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Brendan Foley
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Part time imaginary friend. Contributor to http://Cinapse.co. Co-host of https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brendanagnew. BUY MY BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Terrors-1-Brendan-Foley-ebook/dp/B08YX8G6RK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=F79LKMDQ573T&dib=eyJ2IjoiM
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blcagnew.bsky.social
Happy #Wicked Wednesday, other buckets! #MakeMeWatchIt welcomes both @wcwit.bsky.social and @jknicholson.bsky.social to chat subjects like James Bond, examine clues left by #WakeUpDeadMan, and then fly full-speed into spoilers on #WickedForGood.
#filmsky #podsky
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Episode 56: "Dorothy, they're lesbians." - Benoit Blanc / Wicked For Good
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December 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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thechewdefense.bsky.social
One of the great “fuck yeah” moments in cinema
December 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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kenplume.bsky.social
Jim Henson appearing as the Mystery Guest on WHAT'S MY LINE (a classic game show where a blindfolded panel would ask a guest questions to try & guess their occupation, w/ each episode also having a special guest whose identity they would attempt to suss out) in 1974...
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
December 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
thetruebrendanf.bsky.social
Boy, they really are GOING FOR IT with these movies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlF6...
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE - New Trailer (HD)
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December 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
had high hopes for Wake Up Dead Man, and they were exceeded. I feel insanely biased, though, as a lapsed Catholic who loves impeccably crafted locked-room mysteries & murder at the vicarage. imho the funniest, most poignant, and maybe prettiest Benoit Blanc entry yet.
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
thetruebrendanf.bsky.social
I don't need a sequel to ONE OF THEM DAYS, I just need a new movie every year where Keke Palmer and SZA are friends having misadventures. (I will also accept the sequel, obvs)
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h
watching ONE OF THEM DAYS and keke palmer is so insanely charming it is outrageous
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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juliansingleton.bsky.social
One of the best parts of Man Finds Tape getting the hype it has right now is seeing @gholson.bsky.social slowly accumulating deserved horror icon status!
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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aadowd.bsky.social
Insufferable loudmouthed geek with terrible, adolescent opinions who also stages scenes like a man touched by God.
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
thetruebrendanf.bsky.social
Was going to roll my eyes at ScarJo jumping aboard another franchise, but you know what? She also just shot the next James Gray movie, she's attached to Andrea Arnold's next movie, and she's also attached to the next Cruise/McQ project. So you do you, ScarJo.
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
thetruebrendanf.bsky.social
and when it (literally) blows up in his face, his first response is to whine about how people just didn’t get it”
marygillis.bsky.social Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · Dec 12
In THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Jack Skellington sees something, decides it belongs to him, and pumps out an altered version of it that almost looks like the real thing (but which sucks and everyone hates) while nearly destroying the thing he claimed to be championing.

Jack is a dead tech bro.
December 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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willowcatelyn.bsky.social
I wrote about ANGEL'S EGG for my reader's choice series. This has been one of my all time favorite movies since I saw it for the first time around a decade ago. I love it, and I hope my love for the movie came through.

