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Joseph Wade

@cordialwombat.bsky.social

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Boosemaster General. I try to write about movies sometimes. Big ol’ goofus. Pineapple belongs on pizza. He/him Host of @christmascreeps.bsky.social & @OSTParty.bsky.social podcasts. I write about movies at JoesCinemarama.com

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · Feb 7

This year I'll be going through the films of Jon Favreau. Sure, why not. What could go wrong?

Twenty 20-Fav: Introduction

New year, new series. It's Twenty 20-Fav!

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 3d

Toxie out here doing what the government won't

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 3d

The ooey-gooey, proudly raunchy horror comedy launched a fundraiser ahead of its theatrical release—and it's still going along with its arrival at home.

'The Toxic Avenger' Has Helped Eliminate Over $15 Million in Medical Debt

The ooey-gooey, proudly raunchy horror comedy launched a fundraiser ahead of its theatrical release—and it's still going along with its arrival at home.

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 5d

Here's my dumb asshole take for the day:

Now that basically every car has multiple cameras, I'm kinda surprised no one's tried to do a bullshit modern update of Christine.

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 6d

MGK stands for My Ghemical Kromance.

That’s it, post it

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 7d

“why don’t you go somewhere else?” ask the mods as they shove you out the door of your own home

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 8d

In which I discuss one of my favorite Shane Black tropes: The villain just blatantly showing up at the hero's house.

Joe's Cinemarama @joescinemarama.bsky.social · 8d

Favreau may be out of the director's chair, but Happy Hogan will return.

Twenty 20-Fav: Iron Man 3 (2013)

A movie where Guy Pearce plays a fire-breathing dragon. Also it's Christmas.

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 9d

If you know where to look on Archive dot org, you can find all the free comic books you could ever need

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 9d

🛒 Fall fashions & car batteries: #autumn, Kmart style, 1989. 🍂

Thanks to a forward-thinking staffer, this & many other in-store audio tapes were saved from the dustbin—now preserved at the #InternetArchive.

🎧 Hear the full tape ⤵️
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#preservation #1980s

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Christmas Creeps @christmascreeps.bsky.social · 9d

Season's Greetings, Creepazoids! 🎅🔪

HOME FOR THE HORRORDAYS returns! Our Letterboxd list of yuletide horror movies is constantly growing, with over 150 spooky holiday chills to jingle your bells all season long

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Home For The Horrordays: Yuletide Horror Flicks

Christmas-themed horror movies! Or should it be horror-themed Christmas movies? Either way, there's plenty to keep you busy this holiday/horror season! For more holiday horror goodness, join us at Chr...

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 10d

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Michael Showalter as hack comedian Alan Shemper in “Wet Hot American Summer”

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 11d

Because the guy has to be a hypocrite about literally everything, remember that Trump’s favorite movie (Bloodsport) was made in China.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump: "I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States."

Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing “candy from a baby.” California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit! Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 12d

We may have dodged a direct hit from Imelda, but we're still getting whipped with the firehose

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 12d

This is like the bully putting their fist an inch from your face and shouting "I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU"

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12d

Thanks to the powerful, once Category 5 Hurricane Humberto churning over the open waters of the Atlantic, the United States will avoid a direct hit from Tropical Storm Imelda this week.

How a Category 5 hurricane kept the Carolinas from a worst-case scenario

What could have been catastrophic Southeast flooding is now expected to be a few days of rain, wind and big waves from eastern Florida to southern Virginia.

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 12d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: PT Anderson perfectly captures both a) how living in America right now feels like a nonstop panic attack every minute of every day, and also b) what it feels like to play a mission in Grand Theft Auto after accidentally skipping all the instructions.

A+, no notes.

Banner image for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another”

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 17d

The idiots at Nexstar and Sinclair decided they’d rather sacrifice advertising eyeballs to YouTube.

Might be a good reason why my local ABC affiliate is constantly last in the ratings.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17d

The first half of tonight's Jimmy Kimmel is up on YouTube, and what I've watched so far is good stuff.

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 17d

It would go great right next to my Roger Rabbit and Batman Returns cups that we keep above the cupboard for Fancy Company

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 18d

Happy Rapture Day, everybody. Those of you left behind, just remember not to feed to plants

The opening title crawl from “Little Shop of Horrors”

On the twenty third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not took long before our own the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 19d

Remake Twins but this time it’s John Cena and Joe Pera. Also they’re cops

a man with glasses is standing in front of a microphone on a stage and talking into it .

ALT: a man with glasses is standing in front of a microphone on a stage and talking into it .

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 19d

Got this year’s covid jab. Walk-in at CVS, no questions asked 👍

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 20d

If you see this, post a robot

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 21d

You could never release “Wagon Wheel” today. Having the gall to say “Raleigh’s kinda nice” would have Fox News calling you antifa by the end of the day

Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 21d

2000S COUNTRY MUSIC: Man, I wish I was in Raleigh right now

2020S COUNTRY MUSIC: Big cities scare me, but that’s ok cuz my gun is a security blanket

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Joseph Wade @cordialwombat.bsky.social · 21d

Hope ya like golf, football and burnt steaks from Applebee's, cuz that's the only culture they're gonna let us have pretty soon.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21d

welcome to The Resistance,

*checks notes*

*sighs*

*weeps gently*

...michael eisner

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21d

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Michael Eisner
@Michael Eisner
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Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The
"suspending indefinitely" of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one's political or financial self-interest." By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.
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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 23d

Who knew that 1993’s ‘Super Mario Brothers’ would present such a pointed portrait of a bygone liberal consensus.

A scene from the Mario brothers movie. The street busker, toad, is being taken away by thuggish cops. Mario protests with

HEY, WAIT A MINUTE. YOU CAN'T ARREST A GUY FOR JUST SINGING A SONG.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 22d

Big thanks to Ken Lowe for reaching out to me via @pastemagazine.bsky.social to help opine on the state of Chicago's film critic scene in the wake of Phillips's departure from the Trib. Come see me talk about SEO, the brain drain we're going thru, and more.

www.pastemagazine.com/movies/film-...

The Last Film Critic: Chicago and the Slow Death of the Professional Movie Review

50 years after Roger Ebert was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, Chicago is emblematic of the stark decline in film criticism.

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