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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world)

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Independent film critic, est. 2011 - https://moviegoing.rocks / blogger & columnist | SEFCA member | 🍅s approved | Always ⚜️🍿 #TeamNOLAFilm

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 10d

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Moviegoing with Bill

Movie reviews "that care forgot," from Hollywood South's independent film critic.

www.moviegoing.rocks

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 45m

“This is now very obvious.” thehill.com/homenews/sta...

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1h

I think everything should be ready by Friday or Saturday, but in the meantime...

www.drewmcweeny.com/a-little-war...

A little warm-up while we wait

Some thoughts on how this place is going to be different from Substack.

www.drewmcweeny.com

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WhoDatJedi podcast @whodatjedi.bsky.social · 18h

NEW EPISODE: The best sounds in Star Wars are ... whodatjedi.podbean.com/e/the-best-s...

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Inside the Arthouse @insidethearthouse.com · 1h

By the nature of the word, we’ve come to expect that documentaries reveal truth and certainty. But THE MAN WHO SAVES THE WORLD? reminds us that sometimes the greatest wisdom lies in embracing what we can’t fully know. With director #GabePolsky @area23.bsky.social

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Inside ‘The Man Who Saves the World?’ Gabe Polsky on Truth, Illusion and a Man on a Mission

YouTube video by Inside the Arthouse

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 1h

Why does his water glass look like a specimen cup/jar?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 1h

Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 1h

I moved to Ghost via magicpages.co. Smooth process, inexpensive for Pro service, etc. Recommended.

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Popchinski @6puma.bsky.social · 4h

Ya know what else harms the state? Oil spills with no consequences killing our wildlife and poisoning our people.

NOLA.com @nolanews.bsky.social · 4h

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill is asking the DOJ to drop a $128 million lawsuit against insurers tied to the nation’s longest-running oil spill, saying it harms the state’s energy industry.

An oil spill has been leaking off Louisiana for 21 years. State wants a lawsuit over it dropped.

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill is asking the DOJ to drop a $128 million lawsuit against insurers tied to the nation’s longest-running oil spill, saying it harms the state’s energy industry.

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 4h

UCLA Film School alumna Garrett Bradley in now a MacArthur Fellow. www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Garrett Bradley

Harnessing the full potential of moving images to evoke feeling and render the textures of her subjects’ lives.

www.macfound.org

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 7h

"Why is journalism important?"
"Because there are crooks."

A fine document of the assault on local news media. My review: www.moviegoing.rocks/strippednews/

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‘Stripped for Parts’ Is Front and Center in the Fight for an Informed Society

Where hedge funds and media consolidations are the enemies of democracy.

www.moviegoing.rocks

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Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social · 7h

Excited for the NYFF presentation tonight - a new restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s “Queen Kelly” - best known today as the silent film Gloria Swanson screens for William Holden in “Sunset Blvd.” And she’s right - they did have faces then.

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 7h

I don't think so, but I might have some in my family down the line.

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nolafredo.bsky.social @nolafredo.bsky.social · 7h

The sad irony of the GOP's castigations against the Dems is that everyone wishes the Dems were the progressive hellhounds they are proclaimed to be.

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 7h

A Gin Blossoms wake-up call.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

When I was movie editor at EW, we came up with this idea for a Waterworld cover. We thought it was funny--he'd spent so much time shooting on water--and obv. Costner thought it was funny enough to play along. Readers and the industry HATED it and him--"He's spitting at Hollywood." You never know.

Costner shooting a jet of water out of his mouth next to the headline "Kevin Costner speaks out for the first time about the most expensive gamble in movie history--Waterworld: The Untold Story."

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 7h

Dems as radicals who would lead America into a communist era?

This is a party that can barely muster the courage to put out a general statement against the words of a madman and the actions of the opposition group in power.

How radical.

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 13h

Where's Uwe Boll when we don't need him?

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Up next on TCM @tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 14h

DINER (1982) — 5:00 am ET — 1h 50m
(TCM Primetime: Rewinding the '80s)

Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern; directed by Barry Levinson

A group of friends who hang out in a Baltimore diner face the problems of growing up.

#TCM #TCMParty

Rewinding the '80s

October 7 | 5 Movies

www.tcm.com

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Bill Arceneaux (keep on blogging in the free world) @billarceneaux.com · 15h

Interesting updates over at Medium, re their writer's partner program: medium.com/blog/partner...

Partner Program update: Starting October 1, we’re rewarding external traffic

The start of a series of small-scale changes to make the Medium Partner Program a better fit for more writers

medium.com

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 16h

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 19h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 1d

From a moral standpoint, The Toxic Avenger is the movie of the year...

io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 1d

'The Toxic Avenger' Has Helped Eliminate Over $15 Million in Medical Debt

The ooey-gooey, proudly raunchy horror comedy launched a fundraiser ahead of its theatrical release—and it's still going along with its arrival at home.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 20h

You ever think about how there were dudes that probably saw loads of combat in WWII and then 20-odd years later were playing henchmen on BATMAN

Two middle-age dudes playing henchman on Batman

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John Gholson @gholson.bsky.social · 17h

If you wait a few minutes in any Krystal parking lot, you’ll eventually see a dude with this mustache and ‘do

Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 17h

"Bitches, leave"

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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 22h

Spectacular, intricate, disconnected, profound: One Battle After Another is an immense experience that's best experienced twice:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Real Battle of “One Battle After Another”

Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.

www.newyorker.com

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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 23h

Those who claim to be Christian seem to be facing a cross roads. You cannot believe that Jesus Christ himself would be on the side of the masked thugs of ICE.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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