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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/10/2026

it's wild how we've normalized the fact that the biggest U.S. cable TV "news" network is overt right wing propaganda, and the rest of the press helps them pretend to be legit

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Fox News' ratings margin hits widest point as it turns 30

Fox News president and executive editor Jay Wallace attributes the brand's durability to consistency in ownership and strategy.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eight great movies to see at Boston's best film festival, utumn edition. (Pictured are Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich in Martin McDonagh's "Wild Horse Nine," the movie that may finally bring Malkovich an Oscar.)

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What to Watch at IFFBoston's Fall Festival*

Eight to see at Boston's best film festival (autumn edition). Plus a few other events.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They took away Medicaid from my 82 year old mom. They don't answer the phone and when she showed up in person, they refused to talk to her and told her to go home and call them. She got her low income senior housing because she qualified for Medicaid.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just wondering: CAN the President "cancel the mid-term elections"? How does that work? Can the states just ignore him? What happens if only some states do? I'd like to see some kind of game plan or decision tree from the experts here.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you buy the hat or have it made? I’d love to get one.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"What could be more American than Tom Cruise – Teflon Tom, our national Scientologist, the country’s second most notable couch enthusiast–finally choosing to act to the back rows with a performance that’s the equivalent of one of those shoot-the-works banana splits that no one ever actually orders?"

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Apocalypse Yow: "Digger"

Alejandro Iñárritu and Tom Cruise go for baroque in a love-it-or-hate-it supersized satire.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Am digging the critical pile-on on "Digger," a folly I dug almost because of its excesses rather than in spite of them. Think Roy Andersson directing the Firesign Theatre. Makes "Dr. Strangelove" look like a corporate retreat. A movie everyone will love to hate and a few will hate to love. Review TK

Tom Cruise -- yes, Tom Cruise -- as a vile old man.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New Watch List: "Primetime" (⭐ ⭐ 1/2) reviewed. "Is it worth sitting through an entertaining but morally questionable movie if it has three exceptional performances?" (Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever and Skylar Gisondo, for those taking notes.) www.tyburrswatchlist.com/thoughts-and...

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Thoughts and Preyers: “Primetime” v “Predators”

The new Robert Pattinson drama has great performances and a queasy moral compass. Plus: New films on demand and a couple of classic recommendations.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Warrior Princess ⬇️

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Incoming persona shift alert

A movie poster for the new Alejandro Inarritu movie "Digger" featuring an old, weird-looking dude holding a shovel who on closer examination turns out to be Tom Cruise. The dude, not the shovel.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Damn, that's a long bill.

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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope

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Patio Yeller @patioyeller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

-chanting- BIRD SURGE BIRD SURGE BIRD SURGE

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Poem I forgot I wrote a while back.

Koan Curriculum

The aisles of this supermarket are stacked with
10,000 things that make no sense.
Hair dye for the heart.
A scrub brush for music.
Spices to sprinkle over street corners
and small children.
A toilet plunger made of stone.
I read the label for each
before I go on to the next
and the cashier is so very far away,
my cart so full.
The express lane is closed,
says the stock boy, kneeling,
but you don’t have to worry.
Your money’s no good here.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Grown child suddenly realizes who their real parent has been all along.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here is exactly where I stopped reading.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I agree with @jvl.bsky.social. Dems would do well to conduct serial impeachments. First Heggy (if he is not convicted in Dec, after he IS impeached in House), then RFK. Then prioritize based on what will either gain support among Senate GOPers OR embarrass them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...

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Impeach Them. All of Them.

Hegseth is only the beginning.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: The Banana Splits will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Buncha TIFF reviews. "[As the young Stallone,] Ippolito recovers the human under the layers of waxy pop-culture build-up and reminds you why everyone fell for the guy in the first place." (posts are public)

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TIFF Report II: "I Play Rocky,""Ink,” "Up Against It," "The Long Winter"

An underdog story about an underdog story is an unexpected highlight at the Toronto Film Festival

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some wonderful and helpful suggestions for warding off AI doomerism in the responses here.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Choosing a 3 hr 15 min movie for my first TIFF screening would normally be a risky move, but it's Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and it's glorious. ALL OF A SUDDEN: A film of friendship, kindness, language and ideas with a big honking TED talk in the middle that explains everything. Subtle notes of Rivette, too.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Back in Toronto for, what, my 25th year at the Film Festival? Looking forward to seeing old friends and new movies. Here's a tip sheet.

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Eight Movies I want to See at TIFF 2026

It's fall festival time, and the Watch List is headed to Toronto to try and make sense of it all.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s not scary! But it is occasionally gruesome in patently ridiculous ways.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ok, but screw your hair on extra tight!

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reposting this with paywall removed coz everyone who sees this movie needs to think/talk/read about it, like, right away and I too have thoughts. www.tyburrswatchlist.com/what-to-watc...

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What to Watch: "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma"

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder go on a voyage of personal discovery in Jane Schoenbrun's new movie, and it's a hell of a ride.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay, now I want to see the whole jury and try to guess which one’s Henry Fonda, which one’s Lee J. Cobb, which one’s Jack Klugman…

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I finally got around to seeing "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma." Hoo boy -- good stuff. "Few putative horror films, even the faux ones, send you out as happy as this one does." www.tyburrswatchlist.com/what-to-watc...

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What to Watch: "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma"

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder go on a voyage of personal discovery in Jane Schoenbrun's new movie, and it's a hell of a ride.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Somewhere down in the bones of 'Coyote vs Acme' is a version by Samuel Beckett, with Vladimir and Estragon redrawn as two-dimensional soulmates who can’t go on but must go on, forever and ever, beep beep." Full review in the latest Watch List.

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In Review: "Coyote vs Acme," "The Dog Stars," "Peter Asher"

Plus a few words on two icons we've lost this week.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thinking about all the transphobe MFers who got their freak on dancing to "Time Warp" at midnight screenings in high school and who would burn Frank-N-Furter alive if he showed up today. 🤬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4OG...

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Don't Dream It Be It

YouTube video by toon59

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That her persona was so obviously self-willed and such an incredible balance of surface caricature and core decency was what made her unique. Gumption and kindness, empathy and grit. Good songs, too.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some stars are sui generis, literally inimitable. They create their own space in the culture, their own genre of human. And when they're gone, no one fills their shoes. There's no "next" Fred Astaire or Mae West or Audrey Hepburn. There will be no "next" Dolly Parton. Even the idea is absurd.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jesse Watters truly is the Dunning-Kruger Effect in human form.

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