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Jackson Weaver
@jacksonweaver.bsky.social
· Jan 13
Warner Archives Challenge 2025
Inspired by the fantastic Criterion Challenge, here’s one based on the Warner Archive. This is almost entirely based around the archive released on Blu-Ray as of Jan 12 2025. Unless otherwise specifie...
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Copied the criterion challenge to make one based on Warner Archives. Made it for myself but got carried away enough with research and cross referenced lists that I made it public for anyone wanting to watch good old movies!
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Give Theodore Pellerin the keys to the city Lurker was that good www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
The top 25 movies of 2025 | CBC News
Despite a seemingly unending wave of bad news about the industry, 2025 managed to serve up more than a few phenomenal movies. From historical biopics to animated outings to a water polo camp from hell...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Give Theodore Pellerin the keys to the city Lurker was that good www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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You can feel it in the air… Toronto has ELLA MCCAY fever!
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You can feel it in the air… Toronto has ELLA MCCAY fever!
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One Battle After Another leads #TFCAawards winners torontofilmcritics.com/features/one...
One Battle After Another Leads 2025 TFCA Awards Winners - Toronto Film Critics Association
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards and the nominees for Rogers Best Canadian Film and Rogers Best Canadian Documentary.
torontofilmcritics.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
One Battle After Another leads #TFCAawards winners torontofilmcritics.com/features/one...
Idk about quintessential but this is the one I think of basically once a week
December 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Idk about quintessential but this is the one I think of basically once a week
I liek movie www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Pluribus is as great as you guessed it would be. It's also just as surreal | CBC News
Pluribus is a show about change — an insidiously joyful change that (without spoiling the goods) will eventually come for our main character, Carol, too. That is, unless she can figure out a way to un...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I liek movie www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
I’m going to break my own limbs
Rockstar Games is delaying Grand Theft Auto VI once again, this time to November 2026
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026
The release date for the game had previously slipped to May 2026 from fall 2025
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November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I’m going to break my own limbs
Might watch Little Manhattan tonight
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Might watch Little Manhattan tonight
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art by Katsuhira Tokushi
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
art by Katsuhira Tokushi
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Internet Archive should be a government funded service
Happy Internet Archive Day to all who celebrate.
The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.
The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.
October 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Internet Archive should be a government funded service
I have kind of kept this fact hidden because of what it says about me but I have never seen myself reflected as comprehensively in a character as Diane Keaton in Looking For Mr. Goodbar. Like that’s just me sadly
October 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I have kind of kept this fact hidden because of what it says about me but I have never seen myself reflected as comprehensively in a character as Diane Keaton in Looking For Mr. Goodbar. Like that’s just me sadly
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the irony of cutting so many critic roles? sure, every publication might have a review of a new show, but at least they are *different*. you can't say the same about silly celebrity news items that no one will ever return to.
September 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
the irony of cutting so many critic roles? sure, every publication might have a review of a new show, but at least they are *different*. you can't say the same about silly celebrity news items that no one will ever return to.
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It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.
I repeat:
It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.
I repeat:
It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.
September 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.
I repeat:
It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.
I repeat:
It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.
Rental Family blew my socks off. It’s confusing and beautiful and odd and perfect. Brendan Fraser stop making me cry.
September 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Rental Family blew my socks off. It’s confusing and beautiful and odd and perfect. Brendan Fraser stop making me cry.
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TIFF at 50: From wild celebrity moments to films that put Toronto on the map, Brian D. Johnson looks back at milestones in @tiffnet.bsky.social history for Zoomer #TIFF50 everythingzoomer.com/arts-enterta...
The Little Festival That Could: Celebrating 50 Years of TIFF
As the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary in September, it seems...
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August 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
TIFF at 50: From wild celebrity moments to films that put Toronto on the map, Brian D. Johnson looks back at milestones in @tiffnet.bsky.social history for Zoomer #TIFF50 everythingzoomer.com/arts-enterta...
