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These would’ve been appointment television on HBO/FX with a weekly release. Word of mouth would have carried them in a way that benefitted SHOGUN or CHERNOBYL. Well… at least there’s Criterion picking up the slack.

There’s no greater examples of the double edged sword of the streaming boom than THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and SMALL AXE. Towering achievements of black cinema/TV that may not have existed were it not for the boom but utterly buried and dumped by Amazon with little fanfare or promo. #filmsky

When I worked on #TheOffice, my best friend on the show was also an aspiring writer. He was talented, well-liked, worked hard, but his writing career didn’t pan out.

Years later, his biggest regret was “not being more ENTITLED.” I knew just what he meant.

A 🧵 on good/bad entitlement.
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David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Screencap of my two 5 star letterboxd logs of Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON.

Movie of the year. #filmsky

YouTube video by Shudder Joe Bob Briggs says "Keep Rolling" | Clip from The Last Drive-In - A Shudder Original Series

Once you finish it, this Joe Bob monologue is a necessary watch.

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It’s locked in a heated battle with MICKEY 17 as my favorite of the year. Apparently, I love auteur cinema that a ton of people find annoying.

Almost went to go see this but realized that it’s playing on the theater’s tiniest screen and all the good seats were taken.

So I’m probably going to see EDDINGTON again.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Who is this for? I can’t wrap my head around that. Are tech bros just aching to see Judy Garland in an AI rendered Oz? Is that a real demographic???

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I know this site won’t exist in a few decades but I’m just gonna go ahead and call it that James Gunn will AT LEAST be viewed as the Budd Boetticher of super hero films, if not the John Ford or Howard Hawkes. He’s just so much better at it and elevates the material WHILE indulging in it. #filmsky

Called the croc in this film “O’Dile” the whole time. Just for anyone wondering.

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A question just posed by my #TheLastDriveIn friends: “ya know how your shorten alligator to gator? Is there a word you shorten croc to?”

I’m crying.
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They said it was impossible to rip off the score for JAWS and somehow predict the score for FRIDAY THE 13th at the same time but CROCODILE said nay!

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“Crocodile!” *unveils Alligator skull*

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Blind bought this on DVD at a dollar store and it remains one of the best dollars I’ve ever spent.

Ving Rhames had gun legs. Underrated.

“It’s the only monster movie where the monster is polluted to death!”- @therealjoebob123.bsky.social

Well, sir, in this essay I will argue that Jason qualifies as a movie monster and when he “takes Manhattan…”

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Just gonna toss this out there: you combine the latest FD film with THE MONKEY and you got yourself the best FD film.

Dick Miller in Piranha wearing clothes that Joe Bob would wear

Fun fact: Dick Miller and @therealjoebob123.bsky.social have the same stylist.

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PiranHa??? Sir, please just say Piran.

This is no laughing matter.

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Dick Miller in Piranha

Tired: I’m watching a Roger Corman movie.
Wired: I’m checking out a Dante joint.
Inspired: I’m looking at a Dick pic.

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When you cut from high beams to headlights.

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Fun fact: the term Method acting was actually created in order to explain what Clifford Smith Jr. was doing when he wasn’t rapping with Wu Tang Clan.

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You can’t compare the fierceness of biologically engineered piranha to normal sharks. Compare them to the biologically engineered makos from DEEP BLUE SEA. In which case, my hat is like a sharks fin all day, baby!
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Fun fact: McCarthyism is a film term for when actor Kevin McCarthy appears and fails to communicate the horrors of the film because he is in a state of extreme duress. See also: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.

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It sounds like an insult to say PIRANHA is the 2nd best JAWS rip-off written by John Sayles but it’s actually a testament to how great it and ALLIGATOR are.

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Just like Spielberg, Joe Dante refuses to show the shark in the opening attack.

Because there is no shark in this film and they’d have to change the title of the film.

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