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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 5h

That thing where I'm watching my Broncos play in London and then there's this commercial with the Karloff Frankenstein scored with a Yaz song and could anything be more targeted at me?

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 17h

Friday next week, the one and only @lillywachowski.bsky.social joins us @ucdenver.bsky.social to talk to my film students. Blessed by the generosity and kindness of these legends.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 19h

CURSE is my favorite Lewton.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 23h

Teaching CAT PEOPLE (1942) today in small class seminar.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

Music to write to

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 1d

If you have Criterion and haven't seen WHAT LIES BENEATH yet, give it a whirl. Genuinely scary movie about a woman who sacrificed everything to save her marriage and a man who will sacrifice that marriage to save his reputation. Zemeckis's last great movie, if you ask me.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

The great @kumail.bsky.social joins us at @ucdenver.bsky.social to talk our film program. What a treat.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

Playing *A* hammer would be a stretch.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to say that "I like the moment when Jeff Bridges appears dressed as Brando's Jor-El in TRON 3," but then I remembered how sarcasm sometimes doesn't translate in text.

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 1d

Nosferatu

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Elizabeth: Ghost in the City @kikutowne.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine if there had been a series of this and people really embraced the themes in it? I think about that a lot, lately— youtu.be/idT98H8TK-U

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 1d

FFC review: PLAY DIRTY, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social).
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Play Dirty (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

½*/****starring Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar, Tony Shaloubwritten by Charles Mondry & Anthony Bagarozzidirected by Shane Black by Walter Chaw It took me 72 hours to finish Shane Blac...

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

So I'm just driving around, minding my own business...

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I think about how frogs serve now as inextricable iconography for both sides in these Balkanized United States and I blame the Hadron Collider for shifting us into this fucking Babar/Berenstain Bears-ass timeline.