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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 15h

If one were to write a scathing parody of Aaron Sorkin’s whole thing, I’m not sure they could top the scene where Jeremy Allen White mansplains mansplaining to Mikey Madison.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember I had one of those rare nights with no screeners in the pile and no old movies to watch for upcoming articles. I looked at all the seemingly infinite options in front of me on all my streaming services and untouched Blu-rays… and I wound up watching CASINO for the five-hundredth time.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Same. Funny how we are pretty much in agreement on this one except I gave it three stars.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed THE SOCIAL RECKONING. Jeremy Allen White talks too slow to star in an Aaron Sorkin movie.

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Review - The Social Reckoning

Starring Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Strong, Bill Burr.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For paid subscribers to the Spliced Personality Substack, my second dispatch from the New York Film Festival includes reviews of PAPER TIGER, GODZILLA MINUS ZERO and MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE.

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New York Film Festival Dispatch: Part Two

Reviews of James Gray’s “Paper Tiger,” Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” and Julia Loktev’s “My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile.”

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ll be one of the judges at the Kyle MacLachlan look-alike contest this Thursday night at Vera’s in Union Square. I’m sure it will be wall-to-wall Coopers, but I might be inclined to throw some extra points to anyone who shows up as Ray Manzarek.

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey Grok, assemble a cast and premise explicitly designed for my tastes and sensibilities

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I bought a menu at the Charlie’s fire sale. It’s a shitty brunch one but that was all they had left.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here in Boston we only want to read about what’s happening in New York.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, I forgot Martin Scorsese’s THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Puzzling over this one. Does my local paper think Martin Scorsese directed APOCALYPSE NOW?

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For paid subscribers at the Spliced Personality Substack, my first dispatch from #NYFF64 includes reviews of Eleanor Coppola’s MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE, Chris Rock’s MISTY GREEN and Werner Herzog’s BUCKING FASTARD.

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New York Film Festival Dispatch: Part One

Reviews of Eleanor Coppola’s “Making Marie Antoinette,” Chris Rock’s “Misty Green” and Werner Herzog’s “Bucking Fastard.”

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can’t help wondering what finally did it. You want to think it was the creeping fascism, the rampant corruption, the blundering into a war and blowing up a school, the mom and a nurse being shot in the street by jackbooted thugs. But we all know it was probably just gas prices.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dunno if it’s indicative of a broader cultural shift, but the gym where I work out has removed the “MAGA COUNTRY” sticker from their front desk.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“One of the darkest movies ever made.” IRREVERSIBLE ain’t got nothin’ on Downey doing a silly accent in a plastic mask!

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had it on vinyl *and* cassette. Loved that Patti LaBelle song.

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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

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 · 28/09/2026

A great film. So surreal watching it with some of the subjects sitting in front of me. But it was a huge relief to know that they were going to be okay! Can’t wait to read your review!

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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reminds me of when the movie theater I used to manage was showing DOGMA. We had a bunch of protesters but they couldn’t figure out the showtimes so they were always loudly praying at people who came to see BEING JOHN MALKOVICH.

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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

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

I find it helps to remember that most movies from that particular time period were written and produced by people doing catastrophic amounts of cocaine.

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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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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You must not have seen his other movies.

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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 · 21/09/2026

Yeah, after the Wahlberg atrocity I looked up their slate from this year and was aghast. Hope you like the Brad Pitt movie where the dog is a troop because that’s as good as it’s gonna get from here on out.

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