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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rewatched THE AVIATOR this afternoon and it really is one of Scorsese's masterpieces, "late style" or no.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Double-bill of ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES and STAR TREK II on TCM starting in about 20 minutes.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Confronting post-hospital trauma head-on by revisiting an old fave.

The noirish title card for Dennis Potter's autobiographical 1986 miniseries The Singing Detective

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Folks, got home from the hospital after 21 days, but there's still so much recovery ahead that I've stepped down as editor of filmfreakcentral.net for now and leave it in the very capable hands of @mangiotto.bsky.social and co. I see Walter's Telluride coverage has begun and I can't wait to read it.

Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi everyone sorry to pull a Mitch McConnell on you. Still in hospital but starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. You won't hear from me for a while, but I miss you all.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Alex Cross heard his stomach rumbling. He realized the only cure for his appetite was one of the Feastables he carried in his pocket for just such a hunger emergency. He couldn't figure out why Feastables are outsold by other candy bars at Wal-Mart, and decided that would be his next case."

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For the morning crowd

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For most of 2026, I've been working to secure a contract to write a comprehensive book about TV's Veronica Mars. I've come close, but publishers fear there just aren't enough Marshmallows left who would be interested. Let's prove 'em wrong! Join me & please share: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Tokyo Drift rollercoaster opening in September looks like a Saw trap.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hoping the X Files reboot takes advantage of Kash Patel's relaxed standards and has the new Scully and Mulder in serious relationships with zoo animals.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Saw a video where Tony Hawk said by far his worst injury was a broken femur and I concur. I was 7 and that's the only time a fracture ever made me vomit and pass out.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Finally saw DISCLOSURE DAY. Dorky observation: I think this might be the first Spielberg movie to end with Scorsese credits (i.e., title cards) vs. his traditional scrolling credits.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Of course, of course.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Is a horse the reason Kash Patel is cross-eyed?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bay Area friends: A friend found these small kittens behind a gas station and we've been trying to find them a home for almost two months. For now, they live in a small bathroom. Would you consider adopting? They are vaxxed, neutered, and incredibly affectionate. Please help!

Photo of three kittens. Two are orange; one is black.

Photo of two orange cats, one black, and one dark gray.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Using AI to illustrate what happened in Tibet/Nepal is the kind of pitch black irony reserved for Bulgakov. Just hideous stuff.

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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 28/08/2026

Hey, if you know anyone in Brooklyn, Sunset Park specifically, who recently lost a cat, I found this very personable (and LOUD) little polydactyl on 53rd and 2nd. She's unbelievably sweet. I would love to reunite her with her people

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

SOLARBABIES is on Tubi. I don't know why I'm telling you this.

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Still no takers. I don't *understand*, and it's killing me. LOOK AT THESE FACES.

Gray cat with small white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Plan a horrorfest using only your first name Basket Case It's Alive! Lisa Lords of Salem, The

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fuck this country.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No surer sign that you're about to have your shit rocked.

Stern portrait of Judge Hardy's Family, the family of Mickey Rooney's venerable Andy Hardy

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

VERTIGO is on TCM right now. That's the movie my friend who dated five women in a row who all looked exactly the same insisted has nothing to say about men.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Those amazing cast photos from the IT miniseries with Tim Curry as Pennywise.

Cast of It on stairwell. Tim Curry as Pennywise in back, staring off to the side while everyone else looks at the camera

Cast of It. Tim Curry playing peekaboo in back, waving at the camera while everyone else looks serious

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Did you know there's an online emulator for the abysmal FRIGHT NIGHT video game, which was exclusive to the Commodore Amiga? As Jerry Dandridge, you walk around your house eating Charlie and co. classicreload.com/play/amiga-f...

classicreload.com

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This was the greatest, most comfortable promotional cap I ever owned. Fit me like a glove. Went with everything. A friend even made a sculpture of me wearing it. Left it on top of a cab that drove away, sigh.

Forest green baseball cap that says Kiss the Girls on it

Small wire sculpture with a plastic, featureless head in a green cap dangling from it

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have built an AI model of myself to interface with my special-needs son Mungo while I count my gold coins.

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is lovely, and shattering, and everything it's supposed to be. And I'm gutted to hear Soraya is gone.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Anglo Canadians being forced to conjugate être in the fourth grade: god I hate Quebec, French is the worst Anglo Canadians when an American insults Quebec:

Blurry screenshot of former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien choking out a journalist on live TV

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interesting to watch MARS ATTACKS! in 2026 and see two disembodied heads named Donald and Natalie declare their love for each other.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Welled up at this photo of a kitty in a hard hat who'd been found in the rubble at a construction site. I'm doing great.

Ginger kitten in a yellow hard hat and safety vest like a tiny construction worker.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Watched THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS for the first time in years and forgot Jeffrey Combs was in it. (As a doctor who shaves Kathleen Turner's pubes prior to brain surgery, no less.)

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

MAGA is now basically Make-A-Wish if dying kids were totally healthy pieces of shit.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

MUTINY is the tits. My favourite Statham joint in a while.

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