Finn Morse
@finnickiest.bsky.social
🎭 Arts Journalist
🍿Film Connoisseur
🪄Dungeon Master
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Insta: @finnnickiest
Substack: @finnickiest
🍿Film Connoisseur
🪄Dungeon Master
‿̩͙⊱༒︎༻♱༺༒︎⊰‿̩͙
Insta: @finnnickiest
Substack: @finnickiest
I need to be watching more bad movies
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I need to be watching more bad movies
The first month of my writing challenge is complete! On to February, themes after Dark Romances🌹
January 27, 2026 at 2:58 AM
The first month of my writing challenge is complete! On to February, themes after Dark Romances🌹
Reposted by Finn Morse
The energy I bring to Bluesky
January 20, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The energy I bring to Bluesky
My year-long challenge begins! Each Monday I’ll be posting a big review on my Substack of a different Gothic movie. Week 1: The Innocents. Feel free to follow along for next week or to give it a read!
Snipping of the White Rose: "The Innocents" (1961)
7 MIN READ --- Gothic Gauntlet Week 1
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:48 AM
My year-long challenge begins! Each Monday I’ll be posting a big review on my Substack of a different Gothic movie. Week 1: The Innocents. Feel free to follow along for next week or to give it a read!
Little writing about my year’s Criterion journey.
I Completed the Criterion Challenge in 2025
An odyssey of some of my film discoveries in 2025.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Little writing about my year’s Criterion journey.
Reposted by Finn Morse
DePaul lays off over 100 staff members amid budget cuts, will close Loop Library
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
DePaul lays off over 100 staff members amid budget cuts, will close Loop Library
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
depauliaonline.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
DePaul lays off over 100 staff members amid budget cuts, will close Loop Library
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
Reposted by Finn Morse
🦇 Gothica returns!
Join Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Reader in Film Studies & expert in Gothic & Horror Cinema) for ⬇️
🗣1980s Popular Gothic 2
We can't wait to discuss Stranger Things!⚡️
📅 Thurs 11 Dec
⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT
💻 Zoom
DM for link!
Join Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Reader in Film Studies & expert in Gothic & Horror Cinema) for ⬇️
🗣1980s Popular Gothic 2
We can't wait to discuss Stranger Things!⚡️
📅 Thurs 11 Dec
⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT
💻 Zoom
DM for link!
a red sign that says stranger things 3 on a black background
Alt: a red sign that says stranger things 5 on a black background
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🦇 Gothica returns!
Join Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Reader in Film Studies & expert in Gothic & Horror Cinema) for ⬇️
🗣1980s Popular Gothic 2
We can't wait to discuss Stranger Things!⚡️
📅 Thurs 11 Dec
⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT
💻 Zoom
DM for link!
Join Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Reader in Film Studies & expert in Gothic & Horror Cinema) for ⬇️
🗣1980s Popular Gothic 2
We can't wait to discuss Stranger Things!⚡️
📅 Thurs 11 Dec
⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT
💻 Zoom
DM for link!
Life has two modes: in a spammed group chat you eventually mute, and wishing you were still in one
December 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Life has two modes: in a spammed group chat you eventually mute, and wishing you were still in one
Currently renovating the hell out of my Substack acct! Hoping I actually get things moving again.
⛧°. ⋆ Deep Focus ⋆. °⛧ | Finn Morse | Substack
Film and Media analysis, typically from the melancholic mind of a semi-read college student. Click to read ⛧°. ⋆ Deep Focus ⋆. °⛧, by Finn Morse, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Currently renovating the hell out of my Substack acct! Hoping I actually get things moving again.
I think the snow is winning me over
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I think the snow is winning me over
Now that I’ve nearly wrapped up the Criterion Challenge for 2025, I’ve been thinking of some new ideas for next year. I’m thinking, like, a Gothic movie per week?
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Now that I’ve nearly wrapped up the Criterion Challenge for 2025, I’ve been thinking of some new ideas for next year. I’m thinking, like, a Gothic movie per week?
Paul Dano could hang
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Paul Dano could hang
I’ve been up to the #criterionchallenge this year for the first time. The true challenge is finding the shortest possible entries so I can watch all 52 on time for the end of the year.
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I’ve been up to the #criterionchallenge this year for the first time. The true challenge is finding the shortest possible entries so I can watch all 52 on time for the end of the year.
We are officially in the deep end.
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We are officially in the deep end.
“Adding new Lyft ride to queue”
I thought we had something special 🥺
I thought we had something special 🥺
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“Adding new Lyft ride to queue”
I thought we had something special 🥺
I thought we had something special 🥺
Last week I got to cover a very important event on DePaul’s campus — including a speaker who survived the 1945 Hiroshima bombing.
Thank you to Satoshi Tanaka and Myrriah Gómez to sharing your stories.
depauliaonline.com/80057/artsli...
Thank you to Satoshi Tanaka and Myrriah Gómez to sharing your stories.
depauliaonline.com/80057/artsli...
Guest Speakers on Nuclear Justice
Satoshi Tanaka and Myrriah Gomez speak on nuclear justice: The Nobel Peace Prize and Nuclear Legacies
depauliaonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Last week I got to cover a very important event on DePaul’s campus — including a speaker who survived the 1945 Hiroshima bombing.
Thank you to Satoshi Tanaka and Myrriah Gómez to sharing your stories.
depauliaonline.com/80057/artsli...
Thank you to Satoshi Tanaka and Myrriah Gómez to sharing your stories.
depauliaonline.com/80057/artsli...
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Okay so was nobody gonna tell me how good Shudder is??
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Okay so was nobody gonna tell me how good Shudder is??
My smaller review for the Adams Family’s latest horror film — “The Mother of Flies” — is out for The DePaulia. An even longer one out soon.
depauliaonline.com/79824/artsli...
depauliaonline.com/79824/artsli...
‘The Mother of Flies’ CIFF Review
The horror genre is oftentimes connotated as grotesque and off putting, glimpsing into the dark side of the brain. “Mad God.” “The Evil Dead.”
depauliaonline.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My smaller review for the Adams Family’s latest horror film — “The Mother of Flies” — is out for The DePaulia. An even longer one out soon.
depauliaonline.com/79824/artsli...
depauliaonline.com/79824/artsli...
My truncated review for “Dracula” (2025) by Radu Jude is out for The DePaulia. Longer review out later on.
depauliaonline.com/79773/artsli...
depauliaonline.com/79773/artsli...
The First AI Slop Movie: ‘Dracula’ CIFF Review
A movie has been released written entirely by generative AI … kind of. The newly-released Romanian film, “Dracula” (2025) follows a fictional director assigned to write an adaptation of “Dracula”…
depauliaonline.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My truncated review for “Dracula” (2025) by Radu Jude is out for The DePaulia. Longer review out later on.
depauliaonline.com/79773/artsli...
depauliaonline.com/79773/artsli...
Big day for my YouTube feed. Schaffrillas AND Dead Meat uploading?? Call me in 137 minutes, I’m eating good tonight.
October 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Big day for my YouTube feed. Schaffrillas AND Dead Meat uploading?? Call me in 137 minutes, I’m eating good tonight.
New player tonight.
October 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
New player tonight.