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Chloe Walker

@chlopinions.bsky.social
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Films and stuff. Writing at: Paste, BFI, Culturefly, Podcast Review, Crooked Marquee, The A.V. Club, Little White Lies, Longreads and more! Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/Chloe1

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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Always love when this comes back around - my first professional piece of writing!
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An INCREDIBLY kind review of "Paper Trail": "@propublica.org proves their importance in every episode, not just by way of the prestigious prizes they’ve won or the laws that they’ve changed, but in the way they are willing to stick up for the little guy – us." podcastreview.org/review/paper...
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Paper Trail Is the Antidote to Your Slop-Filled News Feed
With trust in news institutions faltering, ProPublica's podcast supplies robust journalism that rejects the short-form attention economy.
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Mooch @cachiporra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Aldo Ray is the first attractive man ever allowed onto the silver screen and I am always happy when he shows up. This is such a good write up.
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“These downslides are often viewed as sad or embarrassing, yet there’s also a bracing realism to that trajectory,” @chlopinions.bsky.social writes of Aldo Ray. “However much the best of it feels magical, at the end of the day, acting is a job.” buff.ly/XNwCgtd
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Aldo Ray: From "The Luckiest Guy in Movies" to "The Patron Saint of The Fallen Star" — Crooked Marquee
To mark his centenary, a look at the dramatic career highs and lows of gravel-voiced '50s movie star.
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To mark his centenary, a look at the dramatic career highs and lows of gravel-voiced '50s movie star, Aldo Ray: buff.ly/XNwCgtd
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Aldo Ray: From "The Luckiest Guy in Movies" to "The Patron Saint of The Fallen Star" — Crooked Marquee
To mark his centenary, a look at the dramatic career highs and lows of gravel-voiced '50s movie star.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AAAAA
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Everything Is Called America Now
Every lake is Lake America, and every gulf is the Gulf of America.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 02/09/2026
OMG
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Disaster Girl Meme: Pirómano
ALT: Disaster Girl Meme: Pirómano
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Birthday to the man himself.
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Thirty years later, as we’ve only become more societally fractured and reliant on the firehose of information that comes from our constant access to technology, ‘The Trigger Effect’ feels perhaps even more potent than it did at the time of release,” @chlopinions.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/PVIYXCx
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https://crookedmarquee.com/the-trigger-effect-at-30-david-koepps-bleak-beginnings/
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Because Mankiewicz and Grant made many other classics that fit more neatly into genre boxes, ‘People Will Talk’ tends to get lost when talking about either of their careers,” @chlopinions.bsky.social writes. “Yet really, it’s the messiness that makes it special.” crookedmarquee.com/why-its-stil...
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https://crookedmarquee.com/why-its-still-worth-talking-about-people-will-talk/
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
no one put the lie to the myth of the nightmare genius artist quite like dolly parton
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 25/08/2026
I think about what Roger wrote about Dolly Parton in his 9 TO 5 review any time I think of her: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nine...
“Nine to Five” is a good-hearted, simple-minded comedy that will win a place in film history, I suspect, primarily because it contains the movie debut of Dolly Parton. She is, on the basis of this one film, a natural-born movie star, a performer who holds our attention so easily that it’s hard to believe it’s her first film.

There have been other debuts this unmistakable; you could name Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, John Travolta. And what you’d be talking about in each case would not necessarily be a great dramatic performance in an important movie. You’d be talking about a quality of presence, a personal life force that seems to take over the screen.

“Nine to Five” is only a fairly successful comedy. It has some very funny moments, and then it has some major ingredients that don’t work, including some of its fantasy sequences. But then it also has Dolly Parton. And she contains so much energy, so much life and unstudied natural exuberance that watching her do anything in this movie is a pleasure. Because there have been so many Dolly Parton jokes (and doubtless will be so many more), I had better say that I’m not referring to her sex appeal or chest measurements. Indeed, she hardly seems to exist as a sexual being in this movie. She exists on another plane, as Monroe did: She is a center of life on the screen.
