Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sadly this is also what most screen adaptations of great literature amount to. “Let’s streamline the narrative to its essence, ignoring the inconvenient fact that most of the artistry resides in each specific sequence of words.” (Also makes translations ultra-challenging, to be fair.) 250
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Gotta love the geniuses over at TMDb, who thought "Let's take a poster concept entirely designed around overlaid text and remove the text so that it's just some faces staring at you." (I'm sure they did the same to the original, just happened to see this one a moment ago.) 171
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Only the second time I’ve been to this screening room (last time was PICTURES OF GHOSTS) and I’d really like to see things here more often. 080
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Happened upon this 1964 NYT ad and marveled at the prices. Then I did the inflation conversion and discovered that flying *coach* from NY to LA cost today's equivalent of $1,567.92. (In which case I would indeed upgrade to first-class, costing $1,738.65 in 2026 dollars. Might as well.) 140
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This vocab test is genuinely difficult. I still did pretty well (130’s about where I usually land in general IQ), but as I was taking it I had no confidence in that at all. taketest.xyz/vocab-cat 110
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And I would watch 500 MILES And I’d *re*watch LIFE AND NOTHING MORE Just to be the man who made a lame-ass joke All Bluesky will abhor Da da dun da! (Da da dun da!) 031
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What I briefly assumed the quoted tweet was about, as a non-sports person. 120
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What's wrong with you people? Why would you do that? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!? ("It looks better at thumbnail size" fuck the fuck off Phil Istine) 0120
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My dad has an annoying tendency (watching movies at home—not in a theater, thankfully) to ask questions about things that are meant to be temporarily mysterious. DAD: Why did she do that? ME: Wait a bit and we’ll find out! But at least he hasn’t convinced himself that it’s a fuckin’ disability. 2195
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Apparently we’ve progressed from not knowing what “wherefore” meant to just pretending the line was actually “Where the fuck art thou, Romeo? I don’t see you.” (Also is this really the best use of his time that Eggers can think of?) 191
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You can tell a lot about someone by which connection immediately leaps out at them. (I got both of these in seconds.) 050
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hilarious that they closed the tour with this. (Was not played at my show, in fact they didn’t share the stage at all.) 130
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Honestly this alone is worth the $2/month I pay. (Last is the one I actually use; there are many more. Also if you don’t like that color you can pick another!) 000
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I choose to believe this movie imagines what might happen if Eleanor Friedberger joined Spoon. 0130
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026TIFF used to run so many press screenings that you often had multiple opportunities to see totally forgettable movies on the same day, just a few hours apart. (Never happens now.) 020
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Leaving TIFF unusually early (for me; I’ve always stayed to the end previously), which means that I saw significantly fewer films. And I couldn’t schedule many that I wanted to see. Of those I did, my favo(u)rites: (Top two are locks for my year-end top 10, unless something astonishing happens.) 0121
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Should anyone besides me ever need an old TIFF P&I schedule (highly unlikely), they do in fact keep copies (at the library on the Lightbox’s 4th floor). 130
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 07/09/2026@scotttobias.bsky.social Ordering one of these sashes for you. 080
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm well aware that idealized cartoonish human figures are commonplace in anime but come on this is just not what Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn looked like. 080
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Not sure why Netflix has begun adding stuff exclusively for me but I’m not complaining. 170
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Why go to the trouble of doing your own coursework in a world where nobody noticed that an intended “undeserved” became “underserved”? If you just ran spellcheck and hit publish, without having a competent editor actually read the damn piece, it’s hard to take the moral high ground. 191
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“Okay, here’s the shot. Jon, you’re gonna tear ass down the walkway making your frantic escape. But you guys, you three guys, get in his way. You’re not *trying* to slow him down. Ok? It should look natural, like you were minding your own business and just happened to block his path. And…action!” 170
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Amused by Lbox’s search engine defaulting to “Wow, this dude does *not* know how to spell ‘battle.’” 2150
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 24/08/2026GOLDEN GIRLS jokes that play better today than they did 35 years ago #2 (same episode). 1132
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 24/08/2026GOLDEN GIRLS jokes that play better today than they did 35 years ago #1. 1222
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My ultimate goal is to get 1% or less across the board. Got fairly close here, underestimated how many people would remember Clarkson as Mrs. Ness. Not sure I’d previously managed 0%; I know that film only because I reviewed it for The Dissolve (and it still took me a bit to remember the title). 1140
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026New achievement in dumbass “These attitudes were wrong then and they are wrong now” revision/censorship just dropped. 0207
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Question from the colorblind: What actual color is Aurora’s hair in SLEEPING BEAUTY? Is it gold? I would not call this color yellow (it’s one of a zillion hues for which I don’t really have a name), but of course I’m frequently wrong. 200
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Is there something unique about this play that merits the bizarre credit “entire production directed by”? 210
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Wonder if THE END OF OAK STREET was partially inspired by the ’90s OUTER LIMITS episode I’m currently watching. 050
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Commas in the last sentence are one of those things that I know is incorrect without being able to articulate why it’s incorrect. 210
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Why do Wisconsin Democrats care whether Hong has two films in NYFF? 1110
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 02/08/2026So we conquered it seven years ago. “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”—Pete Conrad, 19 Nov 1969 292
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Predictably, that dolt who “unskewed” THE ODYSSEY’s Rotten Tomatoes audience score thinks it’s totally valid to vote on films you haven’t seen. Ignorant opinions based on social-media discourse are just as valid as any other! 150
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Met a lot of friends and fellow future critics on rec.arts.movies. Turns out I was also hanging out with others whose work I discovered years later. Here's me and @sepinwall.bsky.social in 1994 responding 20 minutes apart to someone who thought Hugh Grant and Richard E. Grant were brothers. 0120
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Another reason to be annoyed by the dominance of superhero movies for most of this century. 2131
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Just now realized why Telemachus saying “my dad” was distracting to me despite my knowing it’s not an anachronism per se. 080
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Tried using Claude to do some list-related grunt work. It goofed a little, but its explanation for the error sounds creepily human. I can kinda see why people anthropomorphize these things. 100
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Released 20 years ago this week. What a time to have been alive, etc. 280
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Wait until this dude finds out about what happened to virtually every non-anamorphic movie shot on film. 210
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Oh good I wasn’t the only one to be reminded of that. www.cityweekly.net/film/film-re... 060
