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Derek Smith

@positivelytonsils.bsky.social
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Film critic @slantmagazine.com & @spectrumculture.bsky.social, Guide @cinejourneys.bsky.social. Blu-ray extras at New Wave Video and Cult Epics.

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 22/09/2026
18 days. 113 films. This year’s New York Film Festival lineup is so invitingly rich that you’ll actually want to see everything. tinyurl.com/4hzcefby
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Drew Powell @drewpowell123.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The name’s Bond, Ward Bond…
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Chris Arrison @murderwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
9/21/55: Stanley Kubrick's Killer's Kiss Early, micro-budget effort boasts excellent #filmnoir moments, great shots of old Penn Station & brilliant extended denouement More: @positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/killers-... Geoffrey O’Brien: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4DV...
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Derek Smith @positivelytonsils.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There's no war Pete Hegseth can't lose.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In light of everything that’s going on
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
9/18/69: Marcel Ophüls' Staggering The Sorrow and The Pity Dictators are nothing w/o willing collaborators More @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... @positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-sor... @dgraham.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Film That Explains Contemporary America
“The Sorrow and the Pity” has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good grief, thanks to a video on Instagram, I've just discovered that the Criterion edition of Lone Wolf & Cub (that I've had on my shelf for about 9 years) has a secret compartment in the spine containing the blueprint for the weaponised babycart..!
Criterion edition of Lone Wolf & CubSpine of the boxset.The spine opens to reveal blueprints!The blueprint for the weaponised babycart!
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
9/15/64: Lumet's Fail Safe w/Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau ++ Fascinating twin-bill w/Strangelove More: @positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/blu-ray-... @jasonchristian.bsky.social / @tonyjballas.bsky.social / @ptklein.com via @coldwarcinema.com: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 12/09/2026
Noah Segan’s low-key character study THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK fully immerses us in its milieu. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's #TIFF26 review.
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'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York' Review: A Crook Out of Time
Mostly, the film isn't burdened by the question of whether the old times were purer or more authentic, only that they were different.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had this idea from reading the elizabeth holmes mouse post and then I couldn't do anything else until i painted the idea to completion
It is a cartoon mouse, like Jerry from Tom and Jerry, shaped like a wedge of cheese presumably because it has eaten a wedge of cheese. The mouse has Elizabeth Holmes' face. The mouse is saying "Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that."Nathan Fielder, looking into a fridge where the mouse has eaten a cheese, says skeptically "Okay. Alright."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man theonion.com/trump-claims-he-was-fa…
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Brilliant www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin
The Emmy-nominated actor and author pens an open letter to the AI avatar that's got Hollywood in a tizzy.
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 09/09/2026
NOUVELLE VAGUE, Richard Linklater’s paean to the spirit and spontaneity of Godard and the French New Wave, is outfitted with a sparkling transfer and an impressive slate of extras. Available from Criterion on 9/22. tinyurl.com/4ymbvejx
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 06/09/2026
Sidney Lumet’s classic has never looked better than it does on Criterion's 4K UHD Blu-ray (available Tuesday), and while the extras here aren’t new, they remain satisfyingly intellectual and entertaining. tinyurl.com/mmh8dw7n
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Derek Smith @positivelytonsils.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tim Heidecker as Casey in Tim & Eric Awesome Show
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 04/09/2026
BY ANY MEANS gestures toward interrogating state-sanctioned violence, but dubiously so, as it’s mostly content to celebrate revenge as justice. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.
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'By Any Means' Review: A Celebration of Revenge as Justice
It gestures toward interrogating state-sanctioned violence, but dubiously so, as it's mostly content to celebrate revenge as justice.
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Derek Smith @positivelytonsils.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tim Heidecker as Casey in Tim & Eric Awesome Show
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This one’s my favourite
A reddit post from the Wile E Coyote AMA that says “Hi WEC, I've watched you since I was a child, just wanted to say thank you for running into paintings of tunnels for all those years.”

