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Lavender, rose hips and a little Tahitian vanilla. Film essay collection DRYING OUT AT THE MOVIES out now! https://ko-fi.com/maxgrobinson/shop Movie thoughts @ https://boxd.it/4861

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 5d

Some very exciting news: I made a 25 minute visual essay about director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s life and career with @bsoderberg.bsky.social and it’ll premiere this Sunday at the @mahoningdit.bsky.social’s upcoming screening of HOUSE!

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Extremely haunted @extremelyuncanny.com · 3h

Firestorm comics be like

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scyleris.bsky.social @scyleris.bsky.social · 20h

White people calling non white people white here is pretty fun

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

No shade to any of the Vertigo relaunch writers, but this is what the lineup looks like with me no longer in it, lol.

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 9h

One of the most beautiful and demure of its type, a reposeful haunted house mystery sculpted with confident bleeding-heart compassion for both the living and the dead. Long before the phantasm violence kicks into tremendously classy stuff, you fall in love with the movie’s humanity and humility.

A child’s ball being thrown into the dark water

The discovering of a well (with a child’s skeleton) beneath a home

George C Scott peering into a cobwebbed room

A wheelchair sitting in the smoldering ruins of a burnt down manor

The Changeling (1980), Peter Medak

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 1d

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 9h

Bari Weiss crowdsourcing how to do her job checks out

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the full memo.

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 11h

Really adore that film

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 11h

Evil commie hunter Hawkman is such a slam dunk lol

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

As far as I know, this was the first copy of HOUSE you could rent in the US. It’s a bootleg of one of the two Japanese Laserdisc releases.

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Popped by Kim’s Underground at @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social Lower Manhattan

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

A staffer on Stephen Colbert's show wanted to ask the first ever Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York City to play a game of thumbs up, thumbs down about an ongoing genocide.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 1d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a beautiful afternoon in Zohran’s NYC

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 1d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Vibrating thinking about the COLLATERAL/TOKYO DRIFTER double feature I’m catching at @japansociety.org tonight

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Riley @raaleh.bsky.social · 2d

seeing the phrase “since 2009” crop up a lot these days

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Masuke🐶+rocogirl👩 @rocogirl.bsky.social · 2d

布団かけて寝る犬🐶

Tonight, Masuke will sleep under the futon. Good Night🖐️

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 3d

32 years ago today, Homer showed his new chainsaw and hockey mask to Bart. "Cape Feare," first aired October 7, 1993.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is deploying a regiment of early 2000s Danny McBride characters to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

This is all really bad but more so for people who rely on federal programs

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like the GOP didn’t count on six months of layoffs and the dangling threat of getting fired softening the blow of a shutdown. Harder to use an operating federal government as leverage when some random Trump flunky can decide to fuck up your life on a whim.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

(Politico) - One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot.

#RepublicansInDisarray @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 3d

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

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Drew @4484.cool · 3d

My kid's school had put up a wishlist. This isn't a rich area, lots of families here rely on WIC and jobs at the Navy shipyard, which means the government shutdown is really going to hurt. These snacks are easy to hand to kids at the end of the day or before a weekend www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Check out my list on Amazon

www.amazon.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

👀👀👀

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