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@TheAmyNicholson

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Chief film critic of bat gifs. Host of the podcasts Unspooled and Zoom. Literally wrote the book on Tom Cruise.

Los Angeles
Joined February 2009
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
2 years
We asked Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary to nom a great villains movie -- and they picked two! THE THREE [AND FOUR] MUSKETEERS with Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee & Michael York. (Now for a sequel starring us)
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5 years
I hate that I'm even weighing in on this, but Carrie Fisher passed away 9 months before Chris Terrio and JJ were hired to write STAR WARS. Do they....not think we can fact check nonsense about being forced to scrap scenes they wrote for Leia and Rose?
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2 years
This week on Unspooled: ARRRE YOU RRREADY TO RRR???!!!
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Amy Nicholson
6 years
Original screenplay for Boots Riley.
@SamuelAAdams
Sam Adams
6 years
what feasible but surprising Oscar nomination are you hoping for tomorrow?
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@TheAmyNicholson
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5 years
JOKER does not deserve as many Oscar nominations as TITANIC.
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5 years
@rachel_handler Every famous woman between 2000-2017 deserves a redo.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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6 years
I DID NOT KNOW THAT TOM CRUISE'S NAME IN COLLATERAL IS "VINCENT COLLATERAL."
@mollylambert
Molly Lambert πŸ¦†
6 years
"The original script had Vincent's professional name as "Vincent Collateral", and there is a deleted scene that confirms this" holy shit
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5 years
This is the greatest news I have ever heard.
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6 years
So happy for the guy behind me at THE MEG who had never seen a movie before I guess and spent the entire time yelling, "Wow!"
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
5 years
Imagine if we still lived in an era where a movie like DEAD POETS SOCIETY was the 10th highest grossing hit of the year.
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
5 years
Step 1: Get obsessed with a Hollywood house that was home to 10,000 aspiring actresses. Step 2: Sell a book about it to a super-cool editor. Step 3: Share all the amazing stories you've discovered....in 2022 after you write the thing. Gulp. AWAY WE GO!
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@TheAmyNicholson
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5 years
I just met someone special: a Lyft driver who's favorite Tarantino movie is FOUR ROOMS.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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4 years
We all just watched a rat try to joke his way off the Titanic.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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5 years
Vidiots! The most incredible video rental store in LA! Is reopening as a video store and *movie theater* with food and booze on the east side!!! BEST NEWS EVER
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@TheAmyNicholson
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7 years
Haha yup there's the fake Renoir on 60 Minutes last July.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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7 years
Second new rule: All congressmen have to use the public health option they think is fine for everyone else. Empathy or liability. Pick one.
@TheAmyNicholson
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8 years
New rule: All congressmen have to enroll their kids and grandkids in public schools.
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5 years
Am I the only one who feels relief when a franchise character gets killed off because the actor is so happy to move on with their lives?
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@TheAmyNicholson
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5 years
My first piece in the New York Times is on a moment that fascinates me: SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE and the indie revolution that didn't play out the way anyone wanted.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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2 years
I mean, HAVE MERCY. Who among us can handle this glamour!!??
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@TheAmyNicholson
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4 years
Where are they taking my friend??
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@TheAmyNicholson
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6 years
I'd pay $20 a month to keep MoviePass going. Hell, maybe even $25.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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5 years
Now the excuses are getting hilarious. ILM must have gotten mad, so the as-of-today update is they didn't.... watch the old outtakes before they used those exact lines in the script?
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7 years
New fave shirt.
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5 years
Hot take: AN AMERICAN TAIL is better than 9/10 Pixars. (This tweet brought to you by someone who just rewatched it and cried twice.)
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@TheAmyNicholson
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4 years
@MayorOfLA Fire him. Be as brave as Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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7 years
Yup, works on everything.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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9 years
Big news. My brain is exploding. I'm going to be the Chief Film Critic of MTV News.
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@TheAmyNicholson
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4 years
God, this doc is terrific. A must must must watch. I've been talking to my cat about it for a week.
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
7 years
At a creative dog grooming competition with @evafay and OH MY GOD
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
4 years
I've watched JERRY MAGUIRE seven times and only tonight did it reveal itself as one of the best movies ever made.
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
5 years
The excuse I buy belongs to @adamegypt TROS had such a thin concept of Rey and Rose's personalities -- "Sweet! Spunky!" -- that it saw them as redundant. As in, if both female characters were on the ship, the script couldn't imagine more than both cooing, "Poor abused droid!"
