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@mactingz.bsky.social
Freelance magazine editor. Sometime writer. Bylines: BBC Culture, Empire, Fangoria, Little White Lies, The Quietus, Time Out, etc.
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There’s one fewer freak out there and that’s a loss for us all.
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There’s one fewer freak out there and that’s a loss for us all.
Hello! It’s us, your cinephile neighbours, getting shut of a shitload of DVDs and books ahead of our move! Take ‘em all! Don’t be shy!
September 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hello! It’s us, your cinephile neighbours, getting shut of a shitload of DVDs and books ahead of our move! Take ‘em all! Don’t be shy!
I’m signed up to several casting agencies for work as an extra and the only roles I get offered are prisoners, cultists and scumbags. It’s almost like I have a vibe or something?
August 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I’m signed up to several casting agencies for work as an extra and the only roles I get offered are prisoners, cultists and scumbags. It’s almost like I have a vibe or something?
Watched James Marsh’s strange, sad and blackly amusing docudrama Wisconsin Death Trip last night and now I’m desperate for a feature film on Mary “the window smasher” Sweeny.
July 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Watched James Marsh’s strange, sad and blackly amusing docudrama Wisconsin Death Trip last night and now I’m desperate for a feature film on Mary “the window smasher” Sweeny.
How ill must Ozzy have been at Back to the Beginning given that he’s gone just a few weeks later? And yet he gave it everything *and* sounded incredible doing it. Feel enormously privileged to have seen his final bow. In many ways a perfect ending. There’ll never be another.
July 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
How ill must Ozzy have been at Back to the Beginning given that he’s gone just a few weeks later? And yet he gave it everything *and* sounded incredible doing it. Feel enormously privileged to have seen his final bow. In many ways a perfect ending. There’ll never be another.
This, from John Darnielle’s 33 ⅓ book on Master of Reality, is as perfect a description of Ozzy’s voice as you’ll ever find. He sounded like he was from the street. He sounded like the everyman and yet like no man ever has before or ever will again. He sounds like me and yet nothing like me.
July 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This, from John Darnielle’s 33 ⅓ book on Master of Reality, is as perfect a description of Ozzy’s voice as you’ll ever find. He sounded like he was from the street. He sounded like the everyman and yet like no man ever has before or ever will again. He sounds like me and yet nothing like me.
There’s a real electricity about Birmingham today. People from all over the world convening in public spaces, swapping stories, handing out fliers, happily taking photos for each other, all to demonstrate their love and appreciation of #BlackSabbath. This is what civic pride looks like.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
There’s a real electricity about Birmingham today. People from all over the world convening in public spaces, swapping stories, handing out fliers, happily taking photos for each other, all to demonstrate their love and appreciation of #BlackSabbath. This is what civic pride looks like.
I had to miss most of @princecharlescinema.com’s Bleak Week because I was out of town for a funeral. Returned just in time for Żuławski’s The Devil, teed up by Robert Eggers. And, well, the funeral was probably more enjoyable and less emotionally taxing.
June 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I had to miss most of @princecharlescinema.com’s Bleak Week because I was out of town for a funeral. Returned just in time for Żuławski’s The Devil, teed up by Robert Eggers. And, well, the funeral was probably more enjoyable and less emotionally taxing.
What a weekend. The second BFI Film on Film Festival was fantastic. Always a thrill to see rare prints and hear the stories behind them. So pleased to have experienced Westward the Women with an audience. And Blanche Fury on nitrate? *swoons*
June 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What a weekend. The second BFI Film on Film Festival was fantastic. Always a thrill to see rare prints and hear the stories behind them. So pleased to have experienced Westward the Women with an audience. And Blanche Fury on nitrate? *swoons*
Thrilled to have survived a nitrate double bill today as part of the BFI’s Film on Film Festival. The only fire in the building was that between Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger in Blanche Fury.
June 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Thrilled to have survived a nitrate double bill today as part of the BFI’s Film on Film Festival. The only fire in the building was that between Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger in Blanche Fury.
Visited archival print media shop La Galcante while in Paris and picked up the May 1994 issue of men’s magazine Newlook. Why? Mostly because of the mad 1990s editorial design. But partly because it features photos of a nude Isabella Rossellini posing with a chimpanzee named Sally.
