John Hatch
@johnhatch.bsky.social
Author of "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, MURDER?" CLUE AND THE MAKING OF A CULT CLASSIC.
Movies, baseball, books, and food, not necessarily in that order.
Movies, baseball, books, and food, not necessarily in that order.
"We hemorrhaged subscribers after we yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air. How can we get them back?"
"I've got a foolproof plan, Boss."
"I've got a foolproof plan, Boss."
December 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"We hemorrhaged subscribers after we yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air. How can we get them back?"
"I've got a foolproof plan, Boss."
"I've got a foolproof plan, Boss."
I knew Scooby-Doo would never lie to me.
An experienced hiker was rescued Sunday morning after becoming trapped in quicksand for hours in a backcountry section of Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park.
Hiker rescued after becoming trapped in quicksand in Arches backcountry
An experienced hiker was rescued Sunday morning after becoming trapped in quicksand for hours in a backcountry section of Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park.
www.sltrib.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I knew Scooby-Doo would never lie to me.
Everyone's like "Die Hard is a Christmas movie!" but then say nothing about The Silent Partner. SMDH.
December 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Everyone's like "Die Hard is a Christmas movie!" but then say nothing about The Silent Partner. SMDH.
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"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life."
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life."
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
Amanda Dobbins, on fire
Pretty swell that multibillion-dollar companies can break the law as a matter of routine with the government's complicity, but some kid who swipes a blu-ray from Walmart from these same companies can have his whole life messed up over a $15 film! Cool country!
Both Plans to Buy Warner Bros. Are Illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Both Plans to Buy Warner Bros. Are Illegal
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Pretty swell that multibillion-dollar companies can break the law as a matter of routine with the government's complicity, but some kid who swipes a blu-ray from Walmart from these same companies can have his whole life messed up over a $15 film! Cool country!
Meanwhile we Red Sox fans get this fantastic award.
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Meanwhile we Red Sox fans get this fantastic award.
This is insane. I stopped buying anything from Amazon a while ago. I promise, it's easier than you think to find what you need. There's tons of other online retailers for books, movies, and plenty of local stores for what you need.
On this page you'll find nine clearly AI James Gandolfini biographies that were published after mine.
It's absolute madness and authors have no power. Don't buy books from Amazon. Buy them from @mzspress.bsky.social or @bookshop.org or your local bookstore or even fucking B&N but not goddamn Amazon
It's absolute madness and authors have no power. Don't buy books from Amazon. Buy them from @mzspress.bsky.social or @bookshop.org or your local bookstore or even fucking B&N but not goddamn Amazon
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is insane. I stopped buying anything from Amazon a while ago. I promise, it's easier than you think to find what you need. There's tons of other online retailers for books, movies, and plenty of local stores for what you need.
Coogler rules.
Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Coogler rules.
This is excellent and now I'm waiting even more impatiently for my 4K blu-ray to arrive.
I wrote about MINORITY REPORT for @letterboxd.social, diving into how Steven Spielberg's cyber-noir masterpiece exposes a world doomed by the hyperreal simulacra of screens and images:
letterboxd.com/journal/mino...
letterboxd.com/journal/mino...
Through a Glass Darkly: The punishing digitopia of Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report out now on 4K UHD Blu-ray, Brendan Hodges looks back on the brain-teasing cyberpunk thriller that exposes a world dominated by the hyperreal allure of screens.
letterboxd.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This is excellent and now I'm waiting even more impatiently for my 4K blu-ray to arrive.
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The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.
FALLON: “And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
ALTMAN: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
ALTMAN: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.
AI doesn't go to bed thinking, "I'm a genius," then wake up the next morning, re-read what it wrote, and want to cut off its fingers so it can never type again.
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
AI doesn't go to bed thinking, "I'm a genius," then wake up the next morning, re-read what it wrote, and want to cut off its fingers so it can never type again.
