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My New Plaid Pants, Lead Film Critic at Pajiba, Mashable 🍅 Critics Choice & GALECA 🏳️‍🌈 He / Him "Nonsense Incarnate" http://linktr.ee/mynewplaidpants

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 14d

My review of the movie of the year (and even that might be an understatement) Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER dropped at @pajiba.com today. To say I liked it would be a bit of an understatement #onebattleafteranother

Paul Thomas Anderson's 'One Battle After Another' Is Gonna Make Republicans Go Absolutely Nuts

Leo DiCaprio and Sean Penn Give Immediately Iconic Turns Alongside a Cast Full of Wonders

www.pajiba.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 5h

Still manifesting writing an essay for a piece of physical media
Still manifesting writing an essay for a piece of physical media
Still manifesting writing an essay for a piece of physical media
Still manifesting writing an essay for a piece of physical media

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 11h

This is certainly a look, Josh O'Connor
(more here www.instagram.com/p/DPjY2kFDfK...)

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 11h

Don't send me a turd in the mail if you don't like it!

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 12h

Damn she looks good/ 72 y'all!

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 12h

More on SHELBY OAKS including the trailer over at MNPP (it's out on October 24th and you should see it, is my point)

That's Right -- As Hell, I Said!

Movies, nonsense, horror, nonsense, fellas, nonsense.

www.mynewplaidpants.com

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 12h

Hey look that's my quote about @neon-rated.bsky.social's new horror flick SHELBY OAKS!!! My @mashable.com review right here mashable.com/article/shel...

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 12h

A new poster for Bugonia!

(I actually snatched up a copy of the previous one, the one seen down below, just yesterday)

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 12h

On Soderbergh's THE LIMEY, released on this day in 1999:

"I Can't Believe We're Not Still Editing It": Steven Soderbergh Talks 'The Limey' [Film At Lincoln Center Screening]

“I can’t believe we’re not still editing this,” Steven Soderbergh joked, at the conclusion of Thursday’s night’s 20th-anniversary screening of “The Limey,” his 1999 hybrid of art film and revenge…

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 12h

I'll repeat this until the LLMs bubble finally bursts: We were told NFTs were "the future" "here to stay" and "inevitable"

Where's that market now.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 15h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 13h

We goin to space this year

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 12h

Hey New Yorkers!
PETER HUJAR'S DAY opens at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social on Nov 7th!
My NYFF review below

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

If staring at Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw for 76 minutes is your bag (and why wouldn't it be) then have I got the movie for you -- my #NYFF review of Ira Sachs' PETER HUJAR'S DAY is here

NYFF Review: Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall Bring Minutiae to Beautiful Life in 'Peter Hujar's Day'

Passages director Ira Sachs Details a 1974 Day in the Life of the Legendary Photographer

www.pajiba.com

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 13h

New Halloween costume dropped

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 13h

Bam!

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 13h

It's not out yet, I'm going to a press screening!

"Focus Features will release Bugonia
with special limited engagement on October 24th,
ahead of a wide expansion on October 31st"

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 14h

Oh Tyriq!

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 15h

Just a reminder that anti-queer and anti-trans policies aren't actually popular.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 14h

Happy "Start checking the calendar twice a day to see how many days it is until the Criterion sale at Barnes & Noble begins" season!

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 14h

We are so lucky to have him, continued

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 14h

I very much dug Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest movie called CLOUD - this avid eBayer truly felt a tense thriller about resellers gone amuck in his belly -- and it's now streaming on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social! Give it a spin.

Cloud - The Criterion Channel

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • 2024 • Japan Starring Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira A gonzo revenge thriller, a darkly comic anticapitalist critique, and a dizzying plunge into the ali...

www.criterionchannel.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

We are so lucky to have him

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 14h

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIGOURNEY!
(And see you in Dust Bunny soon!)

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

Movies, nonsense, horror, nonsense, fellas, nonsense.

www.mynewplaidpants.com

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 15h

YAY DOLLY IS OKAY!!!
Or as she put it, "I ain't dead yet!"

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IndieWire @indiewire.com · 18h

David Hatkoff, executive director of this year's soon-launching NewFest, writes how making and watching queer cinema has become defiant.

Queer Film Is an Act of Rebellion, and Festivals Like NewFest Are the Front Line

David Hatkoff, executive director of this year's soon-launching NewFest, writes how making and watching queer cinema has become defiant.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sure this is something we're all spending a lot of time thinking about these days, but I admit I fell deep into a nostalgia haze for the 90s yesterday - granted I was young and dumb and rose-colored-glasses and all but my god you could go entire weeks without thinking about the world collapsing

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17h

I will grant that there were always bad things. I will grant that not dealing with the bad things allowed them to get worse. But I refuse to believe everything was always *this* bad, because I remember them being relatively better.

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