Richard Whittaker
@rmwhittaker.bsky.social
Award-winning reporter and film critic. Veep, Austin Film Critics Association. Bylines at Austin Chronicle. The Times, Birth.Movies.Death. Heard on One of Us, Overhated, Certified Forgotten. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/richard-whittaker/movies
Was working on my new Disney piece and somehow included Chimes at Midnight, Tromeo and Juliet, Tom Bombadil, hikers rights as workers rights, and The Odyssey. Because of course I did.
Mr. Toad's Hypnotic Gaze (J. Thaddeus Toad)
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Because it takes at least three days to break a collarbone.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoNEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...
Exclusive first look: Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers, the upcoming documentary from Ben Masters, narrated by Ethan Hawke. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/atx-...
First Look: New Nature Documentary Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers • The Austin Chronicle
First Look: New Nature Documentary Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers
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Just devastating news. So many great writers, so many great bands.
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 10h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
Don Hertzfeldt’s full catalog of films has found a new streaming home. Dropout has acquired a collection that includes ‘Rejected,’ ‘World of Tomorrow,’ ‘It’s Such a Beautiful Day,’ and more, with Annecy winner ‘Paper Trail’ arriving September 1. www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/don-h...
Don Hertzfeldt Film Collection Is Coming To Dropout
Dropout has acquired a collection of Don Hertzfeldt films, including 'Rejected' and 'World of Tomorrow,' with Annecy-winner 'Paper Trail' arriving September 1.
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I mean, is there a director who hasn't considered this?
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d agoin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Rick Linklater remains one of my favorite interviewees because I always feel I learn something genuinely new about him and about whatever film we're talking about, and that's true even about Boyhood, which is 12 years old.
The Austin Chronicle@austinchronicle.bsky.social · 2d agoRichard Linklater looks back on his intimate epic Boyhood, and why it was always a film meant to be revisited.
Rick Linklater remains one of my favorite interviewees because I always feel I learn something genuinely new about him and about whatever film we're talking about, and that's true even about Boyhood, which is 12 years old.
The Austin Chronicle@austinchronicle.bsky.social · 2d agoRichard Linklater looks back on his intimate epic Boyhood, and why it was always a film meant to be revisited.
People say "one should never speak ill of the dead" but the nature of libel and slander laws makes it clear that's exactly when one should do it.
Rod Liddle is dead, and the UK has one more open air public toilet.
Film programmers: please cancel your Once memorial screenings right away.
Exclusive: first footage from the reboot of The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin.
Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 3d agoHopecore
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Impersonation scams targeting writers are an epidemic. To defend yourself: check any out-of-the-blue email that purports to be from a real person in publishing or Hollywood against Writer Beware's Impersonation List writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...
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The most pernicious scams focused on English-speaking writers these days come from overseas: publishing/marketing/fake literary agency scams from the Philippines, and ghostwriting/publishing/marketing...
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The latest in my deep dives into the animated history of Disney: What the argument about The Odyssey, Tom the unfilmable Bombadil, and Tromeo and Juliet tell us about THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD. rmwhittaker.substack.com/p/errata-x-t...
Errata X: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The final of Disney's Package films is two failed features that find success together by being wildly different interpretations of literary classics
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So @davidbix.com eviscerating Summerslam may be the only good thing about Summerslam.
The latest in my deep dives into the animated history of Disney: What the argument about The Odyssey, Tom the unfilmable Bombadil, and Tromeo and Juliet tell us about THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD. rmwhittaker.substack.com/p/errata-x-t...
Errata X: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The final of Disney's Package films is two failed features that find success together by being wildly different interpretations of literary classics
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There is nothing but a "stream of consciousness" coming out of the OVAL OFFICE and it is dangerous, VERY dangerous
OK, how come none of you buttersticks told me this exists? www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J33...
Various Artists /Jethro Tull - Aqualung Redux [Full Album Player]
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Hey @jimmykimmel.com I just saw that you have beef with Imo's and
How Dare You? Offended Reaction Meme
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day feels like my favorite kind of Spider-Man: too much of a hero to be a regular guy, too much of a regular guy to be a hero. Big John Romita Jr. energy from Tom Holland, who has a blast with Jon Bernthal's Punisher. Top notch buddy comedy. #smallpotatoes
Spider Man Brand New Day
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State Department quickly withdraws nomination for Jared Kushner's pickleball partner to be the new ambassador to Madripoor. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner
Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.
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So between The Odyssey, Brand New Day, and Dune III, it's basically impossible that one or both of the Holland-Zendaya household isn't in three of the top four movies this year?
The Numbers@thenumbers.bsky.social · 5d agoSpider-Man: Brand New Day swung in an estimated $72M in Thursday previews. The film officially opens today in 4,487 North American theaters. www.the-numbers.com/movie/Spider... #spidermanbrandnewday #spiderman #boxoffice
There's a sudden burst of Pride and Prejudice discourse going on and can we please just remember that, for much of the story, Lizzy is not the hero? Austen's genius is in crafting a book about a protagonist's growth.
In the midst of the arguments about the Raimi versus Holland eras of Spider-Man, we've all lost sight of the fact that, for all the Amazing Spider-Man films' faults, Garfield and Stone were great in their parts, the death of Gwen Stacey is still one of the great beats in a superhero film.
What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
I don't know why everyone is in such a frenzy to see The Odyssey in 70mm. That's only like seven centimeters big. I'd rather see it on a movie screen thank you very much.
One of the most important British films of the sixties.
John Hodson@mgcroadster.bsky.social · 7d agoBloody hell, it's *gorgeous*... "ITV Content Services are delighted to reveal that we've completed work on a new 4K restoration of Whistle Down the Wind, restored from 35mm original camera negatives Now streaming in HD on ITVX..." #FilmSky youtu.be/Q9ItJA0DdAw?...