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of CLUE! If you want to know everything about the making of the movie and its four different endings (you heard me!), then you can get a signed copy of my book at the best movie & TV bookstore on the planet, @mzspress.bsky.social
SIGNED What Do you Mean, Murder? by John Hatch (Paperback, NEW)
Unlock the mystery behind the making of the 1985 cult-classic Clue , with details on the beloved film from author John Hatch, who offers plenty to chew on for die-hard buffs and casual fans alike, plu...
mzs.press
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of CLUE! If you want to know everything about the making of the movie and its four different endings (you heard me!), then you can get a signed copy of my book at the best movie & TV bookstore on the planet, @mzspress.bsky.social
I wish I could take credit for this, but my brother sent it to me and no idea where it came from.
December 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I wish I could take credit for this, but my brother sent it to me and no idea where it came from.
Name your fav Tom Hanks film.
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Name your fav Tom Hanks film.
I subscribe to the Patreon to help relieve their suffering and I still feel like it's not enough.
December 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I subscribe to the Patreon to help relieve their suffering and I still feel like it's not enough.
Anyway, if Tim Onion can buy The Onion (though with that name it was destiny) then what's stopping us from buying Warner Bros.? Let's pool our resources people and get some rich people involved and save a great American studio.
December 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Anyway, if Tim Onion can buy The Onion (though with that name it was destiny) then what's stopping us from buying Warner Bros.? Let's pool our resources people and get some rich people involved and save a great American studio.
Damn there it is. I mean, DAMN.
An interesting thing happens when yer in a creative field but needing the day job, and need to step back some because of the day job. Things slow down, work offers dry up, everything slows worse than you think it should, but it isn't like there is a choice. Then one day it's "Oh you used to..." and
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Damn there it is. I mean, DAMN.
Yes RFK Jr is incredibly stupid but at least he’s a maladjusted freak.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yes RFK Jr is incredibly stupid but at least he’s a maladjusted freak.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
This timeline sucks but also it's amazing?
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This timeline sucks but also it's amazing?
I get complaining about the Golden Globes is...yeah. But sometimes it's so bad as to be impressive, like buying from Ticketmaster, where the commitment to sucking is so strong you almost have to respect it.
December 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I get complaining about the Golden Globes is...yeah. But sometimes it's so bad as to be impressive, like buying from Ticketmaster, where the commitment to sucking is so strong you almost have to respect it.
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To sum up:
1. This will not "save" WB as a theatrical entity.
2. This would amount to handing over two studios to a right-wing tech billionaire.
3. The argument that this won't monopolize market share is true only bc Paramount does so badly it has no market share! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
1. This will not "save" WB as a theatrical entity.
2. This would amount to handing over two studios to a right-wing tech billionaire.
3. The argument that this won't monopolize market share is true only bc Paramount does so badly it has no market share! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
To sum up:
1. This will not "save" WB as a theatrical entity.
2. This would amount to handing over two studios to a right-wing tech billionaire.
3. The argument that this won't monopolize market share is true only bc Paramount does so badly it has no market share! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
1. This will not "save" WB as a theatrical entity.
2. This would amount to handing over two studios to a right-wing tech billionaire.
3. The argument that this won't monopolize market share is true only bc Paramount does so badly it has no market share! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
Reviewing the Golden Globe noms and delighted to see Rose Byrne nominated for Best Female Actor in a Comedy for that knee-slapping, laugh-lout-loud comedy, "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You."
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reviewing the Golden Globe noms and delighted to see Rose Byrne nominated for Best Female Actor in a Comedy for that knee-slapping, laugh-lout-loud comedy, "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You."
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turns out I don't have seeing and hearing problems, I just had to watch a movie from the 90s when they still allowed lights and microphones to be used in the filming process
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
turns out I don't have seeing and hearing problems, I just had to watch a movie from the 90s when they still allowed lights and microphones to be used in the filming process
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"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that?
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
Cult(ure) of Abuse
How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?
www.the-reframe.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that?
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...