Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 15hPRIMETIME: An all-American nightmare, the surface of which feels like neon and burlap, and it just keeps tightening around your face. One of the queasiest, most mesmeric things I’ve seen in ages. Show business is a groomer, too. 180
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 23hYesterday someone tried to sell me on AI as a legit resource for legal advice, and when I told him it glitches and hallucinates enough to be a genuine liability he responded “well, it’s the future” with a special kind of annoyance. It’s only! The future! If we keep! Using it! 3262
Reposted by Abe GoldfarbErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters. 121247391
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have discovered that the massive “twist” I saw leaked about DIGGER is, in fact, just the premise of the film. 173
Reposted by Abe GoldfarbHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 11128273534
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026COYOTE VS. ACME: A double miracle — first that it was ever released, second that it’s this good. Packed with real jokes that fully understand the characters, filmed and staged with genuine cleverness. And it has a thesis that moves me. We fail that we may keep trying. And thus living. 1333
Reposted by Abe GoldfarbKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:jezebel.comNot Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special TreatmentSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 1662227
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One problem with widespread adoption of generative AI is that the results suck now, when it’s had an endless well of actual good art to train on. What happens when all it has to train on is the dogshit made with generative AI? 2142
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tilly Norwood has died in a horrific zoo accident. 0100
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At this point, though, if someone contends they've never listened to even one of Weird Al’s polka medleys, it may say more about the listener than the accordion. Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world. 0235
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I know we’re all supposed to be concerned by the creeping menace of antisemitism on the left (and there is careless talk that crosses line), but you hop over to Twitter and thousands of right wing chuds are saying that Jews are just naturally pedophiles. It’s not even close. 0162
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I do not speak Portuguese!! But this podcast is discussing my movie FIRST TIME CALLER and it thrills me that we’ve made our way around the world!! (If anyone has a transcript for translation, I’d be so thankful) 1122
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026RESIDENT EVIL: A full-throttle unpretentious mean-spirited spookablast that hits the ground running and simply does not stop. Genuinely scary, very fucking funny (mostly because the protagonist is a well-meaning doofus who’s just doing his inadequate best), and beautifully shot. 3162
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing is, the greater the loss of “fine intellectual dexterity,” the more people will have to rely on his product. People like this sit at the perfect intersection of pathetic and sinister. 0142
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026whats a movie less than 60% on rotten tomatoes that you consider to be a perfect movie? like not a bit, genuinely perfect film. Freddy Got Fingered and no this is not a fucking bit 220
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you ever have the opportunity to meet someone in the howling rain and fall desperately in love, I highly recommend it. I did it, and I’m the happiest doofus you’ll ever meet. 🐅 1230
Reposted by Abe Goldfarbmaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164851214
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I feel enough time has gone by that I can express my utter disgust with Hannah Gadsby’s premise in NANETTE. The idea that comedy cannot be truly challenging, that it automatically lets viewers off the hook, is unbearably trite. Like okay I guess Richard Pryor can suck it. 1311
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Whichever political party vows to prosecute these rich, murderous creeps will be in power for 20 years. 0101
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In an odd way, AI and streaming have only ensured the longevity of theatrical film. AI because people recoil from it and want to see real shit, and streaming because the subsidized era is over. Costs are up and service is worse and now ads are inevitable. People just like a dang movie. 0141
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026listen bluesky is great but sometimes i have a craving for the hard stuff 0191
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026LIVING TO DIE: A Wings Hauser special. All the tits and shootouts you want from a 90s B movie, but with a special sauce that’s all Wings. Everything in this tawdry, nihilistic noir is a riff - the black box theater acting, the half-improvised dialogue, the jazzy music, the woozy plotting. It rules. 050
