Queer film historian, programmer, distributor | @muscledistro and @askanybuddy

Brooklyn
Joined June 2009
Out today: two records from legendary gay porn star J.D. Slater. Originally released in 1999, Slater’s debut album Filling Your Silence compiled the soundtracks from the first two Raging Stallion Studios films, the production company he cofounded. Elbow Deep In The Hoopla features never-before-released scores from fisting-focused films. In the words of the Bay Area Reporter, these soundtracks are “quite possibly the best music for sex ever written.” jdslater.bandcamp.com
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Fantastic Fest 2026: SCREAMPLAY (1984) @mtzxale on a wonderful restoration that brings much deserved attention to Rufus Butler Seder’s unique film. #FantasticFest neonsplatter.com/reviews/fan…
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i was so, so happy to write about the restoration of SCREAMPLAY for @Neon_Splatter 🖤 it's currently touring theaters around the country thanks to @muscledistro & @MatchboxCine. see it if you can!
Fantastic Fest 2026: SCREAMPLAY (1984) @mtzxale on a wonderful restoration that brings much deserved attention to Rufus Butler Seder’s unique film. #FantasticFest neonsplatter.com/reviews/fan…
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seeing on here that Bill Krohn died — want to recirculate his great 2004 Rouge piece on CRUISING, which integrates original research, auteurist critique, and narratology and is the best thing i've ever read about this endlessly fascinating film rouge.com.au/3/friedkin.html
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"New digital transfers from their original 3/4”, Beta, and VHS masters" now, here is an event.
New on Blu-ray from @muscledistro — completely unseen for over 40 years and never released on any physical media format. Brand new digital transfers and restorations from the original video and film elements! True transgressive queer underground cinema. vinegarsyndrome.com/products…
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One of the best new-to-me films I’ve seen in forever
New on Blu-ray from @muscledistro — completely unseen for over 40 years and never released on any physical media format. Brand new digital transfers and restorations from the original video and film elements! True transgressive queer underground cinema. vinegarsyndrome.com/products…
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Saw Highway Hypnosis when Liz screened it at the Music Box last year and it immediately became one of my favorite movies ever, in sensibility sort of “James Benning does Cecelia Condit” but still evades clean summary like that, masterpiece of video art inflected with SOV horror
New on Blu-ray from @muscledistro — completely unseen for over 40 years and never released on any physical media format. Brand new digital transfers and restorations from the original video and film elements! True transgressive queer underground cinema. vinegarsyndrome.com/products…
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"It's the Reagan years… and all of the men in the neighborhood are mysteriously beginning to turn gay."
New on Blu-ray from @muscledistro — completely unseen for over 40 years and never released on any physical media format. Brand new digital transfers and restorations from the original video and film elements! True transgressive queer underground cinema. vinegarsyndrome.com/products…
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New on Blu-ray from @muscledistro — completely unseen for over 40 years and never released on any physical media format. Brand new digital transfers and restorations from the original video and film elements! True transgressive queer underground cinema. vinegarsyndrome.com/products…
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Elaine May’s one-of-a-kind MIKEY AND NICKY screens on Mon, 10/26 at 8pm, followed by a post-film conversation & "Hollywood Renegade" book signing with author Todd Berliner, moderated by FF Director Tabitha Jackson. buff.ly/v7hKLAA
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An unsettling supernatural thriller exploring intergenerational trauma, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is a genre-defying masterpiece that ranks as one of the finest examples of hardcore filmmaking ever produced. 4K restoration screens Tue 10/13 at Nitehawk Williamsburg in SKIN DEEP
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RT @darkentriesrecs: Legendary company Suzanne Ciani comes out of the closet as alter ego Steve, a mish mash of high fidelity pitch-shiftin…
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Latest newsletter is an extremely comprehensive interview with the brilliant Louise Weard (@weardjupiter) on Castration Movie, Computer Hearts, watching Poltergeist as a child, growing up online, seeing The Odyssey in front-row IMAX seats, and much more. Link in thread
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The first motion picture that explores supernatural sex! THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is up next in our adult film series SKIN DEEP, Tuesday 10/13 at Nitehawk Williamsburg
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now live and free for all: my interview with NYFF64 filmmaker Heather Landsman (@C05M1C57R4N63R) on her new short ee, sexual gambling, PS2 aesthetics, MiniDV dreams, working with @foxxobel and @willmenaker, and so much more! api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
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BLEEDING EDGE FESTIVAL 2026 opens with the Toronto premiere of @weardjupiter @muscledistro 's CASTRATION MOVIE iii preceded by @C05M1C57R4N63R 's ee on November 26th tinyurl.com/ymsy22cw
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