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• Post #4369197

  Watching “Trading Places” (1983) with a first-timer.

• Post #3863548

  “A.I. Movies” https://www.tiktok.com/@americanbaron/video/7663000335010565407

• Post #3787029

  Sam Neill, pitch perfect in so many incredible movies The Piano Dead Calm Event Horizon In the Mouth of Madness Hunt for the Wilderpeople The Hunt for Red October he was even great in Omen III and Memoirs of an Invisible Man

• Post #3639416

  gang - I have a LOT of DVDs and Blu-rays and years ago, in order to save space I chucked the cases and put the discs into sleeves, but now I'm reconsidering this system as well any good new ideas on how to store/organize DVDs & Blu-rays that both saves space AND makes them easier to access?

• Post #3609485

  pausa de hidratación

• Post #3566047

  Stop previews from autoplaying on Apple TV https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/stop-previews-from-autoplaying-on-apple-tv/

• Post #3120291

  “Spider-Noir” is now playing on Prime Video. I recommend watching it in black and white. A ton of very creative people worked for months and months on the visual effects for the show (of which there are a LOT) but you wouldn’t know it by watching the credits.

• Post #3120290

  Mank!

• Post #3120289

  I beg your fucking pardon WHAT gift: https://wapo.st/437arYG

• Post #3120288

  Watching “Fight Club” (1999) with a first-timer.

• Post #3120287

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116687382907528417 THIS is how you make mainstream franchise entertainment that also has something to say

• Post #3120286

  it happened

• Post #2890268

  my favorite "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode

• Post #2890267

  East Side Effects' visual effects reel for "Severance" season two. Includes a quick breakdown of that shot that was promoted as "all practical" when in fact it relied on digital visual effects to complete the illusion. https://vimeo.com/1194550030

• Post #2890266

  “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” (2026) is awesome.

• Post #2890265

  What a dreadful place we are in where a mega billionaire says something like “You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.” and not be shamed by the culture and the people around him into making a public apology the very next day.

• Post #2890264

  my star-wars-feature-film streak ended this weekend with 7

• Post #2890263

  Some people see “Shot on iPhone” and people think it’s just some bumblefuck named Frank standing there all by himself holding the iPhone with his hand and shouting “action!”

• Post #2890262

  the 'film is superior to digital because of film grain' folks: "Film grain equals cinema!" Christopher Nolan: "I want the least film grain possible."

• Post #2890261

  be a beacon

• Post #2427198

  If you have family that doesn't understand the seriousness of all of this, perhaps you could send this link to those family members, a segment from the PBS Newshour. Maybe it will help open their eyes. PBS Newshour: White House posts echo rhetoric linked to extremist groups https://youtu.be/YXzzuWrYDV4?si=5Rt2p_w97QmOZaXr

• Post #2427196

  I read the piece again and became even more disappointed. 2026: "Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said." 2009:

• Post #2418862

  Why didn’t they “just” build a five story Death Star interior for just one shot instead of “relying” on visual effects trickery? “Star Wars” (1977)

• Post #2410464

  “Gangs of New York” (2002)

• Post #2162024

  20 years ago today “Mission: Impossible III” was released, with visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic. We sneaked R2-D2 into a shot, and here it is.

• Post #2112889

  Cameron might do a 3-D version of “Aliens”. https://letterboxd.com/journal/james-cameron-billie-eilish-avatar-interview/

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• Post #1905018

  “Project Hail Mary” (2026) is very good! https://boxd.it/dBOlcT

• Post #1892287

  "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (2015), visual effects by ILM. Visual effects supervisors Roger Guyett and Pat Tubach. Every single shot of this guy's entire face was computer graphics. https://youtu.be/-87p3DxqC6Y?si=_RMXzlnyXg4zsdgx

• Post #1815494

  "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) has the most dramatic, most famous match cut in the history of cinema. remastered in HD: https://youtu.be/SsE6WgxG0aE?si=FmX28x5AQR10BnG5