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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

An excellent, vital film. A extremely cool and thoughtful filmmaker. And a Q&A moderated by yours truly. If you're in the Bay Area, you should come to this.

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Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema @marvelousdeath.com · 06/02/2026

We got @notoriouslightning.bsky.social of @hitfactorypod.bsky.social on the pod to talk The Fabelmans, a movie about how making movies basically ruined Steven Spielberg’s life, but it's also the only way he knows how to process everything bad that's ever happened to him. LINK BELOW

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // Something new for our faithful Patrons: "What Have You Watched with Me Lately?" A conversation about all the movies, new and old, that we've been enjoying this past month not covered elsewhere on the show. See below.

28 Years Later - The Bone Temple (dir. Nia DaCosta, 2026)

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

i really enjoyed OBAA, a movie that invites - even necessitates - consideration of its political propositions, and is made more essential by acknowledging its material contradictions.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Had an awesome time talking about one of my favorite filmmakers, Clint Eastwood, and two thoughtful meditations on justice that conceal some remarkably subversive ideas beneath their handsome studio thriller facades.

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1999: The Podcast @1999thepodcast.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Happy November! This week we do things a little differently as we have a special Clint Eastwood-themed episode with a look at TWO movies, 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024's JUROR #2. Joining us this time is Aaron from the great podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social Here or wherever you get podcasts!

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1999: The Podcast #084 - True Crime (1999) and Juror #2 (2024)

Hit Factory co-host Aaron joins John and Julia to discuss "True Crime", "Juror #2", and Clint Eastwood's complex politics.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Rodriguez's THE FACULTY is a much smarter movie than suggested at first glance...a clever probing of capitalism's oppressive hierarchies and our inability to structure meaningful alternatives, all in the skin of fun teen sci-fi/horror riff.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

struggled with Kore-eda a little bit...a filmmaker i found stuck in a dispassionate and unfulfilling middle ground between slow cinema's formal discipline and a mawkish dramaturgy.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.

AFTER LIFE (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

sorry, i'm confused...did you get a nazi tattoo because you were drunk with some marine buddies in croatia without knowing what it meant, or because you "used to say and believe things that today [you] find abhorrent"?

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

if you've talked to me about movies any time in the past year+, then you know that i think FAILED STATE is one of the best American independent films of the decade. I'm thrilled to get the chance to watch it with you all and to talk to the immensely talented Chris Bell about his work. Tap in!

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Deep Impact Crier @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

One of the best new films I’ve seen in a long while. You don’t wanna miss this!

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

HIT FACTORY PRESENTS - Join us Thursday, November 6, 2025 for a virtual screening of Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE (2023) feat. a live Q&A w/ dir. Christopher Jason Bell. Hit Factory Patrons get access at no additional cost w/ RSVP. Buy your tickets below!

Failed State (dir. Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer, 2023)

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Deep Impact Crier @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I really like what Aaron said when I asked him pointedly what he thought Magnolia was about: reckoning with the truth of life, that living is often being both a recipient of and a source of pain. Interestingly and typical of PTA, he doesn’t really offer an answer.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

in which i attempt to answer carlee's extremely probing inquiry, "what the fuck is pta's deal, and why should i like him?"

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

when this happened, everyone had to play coolly nonchalant, like they barely noticed it...but i got several follows/follows back from people on this list as it started making the rounds on the other place

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Nicole “loose critic” Veneto @kuntsuragi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We can rebuild her anew on a new platform.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

havent watched a horror movie yet this month denzelhighest2lowestfingergun.gif

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

other site's so washed im getting fed shaun king tweets on the fyp

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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

you people have no idea the discourses we can bring to this app. you’re not ready

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

why did everyone jump ship over here today?

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This mask always makes me laugh. i don't like to look at the other one..

