C. Robert Cargill
@crobertcargill.bsky.social
Lvl 50 Writer of Wrongs. SINISTER 1 & 2. DOCTOR STRANGE. THE BLACK PHONE 1 & 2. THE GORGE. V/H/S/85. SEA OF RUST. DAY ZERO. WE ARE WHERE THE NIGHTMARES GO. Six books, seven movies. Podcaster with JUNKFOOD CINEMA. Tio do Churrasco. Misfit toy.
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The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing.
The Jay Duplass film THE BALTIMORONS is a delightful, feel good, shot-on-film, down and dirty indie that feels like it escaped from the 90s. Two unlikely people (a dentist and an improv comic) spend Christmas Eve together, each with their own bullshit to work through. One of Duplass's best. Loved it
December 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The Jay Duplass film THE BALTIMORONS is a delightful, feel good, shot-on-film, down and dirty indie that feels like it escaped from the 90s. Two unlikely people (a dentist and an improv comic) spend Christmas Eve together, each with their own bullshit to work through. One of Duplass's best. Loved it
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I saw a Spill reference in the wild here on Bluesky today, and then saw people responding to it, and I gotta tell ya, it's never not gonna be weird to see someone reference some nonsense you did with your friends on the internet 20 years before...
December 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I saw a Spill reference in the wild here on Bluesky today, and then saw people responding to it, and I gotta tell ya, it's never not gonna be weird to see someone reference some nonsense you did with your friends on the internet 20 years before...
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Matthew Lillard is a national god damned treasure, not only as an enjoyable as fuck actor, but as a D&D ambassador and co-owner with his friends of Beadle & Grimm's (makers of the best D&D accessories on the market.) The only person who looks worse for Quentin shitting on him is fucking Quentin.
December 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Matthew Lillard is a national god damned treasure, not only as an enjoyable as fuck actor, but as a D&D ambassador and co-owner with his friends of Beadle & Grimm's (makers of the best D&D accessories on the market.) The only person who looks worse for Quentin shitting on him is fucking Quentin.
Getting some real dickhead reply guys in the feed so I've altered the interaction settings on some posts.
But to clarify to anyone doing a driveby, my comments are about filmmakers, not critics or genuine criticism. Criticism is essential for our art. Shit talking is not. Especially as filmmakers.
But to clarify to anyone doing a driveby, my comments are about filmmakers, not critics or genuine criticism. Criticism is essential for our art. Shit talking is not. Especially as filmmakers.
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Getting some real dickhead reply guys in the feed so I've altered the interaction settings on some posts.
But to clarify to anyone doing a driveby, my comments are about filmmakers, not critics or genuine criticism. Criticism is essential for our art. Shit talking is not. Especially as filmmakers.
But to clarify to anyone doing a driveby, my comments are about filmmakers, not critics or genuine criticism. Criticism is essential for our art. Shit talking is not. Especially as filmmakers.
I spent the first 10 years of my career as a famously vicious film critic. I was effusive with love but wrote some famous takedowns that often went viral. There was a 2 month period where my careers overlapped. I wrote a SAVAGE takedown of an admittedly deserving film that went around town…
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I spent the first 10 years of my career as a famously vicious film critic. I was effusive with love but wrote some famous takedowns that often went viral. There was a 2 month period where my careers overlapped. I wrote a SAVAGE takedown of an admittedly deserving film that went around town…
The one thing I'll say that's good out of all this nonsense is how the film community has really grown out of enjoying this kind of inter-personality sniping to become a body of positively, that just loves movies and the people who make them. The pushback against negativity is so refreshing in 2025.
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The one thing I'll say that's good out of all this nonsense is how the film community has really grown out of enjoying this kind of inter-personality sniping to become a body of positively, that just loves movies and the people who make them. The pushback against negativity is so refreshing in 2025.
No bullshit, I'm that guy. I'm the guy who took community college film classes with an honest to God Quentin Tarantino poster on my wall. Not just of his movies. Of him. I was the very quintessence of a Tarantino fanboy.
So when I'm officially done with his shit, something has gone very wrong.
So when I'm officially done with his shit, something has gone very wrong.
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
No bullshit, I'm that guy. I'm the guy who took community college film classes with an honest to God Quentin Tarantino poster on my wall. Not just of his movies. Of him. I was the very quintessence of a Tarantino fanboy.
So when I'm officially done with his shit, something has gone very wrong.
So when I'm officially done with his shit, something has gone very wrong.
Tarantino has always been very ivory tower about the internet. He was a famously NOT online at all. He was a religious reader of AICN but would, I shit you not, have his assistant print out the screens every day for his morning read. I don't think he even knows how badly his reputation has shifted.
December 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Tarantino has always been very ivory tower about the internet. He was a famously NOT online at all. He was a religious reader of AICN but would, I shit you not, have his assistant print out the screens every day for his morning read. I don't think he even knows how badly his reputation has shifted.
Matthew Lillard is a national god damned treasure, not only as an enjoyable as fuck actor, but as a D&D ambassador and co-owner with his friends of Beadle & Grimm's (makers of the best D&D accessories on the market.) The only person who looks worse for Quentin shitting on him is fucking Quentin.
December 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Matthew Lillard is a national god damned treasure, not only as an enjoyable as fuck actor, but as a D&D ambassador and co-owner with his friends of Beadle & Grimm's (makers of the best D&D accessories on the market.) The only person who looks worse for Quentin shitting on him is fucking Quentin.
Very sorry to anyone hoping to catch me at tonight's MAN FIND TAPE Q&As, but I won't be able to make it due to illness. Super bummed as I love this movie and its team so much.
December 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Very sorry to anyone hoping to catch me at tonight's MAN FIND TAPE Q&As, but I won't be able to make it due to illness. Super bummed as I love this movie and its team so much.
I saw a Spill reference in the wild here on Bluesky today, and then saw people responding to it, and I gotta tell ya, it's never not gonna be weird to see someone reference some nonsense you did with your friends on the internet 20 years before...
December 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I saw a Spill reference in the wild here on Bluesky today, and then saw people responding to it, and I gotta tell ya, it's never not gonna be weird to see someone reference some nonsense you did with your friends on the internet 20 years before...
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Okay, Man Finds Tape (2025) is really, really good. It went a direction I didn't see coming and threw a few really solid curveballs that I really respect.
@crobertcargill.bsky.social is 110% right about it being awesome.
Totally Molly approved.
@crobertcargill.bsky.social is 110% right about it being awesome.
Totally Molly approved.
Okay, time to see how good this is. I've heard nothing but good things.
Time for a little Man Finds Tape (2025).
Time for a little Man Finds Tape (2025).
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Okay, Man Finds Tape (2025) is really, really good. It went a direction I didn't see coming and threw a few really solid curveballs that I really respect.
@crobertcargill.bsky.social is 110% right about it being awesome.
Totally Molly approved.
@crobertcargill.bsky.social is 110% right about it being awesome.
Totally Molly approved.
Wine, Christmas movies, and a roaring fire.
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Wine, Christmas movies, and a roaring fire.
OKAY FESTIVE MOVIE LOVERS: what are this year's big surprise heartwarming Christmas films? Jess and I are lighting a fire, pouring wine, and cuddling with Nyx to watch some Christmas movies and I need some good recs from THIS YEAR'S crop. (please don't recommend several year old films. Seen 'em!)
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
OKAY FESTIVE MOVIE LOVERS: what are this year's big surprise heartwarming Christmas films? Jess and I are lighting a fire, pouring wine, and cuddling with Nyx to watch some Christmas movies and I need some good recs from THIS YEAR'S crop. (please don't recommend several year old films. Seen 'em!)
