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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 1d

Movie Trivia returns tonight (Tues) at the Prospect Park @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social!

Free to play, starts at 8 (arrive early for good tables!) 1-6 players per team, 5 rounds of trivia spanning the spectrum of cinema.

Trivia Nite Tuesday 10/7 8:00pm at the Nitehawk Prospect Park

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 6d

We should all cancel Paramount+ like we cancelled Disney+.

Fuck. That only would work if anyone was actually subscribed to Paramount+ to begin with.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty

MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jun 16

We're gonna need an active communist party if only to restore context to our political discourse, I can't listen to republicans calling chuck schumer radical left anymore

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 10d

Megan Ellison’s been really quiet lately, huh?

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 13d

Also, weird we don’t count deaths at ICE facilities - over 35 - as right wing violence. Not to mention cop killings, babies who died from
USAid cuts, etc. etc.

Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

www.npr.org

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 14d

The late Scott Spiegel’s Intruder is a sort of missing piece in American indie cinema, tying together a joke in Raising Arizona, the gore in Evil Dead 2, the cereal box in Pulp Fiction, and the director of Igby Goes Down…

A ★★★½ review of Intruder (1989)

Scott Spiegel was a Wedge Antilles figure of the indie and horror scene. A high school buddy of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, Spiegel co-wrote Evil Dead 2, introduced Lawrence Bender (who produced Int...

boxd.it

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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 15d

An Update:

I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.

(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 19d

“Several board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air”

Via THR

Bob Iger’s Wife, Willow Bay, May Have to Move Her Free Speech Fundraiser

A fundraiser for Willow Bay's International Women's Media Foundation, planned to take place at the power couple's Brentwood home next month, may have to relocate after her husband yanks Jimmy Kimmel o...

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 26d

I’m not 100% sure (post 2000 ones can blend together for me) but I think it was from What a Time to Be Alive.

Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 27d

Funniest part of the Superchunk show:

Mac, the lead singer, intro’s a song saying “this is one from our second most neglected album.”

Someone shouts “What’s the most neglected?”

Mac goes: “Really? We’re in New York City on 9/11 and you need to ask?”

Here’s to Shutting Up a studio album by Superchunk released on Sept 18th 2001.

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 29d

It’s one of my blind spots for him so sticks in my mind in a way it honestly may not if I’d actually seen it

Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 29d

8 graves to cairo; mr & mrs smith; major and the minor

Sorry wrong number; Christopher Strong; remember the night

She done him wrong; Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer; major & the minor

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 29d

Best I’ve ever done on this…

Vulture Cinematrix No. 532: Sep 9, 2025

I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2696

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Play at:
vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Cinematrix Fantasy Picks: September 9, 2025

A grid with the actors most requested by Cinematrix players: Can you name an Oscar-nominated Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart movie?

vulture.com

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · 29d

Hey, take it as an opportunity to remember that the insufferable racist dipshit is dead.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · Sep 9

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 8

OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 9

Told you so.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · Sep 6

(Only in the movie the President and his dead friend didn’t sexually abuse kids together, and a Republican in the CIA actually stood up against him.)

Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · Sep 6

Watched Clear and Present Danger last night. In the movie a President cites drugs as an excuse to claim he has the power to extrajudicially slaughter Latin Americans in large part to distract from his friendship with an elite criminal who died under mysterious circumstances.

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · Sep 1

Stop trying to make me want to move back to Columbus Mike.

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · Sep 1

Chris Stults is such a name dropper ;)

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Kevin Cecil @krobcecil.bsky.social · Sep 1

Literally last night I met a couple going to an indie festival. I asked who was playing and they said “Yo La Tengo, and some others you’ve never heard of.” I pressed a little and they added Scrawl. (Who I had heard of but probably only because I’m from Columbus.)

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