Angelica Jade Bastién
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Critic and Essayist, New York Magazine. Southern broad.
https://linktr.ee/angelicabastien
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I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids,
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www.vulture.com/article/brad...
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Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
https://www.vulture.com/article/brad-pitt-is-fooling-you-f1-angelina-jolie.html
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🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩
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“I’ve spent my life studying my profession & I’ve come to feel that one lifetime is not enough. When it works well there is something shamanistic about it, but in order to invite that, for lack of a better word, inspiration into your life requires a tremendous amount of discipline” HBD Ethan Hawke
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One of my kids requested more Hitchcock films in our diet so we just watched NOTORIOUS and I can't believe I hadn't read this Criterion essay from
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until now:
www.criterion.com/current/post...
Great piece on a great movie!
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Notorious: The Same Hunger
In this pitch-perfect noir romance, Alfred Hitchcock explores what happens when the masks we wear in the world clash with our innermost desires.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6147-notorious-the-same-hunger
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
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Like every time I think I understand the depths of depravity of American slavery, I see another story that seems like beyond the worst of any horror writer’s imagination
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Alexander Chee
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Has anyone worked up the net worth of Cuomo’s parents vs Mamdani’s? Why does this weird narrative of a professor and a filmmaker as wealthy elites continue? Do they think Mira Nair made Marvel films or something?
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i had a great double feature halloween movie night with friends last week and got to introduce them to this banger. long live the queen, tiffany valentine
boxd.it/bAmqxB
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A ★★★★ review of Bride of Chucky (1998)
And this is when I fell in love with the Chucky franchise. Hot Topic coded like a motherfucker. I mean that with love. Much to be said about how much more fun Chucky and his franchise are when it goes...
https://boxd.it/bAmqxB
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Kathrin Maurer
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Outstanding: The Magnificence of Tony Todd in "Candyman" (1992) and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1995) by
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angelicabastien.substack.com/p/the-magnif...
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The Magnificence of Tony Todd
In honor of the actor's passing I wrote about his tremendous and remarkably different performances in "Candyman" (1992) and the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" 1995 episode "The Visitor".
https://angelicabastien.substack.com/p/the-magnificence-of-tony-todd
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KQED Forum
12 days ago
🎙️ON AIR: We're talking with music critic Kelefa Sanneh and pop culture critic
@angelicabastien.bsky.social
about why traditional criticism should endure, even when everyone has a platform. ❓Where do you turn for reliable reviews? 📻 Listen:
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When Everyone’s a Critic, Who Should You Trust? | KQED
We talk to pop culture critic Angelica Jade Bastién and music critic Kelefa Sanneh about why traditional criticism should endure, even when everyone has a platform.
https://buff.ly/AIkaabj
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A short post with a fun Letterboxd horror list of what I am watching this season.
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A Wild Letterboxd List for Horror Lovers
If you're a paying subscriber you get to check out this private Letterboxd list I made of what I am watching for this year's spooky season and beyond. Enjoy.
https://angelicabastien.substack.com/p/a-wild-letterboxd-list-for-horror
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I'm Margaret! I'm the beast! Blah Blah Blah!
about 1 month ago
There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;
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Nina Metz
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"she recounts anecdotes about long-dead colleagues as if they happened yesterday. There’s the one about Marlon Brando, who called her, out of the blue, to ask where she’d got her chin done" omg, love her always and forever
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Loved this piece
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Carol Burnett Plays On
The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/carol-burnett-profile
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Cats of Yore
about 1 month ago
RIP Jane Goodall. I feel like it's shortchanging her legacy to focus only on her work with chimpanzees when her compassion extended to ALL animals. One of the best ways you can honor & continue her legacy is to incorporate more plant based meals into your life. ❤️
news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
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Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat)
Dr. Goodall went plant-based after confronting what that meat represents: pain. Since, she learned more reasons why the work to #eatmeatless is important.
https://news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/why-i-went-plant-based-and-why-we-should-all-eat-less-meat/
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Your girl has a limited edition newsletter about stardom, through history and beyond just Hollywood,
@nymag.com
. I’m getting into the art, the gossip, and just how a star becomes legend. Here’s the announcement, subscribe today!
www.vulture.com/article/new-...
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Introducing New York Night School: Performance Studies
A five-week course with critic Angelica Jade Bastién examining stardom throughout film history — in and outside of Hollywood.
https://www.vulture.com/article/new-york-night-school-performance-studies-announcement.html?_gl=1*83e8ae*_ga*MTcwMzYyMDY5LjE3NTczNTM3Mzg.*_ga_DNE38RK1HX*czE3NTkzMjQ0NTUkbzE0JGcxJHQxNzU5MzI0NDY1JGo1MCRsMCRoMTAxNTQ0NDE0*_fplc*ajdYb1RGaGx5V3ZGdmtEbHElMkZIJTJGNXVNSDV4UDduNlBnemhrUDhONG5jYVlGWCUyQkFsMEYzZDk0QXZnZU5ZMkxBUDd6d1F1ZmJnaDBKUWxLU3B3ZU4lMkJ1VyUyRjlyekNRN0NvSmdVQmp3Nk9UbXVFUjVNckZ3aktyeEt3NzRrZTdRdyUzRCUzRA.
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Faine Greenwood
about 1 month ago
the authoritarian techbro cult wishes to subjugate humanity - the good news is that these are pathetic creeps and we can beat them
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Alexander Chee
about 2 months ago
I'll be moderating this Brooklyn Bookfest panel with novelists
@jasondiamond.bsky.social
, Denne Michele Norris and
@katiekitamura.bsky.social
. I hope you can join us.
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Prisonculture
about 2 months ago
If you have opportunities to get out and do things with others, jump at the opportunity: meetings, classes, social events, etc... Get out and be with other people. It's essential. If virtual is more convenient, then take advantage of those opportunities to be with other people.
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Alan Sepinwall
about 2 months ago
In case you missed it, Monday was my last day at Rolling Stone, and for the time being, I'll be doing all of my reviewing, recapping, and other TV analysis at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing:
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Don't stop believing
Some news, as they say
https://alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-believing/
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Alexander Chee
about 2 months ago
Would anyone ever explain to him he’s wasting six hours a day of his life and he’ll never get back?
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Watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford act together is one of the most supreme cinematic delights. I wish they made more (and even better) movies together. What amazing, kind, politically astute dudes.
about 2 months ago
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Puff the Magic Hater
about 2 months ago
Chicago is a major frontline, both in terms of what's happening on the ground, right now, and what's permanently happening in the right-wing imagination.
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I've been thinking a lot about the body in film as a site of cultural ideals and sensuality. Also been thinking a lot about what it means to write embodied criticism as people seem more and more disconnected from their own bodies and each other. These ideas run through my Movies That Fuck column
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My latest is an interview with director Bing Liu about his film “Preparation for the Next Life”
www.vulture.com/article/prep...
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‘There’s a Spiritual Cost to the Immigrant Narrative’
With his feature debut, Preparation for the Next Life, director Bing Liu probes the perils and illusory qualities of the American Dream.
https://www.vulture.com/article/preparation-for-the-next-life-bing-liu-interview.html
about 2 months ago
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤
about 2 months ago
I’m on crazy pills, apparently. Hats off to Ezra Klein for virtue signaling with his whole pimply ass out without any shame. Let’s be clear, Kirk was not our era’s most effective practitioner of persuasion, he was an activator for the bigotry and hate that was already thriving in people’s hearts.
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maya cade
2 months ago
without daily, impassioned criticism, stan-driven ephemera on decaying platforms will be how we will remember today’s artistry and times, if we are lucky. good criticism considers the long arc of history whereas standom praises without reflection…
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤
about 2 months ago
The Right is about to have field day of self-victimizing as targets of political violence so they can create cover for the fact that they actually instigate most of the political violence in this country.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
about 2 months ago
Is denying people healthcare, kidnapping people from their jobs to be sent to detention camps, targeting minorities with legislation and hate speech campaigns not political violence?
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Jacqueline Sweet
about 2 months ago
The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away
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7, with a touch of number 9.
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rom comrade
about 2 months ago
feminist analysis requires that you understand power relations and harms to marginalized communities, and fight to destroy those forces. to use AI is one of the most anti-feminist things you can do on many levels, and that’s why tech bros and AI boosters love it.
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Maris Kreizman
2 months ago
What I think about nightly at 3am: “The irony of the decline of written criticism is that nearly everyone I spoke to agrees it is more necessary than ever.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/do-media-organizations-even-want-cultural-criticism.html?utm_source=nymag_app_article_share
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Kat Tenbarge
2 months ago
Just finished this Herculean reporting & writing effort from
@eminietfeld.bsky.social
and I’m just blown away by the cruelty and depravity that surrogacy—but frankly, more pressingly, the legal system—is allowing this VC investor to exert upon an innocent woman
www.wired.com/story/the-ba...
