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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 4h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

A photo of Clementine Churchill in black and waving.

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

What's your favorite poster for an October new release?

@jaredmobarak.com analyzes the art of the month: thefilmstage.com/posterized-o...

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 5d

My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• Coyotes (wide - but not in Buffalo)
• Good Boy (wide - Regals & Dipson Capitol)
• The Ice Tower (limited)
• Murderbot – Season One (AppleTV+)
• She Loved Blossoms More (VOD/Digital HD)

www.heyhaveyouseen.com/week-ending-...

#heyhaveyouseen #filmsky

Week Ending 10/3/25

Hockey's back

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

As a conservative, I’ve always advocated for a government small enough that it could militarily occupy several American cities at the same time, against the stated wishes of local elected officials. It should also be small and nimble enough so that it can zip tie children together at 1AM.

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 4d

My latest movie poster rant for October 2025 releases is up at @thefilmstage.com.

#posterized #filmsky

The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 4d

What's your favorite poster for an October new release?

@jaredmobarak.com analyzes the art of the month: thefilmstage.com/posterized-o...

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 6d

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 5d

My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• Coyotes (wide - but not in Buffalo)
• Good Boy (wide - Regals & Dipson Capitol)
• The Ice Tower (limited)
• Murderbot – Season One (AppleTV+)
• She Loved Blossoms More (VOD/Digital HD)

www.heyhaveyouseen.com/week-ending-...

#heyhaveyouseen #filmsky

Week Ending 10/3/25

Hockey's back

www.heyhaveyouseen.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 6d

TV in the bodega is playing footage of masked ICE paramilitaries attacking people on the street.

The owner turns to me as says “feel like I’m watching ‘Star Wars’ everyday.”

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 7d

From the press kit of 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU:

Directed by Gil Junger, starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, and Andrew Keegan.

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An ill-tempered teenager with all the charms of a viper, Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles, right) meets her male equivalent, Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger, left) — a sullen senior with a mysterious past, in Touchstone Pictures' comedy, "10 Things I Hate About You." Allison Janney (center) stars as dysfunctional guidance counselor Ms. Perky. The film is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. Photo credit: Richard Cartwright.

Caught in the middle of a convoluted scheme, Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles, left) finds that the guy of her dreams, Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger, right) is being paid to date her by school jock Joey Donner (Andrew Keegan, center), in Touchstone Pictures' comedy, "10 Things I Hate About You." The film is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. Photo credit: Richard Cartwright.

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 8d

Yup. And he still does special effects on other films now too. He worked on SCARED SHITLESS which was pretty entertaining.

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 8d

Yeah. I hoped PG was a one-off foray into comedy. But just saw the DEATHSTALKER trailer and it, combined with FRANKIE, makes me think I’m just deluding myself.

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 8d

I've officially acknowledged my love for THE VOID isn't enough to keep following Steven Kostanski’s career in hopes for another in that vein. PSYCHO GOREMAN was fine and FRANKIE FREAKO and DEATHSTALKER probably are too, but they're not for me.

Maybe Jeremy Gillespie was the one driving that bus.

Image from THE VOID of three figures in white hoods with a black triangle over their faces.

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 8d

EYES WIDE SHUT polish release poster by Leszek Zebrowski. Illustrated face with mask pushed up above bridge of nose.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 9d

"Holy shit, I remember the backlash I got for appearing in Alvin and the Chipmunks! You would’ve thought that I had taken money from a bunch of people responsible for funding Al Qaeda!"

My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival

I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ...

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 10d

It’s super easy too. I’ve masked and sprayed Covixyl for every minute I’m not in my hotel room or eating outdoors the past three TIFFs. Then I quarantine 7 days in the attic (masking elsewhere in the house) to not put my partner at risk upon returning. Neither of us have gotten COVID.

