Christian Holub
@cholub.bsky.social
Glad to see so many new faces on this site! Formerly of Entertainment Weekly, now a freelance writer/reporter covering comics, cartoons, sci-fi, and other nerdy fun
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Christian Holub
@cholub.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Welcome to the (retro)future: Inside the Fantastic Four's 'first steps' into the MCU
'The Fantastic Four: First Steps: stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and director Matt Shakman share details about the upcoming Marvel superhero film — and why it...
ew.com
ICYMI, I've got a deep dive into the making of the new Fantastic Four movie, the MCU's great hope. We talk Kirby and Kubrick, finally bringing the FF back to (a version of) the '60s, Galactus!, and more.
This is my last story for EW, and I'm proud of how it turned out ew.com/the-fantasti...
This is my last story for EW, and I'm proud of how it turned out ew.com/the-fantasti...
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Gonna start an Insta called “The White Mannequins of Africa”
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Gonna start an Insta called “The White Mannequins of Africa”
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
I like this debate between socialists and anti-monopolists in The Prospect & other pubs, but there should be way more acknowledgement of Malcolm Harris' great new book WHAT'S LEFT, which is all about how these different left-wing factions can work together!
Responding to Matt Bruenig, @ryanlcooper.com argues that "there must be a role for antitrust for any brand of socialism that includes markets."
prospect.org/economy/2025...
prospect.org/economy/2025...
The Socialist Case for Antitrust
Markets need regulating. Always have, always will.
prospect.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I like this debate between socialists and anti-monopolists in The Prospect & other pubs, but there should be way more acknowledgement of Malcolm Harris' great new book WHAT'S LEFT, which is all about how these different left-wing factions can work together!
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weed atman the late great weed atman….not QUITE dead and not quite alive either. But we loved weed didn’t we? his parents were on a train or something i can’t remember….COLLEGE OF THE SURF boy it’s a shame what they did over there
September 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
weed atman the late great weed atman….not QUITE dead and not quite alive either. But we loved weed didn’t we? his parents were on a train or something i can’t remember….COLLEGE OF THE SURF boy it’s a shame what they did over there
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The best format for viewing #OneBattleAfterAnother is the one that is most convenient and affordable for each theatrical moviegoer. It’s a terrific film, and it’ll look and sound great in any properly operated auditorium with a decent-sized screen and functioning speakers.
a man wearing sunglasses and a beanie talking on a phone with the caption " you know i don t remember that part
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a beanie talking on a phone with the caption " you know i don t remember that part
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The best format for viewing #OneBattleAfterAnother is the one that is most convenient and affordable for each theatrical moviegoer. It’s a terrific film, and it’ll look and sound great in any properly operated auditorium with a decent-sized screen and functioning speakers.
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total retreat
NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
total retreat
Talking shit about people behind a Patreon paywall is already loser behavior, but especially when the target is a trans writer who got punished by a corporation as part of the Charlie Kirk crackdown
Moira Donegan and IN BED WITH THE RIGHT can go pound sand. Tone-policing respectability mutants.
September 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Talking shit about people behind a Patreon paywall is already loser behavior, but especially when the target is a trans writer who got punished by a corporation as part of the Charlie Kirk crackdown
I'm writing about Dune again! For @goldderby.com, I took a virtual walking tour of the Dune: Prophecy sets with production designer Tom Meyer, who pointed out many fascinating details! The secret to doing Dune on screen is conveying its lore through the environments www.goldderby.com/tv/2025/dune...
‘Dune: Prophecy’ production designer gives exclusive tour of the show’s biggest sets: Watch
Gold Derby goes behind-the-scenes of the eye-popping, Emmy-nominated HBO prequel spin-off of Denis Villeneuve's Oscar-nominated films.
www.goldderby.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm writing about Dune again! For @goldderby.com, I took a virtual walking tour of the Dune: Prophecy sets with production designer Tom Meyer, who pointed out many fascinating details! The secret to doing Dune on screen is conveying its lore through the environments www.goldderby.com/tv/2025/dune...
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sometimes when you're very overdue on doing laundry, your only shirts available are your worst shirt, for obvious reasons, and your favorite shirt, which you have reserved in case of emergency. this is known as the Launderer's Paradox and may result in you wearing your favorite shirt to walgreens
August 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
sometimes when you're very overdue on doing laundry, your only shirts available are your worst shirt, for obvious reasons, and your favorite shirt, which you have reserved in case of emergency. this is known as the Launderer's Paradox and may result in you wearing your favorite shirt to walgreens
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Glad to see Jessica Lee Gagne get an Emmy nom for directing the best episode of Severance s2 — the longtime cinematographer's directorial debut at that! I had a great talk with her last month for @goldderby.com, complete with compliments from most of the cast www.goldderby.com/article/2025...
How the longtime ‘Severance’ cinematographer wound up directing Season 2’s standout episode
Jessica Lee Gagné worked alongside Ben Stiller on nearly every episode. For Season 2's standout, she took the helm herself.
www.goldderby.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Glad to see Jessica Lee Gagne get an Emmy nom for directing the best episode of Severance s2 — the longtime cinematographer's directorial debut at that! I had a great talk with her last month for @goldderby.com, complete with compliments from most of the cast www.goldderby.com/article/2025...
