Got this Duolingo ad and I need to know what resulted in the hairy arm, pink nail polish combo

An old bit from me about Halloween 2018's satisfying 3rd act role reversal: How a reforged Laurie literally sets her past ablaze — and in it, evil's eyes stare back through orange flames. None of the franchise's battles were as alive with meaning as this one! www.zavvi.com/blog/feature...

Not only did I find a horror movie called 'Shark Side of the Moon' on Plex, but it's some sort of assembly version. Tubi originals really are something, huh

Wrote about the enduring allure of Michael Cristofer's Gia. From its strange documentary-like structure to the excavation of the model's meteoric rise and fall, it's one of the all time great biopics: skyboxcritics.com/2025/09/25/g...

Gia retrospective: Too wild to live by @trudiegraham.bsky.social "Gia doesn't claim to understand every thought that went through Carangi’s head, nor does it plaster its own beliefs onto her too heavily. You’re allowed to perceive her, but never fully know her." Read on:

Immediately head over heels in love with this. Frankenstein meets gangster movie? Yes please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSt...

Loving this Lady Bird discourse because I have an excuse to reshare my take from 2021 (when I was closer in age to the character), which is that the movie is about both resenting and being fundamentally shaped by your home & family: filmdaze.net/lady-bird-an...

My latest for @skyboxcritics.com: the guilty pleasure rates are off the charts with this one skyboxcritics.com/2025/09/19/t...

The Hunting Wives is 2025’s most iffy yet compelling TV by @trudiegraham.bsky.social "The point of the shenanigans and treacherous ensemble seems to be pointing out the hypocrisy and facade of Red State elites, who condemn hordes of people for their apparent sins while hiding their own." Read on:

Where are the film reviews in the newest android version of letterboxd? Are they not loading properly in-app or have they been moved to an insane place?

My latest on @skyboxcritics.com from me is all about Jean-Marc Vallée's singular body of work. How he was drawn to messy women, loved to celebrate survival, and his signature editing style that made the likes of Sharp Objects and Big Little Lies so unforgettable: skyboxcritics.com/2025/08/20/j...

Jean-Marc Vallée was one of a kind: How structure and editing defined a career by @trudiegraham.bsky.social "When I’m struck by nature’s beauty, and feel magnetically pulled toward it, my mind mysteriously wanders to Wild — one of the greatest ‘the only way out is through’ movies." Read on:

A very short bit from me about why I adore Death Stranding’s weird vibes and used to watch other people playing it to lull me to sleep after 10-hour retail shifts: trudiegraham.substack.com/p/death-stra...

Adrian Bliss hitting the nail on the head - that stare into the camera at the end, chef kiss 👌 “Making Art In 2026”

“Losing trust in government statistics wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it would be the end of the world as we know it.” Sobering thoughts for investors and others from Jeff Sommer. What if You Can’t Believe the Official Numbers? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b... #econsky @aaronsojourner.org

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

Watch an exclusive trailer for the new 4K restoration of Pedro Almodóvar’s 1986 film Matador, by Video Mercury Films. 🐂 The restoration will premiere in the Classics section of the upcoming Venice Film Festival. #Matador #VeniceClassics

The job market has never been better for shills, stooges, and toadies of all stripes. Linkedin absolutely buzzing if you're a sycophant, a flunky, or even an unctuous little worm

A clown show of epic proportions. 3 absolute loons making a joke out of their country

me after crashing my car and flipping 6 times: “things are not entirely going smoothly”

behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

My cinema buddy and I remembered a joke from The Naked Gun as we were walking to the car after the movie and we quite literally had to stop and stand still until the giggles passed 😭. Cinema is so back

Just got hit with the Bioshock 2 save file issue and wasted my first 2 hours of play time because I had to quit the game and delete Bio 1 files 😁

Old School RuneScape is seeing record player counts for the first time in months. I spoke to players and Jagex about its persistence: www.escapistmagazine.com/news-old-sch...

Just finished Little Nightmares. It's fun when a game is as good as people say it is

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

"The camera locks onto dangerous items in moments of high anxiety, letting us into Camille’s head and showing us where it wanders to. In every room, there’s something that can be used to self-destruct." It's Sharp Objects summer on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/trudiegr...

In its heyday, Orange Is the New Black helped cracked open the door for streamers to become TV's dominant force. 12 years on (my July publish date was coincidental and kinda spooky 👀), I wrote about the effects of Netflix's early home run, what OITNB's success foreshadowed, & what's changed since:

One way to get the steps in

Superman the most 3 and a half star movie I've ever seen 💙. I appreciate 3 and a half star movies very much

How Orange Is the New Black helped change TV forever by @trudiegraham.bsky.social "Orange Is the New Black had an inviting pitch: sign up to try out the future of television." Read on:

really cool how you basically can't do anything now without some company selling your data at some point in the pipeline

In its heyday, Orange Is the New Black helped cracked open the door for streamers to become TV's dominant force. 12 years on (my July publish date was coincidental and kinda spooky 👀), I wrote about the effects of Netflix's early home run, what OITNB's success foreshadowed, & what's changed since:

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I self-published Without a Dawn in May. I made zero compromises, and I couldn't be happier how it turned out: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... 💛💚 Unfortunately, I've had very little luck with exposure, including the gaming press. 😩 #visualnovel #gamedev #steam

Not that I've seen many of them, but this filmography goes crazy

When you're in a best character of all time competition and your opponent is

Listen up 5s, a 10 is speaking

Overheard at Manama airport: "We're not making fries bro, this is not a child's barbecue. Bro it's smashed potatoes. I'm gonna get potatoes & we're gonna crush them. It's gonna be so much better. We just need sea salt & garlic. Now let me tell you about my Turkish sausages I'm bringing back bruv-"

but what if I don't want to provide a source for my written claims? #believewomen

sometimes when writing a feature I'm like oh actually this has been done 100 times already and by better journalists than me but then i still write it, typing from my psychiatric facility

Flow Criterion!! Very excited about the extras! There's a lot of cool, never before shown stuff here. And Away! It’s crazy to think that all of the feature films I’ve made so far are in the Criterion Collection! Now I only need to make the next one that could live up to that...

I spoke to the 17 year old who organized the largest anti-ICE protest in Roblox this past weekend. www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...

Especially this time around, I never see Trump supporters talk about anything positive he's done. It's just gloating over people he's hurt, hoping he hurts other people, and giggling about upsetting those who care about people getting hurt.

Raise Your Hand review: Angst and poetry in the ’90s by @trudiegraham.bsky.social "We’re all somewhat responsible for the world that today’s teens will come of age in." Read the latest Skybox review:

Out now on digital: Raise Your Hand is a timely indie (despite being set in the 90s) about kids who fall through the cracks, sociopolitical hurdles, and art born from necessary expression skyboxcritics.com/2025/06/12/r...

So, who feels like writing me one of those profile endorsement recommendation things on LinkedIn?

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

Hating this Svitolina/Paolini matchup. Why must we pit two queens I want to see in the next round against each other?