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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This week I've programmed HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE celebrating Sam Neill + Amy Heckerling's more-than-just-a-stoner-comedy FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH at 400theater.com Also new releases BUDDY, CAMP MIASMA, TONY and a bunch of great stuff from the team (GOODBYE DRAGON INN, REALM OF SENSES, etc)

Amy Heckerling with cast on FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

New Release TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Chicago: I am hosting a screening of RED ROOMS at the Davis with a virtual Q&A with Pascal Plante afterwards. Incredible film that I’m sure many of us missed in a theater. davistheater.com/movies/red-r...

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Red Rooms

We see you, and you are obscene.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don't think there's a movie quote that plays more often in my head. Thinking about it today because of people signing up for the Harry Potter show but I kind of think it about everything these days.

Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) in Fargo saying "There's more to life than a little money, you know. And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day."

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have no idea why no one's hired Rose Matafeo from STARSTRUCK to write/star in a rom-com. I think about it way too much. Get David Jonsson in there, Rachel Chinouriri on the soundtrack. You'd save the genre.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

not sure which part of the fall movie schedule is throwing me off more: Mason Thames starring in two separate movies called NIMRODS and IDIOTS (formerly titled SHITHEADS) three movies, unrelated, titled RUNNER, THE RUNNER and THE RUN

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Attending a couple dozen screenings here, particularly the few with Ebert in attendance, was a highlight of my time at college. You really felt like you were part of something here.

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A Home Away from Home: Goodbye to the Lake Street Screening Room

A loving ode to a place that shaped Chicago film criticism.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Literally every day someone new disappoints me when I hear them talk about AI and I learn that they just disagree with me on the fundamental meaning of life. It's becoming kind of unbearable. They keep selling me apathy and nihilism with a smile and shrug.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Guess I'll be saving $6 a month because there's no point in paying for a publication that is admitting they'll fall for anything. Why would I trust your taste after this? Really embarrassing stuff, damn.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"For our 250th birthday, Gordon Ramsay will save the American Dream" is FOX distilled into a single sentence

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

David Roth is very good at capturing The Way Things Feel These Days

"The sum of the wreckage this has made is staggering; fixing it will take a long time, or not happen at all. This is just one of those things you have to walk around knowing."

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Rachel Handler @rachelhandler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

on soderbergh’s boomer-facebook-slop john lennon doc, french comedians pranking people with meta ray-bans, an “ai-native” film about about a farting demon, and more www.vulture.com/article/the-...

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The Year Boomer AI Slop Came to Cannes

From Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties, tech overran the prestigious film festival.

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 19/03/2026

I thought I was going home today. That’s being delayed because I found out Fanny and @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social have ringworm. I’ll have to be away from for a few of days. In the meantime, between deep cleaning the apartment, PCR tests, etc we have to fundraise. I hate, hate, hate doing this.

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Donate to Aid Miss Fanny's Medical and Cleaning Costs, organized by Ms. marya e. gates

Hello! We are Marya E. Gates and Robert Daniels, freelance film critics… Ms. marya e. gates needs your support for Aid Miss Fanny's Medical and Cleaning Costs

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@thenumbers.bsky.social Thank you for bringing the site back, and understand that it'll take some time. I just wanted to check if you were bringing back your release date calendar at some point - no one else's comes close!

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

when i was getting a screening series started last year, Matt - who i have never met or spoken to - shared our events and supported us. as someone who owns multiple books of his, this meant so much to me. this news is absurd but it's an easy choice to shop mzs.press for your film/arts books

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MZS Press

The arts bookstore from Matt Zoller Seitz, the film and TV critic (for RogerEbert.com and Vulture/New York Magazine) and the author of NYT bestselling books The Wes Anderson Collection, Mad Men Carous...

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I get my basic news from AP because I don't trust any other place...and now this (on top of some rancid recent headlines) Is there a single place left that will just matter-of-factly say "This thing happened", "this person died", "we're doing this war now"?

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

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Trans Continental Pipeline

Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Great review that manages to both discuss the behind-the-scenes and take the movie for what it is. Disappointed by how many seem to be writing off that first part as "internet chatter". It was a pretty big deal that should probably be addressed, AND one of the main reasons that the film is a mess.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

wish this was getting more attention from the show. moving speech. didn't know the Joachim connection, that's sick. "when you look at that blank page, think of who you love." - powerful sentiment i hadn't heard in quite those terms before. only Oscar thing i care about is this guy getting one.

