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Watched that documentary about Jimmy Savile. Further proof that the world is run by pedophiles. What a disgusting and evil person.

Our 8yo randomly repeats the movie quotes he hears Lucky and I say to each other. Usually it’s something from Silence of the Lambs but his new favorite is “look what your brother did to the door” from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 😂

One of the coolest gigs I had was running the Facebook side of the One Perfect Shot Account in the mid 2010s. I thought I lost my entire collection of film stills I shared, but just got a new device that somehow synced up to a really old account & I found them! Let’s kick things off. 1) VERTIGO

Much like Scott, I'm screaming "Turn it off!!! TURN IT OFF!!!!!!"

Mood

I wonder if the doctors that worked at Walter Reed in October 2020 have regrets.

Trump knows he’s going to die and wants to take us all with him. He’s like a mass shooter on a rampage.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." - 2026 FIFA Peace Prize winner

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Currently watching- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Thanks to @luckymckee.bsky.social and @vanessamckee.bsky.social for reminding me of Peter Weir's greatness

Been watching a lot of Peter Weir in the McKee house lately. Dude put up Kubrick numbers. (Also highly recommend Mosquito Coast which just wrecked us.)

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I had a wild dream 5 months ago about him dying sometime around Easter and the GOP claiming it was some sort of sign from God. Anyway, fingers crossed.

Spring

Alex is a wonderful critic, writer, and human, truly one of the most supportive and generous folks I've met in the world of film criticism (and the world in general) - please share this, and contribute if you can!

This is nice

Just wrote “chandelier” without getting spell-checked. Great fucking day.

I am loath to do this, but I need your help. My 20+ year marriage has unexpectedly imploded. There's a kid involved. Aside from Lupus, Autism and a shitty 2009 Mazda, I have nothing. Things are fairly desperate right now, so if you can help out now in any way at all I'd be really grateful ❤️

Here's a Readful Things action figure piece of Gary Oldman holding a Readful Things action figure piece

Finally watched “The Creator” and holy shit that movie is epic! One of the best science fiction films I’ve seen in a while.

I’ve mostly been reading the most fucked up books and have no plans to stop. Up next, something several of you have recommended.

“there's no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling's bigotry and the structural violence she's inflicting on a vulnerable minority.“

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Today officially marks Walter Chaw's (@mangiotto.bsky.social) 25th anniversary at Film Freak Central. I'm shocked we're both still doing this, but I couldn't ask for a better partner for whatever "this" is. Here's a brief 'best of Walter' thread; would love to know what some of your favourites are.

Today is my birthday! Here's some art I really enjoyed doing. Pass it around? (Also if you see this and have any illustration needs, my summer workload is currently below capacity, so feel free to get in touch🖤)

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hearing that donald trump has lost his lecturer line at pomona college, which was the only way he could get health insurance, over this post

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Ken Russell's WOMEN IN LOVE (1969); magnificent, Oliver Reed and Alan Bates nude wrestling isn't even the half of it, this is a spectacularly sensual, fecund, gorgeous evocation of love and sex fermenting w/ death & violence in the belly of a dying empire--heteronormativity & queerness both doomed.

Just finished reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and can say with certainty that I couldn’t be trusted with Ice-9. Does that mean I’m depressed?

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

I think we need to make the rich feel ashamed of their wealth.

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Took home the Oscar tonight for best Unmade Film.

I'm going to keep promoting this because we're really proud of it! New EP, WHY, is available everywhere and new music video is up on YouTube! Link: youtu.be/Te4_tXXH3sk

Is this what they call perineum sunning?

Our newest music video is now up on YouTube! And it’s soooo 90s! 😂 youtu.be/Te4_tXXH3sk

Talula and The Stray Bronze Edition, each pour bespoke, limited, and numbered Originally sculpted by hand in Super Sculpey Bronze molding and casting work by our amazing friends at Pyrology Art Foundry in Bastrop, TX. Hit us up for more deets 😊🖤 #pyrologyartfoundry #shiflettbros

Highly recommend COVER-UP, the Netflix documentary about Seymour Hersh. Especially if you need a reminder that the US has always been the bad guy.

I'm going to keep promoting this because we're really proud of it! New EP, WHY, is available everywhere and new music video is up on YouTube! Link: youtu.be/Te4_tXXH3sk

Thank you so much for all the love on this! We really appreciate it! ❤️

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Here’s a new OogLaDaar music video for “Close Watchly” - the final track on our new EP release WHY - available now on ALL platforms! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4_...