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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Mamoru Oshii reads film critics to absolute filth in his live-action meta mystery film TALKING HEAD (1992). He was right about us then, and unfortunately, he's right about us now.

An animation filmmaker and his assistant opine about film critics, part one.

The director says, "There are only two kinds of film critics."

An animation filmmaker and his assistant opine about film critics, part two.

The assistant answers, "Those who dislike animation and those who don't."

An animation filmmaker and his assistant opine about film critics, part three.

The director replies, "No. Those who don't watch animation and those who do."

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 21h

take a seat, let this one sink in. it’s worth the read.

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you were ever targeted by the Gamergate horde from 2024 onward, I'd love to talk to you briefly for a short section in my book! Reply, DM me, or email me at alyssamerc@gmail.com. Signal boost!!

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 22h

The pendulum does swing both ways!

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 23h

I'm happy one of us saw a good movie!

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote about the backlash to the backlash to DIGGER, why the reviews actually mattered for once, and the last time I pulled a 180 on a film I used to hate. It's the latest CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEWSLETTER, and although it's subscription-only, the subscription to our patreon newsletter tier is free!

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Will I Ever Change My Mind About DIGGER? | The Critically Acclaimed Newsletter (10/12/26) | The Critically Acclaimed Network

Will I Ever Change My Mind About DIGGER? | The Critically Acclaimed Newsletter (10/12/26) by The Critically Acclaimed Network on Patreon. Join The Critically Acclaimed Network's community for exclusiv...

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"His name is Franklin." Awwwww! I love Franklin!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the fact that like two weeks after a massive gang rape story breaks a fifteenth rate comedian can wander onto national television and call women whores and there are no repercussions and really not much outcry is a big problem for me.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Mamoru Oshii reads film critics to absolute filth in his live-action meta mystery film TALKING HEAD (1992). He was right about us then, and unfortunately, he's right about us now.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Between this and THE BREADWINNER, some comics are doing everything they can to set society back decades.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A sobering thread about how shit happens in this industry and why we don’t hear more about it.

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Ruth’s Chris Haunted House @atomicgiant.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If I were a WB shareholder, I think I'd care a lot less about $245MM they're not getting back on Digger than WB spending $606MM to thank Zaslav for trashing the place.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/10/2026

Nicholas Cage is on a generational run.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If there were any doubts that BACKROOMS is ultra-mainstream, here's a commercial that lampoons it - uncomfortably well - to sell makeup. Anyone who doesn't know what BACKROOMS is would probably have no fucking idea what to make of this, which means they are 100% confident that everyone knows.

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e.l.f.scape from Unglammy Valley

YouTube video by e.l.f. Cosmetics

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

She's a real one! One of the best in the business.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That’s a good vibe! But I am looking for horror movies, specifically.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So with that said, misogynist by reputation or bad stuff implied is all fair game in this prompt. Dylan O’Brien in SEND HELP, for example, isn’t a violent criminal. But he *is* a sexist piece of shit and we want him to get his comeuppance.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m not saying it’s bad to feature that stuff in a movie, at least not inherently. I’m curating some films for a particular person and I’m trying to cater to their interests (misogynists get what’s coming to them) as well as their taste (not dwelling on violence against women).

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Happy National Coming Out Day

A panel from GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher, in which Galaxy says "Being
'normal' was never, NEVER going to save me!"

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What are some horror movies where a misogynist is cathartically killed, but where we aren’t forced to watch him commit prolonged/visceral acts of violence against women first? Something like the Anna Paquin sequence in TRICK ‘R TREAT, as opposed to I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I feel attacked, but at least I feel seen.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I find many critics these days think about those first two questions, but feel like it’s not their place to ask the third. But that’s the line, isn’t it? That’s where you’re able to recognize that the worst movies can look, at least superficially, like they’re the best.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Apparently it’s okay if the film has one, and only one remake. The sequel is also, by its very odd nature, a remake, so I think it’s got a shot.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I avoid writing lavish praise so that when I do make a big statement, it will mean actually something. WILDWOOD is the type of film I reserve my huge compliments for. I was literally - I mean, LITERALLY literally - slackjawed watching large portions of this movie. It’s a rare, genuine achievement.

William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Travis Knight’s WILDWOOD is such an astounding achievement in stop-motion that even if the story sucked, it would be a “must see.” But the story is wonderful (if a little archetypal), so the effort it took to produce this masterpiece was wholly justified. My review is at @thewrap.com!

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‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika's Fantasy Epic Is One of the Most Astonishing Animated Movies Ever Made

The stop-motion adventure Wildwood, directed by Travis Knight, is so astonishing and intricate that it's hard to even fathom.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My Fellow Critics: What was the last time you *dramatically* changed your mind about a movie? It could be a film you liked or loved at first, but you dislike or hate now, or a film you disliked or hated the first time, but now you like or love it.

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Oops Sorry

Alt: Daniel Day Lewis says "Whoopsie daisy" in Gangs of New York

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

People need to get it into their heads that it’s possible understand exactly what an artist was doing and still think they did it badly.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unrelated, but remember when James Cameron said he lied when he said TERMINATOR GENISYS was a great movie and was just doing a favor for Arnold Schwarzenegger?

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Love Canal Hypothesis

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As much as I appreciate the Post occasionally having a funny headline we do straight up have to destroy them as an organization

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Jeff McMahon @jeffmcmahon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Digger (’26, AGI): Preston Sturges in Sullivan’s Travels is all “People need to laugh.” and Inarritu is all “You dope. You utter moron.”

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I, Madman Killer Party Dr. Giggles Freaky The Final Girls Blood Moon Wicked, Wicked The Town That Dreaded Sundown

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What if the remake has a sequel, e.g. Terror Train?

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Courtney Howard @lulamaybelle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am crying laughing.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Can you will a largely despised film into awards contention? One that audiences and critics rejected alike? DIGGER is presenting itself as a test case, and it's shaping up to be the MAGA movie of our era. It's a film that lampoons concern about climate change and rips politically charged art.

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What Cage has done for literally the past decade is exactly this, he finds a weird eccentric script by a first time filmmaker, signs on, his name brings in clout, he makes the film, and sometimes it's not very good. But it's still artistic as hell. This is why I *love* Cage.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That trope is annoying, and Bird's commitment to perpetuating it in RAY GUNN speaks, I suspect, to the fact that this film was conceived thirty years ago and is only just getting made now. Otherwise, RAY GUNN is wonderfully made, with a smart sci-fi noir plot and a zippy, exciting pace.

Ray Gunn flies around in a jetpack. I guess in the future birds and bugs are no longer a thing because he's not even wearing goggles.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is it just me, or is using sci-fi/fantasy creatures as an allegory for real-life marginalized groups an excuse for white filmmakers to tell stories about why racism is bad while still casting white people in most of those roles? This post brought to you by Brad Bird's RAY GUNN, by the way.

Human private detective Ray Gunn looks defeated while sitting next to his partner, an alien played by Tom Waits.

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Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The guffaw I Iet out when this happened in the trailer. Mike Flanagan is putting Manos in his Exorcist movie.

Manos makes an appearance at a protest in THE EXORCIST: MARTYRS

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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