Looks like Takeshi Kaneshiro is about to walk in and get caught in a brawl

I'm glad that bsky added drafts, but it doesn't really compare to my workaround solution of just DMing @stephenage.bsky.social all of my dumbest thoughts

Reaching the furthest known limits of corporate profit maxing, where creative choices don't exist and we have to present alternative versions of everything in case the viewers can't handle black and white despite it being the chief central gimmick of the character this show is based on.

Fuck every AI company, fuck Ring, fuck Amazon, fuck the billionaires running this circus of death. Go Hawks.

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Aronofsky, like anyone in a creative field who uses generative AI, should be regarded as a class traitor and shunned. If you don't believe in the fundamental value of human artistic expression, you are undeserving of the community of your peers. ESPECIALLY in as collaborative an art form as film.

The problem with shit like this isn't that it's stupid, which it is - it's that the conclusion is couched in the good faith assessment that this is a technology that needs improvement, and not a technology that shouldn't exist in the first place. There is no version of this that anyone needs.

solidarity forever

really can't help feeling like major difference between the awards season reception of The Brutalist and The Testament of Ann Lee is that the former was about a man and the latter is about a woman

currently going through whatever you call the crisis you have when you're almost 30 and start getting really into jazz fusion

There are few things I find more pathetic than the Silicon Valley desire for a world where everyone's life is so efficiently catered to their id that nobody ever has a single real experience.

I wrote and narrated the video essay to be included in this release, a history of Johnnie To's romances.

Huge.

Incredible trifecta of 20th anniversaries this year.

I actually don’t think it’s necessary to concede that soldiers who carry out the illegal orders of an evil imperialist state are somehow “brave”

As we embark on a new year, Seattle Critics Society Members reflect on their favorite films of 2025. seattlefilmcritics.com/2026/01/01/r...

Vaughn Swearingen from Step Printed (@stepprinted.com) stepprinted.com/the-25-best-...

The 25 Best Films of 2025 are here, from myself and @stephenage.bsky.social. stepprinted.com/the-25-best-...

See, that's how you do this

MARTY SUPREME is a triumph of cinema, a ceaseless vortex of familiar Safdie anxiety wrapped in the image of ragged, exhaustive individualism that comprises the American dream and every nightmare that results from pursuing it. stepprinted.com/marty-suprem...

I agree, Lucy Liu.

21 Dec 2025

I guess it's time to find something new to do with my free time.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

So many phenomenal films this year, but really it couldn't be anything else. My review of PTA's staggering revolutionary odyssey - stepprinted.com/one-battle-a...

The worst victim of the slow destruction of the American economy at the behest of endless growth and stock value is cars being affordable and sensible, I am losing my mind at the disappearance of the small sedan

The SFCS 2025 award for Best PICTURE: 📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Paul Thomas Anderson @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best DIRECTOR: 📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Paul Thomas Anderson @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best LEAD ACTOR: 📽️ LEONARDO DICAPRIO - One Battle After Another @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best LEAD ACTRESS: 📽️ JESSIE BUCKLEY - Hamnet @focusfeatures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best SUPPORTING ACTOR: 📽️ SEAN PENN - One Battle After Another @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best SUPPORTING ACTRESS: 📽️ WUNMI MOSAKU - Sinners @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best YOUTH PERFORMANCE: 📽️ JACOBI JUPE - Hamnet @focusfeatures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best ENSEMBLE: 📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Cassandra Kulukundis @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for Best PACIFIC NORTHWEST FILM: 📽️ TRAIN DREAMS - Clint Bentley @netflix.com

Hark's THE BLADE coming to Criterion is so huge. An absolutely brutal dissection of wuxia and one of Hark's best movies. Can't wait.

The SFCS 2025 award for Best INTERNATIONAL FILM: 📽️ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT - Jafar Panahi @neonrated

The SFCS 2025 award for Best DOCUMENTARY FILM: 📽️ WTO/99 - Ian Bell

The SFCS 2025 award for Best ANIMATED FILM: 📽️ KPOP DEMON HUNTERS - Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans @netflix.com @maggiekang.bsky.social

An honor to get a brief space to talk about one of my favorite movies from the last decade, Drive My Car, alongside the rest of our BP winners over the years.

The SFCS 2025 award for Best CINEMATOGRAPHY: 📽️ SINNERS - Autumn Durald Durkapaw @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for EDITING: 📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Andy Jurgensen @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for PRODUCTION DESIGN: 📽️ FRANKENSTEIN - Tamara Deverell (Production Design), Shane Vieau (Set Decoration) @netflix.com

The SFCS 2025 award for COSTUME DESIGN: 📽️ FRANKENSTEIN - Kate Hawley @netflix.com @katehawleycostume.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for ORIGINAL SCORE: 📽️ ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - Jonny Greenwood @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for ACTION CHOREOGRAPHY: 📽️ MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING - Wade Eastwood @paramountpictures.bsky.social @missionimpossible.com

The SFCS 2025 award for VILLAIN OF THE YEAR: 📽️ AUNT GLADYS - as portrayed by Amy Madigan in WEAPONS @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social

The SFCS 2025 award for VISUAL EFFECTS: 📽️ AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH - Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett @20thcenturystudios.bsky.social