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Ryan Coogler Wins the Original Screenplay BAFTA for Sinners | EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026

YouTube video by BAFTA

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

i think spending a summer in the house from JANET PLANET would do me a lot of lasting good

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Learning more about my autism diagnosis has led me to the discovery that "neurospicy" is an activation word to make me go insane

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

On a similar note, I've been thinking that Stephen Miller really gives "Persona villain cackling through a monologue about human weakness before they transform into a Freudian cosmic horror beast"

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This could slot onto Fountains of Wayne's WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS easily, one of the highest compliments I can pay a song

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A Song That Sings About You

YouTube video by This Is Lorelei - Topic

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

She was a contender for the funniest person ever and also this makes me cry every time I watch it. She was a true genius, still doing incredible work. Gutted.

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Mitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow

YouTube video by mayhew7

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I just moved back to Chicago last fall so I can't take an ounce of credit, but I did luck into having one of the only good representatives in the government right now 🙏

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Fiennes & O'Connell are great but Chi Lewis-Parry is doing something extraordinary in THE BONE TEMPLE. After that train sequence I want him in both a delicate weepy drama AND a fisticuffs brawler with Scott Adkins

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

i've wanted to see this play for ages (ever since reading STATION ELEVEN), new most anticipated film easily

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Attention, shoppers! We’re having a Black Friday sale at The Reveal. 20% for first-time subscribers. There is much behind that paywall, plus access to comments and our excellent Discord server: thereveal.film/the-reveals-...

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The Reveal's Black Friday Sale Starts... NOW!

This is the sale you've been waiting for! But it won't last forever.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Whitney built herself a character arc on MORMON WIVES this season that rivals Tony Soprano: doesn't appear for five episodes, blatantly says she's just back to get DWTS, gets DWTS, becomes leader of the group by the finale. amazing stuff.

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Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local

A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

seeing Wednesday bust out a cover of Big Star's "September Gurls" was the most i've smiled in ages. felt like a gift. incredible show.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

"It evokes the off-kilter oddities of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but also the sensation of restlessness that I associate with scrolling through the Netflix queue—the vague feeling that there must be something I want to do here, but unsure if it is any of this." great stuff. bleak!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Musk and others on the far right are obsessed with things like Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons because they see fantasy worlds as reinforcing their own beliefs about immutable hierarchies of race, gender, and by extension morality www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The science backing up the idea that race can make someone a good or bad scientist or airline pilot is as solid as the logic behind “orcs can’t be wizards” or “a hobbit can never become a great fighter.” This vision of racial rigidity, in which people can be sorted into categories that quantify their potential, has nothing to do with genetics; it is a political creation, a descendant of the same racist pseudoscience that was prominent in Tolkien’s time. In this sense, what we call “scientific racism” could be called “fantasy racism” instead, a belief that people can be reduced to quantifiable numbers, like so many digits on a character sheet.

The races might be fantasy, but the effects of racism are real. After Musk’s DOGE gutted USAID, he insisted that “no one has died.” That wasn’t true. People had already died, and hundreds of thousands more will follow every year because America cut its food and medical aid to the world’s poorest. Anyone could have predicted this catastrophic human cost; Musk must not have cared. Perhaps he saw the dead of the global South as so many nameless orcs.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

“Much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you” it’s a balm to the brain to see this entire way of thinking, which has somehow taken over this stupid country, so thoroughly and entertainingly dismantled

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

i can't stop thinking about "is there a place that makes a sound you love?"

Chillin by the Fire on Nintendo Switch. A suggested topic of conversation is the beguiling question "is there a place that makes a sound you love?". It could've been like "favorite pizza toppings" or "movies you like".

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

didn't realize the thesis Nicholas Hoult has been putting together on modern toxic masculinity, especially the pathetic insecurities underlying the bravado

Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor in Superman

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns. To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything. www.advocate.com/news/pete-bu...

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Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports

He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

the film series on hurricane katrina i co-curated for MoMA film begins one month from today 🤯 the full program notes are now live: www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

okay this is literally me right now

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

this is my incredibly good girl Norma - a terrier mix rescue we adopted in December. she is perfect even when she is tearing up rolls of toilet paper. she gets scared and feisty and she loves so much. so yes i cried a lot at the SUPERMAN movie

Norma, a white & brown terrier mix, lounging on the couch

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

damn i thought we'd be at "FABLEMANS is a universally accepted masterpiece" by now, i'll circle back in a few years

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/07/2025

really nothing better than being able to entertain friends with food and drink

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

accidentally made myself a nice 2025 double feature about the unwieldy, jagged horror of grief: 28 YEARS LATER + THE WOMAN IN THE YARD. the first, a masterpiece. the second i found to be better, and more honest, than i had expected from others' opinions.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

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Josh Oakley @wineandpop.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

looks like shit and a true embarrassment from him and so many others i admired. nobody needed this money. they all simply don't care. not canceling anyone it's just really fucking disappointing.

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