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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world)

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Independent film critic, est. 2011 - https://moviegoing.rocks / blogger & columnist | SEFCA member | 🍅s approved | Always ⚜️🍿 #TeamNOLAFilm

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 13d

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Moviegoing with Bill

Movie reviews "that care forgot," from Hollywood South's independent film critic.

www.moviegoing.rocks

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1h

RESULT: New Orleans has a new mayor. Helena Moreno, a Democrat known as a progressive member of the city council, easily won today’s mayoral race and cleared the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff. She’ll replace the retiring Democratic Mayor, Cantrell.

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Solar Rays @solarrays.bsky.social · 2h

World Series Prediction (going into the League Championship Series):

Brewers V Mariners

Call it an underdog matchup, but even the powerhouses tend to fall at the most insane times. Seattle in 6, Milwaukee in 7.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this, laughed, changed screens and now I can't find it again or I would credit it fully: Someone described Kid Rock, who was apparently attempting to opine on something tonight, as being "the human equivalent of an above-ground pool."

Perfect.

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WBAY-TV @wbay.com · 5h

Several Friday night shootings in Mississippi at high school homecoming celebrations left multiple people dead and injured.

Mississippi school homecoming celebrations turn deadly; 6 killed, several injured in shootings

Several Friday night shootings in Mississippi at high school homecoming celebrations left multiple people dead and injured.

www.wbay.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 5h

but...Portland.
but...Chicago.
but...Antifa.

(seriously, what a basterd)

Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 7h

MLK gravesite vandalized

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed – WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 9h

She was an absolutely wonderful actress- and a rare and fascinating person. Thoughts with her children and sisters. Rest in peace Diane.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 11h

Theaters are forced to survive on expired brand leftovers and IP-for-IP franchise attempts, while studios can blame “Nobody goes to the movies!” and/or “Go woke, go broke” for their painfully foreseeable mistakes.
(The #TronAres Friday #boxoffice report, sadly 15 morbillion years in the making)

Why Predictable Box Office Bombs Like 'Tron: Ares' Hurt Everyone

Theaters are forced to subsist with inferior IP leftovers, while studios get to blame “Nobody goes to the movies!” and/or “Go woke, go broke” for predictable flops.

open.substack.com

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 11h

A most vital documentary, and not just for the current times we live in. My review: www.moviegoing.rocks/strippednews/

⚜️🍿

‘Stripped for Parts’ Is Front and Center in the Fight for an Informed Society

Where hedge funds and media consolidations are the enemies of democracy.

www.moviegoing.rocks

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Vidiots @vidiots.bsky.social · 12h

Vidiots spotted 😍 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ind...

How indie theaters are evolving in a new era: "Everybody wants movies in their lives"

The owners and operators of independent cinemas are working to adapt as audience habits change.

www.cbsnews.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

When Obama was president the right wing acted like masked government agents were coming to kidnap them and take all their rights away.

Then Republicans get elected and actually do that shit for real.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 13h

I would've seen TRON: ARES if Jared Leto did the whole movie looking like this:

Jared Leto looking like Jeffrey Tambor in HOUSE OF GUCCI.

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 13h

It's also, in a moment of universal coincidence I choose to regard as significant, the anniversary of Robert Forster's passing in 2019. Long live JACKIE BROWN, one of the best movies of the 1990s.

Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 13h

Saluting the legendary novelist Elmore Leonard, born on this day in 1925, with an all-day marathon of movies based on his crime stories, including Quentin Tarantino's JACKIE BROWN, now playing on Pluto TV Staff Picks: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 1d

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 22h

He talks more articulately and honestly than 99% of the pundits on cable news.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 23h

Bill Moyers.

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1d

If the Mariners win the World Series Criterion needs to put out a 4K of HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

mariners won

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

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.

time.com

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 1d

youtu.be/xehMW4-EOJ4?...

Geauxjira.mov

YouTube video by Michael Homan

youtu.be

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 1d

They really did a good job laying out my KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN review in the paper today. I think I wrote one of my better reviews for this one.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/a...

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