Illustration of the comedy and tragedy masks, with the crying one blurred out

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Great question! and gives me the chance to plug Chritsopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE. A film of bracing intimacy that feels gargantuan, poetic, devastating...will age better than 95% of all movies set during COVID.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

should probably post about movies on here again at some point

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

looked a *little* rough, but we got 5x315lb

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

hit 305lb today. ten pounds away from previous 5x squat pr.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

with the caveat that there are (by my last count) at least two dozen more features that i would have liked to see before finalizing this list, here are my 25 favorite films of 2024:

25. The Bikeriders dir. Jeff Nichols
24. Stress Positions dir. Theda Hammel
23. A Different Man dir. Aaron Schimberg
22. Coma dir. Bertrand Bonello
21. A Traveler's Needs dir. Hong Sang-soo
20. Here dir. Robert Zemeckis
19. I Saw the TV Glow dir. Jane Schoenbrun
18. Juror #2 dir. Clint Eastwood
17. Evil Does Not Exist dir. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
16. Good One dir. India Donaldson
15. The People's Joker dir. Vera Drew
14. Music dir. Angela Schanelec
13. Failed State dir. Chris Bell & Mitch Blummer
12. Janet Planet dir. Annie Baker
11. Cloud dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
10. Red Rooms dir. Pascal Plante
9. By the Stream dir. Hong Sang-soo
8. Eureka dir. Lisandro Alonso
7. Vulcanizadora dir. Joel Potrykus
6. Hard Truths dir. Mike Leigh
5. Caught by the Tides dir. Jia Zhangke
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga dir. George Miller
3. La Chimera dir. Alice Rohrwacher
2. Close Your Eyes dir. Victor Erice
1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World dir. Radu Jude

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

with the caveat that there are (by my last count) at least two dozen more features that i would have liked to see before finalizing this list, here are my 25 favorite films of 2024:

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

hadn't heard much on lisandro alonso's EUREKA, so imagine my surprise to discover a favorite film of 2024 in its waning days. traverses genre and form to reveal the disquieting resonances of capitalist/colonial violence perpetually shaping indigenous realities. mesmerizing.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

gonna keep posting these here where i have a smaller audience than the other place. working back up to 405lb pr. made it to 5x365lb today.

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Hit Factory Podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

NEW HIT FACTORY // Writer @robrubsam.bsky.social joins to discuss the career of the brilliant Terence Davies and his 1992 masterwork THE LONG DAY CLOSES - an impressionistic, elliptical journey through childhood memory both warmly nostalgic and mournfully ruminative. Links below.

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Went on @hitfactorypod.bsky.social to talk with @notoriouslightning.bsky.social about everything I find poignant and profound in the life and work of Terence Davies, crystallized so perfectly in the Long Day Closes. Listen here and everywhere else: open.spotify.com/episode/6kzI...

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The Long Day Closes feat. Robert Rubsam

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

THE ORDER: as bad as they should reasonably allow any movie to be, which is to say...not all that bad, but puddle deep & often very dumb. kurzel shows off in the more contained moments, which makes the perfunctory execution of its would-be showstoppers all the more frustrating.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

nearly back up to previous pr. one more week then onward, upward, etc.

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

finally caught up w/ GOOD ONE. hinges on a moment so abrupt, yet finely executed that it left me breathless. patiently charts the topography of middle-aged discontent before shifting to account for its wreckage, all captured within the wonderful lily collias' attuned performance. a major work!

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

any chance anyone wants to do my job for me for the next week so i can marathon the 20 movies i still want to try to get to before i finalize my year-end list?

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

carlee got me the new criterion 4K of HAPPINESS, which has yet to be delivered...she drew this by hand and wrapped it at approx. 2am last night and thinks it's not very good despite being perfect. i would have recognized it even without the text.

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Best release news ever

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aaron from hit factory @notoriouslightning.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

apparently alan rudolph's CHOOSE ME is coming to criterion 4k in 2025. incredible news. youtu.be/SaOQbpBJ6t0?...

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Filmwax TV: Alan Rudolph (BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS)

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