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A&E Editor/Film Critic for cityweekly.net Disneylander Rated TV-14 for adult themes and language https://letterboxd.com/ScottRenshaw/

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 13d

New @cityweekly.bsky.social reviews of this week's theatrical and streaming releases: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, GABBY'S DOLLHOUSE: THE MOVIE, ALL OF YOU, ELEANOR THE GREAT, DEAD OF WINTER. www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/arc...

Film Reviews: New Releases for Sept. 26

One Battle After Another, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie, All of You, Eleanor the Great, Dead of Winter

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 16h

Matt’s question and the assertion posed by the article’s title are very different things. There are many terrible sequels to great movies, but not one of those great movies was ever “ruined” by its inferior follow-up. JAWS remains perfect, the existence of JAWS: THE REVENGE notwithstanding.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 19h

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 21h

Shout out to the American Presidents who didn't... (checks notes)... hate Americans.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 21h

Editor’s Corner: An “18-year veteran” and an “18-year-old veteran” are *not* the same thing.

Screenshot from ESPN.com story about Joe Flacco being traded to the Cincinnati Bengals, mistakenly referring to the 40-year-old quarterback as an “18-year-old veteran.”

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 22h

Unsolicited junk mail from retirement-planning companies: "We are here to make you feel old as fuck."
Unsolicited junk mail from local mortuary: "Hold my embalming fluid."

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s time for Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence to return to his previous job as the Beast’s human form.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think I’ve seen a more concise, perfect description of AI slop than Zelda Williams’ “the Human Centipede of content.” Sorry it took people spewing fake shit about her dad at her to come up with it.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

My politics right now are, in sum, "The president of the United States should not try to conquer the United States."

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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 2d

We're back! (A Podcaster's Story.) @scottrenshaw.bsky.social and I are podcasting once more as a new season of Mousterpiece Melodies kicks off with our discussion of talk-show hosts, mouse voices, and also, the songs of the 1950 classic Cinderella: mousterpiecemelodies.podbean.com/e/mousterpie...

Mousterpiece Melodies -- Episode 12: Cinderella | Mousterpiece Melodies

Hey, friends! We're b-b-b-b-b-back! Scott and Josh are back in action, podcasting once more as a new season of Mousterpiece Melodies begins. This time around, they're moving up in the history of princ...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2d

Love living on an island entirely built of a bloating bubble that, when it pops, will plunge us all into the deep

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

I need to re-watch. It became a blur of the Stephen King adaptations released 1983 - 1985 (six in 19 months).

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Tilly Norwood is a NEPO baby.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

I will accept your Beatles caveat, but not the idea that “Paul Simon” and “Simon and Garfunkel” are the same artist.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a *lot* to be enraged about, but those recruitment commercials ICE is running—basically telling police officers in sanctuary cities “they’re not allowing you to be cruel enough”—make me want to lose my mind.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

I mean …

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Louis showing his entire ass … which, admittedly, is a slight improvement in terms of the things he’s used to showing.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

The catchiest!

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

No more calls, we have a winner.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Baloois DeJoy

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the upcoming AppleTV doc series on Scorsese was a reminder of how small-c catholic his formative film experience was as a kid. MGM musicals? Yep. Film noir? You bet. Italian neorealism? Totally.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 3d

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d

One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 4d

Right back at you.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 4d

Was sitting in a play last night, realizing this season marks 25 years I’ve been covering theater for Salt Lake City Weekly—longer than I’ve been the film critic. How did I ever get this lucky.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 4d

Shame it didn’t work out.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 4d

I’m rarely tuned in to the personal lives of artists I love, so somehow I can go decades before learning, e.g., the marital family connections between David Lynch and Sissy Spacek, or between Nick Lowe and Johnny Cash.

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