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33. He/him. Movies, gaming, tunes, shitposts, gay shit. editor of https://bsky.app/profile/horizonlinemadison.bsky.social.
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alx @greedlejuice.bsky.social · 26d
This is the longest piece I've written in a while, a summary of four works that grabbed me over the past month. Come for One Battle After Another or Taylor Swift, hopefully stay for Spike Lee and Cameron Winter.

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Dirty Work
A MEDIA ROUNDUP ON ART VS. COMMERCE, GREED, AND THE GOOD FOOD.
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SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.

PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.

DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I went and did this.
astridoverthere.bsky.social I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 4d
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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horizonlinemadison.bsky.social
This week's screening report is now live!
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Screening Report 11/5/2025
Lynne Ramsay, Peter Weir, Madison Polish Film Festival, and more!
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November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
i don't personally take issue with del toro's overwhelming sympathy for the creature (it's such a common reading at this point) but i do always vastly prefer to read frankenstein as the monstrousness of mankind and victor's total indifference creating a sadistic demon
willowcatelyn.bsky.social Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 6d
I wish I liked Guillermo Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN more, because I tend to love adaptations of this story. I think it's only partially successful, because the monster's appearance and behavior don't create enough contradictions for our empathy to be challenged.

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Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein features a dedication to Mary Shelley, Boris Karloff and James Whale. This story, and the 1931 film adaptation, are sacred to him, his sensibilities as an artist, and to the shape of his life. He’s been very open and honest about how that film, and Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)—a wartime picture set during the opening stages of the Franco dictatorship of Spain, and featuring a visit from The Creature—were fundamental in shaping the person that he became. Shelley’s story is a religion for Del Toro, and his fairy-tale belief in empathizing with monsters, while distrusting man, has become the dominant narrative focal point throughout his career. While watching Del Toro’s passion project I thought about religious pictures, and movies about Christ. Del Toro’s most tantalizing image connects that religious symbolism by showing The Creature hung on a cross before being shocked into life. Lazarus and Christ as one. Shelley’s story is so provocative because she manages to evoke sympathy in the reader through her examination of the unnatural perversion of sustained mortality in a creature who never asked to be born, but, importantly, shows us the violent capabilities of the monster too. Del Toro perhaps loves the monster too much, and it prevents the film from forcing viewers to be confronted with dual truths. In most films about Christ, he’s positioned as only God, but the Bible stresses that he was God and man. Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1987) was a lightning rod of controversy, because it presented both sides of Christ’s condition, and because he did, it made the sacrificial crucifixion resonate with a genuine grappling of what it meant for his divinity. It’s a film that works whether you believe in God or not, because the human element that was cast aside is tied to the sacrifice, and it could realistically stand in as a moral tale for anyone. Del Toro’s picture comes up short... a still image from Guillermo Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN of Victor (oscar Isaac) working on the creature in his Gothic castle lab.
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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This week's screening report is now live!
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Screening Report 10/29/2025
Bugonia and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You open to a host of Halloween cheer.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This week's screening report is now live!
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Screening Report 10/22/2025
Guillermo Del Toro, Richard Linklater, Kelly Reichardt, Bruce Springsteen and more!
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October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
morally uncomplicated, i will be rooting for the demon of the diamond
October 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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"It made no sense to us that they would take our film showing Israel’s oppression of Palestinians, and then also partner with a company contributing to that oppression."
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No Other Land creators to self-release film, after rejecting MUBI streaming deal
No Other Land creators to self-release film, after rejecting MUBI streaming deal
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October 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
zohran promos are competency porn - i have not seen people this good at talking into the camera and disintegrating their opposition since the attitude era
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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greedlejuice.bsky.social
This is the longest piece I've written in a while, a summary of four works that grabbed me over the past month. Come for One Battle After Another or Taylor Swift, hopefully stay for Spike Lee and Cameron Winter.

alexlovendahl.com/2025/10/15/d...
Dirty Work
A MEDIA ROUNDUP ON ART VS. COMMERCE, GREED, AND THE GOOD FOOD.
alexlovendahl.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
there's a kind of action gameplay that only itagaki could ever successfully communicate - the way characters hit one another in itagaki games is singular. gone too soon
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 25d
Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki has died, age 58

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October 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
rewatched us and the extent to which my wife knew nothing about the film was a delight
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
one of few games that actually fulfills the promise of what gaming offers narrative storytelling by actually telling a magnificent story in a way only a game can. an all-time favorite
sunsetvisitor.studio 1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 26d
You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake.

💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows
💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god
💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution

1000xRESIST is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass on November 4.
October 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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over a year old lol
headfallsoff.com headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Sep 9
like i am not exaggerating. it’s not an optional or one day feature, if this is a serious social media platform that wants to function similarly to Old Twitter, they gotta drop everything and implement private accounts like. tomorrow. they’re core to the social fabric of being online!
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
really don't expect to see a full transition from twitter until we can have locked accounts and group DMs, but we are officially at the "you are taking a risk still having a public account" point over there. and, tbh, private accounts there are probably not as safe as you think!
October 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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bharg.bsky.social
An excellent writeup (as you can always expect from alx) about one of the inarguable great titans of music
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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srirachachau.bsky.social
Just putting out there that anyone being a scold about people wanting to keep in touch with their friends before this all happened is getting an instant block. It doesn't seem like anyone likes the CEO here either
captainchaos.myatproto.social Captain Chaos @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 26d
Brace for inevitable "I can't quit Twitter here's why you're a bad person for suggesting it" replies
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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horizonlinemadison.bsky.social
This week's screening report is now live!
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Screening Report 10/15/2025
Flooded theaters - what's worth seeing?
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October 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
This is the longest piece I've written in a while, a summary of four works that grabbed me over the past month. Come for One Battle After Another or Taylor Swift, hopefully stay for Spike Lee and Cameron Winter.

alexlovendahl.com/2025/10/15/d...
Dirty Work
A MEDIA ROUNDUP ON ART VS. COMMERCE, GREED, AND THE GOOD FOOD.
alexlovendahl.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
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R.I.P. D’Angelo
D’Angelo’s voice and instrumentation are so precise, so delectable, ethereal.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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horizonlinemadison.bsky.social
This week's screening report is now live!
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Screening Report 10/8/2025
Eraserhead leads a weekend of horror repertory.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
greedlejuice.bsky.social
got my copy of @benegotherit.bsky.social's new novel! watson's last book lessons in birdwatching is funny, nasty stuff without ever being tasteless. excited to dig into the new one!
October 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This week's screening report is now live!
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Screening Report 10/1/2025
The extended Halloween Party of a Showgirl
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October 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This week's screening report is now live!
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Screening Report 9/24/25
Hello, and welcome to this week’s screening report!
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September 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM