It’s like The Rise of Skywalker of Taylor Swift albums

I'm a self-proclaimed Swiftie, but this new album is truly, dreadfully uninspired... however, the only social media platform on which I feel comfortable enough to bash it is Bluesky. I don't wanna deal with any Twitter, Instagram, or *shudders* TikTok Swifties. Especially that @hollywoodmanning guy

Continuing our #FantasticFest coverage, EoM Senior Interviewer @thethomasmanning.bsky.social spoke with THE CURSE writer/director Ken'ichi Ugana. In their brief conversation, Ugana discusses his exploration of these themes as well as the film’s visceral sound design.

On Tuesday, a brand-new Marko Zaror film, AFFINITY, releases on digital via @wellgousa.bsky.social. Ahead of the release, EoM Sr Interviewer @thethomasmanning.bsky.social sits down to discuss the project's long gestation & the importance of character-driven action storytelling. #Affinity #WellGoUSA

This rooster, by nature of being pedigreed, somehow escapes classification as poultry? Yet he struts around and demands chicken-type amenities, and awakens the farm noisily at dawn as he pleases? Curious.

READ: Member Thomas Manning (@thethomasmanning.bsky.social) talks with co-writer and actor Marko Zaror about #affinity for Elements of Madness (@elmntsofmadness.bsky.social): elementsofmadness.com/2025/09/29/m...

Film critic @thethomasmanning.bsky.social takes you rooftop-hopping in this Screen Scene review of Roofman — Clips are used by permission for review and commentary purposes. #Roofman #ScreenScene #FilmReview #IndieFilm #ThomasManning #MovieCritic #MovieDiscussion #FilmTalk #paramount #Filmnation

READ: Member Thomas Manning (@thethomasmanning.bsky.social) talks with filmmaker David Fortune about #colorbook: thethomasmanning.substack.com/p/filmmaker-...

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Today a brand-new Marko Zaror film, AFFINITY, comes available on digital via @wellgousa.bsky.social. In the run-up to release, EoM Senior Interviewer @thethomasmanning.bsky.social sat down with the co-writer/actor to discuss his work on this long-gestating project. #WellGoUSA

Tomorrow, a brand-new Marko Zaror film, AFFINITY, releases on digital via @wellgousa.bsky.social. Ahead of the release, EoM Senior Interviewer @thethomasmanning.bsky.social sits down to discuss the long gestation of this project & the importance of character-driven action storytelling.

I think my biggest "Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the screen" moment in Roofman was seeing the famous Express Inn and Suites just off Exit 14 on I85 in Gastonia. Never thought I'd see such a major landmark in a Channing Tatum film.

This is an impressively bad special teams performance by the Carolina Panthers

It brought me such joy to see the great Eric Schweig in One Battle After Another. Five minutes of screen time was all he needed to leave me thinking about his performance, in a movie filled with performances worth thinking about.

open.substack.com/pub/thethoma... It was a joy to chat with David Fortune about “Color Book,” a lovely directorial debut feature

Mission: Impossible -- Final Reckoning is so great because you have absurd lines of dialogue like the following, delivered with morbid seriousness: "The secret to its invisibility is The Podkova, a counter-acoustic algorithmic drive located in the Sevastopol's sonar sphere."

ICYMI: It appears that @wellgousa.bsky.social has released the new Scott Adkins film, PRISONER OF WAR, on digital today. In that case, if you haven't yet checked out the conversation between Adkins and EoM Senior Interviewer @thethomasmanning.bsky.social, now seems like a good time to do so!

Roofman is the second movie featuring Channing Tatum as a divorced girl-dad who conducts a heist in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Fantastic movie. Did not expect to tear up multiple times. Also forgot that Ben Mendelssohn was in it — and folks, his character introduction is an all-timer)

I don’t know if I’m making the roster for this rapture guys. I put in some really strong church-going reps in my teenage years, but I took the foot off the gas once I got to college. Might not be enough to avoid getting cut. Guess we’ll see how free agency turns out.

Got another quote from Jay Duplass at the Nashville Film Festival -- read here for his praise of "the best movie he's seen in several years" open.substack.com/pub/thethoma...

I want something similar at my funeral — except, it’s me walking out with fireworks to give my eulogy after faking my own death

Honestly, I can get behind lining up at your friend’s funeral and just telling a bunch of lies about his life to make him sound cooler. However, the goal is to live your life in such a way that the lies are totally harmless and somewhat believable — not a total whitewashing of your hateful life

Dicker the Kicker

WATCH: Member Thomas Manning (@thethomasmanning.bsky.social) talks with Scott Adkins about #prisonerofwar: elementsofmadness.com/2025/09/16/s...

Today, @wellgousa.bsky.social releases PRISONER OF WAR in theaters & VOD. In anticipation of the release, EoM Senior Interviewer @thethomasmanning.bsky.social sat down with co-writer/actor Scott Adkins to discuss production design, handheld weaponry, & more. #PrisonerofWar #WellGoUSA

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

Trans rights are human rights.

Right wingers trying to claim Mr. Rogers is one of the most laughable things I've seen in quite some time

I interviewed Robert Redford once, for Truth in 2015. After the interview he called me back over: “I noticed you have a notebook.” “I do.” “I also noticed you never looked at it.” “If I’m looking at my notes for the next question I’m not listening to what you’re saying.” “Good answer.”

This week, @wellgousa.bsky.social releases PRISONER OF WAR in theaters & VOD this Friday, 9/19. In anticipation of the release, EoM Senior Interviewer @thethomasmanning.bsky.social sits down with co-writer/actor Scott Adkins to discuss production design, handheld weaponry, & more. #WellGoUSA

Mid-September, on day 258 of this year, I have 340 edited files saved in my 2025 folder! Phew! We have a busy crew who do it all for the love of film. If you think nothing good has come out this year, you haven’t checked with us. 😉 #FilmSky #MovieSky

Absolutely insane that people will get on socials and say, "I've gone back and watched a thousand of his videos, and can't for the life of me find anything racist he ever said!" Like, I didn't realize it was possible to tell on yourself that badly.

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I think Arch Manning should stay in college as long as humanly possible. Maybe even get a degree while he’s at it, because an NFL career at all is looking less and less likely (please prove me wrong cousin, I’m pulling for you)

"You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him."— Dril, the Socrates of social media

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

Why the hell do we live in a world so unimaginably stupid that I’ve been forced to learn what a “groyper” is? I’ve heard of grouper. Grouper sandwiches are pretty good. But groyper? Cmon now, what are we even doing here

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

Got tickets to the Charlotte premiere of Roofman. Can’t wait to Rick Dalton point at the screen every 5 minutes when I see another street, landmark, location, etc. I’ve been to a thousand times

guys, we have a tone shift

There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump. That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

When I’m telling people where I’m from, they’ve usually never heard of my hometown — but their eyes light up with recognition when I mention that I live just a few miles north of the big peach on I-85

They should release the Epstein files live on the Manningcast

You mean to tell me that Arch Manning’s backup QB is Matthew Caldwell, a transfer from Troy by way of Gardner-Webb, whose games at the latter I covered multiple times???

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.