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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 12d

wrote about THE SIMPSONS, a show people can't stop quoting to me even tho i have never seen an entire episode. (s/o to @alansiegella.bsky.social for sending me his book despite this).

To Artistic Freedom: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems | Defector

People have been quoting The Simpsons to me so often, and for so long, that even if I don’t recognize the quote, I am able to recognize that it’s from The Simpsons. When I do recognize the quote, it’s...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 19d

Tried, included the ONE I found ;)

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 20d

!!!

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 20d

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 20d

A more perfect movie does not exist.

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 20d

YOU CANNOT COUNT THEM THERE ARE TOO MANY

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20d

This from @sorayaroberts.bsky.social is delightful, I too long loved the Redford double take. A couple more favorites in movies she mentions—elevator in All the President's Men ("Is there any place you don't smoke?"), and the joint double takes with Poitier and Phoenix on the balcony in Sneakers

Robert Redford Made An Art Of The Double Take | Defector

When I read that Robert Redford died on Tuesday, I did a double take. I didn’t realize he was 89, but even if he was, he had that air of immortality that attaches to all true movie stars. The double t...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 20d

THERE ARE SO MANY, DAVE.

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 20d

!!!

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · 20d

wrote about robert redford's trademark second look.

Robert Redford Made An Art Of The Double Take | Defector

When I read that Robert Redford died on Tuesday, I did a double take. I didn’t realize he was 89, but even if he was, he had that air of immortality that attaches to all true movie stars. The double t...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Aug 15

could write several thousand words about marc maron on the cover of thr and what that says about journalism rn.

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Jul 31

nothing like spending months on a super sprawling reported culture piece to make you realize how few places run that shit anymore...if anyone has any names for places that do i would love to hear them.

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Jul 23

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Jul 7

if you are a culture critic, it's rare to have your work be actively obviously useful, but i wrote about writer hanif kureishi suddenly becoming a paraplegic and capturing his changing perspective in his new memoir, SHATTERED, and got a magical comment. defector.com/hanif-kureis...

comment by a person saying they will use the article for their aa meeting

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Jun 13

it takes a minute...

Stick With 'Dept. Q' | Defector

There’s been this ongoing concern, I mean like in the air, for a while now, about people’s attention spans. I find it even creeping into my conversations. “Is this boring?” I’ll ask a few minutes into...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · May 15

this movie is not my friend.

'Friendship' Can't Sustain The Relationship | Defector

Would you be into watching a 100-minute I Think You Should Leave sketch? Because that’s basically what Friendship is—a Tim Robinson sketch stretched out way past its welcome. Robinson stars as Craig W...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Apr 29

wrote about tunde adebimpe's first (!!!) solo album and the time-travelling quality of mixes (he designed it to be like a mixtape :x)

Tunde Adebimpe's Solo Debut Channels The Gift Of The Mixtape | Defector

Anything I say about “Magnetic,” the lead single off TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe’s first solo album, Thee Black Boltz, won’t live up to hearing it for the first time. Go listen to it. Bett...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Apr 16

3 months ago, Kevin lol

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Apr 11

i got too excited about DROP. poor DROP.

'Drop' Is Not A '90s Thriller Because The '90s Are Unfortunately Over | Defector

I haven’t been as excited to see a movie as I was to see Drop in possibly years. I saw the trailer a couple of months ago at the beginning of some other movie I don’t remember, and this is how the tra...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Apr 1

wrote about mark corrigan's new show.

'Ludwig' Gets Cozy With David Mitchell's Limits | Defector

In the modest new British detective series Ludwig, comedian David Mitchell—who you will likely know as uptight office drone Mark Corrigan from Jesse Armstrong’s very pre-Succession cult hit Peep Show—...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Mar 24

the chokehold this woman had on canadian girls in the 90s. cultmtl.com/2025/03/film...

Filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee adapted her ex-boyfriend's sex-work memoir Paying for It

Sook-Yin Lee recreates the Toronto of her 20s in her adaptation of her ex-boyfriend Chester Brown's graphic novel Paying for It.

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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social · Mar 23

I used to see her sometimes in the park slope coop and even when she was figuring out which cheese to buy she was mesmerizing

soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Feb 12

wrote about her.

There's Always Room For More Merritt Wever | Defector

I was sleepwatching through the first two episodes of Severance. It’s not an easy show to get into. It’s sterile because it’s supposed to be—it’s a show about a biotech company called Lumon whose empl...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Mar 19

i thot this was just a j-cloth. i wrote about it. defector.com/what-the-bea...

What The Beads Can Tell You | Defector

A week after Doug Ford (our provincial version of Trump, in every sense of the word) handily won the premiership of Ontario for a third time in a row, and within days of the announcement that some fuc...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Feb 20

wrote about BLACK BOX DIARIES, which really moved me (and is up for an academy award).

'Black Box Diaries' Splits A Journalist In Two | Defector

The “black box” in the title of Shiori Itō’s documentary Black Box Diaries, in which the journalist investigates her own sexual assault, essentially refers to the excuse Japan gives for not properly i...

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Feb 17

in the midst of the snowstorm yesterday, friend alerted me to @misterpatches.bsky.social on the FitWR podcast giving a s/o to my NOSFERATU article @defector.bsky.social (defector.com/when-did-the...). big thank you to matt and here's the link:

499.25 – Trump x2 Coping Media, 2025 New Movie Quiz, Making New Friends as an Adult | Fighting In The War Room

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soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · Feb 13

My favorite blog on my favorite actress. (And, yeah, I'm biased. Wever starred in Unbelievable, based on a story I co-wrote. She's someone you just know will be nice—and then turns out to be even nicer than you expected.)
@sorayaroberts.bsky.social @defector.bsky.social
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There's Always Room For More Merritt Wever | Defector

I was sleepwatching through the first two episodes of Severance. It’s not an easy show to get into. It’s sterile because it’s supposed to be—it’s a show about a biotech company called Lumon whose empl...

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