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Brendan Foley

3 years

My novella/novelette THE DOG is now available for purchase from Little Demon Books. Hope you enjoy:

There is something in the forest. Many somethings, in fact, that move and hunt as soon as the sun sets. Their latest prey is a grief-stricken young man who stumbles into their lands by mistake,...

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

2 years

Netflix spending half a billion on the KNIVES OUT sequel, refusing to give it a wide theatrical release despite immediate and proven success in that form, and then barely promoting the movie once it's finally actually out on Netflix is the most on-brand thing in the world.

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4 years

THE INCREDIBLES' villain being a pissbaby fanboy trying to claim ownership of the things he loves by destroying them is one aspect that has aged juuuuuuust fine.

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Brendan Foley

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1 year

Maybe the best thing Snyder achieved with his DC movies is so clearly illustrating how NOT to do Superman that everyone else now has a clearer starting point for who this guy is and why we love him.

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@King2Wesley

1 year

Oh yea peak Superman entertainment is fucking back

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Seth Vargas

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7 months

You can resurrect one movie star for 1 hour but in that hour they must appear on Hot Ones with no context for what they are doing. Who do you pick

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Brendan Foley

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1 year

Not even a rumor. McQuarrie has said that he was brought on board to rewrite GHOST PROTOCOL because the script wasn't working, and his first and immediate note was that the script wasn't working because they were trying to write Tom Cruise out of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE.

Stephen Ford

@StephenSeanFord

1 year

Wild to think of the rumor that Ghost Protocol was supposed to be the "last" Tom Cruise Mission Impossible. With Paramount wanting Jeremy Renner to take over. But then the movie was amazing and made a lot of money, so Paramount was like, "lol, jk, sorry TC you can do more."

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Brendan Foley

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7 months

Brad Pitt caving in Austin Butler's skull at the climax of HOLLYWOOD is really interesting considering the film's opening scene is a discussion of how older stars get trotted out to be killed off by new talent to bolster the young blood's leading man credibility.

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2 years

Bears repeating that Marvel comics have spent DECADES doing one crazy stunt after another to avoid "Peter Parker: Middle-Aged Husband and Father", and then the SPIDER-VERSEs come along, own the fuck out of it, and it immediately became the best version of the character.

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

RRR is just everything I want in a movie bundled together into an exuberant three hours. Eye-popping action, shirt-rending melodrama, huge musical numbers, the power of friendship (and exploding arrows) destroying evil, it’s just the absolute fucking best.

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

Both leads of RRR are great, but I really took to N. T. Rama Rao. When we meet him, he's brawling with a tiger bare-handed. After he wins (!!!) he gets emotional and apologizes to the tiger for inconveniencing it. Later, the tiger will be incorporated in hand-to-hand combat.

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2 years

"IT'S SO DUMB!" "So dumb it's brilliant!" "NO! IT'S JUST DUMB!" I love Daniel Craig, I love Benoit Blanc, I love GLASS ONION.

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7 years

WE GOT A RUNNER.

The Hill

@thehill

7 years

#BREAKING : Trump Jr. ends Secret Service protection, claims he needs more privacy: report

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Brendan Foley

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5 years

Whether you love or hate RISE OF SKYWALKER, can we stop with the notion that the sequel trilogy's messiness is down to them not planning the whole thing out from the start and sticking to that plan? Because, seriously, you guys gotta let that kinda thinking go.

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

Everyone making superhero movies (or really any action movie) should be forced to watch the last 30-40 minutes of RRR and dared to do better. "THIS is how you frame a movie star and turn them into an ICON." "THIS is how you pay off every planted set-up for maximum payoff."

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Brendan Foley

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1 year

Not even kidding when I say that this dude entering with this makeup on and unabashedly serenading the rest of the crew in French is one of the most triumphant fucking moments of 2023 media. #OurFlagMeansDeath

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Brendan Foley

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1 year

Grant Morrison's whole approach when writing ALL-STAR SUPERMAN was that Jimmy knew Clark was Superman the whole time but played along because he trusted that Clark must have his reasons, while Lois was burying the knowledge under layers and layers of denial.

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Brendan Foley

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5 years

@kateleth @danirat Can't believe no one has done this yet: Daniel Craig and Kate Winslet were like 7th and 8th billed in A KID IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT.

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Brendan Foley

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1 year

SCOTT PILGRIM is literally, TEXTUALLY, not subtextually, about how Scott Pilgrim’s dopey slacker facade is a smokescreen for a manipulative, narcissistic creep, and how he needs to be honest and reckon with that before he can be an adult.

