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Richard Whittaker

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Award-winning reporter and film critic. Veep, Austin Film Critics Association. Bylines at Austin Chronicle. The Times, Birth.Movies.Death. Heard on One of Us, Overhated, Certified Forgotten. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/richard-whittaker/movies

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 7h

That's like claiming a lawmaker lives in their state capital.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 7h

Manufactured constitutional crisis, you mean. You're just making Republican arguments to keep 3/4 of a million people as second class citizens.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 14h

They don't have Senate representation, and the electoral college is horseshit. And if Vermont and Wyoming get to be states, both of which have smaller populations, so does DC.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 15h

They didn't run on anti-fascism. They ran on "Hey, we got rid of the old guy! Love us now?"

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 15h

If Anderson was trying to say something about Gen X aging out of activism, groups like the Monkey Wrenchers were right there.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 15h

For me, he's an onscreen contradiction: he's fascinating to watch because of DiCaprio, but as a character he's the embodiment of Anderson's failure to update Pynchon, a Weather Underground lampoon who feels out of time.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 15h

Not me. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...

Tron: Ares Review: Error Loading - The Austin Chronicle

Earlier this year, I was talking with Josh D’Amaro, Chairman of Disney Experiences, about the process for developing new rides for Disney parks. We talked specifically about why, 34 years after the re...

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 15h

People wonder why I got out of political journalism. It's because I got tired of being surrounded by idiots in the press pool who didn't take Republicans seriously when they said they wanted to destroy the government.

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Live updates: Budget office says ‘substantial’ firings of federal workers have started

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 16h

Chris, the reality is that Abbott is mean and weird, and got meaner and weirder after the bath scalding incident, which his people have always tried to bury.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 16h

"Competently made" seems a stretch.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 16h

If you were worried after The Hurt Locker that Bigelow had gone soft on US foreign policy, this will convince you that you were right. The cinematic version of access journalism.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 16h

He's not inscrutable. He's a mean, weird man who got meaner and weirder over the years. He's pretty easy to read, Texas reporters - many of whom we know - are just too cowardly to say it.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 16h

Mike, stop it. There is no coherent argument for denying DC statehood.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 16h

Dozens of speaking roles but barely a character between them, and an ending that's supposed to be ambiguous but is just sloppy. Watch either version of Fail Safe instead.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like I'm in the minority, but I loathed A House of Dynamite. A smugly sanctimonious slice of neoliberalism that feels like it was recited to Bigelow by CentCom and transcribed verbatim.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 23h

Where I come from, we call this an invasion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 1d

Reverand Hangman Page

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 1d

a group of people are standing in a dark room surrounded by smoke .

ALT: a group of people are standing in a dark room surrounded by smoke .

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 1d

All weather is long trousers weather for a gentleman.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 2d

Aspatria. Pronounced Spatry.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 2d

The longer I sit with A House of Dynamite, the more insufferable I find it.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 2d

I used to know a criminologist, and one thing he noted was that the idea that everyone knew all the most infamous serial killers or extreme criminals before the 1980s is incorrect as most outlets wouldn't cover them, and cases like Gein were regional matters rather than national headlines.

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 3d

I've been told by friends of Tobe Hooper that the Gein influence on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was a similar later invention.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 3d

Ten horrors movies by which to get to know me:

🥩 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
🐜 Quatermass and the Pit
🗼 The Keep
🐺 The Wolfman
🍨 The Blob
🧙‍♀️ The Lords of Salem
🗣️ Reanimator
🎵 A Dark Song
🐑 You're Next
🐕‍🦺 The Beyond

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 3d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🧟‍♀️ Evil Dead 2
🧗‍♀️ The Descent
🧙‍♀️ A Dark Song
😱 Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
🧩 Hellraiser
🌒 Messiah of Evil
🤖 Hardware
🦇 Fright Night
⚰️ Phantasm
🎹 Deep Red

Paul Lê @paulle.bsky.social · 3d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

📺 Ghostwatch
👻 Kōrei/Séance
🚗 Joy Ride
🐗 Razorback
👍🏻 The Hitcher
🕯️ Poison for the Fairies
☎️ When a Stranger Calls Back
🩺 Pin
🏳️‍🌈 Hellbent
🐈‍⬛ Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 3d

There's something inordinately depressing about the quality of some writers for major publications these days, and their lack of intellectual curiosity. Just read a piece at the Guardian of all places on method acting and I'm fairly sure the author thinks Stella Adler is a Belgian beer.