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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Willy Wanker and the Bot Factory

Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It was impossible to pick 9. Where's Bonjour Tristesse? Or The Great Dictator? Or Manhattan, Call Me By Your Name, Mad Max Fury Road, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Nightmare Alley, Summertime, Mildred Pierce, The Shop Around the Corner, The Palm Beach Story, Morocco, etc. etc.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

JUNIOR BONNER (1972) is an uncharacteristically relaxed Sam Peckinpah film with a wonderful performance by Robert Preston as Steve McQueen's cowboy father. His Ace is a rootless big-talking dreamer, and Preston uses his own charisma like a weapon, wounding anyone who depends on him for anything.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Netflix doc WHO IS MARTIN MULL? is an unexpectedly humane, deep, and moving portrait of a man who flew his own greatness just under the radar. Highly recommended.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL MY INTELLIGENCE?

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tonight's movie is pumping some much needed joy right into my veins.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

First-time watch and it's... not that good? Bland actors, drab atmosphere, duh-duh-DUH!! music each time the Creature appears. Did this movie's reputation come entirely from Boomers who saw it when they were eight? I can't imagine an adult being into this thing, except nostalgically.

Poster for CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you rearrange the letters and switch one, "Super Intelligence" reads "Epstein Ruling: Cell," which is much more accurate.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Did you or did you not attempt to so-called 'surrogate parent' your own son by reincarnating as a snowman?" "Sir, that was Jack Frost."

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just watched The Browning Version on TCM. In a career of great performances this might be Michael Redgrave's best. He shows you a bitter petty tyrant and then breaks your heart for him. The whole cast is aces, especially Wilfred Hyde-White as Redgrave's unctuous, sleazy Headmaster. Awesome film.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me, every day of his Presidency.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just watched THE LONG, HOT SUMMER on Criterion. Orson Welles, 43 and playing 61 (and looking it) gives a performance of truly epic awfulness. He singlehandedly destroys the movie, not a great loss considering it's imitation Tennessee Williams and totally ersatz.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy bi visibility day! I see you over there, sitting all wrong in your chair with that grin on your face. And want you to know I celebrate your—by which I mean our—confused, greedy, immature, unfaithful, experimental, slutty, indecisive messiness today! #BisexualVisibilityDay

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love no actor more than Louis Jouvet, and I think his philosophical Baron in Renoir's LES BAS-FONDS is his finest performance. With Jean Gabin, also wonderful as the thief he befriends. Their discussion about life by a riverbank was the director's favorite scene in the film, with good reason.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Share a COMEDY movie title that begins with the letter M 🎥🖤

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, this country was attacked, on a bloody day I witnessed up close, by the very people this stinking sack of shit cozies up to for money. Here he is today, sleeping through a ceremony about it. Dreaming only of his own insatiable greed. Shame on all of us for tolerating him even slightly.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This New Yorker cartoon, which appeared a few weeks later:

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything...

Hell on earth, New York City, Sept. 20 2001. My own photo from the scene near my office.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

TONY, the new Anthony Bourdain origin-story, left me cold. There was no love in this movie: of places or people or food. Meanwhile Bourdain's soulfulness and dry Jersey wit were nowhere to be found—in the script or in Dominic Sessa's one-note charisma-free performance.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959). Tennessee Williams shuddering at his own gayness, abetted by Gore Vidal. It's a measure of the previous century's internalized homophobia that these two gifted writers cooked up this stew of incest, cannibalism, and mental illness around one unseen gay character.

Elizabeth Taylor playing in the surf in a white swimsuit and giving SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER a reason to exist.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just rewatched THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) in 4kUHD. Such a strange beast, this movie: almost every scene combines stale Bible talk, cheesy acting, flat staging, crude rear projection, AND glorious costumes, striking imagery, stunning practical effects, and a sturdy well-knit script. Gotta love it.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's #bisexualvisibilitymonth and if you search for that hashtag + "bi icons" you'll see my last year's series of fabulous bi kings and queens speaking their truth. Not confused, not in denial, not experimenting. Maybe just a little greedy.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Two rock-and-roll bios, and two occasions where Katharine Hepburn did some real acting (as opposed to "star" acting). LONG DAY'S JOURNEY is her finest achievement, maybe the greatest acting any performer of her generation ever did.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Currently listening to the new Dent May. Like a blend of Brian Wilson Beach Boys and George Martin-produced America. A perfect summer cocktail of an album... it goes down sweet but has a subtle kick to it. Recommended.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just watched Spencer Tracy in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, and "hide" is what he should've done after this performance. In fairness, he fought doing it... but he should've fought harder. Ingrid Bergman, as the horny but terrified barmaid, is the MVP of this movie.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The cast of LAURA, 40 years apart. Time writes with a goose quill dipped in venom.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the third season of BEEF, a sunsetting elderly man escalates an argument with the ghost of his smarter, better-looking predecessor.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just finished reading James Curtis' massive and definitive biography of Spencer Tracy, and it was a real journey. Tracy was far more sensitive and fragile than I ever imagined, also more tortured and dangerous. A great actor? Curtis clearly thinks so; I'm still not sure myself.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Judge: Young lady, are you trying to show contempt for this court? Mae West: No. I'm doin' my best to hide it.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Watching Tracy and Hepburn in KEEPER OF THE FLAME and WITHOUT LOVE. Hard to decide which is lamer. KotF has a nice Antifa slant but she's amateurish and the film is just absurd. W/OL is a dumb comedy where the supporting cast gets the only laughs, and the score keeps telling you how cute it all is.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Now watching. Plot doesn't make a lot of sense but Tracy + Davis, Curtiz, and the WB stock company sell it.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I took this shot from the restored print on Warner Archive blu-ray, which is just an astounding thing to watch.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Errol Flynn in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This movie needed to be much nastier and lowdown, and if your lead is supposed to be a ruthless Casanova, why on earth would you cast bland, hopelessly "nice" Robert Young? Despite some good moments, Young is just too lightweight for Noir. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheyWontBelieveMe

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

RIP to tenor sax legend Plas Johnson. A member of the family, in a way.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is who runs this account. It's the Kennedy era and he's already had enough of this nonsense.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Gotta say, I wasn't really feeling it yesterday. You know, what with [gestures at everything]... Whaddaya say we postpone our Independence Day / Semiquincentennial celebration until... I don't know... how does Nov. 3 sound?

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

After exactly 50 years of being employed at various companies, I officially retired today. I will be open to select freelance offers in a few weeks when I sober up.

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Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Pro Tip for the Democratic Party. For now, America has spoken about what it wants in a president: a white hetero dude with a sense of showmanship. All this dude has to do is turn everyone's festering grievance against MAGA, and make sure the Trump Trials are entertaining. Vengeance = big box office!

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