Rian Johnson interviewed by @edouglasww.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZi...

The one and only @edouglasww.bsky.social talks to Train Dreams Filmmakers Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar youtu.be/jGDbAmVKX84?...

Hey @edouglasww.bsky.social is adding video to hs regular WEEKEND WARRIOR column at Substack and it's awesome. Its kind of like having lunch with ed where you talk movies-but you have to bring the food. Here is this week's piece edwarddouglas.substack.com/p/the-weeken...

After 20 years of disappointment, this lifelong Fantastic Four fan has gotten not just a good or great FF movie, but the PERFECT FF movie... so much to discuss that I'll save for my review. Best Marvel introduction movie since the first Guardians of the Galaxy.

Happy Birthday @danslott.bsky.social!! (Had to dig around to figure out where you were posting these days.)

Thanks to @darkskyfilms.bsky.social for sponsoring the 4th round of @finalexamtrivia.bsky.social with Hospital Horrors!

Thanks to @synapsefilms.bsky.social for sponsoring the 2nd round of @finalexamtrivia.bsky.social at Rock bar in nyc!

[email protected] is sponsoring the 2nd round of the daytime edition of @finalexamtrivia.bsky.social!

It appears irony is not dead after all.

I'm posting more. :)

Hi Blueskyers!!! Here's my review of #CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld that mostly receives a mixed-negative review cause I was pretty disappointed, not cause it was necessarily bad. YMMV as they say in the olden days of the internet: open.substack.com/pub/edwarddo...

A very good Wolf Man movie delivered w/emotional sincerity. Doesn’t break the mold like Invisible Man, in part because we’ve seen plenty werewolf movies. Sidesteps conventions, design makes sense in context, sound is aces. Abbott is phenomenal -he’s got those sad Chaney Jr eyes.

Wanna know more about #WolfMan? Here's my interview with @conanthecontrarian.bsky.social for Cinema US Daily! cinemadailyus.com/interviews/w...

I'm always celebrating everyone else's anniversary, so I completely missed the fact that yesterday was my own 30th anniversary on the internet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKSk...

Semi-serious question but does Brokeback Mountain fall under the aegis of being a "meet cute"?

Here's my POSITIVE review of MUFASA: THE LION KING REVIEW -- X's loss is BlueSky's gain: open.substack.com/pub/edwarddo...

Oh, good... Titan Caskets is selling a smaller version of the Nosferatu casket for just $3,999. Probably not big enough to get buried in but maybe big enough for one's ashes?

Welp, I was locked out of my X account 'cause I responded to a poll with a joking response, but it was deemed as hate speech. I won't go into details but essentially, I used time travel to give advice to my 18-year-old self.

THE WEEKEND WARRIOR Early Edition December 20, 2024 - My thoughts and analysis on the weekend #BoxOffice - Sonic 3 vs. Mufasa! open.substack.com/pub/edwarddo...

Happy Birthday to @muxley14.bsky.social, who I actually "met" on that *other* social platform but one of the few people I regularly interact with here.

Only two reviews in this week's Weekend Warrior...but neither of the wide releases despite the picture below suggesting otherwise. I reviewed one movie I loved and one movie I didn't quite love: open.substack.com/pub/edwarddo...

Substack is on the ball allowing sharing to BSKY, so here's this week's THE WEEKEND WARRIOR Reviews and Repertory Round-Up! Six reviews so far with two more to come! open.substack.com/pub/edwarddo...

My review of Nosferatu is now live... I'm a huge fan of the original movie and the Herzog remake and I loved what Eggers did... and Bill Skatsgard, holy shit! edwarddouglas.substack.com/p/nosferatu-...

James Mangold has done it again with A Complete Unknown, which actually works better than Walk the Line since it's focused more on just five years in Dylan's life... and mark my words, Chalamet will win that Oscar.

How many people will go to see Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada, inadvertently thinking it's the new movie from the Trailer Park Boys. This joke is just for my Canadian friends, including recent Canada transplant, @sarahmusnicky.bsky.social, who has no idea what I'm talking about ;)

You have a green-skinned baby, and you name her "Elphaba" ... any bullying she receives after you enroll her in school when she's well into her 30s is on you. (Can't deprive Bluesky of my Monday morning bad jokes!) :)

I'm having a bit of a moral quandry re: the new Marilyn Manson album. I used to be a pretty big fan, seen him live a few times, and I'm a fan of his musical collaborator Tyler Bates (who scored many of Ti West's movies), but I can't really forgive his treatment of Evan Rachel Wood, can I?

