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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 5h

On the actual 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live (today), here’s an article I wrote about it last year, with remembrances from Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and many more. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/a...

When ‘Saturday Night Live’ Debuted, They Were There. Here’s What They Remember. (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5d

If you agree that Israel is committing genocide, you should loudly condemn organizations raising money for Israel. That includes churches and synagogues. Period.

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Patrixmythical Beast @patri.xyz · 10h

If a bluesky verified ‘reporter’ is posting AI videos, what is the verification exactly? Their name?

Posting fake content invalidates any claim of being a journalist.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 10h

Blocking any accounts trying to post AI videos as real. The second you enter a prompt for AI, you can’t ever be trusted again.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 13h

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 23h

For TIME I went long on the bumbling white men at the heart of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, EDDINGTON, and THE MASTERMIND.

How the White Savior Became This Year’s Cinematic Punchline

Several of this year's notable movies, including, One Battle After Another, Eddington, and The Mastermind humorously critique the political role of white men.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 16h

So many terrific titles there

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 16h

Same for me with Mr Destiny… never saw TCOB… which, as a Grodin completist, remains a source of shame

Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 16h

The movies used in brackets on the back to describe the actors are… a choice.

James Belushi (New Year’s Eve, Hoodwinked)
James Belushi (Underdog)
Charles Grodin (Beethoven’s 2nd)

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 16h

Two dollar op shop find. How could I say no?

Triple DVD pack of the Jim Belushi movies Mr Destiny and Taking Care of Business, and the Shelley Long comedy Hello Again

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

(Also cannot wait for the upcoming @umbrellaent.bsky.social box!!)

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Not only am I its biggest fan, but I have interviewed Alex Winter, Tom Stern and Tim Burns! (About different films but hoo boy do they know I love the Freaked!!)

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere, Jimeoin is reading this going “Fellas… I was there too! Why don’t I deserve a mention too?”

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 2d

Pinch-me moment: I asked the one and only Wes Anderson about his first ten films, on the occasion of a new boxset from @criterion.bsky.social, for @letterboxd.social. A dream, as ever, to spend time with his intrepid and stylistically singular body of work; one of my very favorite filmmakers.

Magnificent Andersons: Wes Anderson on 25 years of filmmaking craft and collaboration—and his new Criterion set • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

As a major new Criterion box set of his work hits shelves, Wes Anderson tells Isaac Feldberg about a quarter-century of filmmaking: via Rushmore, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and more.

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Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 1d

Just gonna leave this Vanity Fair review here.

"Melania is Ratner's first film since he was accused by several women of sexual assault in
2017. He has denied the accusations.
Amazon released a still photo from the film of Melania (star of Melania and author of Melania) staring out of a car window at a nondescript airport tarmac. Gorg. Like we've never seen her before, apart from the many times we've seen her like that before." Below is a photo of her looking out of a window

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2d

Great to have @watchwithjen.bsky.social back. I always enjoy talking with Jen even when it's about my intense envy of a movie star's hair

Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 2d

#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S6: E18 - "Bring Me the Hair of Andy Garcia!" with Jed Ayres

We're back from hiatus! Author Jed Ayres returns to cover the mystique & mane of Andy Garcia, + the films INTERNAL AFFAIRS, THE GODFATHER: PART III, & DESPERATE MEASURES. www.patreon.com/posts/140767...

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

If you live in Ireland or the UK, Absolute Dominion is available today on Google or Apple TV
www.rte.ie/video/id/28161

Absolute Dominion, the new film from Palestinian-American Oscar®-nominated director Lexi Alexander

This superb martial arts battle for humanity begins on October 9.

www.rte.ie

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

It was also a key ingredient in the 21st Century motion picture THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Fincher, 21c)

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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 1d

More than one reader has written me asking when the Globe was going to have a White film critic again. If I weren't so damn petty, and upsetting Boston racists didn't give me such pleasure, I'd quit and go back to tech. Alas, I am petty and will continue to rub my Black ass byline in their faces.

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter’s THE FOG OF WAR

🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter’s A History of Violence

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Few original motion picture scores make my heart soar like Jerry Goldsmith’s score for THE RUSSIA HOUSE.

That Branford Marsalis saxophone work is exquisite

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Hot take: Wim Wenders’ The End of Violence is a fucking terrific movie.

Wish he and Klein did more than just that and Million Dollar Hotel (which I also love… goofy assed craziness that it is)

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Just Another Film Nerd @anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 1d

The real news, though, is that it opens with Hamlet 2’s ‘Rock Me Sexy Jesus”.

Bold call by Gibson.

Page Six @pagesix.com · 2d

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

Gibson's long-gestating sequel will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 1d

Hate to toot my own horn but talking to Michael Sheen about it was fun

www.vulture.com/article/mich...

Michael Sheen Answers All Our Questions About Tron: Legacy

“I was being more flamboyant than any showgirl. He was giving it large, really, wasn’t he?”

www.vulture.com

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