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mhofmeyer.bsky.social
@mhofmeyer.bsky.social
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Freelance Writer/researcher for Rotten Tomatoes, Fandom, The Ringer, Film Theorists & Movies,Films and Flix - Co-host of Deep Blue Sea - The Podcast. Member of the GFCA and AFCC
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One of our very best commentaries dropped this week. Enjoy what @brandon4kuhd.bsky.social, @mhofmeyer.bsky.social & I had to say about To Live and Die in L.A. for its 40th anniversary. Take a listen here: tinyurl.com/ye6tv5ax
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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NEW COMMENTARY ALERT! We had a lot of fun delving into To Live and Die in L.A. for its 40th anniversary with guests @brandon4kuhd.bsky.social and @mhofmeyer.bsky.social. Enjoy our commentary track here!

iTunes – tinyurl.com/2sk3dyf5
Spotify - tinyurl.com/3jz9c8wu
AudioBoom – tinyurl.com/5yfw85kr
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Very fun time putting together this month's @outnowpodcast.bsky.social commentary track with @brandon4kuhd.bsky.social and @mhofmeyer.bsky.social! #BigPetersenEnergy
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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If YouTube and online media spaces are going to be the future of Film and TV in the 21st Century, it will need the same organized labor that made Hollywood great in the 20th. I'm proud to support this effort 🫡👍
wgawest.bsky.social Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 12d
Theorist Media creatives announce joint union drive with Motion Pictures Editors Guild and Writers Guild of America West. #TheoristsUnite @mpeg700.bsky.social @iatse.bsky.social @teamtheorist.bsky.social
Los Angeles, Calif., Nov 13, 2025 — After building overwhelming support, creative workers at Theorist Media are calling on owner Lunar X to recognize their unions. The organizing effort includes workers performing a wide range of work — from editing and writing to sound design to thumbnail creation and digital production. Workers first reached out to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), while the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) joined the campaign to coordinate organizing efforts for writers. The Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, is leading the effort for the IATSE-represented classifications. This signals a major step forward for workers across the fast-growing digital media sector. “For more than 20 years, we’ve watched terrific creators and their content shape YouTube into one of the most powerful platforms on Earth,” said Nicole Cepeda, who works in graphics at Theorist. “Now it’s time for Theorist and other production companies to take it to the next level. “By unionizing, our goal is to help raise professional standards and bring them in line with the broader entertainment industry. The work we do is real, and it deserves real protection.” "My aunt was the first female president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, where she fought for collective bargaining rights for educators. She was a force to be reckoned with, and I'm proud to be continuing her legacy by helping bring the labor movement to YouTube,” said Daniel Zemke, Writer at Theorist. “We're fighting for fair wages, better working conditions, and a voice on a platform that is sorely lacking in worker rights.” Despite being petitioned by a supermajority of its relevant workers, Theorist Media — now owned by Lunar X — has declined to voluntarily recognize the unions and is pushing for an NLRB representation election. “All workers have a right to union representation,” said WGAW President Michele Mulroney. “The creatives behind Theorist programming are bringing audiences, advertisers, and profits for Theorist — it’s time for the good union jobs to follow.” Theorist workers remain undeterred and will continue to demand that Theorist Media and Lunar X do the right thing and voluntarily recognize the unions and quickly negotiate fair contracts for their workers. “With all its successful enthusiast sites, Theorist has proven that a huge audience exists for professionally produced content on YouTube,” said Alan Heim, ACE, president of Motion Picture Editors Guild. “Now it’s time for management to prove that they will do the right thing by the hard-working craftspeople who make all that great content possible.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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We're bringing Theorists into the next step for recognition from traditional media
wgawest.bsky.social Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 12d
Theorist Media creatives announce joint union drive with Motion Pictures Editors Guild and Writers Guild of America West. #TheoristsUnite @mpeg700.bsky.social @iatse.bsky.social @teamtheorist.bsky.social
Los Angeles, Calif., Nov 13, 2025 — After building overwhelming support, creative workers at Theorist Media are calling on owner Lunar X to recognize their unions. The organizing effort includes workers performing a wide range of work — from editing and writing to sound design to thumbnail creation and digital production. Workers first reached out to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), while the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) joined the campaign to coordinate organizing efforts for writers. The Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, is leading the effort for the IATSE-represented classifications. This signals a major step forward for workers across the fast-growing digital media sector. “For more than 20 years, we’ve watched terrific creators and their content shape YouTube into one of the most powerful platforms on Earth,” said Nicole Cepeda, who works in graphics at Theorist. “Now it’s time for Theorist and other production companies to take it to the next level. “By unionizing, our goal is to help raise professional standards and bring them in line with the broader entertainment industry. The