Lyle Conway sculpting Aughra from The Dark Crystal
RIP Lyle Conway
The sculptor of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors,
Aughra, Skeksis, and Urskeks from The Dark Crystal,
Jack Pumpkinhead, Gump, and Billina and Return to Oz,
The monsters from Where the Wild Things Are and the remake of The Blob
Our Congressmen have the brains and scruples of mice
04.03.2026 23:07 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I know this is a silly complaint but I really wish streaming services would allow you to choose if you want to watch their ugly remasters or just the original shows with their original effects, like I want that 1960s beauty and ingenuity when I’m watching Star Trek TOS, not cheap CG.
03.03.2026 14:56 — 👍 58 🔁 4 💬 9 📌 1www.gofundme.com/f/support-ro...
02.03.2026 22:33 — 👍 1474 🔁 1511 💬 1 📌 10Still passing this around, as Im still struggling to make ends meet, although stability is starting to show and light is starting to appear at the end of the tunnel in no small part due to the friends and strangers help that has buoyed me along to this point. 🙏🏿
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🚨 Calling all aspiring film critics in the Chicagoland area! 🚨
Applications for the Chicago Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Program are now open!
Details and how to apply here: chicagofilmcritics.org/grant
Deadline to apply is March 27th, 2026!
pop art style poster of the Music Box Theatre marquee that reads Chicago Critics Film Festival May 1-7, 2026
We're two months out from the 13th Chicago Critics Film Festival, which will be held May 1-7, 2026 at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social 🍿
Early bird passes go on sale next week 🎟️
Keep your eyes peeled for more updates soon 👀
The Greatest Films of All Time (According to Trans People)!
I polled more than 40 transgender and non-binary filmmakers, film critics, and cinephiles to find out which films trans folks connected to most. Check it out below!
Huge shout out to Mattie for putting this together. Genuinely fascinating to see what ten films ended up topping the list, but I mostly adore the sheer variety of picks in the individual lists.
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"It's an inoffensive, disposable trifle more focused on self/star power than the genre that shares its title,” writes @clintworthing.bsky.social about K-POPS!
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I think it's very sweet that Anderson .Paak made a cute little movie about reconnecting with his son through K-pop. I just wish the resulting product, K-POPS!, felt a little less shaggy and disposable.
For @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/k-po...
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar but it's mr windychu and ms wavechu
yes YES
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Back on my bullshit*
*Moderating Q&As with composers, namely Mina Samy (Happy Birthday) and Aaron Cupples (The Wolves Always Come at Night), about the challenges of composing on a global stage.
Come join us this Saturday, 4-5pm CST, over on IG Live (@clintworthing)! Always love doing these.
honestly if you’re still writing for the new york times, please don’t ever pretend you’re an ally again. too many of y’all are comfortable taking paychecks from people who are actively courting transphobes and directly putting trans lives at risk.
24.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
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Read the 4/4 star review from @clintworthing.bsky.social, who called it "one of the scariest movies of the year.”
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Hate to say it, but all the batshit shine of Hulu's PARADISE is gone in Season 2, replaced with split focuses, wasteful A-lister guest roles, and an ongoing sense that no one knows where this particular train is going.
For @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/streaming/pa...
i would make the argument that much of the best reality television is no less carefully thought out than any given piece of scripted television, sometimes serving as better humanist studies than fiction, and that the capability of the production/editorial teams is what makes many of them sing.
19.02.2026 19:03 — 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 7 📌 1Let's goooo
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with everyone talking about scrubs i just thought "i should write about the bill lawrence's true masterpiece" only to remember i actually did do that two years ago
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"An early contender for the funniest and most charming movie of the year" -- @clintworthing.bsky.social, @ebertvoices.bsky.social
NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE is Now Playing at the Music Box!
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
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I'm so pleased to return to my old stomping grounds at @thespool.bsky.social for an interview with BY DESIGN director Amanda Kramer and co-star Robin Tunney to talk about Hollywood, desire, and finding the humanity in women's (and men's) deeply human anxieties.
thespool.net/interviews/b...
Robert DuVall was unbelievable, especially in his era. He seemed modest in comparison to his contemporaries like Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman, but unlike them you could plug him into most roles like a character actor, and trust him with the heavy stuff too.
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I mean, we gotta get through the cautionary tale of cheating and alcoholism before the sunny ode to polyamory don't we?
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This Valentines Day, we're celebrating with a nice double feature of pre Code movies:
15.02.2026 03:28 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0Happy Valentine’s Day to all you prize pigs and monster mashers out there! ❤️🧟♂️🩷
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