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"I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
My movie Piranha turns 48 (!) today!! Celebrate with a fresh still from my Renfield Collection shop — with custom autographs available from moi. When did you first behold my fishy extravaganza? www.renfieldcollection.com/product-page...
Fishy Friends | Renfield Collection
A nefarious fish explores a swimmer in director Joe Dante's classic horror parody Piranha!
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Yo, Adrian! We did it!
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you enjoyed this thread, consider pre-ordering The Ring Cycle, a book-length conversation between myself and @odienator.bsky.social that discusses every Rocky and Creed movie and constructs a fifty-year history of race, class, and masculinity in the United States. mzs.press/PRE-ORDER-SI...
I think I deleted the post but I've said before that simple demographic cohort math is part of why there's such a stark age divide on Islamophobia*: if you are under 50 and not from the absolute middle of nowhere they are now talking about at least one person you personally know
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d agoWow, you got us! Arabs say Inshallah!
A preview of our Odyssey episode with @bilgeebiri.bsky.social Listen to the whole thing here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner,’ a rebellious warlord throws a rival’s envoy into his dungeon but then needs him to help solve a series of Sherlock Holmes–style mysteries.
A Great New Samurai Mystery From Kiyoshi Kurosawa
In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner,’ a rebellious warlord throws a rival’s envoy into his dungeon but then needs him to help solve a series of Sherlock Holmes–style mysteries.
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In the playful and moving ‘Wild Inside,’ documentarian Penny Lane takes on the subject of Flaco the owl, whose one year flying around New York came to mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
In the Lovely Wild Inside, Flaco the Owl Gets His Documentary
In the playful and moving ‘Wild Inside,’ documentarian Penny Lane takes on the subject of Flaco the owl, whose one year flying around New York came to mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
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WILD INSIDE, Penny Lane’s new documentary about Flaco the Owl, is very good. www.vulture.com/article/wild...
In the Lovely Wild Inside, Flaco the Owl Gets His Documentary
Penny Lane’s film about the owl that captured New York’s imagination is a potrait of what the bird’s journey revealed about the city’s residents.
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If you’re going to email me late on a Friday, this is the only subject line I will tolerate.
I really enjoyed Kiyoshi Kurosawa's THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER. www.vulture.com/article/a-gr...
A Great New Samurai Mystery From Kiyoshi Kurosawa
In The Samurai and the Prisoner, the great Japanese director sets his sights on feudal Japan.
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One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
Gregg Araki has always been an outsider but he's never quite been out of fashion. I WANT YOUR SEX is a fun ride through his sensibility, and it features Olivia Wilde's best performance yet. www.vulture.com/article/i-wa...
I Want Your Sex Gives Olivia Wilde Her Best Role Yet
The actor always stands out when she’s allowed to go big and controversial.
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At WBUR this week I reviewed WILD INSIDE. Penny Lane’s enchanting documentary about Flaco the owl opens tomorrow in New York and screens Tuesday night at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. I loved this movie.
'Wild Inside' chronicles how Flaco the owl became a New York City folk hero
Director Penny Lane's enchanting documentary follows how the Eruasian eagle-owl, who escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023, became an emissary of the asphalt jungle. Critic Sean Burns writes "the ...
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I am in this movie but don’t let that stop you from seeing it. One of the most entertaining film docs you’ll see.
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 6d agoOFFICIAL 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.
more THE ODYSSEY discourse: I wrote about lupita nyong'o's dual roles, how exquisitely she builds two distinct women clamoring for agency, and how her characters clarify wife-guy christopher nolan's concerns about violence against women. @vulture: www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Good @defector.com blog about #discourse and the limits of podcasting: "If Simmons didn't want to be ungenerously quoted so often, he could start by resisting these market incentives that push him toward increasingly extemporaneous expressions of his thoughts and opinions."
If The Podcaster Desires To Defeat The Aggregator, He Must Look Inward | Defector
Listen to enough sports podcasts, and eventually you will hear someone spit the name of every podcaster’s greatest enemy: the aggregators. Oh, how the fellas who talk about sports into a mic for a liv...
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My interview with Julian Schnabel on his unwatchable adaptation of the unreadable novel In the Hand of Dante www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
The unshakeable confidence of Julian Schnabel
The painter-turned-director’s In the Hand of Dante has divided critics. Luckily, he thinks it’s a masterpiece
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We're bringing back Michael Mann's 2006 MIAMI VICE as another great Belcourt #StaffPick on Thu, Sep 3 at 8pm — 🎟 bit.ly/MIAMI-VICE
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social · last wk.Happy birthday, MIAMI VICE. www.vulture.com/2021/10/miam...
This rules, and not just because it articulates the appeal of a cult film better than... shit, I've never seen it better put.
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social · last wk.Happy birthday, MIAMI VICE. www.vulture.com/2021/10/miam...
I think it’s nice that The Odyssey has brought back not only middlebrow blockbusters but old-fashioned literary snobbery
I wrote a tribute to Kaylee Hottle, the deaf actress whose performance as Jia was the heart of two of the Legendary Pictures Kaiju films, Godzilla vs Kong and Godzilla x Kong. Killed at 18 in a car wreck. A staggering loss. www.rogerebert.com/tributes/wha...
What Could Have Been: Kaylee Hottle (2007-2026)
From Jean Harlow and James Dean through Simone Battle and Anton Yelchin, entertainment history is filled with instances of performers dying just as audiences
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