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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty darn terrific.

Looks *great* - I will be seeing it again next week in 35mm - and all the performances are affecting in a tragic way. I think GDT can now claim he has made the definitive version of this story.

(cc @eliasisquith.blog)

Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 4h

Looking forward for a reprieve from today’s discourse to watch a nice movie about a rich “genius” who ignores society’s problems to create a deranged artificial intelligence that no one with any sense really wants.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 4h

I will report back.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 4h

Looking forward for a reprieve from today’s discourse to watch a nice movie about a rich “genius” who ignores society’s problems to create a deranged artificial intelligence that no one with any sense really wants.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 5h

No problem:

-May
-The Eyes of My Mother
-Carnival of Souls
-Bram Stoker’s Dracula

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 1d

I listened to Black Messiah again today, and man, it sounds like it is from another planet, or an artist on a higher plane - sort of like a funky Scott Walker. What a loss.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck cancer.

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 1d

Molly’s Chambers is a pretty good tune.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 1d

This show’s prescience is so god damn eerie.

Naturally, I will be celebrating with a cigarette.

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

It's the 14th anniversary of the Sudden Departure. How are you going to commemorate it?

A mother reacts to her baby vanishing in the Sudden Departure in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

Nora Durst's family has just vanished in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

The Guilty Remnant holding up signs saying, "Stop Wasting Your Breath" in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 2d

Joe Lo Truglio is a genius. I also love the scene where he finds out Ken Marino is a virgin.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoyed the Thickfreakness and Rubber Factory era, but their backslide has been remarkable. Now all their stuff sounds like it was written for use in a Ford F150 commercial.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure this is unhinged, but I find Conrad to be a terrible bore.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 2d

Jimmy Jr.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 3d

Here is some material Bari Weiss published regarding Covid.

So when anyone defends her in any way, what they are saying is that real world victims of medical disinformation don’t matter.

It’s all just a game to these pundits.

• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back-and Won
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Free Speech on Trial
• Dr. Marty Makary: Dr. Fauci's Legacy
• Drs. Tracy Hoeg and Marty Makary: U.S.
Public Health Agencies Aren't 'Following the Science,'
• Dr. Marty Makary: Officials Say, Universities' Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad, Stefan Baral, Lucy McBride: Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos, Talking To Three Doctors Who Have Been Islands Of Reason In A Sea Of Confusion.
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Let Djokovic Play
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: We Have a Tripledemic.
Not of Disease, But of Fear,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad and John Mandrola: The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: How to Save Science From
Covid Politics
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: What RFK Jr. Gets Right— and What He Gets Wrong,
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Vinay Prasad: Why Was My Talk at a Medical Conference Canceled?
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Covid Vaccines Shouldn't Be 'Routine' for Kids.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed. Here’s what I said about it.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 3d

Good movie.

Competence will not save us - not that we have so much nowadays.

Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 3d

I am going to A House of Dynamite this afternoon. It is kind of crazy that a new thriller, made by arguably the best thriller director working today, arrives with such a nothing burger release.

Netflix effect, I guess.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 3d

I am going to A House of Dynamite this afternoon. It is kind of crazy that a new thriller, made by arguably the best thriller director working today, arrives with such a nothing burger release.

Netflix effect, I guess.

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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 4d

THIS. Give me bad but passionate or ambitious every day over soulless.

somuchformedia @somuchformedia.bsky.social · 4d

There are so many bad horror movies I’ve enjoyed watching just because you can tell everyone involved is doing it for the love of the art, AI is not capable of that

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 4d

One thing AI is good for is reminding people how even the very worst movie they’ve ever seen is better than AI “movies”

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 4d

Fuck me, Diane Keaton.

Amazing range. She could play characters light as a feather, then the way she says “This Sicilian THING” with such bile in Godfather 2 cuts through the mob bullshit so ruthlessly.

One of a kind.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 4d

Good movie!

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 4d

Your boy just tried a quadruple IPA and is feeling pretty pretty good.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, one more: The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. Nothing to do with Marvel, just a straightforward romantic adventure about a surgeon during WW1.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 4d

Check out The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson. It’s a Viking adventure with an extremely compelling hero!

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 5d

Mr. Scorsese, Rebecca Miller's five hour documentary about Marty, is a god damn delight. So many great stories, a real mix of reverence and analysis. My favorite part is all the storyboards, which began when he was a child. It boggles my mind how anyone can think that way, or have that vision.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 5d

People are saying that? It’s like they never heard a love song before.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5d

YOU COULD PERHAPS HAVE LED WITH THE MOVIE PART

NPR @npr.org · 5d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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