I wrote about Lav Diaz’s Magellan, Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires, and the liberatory potential of reimagined or alternative pasts. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/empires-of...
I wrote about Lav Diaz’s Magellan, Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires, and the liberatory potential of reimagined or alternative pasts. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/empires-of...
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
Favorite first watches, February 2026:
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
To Live And Die In LA (1985)
No Name On The Bullet (1959)
Vampire Circus (1972)
Brother From Another Planet (1984)
In the first episode of our heist mini-series One Last Score, we were joined by writer @petreraleigh.bsky.social to discuss the 1973 conman classic, The Sting: open.spotify.com/episode/3vK9...
Had a great time talking with the fellas about a longtime favorite of mine - tap in!
Ooh you know I don't! I have been eyeing that Warlock movie for a while but haven't actually pulled the trigger yet
with talk of public funding for a new bears stadium yet again ramping up in springfield, perhaps it’s a good time to revisit this piece from @joeengleman.bsky.social that explores who actually benefits from publicly funded stadium projects (hint: it’s not us!).
I had a project once where I had to look up all of a seventeenth-century writer's sources and it was kind of striking how challenging it was from my subject position; his "bibliography" was just single names that any contemporary intellectual would know, but this did not always help me lol
His family name is Tullius - full name Marcus Tullius Cicero - and the English practice is to knock the -us off the end of a Latin name and pretend you've translated it (e.g. Marcus Antonius becomes Marc Antony)
Periodically you read a text from early modern England which references various classical authorities and you get a reminder that they used to call Cicero "Tully"
Just make somebody screen it on a print and this joke will land like gangbusters
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You will believe a vampire can circus
Very sorry to hear this Alex
Lmfao
Lmao
God damn it!
We are completely cooked
You're probably right. At the same time, have you considered that I HATE job applications
They're calling it the most maximized career prime in world history
They'll get some bright young up and comer...they'll anoint the next generation...
I like to think I've topped that one in the years since...
You're too kind. I will accept any sinecures you've got going
Not what you want
I’ve got an essay in the @imprintfilms.bsky.social super deluxe release of John Woo’s The Killer
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inRO's third IFFRR dispatch has got two reviews by me, on the Vietnamese films Tunnels: Sun in the Dark, a war film from the Viet Cong perspective, and Fish Fists and Ambergris, a very fun and old school martial arts comedy.
inreviewonline.com/2026/02/05/i...
Appreciate a film for what it is and what it's trying to achieve — that's what Ebert's writing taught me. I'm so pleased to share that STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH has been excerpted at @ebertvoices.bsky.social. Get a taste of how we've analyzed and appreciated Steve Jobs (2015), one piece at a time:
They are genuinely trying to bankrupt me
