MJS
@themovievampire.bsky.social
I’m a film buff who runs a modest movie review blog called The Movie Vampire.
https://letterboxd.com/TheMovieVampire
https://letterboxd.com/TheMovieVampire
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
After two months of absolute madness, December is looking relatively light on releases, especially outside of NY/LA. Then things will get insane again in January and February.
Begging the Academy to find better long term memories so we don't have to play these insane year end logjam games.
Begging the Academy to find better long term memories so we don't have to play these insane year end logjam games.
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
After two months of absolute madness, December is looking relatively light on releases, especially outside of NY/LA. Then things will get insane again in January and February.
Begging the Academy to find better long term memories so we don't have to play these insane year end logjam games.
Begging the Academy to find better long term memories so we don't have to play these insane year end logjam games.
"Mumblecore" might be the film genre/style people most blatantly misuse as a label. Could not think of a movie that less resembles Tiny Furniture or The Puffy Chair than Hamnet.
not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Mumblecore" might be the film genre/style people most blatantly misuse as a label. Could not think of a movie that less resembles Tiny Furniture or The Puffy Chair than Hamnet.
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Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
Nope. More like displaced refugees... or something... but it's even more mealymouthed about this than the first one. Movie's a pretty big downgrade overall, still does some fun things with the world, but the characters are much more annoying and the plot is less engaging.
So, like, is Zootopia 2 going to be an allegory for undocumented immigration with the reptiles being the immigrants?
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Nope. More like displaced refugees... or something... but it's even more mealymouthed about this than the first one. Movie's a pretty big downgrade overall, still does some fun things with the world, but the characters are much more annoying and the plot is less engaging.
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Yeah, one of the real flaws with Bluesky is that if you make a post whose message is basically "hey, do the losers at this place still have a stick up their ass about my machine that steals their writing?" it attracts negative responses.
It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yeah, one of the real flaws with Bluesky is that if you make a post whose message is basically "hey, do the losers at this place still have a stick up their ass about my machine that steals their writing?" it attracts negative responses.
It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
This theory is disturbingly convincing...
From the netflix community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the netflix community
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November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This theory is disturbingly convincing...
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Maybe don't make a movie that suggests the person on the left is a good good person when they talk and behave like the person on the right for most of the movie.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Maybe don't make a movie that suggests the person on the left is a good good person when they talk and behave like the person on the right for most of the movie.
The 2025 "'Can Men Have It All?' Movies" double feature:
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The 2025 "'Can Men Have It All?' Movies" double feature:
Recently caught up with the movie 40 Acres, and one scene is bugging me. The film is set in a basically post-apocalyptic future and there's a scene where a teenager shares an old cassette tape with a girl and the song on it is... "Calm Down" by Rema. (1/7)
Rema calm down used in the Recent Hollywood movie 40acres . Like and Subscribe for more guys...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Recently caught up with the movie 40 Acres, and one scene is bugging me. The film is set in a basically post-apocalyptic future and there's a scene where a teenager shares an old cassette tape with a girl and the song on it is... "Calm Down" by Rema. (1/7)
Techbro: We can put AI into kids toys!
Sane people: That's extremely dangerous and irresponsible. Didn't you see M3gan?
Techbro: But AI is the future, it's here to stay, don't be a Luddite!
Result:
Sane people: That's extremely dangerous and irresponsible. Didn't you see M3gan?
Techbro: But AI is the future, it's here to stay, don't be a Luddite!
Result:
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Techbro: We can put AI into kids toys!
Sane people: That's extremely dangerous and irresponsible. Didn't you see M3gan?
Techbro: But AI is the future, it's here to stay, don't be a Luddite!
Result:
Sane people: That's extremely dangerous and irresponsible. Didn't you see M3gan?
Techbro: But AI is the future, it's here to stay, don't be a Luddite!
Result:
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Yikes. #WickedForGood kinda sucks. A significant downgrade from the first movie which wildly miscalculates the stakes of its own story and resolves its conflicts ins some really bafflingly unsatisfying ways. Seriously, what the fuck was that?
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Yikes. #WickedForGood kinda sucks. A significant downgrade from the first movie which wildly miscalculates the stakes of its own story and resolves its conflicts ins some really bafflingly unsatisfying ways. Seriously, what the fuck was that?
"Untitled Home Invasion Romance?"
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Untitled Home Invasion Romance?"
Hmmm... this actually sounds promising...
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hmmm... this actually sounds promising...
I'm never going to doubt a prediction by Black Mirror ever again. Start preparing for swarms of nanotech bees and for people to have their consciousnesses uploaded into Star Trek pastiches.
November 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm never going to doubt a prediction by Black Mirror ever again. Start preparing for swarms of nanotech bees and for people to have their consciousnesses uploaded into Star Trek pastiches.
The 2025 "every life contains multitudes" double feature:
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The 2025 "every life contains multitudes" double feature:
This lady also had a part in Materialists, one of a few too many bits of overlap between A24 movies and Dimes Square figures for my liking this year.
"Nekrasova has made controversial statements in the past. In a 2023 New Yorker story, she was quoted as saying, “Francis is not the real Pope, we all know it. … You’re not gonna get rid of the Freemasons. You’re not gonna get rid of the Jews. They infiltrated the Church a long time ago.”"
Gersh Drops ‘Succession’ Actress Dasha Nekrasova After Podcast With White Nationalist Nick Fuentes
"Succession" actress Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by her talent agency, Gersh, after a podcast featured white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
variety.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This lady also had a part in Materialists, one of a few too many bits of overlap between A24 movies and Dimes Square figures for my liking this year.
So, like, is Zootopia 2 going to be an allegory for undocumented immigration with the reptiles being the immigrants?
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
So, like, is Zootopia 2 going to be an allegory for undocumented immigration with the reptiles being the immigrants?
I hate the Russos but making Marvel movies is the only thing they seem to be good at so it's probably best to just keep them busy with that.
The Russo Brothers will reportedly be overseeing the general story for the next saga of the #MCU after ‘AVENGERS: SECRET WARS’
(via thecosmiccircus.com/alex-perez-n...)
(via thecosmiccircus.com/alex-perez-n...)
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I hate the Russos but making Marvel movies is the only thing they seem to be good at so it's probably best to just keep them busy with that.
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James Bond is not a “series,” and should not bother with “continuity.” James Bond is something closer to haiku, or twelve-bar blues: a format which can be repeated with endless variations.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
James Bond is not a “series,” and should not bother with “continuity.” James Bond is something closer to haiku, or twelve-bar blues: a format which can be repeated with endless variations.
Going to guess some AI company paid him to do this and gave him a script with the usual "it's a tool" PR platitudes and he intentionally did a particularly shit job in protest... which isn't an excuse, it's still disgusting, but I feel some need to hope there's more to the story.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Going to guess some AI company paid him to do this and gave him a script with the usual "it's a tool" PR platitudes and he intentionally did a particularly shit job in protest... which isn't an excuse, it's still disgusting, but I feel some need to hope there's more to the story.