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Sean Burns

@splicedpersonality.bsky.social
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Film Critic. Projectionalist. www.splicedpersonality.com

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 18h
What’s a poster you had in your room growing up? I wasn’t allowed to see this movie because I was ten years old and it was rated R, so of course I watched it anyway at a friend’s house. My mom was confused why I had a poster hanging in my room for a movie she thought I hadn’t seen.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 18h
It’s pretty awesome that Anne Hathaway got to play Penelope and Medea in the same year.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Over at the Spliced Personality Substack, a few words about GKIDS’ new 4K Collector’s Edition of LINDA LINDA LINDA, maybe the greatest high school movie of the 21st century?
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Blu-Ray Review - Linda Linda Linda
Starring Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was nice to come home to.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I saw a five-and-a-half hour movie yesterday and it didn’t feel nearly as long as DIGGER.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed HEART OF THE BEAST, which isn’t a religious movie, it just carries itself like one.
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Review - Heart of the Beast
Starring Brad Pitt, Odin, JK Simmons, Anna Lambe.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
See you in five-and-a-half hours!
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw this parked next to the AMC Lincoln Square. NAZA is playing a few blocks away at Lincoln Center. Nobody tell Bob Kraft that his guys are at the wrong theater.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me and @jshawhan.bsky.social braved a Nor’easter to go see a Godzilla movie.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 26/09/2026
Really enjoyed this @splicedpersonality.bsky.social piece on LENNY
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The James Gray Experience #NYFF64
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nice dedication to Frederick Wiseman on the back page of the #NYFF64 program.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At WBUR this week I reviewed the funny, facile PRIMETIME.
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'Primetime' skewers one of the early aughts’ crassest cultural artifacts
Starring Robert Pattinson, director Lance Oppenheim's film goes behind the scenes of the “Dateline NBC” spinoff “To Catch a Predator,” a ratings bonanza that only lasted three years but seemed to play...
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let’s rock.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excellent work here by WBUR, one of my (many) hometown stations.
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Andrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Apropos of today's shit sandwich, here are all the films Paramount has released or will release in 2026 (some of these are international only or streaming titles). It's a good thing the Ellison braintrust is now overseeing roughly 40% of the industry.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed RESIDENT EVIL.
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Review - Resident Evil
Starring Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Andrea Miltnerová, Kali Reis.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wonderful piece about one of our local treasures. Such a welcome change of pace to see the Boston Globe film section covering the Boston area.
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An all-night movie marathon provides a fun answer to the question: What is the Harvard Film Archive? - The Boston Globe
The Cambridge cinema and archive, well-known to local movie lovers, is still something of an underappreciated gem.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Opening night at the Freedom of Speech Film Festival with THE TRIALS OF LENNY BRUCE author Ronald Collins and First Amendment lawyer Robert Corn-Revere, who secured the state of New York’s first-ever posthumous pardon for Lenny in 2003.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed AMERICAN DOCTOR. Director Poh Si Teng will be hosting a Q&A at the Coolidge Corner Theatre tonight, assuming Robert Kraft doesn’t find a way to shut it down.
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Review - American Doctor
A documentary directed by Poh Si Teng.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Came out to play.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of the best movies I’ve seen about the making of a movie, David Kittredge’s BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL opens this weekend at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. I raved about it back in March during the Boston Underground Film Festival.
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BUFF Review - Boorman and the Devil
A documentary directed by David Kittredge.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One film for each letter of your first name.
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WBUR @wbur.org · 16/09/2026
Directed by Padraic McKinley, the film stars Ethan Hawke as a single dad in a work farm. In exchange for an early release, he and three other cons agree to transport gold. It's "the kind of rugged, no-nonsense, outdoor adventure that the studios have forgotten how to make," writes critic Sean Burns.
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Depression-era gold heist thriller 'The Weight' is a good picture
Directed by Padraic McKinley, the film stars Ethan Hawke as a single dad in a work farm. In exchange for an early release, he and three other cons agree to transport gold. It's "the kind of rugged, no-nonsense, outdoor adventure that the studios have forgotten how to make," writes critic Sean Burns.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I had to make a long drive yesterday and I cant tell you how much I enjoyed passing the time with this expert analysis of fine ‘70s cheese. Patroni forever.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
At WBUR this week I reviewed THE WEIGHT, which is the best Clint Eastwood movie I’ve seen in ages.
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Depression-era gold heist thriller 'The Weight' is a good picture
Directed by Padraic McKinley, the film stars Ethan Hawke as a single dad in a work farm. In exchange for an early release, he and three other cons agree to transport gold. It's "the kind of rugged, no...
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I wrote about OASIS: DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
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Review - Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
A documentary directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern.
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The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Robert Kraft Demands Macklemore Be Removed From Playlist at Favorite Sex Trafficking Spa thehardtimes.net/breaking/rob...
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Robert Kraft Demands Macklemore Be Removed From Playlist at Favorite Sex Trafficking Spa
JUPITER, Fla. — Human rights champion and all-around good guy, Robert Kraft, responded to Macklemore’s controversial pro-Palestinian views by demanding the artist’s... Continue reading this gem
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Me: OK, BRAIN, WE ONLY HAVE AN HOUR TO WORK ON THIS PERSONAL PROJECT.