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Now that CAMP MIASMA is streaming we get to experience any number of unbelievably bad faith takes. What’s that? The aesthetic of the titular 80s slasher incorporates jarring modern elements? Why, it’s almost as though we’re told over and over again that the POV is dissociative and subjective. 190
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026William Shatner is a rare case of a guy who seems less likely to die the older he gets.youtu.beWilliam Shatner and The *uckers- Ace of Spades - Riot Fest 2026 - Chicago, IL - 09-20-2026YouTube video by sharmony64 0145
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026guys i’m in this and obviously i am very sexy but the rest of the game is also very good and you should play it 2369
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ed Sheeran may be the only person I’ve ever seen have a public crashout over the concept of having values. 3317
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Democrats: We have to follow the polling Polls: People are pissed off at Israel and want healthcare Democrats: No no do you have anything bad about trans kids 24117
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It feels like people are getting fed up of The Way Shit Works Around Here. Like, nobody wants data centers and streaming services are charging full price for ads and product improvements have become incremental to the point of invisibility. Feels like the end of a moment for tech as we’ve known it. 2191
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Fascinated by the widespread online hatred for Alejandro González Iñárritu. Like at a certain point we were all supposed to agree that the guy who made BIRDMAN and THE REVENANT was a pretentious, bullshit-peddling hack instead of an artist who seems wonderfully determined to show us new things. 4100
Reposted by Abe GoldfarbThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef… 68129192810
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I actually think Trump’s best quality, unintentional as it is, is his obvious lack of interest in maintaining the fiction of American exceptionalism. 080
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026RIP to Gerritt Graham, who gave incredible performances over multiple decades, but who will live forever in my heart as the bitchy glam rock icon Beef. Quite simply impossible to imagine another actor in the part. A master. 0255
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My favorite right wing bit is when they go “understand that desecration is the point, they’re laughing in your face as they humiliate your ancestors” and it’s because like Jon gets a Black girlfriend in Garfield or something 0170
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If you asked me what current TV show would have the most utterly deranged fandom, I would simply never have guessed it was the old-fashioned hospital drama with the guy we love from hospital dramas. 1202
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I feel like there’s probably a connection between noxious self-care therapyspeak and the venture capital behemoth that’s ruining everything you ever dared to enjoy. 1111
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The funniest recurring bit in HOPE is also on some level the saddest and most important thing in the movie: nearly every character has some unexplained stockpile of artillery. They all think they’re action heroes. But they’re just terrified idiots who could have avoided all of this by not shooting. 131
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One of my life’s greatest pleasures was the joy my dad got from little character acting moments. He’d smile and giggle while doing a little impression of Malkovich’s insane Russian accent in ROUNDERS, or get sincerely emotional over Anton Walbrook’s immigration speech in COLONEL BLIMP. I miss him. 1160
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I feel that we as a country undervalue Mark Linn-Baker 0111
Reposted by Abe GoldfarbJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary. 181909327
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Have principles, not heroes. For instance, Macklemore is entirely correct about Palestine and also for some reason has a Halloween Adventure Dirty Jewish Money Lender costume. 2233
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026HOPE: Bonkers. A dark chase comedy about dumbass provincial militarism shot like a dude is trying to outdo George Miller (and has the cojones to nearly do it), with monsters that look like half-finished PS2 graphics. Nothing can prepare you for the unhinged, wildly ambitious last five minutes. 261
Reposted by Abe GoldfarbKotaku @kotaku.com · 15/09/2026Nighthawks gets a happy ending but Steam still has a problem with how it rates games kotaku.com/nighthawks-steam-pornogr…kotaku.comSteam Mischaracterizing Indie Game As Porn Works Out In The End - Kotaku'I hope to never have to go through anything like this ever again,' said Wadjet Eye Games founder Dave Gilbert 0347
Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026MATINEE is a movie so blissfully happy that it short-circuits my critical faculties. Breezy, witty pop art by a boomer who remembers how fucking dumb life was, and how wonderful his escapes from it. The sequence in which John Goodman explains horror films is something I could watch a hundred times. 150