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Joshua Rivera

@jmrivera.bsky.social

writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and

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And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."

Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

28.02.2026 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2822    πŸ” 831    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 20

I have been curious about this for almost ten years now, and that’s on me β€” I’m just impressed at how good at not talking about this one thing openly people have been for all ten of those years

28.02.2026 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

really hate this shit

28.02.2026 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Max Landis, Whose Career Imploded During #MeToo, Returns with β€˜G.I. Joe’ Movie at Paramount (Exclusive) At the same time, Danny McBride will also be writing a separate 'G.I. Joe' script.

imagine coming out of your little hole for the toy movie. Imagine being the guy who decided they need the alleged creep to make my toy movie. pathetic stuff all around really

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

27.02.2026 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s some of that yeah! But it’s become just a thing people want because of performance issues and what not. Which they can fix without a remake!

27.02.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah unfortunately distribution is a whole other weird process

27.02.2026 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

honestly a little embarrassing so many people want a remake of a game they can just play right now and works just fine

27.02.2026 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

it was very funny to do a podcast talking about resident evil and immediately do another talking about talking about resident evil

27.02.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Somebody should turn on the lights, literally and figuratively. Williamson, as many know, came onboard after two sets of directors departed the project. Along the way, Scream 7 became a source of controversy when Melissa Barrera, who had starred in the two previous entries, was fired over social-media posts critical of Israel in the wake of its invasion of Gaza. Soon thereafter, her co-star Jenna Ortega also left, and some organizations are now boycotting the release. But through it all, one thing remained clear: Scream 7, for whatever reason, had to be made. Think about this for a second. It didn’t matter if the directors bailed, if the stars were fired, if the script had to be completely redone and new actors and plotlines brought on. The film had to happen. Not because someone had a story to tell, or characters to develop, or ideas to explore, or a new twist to throw out there. No, there was simply a franchise to maintain and a title with a number that needed a movie with a release date. The first Scream skewered Hollywood cynicism. The latest embodies it.

Somebody should turn on the lights, literally and figuratively. Williamson, as many know, came onboard after two sets of directors departed the project. Along the way, Scream 7 became a source of controversy when Melissa Barrera, who had starred in the two previous entries, was fired over social-media posts critical of Israel in the wake of its invasion of Gaza. Soon thereafter, her co-star Jenna Ortega also left, and some organizations are now boycotting the release. But through it all, one thing remained clear: Scream 7, for whatever reason, had to be made. Think about this for a second. It didn’t matter if the directors bailed, if the stars were fired, if the script had to be completely redone and new actors and plotlines brought on. The film had to happen. Not because someone had a story to tell, or characters to develop, or ideas to explore, or a new twist to throw out there. No, there was simply a franchise to maintain and a title with a number that needed a movie with a release date. The first Scream skewered Hollywood cynicism. The latest embodies it.

I love it when @bilgeebiri.bsky.social goes for the jugular.

www.vulture.com/article/scre...

27.02.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

this was a cool pod to do, rare to have the space to really get down to it and hash out how to talk about a work, shoutout to aftermath and mario prime

27.02.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Curt…let’s ride

27.02.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This trip will save their marriage

27.02.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4388    πŸ” 1347    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 86

yesterday Conde's biggest cover story of 2025 (I think it's safe to say) got nominated for an ASME: a cover story about a trans woman, produced by a team that i helped guide as a trans person. and in the 11 months since it came out, they got rid of almost all of us

27.02.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 370    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Lot of fun to drop into the ringer-verse once more and talk about a fun video game, and being scared of the fun video game

27.02.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

in which we finish our look at Gene Colan’s late career star turn on everyone’s favorite interstellar big game hunter, finishing with a glance at the state of the franchise in 2026

27.02.2026 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also these folks weren’t all nice to me! You don’t counter ignorance with being nice! You do it with the truth, however that looks

27.02.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also Richard’s write up is hilarious

27.02.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the way this whole season came down to swaying Maura was a real β€œbran stark was the endgame all along” type beat

27.02.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My point isn’t β€œhave nice chats with people”, it’s that thinking that people will immediately succumb to whatever they’re told is self-defeating. it wasn’t that I talked to people and found them charming or interesting, it’s that they demonstrated a gulf between what I was told and what others lived

27.02.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

nothing has impacted and changed my politics more than conversations with real people. Meeting and becoming friends with folks from other marginalized backgrounds. letting my interest in the humanity of others guide me. I grew up on talk radio man! this stuff isn’t mind control.

27.02.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

the way people post about media here exhibits a pretty shocking condescension to your fellow humans imo. effectively no different from how conservatives assert that liberal Hollywood makes you gay. you can be realistic about right wing media capture without doing the sheeple schtick I promise

27.02.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a really good cosplay shoot! No insult to cosplay!

27.02.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

for all their self-seriousness, these games are basically about comic book superheroes and if you do not remember that adapting them β€œfaithfully” will embarrass you.

27.02.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

marathon GOOD we are so back

27.02.2026 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

26.02.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12850    πŸ” 4763    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 109

Traitors finale good!

27.02.2026 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alan Cumming on the traitors is slowly cosplaying his way through every character from the wicked + the divine

27.02.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I did two podcasts today that was so much podcasting how do you people do this

27.02.2026 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

wild that there are two comics called ultimate spider-man 20-odd years apart and the first was the perfect book for teen me and this one is laser targeted at 30s me, fucking rude honestly

27.02.2026 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ultimate spider-man perfect comic book. Jonathan Hickman 4ever

27.02.2026 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0