Brandon D. Wilson
@geniusbastard.bsky.social
Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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If you have free time, those two can be visited in the Woodstock cemetery. I paid my respects last year when I was there.
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If you have free time, those two can be visited in the Woodstock cemetery. I paid my respects last year when I was there.
Tradition. youtu.be/sLSveRGmpIE?...
William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer
YouTube video by williamburroughsVEVO
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November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Tradition. youtu.be/sLSveRGmpIE?...
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I'm thinking of the National Guard shooting victims today, and hoping for the best for them. And I am also thinking about the craven politicians who decided to put them in harm's way because they choose to govern by menacing and by staging stunts. May the fates they deserve befall every one of them.
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm thinking of the National Guard shooting victims today, and hoping for the best for them. And I am also thinking about the craven politicians who decided to put them in harm's way because they choose to govern by menacing and by staging stunts. May the fates they deserve befall every one of them.
Jimi Hendrix was born 83 years ago today.
a man wearing a black hat and a white shirt playing a guitar
ALT: a man wearing a black hat and a white shirt playing a guitar
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Jimi Hendrix was born 83 years ago today.
Kathryn Bigelow turns 74 today. boxd.it/fY2uy
Kathryn Bigelow Ranked
A list of 15 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Detroit (2017), Near Dark (1987), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Strange Days (1995) and The Hurt Locker (2008).
boxd.it
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Kathryn Bigelow turns 74 today. boxd.it/fY2uy
Bruce Lee was born 85 years ago today.
a bruce lee enter the dragon poster shows a man in a blue uniform
ALT: a bruce lee enter the dragon poster shows a man in a blue uniform
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Bruce Lee was born 85 years ago today.
James Avery was born 80 years ago today.
a bald man with a beard is standing in front of a window wearing a green polo shirt .
ALT: a bald man with a beard is standing in front of a window wearing a green polo shirt .
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
James Avery was born 80 years ago today.
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Well now that's upsetting.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Well now that's upsetting.
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happy who abandoned snoopy in the vestibule day
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
happy who abandoned snoopy in the vestibule day
My cigarette heart, indeed. boxd.it/bR2iOH
A ★★★★ review of Blue Moon (2025)
If ever we find ourselves in a world where our best filmmakers aren’t making films about bitter old queens staving off irrelevance with bitchy quips, I hope I’m not around anymore. This film was relea...
boxd.it
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
My cigarette heart, indeed. boxd.it/bR2iOH
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Weird tech guys plus guys over 60! Weird how it doesn’t seem to be working! Must be the audience’s fault!
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Weird tech guys plus guys over 60! Weird how it doesn’t seem to be working! Must be the audience’s fault!
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shoutout to all my fellow queers for whom family of origin sucks around holidays (and those of us who are still working on finding that found family). everything is pretty bad right now but being queer is still fucking amazing and you are amazing and not alone and i love you and am grateful for you
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
shoutout to all my fellow queers for whom family of origin sucks around holidays (and those of us who are still working on finding that found family). everything is pretty bad right now but being queer is still fucking amazing and you are amazing and not alone and i love you and am grateful for you
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"Once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind. It won’t go to you and hand over its meanings. You have to go to it." I reviewed The Secret Agent, my favorite film of 2025. Haunting, beautiful, profound. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
The Secret Agent movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive.
www.rogerebert.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind. It won’t go to you and hand over its meanings. You have to go to it." I reviewed The Secret Agent, my favorite film of 2025. Haunting, beautiful, profound. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
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Would make Cox the THIRD Republican governor in recent years to expand his state's Supreme Court to shift its ideological balance rightward, after Arizona and Georgia.
Reminder: Republicans love "court packing" when it suits them:
Last week Utah Gov. Spencer Cox appointed anti-abortion culture war zealot John Nielsen to the state supreme court, & may now expand the court to create a majority more favorable to Republican legislators: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
Last week Utah Gov. Spencer Cox appointed anti-abortion culture war zealot John Nielsen to the state supreme court, & may now expand the court to create a majority more favorable to Republican legislators: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Would make Cox the THIRD Republican governor in recent years to expand his state's Supreme Court to shift its ideological balance rightward, after Arizona and Georgia.
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We're hosting 12 people for Thanksgiving but they are all nice and sane and normal, so I guess we'll just talk about movies! I wish all of you a happy day of easy discourse, and if you can't have that, I hope you win every fight. I'm thankful for almost all of you! Exceptions have been blocked. xox
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We're hosting 12 people for Thanksgiving but they are all nice and sane and normal, so I guess we'll just talk about movies! I wish all of you a happy day of easy discourse, and if you can't have that, I hope you win every fight. I'm thankful for almost all of you! Exceptions have been blocked. xox
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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World AIDS Day was cofounded by an American journalist--James Bunn, a San Francisco reporter who was the first person at a local TV station to make the AIDS crisis his beat, in 1983. An administration that did not loathe the press, history, and knowledge itself might have considered honoring that.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
World AIDS Day was cofounded by an American journalist--James Bunn, a San Francisco reporter who was the first person at a local TV station to make the AIDS crisis his beat, in 1983. An administration that did not loathe the press, history, and knowledge itself might have considered honoring that.
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
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MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.
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Every Noah Baumbach movie circles back to daddy issues and children of divorce eventually, but it's fascinating to see his perspective grow softer and more forgiving with age. Anyway, I reviewed the very good, not quite great Jay Kelly:
Jay Kelly Review: Capturing the Unreality of Fame
Noah Baumbach's wistful Hollywood satire "Jay Kelly" questions the price of success in the motion picture industry.
www.metroweekly.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Every Noah Baumbach movie circles back to daddy issues and children of divorce eventually, but it's fascinating to see his perspective grow softer and more forgiving with age. Anyway, I reviewed the very good, not quite great Jay Kelly:
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Once again: do not let it escape your notice even for a moment that, despite the salaciousness and the broader political implications, Ryan Lizza is still running the GamerGate playbook on his ex-fiancee.
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Once again: do not let it escape your notice even for a moment that, despite the salaciousness and the broader political implications, Ryan Lizza is still running the GamerGate playbook on his ex-fiancee.