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FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 3h

Sticking to recent horror, if the cast of Hereditary and Us couldn't manage a nomination; if Keke Palmer in Nope or Margaret Qualley in The Substance couldn't swing one; if Wunmi Mosaku in #Sinners isn't at the top of this year's list; then Madigan's engaging but hardly groundbreaking can't either.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 3h

Whether #AmyMadigan will receive an Oscar nomination is a hot topic, but underscores the lack of depth in the acting categories this year. Plenty of superior genre performances haven't been nominated - not just horror, but science fiction, comedy, musicals.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 3h

#Weapons is good! It seems pretty clear that the main influence is early Stephen King (I could practically hear each character's interior monologue) but it's really well executed & the level of accuracy in the smallest details killed me (Julia Garner in the bottle shop, Benedict Wong's lounge room)

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 1d

Re-reading Thomas Pynchon's #Vineland has been so comforting. I'm not American but it's a reminder that just like the terrifying and hostile Reagan era, the frankly inexplicable Trump era will pass

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 3d

Topkapi with Maximilian Schell!

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 3d

Gwyneth Paltrow could not PR or buy her way into Oscar nominations for Proof, Country Strong, Emma or any other bullshit movies that were talked up by the media, her agent and her PR-in-hyperdrive team. If she flukes her way into a Marty Supreme nomination, it's the weakest Oscar year on record.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 3d

This is a king we can get behind

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 3d

RIP the star of Cronenberg's "Marriage Story" :)

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 3d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Oh Australia. How depressingly middlebrow to choose Trent Dalton as your favourite writer and not even mention Gerald Murnane. To have Anna Funder, a brilliant Australian author, lower in the list than Dalton, who's basically a glorified journalist, is criminal

What's the best book of this century? We've got 287,990 answers

The winner for the Top 100 Books has been announced. What do the votes behind it say about us?

www.abc.net.au

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 4d

Oh wow, with Michael Pare!

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 4d

There's one extraordinary non-professional performance that puts the mediocre Haims of the world into sharp relief: Haing S. Ngor, whose show-stopping co-lead in The Killing Fields was the emotional core of a wrenching film. His death was a tragic loss to the film world

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 4d

Every year people talk about amateur actors deserving Oscars, like Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza, or this guy in Bugonia (a movie that's going to tank, and hopefully end Lanthimos' vile, misogynist career).

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 4d

I think the first film you see by a filmmaker is often your favourite. But I don't know that Boyle is right. Todd Haynes, Federico Fellini, Agnes Varda, Wes Anderson, all their first movies aren't their best. Maybe it's true of minor filmmakers

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

940 12K 44K

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 7d

Born on this day ... my favourite actor #MontgomeryClift

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 7d

As someone smarter than me said "I've heard nothing but disappointment for The Rock's performance. It proved to me that sometimes people just aren't talented, rather than wasting their talents on trash".

Also, Nolan cast Matt Damon as Ulysses, so he's hardly qualified to assess acting.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 7d

Bizarrely, Christopher Nolan is claiming Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has delivered the year's best performance in The Smashing Machine.

Interesting that Nolan, who strikes me as a contrarian, doesn't echo the critical consensus on the role.

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 8d

Media hype for #EthanHawke in #BlueMoon is building, and I'm desperate for him to get an Oscar nomination:) But for the lazy AI enabled "writers" who keep spieling this as a "career best" for Hawke - #FirstReformed remains not just Hawke's best, but the best acting performance this century

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 11d

#AllThatJazz. What a movie. Extraordinary. Editing, acting, script, and the choreography - oh, the choreography. Kubrick called it the best film he'd seen, and he had a point. I now have a new addition to the bucket list - seeing #AllThatJazz on the big screen

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 12d

As an Australian there are only four classic soft drink flavours: cola, lemonade, Solo and Passiona :) But I like what Ben Stiller's doing here.

Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com · 27d

🙌🙌🙌

Mike Lang @mikeyrockslang.bsky.social · 28d

A crisp Milwaukee morning deserves a chilled beverage, when you think of NYC you think of basketball and now @stillerssoda.bsky.social

Cheers @benstiller.redhour.com #Soda

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 12d

Iconic as a legendary talent and a woman of style who committed to ageing authentically in a misogynist industry

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 12d

Ha auto correct. Great hair flex!

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 12d

Great hair flexibility from Brolin

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 12d

It's absurd that people refer to the US as "Pynchonesque", as if it's somehow changed in the time Pynchon has been writing

FilmThreads @filmthreads.bsky.social · 12d

Except she apparently defended Woody Allen, but friendship is complicated