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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 1h

from me -- a profile of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker whose work has perfectly met our age of surveillance and interrogation and asks the imperative question of: Who are we, and what comes next? IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT = masterpiece, imo.

Vulture @vulture.com · 5h

Since his 2010 imprisonment, the director has been in an endless game of chicken with the Iranian regime. In his defiant new film, ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

Jafar Panahi’s Cinematic Rebellions

Since his 2010 imprisonment, the director has been in an endless game of chicken with the Iranian regime. In his defiant new film, ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

www.vulture.com

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks to everyone who reached out - luckily, she improved by the time we got there, so while she's not in great shape and might be moving to palliative care, she's still with us.

Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 1d

Please send good wishes to me today, everybody -- just got The Call about my last remaining grandparent. Trying to move mountains to get up to Michigan to see her while I still can.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 17h

Makes me cry Ev. Ery. Time.

youtu.be/mcdnHFQj-mc?...

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 1d

Please send good wishes to me today, everybody -- just got The Call about my last remaining grandparent. Trying to move mountains to get up to Michigan to see her while I still can.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 2d

How I write every piece

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 2d

S/o to the time my roommates and I recovered an old subway billboard for Morning Glory, cut out the headshots, and kept Diane Keaton in our freezer for years.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus. Diane Keaton. RIP to a legend who managed to carve out a lifelong career in an industry that frequently robs women like her of dignity and status once they hit 40.

Diane just threw on a turtleneck and said "fuck you, I'm still going."

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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 2d

Walked out of a movie to news of Diane Keaton passing away and I don’t even know what to say. One of the most important actresses to me personally, someone whose career and style has influenced my own deeply. We were so lucky to have her.

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 3d

it’s nicholas van orton’s birthday today…fingers crossed it’s just cake this time🎁

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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 3d

“As ten-episode season drags on, the pulpy thrills of its action sequences give way to the kind of tedious bloat you can expect from, well, your average Apple TV+ show,” writes @clintworthing.bsky.social about the disappointing series, THE LAST FRONTIER. www.rogerebert.com/streaming/th...

Apple TV+ Thriller "The Last Frontier" Gets Snowed Under In Pulpy Action and Cheap Melodrama | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

"The Last Frontier" flits between two distinct modes, one entertaining and one frustrating.

www.rogerebert.com

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 3d

Apple TV+'s THE LAST FRONTIER puts the creator of THE BLACKLIST together with the director of the EXTRACTION movies, but it's not the *fun* kind of stupid that description implies. It's just dull and overlong.

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/streaming/th...

Apple TV+ Thriller "The Last Frontier" Gets Snowed Under In Pulpy Action and Cheap Melodrama | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

"The Last Frontier" flits between two distinct modes, one entertaining and one frustrating.

www.rogerebert.com

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 4d

Lil baby Radcliffe with his bare feet! Woody Harrelsons evil twin veneers!

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Method Man's Hand Gestures @jamellpelle.bsky.social · 5d

The 9th begins another round of bills, most especially my phone. I probably should've posted this on Friday, as to it cut or so close but posting these is not only such an interruption to my normal function on here, and I have to gear up to doing it each time...
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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 6d

What a thrill to finally share my piece on two of my favorite games: Snake Eater & Guns of the Patriots. I interrogate how Kojima shows us cyclical violent worlds but still attempts to guide us toward non-violence (in sometimes questionable ways).

Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid 3 & 4

The world of video gaming

reverseshot.org

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 12d

YODA: circumcised are you
ME: That's a private matter, Yoda.
YODA: absent of skin a jedi must be
ME: Not interested. Go away, Yoda.
YODA: take off your shorts you must
YODA: show it to me you will
YODA: going where are you
YODA: your penis I must see
YODA: cut your long pink pipe must be
YODA: mmMm

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 8d

Love ya, @snydel.bsky.social .

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 8d

Boy, it's a helluva thing doing best man shit for your best friend's wedding.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 9d

This hotel room is so fancy, it doesn't just have a cuck chair, it has a cuck ottoman

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 10d

me after eating hundreds of pounds of dip

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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 10d

one battle after another tonight queens 😎

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 10d

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 11d

"It’s a work that positions the West as a place of damnation, testing even the most virtuous among us in ways that either break us down or strengthen our resolve...That Crowley packages these ideas in such a bleak, bloody curiosity as this is something to celebrate."

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 11d

Color me impressed by the bleak, horror-coded weirdness of Ned Crowley's low-budget supernatural Western KILLING FAITH -- which feels like the closest thing we'll get to a Blood Meridian movie, at least in spirit, for some time.

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kill...

Killing Faith movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

Its minor sins are easy to forgive for such a bold, idiosyncratic anti-Western as this, the kind we don't often get.

www.rogerebert.com

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 11d

Def!

Still kicking myself a bit for flaking on horror titles for the other two, but I got lazy.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 11d

Happy October, here's a semi spooky @letterboxd.social four faves sentence for ya

Letterboxd four faves, reading
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
How to Have Sex
Inside Llewyn Davis

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