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Reely, Kathleen?
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Former(ish) Film & digital projectionist.
Cinema Haunter.
I will talk at you about running 35s at length if you let me.
She/They
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The fact that CBS's blatant subservience was not enough to get the Administration to back Paramount's offer on WB just shows that prostrating yourself has limited utility. It's never enough.
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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FACTS! The gay hockey show is CANADIAN CONTENT, kids - and it shows.
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Heated Rivalry, man. After hearing about -- and living through how bleak the TV & Cinema landscape is what a breath of fresh air to see something like this take off in the way it has. Canadians haven't lost the sauce. They just need $ and an opportunity.
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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THIS SATURDAY - ring in the holidays the best way we know how...with 80s valley girl zombie apocalypse classic, NIGHT OF THE COMET!!!

With LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE by the RATSKIN FAMILY DRAG BAND!!!

TICKETS GOING FAST!!!! Sponsored by @baystreetvideo.bsky.social ! revuecinema.ca/films/night-...
December 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Greetings! We're a small, but growing, group of Satanists living in the Parkdale area of Toronto who are just as concerned with helping our community as we are helping lessen the stigma & misconceptions many have regarding such godless heretics ❤️
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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HOLD SPACE WITH US! we love culture!
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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We've got a new name! We are very excited about this name that more clearly reflects what we actually do. We're now the UofT Film Library & Media Archives. Our bluesky handle has not changed but we're at @filmlibrary_mediaarchives on Instagram and we are steadily working to update everything else!
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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someone spent a lot of money for a report that says what anyone who manages a local art house could have told you for free
How Can Movie Theaters Fill More Seats Again? A Bain Report Shares Suggestions
"Audiences haven’t abandoned theaters; they need a more compelling reason to go," the consultancy highlights, sharing suggestions for how to bring fans back to the cinema in the post-COVID era.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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When I was starting out as an erotica writer, I hung out a lot with an older gay man who'd been writing smut forever. He told me that without straight women writing gay paperbacks in the 1950s, gay culture as we know it might not exist. He insisted gay men owed these ladies a huge unpayable debt.
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Archives face so many risks. Floods, fire, theft - archives management is always partly facilities management.

Now, LLMs. Give us a break!
Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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all of the shit about how if you allow people to transition kids are going to be peeing in litter boxes was just the mirror image of the reality: as soon as you enshrine immutable gender difference in law you're going to have legally required Lady Meals For Her
December 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Sending good vibes and godspeed to all the projectionists out there who will no doubt be feeling this in their hands, shoulders, necks, backs and knees -- since 95% of us are <40 or older and that A LOT of loading and changeovers.
By the way, if you are fortunate enough to be in Philadelphia in the next two weeks, you can see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair on 35mm the way God intended. (I am told the 70mm blowups actually don’t look great.)
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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It’s hard to not see the Netflix/WB news as a sort of doomsday scenario. The constant mergers and large scale absorptions of brands might be good for business, in theory, but they are bad for art; they are bad for creators; they are bad for preservation. Which makes it bad for us.
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
My cure for The Bleakness™: make something with your hands.
It helps, I promise.
Plus it often spirals (in a nice way) into other creative projects. Can't make things this cute and NOT take photos. Tiny outfits for tiny frogs WOULD be cute -- time to make tiny outfits.
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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the issue here, especially with TCM, is more than half of its programming came from the Turner, and later WB, library. If you remove the network from the library, how is it going to afford to license 100% of its programming?
I just heard from someone at Netflix. TCM is apparently going with the other linear networks to Discovery Global.

Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix:

"We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Ooooof this Netflix / Warner Bros / HBO (?) is potentially a big blow to Crave here in Canada isn't it?
I mean, the HBO subscription is basically the only reason I have that.
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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This week’s Downtown Theatre newsletter looks at the history of the Madison, Midtown, Capri, Eden, Hot Docs — a cinema with many names, but which most of us remember as The Bloor.

open.substack.com/pub/thedownt...
The Midtown: A theatre of many names
The venerable Annex cinema, its many re-inventions & its modern-day identity crisis.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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YOU ASKED FOR IT FOR SEVEN YEARS --- IT'S FINALLY HERE!

DUMPSTER RACCOON CINEMA proudly presents the long-rumored DIRECTOR’S CUT of 1990s beloved cult classic bomb, CAPTAIN AMERICA (1990) – with SPECIAL GUEST (and POSTER ARTIST!) comic superstar writer CHIP ZDARSKY! revuecinema.ca/films/dumpst...
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I made it through Rainbow Connection with dry eyes but ooooh, I was not prepared for Gonzo's I'm Going to Go Back There Someday. Tears just rolling freely down my face. I'd never seen the Muppet Movie until tonight and what a joy to watch it on a big screen with a group of people.
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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This will be good, you should go to this.

(Sunday night, December 7th at Innis Town Hall. Movie holds up.)
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Mad Men 4K
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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The Toronto Public Library has purchased the old WE Charity headquarters at Queen & Parliament to convert into a new branch: blogs.tpl.ca/news-release...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM