Category Archives: film

Fulci the Psychic

Posted on May 21, 2026 by Reverend

I’m not sure you know this or not, dear reader, but I almost died. A couple of weeks ago I nearly slid of a cliff on the coast of Oregon to my untimely demise. It was A LOT! In fact, … Continue reading →

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Roemer Film Festival Proposal

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Reverend

My friend Andrea asked if I would be up for proposing a mini film festival for a local film culture society here in Trento. Ever since I’ve been chatting film on the regular with MBS as part of the Family … Continue reading →

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2025 Family Pictures Podcasts Awards

Posted on February 3, 2026 by Reverend

About a month ago now Michael Branson Smith (MBS) and I did a special episode of the Family Pictures Podcast in order to look back on all the films we had discussed up and until that point (there were 48). … Continue reading →

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Invasion of the AI Oblivion

Posted on February 2, 2026 by Reverend

I was playing with ChatGPT to explore a couple of versions of an essay I wrote back in 1999 during grad school. I was pretty impressed with both the feedback as well as a re-write ChatGPT did. After the machine … Continue reading →

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Invasion of the Mind Snatchers

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Reverend

I was originally going to call this post “Invasion of the Content Snatchers,” but what’s happening in this process is more than simply “stealing content” (if we can even call it that), but a shift in how we might potentially … Continue reading →

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It’s Already Here!

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Reverend

I’ve been digging Mike Caulfield’s deep dives into ChatGPT these days. What’s even cooler is he has gone full-in on the movie theme, which makes it that much more fun. His basic premise is pretty much in line with all … Continue reading →

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Psycho Shower Scene in GIFS

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Reverend

After wrapping this week’s Family Pictures Podcast MBS mentioned a GIF project he did back in 2013 titled “Mother Oh God Mother.”  It takes each of the 54 shots from Alfred Hitchcock’s infamous shower scene in Psycho (1960) and converts them … Continue reading →

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Shane Is Fight Club in Reverse

Posted on December 9, 2025 by Reverend

One of the things that emerged in our discussion of Shane (1953) in episode 44 of the Family Pictures Podcast is just how explicitly the film is rooted in real labor history, specifically the Johnson County War of the late … Continue reading →

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The New Land vs Empire Strikes Back

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Reverend

For this week’s Family Pictures Podcast, MBS and I discussed the 1972 masterpiece The New Land, a film adapted from a novel chronicling a Swedish family’s emigration to Minnesota in the 19th century. I had never heard of the film … Continue reading →

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Jaws Exhibit at Academy Museum

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Reverend

On Sunday Mikhail took me to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures given they were running an exhibit on Jaws in honor of it’s 50th anniversary. It was pretty amazing. We originally signed up for the tour, but it was … Continue reading →

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