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pack it all in folks, a pillar of the earth is gone. people.com/dolly-parton...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’
Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...
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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Beautiful review of Blair's outstanding podcast!
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In Turkey, a cat comes to an elderly man who earns his living by cleaning shoes at the same time every morning. He asks to have his fur brushed, and the man never refuses. Original post
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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I covered @blairbraverman.bsky.social's wonderful show for Podcast Review: podcastreview.org/review/what-...:
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What to Carry, What to Burn | Podcast Review
Get lost in stories of survival in this highly enjoyable series from adventurer and writer Blair Braverman.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Good morning
photo of a man letting baby meerkats play with his tools. 
"My dad is an electrician in a zoo and look how he spent his morning. I'm crying."
Reply: "Your dad small as hell."
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 14/07/2026
Proud to edit a site where we ask the tough questions!! Great work by @chlopinions.bsky.social here
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Why Didn't Peter O'Toole Make More Romantic Comedies? — Crooked Marquee
Peter O’Toole was an eight-time Oscar nominee and a stage legend. He did pretty well for himself, all things considered. Nevertheless, once you’ve seen him
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Once you’ve seen him spend twenty minutes hiding in a closet with Audrey Hepburn,” @chlopinions.bsky.social writes of Peter O’Toole, “it still seems a shame that ‘How To Steal A Million’ – released sixty years ago this week – was his only traditional romantic comedy.”
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The dance scene from PICNIC (Joshua Logan, 1955). Just because. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEJp...
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Picnic (1955) Dance Scene
YouTube video by Ballerino
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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Strangers on a Train turns 75 today! To mark the occasion, I wrote about the abundant talents and tragically short career of Robert Walker (no relation) for the BFI: www.bfi.org.uk/features/fin...
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Finest hours: Robert Walker as the charm-school sociopath in Strangers on a Train
As the friendly psycho who proposes a murder swap in Strangers on a Train, Robert Walker lodged his place in movie history just before his tragically early death. As Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thrille...
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Tammy Golden @tammygolden.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
To this day, I believe that Al Pacino's signature "HOO-ah!" was actually just him not knowing how to read the word "whoa"
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“For a significant proportion of the 2010s, Matthias Schoenaerts appeared omnipresent, starring in a host of popular films across genres and languages, usually to critical acclaim,” @chlopinions.bsky.social writes. “What happened?”
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
You’re gonna be alright son.
Couple of bins with paper hanging out of one
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 23/05/2026
I'd like to think that we're the only site that ran a 50th anniversary appreciation of the batshit Rock Hudson sci-fi thriller EMBRYO, @chlopinions.bsky.social really cooked on this one crookedmarquee.com/on-the-stran...
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On the Strange Poignancy of Embryo, Rock Hudson's Weirdest Movie — Crooked Marquee
On its fiftieth anniversary, we dive into the oddly poignant chaos that ensued that time Rock Hudson grew a lady in a lab.
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On its fiftieth anniversary, we dive into the oddly poignant chaos that ensued that time Rock Hudson grew a lady in a lab. A look back at “Embryo”:
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“It’s deeply daft, devoid of logic, full of cheesy tropes and ludicrous moments,” @chlopinions.bsky.social writes of ‘Embryo.’ “However, thanks to the performances of Hudson and Carrera, there’s a melancholy to the whole production that’s hard to shake off .” buff.ly/YX0RwL4
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
HBD Shirley MacLaine!! MCCT5: 5)Trouble w/Harry (Hitch) 4)Postcards from the Edge (Nichols) 3)Terms of Endearment (Brooks) 2)Being There (Ashby) 1)The Apartment (Wilder) More: @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/shirle... @uppcinema.bsky.social: uppcinema.com/shirley-macl...