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The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-baby-died-whose-fault-is-it-surrogate-pregnancy/
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Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights
2 months ago
Anyone that believes an algorithm can fully predict what an artist would've done has no respect for art
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There is no way you can answer the questions people have around the lost footage by using AI to construct what can ultimately never be experienced. This is so ghoulish, anti-art, and ultimately, anti-human to me.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes
Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production. The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained r...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/orson-welles-lost-movie-ai-1236361881/
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maya cade
2 months ago
the hurricane katrina series i co-curated, “when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives” continues at MoMA through september 21. on saturday at 7 pm, we screen the pilot episode of “treme” with creator david simon and star wendell pierce in conversation with me. join us, won’t you?
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Treme: Do You Know What It Means [TV pilot episode]. 2010. Directed by Agnieszka Holland | MoMA
Treme: Do You Know What It Means [TV pilot episode]. 2010. USA. Directed by Agnieszka Holland. Screenplay by David Simon, Eric Overmyer. With Khandi Alexander, Rob Brown, Kim Dickens, Wendell Pierce. ...
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/10758
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Puff the Magic Hater
2 months ago
The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
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Prisonculture
2 months ago
This by
@charoshane.bsky.social
is one of the most vulnerable and actually beautiful pieces that I have read about becoming published. Also so grateful for the honest accounting of numbers of books sold and what that all actually means:
meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...
- thank you
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The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Published
Eleven writers weigh in. Plus, my book's sales: exposed!
https://meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortifying-ordeal-of-being-published
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Matt Zoller Seitz
2 months ago
"[James] Cameron is on the board of directors at Stability AI, and is therefore among a group of (generally very wealthy) people who think that using generative AI to replace jobs and depress wages further is the key to saving the mainstream film industry."
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Maris Kreizman
2 months ago
I want to be a writer, not an entrepreneur
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Matt Zoller Seitz
2 months ago
New Yorkers: there's an incredible series at MOMA (
@moma.bsky.social
) commemorating the 20th anniversary of Katrina with a series of films about New Orleans before and after. Curated by
@mayascade.bsky.social
and K. Austin Collins. My picks:
www.rogerebert.com/mzs/when-the...
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"When the World Broke Open: Katrina and its Afterlives" Launches at MOMA | MZS | Roger Ebert
A preview of an ambitious event at MOMA on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/when-the-world-broke-open-katrina-and-its-afterlives-launches-at-moma
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Peter Partheymuller
2 months ago
Oh wait! I just remembered/realized
@angelicabastien.bsky.social
’s Keanu appreciation was on
@bwdr.bsky.social
! That was the first I read. You should subscribe and go read that if you haven’t.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!
3 months ago
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
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Matt Zoller Seitz
3 months ago
I guess editors don't get enough love, because many of them seem taken aback when complimented. But it's an art, and it deserves appreciation. So here's to all of my editors. Thanks for improving my work, saving me from myself, and pushing me in new directions. Also for putting up with me!
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BWDR was so integral to my early years as a critic and essayist. Such an amazing publication. Lend your support by subscribing!
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Katie
3 months ago
this shot of columbo walking up a city street is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen
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jj skolnik
3 months ago
an empire’s dying days. it’s up to us how we will protect one another, and what we will build as the structures we have traditionally relied on cease to function
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My latest about another thinly drawn superhero flick that didn’t entertain me.
www.vulture.com/article/vane...
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Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm Is the MVP of The Fantastic Four: First Steps
That Sue is by far the most compelling character to watch, however, accentuates how poorly developed the rest of them are.
https://www.vulture.com/article/vanessa-kirby-is-the-mvp-of-the-fantastic-four-first-steps.html
3 months ago
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Rebecca Bodenheimer
3 months ago
Fucking hell. I just posted today about how higher ed always devalues the humanities & how it's linked to legacy media laying off seasoned cultural critics. It's all connected: defunding the humanities & public media, pushing AI on us - it's about destroying critical thinking.
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Mark Harris
3 months ago
Those aren’t reviews. Those are opinions, and they have their place and uses, but they do not substitute for deeply informed and engaging critical writing, which is a skill that takes time, practice, and experience to develop.
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
3 months ago
Thanks for sharing my big news
@dreadcentral.bsky.social
. All hail
@mbmcandrews.bsky.social
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Headlines Two Horror Documentaries At The 2025 Melbourner International Film Festival
Horror expert and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas will feature in two documentaries playing at the Melbourne International Film Festival!
https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/539505/alexandra-heller-nicholas-headlines-two-horror-documentaries-at-the-2025-melbourner-international-film-festival/
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Sean Gilman
3 months ago
Jackie Chan
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