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Jeremiah Sherman
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Kansas City yokel living in Bakersfield. Film critic for the Fandomentals and resident Columbo expert. Baseball isn't a sport; it's poetry. He/him pronouns www.thefandomentals.com
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Jeremiah Sherman @jshermancritic.bsky.social · Apr 7
Lotta words, no coherent thoughts.
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me for the next 30 or so days
September 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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screendrafts.bsky.social
A new season of @rememberthispod.bsky.social has begun, and we're getting in on the fun with a competitive / collaborative ranking of the filmography of one of its subjects!

MONTGOMERY CLIFT

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September 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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I'm starting to think Marvel actually doesn't want people to go see this movie.
September 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

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reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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screendrafts.bsky.social
We are recording PART FOUR (the epic conclusion) of the ROBERT ALTMAN SUPER DRAFT next week!

Ryan, @mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social, @mangiotto.bsky.social, @emilystjams.bsky.social, & guest commish @aduralde.bsky.social will ALL be at the table, making picks #14 to #1.

What needs to come out on top?!
September 2, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Some News. After five wonderful years at /Film, I am saying goodbye and coming home to @fangoria.bsky.social , fully. I have a lot of big feelings about this and plenty more to say but for now, just know that I cannot wait to make you all proud.
August 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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happy to all who celebrate
The meme from muppets treasure island where Scrooge calls out the window to a bunny and asks what day it is. This one has been edited for the bunny to reply “it’s new season of reacher Wednesday, sir.” And then Scrooge saying “good then i havent missed it”
August 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Several people have asked about VAST OF NIGHT recently, as it's no longer streaming on Amazon. Spoke with director Andrew Patterson about it last night and he took the rights back, partnered with someone, and a physical and new streaming release is coming soon. So VAST OF NIGHT is coming back!
August 11, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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There should have been more movies where Charles Durning dances
August 9, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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It's not that audiences were more horny back in the day, it's just that studio execs and directors understood that a shitty movie might sell some tickets if there was boobs and sex in it and this guy only gave you the shitty movie
boxofficereport.bsky.social BoxOfficeReport.com @boxofficereport.bsky.social · Aug 9
Universal's One Night Only debuted with an estimated $5.70M domestically this weekend (from 3,012 locations).

#OneNightOnlyMovie #OneNightOnly #BoxOffice
August 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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It’s my birthday and I tell you this because the only thing I want is to get this fundraiser to $50k. If you’d buy me a coffee or a gift, I hope you’ll consider sending those funds here today! Mega love to you all, let’s keep taking care of each other 💚🙏🏽

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July 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
July 20, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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janus.bsky.social
everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you
janus.bsky.social The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Jul 15
Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers
A yellow Backmarket poster in the subway showing a pink Game Boy with the caption “AB > AI”
July 15, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Freelance life is a struggle. Making a living doing any of (waves arms around) THIS is insane. Doing it while constantly dealing with the surprising side effects of surviving cancer? Takes a stronger person than me. That’s who BJ Colangelo is.

But she needs help. Can you help? gofund.me/120701466
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July 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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J. K. Rowling posting an upskirt photo of a trans woman and then claiming she was "asking for it" because of the way she was dressed... you'd get laughed out of the writer's room if you tried to do it in an Armando Ianucci show.
July 14, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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This is a VERY bad month for me financially. One surprise after another. Right now, if you've ever considered signing up for the newsletter, it's time. I have both monthly and annual rates, and the annual saves you quite a bit.
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July 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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when dudes become the joker why don't any of them become the cool fun one who listens to prince
jack nicholson joker in the art gallery scene
July 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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being in the DSA is fun because you get to spend most of your time helping people with social anxiety canvass for democratic school board candidates and then go online to see people with blue wave emojis in their bios compare you to pol pot
July 9, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Typical Legend fashion it gets nuts right out the gate
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It's the 2nd annual Main Feed Legends Invitational!

THE REINER RUN SUPER DRAFT

Drafted by Clay, Ryan, Darren, @billyraybrewton.bsky.social, @bryancogman.bsky.social, @grahamskipper.bsky.social, @dreaclark.bsky.social, @oriananudo.bsky.social

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July 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM
jshermancritic.bsky.social
The second episode of "Leverage" has the team go up against private military contractors and congress. There's a scene where Sophie talks to a man at a party who brags about "buying congressman" and every person, on the team, criminals all, are morally disgusted by such debased behavior.
Breanna Casey: I Want the World to Stop Sucking
ALT: Breanna Casey: I Want the World to Stop Sucking
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June 30, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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richtate.com
Remove the slop from your day!
June 28, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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yelix.bsky.social
there’s a “what’s the best movie about men by a woman” prompt going around, and nobody has said this because it was only written by a woman and not directed by one, but it’s Slap Shot
June 28, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
June 25, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Sorry, haters; Disclosure Day rocks. A speculative fiction story about what wonders might result if the world still functioned like it did in 1994.
June 23, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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theneonbanshee.bsky.social
Hi all,

Reaching out because the job hunt has been terrible and I am feeling very discouraged. If anyone has leads for writing gigs or any remote work or things in the NYC area I would be so so very grateful.
June 22, 2026 at 2:36 PM