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Brandon Carter

@cartercinema.bsky.social
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I love movies, music, artists, and art of all kinds

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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A brilliant piece of writing about an all-time favorite!
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Still need to get my hands on “Absentia” and it’s a shame that more of his work isn’t available on disc, but I love having @mikeflanaganfilm.com’s physical media! Just watched “The Life of Chuck” commentary last night and teared up a lot.
A collection of Mike Flanagan physical media on a book shelf: Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, Doctor Sleep, and The Life of Chuck
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Without stating your age, post a movie that released when you turned 18 🎬
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I’ve been itching to jump back into horror lately 🕷️🕸️🐺🌕 WOLF SPIDER is a 15 second short I made with a friend a few years back! It was so fun to do our own spin on a “werewolf” transformation.
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Wolf Spider - 15 Second Horror Film
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This ADAPT OR DIE mentality is AI brain rot. Success in the future is being able to do what AI can't, or being able to do it better than AI ever could. Embracing it and letting it do the heavy lifting is defeatist mentality. And those artists will be the first to be replaced.
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Spontaneously shaved for the first time in over a year and am baby faced once again 👶
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Elizabeth! @kikutowne.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is something I was proud of City of Ghosts for, released in 2021. It gave people good feelings and it encouraged kids to follow history from the people who lived it. It made people fill with feelings and had kids and their parents watching together. I’m forever grateful I got to make it.
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Drop something ROBOT-RELATED 🤖🚀
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Visitor From Another World - (Short Film)
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
THE TIDES This short was the most fun reminder to just cut loose and make something. Conceptualized as a bit while admiring a half moon on a late night drive, I got to drop some self seriousness and just do something silly.
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The Tides
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Slowly rereading the Redwall books has been a beautiful addition to my adult life. My fiancée and I end our days with a chapter or two each night, and just finished Mossflower 🐭 🏰
A paperback copy of Brian Jacques’ Mossflower, book 2 in the Redwall series.
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Was just introduced to @goodkidband.bsky.social and have become obsessed with their animated music videos. Great art is being made all around us!
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Good Kid - Mimi's Delivery Service (Official Video)
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The last four animated feature Oscar winners have been quite diverse picks now that Disney/Pixar has lost its stranglehold on the category
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
EVERYTHING GOES TO THE FISH It’s been about 7 years since we made this short and it remains one of my favorite things I’ve ever gotten to do. We had fun with puppets and cool lighting, and I even got to noodle on accordion and violin for the score! 🐟
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Everything Goes to the Fish
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
VISITOR FROM ANOTHER WORLD, a short that I directed in college is what I consider my “first film”. It was the first time I felt my own voice come through and I finally saw myself in my art ❤️🚀🤖
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Visitor From Another World - (Short Film)
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Iwao Takamoto was one of the Disney greats. Films like Sleeping Beauty owe a lot to his meticulous lines. The studio was a kind of home for him -- it was a big change. Just before, he'd been in the camps. We explore the story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/takamoto-a...
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Check out DECOMPOSER: A Graphic Novel being made by some super rad folks. I’ve had the pleasure of reading the screenplay and it was phenomenal!
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DECOMPOSER: A Graphic Novel
A parasite that has taken over the mind and body of a realtor in southern Appalachia yearns for the impossible, to be human.
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
An incredible read exploring one of my favorite pieces of media!
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A giant dog from space?!?! COSMO is the first short film my fiancé and I got to make together. It was our pandemic project and I’m still so charmed by the handmade world we created together with our sweet little man, Charlie ✨🐾🚀
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Cosmo - (Short FIlm)
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Celebrate Friday the 13th with us by checking out this silly slasher we made for the Albuquerque 48 Hour Film Project 🔪🍕
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Saturday Night Slice V - 48 Hour Film Project Horror/Sci-Fi 2023
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Visual development art by Lou Romano for The Incredibles (2004), dir. Brad Bird, Pixar Animation Studios
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue.
Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence.
Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence.
Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?"
Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!"
Lucy: "Have a good one!"
Crew member: "You, too!"Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat.
Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing.

Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone.
Lucy is reading messages on her phone.
Messages: 
Alert: black SUV
Sighting: be on alert for...
Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates...
We tried to get them inside, but it was too...
...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today.Lucy is riding her bike home.
Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?"
*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org.

Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors.

(Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern)

Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted.
Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence.
Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build.

The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too")
Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend.

Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted?
(Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
First four of the new year! @letterboxd.social
Letterboxed recent activity: No Other Choice, Boys Go To Jupiter, AJ Goes to the Dog Park, and Boyhood.
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Kimberly @crazysexyghoul.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I never remember anyone saying “Did you see the latest Reiner?” like you would hear with Spielberg, Cameron, etc. But undoubtedly made one of your favorite movies. He had a special eye for humanity that built cinematic cathedrals from small-scale stories like MISERY and WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🐜🎃🐜
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
10 years of American Halloween 🎃 We made this short film back in college with very little money and an incredibly supportive group of friends. In the decade since, it has become our most viewed short on YouTube. I’m grateful to everyone who has watched and connected with it over the years.
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American Halloween - (Short Film)
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🎈We all float down here🎈
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Kaiju costumes and cardboard carnage! I’m so stoked we made this fun little short. MOVIE MONSTERS is now live on YouTube youtu.be/BUSTQP3A4dQ?...
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Movie Monsters - a Kaiju Comedy
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Kaiju costumes and cardboard carnage! I’m so stoked we made this fun little short. MOVIE MONSTERS is now live on YouTube youtu.be/BUSTQP3A4dQ?...
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Movie Monsters - a Kaiju Comedy
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Kick off your spooky season Kaiju-style! Tomorrow, Oct. 1, we’re finally unleashing our short film, MOVIE MONSTERS! Tune in or check it out when you can! youtu.be/BUSTQP3A4dQ?... #moviemonsters #shortfilm #kaiju #nobudgetfilmmaking
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Decorating has begun 🎃🧡🖤
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I’m definitely feeling ready for Fall 🎃
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Watched “The Trouble With Harry” last night and I cannot get over how gorgeous it was! Those leaves 🍁 🍂
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
You know, yes, I am outraged for all the plagiarism and theft. But also, when I read about things like these, I think, in very Ernest Hemingway tones, “cowards.”
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Sketch was excellent! There was a family next to us who were having the time of their lives. Laughed, cried, and had so much fun with this creative film!
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A ★★★★★ review of Sketch (2024)
Sketch has a little bit of everything for everyone. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll cheer, you might even get a little scared. Seth Worley and team have crafted a genuinely great family film that fee...
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I’ve been dying to watch this show since a friend introduced me to Pushing Daisies in college. Stumbled upon the DVDs at a thrift store and it didn’t disappoint. Sad there’s not more of it but great to see @bryanfuller.bsky.social has always been cooking!
The DVD collection for the tv show, “Wonderfalls”
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
My sister and I began writing our feature 5 years ago. We shot it in 2021 with a tiny but talented crew and almost no budget. As we begin our journey to get “The Hundred Voices of Harry Hoffman” in front of audiences, Im reminding myself that it was a miracle we got to make it at all! #Filmmaking
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Separating art from the artist" is always a complicated conversation. But when an artist says they are going to use their art's proceeds to further hurt marginalized people, don't just believe them, SHUN THEM. The Trans community needs your support more than you need ANOTHER fucking Harry Potter.
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I got to watch both of these incredible films on Monday and I haven’t stopped thinking about them. THEY CALL HER DEATH was some seriously inspiring genre filmmaking and SUNLIGHT was so beautifully performed and the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time 🤩
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Spent some time in nature over the holiday weekend. The dogs thrived away from the fireworks.
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
NOTORIOUS is about radioactive ore in a wine bottle. NORTH X NORTHWEST is about microfilm in a little statue. There. Now you've seen them. And in seconds instead of hours. Look how smart you are.
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A fantastic piece of film analysis and a sobering read
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I want to start seeing Chuck everywhere until we see him in a home!
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We need this story. It’s so evident that @mikeflanaganfilm.com and his team made this film with so much love. Go see it if you can ❤️
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A ★★★★★ review of The Life of Chuck (2024)
I read King’s novella on a rainy summer evening in 2021. Sandwiched in between some of his more familiar horror offerings in If It Bleeds was one of the most life-affirming stories I’ve ever read, The...
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Going to a Secret Movie Series screening this evening and begging the universe that it’ll be The Life of Chuck 🤞
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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
FFC review: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/05/miss...
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Angela Bassettwritten by Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresendirected by Christopher McQuarrie by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. The...
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Brandon Carter @cartercinema.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I try to stay positive on main, but it cannot be overstated how badly JK Rowling needs to fuck off into the sun. Get fucked Joann. Trans rights are human rights.
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