Dexertonox

@Dexertonox

1 year

The Scott Pilgrim Netflix anime discourse has begun, as fans discuss how the character is 23 dating a 17 year old

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Brendan Foley

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6 years

The three good DCEU movies (WONDER WOMAN, AQUAMAN, SHAZAM!) are explicitly, centrally concerned with rejection of toxic masculinity. The two worst DCEU movies (BVS, SS) are maybe the two foremost examples of toxic masculinity ever depicted on film. Hurm.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

2 years

Will never not be hilarious that Netflix spends hundreds of millions on movies only to always end up getting lapped by whatever piece of shit from decades past pops up on the service that week.

Eric Goldman

@TheEricGoldman

2 years

The number one movie on Netflix right now is The Snowman because why not, Mister Police?

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

5 months

Nothing sums up American superhero comics more than Alan Moore writing WATCHMEN in 1986 to put to bed all the cliches of the genre, and then rather than learn the lesson and do something else we just keep making WATCHMEN again and again.

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@DiscussingFilm

5 months

The first trailer for ‘WATCHMEN’ has been released. Chapter 1 releases later this year

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

2 years

@JFrankensteiner @TheRealMattC Colin Farrell has admitted to not really remembering filming MIAMI VICE, but he remembers Charlie Rose annoying the crap out of him. Glorious.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

1 year

And ever since, Tom Cruise has been McQuarrie's guardian angel, and McQuarrie has been involved in some capacity on almost every Cruise movie (except JACK REACHER 2).

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Brendan Foley

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7 months

Butler barely qualified as even a 'rising' star when he appeared in HOLLYWOOD, so it's interesting to consider that, contrary to Pacino's monologue, he made his name and career by getting absolutely merced on screen by a Gen-X luminary.

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

"THIS is how you kill your villain(s) and make it feel historic." "THIS is where it becomes OK to shove subtlety into a ditch and leave it to die because sometimes subtext is for cowards and we want people cheering."

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3 years

I’d heard about the scene already, but it is so wild to hear Paul McCartney, on camera, not only sing Yoko’s praises but mock the idea that in 50 years people will blame her for the Beatles’ breakup “because Yoko sat on an amp.”

Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

3 years

The Beatles have never been more human than in the bit in this where, after George quits in a huff, the other three (and Yoko) get shit-faced at lunch and come back, giddy, and just wail on their instruments and swing around on scaffolding.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

3 years

Getting caught up on TED LASSO and gotta say, even for Twitter, The Discourse around this show is baffling. Even at the most surface level viewing, Sudeikis is pitching his performance to levels of frantic, borderline mania that clearly portend a major fall.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

3 years

@scottrenshaw Arguably the only franchise like this that didn't fully ruin the lives of its young cast, so folks definitely deserve commendation for that.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

8 years

@CorbinReiff Thank you for your service, Corbin. And fuck this guy.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

1 year

That's why I never believed for a second there was a chance Cruise'd do ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, as was rumored. At some point in the process, he would have demanded QT let McQuarrie do a rewrite, and that was never gonna happen.

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2 years

Blank Check Podcast

@blankcheckpod

2 years

Not gonna lie, I see it

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

6 years

The news that Simon Pegg was struggling with alcoholism/depression during the making of THE WORLD'S END makes some of the scenes in that film's last act almost unbearably sad.

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Brendan Foley

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2 years

"Spider-Man would rather sell his marriage to the Devil than go to therapy*, etc. etc." *be allowed to evolve beyond the broke twentysomething/thirtysomething status quo

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

6 years

Zachary Levi is the 2019 answer to late-90s Brendan Fraser. I mean this absolutely as a compliment.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

7 months

Netflix presentation of KILL BILL removes the subtitles from the foreign language dialogue, so you have to have subtitles on at all times. I don't understand how these streaming services actually go out of their way to fuck up the movies they license.

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Brendan Foley

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2 years

AND chose Crowe for the male lead, AND paid for DiCaprio’s salary out of pocket when the studio didn’t want to hire him. It’s the one movie where she got to Movie Star flex like that, and every single choice she made was proven correct.

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It's so cool that Sharon Stone handpicked Raimi for The Quick and the Dead because she was a huge fan of Army of Darkness. What a woman

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Brendan Foley

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1 year

John Lasseter was such a liability that Disney had escorts accompany him around because otherwise he couldn't be trusted not to put his hands on female employees. Who fucking cares if the cartoons got a little worse if that's what was needed to make the workplace safe?

