PT Pumpkins 🎃

PT Pumpkins 🎃

@ptklein.com

Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.

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The commissary at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. The World Series plays on a television screen in the background. Elizabeth Holmes, excited: “No wait, you guys, I know this one! Who is on first.”

I think about this bit every single day

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“protein enriched chocolate chip cookie” is kinda the perfect synthesis of the conflicting american male desires to be a spartan warrior and also five years old

Today’s monster matinee double feature continues with James Whale’s 1933 thriller The Invisible Man 😶‍🌫️ #NowWatching on the Big Screen:

My friend Anthony is $300 away from his fundraising goal! Will you help him out this morning?

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Folks, many of you know that this was a challenging year for me. In the spirit of giving back, I’m helping my friend Anthony raise money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. If you can support him, even by sharing, I know he would appreciate it. All of my love, my friends 🫂

Folks, many of you know that this was a challenging year for me. In the spirit of giving back, I’m helping my friend Anthony raise money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. If you can support him, even by sharing, I know he would appreciate it. All of my love, my friends 🫂

afspwalks.donordrive.comPlease support the Phoenix Area Walk this fall to help #stopsuicidePlease support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to help save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. Donate or register to walk!

This 1943 adaptation of Phantom of the Opera was Universal’s SECOND three-strip Technicolor feature, and it won the Academy Award for best color cinematography (one of two wins of four nominations for the film).

Damn they held her back in high school this whole time she really can’t read can she 😭

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Lea Michele is returning as Rachel Berry for the ‘GLEE’ reboot, Variety reports.

What a magnificent picture. I’m blown away. I spent the whole time thinking about Linda Williams writing that “truth is a fragmentary shard.” “If lies are to be exposed, truths must be strategically deployed against them.” This seems to be the way we might do it.

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Seated to see it all. #NowWatching on the big screen:

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See this immediately. It was SOULD OUT here on a Tuesday night at 6 PM. Listening to everyone laugh and then immediately GASP was incredible. The air got so thick as we all hid behind our fingers at certain points. Just phenomenal filmgoing.

What a magnificent picture. I’m blown away. I spent the whole time thinking about Linda Williams writing that “truth is a fragmentary shard.” “If lies are to be exposed, truths must be strategically deployed against them.” This seems to be the way we might do it.

PT Pumpkins 🎃@ptklein.com

Seated to see it all. #NowWatching on the big screen:

Been either sick or writing for the last week so I’ve been feeling reclusive to say the least. Anyway, off to the movies!

how much money did the metaverse burn through

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NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS EVERY COMPANY IN THE FUTURE WILL HAVE TWO FACTORIES, ONE REAL AND ONE DIGITAL, WITH THE DIGITAL FACTORY SO REAL IT MIGHT AS WELL BE REAL