Went very, very long on DIGGER, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, and NAZA as reflections of the limits of a shared reality in our post-truth world. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/perception...
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"The layers of [spoiler] reveal the tension felt by artists when they become cogs within the machine, and how art itself can become propaganda. This is expressed not only through Cruise’s performance, but also in much of the film’s set design."
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 11h agoWent very, very long on DIGGER, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, and NAZA as reflections of the limits of a shared reality in our post-truth world. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/perception...
WHAT IS MIDNIGHT RADIO? That thing we've been quietly working on for a while has a name, a release date, and our first few episodes' cast! variety.com/2026/digital...
Ethan Hawke Stars in Supernatural Horror Podcast ‘Midnight Radio’: ‘There’s an Intimacy to the Audio-Only Medium’
Ethan Hawke stars in supernatural horror podcast series “Midnight Radio” as the host of a cult-favorite late-night AM radio show.
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Went very, very long on DIGGER, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, and NAZA as reflections of the limits of a shared reality in our post-truth world. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/perception...
Jurassic Park: I Really Hate That Man
ALT: Jurassic Park: I Really Hate That Man
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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · yesterdayTrump: "What flag was that? Was that the Palestinian flag? You know, the one I like the best. I shouldn't say this, should I? The one I like the best is gays for Palestine. Gays for Palestine, you know what they do if you happen to be gay? They throw you off the top of a building."
From rogue pumpkins to subversive feminist surrealism, here’s some under-the-radar silent films to watch for spooky season 🎃 🎃 🎃 Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/five-silen...
St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
On Dulac’s The Seashell and the Clergyman: ‘Early on during its initial release the film was also cited by the British Board of Film Censors as “so cryptic as to be almost meaningless. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable.”’
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 3d agoFrom rogue pumpkins to subversive feminist surrealism, here’s some under-the-radar silent films to watch for spooky season 🎃 🎃 🎃 Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/five-silen...
From rogue pumpkins to subversive feminist surrealism, here’s some under-the-radar silent films to watch for spooky season 🎃 🎃 🎃 Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/five-silen...
Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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This interview makes 'The Nutty Professor' with Eddie Murphy sounds like Citizen Kane: "What he did was he had improvised what he thought the brother was going to say, in response to what the character he was playing that day had said. Who has a brain like that?" letterboxd.com/journal/mons...
Monster Mash: legendary special-effects makeup creator Rick Baker on making decades of movie magic • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Rick Baker tells Marya E. Gates about his groundbreaking career in special-effects makeup, from building Bigfoot for Harry and the Hendersons to collaborating with Eddie Murphy on Coming to America an...
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NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 5d agoNEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d agoIt is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
In this week's Directed By Women Viewing Guide: several anti-fascist and anti-colonial docs, the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, a subtly queer coming-of-age film, a new romantic drama, and a spooky Brazilian film Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/ill-never-...
My first Busan International Film Festival (@busanfilmfest) is live on @ebertvoices.bsky.social. In this one, I wrote about the lovely SATOKO ALWAYS, the epic THE FIRST TASTE OF LONELINESS, and the chaotic Korean horror film SHAVING.
Busan 2026: Satoko Always, The First Taste of Loneliness, Shaving
Trios of women and beleaguered screenwriters stud this first dispatch from South Korea's film festival.
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for the night crowd
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 6d ago“A big part of making this film was trying to process what it was like to be a teenager from a small-town, leaving for university, and meeting my community of friends and queers and artists.” I spoke with Paloma Schneideman about BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY Read: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/f...
"I love the idea that sometimes you can be so lonely in company. Then you look at the difference between loneliness and solitude." For her Female Filmmakers in Focus column, @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social spoke with BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY director Paloma Schneideman:
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Paloma Schneideman on "Big Girls Don't Cry"
The voice behind the New Zealand-set queer coming of age drama talks about rural queerness and the nostalgic joys of Limewire.
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“A big part of making this film was trying to process what it was like to be a teenager from a small-town, leaving for university, and meeting my community of friends and queers and artists.” I spoke with Paloma Schneideman about BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY Read: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/f...
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was the joy of my life to write about my queen diane lane in UNFAITHFUL and UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN for @brightwalldarkroom.com. two movies about what it’s like to be a woman in your late 30s, the impulse to tear it all down, and the joy of building it back up instead 🖤
Two Diane Lanes at Midlife: Unfaithful & Under the Tuscan Sun
I am soon to be 38: the age when women disappear from movies. But once upon a time they did make movies about us, and they starred Diane Lane.
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New today on the site: The Midlife Crisis issue continues, with @lindseyromain.bsky.social on UNFAITHFUL and UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN (🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)
Two Diane Lanes at Midlife: Unfaithful & Under the Tuscan Sun
I am soon to be 38: the age when women disappear from movies. But once upon a time they did make movies about us, and they starred Diane Lane.
brightwalldarkroom.com
Discussed DIGGER at length with Ezgi from 11amSaturday: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/digger-cha...