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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Marisa Abela, BLACK BAG Elizabeth Chisela, ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL Olivia Colman, PADDINGTON IN PERU Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS Hailee Steinfeld, SINNERS This would be an absolutely A++ supporting actress awards lineup and it isn't even May yet! Hopefully signs of a good cinema year to come...

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

When will What Would You Do's John Quiñones guest-judge Drag Race? I wanna see him untuck with the girls

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

At SCMS last weekend I worked in an old Coors Light jingle to my presentation to set the scene in early 2000s toxic bro masculinity (for the film JOY RIDE, it made sense I swear lol). I should have done like Catholic mass cantor arms for everyone to come in together on “and twinnnns!”

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Betty Buckley in a revamped Grizabella costume for NY Mag is very much meeting the moment. Imagine this is how you're finding me when you reach out

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Not too early to think about WHITE LOTUS 4, who would you want to return? My pitch: let's get another round of Mark and Quinn Mossbacher specifically, has Quinn followed his dreams of paddling? Is he onto another lost soul, wanderer fixation?

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'm SO SICK of the criticism "nothing happens on WHITE LOTUS," are people's souls dead???? I just gotta stop scanning social media for reactions clearly, save that for professional hours

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Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This cabbage offers more hope and possibility than the contemporary scene.

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My favorite film genres: 1. Cold 2. Wet 3. Mental breakdown in a public restroom 4. Men fight when they should probably kiss 5. Men kiss when they should probably fight

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Finally got the go-ahead to post my rejected theme song for Halt And Catch Fire. IT’S THEIR LOSS

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Clear Eurovision frontrunner for me thus far. Excellence in faggotry, excellence in coining a phrase that shouldn't be a phrase, excellence in dead-behind-the-eyes choreo, excellence in heavy costuming. 10s across the board

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Marko Bošnjak - Poison Cake | Croatia 🇭🇷 | National Final Performance | #Eurovision2025

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Isabella Rossellini in blue velvet at the Oscars with Laura Dern by her side, ahhhhh i wanna cry :'( :'( :'(

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Erin Whitehead @girlwithatail.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Social media has infantilized us. If we don’t see something in our own curated little bubble of a newsfeed we’re posting “WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS? WHY DOESN’T THIS EXIST!?” Like babies who haven’t learned object impermanence yet.

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

1. The Substance 2. Anora 3. The Brutalist 4. Dune: Part Two 5. A Complete Unknown 6. I'm Still Here 7. Wicked 8. Nickel Boys 9. Conclave 10. Emilia Pérez

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

On a shortlist of my favorite single shots of the cinematic year 2024

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

White Lotus cast members I need at some point: Joan Cusack. Carolyn Wiger. Jinkx Monsoon. The corpse of Maureen Stapleton. The corpse of Edith Massey. Marisa Tomei. Alfre Woodard. Gong Li. Rosie Perez. Miss Piggy. Gonzo. Ok some of those are more realistic than others but you get it.

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Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Have not seen nearly enough Colman at the BAFTAs on my timeline

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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

In this installment of MTC Oscar Series, Sean M. Donovan, Thomas Higgins, and Molly Keran offer their thoughts on Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE mid-theory.com/2025/02/18/m...

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MTC Oscar Series: THE SUBSTANCE

In this installment of MTC Oscar Series, Sean M. Donovan, Thomas Higgins, and Molly Keran offer their thoughts on Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, a body horror film about an aging actress who take…

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Loved writing this! All hail THE SUBSTANCE, monstro elisasue pustules and all

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In WHITE LOTUS 3 Carrie Coon once again playing a character that very much feels like my window of relatability into things, unbroken streak since GONE GIRL

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

all day every day

photo of sylvia rivera and marsha p. johnson marching

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Thanks to Mid Theory for letting me pile on to the awards season villain! Emilia, girl, you're one for the ages

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

People who I need to see on THE TRAITORS: Bebe Zahara Benet, Kim Chi, and Willow Pill from Drag Race. Avori Henderson from The Mole. Vanessa Papa from The Ultimatum: Queer Love. James Kennedy from Vanderpump Rules. Shota Nakajima and Melissa King from Top Chef. Jack Schlossberg. Stormy Daniels.

