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Thomas Manning
@thethomasmanning.bsky.social
Critics Choice, NC Film Critics, SEFCA.
Real to Reel International Film Fest director.
Gardner-Webb University alum.
Marathon runner.
Appreciator of facial hair.
Catch me doing cartwheels and backflips anytime this son of a gun shows up in Stranger Things. My guy
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Spending Christmas Eve trying to explain the history of 6-7 to my mother, who is a first grade teacher and has no idea why her kids are at school are obsessed with it
December 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Have the hap-hap-happiest
December 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A gem of 2025
***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on January 27th on Blu-ray and DVD in the US from @musicboxfilms.com: #ALittlePrayer (2023)!

Bill (David Strathairn) is a pillar of his Southern community: a business owner, a veteran, and the proud patriarch of an unruly but loving family. His daughter Patti (Anna Camp)
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Caleb Williams can friggin sling it man
December 21, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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I love how FIRE & ASH feels like it wraps around WAY OF WATER to expand on it, explain it, and deepen it.
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Perhaps I treated you too harshly
It’s almost like Bama didn’t deserve to be in the CFP in the first place
December 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
It’s almost like Bama didn’t deserve to be in the CFP in the first place
December 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Ten years since The Force Awakens… now that’s wild. I’ll always have a soft spot for that movie. A core memory was seeing it at a 7am screening with my Pops in Gaffney, South Carolina — just down the road from our own local Starkiller Base (yes, the big peach. You know the one).
a woman is standing in front of a man and says it 's true ..
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a man and says it 's true ..
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December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Any political candidate, local or national, who runs on a platform of mitigating McAdenville traffic in December shall have my vote

(This is an extremely regionally specific reference)
December 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Absolutely unreal that we, as a species, have to go to work in the month of December
December 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Enjoyed chatting with Ryan Jacobi and Patrick Cotnoir again for the Kino Lorber release of "I'm 'George Lucas': A Connor Ratliff Story"

Ryan Jacobi and Patrick Cotnoir on the record-breaking Blu-Ray for "I'm 'George Lucas': A Connor Ratliff Story"
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Ryan Jacobi and Patrick Cotnoir on the record-breaking Blu-Ray for "I'm 'George Lucas': A Connor Ratliff Story"
Fan of audio commentaries? How about 57 of them?
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December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is what my dad saw when I was a child and woke him up in the middle of the night to tell him that I threw up
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
THANK YOU KIRK COUSINS AND THE FALCONS

Sincerely,

A Desperate Panthers Fan
December 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Me if overcommitting was a sport with championships
a basketball player wearing a bulls jersey is waving at someone .
ALT: a basketball player wearing a bulls jersey is waving at someone .
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December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Saw Hamnet today. Best film as well as the most devastating emotionally in years. Even after leaving the theater, I felt like I was going to start crying. Again.

I have no idea who else will get nominated, but I can’t fathom l a performance out there that can top Jessie Buckley’s.
December 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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