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Andrew J. Eisenman
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Writer not a Poster // Filmmaker and Film Critic // Member @ncfilmcritics.bsky.social //
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This one absolutely rips
rianjohnson.bsky.social Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 20h
We are in theaters TOMORROW!! See my pinned post for a theater finder link ❤️❤️💀⏰ #WakeUpDeadMan
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Just saw IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT and I know best actor has been stacked, but Vahid Mobasseri deserves to at least be brought up more often.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Watching Kevin Perjurer slowly descend into madness these last few years is the one good thing to come out of YouTube.
defunctland.bsky.social Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social · 2d
So you made a robot stand up and talk... now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney's Living Character Initiative, an effort to populate Disney theme parks with free-roaming, interactive beings. It was touted as the future. How's it going? Watch here: bit.ly/49C6vng
Mickey hand and animatronic hand reaching toward one another
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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For the late night crowd
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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I’m warmer on WICKED FOR GOOD than most people, but I still think it’s got massive problems. Full review at Elements of Madness:
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"Wicked: For Good" stays too close to the source material to gain any real altitude. BY ANDREW J. EISENMAN on NOVEMBER 22, 2025 • Ф (0) It's common wisdom that all the good songs of Wicked (2003) are in the first half. But if the majority of songs in the anti-fascist melodrama of Act 2 were as silly and energetic as "Dancing Through Life," the whole of the play wouldn't work. Audiences would rightfully cry foul at a musical that doesn't take its issues seriously, which is how I felt about the first film. Last year, Wicked's timely election-month release saw director John M. Chu (Wicked; In the Heights) discuss the post-Reagan book and post-9/11 play as openly political works about America in transition. Where the first film's songbook neatly captures the naivete of coming of age politically and personally in college, the emotional narrative of the dialogue scenes never catches up with the emotional throughline of the songs. This time however, both are locked in, as is Chu. 6:34 • 5G 49) In the year since we last saw them, the students of Shiz University have lost all naivete, save for Elphaba and Ariana Grande's (Don't Look Up; Zoolander 2) Galinda. Their humanizing encounter with The Wizard has left them both hopeful that either exposure or lobbying can convince the powerful man to change his ways. But Jonathan Bailey's (Fellow Travelers; Jurassic World Rebirth) Fiyero, Ethan Slater's (I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story; Wicked) Boq and Marissa Bode's (Wicked) Nessarose have been beaten down by living in unprecedented times. Fiyero, in particular, has lost his spark, the events in the last movie leaving him steely, reserved, and determined to act the hero for the regime in order to undermine it. Boq has become the bitter bystander to Nessarose's slide into fascism, socia trapped by his own lie of affection in the last film. The greatest weakness of Wicked: For Good is not the songbook, but the decision to only expand existing scenes. Slater's performance is so much more interesting than his first that it's maddening that we don't get to see Boq and Fiyero talk to each other at least once in the third act. Colman Domingo (The Running Man; Sing Sing) also joins the cast as the Cowardly Lion, but he's barely distinguishable with his limited lines. Newcomer Bethany Weaver sounds good as the infamous Dorothy, but you never get to see her face. "If I can make them believe that everything he says is a lie." ≥ = @ elementsofmadness.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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She’s gonna run for Governor
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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A great piece
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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No one’s doing it like Big Pic with that #4 choice
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Should’ve titled it WICKED 2: PRETTY GOOD
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Trying to imagine using the chemicals to develop 35mm film stock as collateral for a loan to build a film laboratory. Or using my immense stock of air filters as collateral for the loan to start my HVAC business. Using my stock of tires as collateral for my car dealership. My stock of bubble liqui-
CoreWeave simply isn't possible without Nvidia Core Weave first came to my attention because it innovated in something that surprised me: using GPU as collateral for $2.3 billion in loans at an effective interest rate of 15 percent in the last quarter, according to the company's most recent quarterly filing. It turns out this was a pioneering innovation - companies such as Crusoe, Fluidstack, and Lambda have also taken out similar loans. Even CoreWeave itself took out a second loan, for $7.5 billion, using more GPU for collateral. This time, the company got better terms - only 10 percent interest, as of the third quarter. It also amended the loan to draw another $400 million - getting an effective 9 percent rate in the process. The third loan was even better: 9 percent interest in the third quarter. (All three loans have
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Excellent
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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READ: Member Andrew J. Eisenman (@andrewjeisenman.bsky.social) reviews #therunningman:

www.pontificator.org/p/the-runnin...
"THE RUNNING MAN" RUNS AWAY AT THE END
Review
www.pontificator.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I love when you can tell that they’re quoting him
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d
* WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER HASSETT: THERE COULD BE A LITTLE BIT OF ALMOST QUIET TIME IN THE LABOR MARKET

@reuters.com #QuietTime
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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*shakily removing glasses*
Bluesky post by me from 4/21/2024: Toilet paper scientists are hard at work on the Omega Roll, one of which equals infinite regular rolls (will still be sold in a 4-pack)
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Now seated for: Wake Up Dead Man
Wake Up Dead Man, - Knives Out MYSTERY NETFLIX
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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To be fair, most people think of cinema as heartfelt entertainment instead of the weird, inherently sexual, and psychologically complex art form full of crimes large and small that it really is.
gonebabygone.bsky.social The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12d
Forgot how the marketing for The Fabelmans was like "a heartfelt semi-autobiographical story of the transformative power of the movies" and the movie's actual plot is "here follow the crimes of my Sexual Mother"
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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A good day to let everyone know we have submitted Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile for Best Live Action Short at the Oscars.