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Me crying mumbling to myself while watching WEST SIDE STORY in theaters in 2021, directed by notable heterosexual Steven Spielberg

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

At my increasingly dormant X account, some of the only notifications I get are bot accounts liking my 2year+ old post pestering Brooks Marks of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake to add XXXL sizes of his track suit line

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The absolute glee some are displaying in blaming Palestinians, and people who protested on their behalf, for their own ethnic cleansing is a strategic error (obvs you target the decision maker), a political error (obvs you need those votes), and a moral error (obvs fix your hearts or die).

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olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

today, @mid-theory.bsky.social kicks off our month-long coverage of awards season contenders! to start off our series, catch Sena Nurhan Duran, Charline Jao, Sophie Marie Niang, and Marcus Prasad on Sean Baker's ANORA mid-theory.com/2025/02/03/2...

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MTC Oscar Series: ANORA

In this installment of MTC Oscar Series, Sena Nurhan Duran, Charline Jao, Sophie Marie Niang, and Marcus Prasad offer their thoughts on Sean Baker’s Anora, a dark comedy about a Brooklyn sex worker…

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Fred Moten said "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly."

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

we are watching JOHANNE SACREBLU, a Mexican trans woman’s response to EMILIA PÉREZ featuring an all-Mexican cast playing broad French stereotypes as a croissant and baguette heiress face off “France” is peopled with mimes and twisty moustaches and every character has a Ratatouille secreted on them

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I haven't yet seen I'm Still Here or The Apprentice, but out of those Oscar noms, this is how I think I'd be voting in the acting categories

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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

INTRODUCING: MTC Oscars series! Just in time for Oscar nominations this coming Thursday. For the month of February, we'll run an ongoing series (with work from almost 30 writers) of essays, reviews, blurbs, & conversations about a whole range of Oscar frontrunners and hopefuls.

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Lynch truly blessed the world with a level of beauty and art few are ever able to create. This is a sad one.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

New from the Queer and Trans SCMS Caucus: a starter pack to stay in touch! We’ve read your responses to our survey asking to transition from Meta to Bsky & we’re starting by offering this pack. A QTC account will follow. We’re excited to connect, lmk if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/G4eA51z

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Best new-to-me films I saw this year (not counting 2023/2024 releases): KURONEKO, dir. Kaneto Shindo, Japan, 1968 PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, dir. Sam Peckinpah, USA, 1973 DOOR, dir. Banmei Takahashi, Japan, 1988 HEAT LIGHTNING, dir. Mervyn LeRoy, USA, 1934

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I think one of the themes of the cinematic year 2024 was shameless, self-loving stupidity, with CHALLENGERS, LOVE LIES BLEEDING, THE SUBSTANCE and TRAP all flying that flag to different extents. I love it, all hail exploring interesting affects and relations within the broad realm of stupidity

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

SCMS put me dead last this time around which surely won't be great for attendance BUT they were definitely speaking my love languages in terms of what they paired me with– Ti West? Cannibalism? These are great things

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A list of sorely missed Victorian-era slang… Got the morbs = temporary sadness Gigglemug = always smiling Scandal water = tea Bitch the pot = pour the tea Sauce-box = mouth Cupid’s kettle drums = breasts Dash my wig = OMG Tight as a boiled owl = drunk Poked up = embarrassed Not up to dick = unwell

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The new Queer Eye guy is Andy Cohen on The Substance, change my mind

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Maybe I should share my Jimmy Johns rewards points and badges on these academic job applications. I mean if they want to see where I TRULY shine

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I'm doing this self-sabotaging thing where I spend Sunday nights mentally getting ready for the week but then I watch the new SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, I become a crying emotional pile of goo, and the prep is mostly undone! Sure it's cathartic, but at what cost??? Anyway I love this tender show so deeply

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I think there's a not 0% chance Lisa Vanderpump decided to swing so hard into Las Vegas lately because Deborah Vance made it look so glamorous (read: in Lisa's terms) on HACKS

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Sean M. Donovan @theseanmdonovan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Would love to see the NYC Critics' Awards tomorrow launch Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Best Actress Oscar campaign for HARD TRUTHS in earnest. Also show some love to I SAW THE TV GLOW and the boys from CHALLENGERS, pretty please and thank you

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pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Cis people cannot leave trans people to fight transphobia alone. We have to be willing to be disruptive and uncompromising on their behalf *now*, not any later.

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