Sean O’Connell

Obsessed enough with the @reelblend.bsky.social pod to make LEGO sigfigs (signature Minifigures) of the crew. Going to miss the weekly pod. Wishing @seanoconnell.bsky.social good luck with his new position at CBR.
Final episode tomorrow 2/28/2025.
Did you know they started as an awards podcast? 😉😉😉

I took a new job! Deputy Editor - Comics and Superheroes at CBR!

In celebration of the 85th anniversary of Lex Luthor here’s an exclusive photo of Nicholas Hoult as Lex in our upcoming movie, #Superman.

Photo by Stef Ceretti.

I’m so sorry man. It was a tough decision, but it was time for a change! We have loved hearing from the passionate community. It has made my entire year!!

One week from today, I start a new adventure. I can't tell you what it is yet. But these pictures give you a clue of the journey that awaits. If you are a huge fan of comics, superheroes, and films and TV based on Comics and Superheroes, smash that follow button.

Talking 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' With Showrunner Jeff Trammell On this week’s show, Sean is joined by Jeff Trammell, the Showrunner and Head Writer of the new Disney+ animated series “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Ma...

WATCH: Member Sean O'Connell (@seanoconnell.bsky.social) talks with #yourfriendlyneighborhoodspiderman showrunner Jeff Trammell for ReelBlend (@reelblend.bsky.social):

I’ll have my “What’s Next” news later. For now, I just want to say Thank You to my CinemaBlend family. I love you guys. I’ll never forget any of it.

You could pick any one of the moments featured in these photo collages, and I’d have the best story to tell. All of them combined leads to a delirious run through a career I still can’t believe existed.

Without exaggeration, CinemaBlend allowed me to live my dream. I covered every aspect of the film industry. Movie screenings, press junkets, high profile conventions, set visits… I said yes to everything I could, and they sent me places I never thought possible.

Time for some news

After 15 years at CinemaBlend, it’s time for a change. It has been an absolute honor to help lead that site. From top to bottom, it’s one of the most talented, passionate, creative, hilarious and resourceful teams in the business. Working with them made me better every day.

With that thunderous alley-oop dunk, Otega Oweh hits 10 points for the night.

He's now scored in double figures in all 24 games for UK this season, and in 25 straight games dating back to his time at Oklahoma.

AMAZING!!!!

Half the job of breaking into writing is figuring out how to break into writing. Just writing isn't enough. There is no one way in. There are hundreds. And figuring out which way will work best for you and your work is the trick of it. Every one of us has a very different story about how we did it.

We know, dude. We are watching.

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I’m starting to allow myself to believe that Thunderbolts will be Guardians-level fun.

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book.

“Where the fuck is this guy going?”

So I really dug Paradise! AKA higher-concept This Is Us, Sterling K. Brown's 24, a rapid-paced Lost www.polygon.com/sci-fi/51495...

The Best 'Best Picture' Winner Of The Century (So Far) With the Academy revealing this year’s Oscar nominees, we decided to look back at the Best Picture Winners from the past 25 years and debate which is the bes...

WATCH: Member Sean O'Connell (@seanoconnell.bsky.social) and the Reel Blend team (@reelblend.bsky.social) discuss the best #bestpicture winner of the century:

I was today years old when I realized Ralph Macchio’s underappreciated 1986 movie Crossroads was directed by the legend, Walter Hill. That explains so much.

Anyway, the SINNERS trailer drops soon. And I hope Crossroads is streaming, somewhere.

in other news, given the flood pouring down upon us, I stuck with my hopeful intention of not checking the news or bluesky until after work, which means I wrote about 2000 words today, an entire chapter, on my current WIP. I consider this part of the resistance.

That’s AWESOME!!

If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live

So ready for this!!

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by cynicism, sarcasm, and an obscene amount of pop-culture minutiae.

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by iced coffee, whiskey, and good vibes.

It was my number one movie of 2024. Intelligent, ruthless, insightful, candid, gross, bold, unapologetic, and hilarious. Everyone needs to see THE SUBSTANCE #filmsky

Thrilled to see cameras roll at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden on Supergirl, with Craig Gillespie at the helm and the phenomenal Milly Alcock as our Kara Zor-El.

Spider-Man perched on a building

Art by Emmanuel Gervasoni (2025). From www.instagram.com/egdibujitos #Spider-Man

Got any of them press copies, for coverage on CinemaBlend?

We are exactly two weeks away from the publication! Time to start getting ready for the big day..