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Professional obsessive. BYLINES: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Southwest Review, Letterboxd, Fangoria, etc COMMENTARY TRACKS/BOOKLETS: Cinematographe, Fun City Editions, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Imprint, Shout Factory https://linktr.ee/black_neon

Travis Woods

Be advised that summer blockbusters also includes such left-field candidates as GHOST, FATAL ATTRACTION, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT—or even failed attempts like SHOWGIRLS or THE LAST ACTION HERO.

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! For our next issue, we're looking for smart, thoughtful, engaging writing on any summer blockbuster released between 1975 - 2025. Submission Deadline: 6/28/26 Full Details: brightwalldarkroom.submittable.com/submit/35825...

Be advised that summer blockbusters also includes such left-field candidates as GHOST, FATAL ATTRACTION, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT—or even failed attempts like SHOWGIRLS or THE LAST ACTION HERO.

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Did you know that Paul Mayersberg—the film critic and screenwriter behind Nic Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, Nagisa Ōshima’s MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE, and Mike Hodges’ CROUPIER—wrote two novels of BASIC INSTINCT-styled pulpsmut noirotica in 1991 and 1992? Well, now you do.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of its controversial Cannes premiere, I wrote for @letterboxd.social about the autoerotics of ruin in David Cronenberg’s CRASH—his horniest, holiest (and holey-est), and most subversively hopeful film. letterboxd.com/journal/cras...

Prompt: For our upcoming summer issue, we're looking for smart, thoughtful, engaging essays on a summer blockbuster released between 1975 and 2025. Details: We are currently able to pay $50 upon publi...

brightwalldarkroom.submittable.com

Bright Wall/Dark Room - Summer Blockbusters (July/August 2026)

Travis Woods

Very proud to have written about one of my favorite erotic thrillers/neo-noirs—Clint Eastwood’s self-incriminating and ghost-directed TIGHTROPE—for the new issue of THIS IS CINEMATOGRAPHE. Get it from @vinsyn.bsky.social/ @cine-matographe.bsky.social: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

Bright Wall/Dark Room

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On August 28th, we'll premiere a new 4K restoration (from the 35mm OCN) of Eckhart Schmidt's cult favorite DER FAN aka TRANCE (1982) at Metrograph for the film's 1st-ever US theatrical run. More info to follow as we approach the opening date...

For my money "A Violent Masterpiece" by @jordanharper.bsky.social is the Book of the Year. He came on the pod to talk about the novel, what inspired him to write it, and what it's like to write visceral fiction in increasingly absurd times. open.spotify.com/episode/292N...

Travis Woods

The amazing @kolleencarney.bsky.social has launched her podcast and it is my honor to be her first guest. We discuss the unjustly obscure Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde (1993). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-IV...

As the 2026 Cannes Film Festival draws near its end, Travis Woods salvages David Cronenberg’s chaotically horny and subversively hopeful Crash from the smoldering wreckage of its Cannes premiere 30 ye...

letterboxd.com

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Cruising the Death Drive: David Cronenberg’s auto-erotic Crash at 30 • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine