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Mel Killingsworth

@mehlsbells.bsky.social

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lover of cinema, sport, siphon coffee, sundries 🌈 make and write about TV and movies 🌈 half of [at] ShotZero linktr.ee/mehlsbells

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hello it is me, a person who reads physical books on public transport!

Well, not busses (because I get carsick), but trams and trains!

Well, trams if I am facing forwards (see above)!

THE POINT IS ya'll listen to this wise man and get at me . . .

Tobias Moos @tolog.bsky.social · Oct 28

Hill I will die on - anyone reading a physical book on public transport is worth dating #books #booksky

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eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 3h

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and don't forget to click that button to subscribe

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 3h

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and be kind, rewind.

cameron @famousceleb.co · 5d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 3h

@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social's strike rate remains 100

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 13h

The red set from Kiss of the Spider Woman [if you've seen it, you know] is going to haunt my dreams.

Cardboard and paint turned pure cinematic joy.

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 21h

*smashes add to watchlist button*

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Shot Zero @shotzero.bsky.social · 1d

To kick off #Noirvember we're looking at a practical movement in one of the most influential thrillers of all time: Fritz Lang's M

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

Sending additional police to supermarkets to guard food that is so abundant it will be thrown out in massive volumes is “political violence”

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

Making the active choice to withhold emergency funding and starve large swaths of the country is “political violence” and it should be reported and viewed as such

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing conservative commentators joyfully mock poor people and their children horrified at the prospect of going hungry really puts a laser focus into how completely full of shit they were while clutching their pearls over “political violence”.

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 1d

Doing some deep dives on the 'how and why' of classic and neo-noir shots for #Noirvember over on @shotzero.bsky.social, kicking off with this window trick from Fritz Lang's M

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Practical Tricks: M

how Fritz Lang made what is now a special effects shot, practically.

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 1d

Espresso and caviar and family heists, oh my!

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Coffee and Noir: L'INNOCENT

every instance of coffee in noir: 056

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 1d

life isn't fair, but there's always tomorrow

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t wait for Hermit Me to be able to tell the Mad Max world children what baseball was and about how the last baseball game ever went on for three entire years

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 1d

this world series has reminded me both why I have always loved baseball . . . and why I no longer religiously follow it

I simply could not give my heart to any other sports if I did

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 3d

It's that #Noirvember time of year again!

Expect many new entries into my hyperspecific fascination of Coffee Scenes In Noir Films this month.

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Coffee and Noir: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

every instance of coffee in noir: 055

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 4d

if I were an actor I would be banging down the door of whatever agent handles A$AP Rocky's film & tv gigs

not huge volume, but 10 years of bangers from DOPE to Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping, then two of the better / well reviewed) flicks this year

they are aaaabsolutely killing it

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 5d

Looked at a bunch of spooky shots for @shotzero.bsky.social this week!

The #HauntingofHillHouse martini shot may be my fave, but the #Kiki'sDeliveryService frame shake gives me the most joy.

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Week 25.43 - Socials Roundup - Spooktober!

20 Oct - 26 Oct 2025: KPop Demon Hunters, The Haunting of Hill House, Monsterland

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 5d

(I wrote this TEN YEARS ago good lord)

but the more I see it, the queerer The Exorcist looks

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Father Damien and Queer Subtext in THE EXORCIST

gay love and death in a dance with God and the Devil

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Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

Its!

All this blue sky, still no edit button

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

[My problem with the quote isn't it's content, it's the choice of author . . . Though honestly the themes and quotes and references had been plentiful enough, I wish it had actually simply ended on the CU and left the quote off entirely]

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

Agree it's a deliberate choice, and I am not saying the filmmaker's position is "Victor is fine!"

What I'm saying is everything in that final boat cabin scene, in-world, gives Victor what he doesn't deserve, for the sake of verbalising said point about the Monster, and it stretches credulity

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

[The shot of the world, or the Byron quote?]

Either way, disagree. That's not about Victor's forgiveness, any more.

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

That seems the main point of difference

I felt as though it was being given directly to him

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

it's not a LITERAL "Victor is trying to get into heaven" confession

yes, knowing all that probably colours it; the ending gives Victor far too much grace

I love DT, I simply think this missed a few marks

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

his clear desire for absolution, the incredibly catholic framing of the whole thing, the undeserved forgiveness* a cherry on top

*does that say more about the Monster than him, yes; but you could do that 18 different ways without explicitly giving it TO him there

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

Naaaaaah it had the themes plenty fine throughout [and so inplicit]

it just also has too strong in it the catholic idea of final confession

Mel Killingsworth @mehlsbells.bsky.social · 7d

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A review of Frankenstein (2025)

You have to gape at the utter, absolute, unmitigated gall to cap Frankenstein off with a quote by Lord Byron. After a frank depiction of the cycle of violence and a particularly recognisable kind of "...

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