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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 1h

*scans furiously for INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE*

FYI: Whatever you do, don't underestimate Maika Monroe. We're celebrating the indie horror icon with a look back at some of her most compelling roles.

Why Maika Monroe Is Our Most Compelling Modern Final Girl

Whatever you do, don't underestimate Maika Monroe. We're celebrating the indie horror icon with a look back at some of her most compelling roles.

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 1h

Got to give it to Reichardt for mounting not one but two scenes of incredible tension, but also committing to that vertical text for the opening titles which introduces a real layout conundrum when it comes to Josh O’Connor’s apostrophe

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 1h

Saw THE MASTERMIND. Yet another exquisite piece of filmmaking from Kelly Reichardt about a man who fails to comprehend either his own naïveté or how much he’s ducking up lives other than his own as the underlying political text plays out beyond his locus of attention Terrific movie and performances

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 3d

"My second Nazi tattoo has a lot of people raising questions already answered by my first Nazi tattoo"

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 3d

Fun exercise when seeing people's faces in content from the shortform social video platforms: why does their skin look so weird? Is it:
a) Algorithmic "improvement" by the capture device?
b) Manual "improvement" by the user in an editing app?
c) Horrible compression artefacts?
d) All of the above?

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 3d

Having a bit of a Romy Schneider thing this week, so here, have a bit of Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider poses on a sunlounger in a black halter-neck swimsuit

Romy Schneider wearing a black raincoat, calmly regarding someone in the distance

Romy Schneider poses in a low-cut red dress

Romy Schneider sits on a balcony wearing horn-rimmed spectacles, turning to look at us over her bare shoulder

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 3d

If it ever is built, they'll have to tear it down again immediately just to get rid of all the surveillance equipment installed by foreign powers which are operating dirt-cheap construction companies which haven't received any sort of security vetting, and won't be paid anyway

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 3d

Real talk: you don't just announce a major construction project requiring extensive preliminary demolition and then just start knocking shit down a month later. This whole Donald J. Memorial Ballroom (as it will inevitably be called) has been in the works a looooong time.

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 3d

With hideous irony, when I first saw this post this morning it had 88 likes...

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 3d

I somehow managed to go my whole life without even being tempted to get a Nazi tattoo.

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 4d

Chess player: dies
Entire Internet: "Is that the dude with the vibrator in his butt?"

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 5d

Oopsie

How ‘Tron: Ares’ Ran Off The Grid: Disney Sci-Fi Movie Set To Lose $132M+

Deadline has learned that Tron: Ares actually cost $220 million net, not the reported $170 million-$180 million that was floated out there.

deadline.com

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 5d

Watching one of those films which largely seems to exist as a mechanism for reminding us exactly why the phrase "visionary director Ron Howard" isn't a thing.

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 5d

At least it isn't one of Chiles' efforts, which can induce a coma at thirty paces.

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 5d

I'm getting reports that a Grauniad columnist's latest wisp of tedious ephemera has escaped containment.

Buckle in everyone, it's going to be a mild ride.

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

I believe in you: you got this.

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

That almost feels like a deliberate progression from Tron Is Not The Protagonist of TRON > Tron Is Not Technically In TRON LEGACY Except For When He Does His Catchphrase, but only if anything about ARES is deliberate, which is up for debate but doesn't exclude obliviousness on the wrtiers' part

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

My one hope for AVATAR: FIRE & BRIMSTONE is that Cameron's got a handle on when and where to deploy the HFR for actual affect rather than just slapping it on entirely random shots within a sequence and breaking the immersion

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

Now, that's worth stealing from the Louvre

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

At first I read this as subbing limoncello for EVOO and I'm not altogether sure that isn't an experiment worth giving a whirl

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

C'mon, dude, if you absolutely have to do this, use a burner that everyone can block

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6d

Unblocked the White House account for a sec just to check activity, and boy is it active. People earnestly replying to obvious trolling, why.

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

Probably should have been less surprised by the amount of nudity in this sexploitation movie set in a postwar South China brothel

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

Time was that your French jewel thief put some effort, dexterity and artistry into their heists, with none of this angle-grinder-and-a-cherry-picker bullshit.
We used to live in a société, dammit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUPQ...

Oceans Twelve - Capoeira Laser Scene

YouTube video by KOSTAS22R

www.youtube.com

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

Can't spell canal without, well, you know...

Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 6d

the thing about reading gay historical fiction about nineteenth century politics is sometimes the author gets really, really into the suez canal

from the jar of oil. He visualized John stroking his cock, pulling back the cap to make sure the tip was well-oiled.
Then the bed sank as John climbed up. "And now for the transit of your personal Suez Canal," he said. "Open the lock and let the warship in."

jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

Who robbed the Louvre? right answers only

[other Irma Veps are available]

Promotional image for LES VAMPIRES (1915) showing Musidora in cartoon form as Irma Vep

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 6d

An image macro in the form of a still from NATHAN FOR YOU, showing Nathan Fielder in his signature consultant outfit behind a desk, stating:
The problem: techbros are jerks
The plan: convince them that powdered meal replacement drinks are superior to actual food, then give them lead poisoning