,,,reviews, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at GamesRadar+
www.gamesradar.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Had a lot of fun writing about Chainsaw Man: The Movie for @gamesradarplus.bsky.social: www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...
Back in the Substack salt mines, deleting the old newsletter in the hope of making something readable from the ashes! Named for a symbol in Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, Heyiya-If (and other possibilities), will be a place for slower criticism: heyiyaif.substack.com/p/heyiya-if-...
Heyiya-If and other possibilities
What to expect from another newsletter
heyiyaif.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Back in the Substack salt mines, deleting the old newsletter in the hope of making something readable from the ashes! Named for a symbol in Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, Heyiya-If (and other possibilities), will be a place for slower criticism: heyiyaif.substack.com/p/heyiya-if-...
Not to be hyperbolic and extra, but Vulture's placement of 'The Outing' in their ranking of Seinfeld episodes in one of the worst takes I've ever read, so here's my essay about why it's great and Seinfeld is a messy queer masterpiece: www.intomore.com/entertainmen...
Everyone in "Seinfeld" is Queer, Actually - INTO
How gay was Seinfeld, actually?
www.intomore.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Not to be hyperbolic and extra, but Vulture's placement of 'The Outing' in their ranking of Seinfeld episodes in one of the worst takes I've ever read, so here's my essay about why it's great and Seinfeld is a messy queer masterpiece: www.intomore.com/entertainmen...
Very grateful to have been able to write a small introductory guide to the work of Edmund White for @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
“The Patron Saint of Queer Literature”: How to Get Into Edmund White
Following his death earlier this month, we offer a five-point guide to the American writer’s life and work, from The Joy of Gay Sex to his biographies of Proust and Genet
www.anothermag.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Very grateful to have been able to write a small introductory guide to the work of Edmund White for @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
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Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'The Rise of the Anonymous Critic' by @sam-moore94.bsky.social for Frieze. How writing negative reviews under a pseudonym can free criticism from the social constraints of the art world—and the importance of avoiding the tasteless writing it can inspire.
The Rise of the Anonymous Critic
As secret voices on platforms such as spittle and Hollywood Superstar Review shake up cyberspace, Sam Moore examines the rewards and risks of masked critique
www.frieze.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'The Rise of the Anonymous Critic' by @sam-moore94.bsky.social for Frieze. How writing negative reviews under a pseudonym can free criticism from the social constraints of the art world—and the importance of avoiding the tasteless writing it can inspire.
Back at @lwlies.com (and back to promoting work) with an essay on political violence, Salo, and more: lwlies.com/articles/fas...
Spectacles of suffering and fascism in cinema
Across the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guillermo del Toro and Brady Corbet, the evils of fascism come to light in horrifying detail.
lwlies.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Back at @lwlies.com (and back to promoting work) with an essay on political violence, Salo, and more: lwlies.com/articles/fas...
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White cube/black box: sculptural light from Germaine Kruip & Anthony McCall
@sam-moore94.bsky.social sees the light at The Approach & Tate Modern galleries.
recessed.space/00255-Germai...
@sam-moore94.bsky.social sees the light at The Approach & Tate Modern galleries.
recessed.space/00255-Germai...
00255 - Germaine Kruip and Anthony McCall — recessed.space
White cube/black box: sculptural light from Germaine Kruip & Anthony McCall Two exhibitions in London use...
recessed.space
March 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
White cube/black box: sculptural light from Germaine Kruip & Anthony McCall
@sam-moore94.bsky.social sees the light at The Approach & Tate Modern galleries.
recessed.space/00255-Germai...
@sam-moore94.bsky.social sees the light at The Approach & Tate Modern galleries.
recessed.space/00255-Germai...
Very glad to have been able to contribute my top ten film of last year to @cinemayearzero.bsky.social! My ballot (and all the others, from some of my fav writers on film), is here: www.cinemayearzero.com/p/2024-poll-...
2024 Poll: The Ballots
Raw data for raw cinephiles
www.cinemayearzero.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Very glad to have been able to contribute my top ten film of last year to @cinemayearzero.bsky.social! My ballot (and all the others, from some of my fav writers on film), is here: www.cinemayearzero.com/p/2024-poll-...
Of course a week after I write this, Cena does a heel turn…
Got to write about one of my favourite things for @lwlies.com : WWE and its curious place in the Netflix stable! Thanks, as ever, to @hannahstrong.co.uk for letting me dive into this: lwlies.com/articles/wwe...
Has WWE become another cog in the Netflix machine?
As WWE enters its Netflix Era, there's an awful lot of "brand synergy" – and it's becoming a distraction.
lwlies.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Of course a week after I write this, Cena does a heel turn…
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“i’ve had a rough year, dad”
“i know you have, chassie”
always stays with me. how fragile their voices sound. the question of whether it’s not too late to at least try. a very, very important movie to me
“i know you have, chassie”
always stays with me. how fragile their voices sound. the question of whether it’s not too late to at least try. a very, very important movie to me
February 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“i’ve had a rough year, dad”
“i know you have, chassie”
always stays with me. how fragile their voices sound. the question of whether it’s not too late to at least try. a very, very important movie to me
“i know you have, chassie”
always stays with me. how fragile their voices sound. the question of whether it’s not too late to at least try. a very, very important movie to me
Friends fear she has another idea for a niche film newsletter
February 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Friends fear she has another idea for a niche film newsletter
Screenslate but for London send Tweet (I don't know what these things are called)
January 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Screenslate but for London send Tweet (I don't know what these things are called)
I just know I’m gonna be one of those people that writes a piece on substack about their relationship to Lynch’s work
January 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I just know I’m gonna be one of those people that writes a piece on substack about their relationship to Lynch’s work
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this has always been my favorite picture set of david lynch
January 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
this has always been my favorite picture set of david lynch
The best to ever do it. I vividly remember the joy, shock and singularity of watching Twin Peaks with Joe and dad; seeing Mulholland Drive in Oxford and understanding it’s the best film I’ve ever seen; being terrified by Inland Empire; moved by Sandy’s dream in Blue Velvet. “Fix your hearts or die.”
January 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The best to ever do it. I vividly remember the joy, shock and singularity of watching Twin Peaks with Joe and dad; seeing Mulholland Drive in Oxford and understanding it’s the best film I’ve ever seen; being terrified by Inland Empire; moved by Sandy’s dream in Blue Velvet. “Fix your hearts or die.”
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It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu
January 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu
It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu
January 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It’s a new year which means I’m obliged to ply my wares! I write about and teach around art, culture, history, identity, and their intersections. I’ve written for places like Frieze, The Guardian, Little White Lies, and more. I’m always looking to write for new places, so hmu
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happy belated, duane. you would have been 60 yesterday.
December 21, 2024 at 5:15 PM
happy belated, duane. you would have been 60 yesterday.
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I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024)
December 21, 2024 at 2:11 AM
I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024)
This is one of my favourite things I wrote all year and it remains deeply surreal and special that I got to be involved writing about one of my favourite movies with so many of my favourite writers
December 21, 2024 at 12:48 AM
This is one of my favourite things I wrote all year and it remains deeply surreal and special that I got to be involved writing about one of my favourite movies with so many of my favourite writers
Refusal to play healers in hero shooters is a microcosm of a society made selfish by capitalism and neoliberalism, in this essay I will…
December 7, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Refusal to play healers in hero shooters is a microcosm of a society made selfish by capitalism and neoliberalism, in this essay I will…
Hershey’s at the forefront of Big IP film adaptations with Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
December 4, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Hershey’s at the forefront of Big IP film adaptations with Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
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