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Jeremy Smith

@mrbeaks.bsky.social

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Freelance entertainment journalist. Credits: /Film, AV Club, Fangoria, New York Magazine, Polygon, Salt Lake Magazine, Thrillist, Variety, Yardbarker and so much more! Cleveland Cavaliers Fan/Sufferer. I've been to Prague.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, I implore my fellow journalists to stop calling WATERWORLD a flop.

Kevin Costner's Most Infamous Box Office 'Flop' Wasn't The Disaster People Think It Is - SlashFilm

Waterworld is often referred to as a massive box office flop that kicked off Kevin Costner's fall from commercial grace, but the truth is more complicated.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 36m

There's a lot to like about GIGLI! And then there's Justin Bartha!

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 45m

Gigli = better than AI

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ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1h

Should this come to pass, I certainly hope every single person in the entertainment industry who's promoted/employed this technology is financially ruined forever as a result.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2h

"Global policymakers and finance ministers will gather in Washington for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank fall meetings after a chorus of warnings that a stock bubble focused on artificial intelligence companies might burst before long."

Stock Bubble Dread Grips Central Bankers in Washington

Global policymakers and finance ministers will gather in Washington for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank fall meetings after a chorus of warnings that a stock bubble focused on artificial in...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 6h

No idea where to start. Diane Keaton was a gift.

Diane Keaton: "You'd be so nice nice to come to"

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 7h

You also get some miserable 1970s Denver and Detroit in there! And some smiles along the dreary way. I believe you will dig it.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 11h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 7h

Here's @davidjroth.bsky.social on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Hits me right where I live, which feels like nowhere at this point. Must-read and all that. I hope he found time to watch SCARECROW during that long winter.

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 9h

TRON: ARES would've been a blockbuster if they let Lee Greenwood do the score.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 10h

I do not believe this will be profitable for Frito-Lay.

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 20h

Vaguely remembering the time some online loser tore into Wampler for goofing on Rob Zombie's "Dragula." And Scott was like "How could you care about something this shitty?" This happened, no?

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 21h

It is accomplished... after 15 innings.

Willem Dafoe pinned to the cross in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 22h

So slip us a rope, and sail on round the bend.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 23h

He kills in GANGS OF NEW YORK, and, uh, MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE? I do not know this podcast, but I hope they all get scabies.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Superior to GREEN LANTERN?

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

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‘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...

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, he could always apologize and donate the money to a battered women's shelter.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Bill Burr's whole appeal was built around no-BS observations. Now that we know he's full of shit when a seven-figure check clears (from one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet), he has zero value as a comic. His career should be over, but I see a booking at Trump's ballroom in his future.

Defector @defector.com · 2d

Bill Burr has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, but he still can't settle on which lazy excuse he wants to employ. defector.com/bill-burr-ke...

Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh…

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Guiteau. So excited I can't spell the name of the standout character from Stephen Sondheim's ASSASSINS correctly!

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, we're getting a James A. Garfield/Charles Giteau miniseries from Netflix next month that stars Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, Nick Offerman (as Chester A. Arthur!) and Betty Gilpin. My depression lessened for a second as I typed this. That's a big win in 2025!

Matthew Macfadyen Has Found The Perfect Role (And Perfect Real-Life Weirdo) To Follow Succession - SlashFilm

Succession's Matthew Macfadyen is following up his run on the HBO series by playing another (this time real-life) weirdo loser in Netflix's Death by Lightning.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

(This is in reference to the THR's Costner article from yesterday, but the author of that piece is hardly the only offender.)

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, I implore my fellow journalists to stop calling WATERWORLD a flop.

Kevin Costner's Most Infamous Box Office 'Flop' Wasn't The Disaster People Think It Is - SlashFilm

Waterworld is often referred to as a massive box office flop that kicked off Kevin Costner's fall from commercial grace, but the truth is more complicated.

www.slashfilm.com

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

This for example. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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