Jackson Weaver

the irony of cutting so many critic roles? sure, every publication might have a review of a new show, but at least they are *different*. you can't say the same about silly celebrity news items that no one will ever return to.

It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.

I repeat:

It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.

Rental Family blew my socks off. It’s confusing and beautiful and odd and perfect. Brendan Fraser stop making me cry.

The Little Festival That Could: Celebrating 50 Years of TIFF As the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary in September, it seems...

TIFF at 50: From wild celebrity moments to films that put Toronto on the map, Brian D. Johnson looks back at milestones in @tiffnet.bsky.social history for Zoomer #TIFF50 everythingzoomer.com/arts-enterta...

Unintelligible chicken scratch

Do you have any idea what I was writing about Snow White here, because I don’t.

Everyone plug your ears at the part where I sing Sodapop

Why do "personal" and "culturally specific" animated movies often fail? Because executives are terrified of them and often micromanage them into bland irrelevance that's neither personal or mass-appeal.

In this case, they accidentally let a voice through and got so scared they threw away billions.

I wonder if we’ll ever hear good news again

We can either have informed film critics who are beholden to no one or we can have influencers whose livelihoods depend on staying in the good graces of studios’ marketing departments. The moment to choose was yesterday, but we can still hold onto some small patch of grass.

If you care about film writing -- or you know ANY AND ALL OF HUMANITY -- please skip those summaries and go to actual websites

now that i’ve seen both Eddington and Weapons i feel we are absolutely moving toward a theory of shitpost cinema. the people yearn for gas leak narrative

covered The Siege as a potential five-star three-star movie, but discovered it's actually too good for that distinction (though still imperfect)

great video essay about it here:

Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000

Animated image of a smiling demon child

If I had to imagine what the highest-earning animated film of all time might look like, I’d probably imagine Ne Zha 2. From the incredible fight scenes, to insane animation, to so many nested narratives they lead to this unending series of thematic climaxes, it lives up to the hype. And then some.

Very curious as to when pink cardigan and jay guapo’s tongues-out nose war with the fake-monk-bracelet-seller will hit the mainstream news cycle

Ive been super into Lee Edelman’s No Future/the dangerous trend of interpreting the featureless “child” as a deindividualized embodiment of a future we value over the present. Weapons gestured at a comment on that, but then it’s thrown out for the spectacle. But the spectacle is SO GOOD I didnt mind

Lenore Skenazy is one of the most interesting people alive imo

My Weapons review: HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH??!!??!! ahahhahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhahHahhHahHhdhfownydiwbeheidndb 10/10 gold star

Lurker is insane, and also basically two separate movies in one. It’s equal parts Saltburn and Blink Twice — but also Mid90s and Fear. Mix Almost Famous with Killing of a Sacred Dear and you get somewhere close and given how nonsensical that combo is it’s really freaking me out how good it turns out

Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Despite how bad it was, I don’t think anyone truly hates Megalopolis — or agrees with how insultingly, stupidly, disgustingly terrible it was — as much as me

Superman has a problem — and it's not the film's commentary on immigration | CBC News James Gunn's new Superman movie hits theatres this week. While fun, it is also something of a mess.

I didn’t like Superman (the movie). But I also don’t like Superman (the character). So your mileage may vary, but a return to campy silliness is actually a bad thing to me — though the only way Superman (the character) “works”

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I say this as someone who loved Elio: the most important and pressing issue in world events right now is that someone at Pixar absolutely, direly needs to leak the Molina cut

At least current case (Elio) I think a large reason is people avoiding shame from “audiences failed original movies” by blaming irrelevant art styles instead. But I think there is a strong, strong case to be made that “should’ve been me” is exactly why John K came up with the term in the first place

What's the 'bean mouth' problem some critics say caused Pixar's Elio to flop? | CBC News Pixar's newest film Elio earned the studio its worst opening weekend box-office result of all time. Some critics blame the movie's 'bean mouth' look for the failure, but is that really the reason it d...

I am once again asking you to please go watch Elio

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Yes I’m basic

Headline reading: How To Train Your Dragon Box Office Hits Huge Milestone In Week 2, Climbs Even Higher Up 2025 Top 10

Headline reading: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Box Office Mayhem: All the Records Broken as Pic Zooms Past $400M Globally

Headline reading: With ‘Elio,’ Pixar Has Its Worst Box Office Opening Ever

Comic panel reading: I am tired of earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

We are getting low effort, lowest-common-denominator corporate sludge forever as animation and original storytelling will die. People make me legitimately so sad

Elio gang rise up

Pixar's alien-obsessed Elio is beautiful, brilliant and doomed | CBC News This space-exploration flick that highlights Pixar's fluidly beautiful animation style is anything but conventional — it's a joyous, tragic, miracle of creativity. What's sad is how unlikely it is to ...

I say this with zero exaggeration: I would die for #Elio

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I love this movie so hard