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maybe i'll only read letterboxd in other languages from now on

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I imagine Ellison was furious when the film was remarketed as a Zack Galifianakis vehicle after the actor broke out in The Hangover. Why wasn't HE poorly photoshopped onto the international Blu-ray cover??

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Eric Pazdziora @ericpazdziora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

David Ellison has arrived at the Criterion Closet attempting to smuggle in multiple copies of the straight-to-DVD comedy Frenemy, which features his final film performance

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"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade'

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

four ways the deal could affect me

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RIP to Eva Marie Saint, a lady with a nose for bullshit www.avclub.com/from-on-the-...

Don't Come Knocking (2005)-"Howard's
Motheri
EMS: I loved-did you see that?
AVC: I did, yes.
EMS: Did you like it?
AVC: I did.
EMS: Now wait a minute. Can we get a little more enthusiasm?
AVC: Sure. It's a great movie!
EMS: Now you're going too far. It's not a great movie. You can't win with me today.
[Laughs.]

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I DO find that pretty funny, intentional or not

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everyone is rightly dunking on calling Transformers a "cult" franchise but not enough people are dunking on "Michael Bay, long a master of mayhem"

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warija @itsamemarija.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

happy 20th to the only film co-directed by Dropkick Murphys

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why not watch this adaptation of francis bacon's filthy mind and just stay unnerved forever

works by francis bacon referenced in the shout; head vi, lying figure and paralytic child walking on all fours

susannah york nakedly (gasp) strolling on all fours

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This, to me, is what movies are about

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That'd be my guess! Apparently it's a well-respected story despite sounding, by all accounts, super silly

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a modern wrinkle to The Shout is that star Alan Bates has a real Matt Berry thing going on, and all its dialogue would be 1000x funnier if Matt Berry was saying it

scruffy alan bates in a purple turtleneck and a big coat, looking kinda scary hot

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This movie has everything: Young Tim Curry, experimental electronica, the sentence “Get out of here, Anthony, or I’ll shout your bloody ears off”

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Happy October, it's time to watch an unsettlingly horny movie about The Magical Shout That Kills You. My Criterion column this month on the totally bonkers psychohorror The Shout: www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

Sex, sound, and magic collide in the surreal psychodrama The Shout

Jerzy Skolimowski torments John Hurt with an impossible scream in The Shout, presaging Peter Strickland's aural horror.

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Skydance: A Guys Who’d Like To Kill You Company

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For those wondering where all the colors went in modern movies, they're actually all in the Mononoke The Movie trilogy. Wrote about some of the most exciting filmmaking Netflix has ever platformed: www.avclub.com/mononoke-the...

The trippy Mononoke trilogy is some of the most adventurous filmmaking Netflix has ever platformed

A feminist, period-piece crime anime unfolds over three overwhelmingly psychedelic parts in Netflix's Mononoke The Movie.

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Possibly the most maximalist narrative films I've ever seen (haven't caught up with the third). I found the first energizing and the second enervating, but anyone keeping up with "what can movies be like?" should watch at least fifteen minutes of the first, even just to establish they hate it

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 05/10/2026

oh my

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Released with 0 fanfare on Friday!

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no no of course, you wouldn't explain your form, truth, and reason to just anyone

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Everyone who's spent the last few months vizier-posting needs to check out this baroque detective/exorcist film series, which is half court politics and half X-Files

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The trippy Mononoke trilogy is some of the most adventurous filmmaking Netflix has ever platformed

A feminist, period-piece crime anime unfolds over three overwhelmingly psychedelic parts in Netflix's Mononoke The Movie.

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matt schimkowitz @schimkowitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spent some time untangling Digger's knotty twist and didn't like what I found. But you might—read more here!

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

you cannot make it up that after the Paramount / WB merger, their combined TV business will be Cheeks

George Cheeks, previously chair of TV media at Paramount Skydance, is co-chair and chief content officer of Skydance TV. Mark Thompson will continue to run CNN as CEO.

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not to be a guy who's only seen Boss Baby, but "Other Mommy" is definitely a movie title he'd pitch

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Béla Tarr marathon hates to see me coming

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

gonna steal the smelling salt strategy from NFL quarterbacks to become the world's most locked-in viewer of slow cinema

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what seeing Joe Dirt does to someone

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they made a movie about watching your boy fumble the bag

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i understand that it's in poor taste considering how many people die on the mountain, but "this is like K2 winter" has become my new way of complaining about minor hardships in my life

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Mostly just did a bunch of editing this week, but I did find time to review The Last First: Winter K2, which you might randomly stream on Apple and find yourself transfixed by www.avclub.com/the-last-fir...

Climbers race against time, the elements, and each other for the glory of The Last First: Winter K2

A rare unachieved mountaineering feat lures a motley crew of climbers in The Last First: Winter K2, a dramatic, harrowing documentary.

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🎃andy, crumpkinhead🎃 @crumpandy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Joko Anwar's GHOST IN THE CELL, one of the best horror films of 2026, opens today; for @avclub.com, I have this mini-profile-cum-explainer where he gets into intent and subtext, and where I make the case that everybody should know his work. He's one of the modern greats.

Joko Anwar directs some of the world's nastiest horror movies, but he makes the splatter matter

Indonesian horror director Joko Anwar tells us about steering his latest grisly film, Ghost In The Cell, away from "gore for gore's sake."

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Harry Potter is now controlled by a powerful combo of the most transphobic person in the world, a few murderous regimes, a handful of insane Zionists, and the guy who produced Terminator Genisys

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