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a still from ANGEL'S EGG of a little girl in a pink pinstripe dress cradling an egg. She has long unruly white hair and she is very pale, contrasting harshly against a charcoal soot background of ruins. The Biblical story of Noah is retold near the end of Mamoru Oshii’s avant-garde anime classic Angel’s Egg. Biblical allusions are commonplace in Oshii’s art, but he isn’t a devout religious filmmaker. He uses the notion of faith, identity and the perception of existence through the dream state, wakefulness and alternate (oftentimes technological) realities to probe at what it means to be alive. He was fascinated by the philosophical and symbolic meanings that he found in reading religious texts, and in the case of Angel’s Egg, he and co-creator Yoshitaka Amano, created a speculative apocalyptic version of the story of Noah, but told through the perspective of those left behind by God. The story follows a prodigal soldier in search of truth, and a young girl who is caretaker to an egg she has found in the wet wasteland. He carries a weapon in the shape of a cross, and she keeps her egg underneath her dress for incubation. The soldier is the keeper of the story of Noah. He tells her that it rained for forty days and forty nights, and all manner of beast and man saw the tides rise on the seventh day and drown the Earth. After the rains stopped, Noah commanded a dove from his ark to find land, but the dove never returned. Another seven days passed, and he sent the second dove, who also vanished in the endless horizon. The soldier speculates that the strength of the bird’s gave out and they were swallowed by the sea. As time marched forward, even Noah forgot about the old world, and could only conceive of the never-ending ocean that lay before him. The animals turned to stone, and there was no color to be found in the ambivalence of the sky, let alone a rainbow. As he tells of fatalist Noah, the girl listens, and holds her dearest egg close to her ear, and she tells him that she can hear the rustling of wings, and the baby’s breath of her dove. Her hope speaks to her in whispers only she can understand. In her belief, she can envision flying away on strong wings
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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pbfcomics.bsky.social
You’ll Be OK
"I'm havin a breakdown," says one crudely-drawn stick figure to another. "You'll be OK," says the second. The first stick figure exclaims, "AGGHHH", and collapses. His head and outstretched arms and legs spell out the letters O-K.
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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davedicello.bsky.social
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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dirtdork.bsky.social
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
A screenshot of a post from r/nostalgia with a blurry picture of a Christmas tree (dated 11/23/2013) and the caption "Why doesn't Christmas feel like magic anymore? Do you remember the joy of baking cookies and decorating a Christmas tree with your family?"
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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chrismclaren.com
There are some really great one-liners in 80s action movies, but it's a rare case where we get a set-up, a callback, a payoff, AND a coda.
The setup: Arnie tells Sully that since he's a funny guy, Arnie will kill him last. The callback: hanging Sully over a canyon Arnie reminds him that he promised to kill Sully last. The payoff. "I lied." and Arnie drops him down the cliff. It'd be a great action movie bit right there, but... ...we also get a coda, when Arnie gets back to Rae Dawn and she asks what he did with Sully. "I let him go." *chef kiss* of 80s cheese.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
thetruebrendanf.bsky.social
Open to being surprised, but kneejerk reaction is that Leo on screen is diametrically opposed to what Michael Mann needs from his leading men, even setting aside whichever of the HEAT trio he’s meant to play.
discussingfilm.net DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 13h
Leonardo DiCaprio confirms he will star in ‘HEAT 2’

“We’re still working on it, we’re a ways away from production”

(Source: Deadline)
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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sambarsanti.bsky.social
This is such a mess. The HBO Max "remastered" version of The Simpsons reveals that Duff, Duff Lite, and Duff Dry all come from the same pipe. 🙄
A screenshot from The Simpsons showing that Duff, Duff Lite, and Duff Dry all come from the same pipe, a joke indicating that they're the same thing. In the original Disney+ version of this episode, the top of the frame was cut off, ruining the joke, which is the reverse of what happened with the HBO Max Mad Men thing.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
thetruebrendanf.bsky.social
Had somehow missed that Elijah Wood was joining up as the demonic master of ceremonies. Very into it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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dialhforhagai.bsky.social
thinking about this Brautigan short again
I was trying to describe you to someone a few days ago. You don’t look like any girl I’ve ever seen before. I couldn’t say “Well she looks just like Jane Fonda, except that she’s got red hair, and her mouth is different and of course, she’s not a movie star…” I couldn’t say that because you don’t look like Jane Fonda at all. I finally ended up describing you as a movie I saw when I was a child in Tacoma Washington. I guess I saw it in 1941 or 42, somewhere in there. I think I was seven, or eight, or six. It was a movie about rural electrification, a perfect 1930’s New Deal morality kind of movie to show kids. The movie was about farmers living in the country without electricity. They had to use lanterns to see by at night, for sewing and reading, and they didn’t have any appliances like toasters or washing machines, and they couldn’t listen to the radio. They built a dam with big electric generators and they put poles across the countryside and strung wire over fields and pastures. There was an incredible heroic dimension that came from the simple putting up of poles for the wires to travel along. They looked ancient and modern at the same time. Then the movie showed electricity like a young Greek god, coming to the farmer to take away forever the dark ways of his life. Suddenly, religiously, with the throwing of a switch, the farmer had electric lights to see by when he milked his cows in the early black winter mornings. The farmer’s family got to listen to the radio and have a toaster and lots of bright lights to sew dresses and read the newspaper by. It was really a fantastic movie and excited me like listening to the Star Spangled Banner, or seeing photographs of President Roosevelt, or hearing him on the radio “…the President of the United States…" I wanted electricity to go everywhere in the world. I wanted all the farmers in the world to be able to listen to President Roosevelt on the radio… And that’s how you look to me.
November 22, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Shimmering noir that makes the IMMEDIATE case for John Woo as a master and for Chow Yun-fat as a cinematic icon. At once unfathomably cool and tear-your-heart-out earnest. KILLER and HARD BOILED might dwarf it, but ABT is terrific in its own right, never mind what other greatness grew from it.
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Now Watching: A BETTER TOMORROW
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
[Burt Lancaster voice] "I love this dirty town."
thesharkqueen.com Liz, a queen of sharks- unban Łink, ffs @thesharkqueen.com · 23h
He is CLEARLY thinking about it
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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stevensantos.bsky.social
This is the first line of a Tom Waits song.
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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jasondashbailey.com
Good movie crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM