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DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 3h ago

‘GODZILLA MINUS ZERO’ has a runtime of 2 hours and 15 minutes. The second-longest movie in the Godzilla franchise.

If I drive a truck into a crowd, the lithe and flexible will leap out of the way. The infirm and arthritic will be crushed beneath my wheels. Which is to say: sad though it is, they had underlying health issues.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

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A Nightmare On Fierce Street@nightmarefierce.bsky.social · 2d ago

Kicking off a new season with a “Return to Wes World” and up first is Invitation to Hell with @andrewpope.bsky.social Get into this TV movie madness and check out the episode now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

This is what you find if you glitch through the back of Glastonbury.

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

Björk in 1996, by Takashi Homma

Fair thee well, Rod Liddle. It seems like just the other day you were “humorously” complaining you couldn’t smoke at Auschwitz, praising a political party for excluding Asian and Black people, calling disabled people liars and admitting to assaulting your pregnant wife. Bye!

The heatings will continue until morale improves.

It’s the year of Zendaya. Two blockbusters under her belt already, a superb indie drama, the last season of that nonsense TV show, then she’s pushing the Avengers off IMAX screens with Dune 3. Sorry Avengers, no room for you, Zendaya is here. 🔥

Helen O'Hara@helenlohara.bsky.social · 3d ago

Now that Zendaya is the most photographed and maybe talked-about person in the top two films at the worldwide box office, can we get her a solo lead? Not co-lead or female lead but, like, a film of her own? It's not like everyone thinks she's style and no substance; the consensus is that she's good.

I am once again reminded that Blade is canonically a Londoner, and anyone getting shuffled out of the way so that either John Boyega or Daniel Kaluuya can take on the role is ok with me. (I would have also accepted David Jonsson, before they made him Black Panther!)

Has anyone here read this? Any good?

Christopher Nolan has an opportunity to do the funniest thing.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 5d ago

‘BARBIE 2’ might happen with Greta Gerwig ready to begin writing the film. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling & Greta Gerwig are all in talks to return but David Zaslav is currently refusing to pay what they're demanding, calling it “too generous.” (Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...)

Protect physical media…?

Josh Slater-Williams@jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hal Hartley will be ending the manufacture and sale of his films and music on physical media by mid-September www.halhartley.com

Boiling Point (1990) The Odyssey (2026) On The Silver Globe (1988, kinda) See the Sea (1997) Gonin (1995)

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 5d ago

Post your favorite first-watches of July 🍿

My reaction to all of this is coloured by my passionate insistence that Blade is a Londoner. Hopefully he’ll crop up in Ghost Rider with the right accent. 🤞

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 5d ago

Mahershala Ali says he’s moved on from ‘Blade’ “I have moved on … I'm good … you had me under contract … if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie. So we're not doing the movie … They didn't want to do it, so they should answer that question” (via GQ Magazine)

Not all Japanese horror is J-Horror! That said, Takashi Shimizu’s The Mouths (aka A Survey On The Mouth, a much better title) is the best J-Horror in years.

I had no idea they were hooking up.

Best Marvel show in years.

TVLine@tvline.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wonder Man won't be blasting back onto our TV screens after all: Disney+ has canceled the Marvel series after one season, despite an earlier renewal.

The best film about filmmaking this decade.

Boorman And The Devil - Venice review - Whitlock&Pope

David Kittredge’s documentary reframes one of Hollywood’s greatest disasters into a hypnotic study of vision, collapse, and the strange beauty of failure. ★★★★ There’s no better making-of documentary ...

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Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 6d ago

OFFICIAL TRAILER - The troubled production of The Exorcist II gets the spotlight in documentary BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL. The true story of how one of the world's greatest filmmakers made one of the most hated movies ever. In theaters starting August 28.

Anyway! www.gofundme.com/f/bj-needs-a...

Donate to BJ Needs A New Mouth (Keep Her Yappin'), organized by Amelia Emberwing

If you're reading this, you're not new to the fact that eventually the "pass … Amelia Emberwing needs your support for BJ Needs A New Mouth (Keep Her Yappin')

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Come and hear us review the movie that promises “Iron Man goes to hell” but plays out like a cracked out Doctor Who mystery story! Everything’s great down at the aerospace-adjacent country club, but what’s behind the door in the spa room?👀 It’s the Wes Craven movie you never saw, INVITATION TO HELL.

A Nightmare On Fierce Street@nightmarefierce.bsky.social · 6d ago

Kicking off a new season Monday discussing Invitation to Hell with @andrewpope.bsky.social! Because a new season is a great time to return to Wes World!

an interesting side effect of all this talk over criticism: folks asserting that there’s a proper way to be a critic, or decorum to follow. I don’t think there is! There are as many ways to be a critic (or a writer) as there are of being a person.

SPIDER-MAN BRAND NEW DAY, in which Sadie Sink does a great job of playing [CHARACTER NAME REDACTED]… and Zendaya does even better. Legit the best Holland has ever been. Spoilers at the link.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day - review - Whitlock&Pope

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (★★★★) brings us a lower, sadder Spidey and finds its centre in the trio of John Bernthal, Sadie Sink, and Zendaya - playing more than one character - with the franchise cons...

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is… the third best Spider-Man movie of all time, and the second best live action Spider-Man movie. It’s also the best ever movie portrayal of [CHARACTER NAME REDACTED], and Tom Holland’s best ever screen performance. 4/5, good job everyone!

Not the first Leto to be a big worm.

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.

In a new BBC documentary, four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct

It's the LAST DAY for our U.S. Launch Sale 🇺🇸! Get tons of US/CA releases with special off-launch discounts exclusive to this sale which will not be repeated, with many LEs at half-price. Grab these prices while you can at radiancefilms.us

Nancy 7/28/26

Everything they do is designed to keep the grift going until the IPO date. The point at which they can cash out is so close yet so far… the soufflé can’t be allowed to collapse!

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

Disinter your gays! It’s the Faroe Isles of the 1860s, and queer attraction just won’t stay buried in Kasper Kalle’s beautiful, heart-rending adaptation of the world’s first gay male vampire story. NO REST FOR THE WICKED played at Fantasia.

No Rest For The Wicked - Fantasia review - Whitlock&Pope

No Rest For The Wicked (★★★) says: disinter your gays! It’s the Faroe Isles of the 1860s, and queer attraction just won’t stay buried in Kasper Kalle’s beautiful, heart-rending adaptation of the world...

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I'm a huge Emily Wilson fan She taught me ancient Greek. I've assigned her translations to my students. I interviewed her about translating the Odyssey a few weeks ago for my YouTube I'm not a fan of this review. And for what, I think, are good reasons (SPOILERS) /1

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

[within earshot of Emily Wilson] “‘Multi-faceted’ seems more accurate than ‘complicated’, but the masses seem to enjoy it and I’m just glad they’re reading.” [runs away]