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StandardNick 🔴⚫Canes🏆🏆⚫🔴 @standrdnick.bsky.social · 3h

I 1000% co-sign this thread. Fuck the WWE.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 3h

They cancelled “Pokerface” for this shit??

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m sure most folks have seen The Criterion Channel’s amazing October lineup but for those who haven’t, here’s a look at all the amazing stuff you can watch for the Halloween season on there: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/criterion-ch... Open to everyone- cheers!

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Criterion Channel’s October 2026 Lineup Features Highway Horror, Made-for-TV Terror, Dario Argento & More

Last year, someone was kind enough to gift me a free month of streaming last year for the Criterion Channel platform, and it looks like October is going to be the month I finally get to use it, becaus...

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I always talk about how cool Eddie was to me when I first started going to wrestling shows in the mid 2000s. He was kind & generous with his time in a way he never had to be. He’s a good guy & it kills me to see him hurting like this. He’s lost so many friends. I hope he gets to perform again soon.

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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 28/09/2026

Tony Khan live streamed his speech about PAC/Ben Satterly at tonight's ROH tapings in Jacksonville. Heads up: This will probably make you cry.

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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 28/09/2026

This is really well done.

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Amy Nemmity @amy.wrestlejoy.com · 28/09/2026

ROH will be airing full matches from PAC in AEW and ROH on their YouTube channel today. This is lovely, and remembering how incredible, innovative, talented , charismatic, funny, and what a bastard he was is a wonderful way to spend time appreciating him today. Thank you for doing this. ❤️🫂

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If Feige had any true artistic vision..

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For the two of you who have a Starz subscription.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I see mutuals posting mean-spirited stuff about fans that aren’t actually doing anything other than being enthusiastic about what they like (ie. X-Men, AEW, Taskmaster, Star Trek, Statham movies, etc), then we aren’t going to be mutuals anymore. I don’t have patience for whiny hater bullshit.

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Taskmaster Taskmaster Australia

ALT: Taskmaster Taskmaster Australia

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(A not so) Important Anthony Wong update.

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Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After I posted this, I got a DM about it from someone I've never had any interactions with before but is part of certain cliquey physical media circles. Now it's an extra on an upcoming release 🤷

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

what to watch this weekend pvguide.ghost.io/weekend-watc...

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Weekend Watchlist, 9/25: Bang Bang

What to watch this weekend

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does this really mean anything on a site where users regularly log films that they haven’t actually seen and in some cases don’t even exist?

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𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ONE LAST SHOT starring Scott Adkins is a satisfying conclusion to maybe the most ambitious series in modern indie action. Somehow they do ROPE-style filmmaking on tight budgets and schedules, and the story is engrossing enough that I forget to think much about the technical side. (Now on VOD.)

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One Last Shot | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA

ONE LAST SHOT is an event movie within the world of indie action: director James Nunn (GREEN STREET 3: NEVER BACK DOWN), writer Jamie Russell and star Scott

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Ed Travis @edtravis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HALF wasn’t on my radar at all leading up to #FanstasticFest, but it’s far and away the action film to beat at this year’s festival, and I think it’ll break out internationally as well. The fight choreographer from THE NIGHT COMES FOR US does Indian vampire revenge action! It rips. #Half #HalfMovie

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Andy “The Action Guy” Gorham @andrewmgorham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

James Nunn and Scott Adkins save the best for last delivering an intense and epic conclusion to their ambitious trilogy. Tactical action, brutal grounded combat and hard hitting stunt work elevated by brilliant direction and Adkins performance. The gold standard of DTV action!

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nick Cave is 69. I never tire of reading about Crowe commissioning Cave to write Gladiator 2, what he ended up getting & his considered response.

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Ed Travis @edtravis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Excited to have my buddy @the8thcurse.bsky.social contributing his first byline to @cinapse.bsky.social! And it’s for the latest Scott Adkins joint no less!!! #ScottAdkins #OneLastShot

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More comfort watching as I trudge through recovering my health. I’ve decided after more that 10 years to finally watch through all of “Adventure Time.” It’s a show I’ve always thought was great but unfortunate life stuff derailed every previous attempt I ever made to get caught up on all of it.

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Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Flying

ALT: Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Flying

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“HALF” has been on my radar for a while. I am dying to see it. The concept, the bts talent, and the vibe of this one image have been enough to completely sell me on it.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Heck why not, Alan Ritchson for Batman in the new DCU.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“‘Batman day’” is just a made up thing to sell us some product!” I hate to break it to those people but that’s what the vast majority of “special days” on a calendar are. Happy Batman day, y’all.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My hottest take of the moment is that I really enjoyed Fantastic Fest the one year I attended (2017) but I am not sure it’s worth the large amount of money it takes to attend as an out-of-towner. It’s not really an affordable thing for the audience that would most like it.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The new kid who makes good, gory, crowd-pleasing horror films made another good, gory, crowd-pleasing horror film, you say? Too bad all those “fans” of the brand made him want to swear off doing anything more with already established properties. Anyway, here’s a video. — youtu.be/0h-j4qFR3wg?...

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Whitest Kids U' Know: Nail Gun

YouTube video by WKUK: Whitest Kids U’ Know

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I apologize for not engaging much beyond surface-level stuff lately. I’m still dealing with a lot of health stuff. I’m better than I was but still far from through it. I continue to have good and bad days related to it all. Lately, it’s been mostly bad.

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Action For Everyone @a4epodcast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@jorcru.bsky.social had Liam on for FEELING SEEN to talk THE TERMINATOR! It's required listening. If you don't you'll be Terminated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_uI...

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Liam O'Donnell on 'The Terminator'

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"How can you love pro wrestling?" To that I say, how can you not love a form of lively, interactive theatre-in-the-round that is free-flowing & malleable enough to have something like this happen & not only have it not hurt the experience but actually make it even more unique? It's a magical art.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Since I installed that plugin that shows a user’s activity every time they post, I’ve been stunned by the sheer number of people here who post 30 to 50 replies a day. That is some irrational confidence I will never understand. Not everything requires your feedback/perspective/two cents/etc, folks.

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Mike Scott-World's #1 Fire Birds Fan @hibachijustice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Since Liam isn't on ye olde sky of blue, thought I'd share this. Yes Warpath still exists. Yes it is still coming.

Screenshot of a tweet from Liam O'Donnell confirming Skyline: Warpath is still coming out.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my biggest shortcomings as a guy who talks about stuff on the internet is I forget that just because something is common knowledge to me does not mean it’s something that others know about. So just never mention some stuff. Anyway, it’s neat that people are discovering this old Easter egg.

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Mike Scott-World's #1 Fire Birds Fan @hibachijustice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Instead of him being the death of cinema or whatever, have we considered that Zack Snyder is in fact just really really fucking dumb? Like not a millimeter of depth in that dude's brain. Hard to think he's what everybody says he is (on either side) when you read any interview with him and it's

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“All angry, bitter, nasty criticisms have the same subtext: ‘You squandered an opportunity that should have been mine.’” - Christopher McQuarrie

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 13/09/2026

Bassam Tariq's YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER is unquestionably one of the year's great action movies and features Mahershala Ali's best performance since MOONLIGHT. My review via Screen Daily

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‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ review: Mahershala Ali is outstanding as a Muslim assassin in Bassam Tariq’s audacious follow-up to ‘Mogul Mowgli’

The film premieres as a Toronto Special Presentation before heading to London

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE

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Fanzine. Moxism was always the right way @fanzine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I saw a tiktok of someone describing Kenny wrestling every match as a school yard bully and now I can't unsee it. It rules lol

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What a nightmare blunt rotation. No wonder DC is actually winning back shelf space from manga while Marvel’s comics division is on life support again (for like the 3rd time just in my lifetime).

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don’t want to talk about where I was that day or its horrible, infinite aftermath. That’s not why I come to this site. But I’m grateful to Alan for summing it up better than I ever could.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m not on many blocklists because let’s face it, I’m neato & hip to the streets (as the kids say). But one of the few I am on is hilarious to me. I was put there because I use the term “shitlib.” Unsurprising, considering this is the land of online-only activists & well… shitlibs. Fuckin’ phonies.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The people with the most power in the world are targeting the people with the least, and I think they should all burn in hell.

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Jerry Roe @jerryroe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not sure to what extent anyone cares about music content on here that doesn’t come with a social/political message, but I’m gonna post more. And my band @fcommanders.bsky.social makes music written by a woman about human relationships & dynamics that covers those topics anyway. Also we rip. So

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why do people always default to, “well this movie is not perfect but …” when you rarely ever see anyone call a film “perfect” in the first place? What are people proactively defending their positive opinion from? It’s just a weird bit of modern thinking/phrasing that really irks me.

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Matthew Essary @wheelscritic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I dunno, they are probably great and all that, but “Dungeon Crawler Carl” seems like some strange psyop. It’s got big “Disney Adult” energy to me. No thank you.

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