🚩 INBOX 🚩: The SIFF Cinema Workers Union are calling on "patrons, fans and supporters of SIFF to let its leadership know that they stand with the workers" after they say bargaining w/ @siffnews.bsky.social has not proven productive and has now been delayed until after the yearly festival concludes 📽️

Planet of the Apes and it's really not even close

One of our best cultural writers back with another banger

Incredible piece of reporting by Max Cea here. If you're a nerd about state tax incentives like me, this is the piece to read. filmmaker.substack.com/p/hooray-for...

I wrote about the upcoming Paramount-Warner Brothers merger, the open letter rallying talent against it, and why it’s bad for Hollywood, freedom of speech, and audiences for @avclub.com. Read the full story below 👇 thanks to @markruffalo.bsky.social for sharing.

In conversation with filmmaker SJ Chiro. Great night thanks to @marcusbakerfilm.bsky.social of Seattle Film Society, @nwfilmforum.bsky.social, the super-engaging Chiro, and an audience filled with friends, fans, and cast and crew, incl. actor Eric Ray Anderson and Steadicam operator Daniel Mimura.

This is such a loss! It's not a replacement, but even more reason to support STUFF seattletransfilmfest.org

The magic of the internet is that this is one of the most incredible things ever said about nostalgia, and it came out of a bluesky thread about the Scrubs reboot.

Was intensely moved by this really thoughtful, wonderful piece by @abebeame.bsky.social for @defector.com . Reminded me of one of my favorite @sasimons.bsky.social quote: "The realm of obscurity is not marginal; it’s where almost everything happens." If you have some time, can't recommend enough.

Not enough people in power sitting with the fact that the US is the most well funded child rape and murder operation in human history

NEW: TRAIN DREAMS, Clint Bentley’s transcendent Washington film may fly high at the Oscars, but it began with an unexpectedly rough plane landing. This is the story of the little film that could which one producer called their APOCALYPSE NOW📽️ My piece @inlander.com: www.inlander.com/culture/trai...

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

I'll support nearly anyone over Newsom in the primary (he's better than Rahm Emanuel lol), less because he's awful (he is) and more because material conditions will probably propel ANY Dem to a '28 win. That's an opportunity to pick someone who will aggressively push for change. Which is not Newsom.

The good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

Maybe the most accurate tweet about the current state of film exhibition

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Fucking YES!!!

The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t

"I've seen ordinary people do the most heroic things"

"The future of movies — which is a microcosm for the future of everything — is a fight between people who give a shit and people who don’t. At the end of the day, I really think it’s that simple. And everyone in this room, whatever their discipline, is someone who gives a shit." Cried reading this.

One of the best things you will read today.

the best antidote to blackpilling is remembering that every video you see of an ICE thug abusing their power was recorded by an American who volunteered to put themselves in harm's way for the sake of people they've likely never met and never will

Wrote about one of my favorite things in the entire world: Movie Stars. marcusbakerfilm.substack.com/p/the-long-t...

"'He likes me more than you' oddly works just as well in the halls of the league's wealthiest men as it does in 10th-grade study hall." There's one line in every @rayratto.bsky.social piece that's so good/applicable it makes me wish I could do a backflip @defector.com defector.com/john-harbaug...

Literally cried watching this. Thank you so much @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social. Extremely proud to call you my mayor!!

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

"Today, we go behind the camera to pick some of the great craft of the year in film, including excellence in cinematography, editing, original score, casting, and more.” Read our writers’ picks:

Every time I read something like this, I think about how when I was living as "a white millennial man," people would notice I was talented and just sort of hand me stuff without me advocating for myself. My current career -- where I am still successful! -- has been much, much harder to attain.

Favorites & First Watches from 2025: marcusbakerfilm.substack.com/p/five-and-f...

Filmmaker Ian Bell on ‘WTO/99’ and the legacy of the Battle in Seattle: defector.com/filmmaker-ia...

Selling off years of the most heavily-guarded IP for a short-term financial gain and a long-term devaluement of their brands? Where did I see this film before...? 🤔

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

The most film nerd thing about me is that @rianjohnson.bsky.social's press cycle for Knives Out 3 has been genuinely one of my favorite things in any director's career ever. Every interview is just him raining threes from half court in support of a movie that absolutely whips.

Never been more jealous of a person I'm friends with tbh. Also a great interview.

imagine every WB movie having the netflix slop look

the word layoffs doesn't even appear in this article It's just all analysts chirping away about synergies media coverage of itself and its endless consolidation doesn't think labor, consumers, or creatives are actually relevant to anything

what a terrible fucking day

What exactly will our transition team do? I wanted to take a moment to talk to you about it. #thisisyourcity

YOOOOOOOO LFG

I was already sold on this movie but somehow "chaos-riddled epic about a scumbag ping-pong player" sold me even more???

One of the most underrated parts of what Zohran is doing is showcasing who runs government agencies, why they're valuable, and how they are run at a time when those things are being heavily villified. He's not gonna be the guy making sure everything runs on time, these people will be.

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

Incredible write up on this past week's election results by @mudede.bsky.social www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

Time to listen to season 6 of @karinalongworth.bsky.social’s podcast You Must Remember This about Hollywood’s black list during the Red Scare. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

T-Swift's "Mean" is one of the most psychologically damaging / revealing pieces of art by an American artist this century. It also perfectly illustrates the mindset behind basically every social issue in this god forsaken country. A cursed masterpiece if there ever was one.

Especially proud of this one marcusbakerfilm.substack.com/p/a-job-with...