Is there a German word I for “Optimistically Disappointed”? Note: I could not be rooting harder for the success of this movie. www.dreadcentral.com/news/566390/...

I got fired off a project recently. It's happened before, it might happen again (though I always hope it won't). This isn't a "woe is me" post, more of a "here's a side of the business that's inescapable." #scriptsky More here: bobderosawriter.substack.com/p/3-short-st...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Keep Post Alive: Pass AB-2319. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...

My first LA directing story 🧵: I moved to LA in 1999 determined to direct ANYTHING ASAP. 6 months later, a friend told me about a theater looking for a director for a 1-act play. I put together a resume and met with the guy at his crappy theater on the corner of Santa Monica and Seward.

Hey I’m heading off to a religious institution to worship my god and/or gods APRIL FOOLS You’re a complete idiot for believing me

“My Octopus Teacher” is a masterpiece. APRIL FOOLS you should see your surprised face.

I like sports now APRIL FOOLS I’m great at this.

Bandit Heeler exists to make every father look like a piece of shit.

the hardest part of eating a bowl of Lucky Charms at my age is shoving my pancreas back up my asshole with a broomstick

Follow-up to my “ET”-based follow up to “The Goonies”: “Stand By Me” is a stone-cold masterpiece, maybe the best of these three.

Rounding out my weekend of 80’s flicks — “Stand By Me” is incredible. Probably my favorite of the three.

Follow-up hot take to my hot take about “Goonies”: “ET” is goddamned perfect.

Hot Take: “The Goonies” is overrated. Richard Donner sucked at directing kids.

All my life I’ve been a serial user of the “m dash” — and now I’m finding out that it’s a giveaway that stuff is written by AI. GODDAMNIT I love an m dash and I don’t write with AI.

Deep thought I had upon waking up: If you combine The Iliad and The Odyssey, you get The Idiocy.

The thing about toxic people is that you never know who is secretly one of them until they decide to hijack your life for however long you’re still stuck with them.

just found out there's a Butthole Cut of Hamnet where they all have realistic CGI buttholes

Lola is a song about telling everybody Natalie Portman is your girlfriend

Lawrence Sher, ASC on how The Bride! scared him. Listen/watch the entire episode! youtu.be/TYaJhvKaTyQ @benrock.com #TheBrideMovie #lawrencesher #MaggieGyllenhaal #Frankenstein #cinematographer #cinematography #director #directing #dp #dop #filmmaking #filmmaker #filmpodcast #cinematographypodcast

New Episode! Lawrence Sher, ASC reimagines Frankenstein for The Bride! Listen/watch now! youtu.be/TYaJhvKaTyQ @benrock.com #TheBrideMovie #lawrencesher #MaggieGyllenhaal #Frankenstein #cinematographer #cinematography #director #directing #dp #dop #filmmaker #filmpodcast #cinematographypodcast

exclusively for patrons! on this episode, @benrock.com and I discuss found footage horror with Man Finds Tape co-creators @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and @paulgandersman.bsky.social!

"Monolith" on @hbo.bsky.social starring Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise) is a super cool indie supernatural thriller. Reminds me of Video Palace by @benrock.com et all. (If you haven't listened to that podcast, do yourself a favor, too).

Unrelated, sometimes it’s fun to go back to Twitter so I can see how pissed off all my old friends there are nonstop.

FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN AN OSCAR FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY AUTUMN DURALD THE WOMAN YOU ARE HOLY CRAP!!!!!

Fuck yeah Autumn Durald Arkapaw!!!!

Delroy Lindo was robbed.

It's #wordsearchwednesday Alien Raiders (2008) If aliens are walking among us hidden inside a human form & the ones trying to stop them are drug addicts & crazy people. society would never know! www.minstrelofhorror.com #puzzle #wordsearch #Horrorfam #Alien #invasion #parasite #grocery #possess

WTAF To be clear, this RULES. @davidsimkins.bsky.social

New Episode! 2026 Academy Awards nominations with Jenelle Riley youtu.be/F7VAsHqGgVM @benrock.com @jenelleriley.bsky.social #Oscars2026 #nominations #AcademyAwards #AcademyAwards2026 #cinematographer #cinematography #director #directing #filmmaker #filmpodcast #cinematographypodcast

set your clocks back again, we fucked up

New Episode! James Whitaker: Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die’s visual chaos Listen/Watch now! youtu.be/EmnItZ_BfmQ @benrock.com #GoreVerbinski #GoodLuckHaveFunDontDie #JamesWhitaker #SamRockwell #cinematographer #cinematography #director #dp #dop #filmmaker #filmpodcast #cinematographypodcast

What do you mean, “Flash Gordon Approaching”?

Showing the boy Flash Gordon.

It’s been a few years now so can we all agree that “My Octopus Teacher” was fucking bullshit?

Cosa Nostradamus

Holy fuck! Tonight I went to a 10th anniversary screening of “The Revenant” and I had NO idea that it was going to be followed by a Q&A with Alejandro González Iñárritu, virtual DiCaprio, moderated by @elvismitchell.bsky.social. I love LA! #filmsky

I was thinking about starting a YouTube channel where I review children’s books.

endless war edition

I have a new favorite band.

New pitch: “Xenomorph & Mindy!”

Budget filmmaking on The Dreadful Listen/Watch the entire episode! youtu.be/iNF53GLL9Sw @benrock.com #TheDreadful #NatashaKermani #JuliaSwain #gothic #horror #darkages #cinematographer #cinematography #director #directing #dp #filmmaker #filmpodcast #cinematographypodcast

NEW EPISODE! Into the Dark Ages: the gothic vision of The Dreadful Listen/Watch now! youtu.be/iNF53GLL9Sw @benrock.com #TheDreadful #NatashaKermani #JuliaSwain #horror #darkages #medieval #cinematographer #cinematography #director #directing #dp #filmmaker #filmpodcast #cinematographypodcast

Recommend an Alien movie CHRISTMAS EDITION 👽🖤 #filmsky

Dear Hallow app. Please leave me alone. You seem nice but alas I’m an atheist and don’t care which movie stars aren’t.

Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how were the Porn Awards

Special Episode: Frederick Wiseman, documentary filmmaker 2020 interview With the passing of Frederick Wiseman, here is a re-release of our 2020 interview. Listen/watch now! youtu.be/GSMNQKyC7-U @benrock.com #FrederickWiseman #documentary #director #directing #filmmaker #cinematographypodcast

“Step into Duty!”

Every time my wife and I take our son into busy downtown LA, I wonder if today is the day that the city turns him into Batman.