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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 9h

Looks borked here

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 11h

This honestly annoys the shit out of me. So many tools that just suggest flat out incorrect changes that make the sentence have a totally different meaning at best, or make it completely unreadable at worst.

Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 13h

"Um you use spellcheck" yeah I do and it fucking sucks and I wish it was the old way where it was just a digital dictionary because currently I end up fighting with a useless piece of AI that's trying to tell me things that are WRONG because it learned from TEXT THAT IS WRONG

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 16h

“Equal parts comical and concerning, LEFT-HANDED GIRL is about resilience in a man’s world, with a five-year-old’s innocent questions shattering illusions and bringing about change.” - @reaffirmsfaith.bsky.social reviews from #LFF: takeonecinema.net/2025/left-ha...

Left-Handed Girl | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

Equal parts comical and concerning, LEFT-HANDED GIRL is about resilience in a man’s world, with a five-year-old’s innocent questions shattering illusions and bringing about change.

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 22h

The next time you see Stephen Miller or some other bobblehead foaming at the mouth about leftist terror cells and the enemy within, I want you to imagine this scene.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

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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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 1d

OH MY GOD WHO CARES IF IT WAS HIS WORST BOX OFFICE OPENING ALL HIS OTHER FILMS WERE HOT FUCKING TRASH

IGN @ign.com · 1d

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has issued a statement after The Smashing Machine became the Hollywood star's worst box office opening ever.

'You Can't Control Box Office Results' — Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Responds to The Smashing Machine's Disappointing Launch

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

Just read a box office analysis of The Smashing Machine’s opening that invoked Nacho Libre as a wrestling movie comparative data point and I think I need to go lie down for a bit. Maybe have a whisky.

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

Walter Cronkite with the caption “And that's me - doing the news”

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d

RISQUE GALORE

Dozens of sex toys have been found washed up on a Scottish beach.

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

I have so many questions

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

I have watched precisely one episode of The Wire (I liked it, but for some reason, I've never watched more) and several out-of-order episodes of The Sopranos. Whenever talking about 'best' TV, I use hedging language because of these massive holes.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

Or you could try my method to impress the CTO visiting from America and open the door to the meeting room before immediately dropping your coffee on the floor and your lower trouser leg.

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

"...it’s striking how [Cameroonian Conservatives] have been erased, in favour of relentless demonisation: of migrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and protesters."
...am I fucking high?! They've been doing this since before I was born! Enoch Powell made the Rivers of Blood speech as a Tory in 1968!

Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that the Conservative Party is one of the legs of the stool of modern civilised society is patently fucking absurd. Last time I checked, the Tories have been an also-ran in Scotland since the late 1990s and the advent of devolution, but the country hasn't collapsed into fascism.

Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

...for any centralised web property of any sort (and a public benefit corporation with a primary huge user is still ultimately that) to deliver exactly what you want then you'll be waiting a very long time.

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone has complaints about moderation on BlueSky, then Mastodon was always available, but everyone whined about it being too complicated. You can't have your cake and eat it on this one. And I don't think Mastodon is as normie-friendly as it should/could be, but if you're waiting...

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 1d

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished film, but the narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around several cliches, but fails to use that fancy footwork to advance something memorable of its own. - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: buff.ly/21T6mTO #filmsky

The Smashing Machine | TAKE ONE | Reviews

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished enough film, but the narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around several cliches, but fails to use that fancy…

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 1d

Chaser: "“And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling & regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, & from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh & laugh, consume & consume.”"

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TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 1d

"You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 1d

I liked The Smashing Machine, and appreciated Johnson's performance, but the way Safdie approached the film overall didn't really work optimally for the story. I would say the music from Nala Sinephro is really the standout element from the technical aspects.

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 1d

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished film, but the narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around several cliches, but fails to use that fancy footwork to advance something memorable of its own. - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: buff.ly/21T6mTO #filmsky

The Smashing Machine | TAKE ONE | Reviews

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an accomplished enough film, but the narrative seems to be all exploratory jabs and no haymaker. Safdie’s film skips deftly around several cliches, but fails to use that fancy…

takeonecinema.net

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 2d

If you’ve watched any feature films that were submitted to film festivals and not selected, I’d say 60% seems generous, to be honest.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Bad movies: is Ridley Scott right to say that 60% of films stink?

Napoleon director Ridley Scott has declared the history of film to be overwhelmingly rubbish – with a few notable exceptions

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 2d

Again, I feel like a lot of this is overcome by talking about different elements of a film rather than each as some homogenous, amorphous behemoth. There are plenty of films with middling to poor scripts I’ve enjoyed because of the visuals, or vice versa, or other elements. Binaries are the issue.

Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 2d

Notice how great film critics, people like Walter Chaw and Angelica Jade Bastien and Manohla Dargis and Jourdain Searles and Richard Brody, never say, “Well, it’s not good, but I liked it.” They argue from their own convictions, confident in the taste and knowledge they’ve cultivated over time.

Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 2d

They'll find a new scapegoat. The goal is maintaining power and hegemony, not actually improving anything.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3d

So here is my question. Let’s assume Miller & Co. are successful, i.e., they deport, jail, kill, all of the “undesirables.” What do they think society is like then? Like, what happens when they realize there’s still crime, drugs, and no one around to do half the jobs, from manual to skilled labor?1/

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 2d

It's very short right now (pun unintended), but I'm going to make more of an effort to catch short films playing at #LFF this year, so here is a Letterboxd list I'll add to as I go along: letterboxd.com/jimgr/list/b...

BFI London 2025 - Shorts

Films I've watched as part of the short film selection for BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Jim Ross 🎞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jimgr.bsky.social · 2d

Longer thoughts at @takeonecinema.net on One Battle After Another, which I think will have legs in the minds of cinemagoers, box office be damned. (Also, if you liked it go check out How To Blow Up A Pipeline, a great but much smaller film I name check in this piece.)

TAKE ONE Magazine 🎥 🎞 @takeonecinema.net · 2d

Paul Thomas Anderson’s proven filmmaking ability makes ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a technically accomplished picture that is gripping and entertaining, taking sides in the battle for history without losing its capacity for doubt. - @jimgr.bsky.social reviews: takeonecinema.net/2025/one-bat...

One Battle After Another | TAKE ONE | Reviews

Paul Thomas Anderson’s proven filmmaking ability makes ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a technically accomplished picture that is gripping and entertaining, taking sides in the battle for history without los...

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