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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure it's well known, this is always on John Waters' list.

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it IS loony. Not counting the infamous ending, the robot-as-Maria can't be taken seriously on face value. (It's one of my favorite films).

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 2d

Would have liked THE OTHERS, IT, ANTICHRIST, HALLOWEEN 2, FRIGHT NIGHT, and MOTHER! to make the cut; but not room for everything.

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Halloween!!!

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Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here's what that would mean

The U.S. has not conducted a nuclear test in over 30 years. Experts say doing one now could make America less safe.

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 3d

To reduce Christianity, in fact probably most spirituality, to a mere code of conduct is to do it a great disservice.

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 3d

Disappointed by both Aster and Scorsese's very simple reading of SILENCE in MR. SCORSESE who posit he put off his apostacy out of pride. The whole reason I loved the movie so much was that the Garfield character was the real deal. He loved Jesus like you would love your wife. It's his identity.

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 4d

Found one in the men's room of Roosters of all places.

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 6d

Worst documentary though? I don't understand how anyway could walk away disenchanted from the diving sequence in OLYMPIAD. I appreciate the argument, but there's something disingenuous about putting your sense of ethics over your sense of aesthetics also.

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 6d

The great joke about Riefenstahl's films is that she sets the standard so high for the Nazi ideal that the actual Nazis don't come close to meeting it. It's a little funny how out of place Goebbels, Hess, and even Hitler come off in TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 7d

FD 6 was the best possible FD movie, now we have the best possible Frankenstein movie- gross out comedy, scary, cool action, homoerotic, girl/monster romance, Frankenstein-is-the-monster, parable about narcissistic abuse, Prometheus parable, filmmaking parable-- it supports all readings, I think.

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 7d

Watching the Scorsese doc, part of me feels a little bad for him. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and ET are every bit as personal as something like MEAN STREETS or RAGING BULL, but Spielberg was cursed with great commercial success and so he's seen as representing the Establishment.

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 9d

*cackling* Pauline Kael bot for life.

pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 9d

[STAND BY ME] And maybe you wonder how moviemakers who had the spirit to stage this stupendous gross-out could have made such a vain, effete, self-coddling movie. (1986)

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 10d

Call for sobriety. Of all the terrible things Trump has done, this wouldn't make the top 20. Probably not the top 50. Treating the White House as a sacred place points to the kingmaking that we have been rightfully attacking him for anyway and gives me the icks.

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How presidents have changed the White House — and how Trump's ballroom is different

President Trump is demolishing the East Wing to make room for a ballroom. His administration says he's continuing a presidential legacy of White House renovations, but this is the biggest in decades.

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 10d

I haven't connected very strongly with her work and would have hoped for a bit more reverent traditional approach, but we'll see. I really thought David Fincher was the perfect fit for this and that has long been on my list of greatest "what ifs".

wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 11d

Ice cream vs. spinach analogy? Maybe a little bit. I might complicate it a bit more and say that all cinema is sensation and ideology/thought/ethics may just be another form of sensation. Flashy, stupid, more meaningless may trump dark and more meaningful in this instance. (TALK TO ME is good too).

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 11d

So I caught up with FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES which seems to be the best possible FD movie. And also TALK TO ME, the Philippou Bros' predecessor to BRING HER BACK. The Philippou Bros horror films are one of the few that actually take death seriously. But between the two, I still prefer FDB.

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 11d

Who's "they"? Can the conceptualization of "they" be meaningfully differentiated from the stereotyping process? I think I follow this account just to jolt me awake sometimes.

Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 11d

A stereotype is not harmless. It’s offered as the justification for hating Black people. They call us violent to justify using violence against us.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 13d

Top 4% today.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 573: Oct 20, 2025

I got 9/9 Correct
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Cinematrix No. 573: October 20, 2025

Can you name a Catherine O’Hara movie that begins with A-H?

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 16d

Best film I saw on this year's TCM cruise was LIFEBOAT. Very nice surprise, I thought ROPE (also a single setting Hitch) was kinda crap. I like the villain as a bit of a proto-Lans Handa; not a super-Nazi, just a sociopathic German who takes pride in his job.

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 16d

Top 8%. Won't post again until I get 6%.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 570: Oct 17, 2025

I got 9/9 Correct
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Cinematrix No. 570: October 17, 2025

Can you name an Oscar Isaac or Gene Wilder movie with a one or two-word title?

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 18d

I'll always remember reading an article in an 80s compilation of MAD that took on the televangelist sex scandals. It was the ugliest, most brutal, most acrid satire I had ever seen before or since. And accordingly, perhaps, the most courageous moral statement I have ever seen.

Alfred E. Neuman @alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social · 18d

Hey Gang, This Is New Material From The New MAD Magazine, Im Guessing That This Is Supposed To Be Funny....
Jim Lee (Head Of D.C.) Really Needs To Get His Head Out Of His Ass. Corporate Kiss-Asses Suzy Hutchinson & Bern Mendoza Think This Is Funny Enough To Publish.
Tone Deaf Much ?
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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 18d

Not a bad point, but I'll defend this. Very strongly actually. For kids in abusive families, this is punching up. The target, again, isn't dysfunctional families; but the SECRECY in dysfunctional families.

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 18d

The one thing I respected MAD for was not punching down. This...

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 18d

@criterion.bsky.social releasing BIRTH is big news. Been teaching it from a shitty DVD for years. Finally. A masterpiece gets its physical media due.

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wokelstein.bsky.social @wokelstein.bsky.social · 18d

I wouldn't object to that either, but you know I don't think that THE ZONE OF INTEREST even has a physical release? We do live in the darkest of all timelines.

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