Peter “Cloaked In Gucci & Scandal” Sobczynski

@petersob13.bsky.social

Film critic at RogerEbert.com, TheSpool.com, Auteurist Class at Substack and the Movie Madness podcast. An enthusiast of De Palma, T Swift and Milla J. Programmer at the Chicago Critics Film Festival. A rogue and a bon vivant.

Look, calling JD Pants a gas-powered leaf blower may not give you the quick, visceral thrill of calling him ableist slurs, but it immediately cuts to some of the many things I find objectionable about him: he’s a destructive windbag nobody likes and yet we’re constantly subjected to him

Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 4d ago

Step one: identify what it is you’re really trying to get at. “Low IQ” is eugenicist. Bad decision-making? Immorality? Willful ignorance? Target those. Step two: go for a high concept metaphor. The more seemingly unrelated, the better Step three: add a superlative or an adverb for extra punch