Matt Monagle
@monagle.bsky.social
Co-founder of Certified Forgotten (@certifiedforgotten.com), a writer-owned horror publication. Also a freelance film critic. Find my work at IGN, Polygon, Inverse, and more.
if hating on ted lasso, the tv equivalent of widdle baby kitten with big wet anime eyes, makes me a bad person, then i am a bad person sorry
‘Ted Lasso’ Review: Season 4 of Apple’s Hit Soccer Dramedy Struggles to Find Anywhere Interesting Left to Go
More than three years since it went off the air, the series returns with Jason Sudeikis' chipper American taking a new post as head coach of Richmond's inaugural women's team.
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As the VP of Marketing for my company, I spend a lot of time thinking about how we'll stay competitive as the industry pivots to AI search and snippets. And here's the thing: the reason that these AI companies are willing to spend millions on rare books is because original writing is SO valuable.
My mother, who I doubt could name a single WNBA player before 2026, now has a feed that is wall-to-wall condemnation of the WNBA for its hateful rhetoric towards women and white people. And it sucks, but it's also a good reminder to never fall prey to the manufactured outrage that is all around us.
"The movie’s big finale is its low point, a kiss of death for a movie built on the promise that more is more." For the late-night crowd: was really rooting for NAMASLAY, but it really stumbles at the end.
'Namaslay' Review: Yoga Spin on 'Suspiria' Falls Just Short
Rish and Kanish's 'Namaslay' promises kitchen sink filmmaking, but struggles to deliver on its biggest ideas.
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DEAD HEAT (1988): It's a very silly premise, done with extreme silliness, for about an hour or so. THEN, suddenly, director Mark Goldblatt decides he's going to channel the spirit of frequent collaborator James Cameron, and the whole thing kicks into this wildly stylized extra gear. What a picture.
It's weird because as @laurentheisen.bsky.social wrote, the anti-trans people have created a situation where they can stoke anti-trans sentiment and anger without there even needing to be an actual trans athlete involved. defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...
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"Assante’s smooth-talking horndog is closer to my ideal Odysseus than Damon’s neutered mope." @theamynicholson.bsky.social shares a million great points - about THE ODYSSEY, about adaptation, about audiences and culture - but I'm pretty sure this line is what I'll remember. Hell yeah.
Yes, Emily Wilson, Odysseus has been changed for the movie. Deal with it
Critical swords are clashing, but there's a way to cut through the debate and really talk about how we review art.
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We've heard from former contributors that their @certifiedforgotten.com essays have been picked up as home video booklets, and now one of our essays has been turned into a novelization. Sleep on us at your own peril.
Rob Hunter@fakerobhunter.bsky.social · 24h agoFrom an essay @certifiedforgotten.com to this... who woulda thunk it. (And thanks!)
It's a pretty neat trick: buy news companies, enact a bunch of policies that erode public trust in journalism, then point to eroded public trust in journalism as evidence that you need to buy more news companies.
Just got to do a barium swallow, and I’ll carry that taste with me to my grave.
Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
There's a part of me that wants to be cynical about this, but fuck it, let the party claim the wins if it helps convince them that the DSA platform is a winning platform.
Democrats@democrats.org · 2d agoHUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.
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The best cheat mode for being good is having a lot of money, and too many people constantly talk about how the game used to be better before all the expansions.
Gale Galligan@galegalligan.bsky.social · 2d agoplease explain baseball to me like it's magic the gathering
"Time might be kind to SOULM8TE, especially as much of modern entertainment continues to circle the drain of puritanism." I think Kate Dolan and company were onto something here, though it might take a minute for audiences to catch up.
'Soulm8te' Review: '90s Smut Gets a High-Tech Reboot
Despite its rocky road to distribution, Kate Dolan's 'Soulm8te' is a fascinating mashup of the high-brow and the low-brow.
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If you've never listened to an episode of @certifiedforgotten.com, and what to get a sense of how @donatobomb.bsky.social and I vibe, this might be a fun place to start.
Certified Forgotten@certifiedforgotten.com · 2d agoWe're doing something different with this week's episode: we recorded the podcast in two chunks, so you can hear our thoughts both before and after watching SOULM8TE.
If you want the hobbies you love to thrive, you need to have a robust (and sometimes adversarial) media environment to support them. Subscribing to @rascal.news if you can is a good idea.
Rascal News@rascal.news · 2d agoState of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
A new episode of The Cullenoscopy is now live! This time around, @gradyhendrix.bsky.social and I discuss ghosts and haunted houses! There are definitely some great recommendations in this episode! youtu.be/AUWM_Y1fYL0?...
The Cullenoscopy - The Best Ghost and Haunted House Horror Stories With Grady Hendrix & Cullen Bunn
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I'm beginning to think the team that I root for might be stupid as hell.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agoThe whole Mariners' pen believes Babe Ruth didn't exist. Kinda want all MLB players to believe this and make the owners agree to it in next CBA
Caught two screenings in theaters back-to-back today: SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY and HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL. And I cried during both of them, because this is who I am now, I'm someone who cries during movies, it's what I do.
HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL (2026): Can a Broadway proshot be your favorite movie of the year? I guess we’ll find out.
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2026): It’s probably not a coincidence that the two best MCU movies of the 2020s feature a showdown between characters and their memories. Holland puts in some serious effort here; lowkey might be the best work of his career.
SOULM8TE (2026): I know that Kate Dolan has talked a lot about this being an homage to ‘90s erotic thrillers, but it really, really is — straight down to the giant warehouse apartment à la FATAL ATTRACTION. And I think that’ll give this real legs (pun intended) with a certain flavor of genre fan.
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
Restarted my Disney / ESPN / Hulu bundle mostly just so I could watch the Women's Pro Baseball League.
what happened to jason is pretty common. chi ossé has introduced a bill to the city council that would create a “Freelancers Payment Fund” that would pay freelancers immediately, then recover the funds from the delinquent hiring parties. council.nyc.gov/chi-osse/202...
Council Member Chi Ossé Introduces Bill to Establish City-Run Freelancers Payment Fund
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Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 5d agoWell, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:
From what I've seen from the Mariners community, it sounds like Kirby is unlikely to resign, and moving him while he still has team control means maximizing our return while also clearing room for some of our minor league arms to join the team in 2027. Or maybe I'm just getting high on copium.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 4d agoHope I'm wrong, but Mariners feel like they want to tear it all down
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
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