Zac Pacleb
@zacpacleb.bsky.social
writer, digital content manager for UFC.com || soft-spots: liverpool fc, one tree hill, burritos, 90-minute movies || he/him
wrote about revisiting some childhood favorites last month as well as a gang of smaller releases in the We're So Back summer of 2026, including one of my favorite movies of the year so far. zacpacleb.substack.com/p/august-202...
August 2026 Roundup | Revisitng Childhood Favorites And The Golden Age Of Gummy Candy
Thank goodness for physical media
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September 16, 2026 at 10:48 PM
wrote about revisiting some childhood favorites last month as well as a gang of smaller releases in the We're So Back summer of 2026, including one of my favorite movies of the year so far. zacpacleb.substack.com/p/august-202...
The @blindspotters.bsky.social summer of reviews rages on as @amandaluberto.bsky.social and I broke down TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA.
We talked all things slashers, gummy candy and more. It's a fun one. open.spotify.com/episode/0kJV...
We talked all things slashers, gummy candy and more. It's a fun one. open.spotify.com/episode/0kJV...
S1E82 - BONUS: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA review
Blindspotters · Episode
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August 27, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The @blindspotters.bsky.social summer of reviews rages on as @amandaluberto.bsky.social and I broke down TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA.
We talked all things slashers, gummy candy and more. It's a fun one. open.spotify.com/episode/0kJV...
We talked all things slashers, gummy candy and more. It's a fun one. open.spotify.com/episode/0kJV...
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There's a hole at the bottom of the lake where the pods come from...
@zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social are back with another bonus episode, this time reviewing Jane Schoenbrun's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0kJV...
@zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social are back with another bonus episode, this time reviewing Jane Schoenbrun's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0kJV...
S1E82 - BONUS: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA review
Blindspotters · Episode
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August 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
There's a hole at the bottom of the lake where the pods come from...
@zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social are back with another bonus episode, this time reviewing Jane Schoenbrun's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0kJV...
@zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social are back with another bonus episode, this time reviewing Jane Schoenbrun's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0kJV...
wrote about long journeys home, the friends we make along the way, awkward dinner parties and movies being so, so back zacpacleb.substack.com/p/july-2026-...
July 2026 Roundup | Welcome home, stranger (and by stranger, I mean the theatrical experience!)
Maybe the real box office was the friends we made along the way
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August 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
wrote about long journeys home, the friends we make along the way, awkward dinner parties and movies being so, so back zacpacleb.substack.com/p/july-2026-...
wrote about some movies I think you should watch (some old, some new) and other stuff I’ve been liking because I turned 31 and that’s just something to do open.substack.com/pub/zacpacle...
Thirty-one(ish) things on my mind I’ve enjoyed lately, from a newly 31-year-old (mostly movies I think you should watch)
Plus a smattering of other things I’ve been liking lately
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July 31, 2026 at 10:32 PM
wrote about some movies I think you should watch (some old, some new) and other stuff I’ve been liking because I turned 31 and that’s just something to do open.substack.com/pub/zacpacle...
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A war! A man! A trick! A podcast!!!
@zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social have seen THE ODYSSEY and have thoughts on everything from where this movie fits into Christopher Nolan's filmography to which performances stood out the most.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2oGc...
@zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social have seen THE ODYSSEY and have thoughts on everything from where this movie fits into Christopher Nolan's filmography to which performances stood out the most.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2oGc...
S1E81 - BONUS: THE ODYSSEY review
Blindspotters · Episode
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July 21, 2026 at 5:59 PM
A war! A man! A trick! A podcast!!!
@zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social have seen THE ODYSSEY and have thoughts on everything from where this movie fits into Christopher Nolan's filmography to which performances stood out the most.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2oGc...
@zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social have seen THE ODYSSEY and have thoughts on everything from where this movie fits into Christopher Nolan's filmography to which performances stood out the most.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2oGc...
wrote a little bit about soccer and the World Cup as sport at its most cinematic as well as a gang of decent to very good movies released in 2026 so far.
also included: a note on rewatching BROADCAST NEWS for the first time. in short, a great movie! zacpacleb.substack.com/p/june-2026-...
also included: a note on rewatching BROADCAST NEWS for the first time. in short, a great movie! zacpacleb.substack.com/p/june-2026-...
June 2026 Roundup | The World Cup Is Cinema
I watched a handful of good movies in June, but I mostly watched soccer.
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July 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM
wrote a little bit about soccer and the World Cup as sport at its most cinematic as well as a gang of decent to very good movies released in 2026 so far.
also included: a note on rewatching BROADCAST NEWS for the first time. in short, a great movie! zacpacleb.substack.com/p/june-2026-...
also included: a note on rewatching BROADCAST NEWS for the first time. in short, a great movie! zacpacleb.substack.com/p/june-2026-...
Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY has been in theaters for a couple weeks now...
And I liked the movie!
But I get why people didn't!!
Does it all work? Definitely not, but I enjoyed Spielberg saying he wants us to believe in an "us" again. substack.com/home/post/p-...
And I liked the movie!
But I get why people didn't!!
Does it all work? Definitely not, but I enjoyed Spielberg saying he wants us to believe in an "us" again. substack.com/home/post/p-...
'Disclosure Day' Review | Steve Spielberg Wants To Believe In An "Us" As Much As A "Them"
In Steven Spielberg's Return To Extraterrestrial Storytelling, He Seems More Intrigued With His Fellow Humans Than Anything Else
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June 27, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY has been in theaters for a couple weeks now...
And I liked the movie!
But I get why people didn't!!
Does it all work? Definitely not, but I enjoyed Spielberg saying he wants us to believe in an "us" again. substack.com/home/post/p-...
