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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom

@whippancrashzoom.bsky.social
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Film, music, books and very casual gaming. An anxiety-riddled culture sponge, absorbing everything and understanding some of it.

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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can’t wait for Mike Flanagan’s eight-hour Carrie series to spend an entire episode on the bucket’s intergenerational trauma. Matthew Lillard: “We’re all buckets, holding our pain until someone tips us over.” Cut to black. Piano.
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#NowWatching The Seven Year Itch (1955 - Billy Wilder)
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#NowWatching Lady In White (1988 - Frank LaLoggia)
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#NowWatching Ms. 45 (1981 - Abel Ferrara. First time watch for me, has been high on my 'to see' list for an age.
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Criterion Channel Spooky Season line up is insane. I never thought I’d see Dark Night of the Scarecrow on Criterion, but here we are.
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Criterion geoblocking the app outside the US is an astounding act of self-sabotage. You have people worldwide actively trying to give you money for films, and the response is apparently: “No thanks, fuck off.” Incredible business strategy. #criterionchannel #enshittification
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#NowPlaying Earth, Wind and Fire - Earth, Wind and Fire #earthwindandfire
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#NowWatching Die My Love (2025 - Lynne Ramsay)
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Obsession (2025 - Curry Barker) Obsession is an impressively assured debut that goes much darker than its premise suggests. Inde Navarrette is phenomenal and the loss-of-autonomy angle is genuinely disturbing. I’m still not sure I loved it, but I’m still thinking about it. boxd.it/gimDXF #filmsky
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A ★★★★ review of Obsession (2025)
Obsession is a very, very good film. That it is Curry Barker’s debut feature, made when he was only 25 and for a reported budget of $750,000, is frankly ridiculous. And yet, I still can’t quite shake ...
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I Married A Witch (1942 - René Clair) Veronica Lake spends 77 minutes proving that Fredric March has considerably more resistance than I do. Breezy, playful, beautifully shot supernatural screwball fluff. boxd.it/gijLYv #filmsky #veronicalake #classiccinema #criterionchannel
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I Married a Witch (1942)
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found h...
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The new Halloween game is a janky mess and I’m having an absolute blast. I screamed. Twice. I am a grown man and apparently Michael Myers still has jurisdiction over my nervous system. #HalloweenGame #HorrorGames #HalloweenOnline
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
9 to 5 is still funny, furious and depressingly relevant. A workplace comedy about sexism, exploitation and the apparently radical idea that employees are human beings. And then there’s Dolly. Full review: boxd.it/g7g6d9 #ninetofive #dollyparton
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A ★★★★ review of Nine to Five (1980)
From the very first frame, 9 to 5 feels as vital and relevant now as it did when it was released. Judy’s first day at work was almost a malfunctioning Xerox-machine copy of my own first day at my curr...
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@prootzel.bsky.social Your editing on the last couple of Big Walk videos is PHENOMENAL, sir. We just got to the part where @peachyaenne.bsky.social is all 'you wanna know a secret..., Price cut out when I said..' *HARD CUT* Oscar worthy. We howled. Loving your work, Price.
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Saccharine (2026 - Natalie Erika James) has real craft and some excellent scares, but its ideas about body dysmorphia and fatphobia are a mess. It wants to critique the disgust aimed at fat bodies while repeatedly borrowing that same visual language. boxd.it/Qttk #filmsky #saccharine
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Saccharine (2026)
After succumbing to an obscure weight-loss craze involving the eating of human ashes, lovelorn medical student Hana finds herself haunted by the ghost of the person she's eating.
