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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 3h

Music to write to

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 4h

If you have Criterion and haven't seen WHAT LIES BENEATH yet, give it a whirl. Genuinely scary movie about a woman who sacrificed everything to save her marriage and a man who will sacrifice that marriage to save his reputation. Zemeckis's last great movie, if you ask me.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 5h

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 17h

The great @kumail.bsky.social joins us at @ucdenver.bsky.social to talk our film program. What a treat.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 19h

Playing *A* hammer would be a stretch.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 20h

I was going to say that "I like the moment when Jeff Bridges appears dressed as Brando's Jor-El in TRON 3," but then I remembered how sarcasm sometimes doesn't translate in text.

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 23h

Nosferatu

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Elizabeth: Ghost in the City @kikutowne.bsky.social · 21h

Can you imagine if there had been a series of this and people really embraced the themes in it? I think about that a lot, lately— youtu.be/idT98H8TK-U

Welcome To My Life | Cartoon Network Studios Shorts | Cartoon Network

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 22h

FFC review: PLAY DIRTY, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social).
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Play Dirty (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

½*/****starring Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar, Tony Shaloubwritten by Charles Mondry & Anthony Bagarozzidirected by Shane Black by Walter Chaw It took me 72 hours to finish Shane Blac...

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 22h

So I'm just driving around, minding my own business...

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes I think about how frogs serve now as inextricable iconography for both sides in these Balkanized United States and I blame the Hadron Collider for shifting us into this fucking Babar/Berenstain Bears-ass timeline.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

Man, I dunno. Still chewing it over.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

All I can say is that if TRON: ARES were on a streamer, it would take me a week to finish it.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

Goddamnit, I'm in.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

Ah thanks - more my brain is swiss cheese, but the effect is the same.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

FUCK! You're right.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU opens today. @mangiotto.bsky.social covered it at Telluride.
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Telluride '25: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slaterwritten and directed by Mary Bronstein by Walter Chaw Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is brutal. It’s uncom...

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

I thought about joining ICE but found out it takes months before I can even apply to be Grand Wizard.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

When he gets frustrated with her inefficiency as a stoker and throttles her for a second before kissing her.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 1d

Showing my Film History class THE GENERAL (1926) followed by MAD MAX FURY ROAD (2017).

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I listen to Kate Bush's "Suspended in Gaffa" and I don't know how everyone else didn't just pack it up and go home. Like, shit, she solved it. What do we do now?

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 2d

... Jesus Christ.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, in addition to being a world class asshole, Landis is also a motherfucking murderer.

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