Glad to see Jessica Lee Gagne get an Emmy nom for directing the best episode of Severance s2 — the longtime cinematographer's directorial debut at that! I had a great talk with her last month for @goldderby.com, complete with compliments from most of the cast www.goldderby.com/article/2025...
How the longtime ‘Severance’ cinematographer wound up directing Season 2’s standout episode
Jessica Lee Gagné worked alongside Ben Stiller on nearly every episode. For Season 2's standout, she took the helm herself.
www.goldderby.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Glad to see Jessica Lee Gagne get an Emmy nom for directing the best episode of Severance s2 — the longtime cinematographer's directorial debut at that! I had a great talk with her last month for @goldderby.com, complete with compliments from most of the cast www.goldderby.com/article/2025...
hahaha
NYTimes Ed Board 1935 on Mayor La Guardia: "[He is] fond of toying with haphazard proposals that may be benevolent in intention but are dangerous or impossible in practice. He seems always to want to have in hand some socialistic plaything or other. Just now it is a municipal power plant."
June 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
hahaha
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The bully characters ie BIF, Alex P Keaton, Greed is Good, Skinheads - these were all part of the soup of the generation. Cobain et all were OUTLIERS.
I'm going to keep saying this until I die. The majority of white Gen X men in particular who I knew were REACTIONARIES when they were young. Them supporting Trump and fascists is a straight line not an outlier.
June 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The bully characters ie BIF, Alex P Keaton, Greed is Good, Skinheads - these were all part of the soup of the generation. Cobain et all were OUTLIERS.
The leader of the Democratic Party in Minnesota was assassinated by a cop in her home, one of New York's 3 citywide elected officials was kidnapped on camera by stormtroopers, and Trump is credibly threatening to nuke Iran
June 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The leader of the Democratic Party in Minnesota was assassinated by a cop in her home, one of New York's 3 citywide elected officials was kidnapped on camera by stormtroopers, and Trump is credibly threatening to nuke Iran
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Truly deeply sick of the so called serious people in New York being reactionary conservative know-nothings, spending all their time whining about the subways without actually ever riding and falling for macho tough guys.
June 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Truly deeply sick of the so called serious people in New York being reactionary conservative know-nothings, spending all their time whining about the subways without actually ever riding and falling for macho tough guys.
Wow this NYT op-ed is one of the most reactionary screeds I've read in a minute. An endorsement of indicted criminals Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo that is too cowardly to actually say so outright
June 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Wow this NYT op-ed is one of the most reactionary screeds I've read in a minute. An endorsement of indicted criminals Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo that is too cowardly to actually say so outright
This is exactly the kind of thing that US-funded dictatorships used to do in other countries for decades; that's what the Cold War was. Now it's inevitably come home. The fight is here now
I feel like it should be a bigger deal that ICE arrested the leader of the largest union in California.
National Labor Leaders Plan to Demand Release of SEIU's David Huerta With Rally at Grand Park
The longtime labor activist was injured and taken into custody on Friday outside a DTLA business targeted as location as part of a series of federal raids across the city
www.yahoo.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is exactly the kind of thing that US-funded dictatorships used to do in other countries for decades; that's what the Cold War was. Now it's inevitably come home. The fight is here now
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thing about Cuomo is his posturing as the "get stuff done" candidate is complete bullshit. he *sucks* at management. an overconfident, sloppy moron who constantly makes howlingly bad decisions bsky.app/profile/timm...
My little brother worked in skilled nursing at the time, and I think Cuomo might be his least favorite person on earth. They all blame him for covid getting into their facilities
June 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
thing about Cuomo is his posturing as the "get stuff done" candidate is complete bullshit. he *sucks* at management. an overconfident, sloppy moron who constantly makes howlingly bad decisions bsky.app/profile/timm...
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"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard."
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
May 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard."
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
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Illegal right on red. Common suburban driver mistake.
And Cuomo went through a red light as he turned onto 7th Avenue (!!)
h/t to @katiehonan.bsky.social who caught the moment:
h/t to @katiehonan.bsky.social who caught the moment:
May 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Illegal right on red. Common suburban driver mistake.
Sad to hear that the Wheel of Time show was canceled; it was doing really interesting things. Last month, I made my @tvguide.com debut writing about how the season 3 climax subverted the idea of an epic fantasy battle — by taking principled nonviolence seriously www.tvguide.com/news/the-whe...
Embracing the Way of the Leaf: How Principled Nonviolence Distinguishes The Wheel of Time From Other Epic Fantasy Shows
'We are always looking to lean into the elements of the books that are unique to The Wheel of Time'
www.tvguide.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Sad to hear that the Wheel of Time show was canceled; it was doing really interesting things. Last month, I made my @tvguide.com debut writing about how the season 3 climax subverted the idea of an epic fantasy battle — by taking principled nonviolence seriously www.tvguide.com/news/the-whe...
Hahah what a perfect grab bag of modern elite brain-rot. It's all here
After locking their products up in cases and eliminating DEI programs to appease the Trump administration, Target has been steadily losing customers and sales. The CEO says he’s going to stop the decline by using “technology and AI” to become “more agile.”
Target is in big trouble.
Target is in big trouble.
Target is still struggling hard
The retailer flipped its full-year outlook from positive to negative territory, citing backlash to its DEI rollbacks on top of a “highly challenging environment.”
www.morningbrew.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hahah what a perfect grab bag of modern elite brain-rot. It's all here