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Jessica Ritchey

@jmritchey.bsky.social

Writer. Here and there. Patreon: patreon.com/coldtakesjmr

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Danny Bowes@dannybowes.bsky.social · 1h ago

Not to be a Monday morning quarterback, but the premise "what if fucking was illegal" much more naturally lends itself to a movie where people have to do covert ops to fuck and builds to the best sex scene in decades, not "what if it was legal for one day a year"

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 2h ago

It's good to occasionally go back and read the critical writing that made you want to write and recharge yourself from it. Ebert's Great Movies piece on The Double Life of Veronique (1991). www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

Have you ever felt strangely as if you were somewhere else? movie review

Here is a film about a feeling. Like all feelings, it is one that can hardly be described in words, although it can be evoked in art. It is the feeling that

rogerebert.com

Blue sky nice ghost@rajandelman.bsky.social · 2h ago

Callum Turner:... and because only people 18 and over have the tattoo that alerts the authorities if a single person has had sex, millions and millions of teenagers are traffficked every year. It's really bad Michelle Barbaro, eating pizza in a tiny dress: Oh my gosh

andy™@andylevy.net · 6h ago

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 9h ago

Like One Night Only, wanting to say something about modern relationships and our relationship with technology, only not terrible and so dumb it becomes crypto-fascist. Also, not coincidentally, written and directed by a woman.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Timer (2009). Fantastical rom com where an implant lets the user know how long until they meet The One. A very well observed, and very Californian, comedy of manners with Caulfield excellent as a hopeless romantic who is hopelessly modern and wants the impossibility of love with contract riders.

Timer (2009) poster