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Even my abiding fondness for Tom Cruise is no match for my intense loathing of Iñárritu’s inexplicably overrated garbage movies. Good riddance.

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Two students came up to me afterwards to ask if they might maybe be allowed to write their upcoming textual analysis essay on “Freedom ’90,“ which warmed the cockles of my aging heart.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

It was amazing to see how much my students were able to get out of it just in terms of studying and interpreting the actual contents of the video, before adding in more layers of meaning as I gave them more and more context on George Michael’s life, career, sexuality, and celebrity.

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I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Cindy Crawford in George Michael's Freedom! '90

Great start of the day with an in-class exercise analysing the functions of style in film form, using George Michael’s “Freedom ‘90” music video as our object of analysis.

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ALT: Cindy Crawford in George Michael's Freedom! '90

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"So how is the complete and total destruction of New York going?" "It's proceeding as planned." The mayor of my city is such a rock star. #swoon 🥰

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"Ultimately, I was the audience's guide into a very scary place. ... I'm sort of David's submersible. ... I'm tethered to the mothership, right? But then I'm now kind of on my own exploring this dark place."

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Futures and Frontiers | Final Program – PopMeC

Very excited to travel to Berlin tomorrow, where I'll give the closing keynote at the conference "Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s)", organized by the JFK institute of the Free University. www.popmec.com/futures-and-...

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i 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

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5 favorite British films...as of right now: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (The Archers) WHISKY GALORE! (Mackendrick) THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (Ivory) BARRY LYNDON (Kubrick) DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg)

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

New addition to the list of upcoming screenings: MIAMI VICE 🤘🏻

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I am but a woman standing in front of her thousands of followers begging them to watch season five of FARGO which is arguably one of the best seasons of television ever made.

A man in a cowboy hat talking to a woman in a hospital room.

A woman with folded hands leaning on a table.

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Literally the first paragraph of my essay 👆🏻

I got lucky and was able to buy a single floor ticket (standing room) for 170 bucks.

These were some of the instructions the contributors to the volume received — you love to see it!

Writing about TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN for a collection on the values of “resisting usefulness” in media. Great opportunity to consider the ways in which Lynch deviates from the constraints of what I call narrative utilitarianism.

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1. I Wish 2. Knocks Me Off My Feet 3. Sir Duke Got tickets for the 50th anniversary tour in Amsterdam on Oct 28 and can barely contain myself already!! 🥳

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this is my actual nightmare 😱

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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today in psychoanalysis still slaps a lucky dude cremates his own status, legitimacy, legacy

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"Fleeing from *extended* family" would have been a more accurate way of phrasing it.

Suiza: Beautiful Alpine Train Journey

This year, we've decided to flee from all family obligations and instead spend Christmas touring the Alps by rail: first a night train to Innsbruck, then on to Chur in Switzerland, and back home by night train from Zürich. Can't wait!!

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ALT: Suiza: Beautiful Alpine Train Journey

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Weirdly excited to finally sit down and actually read this daunting tome for the #TwinPeaks book I’m writing. Let’s fucking go!!

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, genuinely impossible for me to give a shit about either one of these assholes.

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god said free Palestine

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Plus it's maybe time for an update of my all-time most watched list. #LetterboxdFriday

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Twin Peaks: The Return Curb Your Enthusiasm Friday Night Lights On Cinema at the Cinema I Will Destroy You Better Call Saul The Wire The Leftovers It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Station Eleven

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How nice for me that the greatest/scariest scene in cinema history can be justifiably referred to as “the Dan scene” in MULHOLLAND DR.

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I went to accompany my daughter, who’s a massive fan, and because I was curious to see how James Cameron had directed it — came out of the screening a complete Billie Eilish fan!

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Cine of the Times is a monthly film series curated and hosted by myself with film critic Hugo Mazereeuw. Together, we record a podcast on each of the selected films and prepare an introductory “pre-show” full of film clips, analysis, and discussion. Once a month at Lab111!

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