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Sam Adams

@samadams.bsky.social
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Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 14h
I’m famous
Phoebe Bridgers in front of a big ol crowdMe in that crowd, maybe
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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look what's in the Hearst newsreel vault. "Shoob!" 1967 Soviet footage on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Revolution and the 40th anniversary of her landmark compilation documentary THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY (1927). newsreels.net/v/2r7hrcm
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REVIVAL OF AN ESTHER SHOOB DOCUMENTARY
VS-Headlines (in Russian papers) relating to fall of Romanov Dynasty...VS-The Romanov Aristocrats moving about in the Imperial Palace like a grand marches...VS-Peasants working in wheat field threshin...
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ya know what else should’ve been on that list? THE DROPOUT
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a really tremendous emotional experience, even it was a little unnerving how enthusiastic the whoops were when Phoebe asked who in the audience had a dead dad
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He’s still got it.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess it’s too late to consider whether a Phoebe Bridgers show is a weird daddy–daughter activity
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
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The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 28/09/2026
honestly Chuck Lorre has wrought far more harm upon Indian and South Asian Americans than Donald Trump www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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Chuck Lorre Pulls No Punches in Politically Charged Speech Aimed at President Trump, “Far-Left Woke Culture” and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The super producer and prolific and generous philanthropist took center stage Saturday at Project Angel Food's Angel Awards. He responded with a punchline-filled speech that included targets like Mela...
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a hard rule against criticizing people for not having seen/read/heard a particular work—you get to see The Sound of Music for the first time! Good for you!—but making a show of not seeing/reading/hearing it is as far from interesting as it is possible to get
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From this weekend's Texas Tribune festival: Later in the evening, an audience question asked why Fetterman wouldn’t become an independent. "Because I’m a lifelong Republican,” he said, raising his hand to his head, embarrassed after he realized the slip.
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John Fetterman rejects claim that he's a bad senator, Democrat
The Pennsylvania senator has regularly criticized his party, sparking speculation he could caucus with Republicans after the 2026 midterms.
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Matthew Goody @needlesandplastic.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A definitive new biography about Chris Knox is set to be published in North America next month via Auckland University Press. I am stepping up to help with press and promotion in North America. So, if you are a writer, reviewer, podcaster, record/book buyer, whatever, get in touch.
Front cover of Chris Knox biography Not Given Lightly by Craig Robertson published by Auckland University Press March 2026
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Entire record stores were built on this business model
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
God is good, all the time www.ioncinema.com/news/foreign...
@FilmUpdates
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Kristen Stewart will reunite with director Olivier Assayas on 'SPIRITUAL WORLD'
Follows Ada, a haunted young woman with clairvoyant powers who is visited by mysterious premonitions.
Vicky Krieps, Niels Schneider, Riley Keough and Wagner Moura will co-star.
(ioncinema.com/news/foreign-f...)
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t know when the last time was that you could assume everyone had heard the most popular song in the world but it was no later than the 1980s. We’re a long way past “White Christmas”
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the master race, everybody
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the chair company is like if someone said "do the office like backrooms but get nathan fielder as creative consultant.
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Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They went full on Mercury Theatre on the Air’s War of the Worlds with this adaptation of ‘If, On a Winter’s Night, a Traveller’ and I am here for it.
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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So was the fictional lead of McDonagh's WILD HORSE NINE partly inspired by the real-life father of his THREE BILLBOARDS star?
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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"the kernel of the idea actually, you know, came from ... [long pause] ... external, I'll leave it at that"
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote about how Toronto got horny for the printed word #TIFF26
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Danny Boyle’s Controversial New Movie Takes on Rupert Murdoch. It’s a Wild Ride.
It’s like Trainspotting for tabloid journalism.
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Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Catherine Wheel @ Denver, CO 1995-08-01 ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2026/09/cathe…
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Catherine Wheel @ Denver, CO 1995-08-01
Courtesy of https://thatsthethingaboutthat.blogspot.com https://pixeldrain.com/u/yvq7Br4Z Catherine Wheel Bluebird Theatre Denver CO (USA)...
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Christina Cauterucci @c-cauterucci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote about what we can learn from the chilling case of the COVID-conscious Western Mass lesbian bar! slate.com/life/2026/09...
