Agreed, it’s under 90 minutes, establishes the premise quickly, and then spends the time seeing what can be done within the limitations (as text, the characters are also testing the premise’s limits and trying to divine patterns throughout). Less horror-ish as it goes

Jaime Christley [Critters] ah-cha-cha@rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 2d ago

IT ENDS: Really good film. And strongly recommended even if BACKROOMS bounced off you for any reason. Totally committed to following its elementally simple premise all the way down the line. (So to speak.) And unlike a lot of contemporary horror, not an iota of cruelty/condescension.

I could go a couple directions (Her Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World; This Year’s Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy!!; any number of three album runs by jazz greats ie pick a stretch of Miles or Coltrane) but the right answer is Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Put on Nothing Sacred on Criterion, was not expecting those opening actor credits

I recommend the documentary Whatever It Takes. We screened it at our film fest a few years ago, but it was having trouble securing distro, which I think is less of a problem now that eBay settled: www.imdb.com/title/tt3083...

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · last wk.

May this be a lesson to companies: don't harass journalists. www.wired.com/story/ebay-h...

Caught some of Tenet last night while my roommate was watching. Much better as a dream thriller than Inception (and much better edited and staged action), captures the sense of suddenly being places and meeting people and somehow already knowing them and what you’re supposed to do inexplicably

People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.

Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

never going to call it x money, it will always be child support to me

Project T.B.O.N.E.@tbone.malware-virus.biz · last wk.

Well here's a fucking nightmare. An innocent guy went to prison for a year and a half for being a child predator because a subpoena misspelled a different guy's username. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

It's funny how much Final Fantasy 1 owes to this 1986 Japanese Cindy Crawford Pocari Sweat ad, art directed by Moebius

Shout out to Aaron, a crucial part of making Palm Springs film fest screenings actually screen (and his patience with my sometimes disorganized and confusing notes and communications regarding film specs I don’t fully understand)

Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️@eclectichutch.bsky.social · 3w ago

Olivia Wilde. James Cameron. Mark Jenkin. Each has called projectionists the last member of the crew. In Seattle, that's Aaron Ridenour. He's bringing 70mm back to @siffnews.bsky.social tonight w/ Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY 📽️ My profile @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

i cant stop thinking about the "smoothgroin" thing because its so insanely psychologically revealing to be named ken and to insult other peoples masculinity by comparing them to ken dolls

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Eastbound and Down - Sound of Silence Jet Ski

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post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 4w ago

not an original observation but it’s really hard to be sad on a jetski

LRB is my subscription that humbles me the most

Anne Balke Staver@anneavelo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The most letter to the LRB letter to the LRB that I have ever read.

watched enough youtube videos this week to make me search for this one from the archives

if you have your own physical media collection, you can do your own version of the Criterion Closet where you stand in your basement by yourself and saying "oh wow, In the Mood for Love, what a film" to absolutely no one

from TOO LATE THE HERO (1970) trivia. I'm sobbing, you have no idea where this story ends up

Joe Burke's shot-in-7-days feature BURT is one of my favourite films of the year, a semi-fictionalized love letter to real-life LA street musician Burt Berger, who plays himself in the film (and he's not an actor!) It's very funny, a little sad, super heart-warming, and one of a kind.

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

Colton@sniperking323.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Saw this on FB. If you’ve ever enjoyed Aqua Teen, please help if you can. Someone who’s such an integral part of one of Adult Swim’s most beloved shows deserves much better than this.

this classic turns 10 today

learning shit like Med Hondo voiced Donkey in the French Shrek dub is why I listen to The Important Cinema Club

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I’m a 90s Fall defender, but late 90s albums Levitate and The Marshall Suite are both just very good Fall albums with plenty of standouts that are worth your time if you’re not a total Fall sicko like myself. Here’s a great chaotic blend of electronica and garage: youtu.be/tIVH2-OQYHQ?...

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watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Saw Hard Eight for the first time tonight, with a post-screening discussion by PTA and David Ansen. Pretty good flick. Prime Philip Baker Hall and classic John C. Reilly, Gwyneth doing great, Sam Jackson and a scene stolen by young PSH. Screenwriter-y screenwriting, but mostly in the fun way

clad in monogrammed tactical swim trunks and loaded on Hpnotiq Curaçao painkillers aka Thiq Blu Lines the FBI director snorkels above the USS Arizona contemplating the meaning of sacrifice, the tragedies of war, and the silent azure indifference of the ocean itself

WELP! We're all transgender extremists now, at least according to the White House, which we regret to inform you has been taken over by far-right extremists. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

White House Declares War On “Radically Pro-Transgender Ideology” - Assigned Media

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Random thought: was John Krasinski directing that quickly forgotten DFW adaptation (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 2009) an attempt to impress/one-up BJ Novak?