Norm Wilner
@normwilner.bsky.social
Consultant! Writer! Host! SEMcast, SHINY THINGS, ex-Secret Movie Clubber. I can probably help you with your movie. He/him. https://linktr.ee/normwilner
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Thread. This is a really good take.
AI is a prediction machine, choosing words and images based on probability. It can approximate an artist's style but cannot make an artist's choices, which is where art differentiates itself from homage and pastiche. It reminds me of a deleted scene in A History of Violence.
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Thread. This is a really good take.
NICE GUYS cinematic universe. One film every Christmas until I'm deposed.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
NICE GUYS cinematic universe. One film every Christmas until I'm deposed.
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Stalking kills. I am, by every possible measurement, a statistical anomaly because few people survive being stalked for a decade like I was.
Stalking is femicide in slow motion.
Grateful @thewalrus.ca covered this and asked me to weigh in.
Stalking is femicide in slow motion.
Grateful @thewalrus.ca covered this and asked me to weigh in.
Why Don’t We Take Stalking More Seriously? | The Walrus
The law makes it hard for victims of criminal harassment to prove they’re at risk
thewalrus.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Stalking kills. I am, by every possible measurement, a statistical anomaly because few people survive being stalked for a decade like I was.
Stalking is femicide in slow motion.
Grateful @thewalrus.ca covered this and asked me to weigh in.
Stalking is femicide in slow motion.
Grateful @thewalrus.ca covered this and asked me to weigh in.
Hey, it's a brand new SHINY THINGS, featuring my reviews of @criterion.bsky.social's HELL'S ANGELS and @shoutstudios.bsky.social's SNOWDEN, both out now and newly restored!
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Can We Be Heroes?
In which Norm spins up Criterion's HELL'S ANGELS and Shout! Select's SNOWDEN.
shiny-things.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hey, it's a brand new SHINY THINGS, featuring my reviews of @criterion.bsky.social's HELL'S ANGELS and @shoutstudios.bsky.social's SNOWDEN, both out now and newly restored!
(Also, why not subscribe already?)
(Also, why not subscribe already?)
Dunning and Kruger saw all of this coming.
Alcoholic national guardsman proves he doesn’t know what mirror imaging in photography is.
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Dunning and Kruger saw all of this coming.
Seconded. Saw this a while back and it's an astonishingly good debut.
Niche post for critics and movie-awards-season nerds: Don't sleep on The Plague, a superb, excruciatingly tense American debut film--not horror, but in its way terrifying--about being a 12- or 13-year-old boy among other 12- or 13-year-old boys. Opens next month; it's haunted me since I saw it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Seconded. Saw this a while back and it's an astonishingly good debut.
This is fucking obscene, but the sheer gall of it makes me think they can hear the clock ticking so they're speed-running the fascist wish list.
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is fucking obscene, but the sheer gall of it makes me think they can hear the clock ticking so they're speed-running the fascist wish list.
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
HOW DOES THIS STORY HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH RICHARD DONNER'S SUPERMAN?
please help me, my brain is running out of my ears
please help me, my brain is running out of my ears
2026's Supergirl Movie Villain Officially Breaks a 48-Year-Old DC Rule
The casting of one of Supergirl's major villains is breaking a historic DC rule.
thedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
HOW DOES THIS STORY HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH RICHARD DONNER'S SUPERMAN?
please help me, my brain is running out of my ears
please help me, my brain is running out of my ears
You know, maybe Musk spending billions of dollars and burning the earth to create a joke book that makes his friends feel awful is a window into his self-image. In this essay I will [Cybertruck bursts into my home like the Kool-Aid man and repeatedly runs me over]
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
You know, maybe Musk spending billions of dollars and burning the earth to create a joke book that makes his friends feel awful is a window into his self-image. In this essay I will [Cybertruck bursts into my home like the Kool-Aid man and repeatedly runs me over]
When "two truths and a lie" gets REALLY out of hand
Brady Corbet’s next film will be X-rated, shot entirely on 70mm, and span three centuries.
See more details: thefilmstage.com/brady-corbet...
See more details: thefilmstage.com/brady-corbet...
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
When "two truths and a lie" gets REALLY out of hand
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I am glad that we got here but this shit is exhausting just to watch, and I can only imagine how exhausting it was to experience.
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I am glad that we got here but this shit is exhausting just to watch, and I can only imagine how exhausting it was to experience.
When I fantasize about starting a Blu-ray label, Sam Irvin's magnificently unhinged GUILTY AS CHARGED is the first candidate that comes to mind.
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
When I fantasize about starting a Blu-ray label, Sam Irvin's magnificently unhinged GUILTY AS CHARGED is the first candidate that comes to mind.
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Using Grok to do a vulgar roast of people at the party with forbidden words.
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Using Grok to do a vulgar roast of people at the party with forbidden words.
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Never forget the time Udo starred in a Sparks music video about compulsive spanking, directed by Guy Maddin:
youtu.be/8YQw6KLJGf8?...
youtu.be/8YQw6KLJGf8?...
Sparks - The Final Derriere (Official Video)
YouTube video by S P A R K S
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November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Never forget the time Udo starred in a Sparks music video about compulsive spanking, directed by Guy Maddin:
youtu.be/8YQw6KLJGf8?...
youtu.be/8YQw6KLJGf8?...
I'd really like it if we could go 24 hours without losing a singular talent, that'd be great thanks
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I'd really like it if we could go 24 hours without losing a singular talent, that'd be great thanks
The phrase "vulgar roast" somehow sounds more childish every time he uses it.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The phrase "vulgar roast" somehow sounds more childish every time he uses it.
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Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟
This is a fine way to be remembered. We should all be so lucky.
i do not need to seek out movies to celebrate udo, i just need to watch the kind of movies i like and udo will appear in them. his presence is etched into the world forever
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is a fine way to be remembered. We should all be so lucky.
Sometimes I Think My Head Is So Big Because It Is Full Of Dreams, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Sometimes I Think My Head Is So Big Because It Is Full Of Dreams, Charlie Brown
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What does it matter what you say about people, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
What does it matter what you say about people, Charlie Brown?
He Was Some Kind of Man, Charlie Brown
They Won't Stay Dead, Charlie Brown
Forget it, Charlie Brown. It's Chinatown.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
He Was Some Kind of Man, Charlie Brown
We've reached "The scene in TALK RADIO where the woman calls in to ask why they don't make I LOVE LUCY anymore"
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We've reached "The scene in TALK RADIO where the woman calls in to ask why they don't make I LOVE LUCY anymore"