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10d

Seeing multiple reports about people coming down with Covid after Fantastic Fest. Most of those people will recover okay! Statistically, however, some will get Long Covid and watch their life flip upside down. Going to a fun event shouldn’t include this risk. We HAVE to adapt to, not ignore, Covid.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 11d

This adminstration really is gonna test every blue city until they find one that will give them the riots they want, aren’t they?

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 11d

ANOTHER END [2024] d. Piero Messina

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12d

AI can’t raise the dead, but it might do the next best thing on.ft.com/4gFXyus | opinion

AI can’t raise the dead, but it might do the next best thing

Rapid advances in generative AI and voice technology mean communicating with the deceased will no longer be sci-fi

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12d

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 12d

Just to clarify:
Respect the dead or you’ll be fired(charlie kirk)
But don’t respect the dead or you’ll be fired (george floyd)

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12d

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 12d

My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• All the Devils are Here (lim)
• Eleanor the Great (wide)
• Make Me Famous (touring)
• Superman (HBO Max)
• Thunderbolts* (Disney+)
• Twinless (wide)
• The Ugly (lim)

www.heyhaveyouseen.com/week-ending-...

#heyhaveyouseen #filmsky

Week Ending 9/26/25

Robert Redford at Dipson Amherst

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 12d

My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• All the Devils are Here (lim)
• Eleanor the Great (wide)
• Make Me Famous (touring)
• Superman (HBO Max)
• Thunderbolts* (Disney+)
• Twinless (wide)
• The Ugly (lim)

www.heyhaveyouseen.com/week-ending-...

#heyhaveyouseen #filmsky

Week Ending 9/26/25

Robert Redford at Dipson Amherst

www.heyhaveyouseen.com

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 13d

No movie with a cast that stacked should ever be underseen. Especially not one as good as DIGGERS.

Streaming on Prime. You all have no excuses. Watch it now!

Magnolia Pictures @magnoliapics.bsky.social · 13d

DIGGERS mentioned 💞

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 13d

Letterboxd’s Best Underseen Films of the 21st Century 📽️

Selected by the Letterboxd crew. View the full list: boxd.it/2EK

Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 14d

From the press kit of PRETTY WOMAN:

Directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Laura San Giacomo, and Hector Elizondo.

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Repro quality key art mask of Richard Gere and Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman. Black strip border all-around, color boxes lined up at left. Actors are posed back to back with his tie over her shoulder and in her hand.

Front cover of the Pretty Woman press notes. White page with black title at top in bold sans serif with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts' names above it. Reduced credits at bottom.

Publicity photo from Pretty Woman of Richard Gere and Julia Roberts posed at department store looking off-screen to the right.

Collage of three publicity still from Pretty Woman. Left shows Julia Roberts and Garry Marshall standing and facing each, her hands on his shoulders and his hands wrapped around her forearms. Top right shows Marshall directing Richard Gere on set. Bottom right shows Marshall directing the camera operator.

Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 14d

The headline is true.

Except I’m not sure it applies in this situation since Nazis are in fact Nazis regardless of their politics.

Is he therefore admitting ICE and CBP are strictly MAGA conservatives? So they are Trump’s gestapo? And therefore his thesis is incorrect?

C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 14d

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): "This needs to stop. Violence is wrong. Politically motivated violence is wrong...This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop. To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP; stop!"

"Your political opponents are not Nazis."

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Jared Mobarak @jaredmobarak.com · 15d

Magnolia

The Master
Boogie Nights

Punch-Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
Phantom Thread

Licorice Pizza
Hard Eight

Inherent Vice

Derek Smith @positivelytonsils.bsky.social · 15d

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. Phantom Thread
3. There Will Be Blood
4. The Master
5. Magnolia
6. Licorice Pizza
7. Boogie Nights
8. Inherent Vice
9. Hard Eight

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 15d

oh we doing it?

1. The Master
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Phantom Thread
4. Magnolia
5. Inherent Vice
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Boogie Nights
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Hard Eight

for reference, the worst one here is still really damn good, and everything above that is an all-timer