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3 years

@angelicabastien I chuckled when Pattinson said he refused to get crazy-ripped for Batman because he didn't want to add to this sort of expectation, but man the guy really was onto something.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

2 years

I don't love everything in NO WAY HOME, but I will always appreciate that Watts and team opted to zero in on the Spider-Man rogues gallery as tragic monsters who need to be helped rather than beaten and killed.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

3 months

I really don't think it's yet possible to describe how insanely powerful a vibe shift it is to suddenly see the Dems on the attack, seizing the moment, and landing body blow after body blow against these hateful freaks.

nikki mccann ramírez

@NikkiMcR

3 months

Walz on Vance: "I can't wait to debate the guy...that is if he's willing to get off the couch and show up." [crowd loses it's shit]

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Brendan Foley

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7 months

@ClodiaMetelIi No, he's just a California kid who got spotted by a talent agent when he was a teenager, started working as a background actor, and steadily climbed up through years and years of bit parts and TV work.

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

My dude has the softest, kindest eyes in the world but also he not only stops a running motorcycle, he then picks up the motorcycle and starts beating people with it. He's got this big teddy bear presence, but he's built like fucking Thor.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

5 years

@JacobSHall It’s almost like Rian Johnson is good at making movies?

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

5 years

Meanwhile, the people behind HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER and GAME OF THRONES had their endings mapped out years in advance and followed their master plans to a T. How'd that go over with everybody?

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

2 years

Kevin Costner participated in cable television exactly long enough to finance his next stupidly expensive Western vanity project and then bounced the second this was accomplished. 11/10, no notes, we stan one (1) legend.

IndieWire

@IndieWire

2 years

‘Yellowstone’ to End as Kevin Costner Seeks Less Shooting Time, Matthew McConaughey Tapped for Spinoff — Report

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

1 year

THE FLASH crashing, WB gutting TCM, other studios getting in on dumping their own shows for tax breaks, the SPIDER-VERSE article, it really does feel like this week crystallized all the ways in which modern Hollywood has become utterly dysfunctional and unsustainable.

Film Updates

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1 year

Following its cancellation and impending removal from Paramount+, ‘GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES’ will reportedly be shopped to rival broadcasters and streamers. ()

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

Totally sympathetic to Bradley Cooper's character in NIGHTMARE ALLEY because I also would ruin my life for Cate Blanchett if she made direct eye contact with me while lighting a cigarette.

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Brendan Foley

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4 years

Us: "There's no way Idris Elba could be any hotter." Them: "We gave him a horse, a bandanna, and a jaunty cowboy hat." Us: "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-"

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Brendan Foley

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6 years

I am so excited for kids who get to grow up with BLACK PANTHER, WONDER WOMAN, and now INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE in their DNA. Any one of these movies would be a cultural game-changer, but all three in such short succession? We will be feeling the ripple effect for decades.

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Brendan Foley

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5 years

McQuarrie started filming FALLOUT with nothing but a 20 page outline because he knew that every MISSION film ended up junking the script. And then he ended up junking his outline because they decided mid-way through filming that the big high concept hook...

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

JUNGLE CRUISE: Somewhere, Gore Verbinski and Stephen Sommers are shaking their heads and going, “Maybe NOW they’ll appreciate us. This shit isn’t easy.”

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Brendan Foley

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5 years

Also, it should go without saying that all the shit you like in LAST JEDI would never have happened if Disney/Lucasfilm had a master-outline that everyone had to stick to.

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Brendan Foley

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6 years

So California teachers went on strike for a week and re-made education in their state. Air traffic controllers called shut down the skies and re-opened the government. You guys is it possible that labor, when organized in some kind of a union-type thing, can affect change?

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

2 years

Gillian Jacobs FULLY breaking on camera when Rash runs out.

Justin Clark

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2 years

THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

5 years

*whispers* Including *gasp* the original STAR WARS and its sequels.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

1 year

@pugmane @Srirachachau Headline is intentionally inflammatory: The safety diver was using the wrong tank and was actually spraying water into Cameron’s mouth AS he was drowning. So he had to knock him loose in order to get to the surface and not, you know…die.

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Brendan Foley

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5 years

My point is not that planning/outlining is bad. OBVIOUSLY that's not the case. My point is only that there are a hundred different ways to plot and write a story, and this thing where we fetishize the genius with the intricately designed story with every detail laid out...

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

3 years

TED LASSO, and Ted Lasso, in season 2 are getting at something very real, which is a generally upbeat person trying to perform as their usual self, while meanwhile they are imploding.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

5 years

...for that movie (Ethan gets trapped undercover and has to make increasingly morally dubious choices to maintain his role) wasn't working. And plenty of your other favorite movies are the sum totality of a million things going wrong and needing to get made up on the fly.

