Sean M. Donovan

‘Stress Positions’ and on Queer Millennial Decline If Stress Positions is taking the pulse, mood, and outlook of LGBTQ social worlds today, its prognosis is rather bleak. Stress Positions, the 2024 dramedy co-written, directed by, and starring Thed…

For MTC, Sean Donovan (@theseanmdonovan.bsky.social) revisits Theda Hammel's pandemic indie STRESS POSITIONS and the leftovers of rainbow liberalism.

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Marisa Abela, BLACK BAG
Elizabeth Chisela, ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Olivia Colman, PADDINGTON IN PERU
Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS
Hailee Steinfeld, SINNERS

This would be an absolutely A++ supporting actress awards lineup and it isn't even May yet! Hopefully signs of a good cinema year to come...

When will What Would You Do's John Quiñones guest-judge Drag Race? I wanna see him untuck with the girls

had to be her! Nobody came close, such a great old-fashioned drag entertainer. The kind I'm getting a $5 out for at the bar

At SCMS last weekend I worked in an old Coors Light jingle to my presentation to set the scene in early 2000s toxic bro masculinity (for the film JOY RIDE, it made sense I swear lol). I should have done like Catholic mass cantor arms for everyone to come in together on “and twinnnns!”

Betty Buckley in a revamped Grizabella costume for NY Mag is very much meeting the moment. Imagine this is how you're finding me when you reach out

i'll also accept: Valentina has quit her job and cashing in some employee benefits at another White Lotus location, trying to figure out what's next

Not too early to think about WHITE LOTUS 4, who would you want to return? My pitch: let's get another round of Mark and Quinn Mossbacher specifically, has Quinn followed his dreams of paddling? Is he onto another lost soul, wanderer fixation?

I'm SO SICK of the criticism "nothing happens on WHITE LOTUS," are people's souls dead???? I just gotta stop scanning social media for reactions clearly, save that for professional hours

jason! naughty! :)

This cabbage offers more hope and possibility than the contemporary scene.

My favorite film genres:
1. Cold
2. Wet
3. Mental breakdown in a public restroom
4. Men fight when they should probably kiss
5. Men kiss when they should probably fight

Finally got the go-ahead to post my rejected theme song for Halt And Catch Fire. IT’S THEIR LOSS

you're so right about this one– directors should have been bangin' her door down after this performance, I hope we see a lot more of her!

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest Marko Bošnjak - Poison Cake | Croatia 🇭🇷 | National Final Performance | #Eurovision2025

Clear Eurovision frontrunner for me thus far. Excellence in faggotry, excellence in coining a phrase that shouldn't be a phrase, excellence in dead-behind-the-eyes choreo, excellence in heavy costuming. 10s across the board

one of the more complete realizations of "otter pup" in recent male celebrity

yea my Hulu stopped working around the James Bond sequence! Big fail for them all around

GREAT POINT

Isabella Rossellini in blue velvet at the Oscars with Laura Dern by her side, ahhhhh i wanna cry :'( :'( :'(

Social media has infantilized us. If we don’t see something in our own curated little bubble of a newsfeed we’re posting “WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS? WHY DOESN’T THIS EXIST!?” Like babies who haven’t learned object impermanence yet.

1. The Substance
2. Anora
3. The Brutalist
4. Dune: Part Two
5. A Complete Unknown
6. I'm Still Here
7. Wicked
8. Nickel Boys
9. Conclave
10. Emilia Pérez

that horror movie THE MONKEY being out right now is an ambitious, cross-industry easter egg and clue!!!

"I'm sure living in Austin the food is probably fattier..." "I just HAVE to eat healthy" the writing and acting of the three friends is so venomous and perfect lolol

On a shortlist of my favorite single shots of the cinematic year 2024

White Lotus cast members I need at some point: Joan Cusack. Carolyn Wiger. Jinkx Monsoon. The corpse of Maureen Stapleton. The corpse of Edith Massey. Marisa Tomei. Alfre Woodard. Gong Li. Rosie Perez. Miss Piggy. Gonzo. Ok some of those are more realistic than others but you get it.

omg anna baryshnikov lol!!! congratulations girl, you did it

in Monstro Elisasue we trust!

Have not seen nearly enough Colman at the BAFTAs on my timeline

MTC Oscar Series: THE SUBSTANCE In this installment of MTC Oscar Series, Sean M. Donovan, Thomas Higgins, and Molly Keran offer their thoughts on Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, a body horror film about an aging actress who take…

In this installment of MTC Oscar Series, Sean M. Donovan, Thomas Higgins, and Molly Keran offer their thoughts on Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE
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