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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 29/09/2026

DUNE PART THREE (2026, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 27/09/2026

Feeling blue? Watch GROSSE POINTE BLANK. Feeling burned out? Watch GROSSE POINTE BLANK. Come down with a chest cold? Baby, there’s a cure for that, and it’s watching GROSSE POINTE BLANK

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 26/09/2026

A hoarse but hearty shoutout to Robitussin and Throat Coat tea

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 26/09/2026

Found out today that not only is my mom aware of Sabrina Carpenter, she likes the song Manchild

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 26/09/2026

Once again, Fridays are for the boys

Breaking Bad promo image: Bryan Cranston as Walter White and Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in front of an ominously, artificially gray sky

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Kevin McLenithan @mclengthyname.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICYMI, Seeing & Believing has been running @dodgyboffin.com's TIFF recap all week. The third and final installment went up today. Sarah did an incredible job putting this together, and she shines a spotlight on so many worthy films, big and small. seeingandbelieving.substack.com/p/the-2026-t...

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The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival Issue #3: Discoveries & Premieres

We return one more time to our 2026 TIFF coverage.

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 25/09/2026

Still thinkin about the sheep hat

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 24/09/2026

Today’s work productivity is once again brought to you by the TRON ARES score

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 23/09/2026

This is going to kill me stone dead

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 23/09/2026

The thing about Lance Oppenheim’s PRIMETIME is that it’s no David Osit’s PREDATORS

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 22/09/2026

For the evening crowd: coverage of WILD HORSE NINE, FJORD, ALL OF A SUDDEN, IRON BOY, BITTER CHRISTMAS, THE DEBUT, and LOOK BACK, all from #TIFF26

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 21/09/2026

We're splitting up #TIFF26 coverage into three issues, which will all go out this week. First up: catching up with the titles that caught our eye from previous festivals this year, from FJORD to THE DEBUT!

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The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival Issue #1: Catching Up

Seeing & Believing returns to Toronto for another go-round.

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 21/09/2026

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The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival Issue #1: Catching Up

Seeing & Believing returns to Toronto for another go-round.

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 21/09/2026

Happy Fat Bear Week to all who celebrate

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 21/09/2026

Wish I could still knit because if I could, I’d make Austin Abrams’s delightful sheep hat from RESIDENT EVIL

Austin Abrams in the 2026 Resident Evil. He’s on the phone, his head tilted down, so you can see that he’s wearing a mustard yellow knit hat with a pom pom on top. The hat is decorated with an intarsia pattern of sheep, mostly white with black faces and legs, but one that’s black with a white faces

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 20/09/2026

True love is when you pre-screen horror movies for your gore-averse spouse

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 20/09/2026

If you’re gonna watch BARBARIAN a second time, I highly recommend watching it with your spouse who hasn’t seen it before

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 19/09/2026

Checked again. Ending of HEAT still makes me cry

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 19/09/2026

Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins gets regular rotation on my running playlist, so naturally when it came up on the grocery store radio this morning I had to fight the urge to drop everything and sprint down the baking aisle

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: THAT TAXI IN ORD WAS PAINFUL Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA Type: Boeing 737-800 A: #a1e9181321d F: #ff14e90ddaa

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 17/09/2026

One of the best parts of being a writer is getting to read the cool stuff your friends write. Good mail day today!

Two books on a tabletop: Observer by Nicholas Russell and Religious Cinema for Non-Believers by Joel Mayward

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 16/09/2026

When I come to power I’m banning the tech bros from naming their companies after things from Lord of the Rings

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 16/09/2026

Husband just gave the list of Chicago mayoral candidates a once-over, then played the “you are not serious people” clip from Succession

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 14/09/2026

They’re playing Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer in Lightbox 1 ahead of the Prima Facie screening. It is day five of TIFF. I think I’ve lost my mind?

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 13/09/2026

No I do not want a personal AI assistant that’s been built by Facebook

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 12/09/2026

This is literally a movie about texting your ex tho

Google ad for Gemini with copy that reads “hey Gemini, we need a movie. Something sad. But not ‘text my ex’ sad.”

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 11/09/2026

#TIFF26 day one is in the can: watched ALL OF A SUDDEN, FJORD, and WILD HORSE 9. Good way to kick off a festival! So far every movie I’ve seen deals with different flavors of frustration, which for my money is much more interesting than grief right now

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 09/09/2026

I live in the TIFF pass printing queue now

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 08/09/2026

Every single driver in the city of Chicago has been on one this weekend

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 07/09/2026

Triumphant return to the Major Taylor Bike Trail this afternoon

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 07/09/2026

No irony more bleak than getting an ad for AI in the commercial breaks embedded into Sara Dosa’s documentary about glaciers dying out

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 06/09/2026

Hi, I’m Sarah Welch-Larson, taxonomist and film critic. The way John Darnielle writes a portrait of questioning doubt using only a driving guitar, a piano riff, and declarative sentences in Against Pollution (“I would do it again, I would do it again”) never fails to mess me up

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 06/09/2026

White and Pinkman have never found a problem that they couldn’t make worse

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 05/09/2026

It was The Jaunt, and it’s gonna haunt me for a while

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