work we do is real, and it deserves real protection.” "My aunt was the first female president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, where she fought for collective bargaining rights for educators. She was a force to be reckoned with, and I'm proud to be continuing her legacy by helping bring the labor movement to YouTube,” said Daniel Zemke, Writer at Theorist. “We're fighting for fair wages, better working conditions, and a voice on a platform that is sorely lacking in worker rights.” Despite being petitioned by a supermajority of its relevant workers, Theorist Media — now owned by Lunar X — has declined to voluntarily recognize the unions and is pushing for an NLRB representation election. “All workers have a right to union representation,” said WGAW President Michele Mulroney. “The creatives behind Theorist programming are bringing audiences, advertisers, and profits for Theorist — it’s time for the good union jobs to follow.” Theorist workers remain undeterred and will continue to demand that Theorist Media and Lunar X do the right thing and voluntarily recognize the unions and quickly negotiate fair contracts for their workers. “With all its successful enthusiast sites, Theorist has proven that a huge audience exists for professionally produced content on YouTube,” said Alan Heim, ACE, president of Motion Picture Editors Guild. “Now it’s time for management to prove that they will do the right thing by the hard-working craftspeople who make all that great content possible.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Theorist Media creatives announce joint union drive with Motion Pictures Editors Guild and Writers Guild of America West. #TheoristsUnite @mpeg700.bsky.social @iatse.bsky.social @teamtheorist.bsky.social
Los Angeles, Calif., Nov 13, 2025 — After building overwhelming support, creative workers at Theorist Media are calling on owner Lunar X to recognize their unions. The organizing effort includes workers performing a wide range of work — from editing and writing to sound design to thumbnail creation and digital production. Workers first reached out to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), while the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) joined the campaign to coordinate organizing efforts for writers. The Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, is leading the effort for the IATSE-represented classifications. This signals a major step forward for workers across the fast-growing digital media sector. “For more than 20 years, we’ve watched terrific creators and their content shape YouTube into one of the most powerful platforms on Earth,” said Nicole Cepeda, who works in graphics at Theorist. “Now it’s time for Theorist and other production companies to take it to the next level. “By unionizing, our goal is to help raise professional standards and bring them in line with the broader entertainment industry. The work we do is real, and it deserves real protection.” "My aunt was the first female president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, where she fought for collective bargaining rights for educators. She was a force to be reckoned with, and I'm proud to be continuing her legacy by helping bring the labor movement to YouTube,” said Daniel Zemke, Writer at Theorist. “We're fighting for fair wages, better working conditions, and a voice on a platform that is sorely lacking in worker rights.” Despite being petitioned by a supermajority of its relevant workers, Theorist Media — now owned by Lunar X — has declined to voluntarily recognize the unions and is pushing for an NLRB representation election. “All workers have a right to union representation,” said WGAW President Michele Mulroney. “The creatives behind Theorist programming are bringing audiences, advertisers, and profits for Theorist — it’s time for the good union jobs to follow.” Theorist workers remain undeterred and will continue to demand that Theorist Media and Lunar X do the right thing and voluntarily recognize the unions and quickly negotiate fair contracts for their workers. “With all its successful enthusiast sites, Theorist has proven that a huge audience exists for professionally produced content on YouTube,” said Alan Heim, ACE, president of Motion Picture Editors Guild. “Now it’s time for management to prove that they will do the right thing by the hard-working craftspeople who make all that great content possible.”
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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wgawest.bsky.social
"The Editors Guild and Writers Guild West are looking to organize more than two dozen workers at the L.A.- and Raleigh-based production company, which has several popular YouTube channels." #TheoristsUnite www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Hollywood Guilds Make Historic Push to Unionize YouTube Content Studio Theorist Media (Exclusive)
The Editors Guild and Writers Guild West are looking to organize more than two dozen workers at the L.A.- and Raleigh-based production company, which has several popular YouTube channels.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Just in time for the November Barnes & Noble Criterion sale, me and @mhofmeyer.bsky.social discuss Lodge Kerrigan's brilliant and unsettling CLEAN, SHAVEN...
Episode 667 - Clean, Shaven (1993), Lodge Kerrigan, and Sensory Blasting Films
The Feel Good series continues! Mark and Jonny Numb discuss the 1993 drama Clean, Shaven, Directed by Lodge Kerrigan, and starring Peter Greene, Robert Albert, and a fingernail, the sensory blasting f...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
I love watching Adkins kick people. Review coming soon! @wellgousa.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
Vinegar Syndrome pop-up!
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
Watch Beast of War.
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Our 2nd Horror Special for 2025 - We sat down and talked about horror films we finally got around to watching with guests @brandon4kuhd.bsky.social and @mhofmeyer.bsky.social. Take a listen!

iTunes - tinyurl.com/4kk2fnna
Spotify - tinyurl.com/e5hcapf8
AudioBoom – tinyurl.com/2vunjkdn
October 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Atlanta Film Critics Circle proudly announces the 25 for 25: Best Movies of the 21st Century
#1 THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY
#AFCC #AFCC25for25 #25for25
#FortheLoveofMovies #TheLordOfTheRings #lordoftherings
October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The Atlanta Film Critics Circle is excited to announce the launch of our new website!
atlfilmcritics.org
#AFCC #FortheLoveofMovies
September 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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No one goes easy on Easy. We have a commentary for #DevilInABlueDress, the terrific neo-noir, starring Denzel Washington. Guests @brandon4kuhd.bsky.social & @mhofmeyer.bsky.social join in. Take a listen!

iTunes– tinyurl.com/2vz6cncs
Spotify- tinyurl.com/54sbhj7h
AudioBoom- tinyurl.com/3w9dht3b
September 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
Dolph! Ice! Grenades! Food! Ears!

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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast – Episode 651: Universal Soldier (1992), Dolph Lundgren, and Diner Fights
You can download or stream the pod on Apple Podcasts, Tune In, Podbean, or Spreaker (or wherever you listen to podcasts…..we’re almost everywhere). If you get a chance please make su…
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September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
My five favorite ensembles of 2025 (so far).

1. Black Bag
2. The Long Walk
3. Sinners
4. Companion
5. Eephus
September 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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aaronsps4.bsky.social
Fun times recording this month's @outnowpodcast.bsky.social commentary with @brandon4kuhd.bsky.social and @mhofmeyer.bsky.social, where we covered a terrific 90s neo noir. #MouseIsComing
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September 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
DBS is making waves!
September 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
The 84% Fresh Tomatometer score for The Smashing Machine helps my "Dwayne Johnson is at his best when he’s super sweaty in a movie" theory.

Wildly Sweaty (6 movies) - 59.3% TM average / 6.8 IMDb avg.
Lots of Sweat (4) - 54.2% / 6.2
Light Sweat (10) - 41% / 6
Zero/Light Sweat (16) - 53% / 6.28
September 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
Yes!
August 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
I need some help! We'll be talking about The Faculty (1998) soon and I have some questions.

1. Favorite moment?
2. Favorite character?
3. Explain Marybeth's plan
4. Favorite swimming pool scene in a horror movie?

Thanks!
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August 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
mhofmeyer.bsky.social
#12! Happy to be included in the list

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August 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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We got one! HOT SPRING SHARK ATTACK (2024) becomes the 9️⃣1️⃣6️⃣th film we've found with an exploding helicopter.
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Thanks to shark movie aficionado @mhofmeyer.bsky.social for the tip-off!
July 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Jurassic World: Rebirth is a good time.

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Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) – Review
Poster courtesy of Universal Pictures Grade – 3.5 Genetically Modified Dinosaurs out of 5. Quick Thoughts: 1. Aquatic action is plentiful – I love it 2. I like how straightforward it is…
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July 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM