Camp Crystal Luke

@mistercinecal.bsky.social

Writes about film and culture for Film In Dublin, #PrettyDeadlyFilms and various other corners of this web we call world wide. He/Him

*Dukes of Hazzard voice* “Looks like that Zuckerberg boy got himself in a whhooooollleee mess a’ trouble!” My review of Aaron Sorkin’s latest Boomer-coded take on world events, The Social Reckoning, for @filmindublin.bsky.social

Film In Dublin@filmindublin.bsky.social · yesterday

If Aaron Sorkin was the director of The Social Network, he would have directed The Social Network. Instead he directed The Social Reckoning. @keelanhothothot.bsky.social reviews: filmindublin.ie/2026/10/09/y...

Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning. He wears a suit and sits stiffly at a desk with a microphone in front of him and a name plate for "Mr. Zuckerberg"

Keep getting an ad for Xero where the narration goes "you weren't the type of florist whose business was blooming, but now you used Xero blah blah, and now, you're the type of florist whose business is blooming". Just if you were wondering how copywriting is doing right now

To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter. Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually? www.dublininquirer.com/to-counter-a...

To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter

Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?

dublininquirer.com

I've seen a lot of people on Instagram complaining that Christopher Abbott is 'rude' and 'boring' in one of those awful MTV game videos they make celebrities play to promote their films and I want to bash my head against a wall

We’ve had to listen to some very unimpressive TDs talk shit about public sector workers needing to prove their worth and up their game. Meanwhile the sight of an almost-empty greyhound track and the yelping of mistreated animals gets them humming the national anthem as a tear rolls down their cheek

Apart from the Johnny Depp of it all Ebeneezer is marketing itself as A Christmas Carol Like You've Never Seen It Before and then in the trailer the Like You've Never Seen It Before is drab lighting and "well that just happened" jokes

Working from the Dublin Convention Centre this week and this big light fixture yolk is the most "Jackie Chan jumps on it and it crashes to the floor in an explosive climax" object I have ever seen in real life

A convention centre hallway with a big star shaped modern chandelier thing dangling

The attitude from the Irish players that they've been put in an unfair position isn't really good enough, but they HAVE been hung out to dry by the FAI who from the start have stuck their fingers in their ears shut their eyes and hoped all this would go away