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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 4h

2005 Rachel Weisz makes you feel every bit of pain of betrayal from everyone you trusted, and makes you burn to see her avenged.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 4h

2004 Natalie Portman constantly makes you want to know more while also being afraid of the whole truth.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 4h

2003 Christina Ricci does exactly as much as she's supposed to in support of the main attraction while still standing out on her own.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 4h

2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones makes you believe she's the hottest entertainer in the world while also pulling off all the singing and dancing.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 5h

2001 Jennifer Connelly pulls off having to seize the point of view away from the star halfway through and makes it look easy.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 5h

2000 Kate Hudson dares to be deliberately annoying just the right amount before showing you the real depths she can reach.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 5h

1999 Angelina Jolie seizes every moment she gets and steps out of her father's shadow forever.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 5h

1998 Lynn Redgrave turns the dullest role in the script into one of the most fascinating.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 5h

1997 Julianne Moore is the one person whose side you're always on, and always keeps you hooked.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 5h

1996 Dianne Wiest pinballs between straight man and in on the joke until you have no idea which you'll get.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 5h

My picks for the seventh ten Best Supporting Actress Oscars.🧵

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 9h

Boy, that Lizzie Borden show just got immediately ignored and forgotten compared to the others, huh? I’m taking that as a good sign.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 11h

There were a couple early spots where I was thinking “This could go horribly wrong if Flanagan doesn’t handle it EXACTLY right,” and then he did.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 12h

I've said since it came out that The Fall of the House of Usher is my favorite Mike Flanagan series. I'll have to give it a view days to simmer, but Carrie may just beat it.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 15h

One really funny bit about the new Carrie: Arthur Conti is 22 just like John Travolta was…and his Billy is made an explicit adult who even calls the students “jailbait.”

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 17h

Also, unlike the 2013 film’s awkward attempts to incorporate new technology, it recognizes Carrie never learning about periods could only make sense in a world with the Internet and social media if she’d been raised in total isolation.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 17h

One thing I immediately appreciate about Flanagan’s Carrie: He’s well aware we all know where this story is going and structures it as a flashback. Because why bother trying to hide it?

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 20h

I can’t help noticing almost every person who likes Digger feels the need to say “Within a few years, everyone will see that I was right all along about the genius of this movie and beg my forgiveness.” And that completely tracks with the kind of people this movie would appeal to.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What always struck me most about her is how she managed to spend decades in Hollywood and yet remain a completely normal goddamn person. Zero scandal or drama in over a century of life, which she even joked would make for the dullest biography ever.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The part that really got to me is the hero having an instinctive revulsion to the R-word, when I was born several years after this came out and distinctly remember a time when it was generally thought of as a harmless playground insult.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

King was way ahead of the curve in some places (The Stand has a shockingly sympathetic and well-rounded portrayal of a developmentally disabled person for 1979) and very much not in others (that same book’s black characters…WOOF).

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of two times I’ve ever seen a character give a big speech against all violence without coming off as a sanctimonious prick. The other is Miguel Ferrer in Twin Peaks.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every adaptation of this story has to grapple with the sheer goofiness of Poe’s ending. The ‘30s one handled it by making no secret of the culprit from the start so it’s more of a Columbo thing.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also known as Swamp Diamonds, the title it appeared under on MST3K.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She’s been set to play Madonna for years, in a movie that’s never quite been able to get off the ground. Flawless casting so I hope it happens someday.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Once you get past the unicorn, nothing else really hits the mind.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Jeffrey Epstein? What are you doing here?” “Just hanging around.”

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actually one of four future MST3K movies referenced in the book, with Beginning of the End, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and The Black Scorpion.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Stephen King found this one especially scary as a kid, so IT has a whole extended sequence with these monsters.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also the first ever nationwide MST3K subject. That first season is really rough, but I bust a gut every time at “Dear diary, the fat guy got the bed again.”

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The really funny part is the Coens only cast him because they assumed he could sing, like his aunt.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of all the things the relaunch trilogy decided to take from the originals, “Laurie spends the whole second movie in the hospital” is a weird one.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The John Ford movie was forced to remove the book’s line “A red is anyone who asks for better pay.”

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just look at how The Penguin was able to slip off everything that didn't work about The Batman and keep only the parts that did, and it's incredible.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can they please let poor Julie Kavner out of this role? It feels like a 50/50 chance that she's actually going to die mid-line.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been terrified to watch this one again in case it turns out there's a ton of horrible racism and homophobia that went over my head back in the day.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kayla Says is always well researched and fun, best known for her videos on celebrities’ sudden falls from grace called “How the Internet Fell Out of Love with…”

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also apparently "You suck for watching this movie instead of doing something to help fix the world."

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Very much a Saw X vibe where there's little actual tension because you're just watching a bunch of assholes get what they deserve for 90 minutes. But if you're into that kind of thing, it's a great one.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, for one thing he's way off about the "longest running fictional narrative in history," which would be Guiding Light. A constant watch through that entire thing would take a year and a half.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s pretty equivalent to The Penguin, leaving out everything in the movie that didn’t work and only using the good parts.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It helps that Halloran was actually in the book, in a flashback to Pennywise’s attack before 1958.

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