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Brendan Foley

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6 years

This is like the 50th incident that, had it happened with literally any other presidency, would have been the end of the administration.

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6 years

BREAKING: Trump took money meant for hurricane relief, and gave it to ICE to deport and detain more immigrants. The Trump admin transferred $9.8M from FEMA to ICE. @Maddow got a statement from DHS denying it was from recovery funds. Then Maddow got docs proving DHS was lying.

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Brendan Foley

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5 years

...years in advance like a perfectly conceived mousetrap, that's a fallacy that is not actually reflective of most/any creative endeavors. So, sorry folks, but find a different punching bag for your RISE OF SKYWALKER frustrations.

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Brendan Foley

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6 years

Dear @Shudder , I am already a subscriber. BUT if you create a show that is just Keith David and Ken Foree goofing around, I will break into people's houses and sign THEM up as well. Let's do this, right now, just say the word.

FANGORIA

@FANGORIA

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FANGORIA is proud to present this exclusive outtake from #HorrorNoire , the acclaimed new @shudder original documentary! Take it away, Ken and Keith...

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

The Beatles have never been more human than in the bit in this where, after George quits in a huff, the other three (and Yoko) get shit-faced at lunch and come back, giddy, and just wail on their instruments and swing around on scaffolding.

Brendan Foley

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3 years

Indescribably moved by so many random small moments in GET BACK, whether it’s Lennon and McCartney cracking each other up doing bits on mike, or John and Yoko waltzing around the studio while the other lads serenade them with “I Me Mine”.

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7 months

@FilmGamerOne Nope. Brad Pitt stomps his head in, on-screen. It's rapid, but there's no missing it.

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3 years

That's why the psychiatrist character is so crucial. She sees through him immediately, which only causes Ted to double-down and become even more maniacal. It's so blatant that it's difficult to even look at Sudeikis during these scenes.

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1 year

@LiamODin You don't necessarily watch AMERICAN BEAUTY and think, "This teenager obsessed with a paper bag will one day embody a casual machismo such that he is in no way impressed or threatened by his wife's ex being Tom Cruise."

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5 years

Man, I really underestimated Film Critic Twitter. I never would have guessed “Tarantino politely asks them not to spoil his movie” would be enough to set off an entire day’s worth of kvetching and moaning.

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Brendan Foley

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3 years

I know the binge model has messed with how we watch and engage with stories, especially serialized ones, but for fuck's sake people.

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1 year

@ScottWamplerRIP @SnarkKnight It's also the disparity between "kind" and "nice". The grumpiest folks in the world can possess a depth of kindness that's staggering. 'Nice' people can't be trusted in the slightest.

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7 years

The head of WB comes into work on Monday. Guillermo is there, his feet on the desk. "Now," he says, "let's talk about some motherfucking penguins." #Oscars

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7 years

Also, for anyone who seriously wants to argue that LAST JEDI somehow hates STAR WARS fans, the triumphant ending is a bunch of kids playing with a fucking Luke Sykwalker action figure.

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1 year

There’s an IDEA in Black Adam that could have made for a good movie: An occupied country unleashing its mythical boogeyman against their oppressors, like an anti-imperialist spin on THE MUMMY.

b-boy bouiebaisse

@jbouie

1 year

so i'm watching BLACK ADAM and it's bad in the exact same way a lot of these movies are bad: it has no idea what it wants to be or who it is supposed to be for. it's confused, trying to do everything — including obligatory brand maintenance — & accomplishing nothing as a result.

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7 years

Henry Cavill seems like a good dude. Really hope they right the Superman ship before he moves on.

Henry Cavill Gets Honest About DC Films

No one would argue that the tentpole series has yet to find its groove, and even Henry Cavill agrees that the approach thus far hasn't been perfect.

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2 years

@BLCAgnew Hate it! Had to mute hours ago!

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Brendan Foley

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5 years

@jasondashbailey Whenever I was hard up for a costume, just threw on a bathrobe and said I was Harry Potter.

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6 years

@somebadideas @HeyMerrill -the movie was too long and he, Harvey, would get his way. Next day: Every paper in NYC has a review declaring MONONOKE a masterpiece, a new classic. Weinstein dumped the film, and the rest is history.

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3 years

Ted in season 1 is a genuinely happy and enthusiastic person maintaining that attitude even through various ups and downs. Ted in season 2 is keeping up the appearance of still being that person, but he's visibly crumbling.

