Alex Svensson

A ★★½ review of V/H/S/HALLOWEEN (2025) Some stray thoughts: - Not quite clear on the gushing reviews for this one; nowhere near as fun, ghoulish, or formally inventive as previous entries (and something like V/H/S/99 felt in spots more lik...

Watched late last night - can’t say I was a fan! (and I overall very much enjoy the series and actually think the last few entries have been highlights)

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I can see how it’s tempting to sign an agreement to preserve an institution of higher ed, if you’re the one in charge. The problem is, once you sign that agreement, it’s no longer meaningfully a university. It’s a shell: a wood-paneled carapace protecting a rotten core.

Listened earlier this morning, and its the perfect soundtrack for obsessing over people from high school and getting poisoned by AI trad wife content on Facebook while in line at a Starbucks inside a Target

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

War zone indeed; who can forget the battle to retake control of Marg Tower?

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Quote from T2 - Sarah Connor: [voiceover] Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.

Also, PTA’s interest in exploring (and interrogating) fathers / father figures now has me thinking of this quote from Terminator 2

Currently rewatching Terminator 2 for the millionth time (never a bad time to do so) after reading @brofromanother.bsky.social sharp, insightful review of One Battle After Another.

Sean Pean as Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Nice

TeamSESH w/ HNRK 28th August 2025 Playing Experimental, Grime, Club. The monthly TeamSesh NTS Radio broadcast - Once again with a takeover curated by hnrk: Featuring a blend of a multitude of genres including new musical discoveries a...

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A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025) Had the pleasure of seeing this in VistaVision at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA.  I’ve always loved the way PTA and his creative collaborators craft motion pictures that move - films th...

Some immediate thoughts sketched out briefly here: boxd.it/bbsulr

Lobby promotion for One Battle After Another at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (Brookline, MA)

Yesterday’s cinema experience; seen in glorious VistaVision at @thecoolidge.bsky.social (one of only 4 locations selected to screen the film this way!) - the print/projection looked stunning, and the film was one I immediately wanted to revisit.

Perfect viewing for the season

Love this list (and even if it goes beyond the context of the book, the influence is felt - Joan was my PhD advisor & dissertation committee chair, & my tastes / ways of viewing horror, the screen & the world have been profoundly shaped by her).

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Promotional poster for the Boston Film Festival featuring a statue in a park setting with blooming trees and green grass, with event details including the sponsor Kanopy and date on September 21st.

Boston! We’ll be in town Friday, September 19 – Sunday, September 22 for the Boston Film Festival.

#Emerson students and faculty — swing by the library on Friday, 12–4 PM for live screen printing and a free shirt.

Come hang out, say hi, and catch us at the screenings. See you soon!

A vintage advertisement for SHOCK THEATER starring Ghoulardi. The print image features Ernie Anderson as Ghoulardi, sporting a dramatic goatee and lit by creepy lighting. Ghoulardi clutches a skull in his hand. The print on the ad reads: SHOCK THEATER - 11:20PM FRIDAY 8 WJWTV

With his new movie upon us, it's a great time to remind you that Paul Thomas Anderson's production company is named for Ghoulardi, a horror host portrayed by PTA's own father, Ernie Anderson. Ghoulardi's Shock Theater was a staple of Cleveland television and a foundational creature feature program.

Fascinated by this new series and excited to read this

good thread

I’m happy to try, feel free to msg me

Everyone is hungry to hear his take on the male loneliness discourse in-between AI-generated ads for hallucinated meal kits and email services

Dreaming of a world where none of the (involuntary retch) content I consume requires any human creative input at all!

DVD cover of American Pie: Girls’ Rules

I feel this has the same vibe / graphics as, like, a DTV American Pie sequel or similar comedy franchise bargain bin spinoff (though there is indeed something more “cursed” about this ad…)

THE TOXIC AVENGER To Mop Up Medical Debt With Non-Profit Partnership Macon Blair’s THE TOXIC AVENGER is set to mop up at least $5 million in crushing medical costs thanks to an inspiring new partnership between Cineverse and national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt.

Macon Blair’s THE TOXIC AVENGER is set to mop up at least $5 million in crushing medical costs thanks to an inspiring new partnership between Cineverse and national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt.

Site that seduces you into the Druid cult supposedly responsible for The Shape’s drive to kill on the night of Samhain? You mean Thornhub.

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

YouTube video by Dark Sky Films Texas Chain Saw Day | August 18 | Get Tickets Now

18 August is TEXAS CHAIN SAW day! Please act accordingly.

And if you haven't seen Alexandre O Philippe's doc Chain Reactions yet, watch this trailer to the end for a sneak peek of your girl right here in full fangirl flight!

Image of a moving truck labelled “Chucky Moving & Storage Company” (with a cartoon image of the slasher horror icon next to moving boxes) driving around Allston, MA

Seen driving around Allston; surely this has to be a trap…🔪

They’d take the “darkness” in the title too literally, making it impossible to see a damn thing on screen

YouTube video by Cass McCombs Cass McCombs - Van Wyck Expressway (Official Audio)

saturday morning sounds

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