Mandy Bemis
@mjbemis.bsky.social
Filmmaker, writer and actor. My newest short film, The Devil and the Ghost, is on Vimeo and YouTube.
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Co-signed, professional Theater Kid:
Re: Theater Kid being an insult.
It just means someone is terrified of witnessing or expressing emotion, doesn't understand the value of art or communication at large, and does not have the strength of character to survive either scene study class or tech week.
It just means someone is terrified of witnessing or expressing emotion, doesn't understand the value of art or communication at large, and does not have the strength of character to survive either scene study class or tech week.
December 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Co-signed, professional Theater Kid:
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Hm. Which sequence?
Hm. Which sequence?
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Hm. Which sequence?
Hm. Which sequence?
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I like the way he thinks..
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I like the way he thinks..
A lot of things are bad right now, but tonight at work, I was coloring with a little girl who asked, “Why are you in the grown up chair? You’re a kid!” That was good.
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A lot of things are bad right now, but tonight at work, I was coloring with a little girl who asked, “Why are you in the grown up chair? You’re a kid!” That was good.
2026 is gonna be my year
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
2026 is gonna be my year
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his raw sexuality
what's up with the grinch becoming freakishly popular/ omnipresent in the cultural imagination
December 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
his raw sexuality
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insane move to imply that a murderer is your own supporter
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
insane move to imply that a murderer is your own supporter
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STAND BY ME is so unusual because it's full of the nostalgia of a previous generation, but people my age grew up loving it, knowing every song on the soundtrack, etc. I remember the first time I realized I had switched over to relating to the adult narrator more than the kids. Great movie.
Stand By Me | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA
STAND BY ME is Stephen King's latest chiller, a spooky tale of kids going on a long walk singing TV show themes. Okay, I guess it's more of a coming of age
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December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
STAND BY ME is so unusual because it's full of the nostalgia of a previous generation, but people my age grew up loving it, knowing every song on the soundtrack, etc. I remember the first time I realized I had switched over to relating to the adult narrator more than the kids. Great movie.
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When I decided to watch the Castle Rock Entertainment filmography back at the top of 2024 it began as an excuse revisit the films of my favorite director Rob Reiner, but it soon evolved into an exploration of how his creative fingerprints covered the company’s entire approach to filmmaking.
Over the course of the year I’ve been watching all 93 titles in the Castle Rock Entertainment filmography and sharing my thoughts on them in this thread. Follow along as I take a nostalgic trip around the lighthouse.
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
When I decided to watch the Castle Rock Entertainment filmography back at the top of 2024 it began as an excuse revisit the films of my favorite director Rob Reiner, but it soon evolved into an exploration of how his creative fingerprints covered the company’s entire approach to filmmaking.
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THIS IS SPINAL TAP might be the funniest movie of the 80s.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
THIS IS SPINAL TAP might be the funniest movie of the 80s.
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I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
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After a banner year of Warner Bros putting unique, filmmaker driven original movies into theaters and getting giant audience turn out for them, the corporation that now owns them would like you to know that actually you didn’t like this and that what you really wanted was to watch at home.
As Netflix confirms plans to buy Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion, the streaming service has said it expects shorter theatrical runs for movies in future "to meet the audience where they are, quicker." https://bit.ly/3XCvY8M
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
After a banner year of Warner Bros putting unique, filmmaker driven original movies into theaters and getting giant audience turn out for them, the corporation that now owns them would like you to know that actually you didn’t like this and that what you really wanted was to watch at home.
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
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I was very inebriated last night watching my favorite movie with the two people I love the most in this world and I made the best joke I will ever mutter out of my stupid mouth and I am so grateful that there were witnesses to that magic.
I'll never beat "Wet Damon" ever in my life ever again.
I'll never beat "Wet Damon" ever in my life ever again.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I was very inebriated last night watching my favorite movie with the two people I love the most in this world and I made the best joke I will ever mutter out of my stupid mouth and I am so grateful that there were witnesses to that magic.
I'll never beat "Wet Damon" ever in my life ever again.
I'll never beat "Wet Damon" ever in my life ever again.
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monogamists and heterosexuals are banned from making movies til they chill out a bit
November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
monogamists and heterosexuals are banned from making movies til they chill out a bit
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It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you.
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
bookshop.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you.
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
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Forgot how the marketing for The Fabelmans was like "a heartfelt semi-autobiographical story of the transformative power of the movies" and the movie's actual plot is "here follow the crimes of my Sexual Mother"
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Forgot how the marketing for The Fabelmans was like "a heartfelt semi-autobiographical story of the transformative power of the movies" and the movie's actual plot is "here follow the crimes of my Sexual Mother"
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Trying to dust off the writer's block and make stuff for public consumption again.
I wrote a poem for @mjbemis.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy.
I wrote a poem for @mjbemis.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy.
Burden of Proof
For Mandy
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November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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8 Dem Senators last night
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
8 Dem Senators last night
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. I work in harm reduction, and art vs. activism are often regarded as though they’re at odds. This is a beautiful story about what’s possible when the two intersect.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. I work in harm reduction, and art vs. activism are often regarded as though they’re at odds. This is a beautiful story about what’s possible when the two intersect.
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it's Cosmo's moon
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
it's Cosmo's moon
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Something I think doesn’t really get talked about when it comes to cosmic horror is that it’s a safe way to ask questions about belief and why the mere existence of a higher power, no matter how real, is enough for people to justify being unimaginably cruel
Carpenter’s Mouth of Madness tackles head on the evil in believing in Revelation. Rapture is selfish, sociopathic. People as inward fanatics assured in faith, justified in whatever cruelty it demands of them, because they “know” how it ends. Let the world burn. “I’ve read to the end.”
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Something I think doesn’t really get talked about when it comes to cosmic horror is that it’s a safe way to ask questions about belief and why the mere existence of a higher power, no matter how real, is enough for people to justify being unimaginably cruel