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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Variety didn't take heed of the AP guidance, I suppose. So let me restate: AI cannot "be an actor." Nor can it love anything. It can proffer those words but only as a thin veneer, in turn commodifying those vital concepts

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wanted PRIMETIME to explore its concerns with greater incision, but "style outpaces pointed interrogation. There are thorny questions as Hansen’s crew presses for bigger spectacles... but relegating these concerns to a tertiary place in the film makes it all feel slight."

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‘Primetime’ Airs A Vast Network of Ethical Quandaries — micah rickard

Movie review of Lance Oppenheim's 'Primetime' starring Robert Pattinson and Skyler Gisondo. A lurid depiction of an ethically troubled media landscape focusing on Chris Hansen's 'To Catch a Predator.'

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excellent declaration. Language is crucial for many things, including shaping our perceptions about the objects of our speech. AI can't act (as in an "AI actress"). It can't apologize. It can't be kind. It can't have a personality (just coding). I'm tempted to go so far as to say it can't speak.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.

The White House •
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WALLE HOUSE
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Communism directly opposes the United States
Constitution and American values.
While every Democrat voted against the largest tax cuts in American history and over 100 refuse to condemn socialism, President Trump will ensure that communism never has a place in America.
ПОЛЕННІ
COMMUNISM HAS NO
PLACE IN AMERICA

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TRUMP TV IS OFFICIALLY LIVE 24/7
The White House just launched "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station" — a nonstop stream featuring President Trump's speeches, major announcements, past highlights and administration updates, refreshed in real time.
The launch comes amid Trump's escalating fight with
CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which have sued his administration after being barred from White House access.
Americans can now watch the White House's own selected footage and announcements DIRECTLY,
24/7.
The media landscape just changed in a BIG way. •*
TRUMPOV

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The spirals of tension and comedy are tightly wound in Zach Cregger's RESIDENT EVIL, making for an impeccable first hour that carries the fun through a looser climax. And Abrams puts on a very effective one man performance for most of it. Pure fun through undead IP (in more than one sense).

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‘Resident Evil’ Offers a Devilish Mix of Horror and Comedy — micah rickard

Movie review of Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' starring Austin Abrams. A horror comedy with an impeccable first hour and a creative debt to Keaton and Chaplin.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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‘Resident Evil’ Offers a Devilish Mix of Horror and Comedy — micah rickard

Movie review of Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' starring Austin Abrams. A horror comedy with an impeccable first hour and a creative debt to Keaton and Chaplin.

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 18/09/2026

never forget kids it can always get worse

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17/09/2026

Two notes here: 1. Hard to convey how unusual it is for an admin to be pitted against this many religious groups in *so many different ways* all at the same time in court. The Trump admin is an outlier here. 2. I’m a religion reporter, but unclear why this trend hasn’t gotten more attention.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

PNW film culture celebrating one of the core aspects of the PNW spirit—the persistent suffering of the Mariners. I love this (even though I can't attend!)

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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

none of my moots seem to have posted it yet so I guess it's on me to

Homestar Runner: todaybor day is labor day

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First day back in Seattle: El Camion Second day back: Sea Wolf Third day: Kuma Coffee Fourth day: ??

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I can't even travel to Dublin without having to deal with college football? what the hell, I'm not back in the states yet

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Homeland Security 7
@DHSgov
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm beyond thrilled to join the Seattle Film Critics Society! And as I'm just a couple days away from moving back from Scotland, it has me even more excited to dive back into Seattle's film and arts culture

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'The End of Oak Street' is "smarter than its high concept and bolder than its popcorn flick premise imply. But the precarity—or perhaps superposition—of its tone between ironic and emotionally sincere leaves me at a distance. It’s a movie that tries to have its dad redemption arc and eat it, too."

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‘The End of Oak Street’ Returns to a Lost Time (the 80's) — micah rickard

Movie review of David Robert Mitchell's 'The End of Oak Street,' starring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, and lots of dinosaurs. An 80s throwback that bears more in common with Joe Dante than Spielberg.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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‘The End of Oak Street’ Returns to a Lost Time (the 80's) — micah rickard

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'Tony' is solid, if too straightforward, and is most noteworthy as a showcase for Dominic Sessa. "Johnson wisely emphasizes the moments of failure and loneliness that haunt Tony. Sessa’s characterization makes Tony both captivating and readily deserving of a punch to the face."

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‘Tony’ Conveys More About its Star than its Subject — micah rickard

Movie review of Matt Johnson's 'Tony' starring Dominic Sessa and Antonia Banderas. The film features great performances that exceed its insight of its central figure.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My recent series at CAPC has given me the chance to write about some of my favorite films from the past decade: The Green Knight, Annihilation, and in my latest, Alice Rohrwacher's extraordinary La Chimera. It's an insightful film. A political film. And a transcendent film.

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Modern Transcendence in Movies: Unearthing Lost Beauty in La Chimera - Christ and Pop Culture

Alice Rohrwacher's film is a hypnotic portrait of a Romantic soul searching for transcendence in a world evaporated of it.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Doubly unfair to have a work dream while on sabbatical

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I regret to inform you that I cannot stop reading Derrida

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

On Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron: "Memory is evasive. Perception alone is slippery enough, but memory is a shapeshifter... Making a work of art looking back at one’s childhood is never merely about remembering; it’s also, inevitably, an act of re-evaluating, of interrogating, of rewriting."

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‘Blue Heron’: A Lush Portrait and a Painful Re-evaluation — micah rickard

Movie review of Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron, a tender work of memory, interrogation, and a family in crisis.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Wrote about a film that continues to snake its way into the recesses of my mind over @christandpopculture.com—Alex Garland's ANNIHILATION. I never get tired of writing about or thinking about or being transformed by this one

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Modern Transcendence in Movies: Annihilation Ventures Beyond Reason - Christ and Pop Culture

Alex Garland's 2018 sci-fi/horror film reminds us that the world contains powers that refute our modern rationality.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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‘Blue Heron’: A Lush Portrait and a Painful Re-evaluation — micah rickard

Movie review of Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron, a tender work of memory, interrogation, and a family in crisis.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Modern Transcendence in Movies: Annihilation Ventures Beyond Reason - Christ and Pop Culture

Alex Garland's 2018 sci-fi/horror film reminds us that the world contains powers that refute our modern rationality.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

sea people this, sea people that, I see a lot of people who should log off and go run around outside

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 25/07/2026

NEW via @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Leaders in the Assemblies of God — DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin’s own denomination — say pastors with religious visas were detained and “pressured” with separation from their children if they didn’t sign voluntary departure papers religionnews.com/2026/07/24/p...

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Detained pastor couple had religious worker visas, Assemblies of God leaders say

(RNS) — Pastor Nepthali Zozaya Saucedo, 36, said he and his wife, who came to the U.S. legally, were repeatedly pressured to sign voluntary departure papers but that they had refused.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Has Elon Musk ever eaten a tomato

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Nolan's THE ODYSSEY delivers much with its monumental scale, but it still left me in want of a bit more. Namely, more time for the supporting cast to flesh out their characters. (More screen time for Zendaya and Lupita. And O Benny Safdie, where art thou?)

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‘The Odyssey’ Delivers Massive Spectacle (If Scant Surprise) — micah rickard

Movie review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' starring Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway. A massive historical epic with a sprawling cast that delivers on its spectacle.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sorry football, I have a Twin Peaks: The Return finale to watch

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It is truly an epic cinematic journey through far flung lands (Toronto) and a time lost to history (2008), with gargantuan foes (the CN tower) and ensnaring obstacles (the closing roof of the skydome). What more could one want from the cinema this weekend?

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Time to finally make my way to a theater and see the movie everyone's raving about (Nirvanna the Band the Movie the Show)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I am going to join the Women’s Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My most recent one just had its UK theatrical release and is about to hit US theaters. I saw it at the Berlinale in February, and I felt a sudden rush of fury last month when a trailer popped up at my local Edinburgh filmhouse.

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Beneath a Garish Veneer, ‘Rosebush Pruning’ is a Vapid Emptiness — micah rickard

Movie review of Karim Aïnouz's Rosebush Pruning starring Tracy Letts, Callum Turner, Elle Fanning, Riley Keough, and Jamie Bell. An eat-the-rich critique that's as empty as its characters.

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Missing my Pacific Northwest, I wrote for Transpositions Journal about Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS. And about isolation. Injustices. Technology and industry. Contingency. And the traces we leave.

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The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter - Transpositions

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you...

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Missing my Pacific Northwest, I wrote for Transpositions Journal about Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS. And about isolation. Injustices. Technology and industry. Contingency. And the traces we leave.

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The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter - Transpositions

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you...

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Someone should write a story about a curséd device, lusted after as a transformative source of power, that renders its users unnaturally youthful long beyond their time

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If a case record had someone making these remarks about white people, Alito might actually faint from rage. But if you're talking about black people it's fine and not racist at all bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/06/2026

one of the most heinous atrocities of the last 150 years. up there with the worst dictators in history

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Micah Rickard @micahrickard.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Every day brings new vile, morally bankrupt acts. This one I find especially despicable. This furthers racism and nationalism with propaganda to bolster it. Propaganda that whitewashes the US and seeks to destroy what anti-apartheid movements achieved in South Africa.

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