Just watched this, and agree with Ed. Fantastic film about the housing crisis in NYC that’s remarkably infuriating, in showing how unfair and fucked up it is that people are having their lives and communities destroyed for $$$. You leave Slumlord Millionaire wanting to take to the streets.

I have enough trouble keeping track of what day it is without waking up in the middle of the night with an Email with the subject line "September 5." This joke is brought to you by the fact that none of my 7k+ followers on X would appreciate the complexity of its humor.

I reviewed the new movie musical #Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, and I generally enjoyed it, even though it was a lot to take in for a first-time with the musical: edwarddouglas.substack.com/p/wicked-rev...

In Gladiator II, the emperor picks a monkey as his consul. Still better than *all* of Trump's attempted cabinet picks so far.

2nd time seeing Gladiator 2 (it was the Regal Monday Mystery Movie) and loved it just as much on 2nd viewing, caught lots of stuff I forgot the first time. With all due respect to @nextbestpicture.bsky.social, he's nuts if he thinks this won't get a BP nomination. :)

Happy Birthday to @richardlnewby.bsky.social, one of the few Columbus,Ohio-based film critics who I have yet to meet in person... maybe someday.

The new episode of The Cantaloupe Cats podcast is now live with John W. and Tim Milligan talking about... Heretic with special guest Celebrity X aka Olive Hui! Probably will have lots of spoilers, so watch the movie first! open.spotify.com/episode/14JC...

Everyone will be talking about this coming weekend's box office in comparison to last year's "Barbenheimer"... but clearly Angel Studios is hoping that people will get confused and go see "Bonhoeffer" cause it kind of sounds like "Barbenheimer."

I can't stress enough that the Latvian animated film Flow isn't one of the best animated films in decades, but it's also one of the best all-around films, probably going to be my #1 for the year.

Please send us your questions for Ep. 417 of the #NBPpodcast and we’ll do our best to answer them on today’s show! Anything #Oscars, #AwardsSeason, #MovieNews, #Cinema or #Trailer related is welcome. Thank you. We hope you enjoy it #FilmSky

I just blocked Elon Musk on X, as well as anyone who posts anything he likes or responds to. Let's see if that achieves anything.

I've lived in the Northeast for most of my life and NYC for 37 years, and I *still* can't get used to when November comes, and it suddenly gets really cold. Brrrrrr!

I'm anxiously awaiting the @nydailynews.bsky.social headline: "No One Died in a Horrific Way in NYC Today." (It will never happen.)

My first film of #DOCNYC was a doozy as Slumlord Millionaire was both brilliant and heartbreaking, and it hit very close to home cause the giant steel monstrosity built on the East River in my neighborhood replaced the affordable Pathmark that me and my neighbors relied on.

I was a little dubious but I think this place is already turning into a much better place than the letter that will no longer be stated. Sorry, mutants!

It's being reported that BlueSky got a million new users on Thursday alone. Here's hoping they have the infrastructure/servers to sustain it, as well as a way to monetize whatever upgrades will need to be made.

What does this Invalid Handle thing mean anyway? Yeah... BlueSky is just like old Twitter...

Trump has selected Elon Musk for his "efficiency department" so I guess the first thing he'll do is rename the United States of America as just "U."

Haven't posted much here but since so many people are ditching X and Facebook and coming here, I'll try to post more.

Oh!!! I also write a weekend movie preview for Gold Derby, and this is this week's, where I've already dropped the ball on Insidious, since it's doing much better than I projected: https://www.goldderby.com/article/2023/box-office-preview-insidious-the-red-door-joy-ride/

And last but not least (for now), my review of #MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPart1, which I was mixed-positive on: https://edwarddouglas.substack.com/p/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning

Another movie and interview I quite enjoyed was this talk with Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn for Biosphere, which I first saw at TIFF and had been working on getting this interview ever since: https://abovetheline.com/2023/07/06/mark-duplass-biosphere-mel-eslyn-interview/