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Aaron Hammond

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Pop culture obsessive, stuck in retail. I talk about movies and music and sports sometimes He/him

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · Dec 31

Alright, let’s do this:

The Top 60 New-To-Me Films for 2024.

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1h

Carter Burwell is out of control with this one

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Put on the Coens’ TRUE GRIT; it’s been quite a while but holy cow is this a masterpiece

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah this game is why teams have to spend the fucking money

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2h

Next two movies in the Severin box are both Juraj Herz films, oh hell yeah

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 5h

Reading books about American history can both infuriate you with all the horrible things this country has done and give you a sense of optimism because just about everything that is happening now has happened here before, so we have a road map for surviving it.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 7h

I swear to god I’m not turning into Andy Rooney

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t understand *watching* podcasts to begin with. It’s audio! Why do you need to *look at* the hosts while they’re talking?

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 8h

Podcasts on Netflix is a deeply fucking stupid idea

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 8h

A trend that drives me nuts in current sports media is pundits criticizing NFL teams for only having victories against bad teams. You can only play the teams on your schedule! They have no control over who they play! It’s a rotation!

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 9h

Remember when this was supposed to be Sandra Bullock? Talk about an upgrade with R-Mac (who looks to be doing a Bruce Campbell-type thing which is very exciting)

Film Junk @filmjunk.bsky.social · 9h

Sam Raimi’s Send Help Trailer youtu.be/R4wiXj9NmEE

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GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

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DO NOT PUT TREINEN IN ROBERTS

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1d

Dan Orlovsky shut the fuck up

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SUZZANNE-THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC: A very compelling doc about Indonesia’s most beloved horror star, that dovetails very neatly with depicting how genre fare can lay bare the political soul of a nation better than more reputable lanes of cinema.

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Um….no

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Please tell me how reading “One Time I Fucked a Warlock” is advancing the cause of female authors more than reading Marilynne Robinson or Toni Morrison or any other book that requires you to actually think while reading it

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1d

Also: BookTok is a fucking scourge that is convincing a generation of young people that reading what is essentially AI-assisted porn is somehow more “progressive” than reading fiction that came out before they were born and all of it is “problematic,” it drives me INSANE

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EYES OF FIRE, CLEAR CUT, WITCHHAMMER and CELIA

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SUNDELBOLONG: A rape-revenge ghost story that doesn’t forget that internalized misogyny also afflicts women in patriarchal societies and Suzzana is an incredibly captivating presence but the film’s chintzy aesthetics blunts some of the impact, so does making the husband an important character

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Brandon Sanderson has done just an incalculable amount of damage to the fantasy genre, and bilks his audience with slop just as much as Taylor Swift does

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

Really annoying when announcers call QB’s by their first names.

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

I was in college when this came out; I’ve never seen the whole movie but I watched the trailer about 100 times because Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Banks and Rachel Weisz were probably my 3 biggest crushes at the time

Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.social · 2d

Isla Fisher - 📽️ Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks, 2008)

Every studio romcom with a stacked ensemble is bound to have at least one knockout performance bringing their A-game. Armed with Hollywood’s best fake American accent, Fisher charms every second as the lovable and darkly funny April.

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Isla Fisher as April Hoffman and Ryan Reynolds as Will Hayes lock eyes in her apartment in the film Definitely, Maybe.

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

Joseph Gordon-Levitt making an AI movie is the least surprising thing in the world, that guy’s brain has been broken for a decade now

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

13-11 has to be a scorigami, right?

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been wearing Carhartt clothes my whole life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They keep you insanely warm and they last forever!