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Bill Chambers
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Founder and Editor, FilmFreakCentral.net; Member, TFCA, OFCS
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For the evening crowd.
February 19, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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This is Lil Cat.

She’s in Mendocino. A little shy. VERY sweet. 8 years old. And was well loved.

Can anyone give her a soft spot to land?

That face!

If not, can you share?

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February 16, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Tom Noonan on a couple of his (wild-sounding) unproduced screenplays. Alt-text included.
SCENARIO: What's the first complete screenplay you ever wrote? NOONAN: In 1980 I wrote a script called "Fast and Loose," about this washed-up high school basketball player who couldn't leave home. He has this pet turkey his family keeps trying to kill every time there's a holiday. At one point, they think they've killed it and have it plucked, but it rises from the dead without any feathers. So this guy spends the rest of the movie knitting sweaters for it. I've taken that character and put him in a couple of other screenplays, because I like him. He's funny. SCENARIO: I've heard about another one of your scripts, about a guy who is afflicted with Tourette's syndrome. NOONAN: "Bonedaddy." The thing about Tourette's syndrome is that when you're doing something ecstatic--artistic, musical or poetic--the symptoms go away. Somehow that part of your brain overrides the fucked-up part that gives you the symptoms. So in the screenplay, this kid becomes the church organist and feels that when he's playing, God is protecting him from these awful symptoms, like incessant cursing. He then gets worse when he's 13, 14, which is when Tourette's becomes full-blown. He's sent away for 20 years to an insane asylum. He gets out when he's in his 30s and comes back home to try and redeem himself. But he still has these insane symptoms, so his parents lock him up every night in a trailer behind the house. He eventually falls in love with the town slut because she finds his cursing funny. And then he breaks into the church one Sunday and plays. That's the basic story. I worked on that at Sundance in '91.
February 18, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Fished the first issue of Scenario out of storage, featuring WHAT HAPPENED WAS.../Tom Noonan. This quarterly magazine was special: Four full-length scripts per issue (one unproduced), followed by atomically in-depth interviews with the screenwriters.
Cover of Scenario #1 featuring collage artwork of a writer typing on a computer. Scripts include GROUNDHOG DAY, FIVE EASY PIECES, WHAT HAPPENED WAS..., and 1-800-.
February 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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For the morning crowd.
February 18, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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For the weekday crowd.
February 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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FFC review: THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN - 4K ULTRA HD, by Bill Chambers. filmfreakcentral.net/2026/02/the-...
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
The 40 Year Old Virgin**/**** Image A Sound A Extras A-starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogenwritten by Judd Apatow & Steve Carelldirected by Judd Apatow by Bill Chambers Revis...
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February 18, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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Watching BLACK PHONE 2: THE SEARCH FOR "THE".
February 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Getting really into my 1am "Maude" reruns.
February 16, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Here's my pencil artwork of Joan Crawford in the killer Strait-Jacket from 1964 🪓
Pencil drawing by Jennifer Dionisio of Joan Crawford in Strait-Jacket (1964)
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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I’m being honorably discharged from ICE today because I have terminal Havana syndrome. Next time I kidnap a 5 yr old it’ll be from that big Chevy Tahoe in the sky
February 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Finding out that Jeffrey Epstein persuaded Matt Groening to stop using hand-drawn animation in the Simpsons is making my head spin
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Sunday morning Canadian television is three monster puppets hosting a showing of IT'S ALIVE.
Green metal dude mutant (Gorky), baby mutant, mad scientist mutant with cleaver (Gnash) in a grubby kitchen.
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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This is the last time, of three, I interviewed David Cronenberg. I like how it turned out: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/04/grav...
Grave Expectations: FFC Interviews David Cronenberg - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
by Walter Chaw I first interviewed David Cronenberg after the premiere of Spider at the Telluride International Film Festival in 2002. A couple of months later, I hosted a screening of the same at Den...
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February 15, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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I am so sad I will never get to eat Jimmy Fallon's sauce.
February 14, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Happy 35th to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Yes, I still have the enamel brooch they gave out on opening night.
Death's head moth pin based on THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS' poster
February 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Split-dioptre alert: HE SAID, SHE SAID.
Elizabeth Perkins in focus in foreground left, background newscasters and Kevin Bacon in focus in background right within a widescreen frame
February 14, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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For the evening crowd.
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Warner or Arrow should put THIS BOY'S LIFE out in 4K. As a matter of fact, if they don't, I'll dry-gulch 'em!
February 14, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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FFC review: GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (2026), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/02/good...
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
**/****starring Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Juno Templewritten by Matthew Robinsondirected by Gore Verbinski by Walter Chaw Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a me...
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February 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Criterion giving LENNY a 4K release is cool and everything but it's time to stop goofing around and do a box set of all five Fosse movies.
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Oh, I should've mentioned to her that I took that blanket out to the gravel pit and shot it.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d
“.. Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane ..”

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February 13, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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Interested to see the reactions to ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN in 4K. Personally I really like the transfer, which restores the original Saul Bass Warner logo in black-and-white.
February 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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‘Forget it, Jake. He’s snorting coke off a toilet seat.’
February 12, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Not really a flex because, well...and it was a festival screening, but... I saw I LOVE YOU, DADDY in IMAX.
andykhouri.bsky.social Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 7d
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:

Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM