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A&E Editor/Film Critic for cityweekly.net Disneylander Rated TV-14 for adult themes and language https://letterboxd.com/ScottRenshaw/

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 6d

New @cityweekly.bsky.social for this week's very full slate of new theatrical & streaming releases: TRON: ARES; ROOFMAN; A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE; SOUL ON FIRE; KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN; ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5; JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME; THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10; VICIOUS. www.cityweekly.net/film/movie-r...

Movie Reviews: New releases for Oct. 10

Tron: Ares, Roofman, Kiss of the Spider Woman, A House of Dynamite, Soul on Fire, John Candy: I Like Me, The Woman in Cabin 10, Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, Vicious

www.cityweekly.net

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 8h

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, ugh

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 8h

I would not have expected that both movies I saw today—Panahi’s IT WAS ONLY AN ACCIDENT and Del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN—would center a quest for vengeance where the target was a man with a prosthetic leg.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 11h

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (2025) | D: Jafar Panahi #OnePerfectShot

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 19h

Prepping in earnest now for (likely) my final Sundance, and looking for my traditional place to bunk in Park City for the first Thursday - Monday. If you're someone still looking for housemates, and have an actual bed (I'm too old for floor/couch nonsense), please hit me up via DM.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 23h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

It’s 2025 America, I have no idea what might get me sent to jail at this point.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

It would be nice at least if one of the benefits of the government shutdown was that all these assholes had to go away and shut up until it was operating again.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

At this point in history, it wouldn't shock me if a bunch of conservative operatives intentionally revealed *their own* racist messages so they could then head immediately to the "the left tried to cancel me" influencer grift.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

If you've been coached by a
Freaky GOAT then you
Better call
GOAT busters!

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 1d

My favorite Struzan story is that he was doing the poster for Indy at Disneyland, but they didn't have the rights to Ford's likeness. Fed up with working around the problem, Struzan just called Ford and was like, "hey, can I use your face for this," and Ford said, "if it's for you, absolutely."

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, that’s “Bert,” of course.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Re-watching MARY POPPINS for an upcoming podcast, and man was Dick Van Dyke’s Burt—one-man band, street artist, chimney sweep—an O.G. gig-economy hustler.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Cinema now is almost entirely limited to two speeds: four-quadrant, or art house.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone refer to the “red glare” test for “The Star-Spangled Banner.” If you can get through those notes and not embarrass yourself, you can make it through; if not, let the pros handle it.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been a minute since I gasp-laughed quite this much at something.

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2d

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 2d

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a valid point, with the caveat that S&E at least got to decide for themselves that was their metric of choice.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

Furthermore, Rotten Tomatoes is like generative AI: It chews up actual work, benefitting from that work and diminishing the ability of actual creators to benefit from it, all while making everyone dumber about that work.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

You are correct of course that RT decides if we're invited; I decided to uninvite myself several years ago. And I'm fine with everything that entails.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

I have no beef with the fact that they ask; I just grow weary of having to explain to people who just don't understand why integrity might dictate someone's decision not to associate with RT at all.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

@gemko.bsky.social Regarding your BLUE MOON TIFF capsule, I'm guessing the third example you could recall was Hart telling aspiring director George (Roy) Hill "think *friendship* stories."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Last time I saw some shit like that, it was biting Richard Dysart’s arms off in Carpenter’s THE THING.