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Damnèd Screamvens
@thehighsign.bsky.social
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Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17h
Kathryn Bigelow's expertly constructed thriller A House of Dynamite imagines a nuclear missile crisis unfolding in real time from 3 different perspectives. The one feature that doesn't jibe with our contemporary reality: everyone in the situation room is competent & sane.

slate.com/culture/2025...
This Year’s Most Terrifying Best Picture Contender Is Part Rashomon, Part Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s first movie in eight years will remind you why she’s a master of suspense.
slate.com
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 3h
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ceej @ceej.online · 5h
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 6h
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 4h
I have this exact lobby card on my office wall! I mean it's a reproduction found on eBay, but it's the same size & paper quality as a standard lobby card. Love the design & colors.
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 5h
My standard for blocking here is "Cut of your jib? Don't like it."
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 6h
Had him blocked before you ever asked!
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 16h
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Screenshot from HeavenIsFun.com site: "Since 1988 the Holy Spirit has been taking me to Heaven. Jesus would show me various fun places and allowed me to do fun things. I asked, 'Why was He showing me these places?' Daddy/God said, "Because people think all they do here is float around wearing diapers, eating grapes, or doing nothing but bowing before Me. I have planned for each person, in detail, what makes them happy to be here with Me. So you are to tell them Heaven is Real and FUN, and Jesus is coming soon!"
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 16h
I see some people following who I think joined the stream because of me! Happy to get the word out. RLJ's newsletter is fun to follow, if you want to know the next time she plays.
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 16h
A small good thing: Rickie Lee Jones is jamming live in her living room right now with one guy on guitar and another on accordion, singing in harmony while her dog wanders in and out: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE NOW: Live with Rickie Lee Jones
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17h
<3 <3
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17h
Save us, Stringer Bell
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17h
When a cautionary tale about impending global nuclear war is your comfort movie, you know something has gone very wrong.
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17h
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17h
I get into this a bit in the review. I can see how it's a smart choice not to turn this into a "can you believe these clowns are in charge?" movie, because part of the point is that even if the clowns weren't in charge, mutual assured destruction is an unsustainable & dangerous way to run the world.
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17h
Kathryn Bigelow's expertly constructed thriller A House of Dynamite imagines a nuclear missile crisis unfolding in real time from 3 different perspectives. The one feature that doesn't jibe with our contemporary reality: everyone in the situation room is competent & sane.

slate.com/culture/2025...
This Year’s Most Terrifying Best Picture Contender Is Part Rashomon, Part Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s first movie in eight years will remind you why she’s a master of suspense.
slate.com
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
You wouldn't know her, she's from another decade.
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
Another reason this is the best time of year!
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
I mean she's more likely to have ended up on the other side though sheer carelessness, but I'm rooting for Sally!
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
It's Sally Bowles
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 1d
The “girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa” couldn’t be any younger than 90 years old you stupid fucking fascist orcs.
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
Not writing another word till I get my own scarf bird.
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
Omg!
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
Have the body? I hardly know the body
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
When you didn't realize Cabaret was a feel-good musical
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
I mean, I know lots of bright people who've gotten great educations at Ivies, but the same is true of state schools & other less prestigious but just as rigorous institutions. & there's definitely a culture of legacy admits & other well-off kids who get into fancy schools & coast through w/o effort.
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
The funny thing is that to the extent this has_any_relevance to readers, it's bc it undermines the reverence for elites that props up institutions like the NYT. Psst, don't give away that a lot of people w/ Ivy League degrees coasted through learning very little except how to use their privilege!
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d
The beginning of a beautiful friendship between tech-industry ghouls & the toadying shills who publish their press releases.
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