And I liked the movie!
But I get why people didn't!!
Does it all work? Definitely not, but I enjoyed Spielberg saying he wants us to believe in an "us" again. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Reposted by Zac Pacleb
Full disclosure: @zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social watched DISCLOSURE DAY and have some thoughts!
Listen to their review of the newest movie from Steven Spielberg here: open.spotify.com/episode/3235...
Listen to their review of the newest movie from Steven Spielberg here: open.spotify.com/episode/3235...
S1E79 - BONUS : DISCLOSURE DAY review
Blindspotters · Episode
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June 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Full disclosure: @zacpacleb.bsky.social and @amandaluberto.bsky.social watched DISCLOSURE DAY and have some thoughts!
Listen to their review of the newest movie from Steven Spielberg here: open.spotify.com/episode/3235...
Listen to their review of the newest movie from Steven Spielberg here: open.spotify.com/episode/3235...
DISCLOSURE DAY, Steven Spielberg's return to science-fiction and more importantly, summer blockbusters, has arrived, and @amandaluberto.bsky.social and I hopped on mics to review the film on the latest episode of @blindspotters.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/3235...
S1E79 - BONUS : DISCLOSURE DAY review
Blindspotters · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
DISCLOSURE DAY, Steven Spielberg's return to science-fiction and more importantly, summer blockbusters, has arrived, and @amandaluberto.bsky.social and I hopped on mics to review the film on the latest episode of @blindspotters.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/3235...
wrote about star wars in the aftermath of THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU as well as a classic romcom, an all-time noir and whatever the heck you want to call the banger that is NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE. open.substack.com/pub/zacpacle...
May 2026 Roundup | Star Wars, What Is It Good For?
Sometimes, The Summer Movie Season Kicks Off With A Bang. Other Times, It Kicks Off With A Buff Hutt
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June 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
wrote about star wars in the aftermath of THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU as well as a classic romcom, an all-time noir and whatever the heck you want to call the banger that is NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE. open.substack.com/pub/zacpacle...
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Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:
May 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:
wrote about the ways THE DRAMA and THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 grappled with the Internet in their own ways and how they made me nostalgic or at least self-reflective about growing up online zacpacleb.substack.com/p/the-drama-...
The Drama, The Devil Wears Prada 2 And Feeling Nostalgic About The Internet
I'm probably overthinking things, but that's what movies and the Internet are for anyway
zacpacleb.substack.com
May 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
wrote about the ways THE DRAMA and THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 grappled with the Internet in their own ways and how they made me nostalgic or at least self-reflective about growing up online zacpacleb.substack.com/p/the-drama-...
wrote about watching FIELD OF DREAMS for the first time. lovely!
also included:
- I’m all-in on Emily Bader
- Australian movie theater experiences
- I entered the Bone Temple
- A lil bit about THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (but more to come) zacpacleb.substack.com/p/april-2026...
also included:
- I’m all-in on Emily Bader
- Australian movie theater experiences
- I entered the Bone Temple
- A lil bit about THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (but more to come) zacpacleb.substack.com/p/april-2026...
April 2026 Roundup | The Dreams We Let Fade And The Ones We Still Pursue
The End Of Spring Included One Of The Most Stunning Musical Set-Pieces I’ve Seen, And I Also Watched Michael
zacpacleb.substack.com
May 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
wrote about watching FIELD OF DREAMS for the first time. lovely!
also included:
- I’m all-in on Emily Bader
- Australian movie theater experiences
- I entered the Bone Temple
- A lil bit about THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (but more to come) zacpacleb.substack.com/p/april-2026...
also included:
- I’m all-in on Emily Bader
- Australian movie theater experiences
- I entered the Bone Temple
- A lil bit about THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (but more to come) zacpacleb.substack.com/p/april-2026...
every playoffs, i find myself sort of rooting for the timberwolves just because i want to watch anthony edwards play as much high-stakes basketball as possible
May 16, 2026 at 2:59 AM
every playoffs, i find myself sort of rooting for the timberwolves just because i want to watch anthony edwards play as much high-stakes basketball as possible
it cannot be emphasized how much we miss TG over on the UFC team. it's been an all-hands-on-deck effort to even come close to his level of production both in quantity and quality. but most of all, we miss his wit and his friendship. his induction to the hall of fame is incredibly deserved.
May 10, 2026 at 12:37 AM
it cannot be emphasized how much we miss TG over on the UFC team. it's been an all-hands-on-deck effort to even come close to his level of production both in quantity and quality. but most of all, we miss his wit and his friendship. his induction to the hall of fame is incredibly deserved.
the internet is hilarious man like wdym someone made an alysa liu/vince carter edit to stateside
April 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
the internet is hilarious man like wdym someone made an alysa liu/vince carter edit to stateside
The funniest part of Beef season 2 is the idea that Arizona State had a Butkus award winner in 2015
April 22, 2026 at 8:01 AM
The funniest part of Beef season 2 is the idea that Arizona State had a Butkus award winner in 2015
CJ McCollum has drained that left-side fading baseline jumper for like 20 years at this point lol
April 21, 2026 at 2:43 AM
CJ McCollum has drained that left-side fading baseline jumper for like 20 years at this point lol
most people have a gameplan until they get punched in the face.
jiri prochazka gets punched in the fact until he figures out a gameplan. #UFC327
jiri prochazka gets punched in the fact until he figures out a gameplan. #UFC327
April 12, 2026 at 3:44 AM
most people have a gameplan until they get punched in the face.
jiri prochazka gets punched in the fact until he figures out a gameplan. #UFC327
jiri prochazka gets punched in the fact until he figures out a gameplan. #UFC327