Vaughn
@stepprinted.com
Seattle Film Critics Society member. Film on the brain and neon in my veins. Rad dude, garbage goblin. He/him.
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Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
February 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
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it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for
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Aronofsky, like anyone in a creative field who uses generative AI, should be regarded as a class traitor and shunned. If you don't believe in the fundamental value of human artistic expression, you are undeserving of the community of your peers. ESPECIALLY in as collaborative an art form as film.
February 1, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Aronofsky, like anyone in a creative field who uses generative AI, should be regarded as a class traitor and shunned. If you don't believe in the fundamental value of human artistic expression, you are undeserving of the community of your peers. ESPECIALLY in as collaborative an art form as film.
The problem with shit like this isn't that it's stupid, which it is - it's that the conclusion is couched in the good faith assessment that this is a technology that needs improvement, and not a technology that shouldn't exist in the first place. There is no version of this that anyone needs.
Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
January 29, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The problem with shit like this isn't that it's stupid, which it is - it's that the conclusion is couched in the good faith assessment that this is a technology that needs improvement, and not a technology that shouldn't exist in the first place. There is no version of this that anyone needs.
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solidarity forever
Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.
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The first General Strike in 80 years
We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before
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January 23, 2026 at 6:16 PM
solidarity forever
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really can't help feeling like major difference between the awards season reception of The Brutalist and The Testament of Ann Lee is that the former was about a man and the latter is about a woman
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 PM
really can't help feeling like major difference between the awards season reception of The Brutalist and The Testament of Ann Lee is that the former was about a man and the latter is about a woman
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January 19, 2026 at 9:55 PM
currently going through whatever you call the crisis you have when you're almost 30 and start getting really into jazz fusion
January 17, 2026 at 5:13 AM
currently going through whatever you call the crisis you have when you're almost 30 and start getting really into jazz fusion
There are few things I find more pathetic than the Silicon Valley desire for a world where everyone's life is so efficiently catered to their id that nobody ever has a single real experience.
"You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to see a movie," says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
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January 17, 2026 at 1:34 AM
There are few things I find more pathetic than the Silicon Valley desire for a world where everyone's life is so efficiently catered to their id that nobody ever has a single real experience.
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I wrote and narrated the video essay to be included in this release, a history of Johnnie To's romances.
UK/US: Left at the altar and lost after a drunken bender, Michael is nursed back to health by grieving widow Sue in ROMANCING IN THIN AIR.
Although best known for action films, Johnnie To crafts a powerful meditation on grief and catharsis in this moving romantic melodrama.
Although best known for action films, Johnnie To crafts a powerful meditation on grief and catharsis in this moving romantic melodrama.
January 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
I wrote and narrated the video essay to be included in this release, a history of Johnnie To's romances.
Huge.
UK/US: Left at the altar and lost after a drunken bender, Michael is nursed back to health by grieving widow Sue in ROMANCING IN THIN AIR.
Although best known for action films, Johnnie To crafts a powerful meditation on grief and catharsis in this moving romantic melodrama.
Although best known for action films, Johnnie To crafts a powerful meditation on grief and catharsis in this moving romantic melodrama.
January 7, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Huge.
Incredible trifecta of 20th anniversaries this year.
January 6, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Incredible trifecta of 20th anniversaries this year.
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I actually don’t think it’s necessary to concede that soldiers who carry out the illegal orders of an evil imperialist state are somehow “brave”
January 5, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I actually don’t think it’s necessary to concede that soldiers who carry out the illegal orders of an evil imperialist state are somehow “brave”
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As we embark on a new year, Seattle Critics Society Members reflect on their favorite films of 2025.
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Roundup: Seattle Critics Year-End Lists for 2025 - Seattle Film Critics Society
For a film critic, the year's not over until you've agonized over which movies make your year-end list. Although SFCS has already announced our 2025 awards, as we turn the page to a new year we're…
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January 1, 2026 at 11:34 PM
As we embark on a new year, Seattle Critics Society Members reflect on their favorite films of 2025.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:34 PM
The 25 Best Films of 2025 are here, from myself and @stephenage.bsky.social.
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The 25 Best Films of 2025
While the eye of the storm closes in from a thousand forces conspiring to devalue the human spirit in favor of cheap, exploitable profit, we continue to be immersed in a wealth of artistic brilliance ...
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January 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The 25 Best Films of 2025 are here, from myself and @stephenage.bsky.social.
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See, that's how you do this
RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).
December 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
See, that's how you do this
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MARTY SUPREME is a triumph of cinema, a ceaseless vortex of familiar Safdie anxiety wrapped in the image of ragged, exhaustive individualism that comprises the American dream and every nightmare that results from pursuing it.
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Marty Supreme: Manifest Destiny
Josh Safdie's films largely traffic in the wake of the American dream, or about the way that the promise of this country eventually sands us all down into aberrant messes adrift in a sea of post-capit...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
MARTY SUPREME is a triumph of cinema, a ceaseless vortex of familiar Safdie anxiety wrapped in the image of ragged, exhaustive individualism that comprises the American dream and every nightmare that results from pursuing it.
stepprinted.com/marty-suprem...
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I agree, Lucy Liu.
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I agree, Lucy Liu.
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21 Dec 2025
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
21 Dec 2025
I guess it's time to find something new to do with my free time.
December 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I guess it's time to find something new to do with my free time.
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
So many phenomenal films this year, but really it couldn't be anything else. My review of PTA's staggering revolutionary odyssey - stepprinted.com/one-battle-a...
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So many phenomenal films this year, but really it couldn't be anything else. My review of PTA's staggering revolutionary odyssey - stepprinted.com/one-battle-a...
The worst victim of the slow destruction of the American economy at the behest of endless growth and stock value is cars being affordable and sensible, I am losing my mind at the disappearance of the small sedan
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The worst victim of the slow destruction of the American economy at the behest of endless growth and stock value is cars being affordable and sensible, I am losing my mind at the disappearance of the small sedan
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The SFCS 2025 award for Best PICTURE:
📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Paul Thomas Anderson
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📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Paul Thomas Anderson
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December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The SFCS 2025 award for Best PICTURE:
📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Paul Thomas Anderson
@warnerbrospictures.bsky.social
📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Paul Thomas Anderson
@warnerbrospictures.bsky.social