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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 7h

Mann has pretty much disowned it, but The Keep is such a strange, haunted b-side. Like what it really makes me want, is Mann directing a Highlander movie. It gets at, maddingly, obliquely, at how lonely immortality is.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 7h

I have time for The Keep (1983) because that film is basically Dude Mysticism as a DnD Manual.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 18h

Gene Hackman, Robert Redford and Diane Keaton all going in the same year. Absolute titans of '70s cinema

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ANSI Files from Discmaster @ansibot.bsky.social · 20h

SKY.ANS, 1992-01-08 from Minerva 3 (CD-ROM)

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 11h

Daily bunny no.3105 needs to ask nicely

Two bunnies stand at the foot of an old brick wall, in a forest somewhere. There is a small door in the wall, the only way through. At the top of the wall are four blackbirds, one of which has the key in its beak. The bunnies implore the bird for the key

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12h

On the new @junkfilterpod.bsky.social: the start of the Prefab Sprout miniseries. Rob Stammitti (@wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social) joins me to discuss Sproutmaxxing, Tha God Paddy McAloon, the band's Galaxy Brained early singles and their stunning debut "Swoon".
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221: Prefab Sprout: Swoon (with Rob Stammitti) | Jesse Hawken

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 12h

fresh and chopped and mixed with butter makes such a nice spread for sandwiches.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 12h

Edsel

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 13h

Incredible make it 2013 again energy to still be doing this bit.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 13h

I think the main reason that I'll never come around to actually liking Southland Tales is because I'm pissed that's the future we actually got.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 13h

Which is odd that they didn't try to test the waters with a Disney+ Tron series first.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 14h

Minced ham omelette and a 7-Up.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 14h

The olde internet FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU meme of a drawing of Carl Sagan saying "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch...." followed by a panel of the FUUUUU guy looking hopeful next to baking ingredients followed by a panel of Sagan saying "...You must first invent the universe" followed by a panel of the FUUUUUU guy doing his thing

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 14h

HE BRINGS LIFE. DO YOU?

Frog figure on my porch, vomiting forth abundant green. String of Dolphins, some other succulents, who knows? He started as a bird feeder with a busted bottom. I filled him full of dirt and stuffed his maw with cuttings and breakage, then set him on wet stones. A cascade of plant life extends from him now, a verdant croak that spills down the wall. Be like Frog.

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 18h

Diane Keaton at The Schwab’s Pharmacy counter in 1983.

Farewell to one cinema's greatest legends Can’t believe we’ve lost her. Such a shock. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. “La-dee-da, la-dee-da” forever.

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 16h

We would attribute TRON'S failure to fundamental shifts in our key demographic, coupled with the overall crumminess of TRON.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 15h

Weirdly aggro replies are now also an instant block. I get we're all going through it, but yelling at me about takes on legacy sequels to Dark Disney era projects will not stop climate change.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, it's honestly good they didn't build Ares around her because it still would have flopped and been another "And this is why we don't build tentpoles around women or POC" but still.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 15h

I liked Olivia Wilde a lot in it, and I would have been interested in more of her, but I knew if there was anymore it'd be about the blonde drip son, so.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17h

This feels relevant to Tron: Enough Already eating dirt this weekend.

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · Mar 25

New at my patreon. I wrote about Snow White (2025), and how Disney wants credit for diverse casting, while at the same time stranding their talent in garbage, and failing to protect them from online harassment. (Public Post.) www.patreon.com/posts/125095...

Image from Snow White (2025). Snow White at her wishing well, perhaps wishing for another acting coach for Gadot.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17h

Like I have no sympathy for Disney because they've made it clear they will not protect their female or POC talent from the online mobs of these Zoomer males so I'm glad the attempt to court them fizzled like a wet firecracker.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17h

I think a lot about what an influence it was on Italian horror directors like Bava and Argento because it managed to slip past the fascist era ban on horror films. How much classical Disney animation influenced live action movies in general and now the well of inspiration is dry.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17h

Like the only time the live action Snow White had a moment of frisson is when she flees through the woods because they sensibly did not try to "fix" the animated original and just did it beat for bit, and why not?, it's a great sequence.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17h

You could tell that one of things in the mix in the live-action Snow White was maybe making a Maleficent-like antiheroine out the Evil Queen, with future spin-offs implied, only they cast Gadot and well, that was that.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17h

The thing about Disney wanting a Zoomer male audience is that the kinds of Zoomers they're chasing hate women and girls and view Disney, regardless of the actual reality, as a woke girl company who does princess shit.

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