“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” 🇵🇸

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wrote a little more extensively about The Odyssey, with major spoilers. check it out below :) open.substack.com/pub/bricky…
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best looking film of the year and i don’t think it’s close
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the thing robert pattinson says at this exact moment is the funniest line reading of the year to me
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Expanded on these thoughts I had on my Substack--kind of a lengthy one. billielanderson.substack.com…
Primetime was extremely my shit. Really into the way it places To Catch a Predator inside the paranoia of the Iraq War years: WMDs, surveillance, preemption, the fantasy that danger can be identified and eliminated before it reaches you.
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The leftists in the Succession universe trying not to enjoy L to the OG
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75% of my time with Control Resonant has been spent just wandering around the map stumbling into things because its open world is so good that it evokes the deeply immersive sense of wonder that only stuff like Elden Ring or BoTW/ToTK has
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PRIMETIME reckons with the unchecked, fostered, and commodified feverish retribution of 00’s America gift-wrapped for people consume as easily as an episode of Lost as a sort of lynchpin for where we’ve ended up today. Brilliant, brilliant movie. boxd.it/gtM5NR
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its reception alone is a great testimony to its thesis. people have gotten so used to figures who are either so unequivocally good or bad that they've forgotten they can be questioned. "either you're with him or you're with me," and that sums it up perfectly.
Primetime doesn’t need to tell us predators are the bad guys because we should already know that 😒 it’s about varying degrees of ethical violations in media and whether that outweighs the crime itself. It’s not black and white, it’s not good vs. evil. Requires critical thought.
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*who are presented as being so unequivocally good or bad
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Lance Oppenheim says Chris Hansen’s reaction to “Primetime” is “exactly what the film is about.” "When he first heard about it, he was quite excited. He was at CrimeCon saying, 'I’m sorry, I’m not Robert Pattinson, but I’m Chris Hansen.' Several weeks later, we wanted to show it to him and there was a fairly standard NDA he didn’t want to sign." "Since then, he has done what Chris Hansen, the showman, does and has said a lot more about it. His reaction to the film right now is exactly what the film is about. I was a fan of Chris Hansen, and I still am. That’s why I wanted to make this film. Yes, he’s a journalist. Yes, he’s an entertainer. But he’s also an artist. He made this hall of mirrors, with adult actors pretending to be children and sets that looked like something out of 'Blue Velvet.' Without that show, I don’t think I would be making films the way I do." variety.com/2026/film/awards…
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Captures the American psyche’s shift post-9/11 superfluously; the coalescence of the physical world and fantasy. Hansen and America sharing a rationale to protect children while neglecting their own. The revolution will never be televised. Movie of the fucking year.
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Merritt Weaver and Skyler Gisondo play way bigger roles than I was anticipating and they are SO good
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Also I use the word superfluously intentionally here, I think it’s clear why a lot of people are being put off by it trying to capture “too much” but I think it’s a home run
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Lance Oppenheim making this his Los Alamos/Trinity moment My jaw dropped when I realised and I didn’t even pick it up until I walked out that theatre
This moment from the Predators doc and Hansen’s reaction in particular is really haunting to me. It reads like his mind is only concentrating on how he’s going to air this episode, if he can at all. And finding out he eventually did is just perplexing.
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At some point you have to make a movie that isn't about yourself.
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INK trailer and it still looks fantastic ugh :(((((
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Can we just rip them out of their flesh suits like I love boosters
💰 Trump's state dinner table seats billionaires worth a combined $1.13 trillion. Take a look: tmz.com/2026/09/25/trump-sta…
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I don’t even get to hear the game audio over the screenshot sound
#NowPlaying (dw not posting any spoilers)
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