Josh
@josh-c.bsky.social
Feels like 2008 all over again. Film editor at the SunBreak; Communications at Seattle Film Critics Society. Unlikely Mariners believer.
Tfw you wanted to quit watching a movie an hour in but the last frame makes it all worthwhile. International cinema!
December 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Tfw you wanted to quit watching a movie an hour in but the last frame makes it all worthwhile. International cinema!
Based on the masterpiece by a writer whose slow, agonizing death from tuberculosis was almost certainly less painful than surviving to witness this adaptation ...
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Based on the masterpiece by a writer whose slow, agonizing death from tuberculosis was almost certainly less painful than surviving to witness this adaptation ...
TIRED: Fighting about HAMNET's use of "On the Nature of Daylight" (good, actually!)
WIRED: Recognizing HAMNET's strikingly pro-vax underpinnings
WIRED: Recognizing HAMNET's strikingly pro-vax underpinnings
December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
TIRED: Fighting about HAMNET's use of "On the Nature of Daylight" (good, actually!)
WIRED: Recognizing HAMNET's strikingly pro-vax underpinnings
WIRED: Recognizing HAMNET's strikingly pro-vax underpinnings
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Notes from the Screener Pile: 📽️MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS, THE SECRET AGENT, RESURRECTION. -- Josh digs into the year-end stack with some brief reviews of long movies about life under the crushing weight of authoritarianism.
Notes from the Screener Pile: My Undesirable Friends, The Secret Agent, Resurrection - The SunBreak
In this dispatch a trio of very long movies about life under authoritarianism: prescient, reflective, and futuristic.
thesunbreak.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Notes from the Screener Pile: 📽️MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS, THE SECRET AGENT, RESURRECTION. -- Josh digs into the year-end stack with some brief reviews of long movies about life under the crushing weight of authoritarianism.
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“Right now it’s just that tight” — Terry McAulay's analysis of Kyle Pitts’s ass
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“Right now it’s just that tight” — Terry McAulay's analysis of Kyle Pitts’s ass
One thing that studio award campaigners fail to recognize is the ability of critics to pivot from being Big Mad about one thing to another on a dime.
And sure enough... (my critics' group's ballots are due tomorrow).
December 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One thing that studio award campaigners fail to recognize is the ability of critics to pivot from being Big Mad about one thing to another on a dime.
Someone should do Kanopy Kloset videos to remind people that they can see amazing movies at home for free.
Two excellent films released in the US earlier this year have just been added to Kanopy: Alain Guiraudie's MISERICORDIA and Boris Lojkine's SOULEYMANE'S STORY. Both are free to stream without ads or subscriptions, all through participating libraries.
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Someone should do Kanopy Kloset videos to remind people that they can see amazing movies at home for free.
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The 2020s are a decade of how horrible it is to have been right
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The 2020s are a decade of how horrible it is to have been right
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This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)
Old enough to remember when Disney so preciously valued their legacy that they'd only on rare occasions open "the vault" to sell individual copies of classic movies to families on VHS and would otherwise sue into bankruptcy anyone who did an unauthorized doodle of Steamboat Willie.
We’re in a bold new era of soulless slop. Deeply unethical when it comes to art, labour, the environment, and the entertainment landscape at large.
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Old enough to remember when Disney so preciously valued their legacy that they'd only on rare occasions open "the vault" to sell individual copies of classic movies to families on VHS and would otherwise sue into bankruptcy anyone who did an unauthorized doodle of Steamboat Willie.
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they've put some downright awful people on the cover (including "me") but what, in the actual, fuck.
This...looks terrible? Is the magazine making some point about what AI still can't do, because otherwise, I don't get why you'd go out with something that looks like it was put together with safety scissors and Elmer's Glue.
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
they've put some downright awful people on the cover (including "me") but what, in the actual, fuck.
Almost finished watching MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS but I keep stopping to pack a go bag and taking screenshots of the most scorchingly relatable frames.
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Almost finished watching MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS but I keep stopping to pack a go bag and taking screenshots of the most scorchingly relatable frames.
Cris Ryan on SINNERS needs to be the season's hottest remix.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Cris Ryan on SINNERS needs to be the season's hottest remix.
I saw a preview of FIRST COW at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center in February 2020 before it disappeared into our new streaming reality.
Six years later it will be there again for one night.
www.siff.net/programs-and...
Six years later it will be there again for one night.
www.siff.net/programs-and...
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I saw a preview of FIRST COW at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center in February 2020 before it disappeared into our new streaming reality.
Six years later it will be there again for one night.
www.siff.net/programs-and...
Six years later it will be there again for one night.
www.siff.net/programs-and...
Genuinely laughing out loud that the screener for RESURRECTION will not abide by the misguided desire to watch the movie in the morning.
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Genuinely laughing out loud that the screener for RESURRECTION will not abide by the misguided desire to watch the movie in the morning.
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I suppose you could made a decent argument he already has
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I suppose you could made a decent argument he already has
Slowly making my way through MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS and am astonished by those who watched in a single sitting. We don't have to make the movies fight, but so far I find it to be the vastly more potent companion to this year's valedictory COVER-UP or cassandrian ORWELL 2+2=5 journalism docs.
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Slowly making my way through MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS and am astonished by those who watched in a single sitting. We don't have to make the movies fight, but so far I find it to be the vastly more potent companion to this year's valedictory COVER-UP or cassandrian ORWELL 2+2=5 journalism docs.
genuinely cannot breathe, call an ambulance
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
genuinely cannot breathe, call an ambulance
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Starting February, join us for MARTIN SCORSESE: MAESTRO OF CINEMA, showcasing the career of one of the greatest filmmakers in cinema history. Presented by SIFF, Festa Italiana & Greg Olson Productions. Series curated by Martin Scorsese & Greg Olson, written by Greg Olson. 🎟️ siff.info/scorsese-bs.
Martin Scorsese: Maestro of Cinema
Ten films spanning the brilliant career of Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest filmmakers in cinema history, with many presentations restored by Scorsese and long-time editor and collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker.
siff.info
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Starting February, join us for MARTIN SCORSESE: MAESTRO OF CINEMA, showcasing the career of one of the greatest filmmakers in cinema history. Presented by SIFF, Festa Italiana & Greg Olson Productions. Series curated by Martin Scorsese & Greg Olson, written by Greg Olson. 🎟️ siff.info/scorsese-bs.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
This is not exactly true, but going to Toronto to see WAKE UP DEAD MAN at an 8 am TIFF press screening felt only slightly less inconvenient than getting to the nearest Seattle area theatrical screening without a car.
I know, I’m sorry and I’m just as frustrated as you it’s not in more theaters. We really tried.
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This is not exactly true, but going to Toronto to see WAKE UP DEAD MAN at an 8 am TIFF press screening felt only slightly less inconvenient than getting to the nearest Seattle area theatrical screening without a car.
Used to find Troy annoying but the last few years I've come all the way around. Maybe he got better, I definitely got older.
"What I remember most about his dad is that he had a pet monkey he used to bring to the locker room on a lot of occasions" is a WILD story to just drop and leave.
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Used to find Troy annoying but the last few years I've come all the way around. Maybe he got better, I definitely got older.
Dunking on Stewart for a factual error by the interviewer is extremely validating to what she's actually talking about.
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Dunking on Stewart for a factual error by the interviewer is extremely validating to what she's actually talking about.