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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger

@avishaiw.bsky.social

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- Feature Screenwriter (PRECIPICE, DRIFT OFF, TOUR OF DEVASTATION, CHARADES, OLIVIA’S WAR etc) - Director (short films THIRD DATE, BLANK) - Podcast Co-Host (NOSFERATUESDAYS) Orthodox Jew ✡️. He/him. Anti-eliminationist. 🚫🧊. INSTA: @avishaioddity

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · Sep 11

In other news:

BLANK is on Youtube once again!

After a string of festivals and a months-long stint on Omeleto, my award-winning short is now live on my own channel.

Starring Tova Weinberger, Nayib Felix, and Quentin Thomson.

Check it out. #filmsky #scriptsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5_...

BLANK - Drama Thriller Short Film

YouTube video by Avishai Weinberger

www.youtube.com

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 2d

ברוכה את הויה מתירה אסורים

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 1d

I could qualify this joy with all the very real reasons to continue being upset but just for today I’m not going to do that

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 1d

To say I’ve been praying for this is not figurative

Every Shabbos and Yom Tov over the past two years my family would sing Acheinu, a thousand-year-old prayer for the return of Jewish hostages

We won’t need to sing it tonight

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 1d

Actual tears. Baruch Hashem, and Shehechiyanu

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

Raphael Bob-Waksberg managed to follow up Bojack Horseman with a show that’s somehow just as good

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

Know what’s really really good?

Long Story Short

a cartoon of a man with a green shirt that says " this is me being responsible "

Alt: a cartoon of a man with a green shirt that says " this is me being responsible "

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Lee was in both movies I saw today. Good for her

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

God, i wish that were me

Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 3d

Spontaneous Carcinometamorphosis, commonly known as Mancini's disease after the famed boxer-turned-crustacean Bruno Mancini, is a disease that will slowly turn skeleton to exoskeleton, hands to claws, lungs to gills, until a human being finds itself where all the roads of evolution lead: crab.

A textbook anatomical drawing of a human with a large crab claw for an arm. Some of the organs inside appear to be that of a crab's.

A black-and-white photo of a patient in a hospital, being held by two nurses. The man's arms are now crab claws, and his skin is turning into an exoskeleton. His eyes are now at the end of stalks.

A textbook showing three black-and-white pictures of a person's arm turning into a crab claw. The three stages read "Presymptomatic patient", with a regular man's arm, "Exoskeletalization", where the arms turns hard and segmented and the fingers start fusing, and "late stage transformation", where the arm is fully crab-like.

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

(Not that I’d uncritically posit a conspiracy theory like that!)

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

All I’m hearing is “I’m terminally ill like the world has never seen before, that’s what they’re all saying”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

They either just got out of A House Of Dynamite or ought to see it

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

What a book.

Also that same interlude taught me the invaluable term “pizza bones”

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

Just saw A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, Kathryn Bigelow’s film about how a single errant nuke could potentially spark global Armageddon in 20 minutes

Tense stuff. I’m not without notes. But some recurring criticisms I’m now seeing online are, IMO, Galaxy-Brained, blinking-guy-emoji ridiculous

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

Saw the current big-budget franchise IP movie

Thinking big thoughts on Plot vs Story, and how frequently these things pay lip service to the latter while focusing almost entirely on the former, and how that just doesn't work

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

Just got vaccinated for flu and Covid! Recommend you do too!

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

BLANK premiered at Nightmares Film Festival in 2022

I’m attending the fest again this week

Check out BLANK here:

youtu.be/gk5_2Cap_Og?...

BLANK | Award-Winning Short Psychological Horror Film

YouTube video by Avishai Weinberger

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Godzilla vs Context @godzillavscontext.bsky.social · 18d

Josh Brolin in the Criterion closet, holding a standard definition DVD of Godzilla vs Megaguirus (2000).
The caption reads, “It’s movies like this that made me want to be involved in the movie industry.”

Please ignore that Josh Brolin was in movies long before the year 2000, that’s a simple continuity error

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Godzilla vs Context @godzillavscontext.bsky.social · Mar 19

Godzilla 2000 (1999)

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a beautiful day to shake a lemon at God

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 3d

Yessss easily

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly how I saw it.

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 4d

It does make me wonder if it started as an existing CGI asset

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 4d

The T-Rex in Primitive War, design-wise, is basically a slightly attenuated Stan Winston JP T-Rex, right?

It’s interesting. You can’t copyright an animal. But when it’s extinct and any visual interpretation is definitionally a creative one, a specific design can sort of stake its own territory

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 4d

The few people who do show up to watch feel like tableaus of Great Depression Dust Bowl America and I don’t think that’s by accident

Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no, I love it

Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 4d

Mattel meets H.R. Giger with a stunning new Monster High doll that reimagines the Xenomorph from ALIEN as a terrifyingly chic fashion icon:

Mattel Meets H.R. Giger With Stunning New ‘Alien’ Doll from the Monster High Collection!

Mattel’s “Skullector” wave of their Monster High line has proven to be a treasure trove of incredible dolls based on horror properties, with movies including The Lost Boys, Bride of Chucky, Jordan Pee...

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