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Actor Matt O'Leary, wearing glasses, in the center. He's now retired for some reason. He's also very good in Megan Griffiths' Eden.

I took a picture of Matt O'Leary at a screening. Neat guy.

Good movie!

Review by avokaho ★★★★ This review may contain spoilers. Bakery’s closed but the priest’s got baguette enough to feed the village 2,259 likes

The only Misericordia review you need.

Split screen from Alex Ross Perry's Pavements documentary. He enjoys referring to them as "The World's Most Important & Influential Band Pavement." It appears several times.

Going in. A band for which I once sold t-shirts.

Congratulations, @prophetkotto.bsky.social!!!

WTO/99 continues at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social through Dec 14.

It is genuinely wild how this has blown up in QT's face. Just a wild miscalculation for one of the most powerful directors in the business to go on an asshole's podcast and punch down so gleefully against good actors that everyone likes

Huge pet peeve of mine.

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.

Just unspeakable assholery.

Reminder that this movie rocks and could be your new Christmas classic!

Colorful lace and knit striped jumper with a large tabby cat applique.

Just sharing this Gucci markdown at Poshmark.

(Still too rich for my blood at a third of the price.)

Good fog

The Chronology of Water movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert Stewart’s approach reflects not only her passion for the often complex material but her understanding of it.

“Kristen Stewart gets it, every bit of it, the quality of Yuknavitch’s experimental confrontational prose, as well as the continuum Yuknavitch is in as a writer, the counter-cultural ground from which she sprung,” writes @sheilakathleen.bsky.social in her 4/4 star review of THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER.

the idea of companies "employing" an "AI actor" or "AI singer" is so baldly hokey and false when the whole concept is anti-labor and anti-human and fundamentally not about using anyone or anything with a fixed identity and consistent face/voice. they're just playing in our faces.

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

SIFF 2023 Dispatch #5: A Made-for-TV <i>Stars Wars</i> Disaster and a D.I.Y. Success in <i>A Disturbance in the Force</i> and <i>Dreamin' Wild</i> In this dispatch, I'll be looking at A Disturbance in the Force and Dreamin' Wild . Click here for dispatch #1 ( Other People's Children )...

Reminder: there's a whole documentary about the Star Wars Holiday Special. It's only .99 via Fandango at Home.

As we follow the trajectory of the student at OU who wrote an essay citing zero sources and making no argument, got the instructor fired by claiming her 1A rights were violated, went on a tour of rw media and now seems poised to become a part of the TPUSA speaker circuit: (1/4)

Around the world in melodrama: 9 countries, 45 essential films From Hollywood tearjerkers to Chinese tales of passion and loss, melodrama has shaped cinema across cultures. Our trip around the globe explores how filmmakers worldwide have embraced heightened emoti...

Those are some of my favorites, like The Life of Oharu, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, and Twenty-Four Eyes, which I've written about. This is a great guide to non-American, Sirk-inspired and/or adjacent melodrama--a lot I haven't seen.

Douglas Sirk: In Praise of Melodrama Another piece I wrote for Reel News, SIFF's now-defunct publication for members, in 2002 (it was never online, because that was a different ...

Seemed as good a time as any time to revive a 2002 @siffnews.bsky.social piece I wrote about Douglas Sirk, melodrama (as something other than a pejorative), and the critics, filmmakers, and critic/filmmakers who saw the value in his work and took inspiration from it. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Beautiful shot (DP Claire Mathon) from Alain Guiraudie's Misericordia.

Catching up with a John Waters fave on @criterionchannl.bsky.social.

NO OTHER CHOICE (2025, Park): Nothing quite like fighting tooth & nail to get back into the machine that chewed you up and spat you out. While not as dazzling as Decision To Leave, this still ends on a note as equally haunting, all buoyed by a terrifically harried Lee Byung-hun.

There need to be trials and sentences for the monsters who are doing this

An absolute favorite for most every reason.

This is a cruel act of bigotry against an amazing woman who served her country with distinction.

Couldn't visit the Miracle Mile without taking a picture of this location from Miracle Mile.

Yes! Seattle always makes room for some horror.

Heck yeah, WTO/99! Now playing @nwfilmforum.bsky.social.

Some amazing performances here. I'm glad Ethan Hawke made it, because I don't think that was a given (on the small screen he's terrific in The Lowdown, too, even if it wasn't as much of a stretch). Sad that Wagner Moura missed out, but them's the breaks, though Michael B. Jordan got a two-for-one!

should we all meet up for a beer after to celebrate EEPHUS getting into the best ensemble cast category? yeah, I didn't think so. but still! what a picture!