Okay, I gotta know. There was so much hype going into STRANGER THINGS and I have heard exactly fuck all about it over a week later. It's clearly not bad enough to dunk on. But is it any good?
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Okay, I gotta know. There was so much hype going into STRANGER THINGS and I have heard exactly fuck all about it over a week later. It's clearly not bad enough to dunk on. But is it any good?
I've been sick as a dog all day, barely propped up by DayQuil, and have a voice that has been described as "Tom Waits slowly melting." So that's been my Friday.
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I've been sick as a dog all day, barely propped up by DayQuil, and have a voice that has been described as "Tom Waits slowly melting." So that's been my Friday.
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Today MAN FINDS TAPE is out in the world in theaters and on VOD. So proud of EVERYONE involved, but a fun extra highlight is it is Jess’s first film! We executively produced this together and were both so thrilled with the movie everyone made. Austin filmmakers rule. Hope y’all love it!
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today MAN FINDS TAPE is out in the world in theaters and on VOD. So proud of EVERYONE involved, but a fun extra highlight is it is Jess’s first film! We executively produced this together and were both so thrilled with the movie everyone made. Austin filmmakers rule. Hope y’all love it!
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Whoa, busy day, here's my look at the Netflix/WB deal with some great commentary from @crobertcargill.bsky.social! www.engadget.com/entertainmen...
The Netflix and Warner Bros. deal might be great for shareholders, but not for anyone else
Hollywood does not need more consolidation.
www.engadget.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Whoa, busy day, here's my look at the Netflix/WB deal with some great commentary from @crobertcargill.bsky.social! www.engadget.com/entertainmen...
Today MAN FINDS TAPE is out in the world in theaters and on VOD. So proud of EVERYONE involved, but a fun extra highlight is it is Jess’s first film! We executively produced this together and were both so thrilled with the movie everyone made. Austin filmmakers rule. Hope y’all love it!
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today MAN FINDS TAPE is out in the world in theaters and on VOD. So proud of EVERYONE involved, but a fun extra highlight is it is Jess’s first film! We executively produced this together and were both so thrilled with the movie everyone made. Austin filmmakers rule. Hope y’all love it!
Much love to the Critics Choice Awards for nominating THE GORGE for Best Movie Made for Television! We worked very hard on that film and I'm so glad, even ten months later, people are still thinking about it and recommending it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Much love to the Critics Choice Awards for nominating THE GORGE for Best Movie Made for Television! We worked very hard on that film and I'm so glad, even ten months later, people are still thinking about it and recommending it.
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I haven't been very optimistic with y'all because I haven't been optimistic lately. 1/3 of shows, and thus writers rooms, are just gone. Because horror is one of the only things doing well, everyone is writing horror. But there's too much of it. Hollywood cannot make all the great scripts out there.
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I haven't been very optimistic with y'all because I haven't been optimistic lately. 1/3 of shows, and thus writers rooms, are just gone. Because horror is one of the only things doing well, everyone is writing horror. But there's too much of it. Hollywood cannot make all the great scripts out there.
Who controls what IP isn't what's at play with this new merger: it's about who gets your attention & dollars. It means fewer shows & fewer movies as not to step on each other's dicks.
1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Who controls what IP isn't what's at play with this new merger: it's about who gets your attention & dollars. It means fewer shows & fewer movies as not to step on each other's dicks.
1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
I was watching a video late last night on horrors of the early internet through the Wayback Machine, and the host took the time to explain what blogging was to the younger viewers and as I heard that, I got up and wandered into the midnight darkness, dust trailing off me as I dissolved into nothing.
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I was watching a video late last night on horrors of the early internet through the Wayback Machine, and the host took the time to explain what blogging was to the younger viewers and as I heard that, I got up and wandered into the midnight darkness, dust trailing off me as I dissolved into nothing.
Loook...
I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau.
All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.
I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau.
All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Loook...
I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau.
All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.
I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau.
All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.