Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 6h

I went to an MPEG party. I met cool people, supported my union, and threw axes. Actually pretty good at throwing axes. Like, have a good shot of surviving a horror movie axe throwing skills. Also I rode a mechanical bull and - for the first time - ate a hot dog on a stick. 7/10, demerits for no sex.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 19h

As Keaton’s passing spotlights it: Woody Allen: great filmmaker, shit human. I am skeptical of some charges - though he’s an icky gross dude - not because I love ANNIE HALL, but pathology. Still, he was dating 17-year olds in the late 70s, but if that’s a line breaker never listen to pop music again

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 19h

This made me weep. We are too cruel.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 19h

Look, Diane Keaton was so good I watched a lot her Marvel-inspired team up old women movies. AND ENJOYED THEM.

Reposted by Damon Houx

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20h

I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.

27 32 480

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 19h

One of the best part of being an uncle is getting my nephew to repeat verbatim to my brother “this pizza doesn’t have enough garlic. You’re a shit cook.”

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 20h

Diane Keaton, RIP. Dear lord. Trans and fashion icon, incredible performer. It’s too bad Woody’s not dead so everyone would enjoy throwing on some of her best work. An iconoclast, a trailblazer, a women who is why we invent adjectives, A great artist has left us and world is smaller for it.

1

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 21h

I think a lot of people hate Rian Johnson’s films because they’re smart, and it makes most criticisms hard to get past. There may be real things to dislike about his art, but often is it’s like “this is too clever.” Leftover high school resentment of the dude who ruins the curve.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 21h

One of the most noticeable things about the internet is that google and most search engines decided at a certain point that selling you stuff was more important than being useful.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 23h

One of the things social media tends to flatten is who people are. Everyone modifies their behavior for who they’re with. That’s not cover for sociopaths, I’m saying how you act with a lover, parent, and child is different. Honesty and “honesty” that are both honest but not honest.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 23h

I often think of Norm MacDonald getting annoyed with his mother for finding the jokes on WILL AND GRACE funny when Norm is like “that’s just a euphemism for getting buttfucked” and his mom being offended. Do you not get it, or do you like reality costumed? And why, for what purpose?

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 23h

One of the things that sucks about Hollywood right now is that I love Alison Brie Larson, Gillian Jacobs, Jason Mantzoukas, Lauren Lapkus, Melissa Fumero, to say nothing of Bill Hader and Will Forte, and I wish they had better outlets for their creativity. Much of what suck is what isn’t happening.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 23h

Is it raining or is it sunny? Depends on who’s looking outside.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

1

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Nah. Don’t give credit to people who can’t straight shit this.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

THE NAKED GUN (25) is funny but feels like Vichy art.

2

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

It is fucking telling that you cannot trust mainstream media to say that Trump lying about Portland is the biggest story. Our country is insane, and rich people who control the media and allow this to not be treated as are the villains. The media will not save us from an insane king.

1

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

NOBODY 2: not so much a bad film as one that doesn’t get to breathe. Everything would be better if it was a little longer and more free form.

2

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Watching NOBODY 2. Often people want to cast Colin Hanks as a nice guy like his father, but he - like a lot of legacy talent/nepos - are way more interesting when they are playing people entitled/arrogant/slightly off because they think things should be handed to them.They make good villains.

2

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best parts of the DGA podcast is finding out stuff like that Christopher Nolan has watched THE CURSE.

1

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry, I can’t support a political party that doesn’t know how math works.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Up? Every pre-1980 female filmmaker. Lupino, Arnzer, Loden, Akerman, Varda to some extent. Penny Marshall, Streisand not so much.
Downward slope: every music video director, including Jonze, Gondry and Fincher.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

tweet by @Caol_MacCormaic that reads, uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)

3

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

One of the underlying problems with AI is exactly the same problem with being rich right now: it doesn’t have taste. It will probably never have taste. You have to work for it and the goal is antithetical to working.

1

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

Watched the Red Letter Media recap of modern STAR WARS, and I appreciated it, even if it’s way too negative on THE LAST JEDI for my taste. They also get into a problem with ANDOR: It’s great but it doesn’t really fit with A NEW HOPE. Partly because the brand has become everything and nothing.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

“I like frogs.”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

1

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

M3GAN 2.0: The best sequence is basically stolen from UPGRADE. It’s not good. Really need more movies that don’t think computers are magic that will eventually think for themselves and have emotions and more movies that show their limitations and/or their literalness.

1