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just watched @stumpt.tv complete Big Walk and we are close to tears. Thank you for taking us on this journey @ashstoashs.com @jazzylea.art @prootzel.bsky.social @peachyaenne.bsky.social @househouse.com #bigwalk #stumptgamers #househouse
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#nowwatching Boyz n The Hood (1991 - John Singleton) #filmsky
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#nowwatching Stand By Me (1986 - Rob Reiner) #filmsky
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A list of musicians who’ve opened up about their mental health struggles without Devin Townsend feels like a major omission. He has spent decades turning anxiety, depression and the noise inside his head into some of the most emotionally transparent music around. #DevinTownsend #MentalHealth
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Finally watching Widow’s Bay. This has been sitting in the “absolutely my sort of thing” pile for far too long, which is apparently where I put things I am most excited about before ignoring them for months. #WidowsBay
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Watching Murder of the Essex Boys on Netflix and it’s the most complicated thing I’ve seen since trying to work out which Chris is which in the MCU. Everyone has a nickname, a grudge, a connection, a different version of events and apparently three cousins called Tony. #Netflix #TrueCrime
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Letterboxd broken again? I’m asking as a formality. I think we all know the answer. #Letterboxd #Filmsky
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Voice of Hind Rajab - A vital, incendiary film. The blur between documentary and drama is extraordinary, the performances are superb, and the final ten minutes are almost unbearably tense, even when you know the outcome. Cinema as an empathy machine, and an accusation. #filmsky #freepalestine
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Ready or Not 2 has two terrific leads, one excellent pepper-spray fight and the Samara Weaving scream. Unfortunately, it also keeps stalling, looks weirdly flat and mistakes sour misogyny for edgy comedy-horror. Not a patch on the first. boxd.it/MfY6 #filmsky #readyornothereicome
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side. Gr...
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#NowWatching Undertone (2025 - Ian Tuason) #undertone #filmsky #sundayfilm
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ironically, this looks exactly like a film Frank Cross would have pitched in Scrooged. “Make it darker. Make it expensive. Put Depp in a hat.” And somehow, “Before he was Scrooge, he was… Ebenezer” is the actual tagline. #Scrooged #Ebenezer #FilmNews #FilmSky
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I feel sorry for anyone visiting the Criterion Closet after Christopher Nolan. All that’s left now is a copy of Salò (no box) and the faint smell of IMAX film. #CriterionCloset #ChristopherNolan #TheGreatCriterionHeist
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Tiny gestures. Liberated camerawork. Tonal whiplash handled with impossible grace. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is silent, romantic, devastating and completely alive. boxd.it/fqvoVB #filmsky #silentcinema #fwmurnau
Square vintage-style review graphic for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), branded “Whip Pan / Crash Zoom” at the top. A large black-and-white still shows George O’Brien leaning against a wall while Janet Gaynor looks up at him. Beside it are five burgundy stars and credits for director F.W. Murnau, writer Carl Mayer, and cinematographers Charles Rosher and Karl Struss. Below, four short sections praise the film’s dynamic camerawork, tonal shifts, expressive gestures, and themes of love and reconciliation. A final quotation jokes that couples should reconnect without attempting murder first. Cream paper texture with black and dark-red typography.
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sometimes loving film isn’t enough. Tonight, depression won. #FuckDepression #tryagaintomorrow #mentalhealth
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My first Jackie Chan, and apparently the man treats gravity as a loose suggestion. Police Story is pure physical cinema: huge stunts, comic timing, astonishing clarity, and enough reckless charisma to power a city block. boxd.it/fjUvRD 4.5/5 #FilmSky #PoliceStory #JackieChan #ActionCinema
A square, distressed zine-style Whip Pan / Crash Zoom review poster for Police Story (1985). The central image shows Jackie Chan hanging from the side of a speeding green double-decker bus. Handwritten notes praise his silent-cinema influence, comic timing, charisma, physical grace and astonishing stunt work. Standout sequences listed include the bus chase, cars crashing down a hillside, the masked-assassin fight and the department-store finale. The poster also celebrates the end-credit outtakes, calls the film “a constant joy,” and rates it 4.5 out of 5.
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey - a lovely premise, but gives us barely any sense of its leads before asking us to care about their emotional excavation. Add cheap-looking whimsy, digital murk, indie needle drops, and a final song choice so bad it made me wince. boxd.it/fjSKAX #FilmSky #FilmReview
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) Corporate greed, stolen eggs, astonishing colour, and a benevolent giant moth doing more for humanity than humanity has remotely earned. boxd.it/fiKuCj #FilmSky #Kaiju #Godzilla #Mothra #CriterionChannel
A distressed, zine-style Whip Pan / Crash Zoom review poster for Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964). A large colour image shows Mothra flying over Godzilla during battle. Handwritten-style notes around it discuss industrialisation, corporate greed, Mothra’s tragic benevolence, memorable dialogue, the score and colour, and the overly long kaiju fights. The film is rated 3.5 out of 5.
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Whip Pan / Crash Zoom @whippancrashzoom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Fighting anxiety and depression through culture, curiosity and strategic avoidance. Finding my voice and tentatively posting about film, books, music, games, and whatever cultural nonsense drifts into my orbit. A little sass. A touch of snark. Far too many opinions. #filmsky #booksky #musicsky
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