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The Real Lesson to Take From the Viral Lesbian-Bar-Meltdown Story
If only we can stop rubbernecking long enough to learn.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote about Primetime, which plays like a cross between media satire and an unofficial Saw sequel (gift link)
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Robert Pattinson’s Latest Is a Sleazy Movie About a Sleazy Show. It Could Become Just as Much of a Sensation. (Gift Article)
So you want to see the slimy, voyeuristic movie about the slimy, voyeuristic show. You see how this looks, right?
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I assume the tiebreaker for the top 3 NYT shows was “how much would you want to sit next to the showrunner on a flight”
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Patrick Rapa @classypatrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I interviewed Ruth Leitner about her amazing 1994 documentary about girls and women on the Wildwood boardwalk. www.phillymag.com/news/2026/09...
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The Strange, Scrappy ’90s Wildwood Documentary That Became a Cult Sensation
Ruth Leitman’s gritty indie film about fast times and hard lessons from the boardwalk returns to Philly on October 4th.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can only assume Garth Marenghi's Darkplace hasn't shown up on the NYT list so far because it's in the top 20
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is like the Mr Show sketch about the “ex-gay” man who talks about his repeated lapses into homosexuality, including the lapse he has planned for August
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The Chronicle has a three-column headline about a lesbian bar that stopped requiring masks. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?”
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
if you love stories by Boston writers about lesbian bars, I have good news
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I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
YouTube video by Jonathan Richman - Topic
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
unnerving to go to a rum bar after Primetime and hear the bartender ask “the 12- or the 14-year-old”
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hard to believe it took us this long to get to “Die Hard in a whale”
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the fact that this is ethically shady and creatively murky somehow makes it more fitting to release as a posthumous Fall album
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‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall
Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I talked to John Wilson about A History of Concrete, which is about Hallmark movies, artistic survival, and Zohran Mamdani (and, okay, also concrete).
slate.com
His HBO Show Was a One-of-a-Kind Cult Sensation. Now He’s Back With His First Movie.
John Wilson on the tricks he used to make his debut feature, and why he’s the “shadow mayor.”
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this looks like the bit in Midsommar where someone else wears Will Poulter’s face
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
now officially a #TIFF26 People’s Choice winner
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love that the premise of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is "What if you watched someone play a video game who kind of sucked at it?" (gift link)
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His Previous Movie Was the Rare Horror Flick to Win an Oscar. His New One Cracks an Even Less Respected Genre. (Gift Article)
Video-game movies are almost universally terrible. Zach Cregger’s latest is the exception.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey New York: I talked to John Wilson about The History of Concrete, how he makes a living, and which problem he wants to make Zohran Mamdani fix next.
slate.com
His HBO Show Was a One-of-a-Kind Cult Sensation. Now He’s Back With His First Movie.
John Wilson on the tricks he used to make his debut feature, and why he’s the “shadow mayor.”
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Apple updates are like when you come back from a trip and realize your partner has rearranged the kitchen
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey New York
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John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’ from Magnolia Scores Biggest Opening Weekend for Documentary in IFC Center History
John Wilson's 'The History of Concrete' broke the opening weekend record for a documentary at IFC Center.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1. This is a naked attack on press freedom by a president who hates it. 2. There are limits to the president's ability to carry out this threat thanks to the First Amendment. 3. It's also a threat to the "Other Fake News Media Outlets" who can face similar punishment based on their reporting.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I decided a while back that I am the character in an apocalypse movie who dies in the first 10 minutes to show the protagonists that shit is about to get real bad, and I have accepted my fictional fate
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about Elsinore and why Andrew Scott is winning a damn Oscar #TIFF26
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A Major New Oscar Contender Has Arrived. It Is Once Again About … Putting on Hamlet.
For the second year in a row, a Shakespeare movie could get an actor their Oscar.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No one makes money releasing documentaries. But think of all the money there is in not releasing them.
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Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)
The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
gonna take a million breaks today to watch jimmy james clips
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NewsRadio - The Rockford Files Reference
YouTube video by Dave Land
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NewsRadio Fringe Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace but probably Mr. Show
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
sadly did not get a chance to stage-door Julianne Moore
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
excellent party favor for the #TIFF26 debut of The Debut, although I think there may be a spoiler in the cast list
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