My brain: Y'KNOW WHO I BET HAS AN INTERESTING WIKIPEDIA PAGE?
BUN E. CARLOS FROM
CHEAP TRICK.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My Aunt Betty’s got the good shit.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
9/14/53: Bergman w/Sawdust and Tinsel 1st film that revealed his genius (no offense, Summer Interlude) More: Catherine Breillat: www.criterion.com/current/post... @trailersfromhell.bsky.social: trailersfromhell.com/sawdust-and-... @splicedpersonality.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
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Classic Corner: Sawdust and Tinsel — Crooked Marquee
Ingmar Bergman’s 13th feature, now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Max, was a breakthrough: “I felt for the first time I’d made a good film.”
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hate speech.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Local handjob enthusiast back in the news.
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Macklemore Says Pressure from Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Led to Him Being Booted from Ed Sheeran's Tour
Macklemore says he was dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft threatened to block him from performing at Gillette Stadium and rallied other stadium owners to do t...
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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Part of him thought it was maybe not the brightest idea to hide out in a movie theater but another part , maybe the dreamer in him thought this was the perfect place to see things as they should be not as they were. Sometimes reality was overrated #HIGHWAYFULLOFNIGHT #WIP
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 13/09/2026
New clip! Guest @splicedpersonality.bsky.social talks about the twin obsessions that run through ALL THAT JAZZ – and all of Fosse’s work. Watch the full episode on YouTube: buff.ly/mXNcvDh Listen on Apple podcasts: buff.ly/uu1poBJ Listen on Spotify: buff.ly/FLOJjaj
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
See you next Tuesday!
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy LOVE AND THEFT Day.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Free to all at the Spliced Personality Substack this week is my review of FILIPIÑANA. Writer-director Rafael Manuel’s extraordinary debut won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston and opens today at the Brattle.
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Review - Filipiñana
Starring Jorrybell Agoto, Carmen Castellanos, Teroy Guzman, Carlitos Siguion-Reyna.
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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This man won his primary by 30 points.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
September 10th, 2001 was the first night I spent alone in a new apartment I’d moved into over the weekend. I stayed up way too late watching MAGNOLIA for the millionth time and when I woke up the world had changed.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ve said this before, but seeing video game reviews on Ebert’s site feels like if someone used George Carlin’s webpage to publish an endorsement of the Vatican.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...
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You Have to Call Bigots What They Are
Stop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate.
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“He’d kill us if he got the chance”
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
At WBUR this week I reviewed the dreadful PRACTICAL MAGIC 2. Sadly, at no point in the movie does Nicole Kidman say, “We come to this place for practical magic.”
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'Practical Magic 2' steers away from everything enjoyable about the first film
So much for sleepovers and midnight margaritas. Film critic Sean Burns review, "The movie kills off two of the most endearing characters from the last film within the first 10 minutes, then keeps our ...
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m a casual fan at best but I found the new Oasis doc to be quite a moving film about getting older and letting shit go. If these two miserable cunts can get it together then there’s hope for all of us.
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Jaime “Ni!” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
youtu.be
Gregory Peck in Taxi Driver
YouTube video by Etherial
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Eric Rohmer’s effervescent coming-of-age story “Pauline at the Beach” is a perfect balm for the end-of-summer blues. buff.ly/ZfIuUFz
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Classic Corner: Pauline at the Beach — Crooked Marquee
Eric Rohmer’s effervescent coming-of-age story is a perfect balm for the end-of-summer blues.
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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
new vision board brought to you by Family Feud
Money!
SEX 
DEATH/OF MY ENEMY
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