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www.filmthreads.com.au Film Threads is a platform for film reviews, discussion, awards & WTF moments when yet another reboot or Jane Austen adaptation is announced. I'm Australian, so won't reply to DMs on US politics. #filmreviews #filmsky #moviesky

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FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 12h

Jay Kelly, that's the only mistake Clooney should be talking about. Working with Noah Baumhack. That's a mistake right there

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 12h

Dear media

Please never quote George Clooney's uninformed opinions on US presidential politics and either Biden or Harris and their capacity to lead the country again.

If you must ask a celebrity for an opinion, Tom Morello studied political science at Harvard, ask him instead.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure whether Eddie prefers it this way or if it's some white Hollywood producer's idea to neuter their black superstar. But if a studio thinks that Eddie Murphy's co-stars Owen Wilson and Pete Davidson are more attractive than him to women of ANY age, they are delusional on a Bowfinger scale!!

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 2d

Two days, two #EddieMurphy vehicles. #ISpy & #ThePickup. A Murphy completist, one day I'll finish all his movies. As buddy black guy white guy comedies go, these were OK, not as good as #Showtime with #RobertdeNiro & #ReneRusso. Why does the white guy get a love interest in these movies, not Eddie??

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 4d

One anomaly that no critics have pointed out is that apparently it's mandatory to cast #DavidKrumholtz in every biopic. #Ray? Check. #Oppenheimer? Check. #Springsteen? Check. In both Ray & Springsteen he plays an exploitative music industry executive, but not the same exec. Man's gotta eat, I guess

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 4d

#Springsteen:DeliverMeFromNowhere is being piled on by the very same white male middle-aged critics it's targeted to. It's true that it's hackneyed, derivative, cliched and leaden, but so was A Complete Unknown, and they lapped that up. Hopefully this'll be the end of TV movie star vehicle biopics?

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 4d

#GothamAwards gave #EthanHawke Best Actor for First Reformed, so they know what they're doing :) In 2025 they have so many awesome nominees, from Ethan & his fabulous First Reformed costar Amanda Seyfried, to Lee Byung-hun (Billy Rocks!), to my fellow Aussies Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi. Too deadly!

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 5d

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FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 5d

Wunmi Mosaku!! This just gets better and better 😀

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 5d

Jacob Elordi!!

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 5d

Also Josh O'Connor, Teyana Taylor, the list goes on. Great stuff 👏 👍 👌

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 5d

www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2025-g...
Some extremely exciting & welcome Gotham Awards nominations 👏

Rose Byrne, Tessa Thompson, Wagner Moura, Ethan Hawke (please let him get an Oscar nomination), father & son Skarsgaard nominations, above all Benicio nominated for OBAA ahead of Sean Penn!! 💙

Gotham Film Awards Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads With a Record Six Nods

'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' scored the second most nominations with four, followed by three-time nominees 'It Was Just an Accident' and 'No Other Choice.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 6d

What does he say about First Reformed? (In my view, the greatest film of this century)

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 8d

One of the best Cronenberg movies!

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 8d

www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
Actually, not so sure about recommending the film now I've read the white director Fred Schepisi's take on it, particularly his dubious discussion of First Nations filmmakers. Explains why his career, unlike say Peter Weir, isn't exactly covered in glory

The legacy and controversy of 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'

Dealing with racial oppression and portraying murderous violence, the cult Australia film has its share of fans and critics. What is it about 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith' that's provoked audiences...

www.sbs.com.au

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 8d

#TheChantOfJimmieBlacksmith is on #SBS for another day or two. It's a product of the 70s and not perfect but when Jimmie says "I've declared war" I am so proud of Australian cinema 🖤❤️💛

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 9d

And I get that Hollywood wants to lock #MichaelBJordan into another franchise. But surely they can do better than proven charisma-free zone Austin Butler as his offsider. Mix it up and have an Asian American cop, or at least a talented white person. Or a white woman!!

FFS Hollywood is useless

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 9d

Hollywood is really so bereft of new ideas that there's ANOTHER #MiamiVice reboot in the works? At least flip the script and have a female led buddy cop movie. Who else can see #KekePalmer smashing this??

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 10d

Sticking to recent horror, if the cast of Hereditary and Us couldn't manage a nomination; if Keke Palmer in Nope or Margaret Qualley in The Substance couldn't swing one; if Wunmi Mosaku in #Sinners isn't at the top of this year's list; then Madigan's engaging but hardly groundbreaking can't either.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 10d

Whether #AmyMadigan will receive an Oscar nomination is a hot topic, but underscores the lack of depth in the acting categories this year. Plenty of superior genre performances haven't been nominated - not just horror, but science fiction, comedy, musicals.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 10d

#Weapons is good! It seems pretty clear that the main influence is early Stephen King (I could practically hear each character's interior monologue) but it's really well executed & the level of accuracy in the smallest details killed me (Julia Garner in the bottle shop, Benedict Wong's lounge room)

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 11d

Re-reading Thomas Pynchon's #Vineland has been so comforting. I'm not American but it's a reminder that just like the terrifying and hostile Reagan era, the frankly inexplicable Trump era will pass

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 13d

Topkapi with Maximilian Schell!

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 13d

Gwyneth Paltrow could not PR or buy her way into Oscar nominations for Proof, Country Strong, Emma or any other bullshit movies that were talked up by the media, her agent and her PR-in-hyperdrive team. If she flukes her way into a Marty Supreme nomination, it's the weakest Oscar year on record.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 13d

This is a king we can get behind