If you know anybody in the Academy who is part of the process, it's in the portal. Get us shortlisted and nominated.

An easy way to prove you, too, are not an elite pedophile!
The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein
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November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Littlefeat is retiring so get them on the ballot
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 12d
After Oasis, it’s clear there’s plenty of money on the table for broken-up legacy acts. Who will pocket it first? We dive in to the bands the industry thinks are most likely to cash in on a reunion.
The Race to Secure the Next Big Rock Reunion
After Oasis, it’s clear there’s plenty of money on the table for broken-up legacy acts. Who will pocket it first? We dive in to the bands the industry thinks are most likely to cash in on a reunion.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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There are very real things to worry about in the released Epstein files, but it is also crazy that the Santa Cult’s discussion of “was it a black girl” in One Battle After Another is mirrored very closely when investigators asked one of the victims what the rules for recruiting girls were.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Desperately need him to cast Scorsese in a single scene of the upcoming alien invasion film.
coreyatad.com Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 13d
Spielberg, an underrated director of directors: Truffaut in Close Encounters, Attenborough in Jurassic Park, Kassovitz in Munich, Lynch in The Fabelmans
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Oh Trump did something in 2008
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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JAY KELLY: God I love george Clooney. This is going to be overshadowed by it’s overlap with SENTIMENTAL VALUE and BABYLON, but the inciting incident and what it reveals makes Jay Kelly one of my favorite protagonists of the year.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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READ: Member Andrew J. Eisenman (@andrewjeisenman.bsky.social) reviews #christy for Elements of Madness (@elmntsofmadness.bsky.social):

elementsofmadness.com/2025/11/06/c...
Boxing movie “Christy” polishes everything about Christy Martin’s story to a bland finish.
Christy, David Michôd, Mirrah Foulkes, Katherine Fugate, Sydney Sweeney, Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Katy O'Brian, Ethan Embry, drama, adaptation, Black Bear, Anonymous Content, Christy Martin
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November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Bumping for the morning crew
andrewjeisenman.bsky.social Andrew J. Eisenman @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social · 14d
Softlaunching my own newsletter on @beehiiv.com — PONTIFICATOR! with my review of Edgar Wright’s THE RUNNING MAN, a film that’s really fun but not quite great.

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“THE RUNNING MAN” RUNS AWAY AT THE END Has Edgar Wright ever truly suffered? One must assume that he has, but it remains the thought I woke with after last night's screening of The Running Man. It's a real movie-star thrill ride from Glen Powell (Hit Man, Twisters) and a solid double from Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Hot Fuzz), but its laudable anti-facist, anti-capitalist politics are undercut by a lifeless production design and third act that runs out of breath. The Running Man follows Powell as Ben Richards, a good, angry man. He's been blacklisted from working because he stood up for his coworkers' safety. Now, his daughter is dying of the flu, and his wife is starting to compromise her boundaries as a waitress just to buy pain meds.. The only way to a better life is to compete in dangerous reality TV shows, including The Running Man, where 3 contestants are hunted for lethal sport. ...critics say that The Running Man signals a return to the barbarism of the Roman Colosseum." Maybe Wright is entering a new phase of his style that started with Last Night in Soho 2022) — a third film will make a trend - but the frantic camera that made him famous is now balletic, and not quite painterly. Graphic novel-y? The colors and compositions are pop art, even when the story calls instead for pulp; the plastic sheen of eshitification retards attempts at critique. There is a moment where the masked men hunting Powell charge towards the camera in front of a Patton-esque American flag. What should be a moment of horrific triumph is instead an empty splash page. What's not empty is Glen Powell's performance, which sits next to Hit Man (2023) as one of his best. There is a marked difference in this life between the anger of a rich man and a poor man when they are insulted, and Powell's seething anger is brilliantly accurate and entertaining. It's his reactions to the insults of Josh Brolin's (Hail Caesar, No Country for Old Men) billionaire character and the various indignities of his life that make this film a fun time at the movies. It's refreshing to say that a film is worth your time just to watch a fun performance, but that's what being a movie star is really all about. Jayme Lawson (Sinners, How to Blow Up a Pipeline) is hitting homers every time the film remembers to let her act in her small role as the wife, and Emilia Jones (Task, Coda) is also very good in her too-limited screen time. In general, all of the performances are up is onan here, but as the movie races towards the end, you can feel
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM