🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️
@kcfennessy.bsky.social
Music and film writer. Northwest Film Forum board member and former Seattle Film Critics Society president. Unions: SAG-AFTRA and IBEW. Past/present contributor: KCMU/KEXP, KUOW, Rock and Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
I would preface this question with two others: “Who won the 2016 election?” “Who won the 2024 election?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoBLUMENTHAL: Judge Cook, who won the 2020 election? COOK: A joint session of Congress certified Joe Biden BLUMENTHAL: How many times have you rehearsed that answer with the White House? Who won the popular vote? COOK: So if you look at each state, the governor-- B: So you're unwilling to answer
If you’d like to read the report exposing the anti trans people ‘Gender Critical’ movement in the UK - which sadly Amnesty took down after bottling it due to legal threats from the Edinburgh Funder - here it is. Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf - Google Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...
Day 15: pioneering cineastas Repeat: Argentine Hugo Fregonese was the first Latino to direct Hollywood feature films in English, like 1954 noir BLACK TUESDAY. New: José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez was the first Latino animator to direct for TV & film, such as 1969 classic A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN.
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
My new favorite song of 2026 (as heard on KEXP). "Bodyscanner" is like Grace Jones' "Walking in the Rain" cover meets Shriekback's "Everything That Rises Must Converge."
UCHE YARA - BODYSCANNER (official video)
YouTube video by UCHE YARA
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Listen, strokes/folks etc, but "Batman Begins > Barry Lyndon" should trigger a wellness check
A 🧵 Nepo baby David Ellison’s recent OpEd deflected attention from the reality that the Paramount attempted takeover of WarnerBros is corrupt to the core, a debt-time bomb, a natl security issue, would decrease diversity of voices in film/media/ journalism +a press freedom issue. #BlockTheMerger 1/n
BREAKING NBC calls Michigan primary for Abdul El-Sayed who narrowly defeated Haley Stevens
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 13h agoBREAKING NBC calls Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed who narrowly defeated it Stevens 49-47% (current margin)
Talarico: "Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. Texans will still use THC — but instead of getting it safely from a local small business, they’ll go back to getting it from the black market. From the drug cartels."
"No amount of spin can sugarcoat the utter disaster of layoffs, creative consolidation, and sheer mediocrity that awaits if Richie Rich runs roughshod over the industry he claims to love so much." Get 'im, @mcastimovies.bsky.social!
Not only is David Ellison lying about his film plan, it's not even a good lie
Paramount Skydance CEO and heir apparent David Ellison is very upset that the media landscape can see right through him.
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I was moved to read Samantha Morton talk about getting fired from the Spike Jonze movie Her in this piece. She was on the set when I was there reporting a story--her work as the voice was done live, and her commitment to what she was doing on the film was extraordinary. deadline.com/2026/08/sama...
Samantha Morton On Why She "Hasn't Worked For A Year" Since 'The Odyssey' & Why She Was "Sad" & "Hurt" After Getting "Fired" From 'Her'
Samantha Morton is opening up about not working after filming Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.
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Since I don't use it at all, uh, yes. (I mean, I'm addicted to my stupid phone. That's bad enough.)
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
I really hope that all of the people in my feeds who rail against gen-AI flyer art (and rightfully so) and are also horror fans, don’t fall prey to Ice Cream Man now that the reviews are pointing to its abundance of AI effects. Don’t be a contradiction, speak with your wallets here.
puts on her little porkpie hat, says DAAWWWW PICKLES, kicks a can, goes back to the Newsie life
VoteHub@votehub.com · 18h agoMichigan U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Washtenaw County, multiple vote types: 🟣 Abdul El-Sayed – 13,843 (69.6%) 🟠 Haley Stevens – 5,674 (28.5%)
For the @avclub.com, I reviewed LATE FAME, a tender but unsentimental story about the danger in believing that your genius was never appreciated in its own time.
Mimicking life, Willem Dafoe becomes a hit among the hip kids in the tender Late Fame
Playing a forgotten poet rediscovered by young hipsters, Willem Dafoe leads the lovely and thoughtful Late Fame.
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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
This piece by Jeff Yang (aka @originalsp.in) was so satisfying to edit. It covers different aspects of The Odyssey and contextualizes them as examples of political filmmaking through allegory—the tale of a 21st century empire reeling from karmic blowback. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...
The People from the Sea: How "The Odyssey" is About America
A reading of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster as a commentary on the current state of America.
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Why in the green fuck did the NYTimes give an oligarch’s failson an op-ed to write propaganda & falsehoods justifying how he’s massacred CBS News?? At least the WaPo had to be bought out by Bezos before they became a mouthpiece for this kind of bullshit. deadline.com/2026/08/davi...
David Ellison Says CNN Is Root Cause Of Paramount-WBD Merger Battle
In a NYT essay, Paramount CEO David Ellison argued that CNN is at the root of opposition to the company's merger with Warner Bros Discovery.
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"...His insightful film showing China on the verge of modernisation was condemned, and with the exception of a screening in a BFI series marking his centennial, it has become an “un-film”..." #FilmSky share.google/f6SXlZtk3tcF...
Careless whispers: what really happened between George Michael and Lindsay Anderson? The Wham! movie producer reveals all
How did the pioneering director get involved – then fall out – with the 80s’ poppiest band? How are Sam Peckinpah and Michael Jackson’s Thriller involved? Prepare for a tale of ambition, deception and...
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Harvey & Joyce's adopted daughter Danielle is trying to raise funds to deal with Pekar's raw archive; basically four storage lockers full of notes, outlines, ideas, etc. Note this is not Pekar's comics per se. Those rights have been tied up in court for years. Long, ugly story. Worth backing.
His Name was Harvey Pekar
Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever
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Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
Vale Kath Pettingill, the inspiration not only for the character of Janine Cody in David Michod’s 2010 film, ANIMAL KINGDOM, but Shirl Hennessy on the incredibly under seen Australian crime drama, JANUS. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Kath Pettingill, the mother of the Walsh Street police killers, dies
Kath Pettingill was the matriarch of the Melbourne crime family that was fictionalised in the 2010 movie Animal Kingdom.
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enraging and appalling gift link 🎁 Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
