Ed Smith

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Our current issue continues with @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social on Baby Steps, in two parts. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/02/11/m...

I wrote about men, women and videogame conventions in Baby Steps. I hope you enjoy reading this.

Now, here was a man's man.

@skacky.bsky.social Hi, Roman. My name is Ed Smith, I'm the features editor at Edge magazine. I'd like to speak with you about something I'm working on, connected to The Black Parade. Could you DM me here, or email me on ed dot smith at futurenet dot com?

Thanks!

I'd like a version of this with my own name. I feel like I could be in the Smith Syndicate.

Lars Von Triage

He is not one

She is one today.

YouTube video by Battlefield Battlefield 6 Season 2 Intro Cinematic

Here's your first peek at Season 2 for Battlefield 6. See you again on Feb 12th, when our gameplay trailer drops :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Ih...

Despelote (2025) developed (primarily) by Julián Cordero and Sebastián Valbuena (and many others) spoilers for Despelote Everyone is taller than you. Inanimate objects obtain movement when you touch them. Posters w...

I really loved Despelote
breakingarrows.ghost.io/despelote-20...

One of the good games.

This film Aftersun has hit me like a bullet. I wrote a very short response to it on Letterboxd but then deleted it out of embarrassment (too much -me- in there). But I don't think I've had such an intense reaction to anything else I've seen or read in my entire life.

A ★ review of Die My Love (2025) Waste My Time

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I remember at school they taught you how important it is to vote and respect the people in charge

A classic tweet from @kennykeil [Bluto subtweeting after getting his ass whooped] I don't know who needs to hear this but spinach isn't a personality

🤌🏻but of course

Just played Many Nights A Whisper for the first time.

Wrote about Baby Steps, The Body, The Mirror:

We're starting up a new issue today, beginning with @youmeyou.bsky.social on Baby Steps. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/02/04/m...

It's new issue day here at Bullet Points.

Everyone remembers where they were when Fred was shot

I drank a lot, smoked rolled up cigarettes and constantly used the word 'retrograde'. I had a show on campus radio, wrote game reviews for the university paper and didn't come within 200 miles of having sex for the entire three years.

Narrativist principles of pre code Hollywood cinema

Psychoanalysis in Spanish surrealism

Sociology and postmodernity in the films of Douglas Sirk

Classical romance and pre and post war European identity in the work of Max Ophuls and Jean Renoir

Pedro Almodovar, eroticism, queerness and sexuality

the substacker claiming to vindicate Neil Gaiman begins their report with a long diatribe against social media invective which is traditionally how all good investigative reporting starts