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5 years

I'd heard about what ONWARD is about, but seeing it in action is still a "Wow, so they're doing THIS?" moment.

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Brendan Foley

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2 years

@Srirachachau Matt Groening once described Milhouse as the kind of kid who you expect in 20 years will be on a clocktower with a rifle. Thinking about that again as an adult, that's SO DARK.

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6 months

RIP to a legend.

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Brendan Foley

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6 years

Do you guys remember that amazing first trailer for DINOSAUR? No talking, almost like a nature doc but with rhythms and visual energy of classic Disney shorts, with cutting edge CGI and lush visuals? And then actual movie was wise-cracking lemurs in front of walls of dirt.

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8 years

@KFILE @CNNPolitics Yeah, that elementary student who asked about science is a real monster.

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2 months

It's kinda a shame that PREDATOR tends to get lumped into the empty-headed 'dude movie' canon. In its own way, it's every bit as savage a satire as ROBOCOP (then again, ROBOCOP also gets written off as as a dumb action movie, so maybe you just can't win).

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it's a great scene but the intent of it was for the boys & their guns to look stupid & silly, McTiernan added it in as a "fuck you" to execs who kept pressuring him for gun porn. he undermines their machismo when Poncho comes back & says, "We hit nothing."

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5 years

ABOUT TIME, a movie that made me cry so hard I became actually physically dehydrated, is now on Netflix Instant.

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Brendan Foley

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7 months

@TheRealMattC That’s Anton Walbrook, so it’s either COLONEL BLIMP or THE RED SHOES. If ballet starts occurring, you’re watching THE RED SHOES.

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Brendan Foley

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6 years

Dear anyone deciding to shit on people excitedly buying AVENGERS tickets: I know you're tired of Marvel and superheroes and etc. I know you wish people got this amped for new PTA/Jarmusch/whatever. But "fuck you for liking something" is a baaaaaaaad look. ESPECIALLY these days.

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3 years

Cannot be overstated how hard the THE GOOD PLACE people had to work to make this man look like a sexless dweeb.

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6 years

@somebadideas @HeyMerrill Neil Gaiman talks about this in one of his books. They did a big premiere event of the original cut and Harvey came out insisting they needed to chop out 30-40 minutes. Miyazaki stormed off, but Harvey insisted to Gaiman that the next day the reviews would all say that-

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THE KING'S MAN is trying so hard to sell the idea that this is such an iconic franchise that we're all so eager to learn the lore behind. I'd guess the legacy of KINGSMAN is 75% Colin Firth shooting people to 'Free Bird', 15% Taron Egerton getting his start...

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6 years

I feel like Tarantino gets that there is something inherently ridiculous about both Pitt and DiCaprio, and he taps into it in a way no one else is willing/able to really try.

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@TheTrueBrendanF

6 years

Like...the ten-second clip of DiCaprio bursting into tears because a child complimented his acting is already a better use of him than the entirety of THE REVENANT.

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5 years

It's just crazy to me that TERMINATOR 2 is almost 30 years old and the sequels and updates and whatever STILL play "AND NOW THE TERMINATOR MORPHS INTO A LIQUID!" like it's some mind-blowing special effect.

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7 years

Old man yells at cloud.

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7 years

#TheSimpsons creator Matt Groening responds to Apu controversy: 'People love to pretend they're offended'

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Brendan Foley

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8 years

@T_Lawson @PaulGowder Geez, if I didn't know any better I'd think he was some kind of moron.

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@TheTrueBrendanF

8 years

THIS is my country, not that pigfuck in the Oval Office and his enablers.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

3 years

SEINFELD has aged better than most '90s sitcoms because the characters were always written to be losers, creeps, and assholes, so changing cultural mores have only sharpened that comedic angle. This vs. other shows where the characters were meant to be charming...

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Brendan Foley

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8 months

@Srirachachau When Conan was a writer on THE SIMPSONS, apparently his favorite gag was to randomly have objects/people explode or burst into flames. This feels like natural extension of that impulse.

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Brendan Foley

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1 year

Very happy to see MY ADVENTURES incorporate this take into their riff on Superman and the Daily Planet squad.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

6 years

Remember when SHAPE OF WATER won Best Picture and people rolled their eyes like, 'Whatever, it was just typical Oscarbait.' LOL, my friends, LOL.

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Brendan Foley

@TheTrueBrendanF

4 years

SPIDER-MAN 2 and KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE are both piercing dissections of the burnout that comes from the gig economy and attempting to go pro with your hobbies.

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