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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 2h

Update: you guys want to see a dead body?

Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 4h

Also, you're pissing in the eye of festival programmers when you're self-financed, genre mash-up, jerk-off whatzits don't exist outside of Midnight Madness slots at festivals?

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 4h

I've read the THR editorial by the TORQUE dude 3x now & I still have no clue what argument he thinks he's making. Utterly incoherent, shotgunned grievances & shitty, free-association riffing like this. That it was even published in this form confirms his editors hate him as much as everyone else.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 17h

Oh look: it’s the brain trust of Skydance, including both of their co-CEOs, the company that now controls 40% of the media in America, credited as the producers of MATCHBOX: THE MOVIE. That’s not a remotely chilling omen for the state of the industry!

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 23h

When your DAYS OF THUNDER 2 costar sends up a flare and you rally to his rescue after maybe feeling a little guilty that your movie stomped his at the weekend box office (this is the first "review" she's posted to the site since joining 6 months ago). letterboxd.com/annehathaway...

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A ★★★★★ review of Digger (2026)

I loved this brilliant movie. It’s smart and trippy and aggressive and funny and ambitious. It’s worth making the time see and decide for yourself what you make of it. For me? 10/10 🪏

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lol. Heck of an operation you got there Steve. Really landed on a message that’s going to land with someone with a Los Angeles area code.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He's free to do what he likes. Plenty of musicians played Sun City and/or kept their feelings to themselves about it. Nobody marched them off to the gulags. Doesn't stop me from using it as a further exhibit about why Mike Love and Barry Manilow suck.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's hardly the most important takeaway but Ellison is all forehead and teeth. He looks like one of the thumb people from those Steve Odenkirk parody-shorts.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Genuinely curious to hear Damon Albarn's work in ARTIFICIAL but it's funny to me that Luca Guadagnino made a film that looks THE SOCIAL NETWORK-coded and has worked with Reznor & Ross on his last 4 films yet seemingly both sides were like "sit this one out." Concerns over "been there done that?"

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Something I just realised about this year’s three Best Actor frontrunners:

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a sequel to a film where half the universe melted into dust. Oh no! Rebecca Romijn, Kelsey Grammer and Alan Cumming will be killed off before the opening credits! Keep trauma counselors on standby!

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oooh, ooh, ooh... would any of them happen to be characters who were just recast with sexy young actors as part of the same MCU? How about one being played by an 86-year-old who I've seen die playing this character *at least* three times already?

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the part where I remind people that Skydance under Greenstein and Goldberg has made films that can be easily filed under two headings: "Legacy IP Starring Tom Cruise" and "Unwatchable Garbage that's Typically Sent Straight to Streaming." Augurs well for the new Paramount-Warner Brothers.

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Warner Bros Film Bosses Michael De Luca, Pam Abdy Out As Paramount Takes Over

Josh Greenstein & Dana Goldberg Poised To Run Combined Paramount Warner Bros Film Unit; Setting Up Likely Michael De Luca & Pamela Abdy Exit

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Transposed two words but you get the gist.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When Trump said "they're not sending their best" what actually he meant was Republican politicians from slave states.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Either it’s a catch and kill because the film touches the third rail of Lindsey’s sex life, in which case it never sees the light of day or it’s as you say wildly overpaying a conservative filmmaker for a hagiography that no one else would buy.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He’ll be interning for the RNC/Heritage Foundation/Justice Kavanaugh within six months.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And here I was thinking the 4 hour MUSK doc I saw yesterday would earn me some bragging rights for bladder-testing endurance. You’re the Duke of New York. You’re A-Number One.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not disparaging the show (even if I find the comparisons a wee-bit hyperbolic). Simply making the argument that Louis CK was a central figure in TV discourse during the 2010's and post #metoo there was an unspoken cultural amnesia that I found pretty cowardly.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's not just LOUIE. Remember HORACE & PETE? Culture critics were comparing that at the time to Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. Two years later it was as if it never existed.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most surprising omission: RICK & MORTY (although the list seems pretty predisposed against animation; no BOB’S BURGERS only BOJACK made the cut). Most surprising inclusion: LOUIE. A deserving selection but people have spent the last decade pretending they didn’t gush over it in the before time.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

RE: NY Times TV list, it's interesting to see which shows were punished for falling off creatively in their later seasons (COMMUNITY, THE BEAR, TED LASSO, DEXTER) vs. those where that seemingly wasn't held against other equally egregious examples (US OFFICE, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, GIRLS, LOST).

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not to make light of a serious situation (and it goes without saying but I'm pulling for you and a speedy recovery) but have you considered continuing the proud tradition...

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, sure, but also it's a video from October of 2024. Trump's not drawing even 20k people to MSG these days unless it's to personally witness his crucifixion.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Related: it's not some miraculous coincidence that everyone my age thinks music was *so* much better when we were in high school/college. The art didn't change, you did. Make your peace with it, circle of life, etc.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Inspired by recent Gen X carping about the state of film: things aren't "worse" than they were 20-30 years ago. You're just getting older. As you begin to contemplate your death you crave the comfort of the familiar & romanticize the art of your youth. You're not unique; every generation does this.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm sure the schedule will release any day now but it's odd to me that I'm supposed to select my AFI-Fest tickets in 1 week and I still have no idea what's even playing the festival. This is me mostly trying to will the lineup to drop before the weekend.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This dummy falls for literally everything that comes across her red-pilled social media feed. She’s like a Facebook wine aunt posting conspiracy theories 10 hours a day. Instead of being disinvited from Thanksgiving she was disinvited from the Telluride Patrons Brunch (also, probably Thanksgiving).

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Distribution deal with The Daily Wire's film division imminent...

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know, I also excluded January's sure to be excellent CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE, a film that its screenwriter/author has already disowned.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Paramount really leaned into the "we're not servicing the older conservative male demographic" trend after Trump was reelected not realizing they're chasing an audience that hates leaving the house ("downtown is scary, parking costs too much") & is happy to stay home and watch "Reacher" instead.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Apropos of today's shit sandwich, here are all the films Paramount has released or will release in 2026 (some of these are international only or streaming titles). It's a good thing the Ellison braintrust is now overseeing roughly 40% of the industry.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Really looking forward to this tool crashing and burning during the primaries. I'm not convinced he can even win California at this point.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bari just can’t catch a break this week.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't expect the record to hold for very long but someone someday is going to win pub trivia for even remembering the name of the director of SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, the (current) highest grossing domestic release of all time.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is the implication here that Hitler and bin Laden are in heaven?

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The future at Para-Bros is looking bright!

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We need to assume Fetterman is salivating (although it doesn't take much to make the man drool these days) at the idea of every Democratic senator having to suck up to him for the next 2 years lest he tank the entire party's plans to govern. It's a 52 seat majority or bust, unfortunately.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Old enough to remember when this sort of provable lie effectively ended the career of the dude from "The League" but he had a super important job telling dick jokes on a cable sitcom about fantasy football so I can see why this senior citizen with his finger on the nuclear button will get a pass.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The most middlebrow man who ever lived.

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This dummy took a flamethrower to her career. She couldn't understand why Fox wouldn't want to broadcast more unsubstantiated claims about the company they just paid $787M to so she tattled to daddy Trump. It's fine, lots of on camera jobs out there for 60 year old women who undermine their bosses.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The subject matter is perhaps a little sleazy for the era in which it was made but Schrader is a strange one to register that complaint. Now CAT PEOPLE, *that’s* a lowbrow film (complimentary).

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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just an all-time “L” from the man. Somehow worse than all the sex pest stuff, him playing footsie with AI and that Holocaust movie he made with Goldblum.

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