The replies is a film still of Wile E Coyote smiling and holding a sign that says “Keep art alive”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me
pic of printed out paper Mapquest directions mounted to rearview mirror
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 02/09/2026
For anyone who’s ever wished that a Fukasaku Kinji yakuza film were more nihilistic and violent, Nakajima Sadao’s AESTHETICS OF A BULLET is here to oblige. Now available on Radiance Blu-ray limited edition (standard edition out next month). bit.ly/4x6cNUd
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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Apologies, Oriental Trading Company, I was not familiar with your game.
An Oriental Trading Company Instagram ad featuring a Drexl Spivey action figure complete with tray of Chinese takeout
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 28/08/2026
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch, 2017)
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 27/08/2026
Radiance’s Blu-ray release of TEN WOMEN IN BLACK, thanks in part to the inclusion of a feature-length documentary by Iwai Shinji, sheds welcome light on Ichikawa Kon’s work outside of his anti-war classics. tinyurl.com/3cre8rf3
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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
new mike leigh movie???
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 23/08/2026
Hara Kazuo’s documentaries, produced by his wife Kobayashi Sachiko, are as fearless and combative as the human subjects at their center. ECLIPSE SERIES 49 is available Tuesday on Blu-ray from Criterion. tinyurl.com/fcsxeuy4
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
8/21/53: 99 River Street Phil Karlson #filmnoir w/John Payne, Evelyn Keyes Crowther: Slips "some objectionable scenes past the production code" More: @kinolorber.com blu w/ @eddiemuller.bsky.social: kinolorber.com/product/99-r... @positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/99-river...
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 19/08/2026
MUTINY delivers enough lean, mean action to almost distract from the fact that it’s another in a long line of Die Hard rip-offs with little of that classic’s wit, verve, or charm. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.
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'Mutiny' Review: Jean-François Richet 'Die Hard' Rip-Off
Jean-François Richet has positioned himself as a go-to director for sturdy, mostly unremarkable actioners set largely in a confined location.
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Derek Smith @positivelytonsils.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Derek Smith @positivelytonsils.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Cover for Dinosaur Jr's Where You Been
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 18/08/2026
THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE is a cheery trifle amounts to little more than a collection of quirky character interactions. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.
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'The Magic Faraway Tree' Review: A Hardly Fruitful Adaptation
The film, adapted from the second book in the 'Faraway Tree' series, is little more than a collection of quirky character interactions.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Programmers for repertory, foreign, independent, and other types of non-mainstream fare: if you tag me in announcements of specific programs, and I happen to be online to see it, I WILL AUTOMATICALLY REPOST. Let's build up the audience together!
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 12/08/2026
COUP DE TORCHON, Bertrand Tavernier’s sly and darkly comical anti-colonialist adaptation of Jim Thompson’s Pop. 1280, is now available on Criterion Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/4w9r6pyn
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
On this day I learned that Jean-Luc Godard made a Nike commercial in 1991. youtu.be/TbqaWUH9cYo?...
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Nike Air Max 180 by Jean Luc Godard (1991)
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Derek Smith @positivelytonsils.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Make It Make Sense guy looking sus
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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I feel embarrassed. I feel like a failure. and it’s fine if you think I am too. I just honestly have no other options. paypal.me/jourdainsearles
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Pay Jourdain Searles using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/jourdainsearles and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
8/4/71: Doc Of interest 70s curio, D/P: Frank Perry/W: Pete Hamill w/Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin More: Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/doc-... Ariel Schudson/ @newbeverly.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2017/03... @positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review-f...
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Review: Frank Perry’s Doc Gets KL Studio Classics Blu-ray Edition - Slant Magazine
Perry’s cynical western receives an impressive transfer and an illuminating commentary by Alex Cox.
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 04/08/2026
Despite its title, Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA is less about sex and death than sex and cinema. In theaters Friday. tinyurl.com/u77mehm3
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 04/08/2026
Read our chat with Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder about TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, balancing the intellectual and the physical, Einbinder’s approach to her character, and more.
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Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder on 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma'
Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder discuss balancing the intellectual and the physical across the film.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 26/07/2026
Almost a year later, we've been able to make up over half of this loss — thanks *entirely* to new subscriptions 🙏— but we still need some help to make up the rest. All it takes to support BWDR is a $29 annual subscription, and in exchange you get full access to everything we've published since 2013!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I admire our government's new commitment to honesty.
A real tweet from the Department of Defense that says "It's not an option" above a meme that just says WINNING.
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ava Gardner in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.
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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"My Neighbor Is a Cannibal Who Screams Throughout the Night," sounds like the English title of a forgotten Fulci movie from 1979.
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 23/07/2026
Criterion’s box set of Mike Mills’s last three films comes with sparkling new transfers and a wonderful assortment of extras full of insights into the director’s working methods. tinyurl.com/4cd4b6u6
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 21/07/2026
Neil Jordan’s landmark film THE CRYING GAME, now available on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray, is a strikingly humane and insightful examination of two troubled souls navigating the physical, social, and racial barriers that stand between them. tinyurl.com/y552xkuy
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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Odyssey (2026, dir. Chris Nolan)
A scene from Clue, third alternate ending.  A young Michael McKean is standing by a door, looking pleased with himself.  Caption: "I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife."
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 17/07/2026
Martin Ritt’s HUD, now available on the Criterion Collection, is a mournful lament for a passing of a way of life and a meditation on the possible ways forward. tinyurl.com/ycdrudyc
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