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Shirley MacLaine: Hollywood’s Last Great Star Re-evaluated - The Ultimate Picture Palace
Shirley MacLaine, who appears alongside Jack Lemmon and Double Indemnity’s Fred MacMurray in Billy Wilder’s brilliant 1960 bleak comedy The Apartment, which is screening at the UPP this month in a res...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BOTD Rod Steiger!! MCCT5: 5)Heat of the Night (Jewison) 4)Hands over the City (Rosi) 3)Innocents w/Dirty Hands (Chabrol) 2)Pawnbroker (Lumet) 1)Waterfront (Kazan) More: Interview: brightlightsfilm.com/confessions-... @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rod-st...
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Rod Steiger: 10 essential films
One hundred years after he was born, we salute the fury and intensity of Rod Steiger’s presence on screen, from On the Waterfront to In the Heat of the Night.
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“No classic movie actor of his level was as effective at balancing a recognizable humanity with the secret sauce of stardom,” @chlopinions.bsky.social writes of Humphrey Bogart. “It was an irresistible combination. It still is.”
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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Happy The Pitt FINALLY arrives in the UK day to all who celebrate!
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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I wrote about Michael Shannon's extraordinary 2016 for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/acting-up/mi...
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Michael Shannon's Big Year
In 2016 Michael Shannon appeared in 10 feature films – together they prove why he's one of the most compelling actors around.
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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
On its fiftieth anniversary, we look back at how “Robin and Marian,” the movie that housed Sean Connery's most tender performance, tackled aging bodies, looming mortality, and a legendary romance.
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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Wrote up one of my favourites for its 50th anniversary!🌳🏹🏰
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
can we at least bring back disco, guys in short shorts, moustaches, and actors with interestingly flawed faces and bodies
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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I think Robert Aramayo winning that BAFTA might be my favourite movie awards win...ever? What a special moment, and so, so well deserved.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
And your BAFTA Best Actor is...Robert Aramayo! Hard to describe what an astounding upset this is in an awards season that has been tediously devoid of them. (His movie will open in the U.S. in April.) variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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‘I Swear’ Star Robert Aramayo in Shock After Being Named BAFTA Best Actor Over Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothée Chalamet: ‘I Honestly Can’t Believe I Won’
Tearful 'I Swear' star Robert Aramayo in shock after beating Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke to take home the leading actor BAFTA.
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A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Foolishly convinced myself that Frederick Wiseman would live forever. There were just too many institutions and interesting people left to film!
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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Frederick Wiseman - rare case where a 96-year-old filmmaker’s death feels tragic because they had so much more left to do. Uninterrupted streak of curiosity, empathy, wisdom, and quiet anger, ended only by the reality of living in a human body.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Frederick Wiseman and Robert Duvall on the same day. We loved our nonagenarian kings.
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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
💔
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
BOTD New Hollywood DP Haskell Wexler!!! [Virginia Woolf 🙏 ; Cuckoo's Nest; Bound/Glory; Coming Home ++] Also D/W/DP Medium Cool - Our take: brightlightsfilm.com/the-whole-wo... More: @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/haskel... Stuart Klawans: www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Remembering Haskell Wexler, Genius Cinematographer and Committed Leftist
For more than six decades, Haskell Wexler spoke to the public through the movies he made.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It’s hard to imagine someone more universally enjoyed than Catherine O’Hara where the opinions range from “I like her and her work” to “I love her and her work” and that’s a pretty good legacy
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Catherine O'Hara? Are you fucking kidding me? Fuck this year.
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Chloe Walker @chlopinions.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Here's a Letterboxd list of the 32 movies I watched to write this behemoth: letterboxd.com/chloe1/list/...
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AV Club Desert Island Watchlist
All the films I watched to write this behemoth: www.avclub.com/desert-island-movie-survival-guide
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
always a good time to read @chlopinions.bsky.social, who's one of the most film literate and thorough researchers out there
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