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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 16h

Rachel McAdams goes feral? Good for her!

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This Is the Movie that Rachel McAdams Deserves

She reteams with Sam Raimi in an original film!

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 16h

It’s a compliment (the article says the movie looks terrific) www.pajiba.com/news/rachel-...

This Is the Movie that Rachel McAdams Deserves

She reteams with Sam Raimi in an original film!

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 18h

Someday Hamish Linklater is going to get cast as Jesse Watters and i will be so so TORN

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 21h

from me -- a profile of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker whose work has perfectly met our age of surveillance and interrogation and asks the imperative question of: Who are we, and what comes next? IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT = masterpiece, imo.

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Since his 2010 imprisonment, the director has been in an endless game of chicken with the Iranian regime. In his defiant new film, ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

Jafar Panahi’s Cinematic Rebellions

Since his 2010 imprisonment, the director has been in an endless game of chicken with the Iranian regime. In his defiant new film, ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who historically enjoys recoiling in my seat and watching through my fingers as Tim Robinson napalms his fictional life, I’m already entirely in the bag for this one.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 1d

‘The Chair Company’ Review: Tim Robinson and the Mystery of the Bad Customer Service

It's hard to say whether HBO's The Chair Company is an evolution of Tim Robinson's particular brand of absurdist comedy, or just a perfect distillation of it. You can trace the roots of his new HBO series straight back to... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 6d

The way Lee and Betty Jo flirt and you’re never quite sure who is playing who only to realize that actually neither of them are, they’re just complex people having a mutually beneficial nice time together? 🤌

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 6d

Recap: Lee Gets Smashed in All Kinds of Ways in This Week’s ‘The Lowdown’

Wouldn't you know, as soon as I decide to do a fun game about who's beating up Lee in The Lowdown each week, along comes an episode where he doesn't get his face smashed in at all. I mean, he... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 7d

I always enjoy this show, the third season is still good, and you know what? There’s more room for an American version of Alice in Borderland than Squid Game.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 7d

Spoilers: ‘Alice In Borderland’ Season Three Goes Full ‘Squid Game’ in Its Last Act

Netflix's Alice In Borderland returned for its third (and final?) season after a three-year hiatus, and that's fine because this season doesn't require a detailed memory of the previous installments. Seasons one and two adapted the manga of the same... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 12d

I maintain that Doctor Odyssey was propaganda for Disney cruises because otherwise all you hear about cruises is exploding toilets and norovirus outbreaks.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

Almost 100 people came down with norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean ship amid a 13-day voyage, the CDC reported this week.

Norovirus Outbreak Sickens Nearly 100 on Royal Caribbean Cruise

Four crew members and 94 passengers came down with norovirus while sailing from San Diego to Miami.

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 13d

Much like Reservation Dogs, every episode of The Lowdown is its best episode until the next one comes along.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 13d

Recap: Who's Beating up Lee in 'The Lowdown' This Week? Poachers!

After last week's frenzied two-part premiere, The Lowdown is finally settling into its natural storytelling pace. Episode three, titled "Dinosaur Memories," focuses almost exclusively on Lee's hunt for Dale Washberg's missing paperback mysteries. When Lee was blackballed from the Washberg... Read more...

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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 13d

'The Lowdown,' 'Survivor,' 'Alien: Earth,' And More On Podjiba!

First up: Survivor is back, which means it's time for our winner picks that definitely will prove to be the perfect final three for the season! I think you will find that our selections are wholly unsurprising, if you listen... Read more...

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 20d

Like @torionic.bsky.social I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more eyeball.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 20d

Recap: The ‘Alien: Earth’ Finale Needed More Eyeball

From the very first episode, a common critique of Alien: Earth has been that it's all rather obvious. So when I tell you that the season finale is titled "The Real Monsters," I can assure you that it's not talking... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 20d

Kicking the Eyeblobby can down the road to next season… if there IS a next season

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 20d

Recap: The ‘Alien: Earth’ Finale Needed More Eyeball

From the very first episode, a common critique of Alien: Earth has been that it's all rather obvious. So when I tell you that the season finale is titled "The Real Monsters," I can assure you that it's not talking... Read more...

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 20d

ALIEN: EARTH did what I once considered impossible: turned me into someone defending PROMETHEUS and ALIEN: COVENANT as actually, kind of good, and it's annoying that the series ignored their lore while also sort of copying their themes? spoilers, at @vulture.com:

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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 20d

'Black Rabbit,' 'Task,' 'The Lowdown,' And More On Podjiba!

This week, a brand new segment which we may or may not keep going: TV After Ten (Minutes)! In which I will judge a show entirely on the first ten minutes that I've seen. In the inaugural segment, we covered... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 20d

I am really digging The Lowdown, and the time has never been better for a mystery about… caring about your community

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 20d

FX’s ‘The Lowdown’ Makes Great Use of Ethan Hawke’s Punchable Face

When it was announced that Jimmy Kimmel would be returning to the airwaves, I breathed a sigh of relief. Because it was a win for free speech and consumers pushing back at corporate bottom lines? Yes, of course -- but... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 21d

Watching the Welcome To Derry trailer and pretending it’s the third season of Castle Rock

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 22d

It’s wild that Oliver was the guest on the episode that got Kimmel pulled, and now… here we are (he’s right, though)

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 22d

John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation

Aside from Sinclair deciding at the last minute not to air the Charlie Kirk special on Friday night in Jimmy Kimmel's time slot, as originally planned, there hasn't been much new news about the Jimmy Kimmel situation, aside from an... Read more...

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 23d

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 24d

True story: someone puked loudly in the theater during the big climax of the movie (not because of the movie, they were drunk) and while I didn’t dislike HIM as much as many critics I can safely say my experience of it was worse

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 24d

‘HIM’ review: All Guts, No Glory

HIM is a dumb movie, and that'd be fine if it were just a dumb movie -- some of the best horror movies are bone-stupid! -- but it's not. It's a dumb movie with pretensions of being something greater, something... Read more...

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25d

Using LLMs in this context essentially guarantees that existing biases are maintained and reflected consistently. There’s no longer a way to seek out a “good doctor” if they’re all flattened into using the same poisoned data sets. There is no argument in favor of the ethics of any of this.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25d

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”