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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 · 13m

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 17h

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 17h

DO NOT PUT TREINEN IN ROBERTS

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 20h

Dan Orlovsky shut the fuck up

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 23h

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.

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1d

Um….no

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1d

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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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1d

EYES OF FIRE, CLEAR CUT, WITCHHAMMER and CELIA

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1d

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

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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!

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

Blocked Subway Takes from my IG feed when I saw the one saying “all movies should be 90 minutes.”

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

Maron on Blank Check is pretty phenomenal, especially since A SERIOUS MAN is a movie he clearly feels in his bones

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

NANG NAK: More of a romantic melodrama than a horror film, this dispatch from Thailand’s aggressive stylish tics lurch back and forth between thundering anguish and Buddhist serenity. A forlorn wail of a film.

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

Found out today that the “House Of Leaves” guy has a 1200-page novel coming out at the end of the month.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 3d

This is a scene and movie I think about a lot for obvious reasons. RIP Diane Keaton. youtu.be/P0ayZe_GsQA?...

Reds (1981) Congressional Hearing scene

YouTube video by Ryan

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Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 3d

Will never forget watching that during the pandemic, just a few months after my father passed away, and being absolutely destroyed by finding out Griffey Sr. came out of retirement because of Jr.’s mental health struggles and he wanted to make sure he was okay.

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a lifelong Dodgers fan but Ken Griffey Jr. was the player that truly made me fall in love with the game as a kid, so I’ve always had a soft spot for the Mariners. If they take the whole thing I’d be just as happy for them as the Dodgers

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