June 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Visited archival print media shop La Galcante while in Paris and picked up the May 1994 issue of men’s magazine Newlook. Why? Mostly because of the mad 1990s editorial design. But partly because it features photos of a nude Isabella Rossellini posing with a chimpanzee named Sally.
Parisians are spoiled for choice when it comes to cinemas it seems. I visited three – Christine Cinema Club, Le Grand Rex and Pathé Palace – and can’t wait to return and check out some more.
June 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Parisians are spoiled for choice when it comes to cinemas it seems. I visited three – Christine Cinema Club, Le Grand Rex and Pathé Palace – and can’t wait to return and check out some more.
Parisian bottle banks. Is it just me or…?
June 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Parisian bottle banks. Is it just me or…?
You better believe I’m gonna roll the dice on a band I’ve never heard of based on this description. And Aluk Todolo did not disappoint.
June 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
You better believe I’m gonna roll the dice on a band I’ve never heard of based on this description. And Aluk Todolo did not disappoint.
I knew nothing about MrBeast before reading this fascinating exploration of why his videos are so successful. @mrkocnnll.bsky.social really sells them but here he also confirms something I’ve long assumed – and this is why I hope to never see a second of MrBeast’s work.
June 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I knew nothing about MrBeast before reading this fascinating exploration of why his videos are so successful. @mrkocnnll.bsky.social really sells them but here he also confirms something I’ve long assumed – and this is why I hope to never see a second of MrBeast’s work.
I am going to be in Paris from Wednesday to Saturday. Love this for me.
June 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I am going to be in Paris from Wednesday to Saturday. Love this for me.
I been eatin’ good!*
*mostly extremely flawed films that I really enjoy!
*mostly extremely flawed films that I really enjoy!
May 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I been eatin’ good!*
*mostly extremely flawed films that I really enjoy!
*mostly extremely flawed films that I really enjoy!
34 today. Life comes at you fast (and then you get seawater in your Guinness).
May 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
34 today. Life comes at you fast (and then you get seawater in your Guinness).
me trying to keep my spirits up as i’m getting my ribs tattooed
May 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
me trying to keep my spirits up as i’m getting my ribs tattooed
See The Surfer if you can. It’s a sun-scorched riff on 1968’s The Swimmer filtered through the lens of scuzzy Ozploitation and Andrew Tate cult of masculinity. The script, art direction and Les Baxter-style score are delightfully off-kilter, and Cage is superb in all the ways you expect and more.
May 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
See The Surfer if you can. It’s a sun-scorched riff on 1968’s The Swimmer filtered through the lens of scuzzy Ozploitation and Andrew Tate cult of masculinity. The script, art direction and Les Baxter-style score are delightfully off-kilter, and Cage is superb in all the ways you expect and more.
Support trans cinema! This is a lovely profile and @tgirlsonfilm.bsky.social screenings are extremely fun and informative – and not just because you could be force-femme’d and turned into a lil maid ahead of a Bob Clark flick!
May 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Support trans cinema! This is a lovely profile and @tgirlsonfilm.bsky.social screenings are extremely fun and informative – and not just because you could be force-femme’d and turned into a lil maid ahead of a Bob Clark flick!
Absolute state of this, man.
May 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Absolute state of this, man.
I often look up idioms for help with print headlines. Occasionally I’ll come across one that I have absolutely no reference for. Has anyone ever actually said this? I hate it.
April 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I often look up idioms for help with print headlines. Occasionally I’ll come across one that I have absolutely no reference for. Has anyone ever actually said this? I hate it.
Enjoyed a weekend of wild double bills in the company of Matt Farley and #MoternMedia and @rememberthispod.bsky.social. Not sure how many people have back-to-backed Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You and True Grit, and Cheyenne Autumn and Magic Spot before. Sublime stuff.
April 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Enjoyed a weekend of wild double bills in the company of Matt Farley and #MoternMedia and @rememberthispod.bsky.social. Not sure how many people have back-to-backed Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You and True Grit, and Cheyenne Autumn and Magic Spot before. Sublime stuff.
THE INDIAN TOMB (1959)
Written and directed by Fritz Lang
“booty got that snake like”
Written and directed by Fritz Lang
“booty got that snake like”
April 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
THE INDIAN TOMB (1959)
Written and directed by Fritz Lang
“booty got that snake like”
Written and directed by Fritz Lang
“booty got that snake like”