David Sims

David Sims

@davidlsims.bsky.social

blank check // the atlantic

54,487 Followers 488 Following 994 Posts Joined May 2023
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Universal Will Give Movies Longer Exclusive Runs in Theaters

Universal finally admitting shortening the window was a horrible long term play for them www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/b...

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4 days ago

yes!!!!

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5 days ago

it’s illegal that I ever have to be inside today

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1 week ago
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Did Netflix Ruin Movies? YouTube video by The Atlantic

Given that awards season is coming to an end, it felt like a great excuse to get @davidlsims.bsky.social on the pod. had him walk me through the history of netflix, how it ate hollywood, changed movies, tv, & a lot of our consumption behaviors. as well as what's next www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8gI...

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‘The Bride!’ Is a Failed Experiment Maggie Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to “The Lost Daughter” is an incomprehensible movie mash-up.

In “The Bride!” the director Maggie Gyllenhaal goes for maximalism but ends up with a mess, David Sims writes:

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i assume you mean the video game from 1994

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2 weeks ago

I have my tickets

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eric rohmer movies will be 2 hours long and about a few people having conversations and always star the most beautiful woman you have ever seen in your life

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3 weeks ago

like all emerald fennell movies, WUTHERING HEIGHTS is dumb. but it is the first emerald fennell movie to *know* it's dumb and deploy said dumbness with intention. I rest my defense

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If you haven’t already seen it, please seek out Tom Noonan’s debut feature WHAT HAPPENED WAS… One of the great American independent films of the ’90s directed by one of the very best American character actors ever.

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the olympics are so normal

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the greatest to ever do it

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In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life.

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3 weeks ago

Duvall AND Wiseman?? two guys I figured were never gonna go

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1 month ago

what if I get into Sega Saturn posting in 2026

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1 month ago

I would like to know more

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1 month ago

gonna need more from this train of thought

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1 month ago

abby’s fired

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1 month ago

IS THAT OLIVER FROM THE OC ON THE PITT

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Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime. The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.

I wrote this two years ago and it's still true www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

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lmao wow can’t say that I am

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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025: A Video Countdown to watch previous video countdowns please visit: https://www.videocountdowns.com/ this year's video is once again in support of the Palestine Children's…

crying on the R train watchin this vimeo.com/1156345183

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2 months ago

doing an AMA here in about an hour! www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

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2 months ago

vintage

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2 months ago

yes

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2 months ago

def

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2 months ago

it’s insane how good BONE TEMPLE is

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2 months ago

BABY IF YOU WANNA BE WILD

YOU GOT A LOT TO LEARN

CLOSE YOUR EYES LET THEM MELT LET THEM FIRE LET THEM BURN

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