Everyone plug your ears at the part where I sing Sodapop
Check out the latest episode of CBC’s Commotion, where @jacksonweaver.bsky.social, Rachel Ho & I chat with @justsayrad.bsky.social about KPop Demon Hunters & Ne Zha 2.
For anyone curious about the #KPopDemonHunters sing-along screenings, I shared what it was like attending one!
#KDH #nezha2 #film
For anyone curious about the #KPopDemonHunters sing-along screenings, I shared what it was like attending one!
#KDH #nezha2 #film
KPop Demon Hunters sing-along takes over theatres, and Ne Zha 2 is here
YouTube video by Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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August 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Everyone plug your ears at the part where I sing Sodapop
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Why do "personal" and "culturally specific" animated movies often fail? Because executives are terrified of them and often micromanage them into bland irrelevance that's neither personal or mass-appeal.
In this case, they accidentally let a voice through and got so scared they threw away billions.
In this case, they accidentally let a voice through and got so scared they threw away billions.
August 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Why do "personal" and "culturally specific" animated movies often fail? Because executives are terrified of them and often micromanage them into bland irrelevance that's neither personal or mass-appeal.
In this case, they accidentally let a voice through and got so scared they threw away billions.
In this case, they accidentally let a voice through and got so scared they threw away billions.
I wonder if we’ll ever hear good news again
August 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wonder if we’ll ever hear good news again
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We can either have informed film critics who are beholden to no one or we can have influencers whose livelihoods depend on staying in the good graces of studios’ marketing departments. The moment to choose was yesterday, but we can still hold onto some small patch of grass.
The city that gave the world Siskel & Ebert no longer has a full-time print film critic.
Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips announces he has taken a buyout and the Trib is eliminating his post. Unless I am missing someone I believe this leaves the nation's third-largest city without a single full-time film writing gig.
August 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We can either have informed film critics who are beholden to no one or we can have influencers whose livelihoods depend on staying in the good graces of studios’ marketing departments. The moment to choose was yesterday, but we can still hold onto some small patch of grass.
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If you care about film writing -- or you know ANY AND ALL OF HUMANITY -- please skip those summaries and go to actual websites
The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.
August 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If you care about film writing -- or you know ANY AND ALL OF HUMANITY -- please skip those summaries and go to actual websites
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now that i’ve seen both Eddington and Weapons i feel we are absolutely moving toward a theory of shitpost cinema. the people yearn for gas leak narrative
August 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
now that i’ve seen both Eddington and Weapons i feel we are absolutely moving toward a theory of shitpost cinema. the people yearn for gas leak narrative
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covered The Siege as a potential five-star three-star movie, but discovered it's actually too good for that distinction (though still imperfect)
great video essay about it here:
great video essay about it here:
THE SIEGE is the kind of good movie you get when Hollywood is accidentally a lot more honest about America than it normally is. (On all levels, you literally couldn't make the movie after 9/11.) I am duty-bound to always shout out this video essay by @honorszombie.bsky.social: vimeo.com/420865434
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
covered The Siege as a potential five-star three-star movie, but discovered it's actually too good for that distinction (though still imperfect)
great video essay about it here:
great video essay about it here:
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000
August 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000
If I had to imagine what the highest-earning animated film of all time might look like, I’d probably imagine Ne Zha 2. From the incredible fight scenes, to insane animation, to so many nested narratives they lead to this unending series of thematic climaxes, it lives up to the hype. And then some.
August 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If I had to imagine what the highest-earning animated film of all time might look like, I’d probably imagine Ne Zha 2. From the incredible fight scenes, to insane animation, to so many nested narratives they lead to this unending series of thematic climaxes, it lives up to the hype. And then some.
Very curious as to when pink cardigan and jay guapo’s tongues-out nose war with the fake-monk-bracelet-seller will hit the mainstream news cycle
Trends always have an element of randomness, but on social media our algorithmic feeds are making them more unintelligible.
The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results
Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.
bloom.bg
August 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Very curious as to when pink cardigan and jay guapo’s tongues-out nose war with the fake-monk-bracelet-seller will hit the mainstream news cycle