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
4 years
Unspooled line-up change! Due to popular request, this will be Thursday's film. Figure we can all learn something from that shut-in Jimmy Stewart.
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6 years
I want to be Elsie Fisher when I grow up.
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5 years
@adamegypt (Which, of course, ignores Rose's real character purpose of bringing democracy and economics into the galaxy, but it's already clear that TROS doesn't care about that.)
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@TheAmyNicholson
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6 years
Absolutely. In the pre-McQuarrie days, he'd coldcall young talents after seeing their first or second film and say, "Write me something." That's how he wound up in MAGNOLIA.
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Amy Nicholson
3 years
What's the German word for when you think a director is oooookay, but then their new movie spins you sideways and you watch it twice in four days?
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Amy Nicholson
5 years
Once Upon a Time....The @ringer let me make a three-part podcast miniseries about the life, career, and movie-mad mind of Quentin Tarantino.
@ringer
The Ringer
5 years
This is β€˜Quentin Tarantino’s Feature Presentation,’ a new three-part podcast miniseries with Quentin Tarantino and host @TheAmyNicholson . Follow along as the two talk about the director's life and five films he’s programmed at the New Beverly Cinema:
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5 years
The first episode of QUENTIN TARANTINO'S FEATURE PRESENTATION is out! Quentin and I start talking about the surrealistic 1967 thriller POINT BLANK....and wind up talking about RESERVOIR DOGS, and his own fear that he might not be a good director.
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6 years
Cannot understand ABC's bloodlust to hack down the Oscars when they spend most Sundays showing America's Funniest Home Videos.
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8 years
Anton Yelchin in ALPHA DOG is that homerun performance that makes you excited to see an actor's full career. Awful to miss out on his future
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4 years
What strength. What an awful loss for his family and friends and the rest of us who only knew him onscreen. His performance in GET ON UP is an all-timer, the kind that makes you swear to see everything he'd go on to do. Grateful for what he made. Wish he'd had decades more.
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4 years
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is perfect. And its ideas about frustration and sacrifice and loss and coming together to make a better, more just world are even more perfect at the end of 2020. (Did NOT sink in before that Mr. Gower's son died in the flu pandemic.)
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
6 years
Leave Tom Cruise out of this.
@ddale8
Daniel Dale
6 years
Trump says he had a meeting about Iran and the Middle East with lots of good-looking generals: "Like from a movie. Better looking than Tom Cruise, and stronger."
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6 years
omg omg omg omg I'm dying
@DailyGrindhouse
Daily Grindhouse
6 years
Ever wonder what it was like to see the original #HalloweenMovie during its original run? YouTube user Kyle J. Wood recorded audio during a screening at a Hollywood Boulevard theater in 1979, one year after the film opened and synced up with remastered video!
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4 years
Month 9 of Quarantine. Finally watched DETECTIVE PIKACHU. Honestly, not bad.
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
7 years
πŸ¦‹GREAT THREADπŸ¦‹
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Hey Sandy
7 years
Hey everyone I'm a clown and I just got back from facepainting at a picnic and here's my take on male violence in America:
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3 years
IN THE HEIGHTS is as good as everyone's saying. Maybe better.
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7 years
Wish IN BRUGES had this much success.
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Amy Nicholson
3 years
In 1978, George Lucas invited Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan to his assistant’s home in Los Angeles to pitch a new name for adventure. β€œIndiana Smith,” Lucas said. β€œVery Americana square.” Sighed Spielberg, β€œI hate this, but go ahead.”
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6 years
Can't say I'm angry or even surprised that a certain LA paper hasn't said a word about the citywide loss of a man who also won it a Pulitzer. That they're asleep at the wheel just confirms (again) that it isn't the voice of Los Angeles.
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8 years
I loooooooooove Margot Robbie. But clearly Amy Adams was born to play Tonya Harding.
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5 years
Wait, I'm gonna take a leap and guess that Jr. hasn't seen RAT FILM, which is an indictment of racist redlining policies that have led to generations of social inequality.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Donald Trump Jr.
5 years
Elijah Cummings has done such a wonderful job representing Baltimore that people made a documentary about its Rat (aka vermin) problem. Wonderful Democrat leadership. Rat Film' highlights Baltimore's rat warfare, urban planning failures - Baltimore Sun
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7 years
Reminder to White House staffers considering testifying against their boss: Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall got to date Rob Lowe.
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In the early days of 2017, Biden/Harris was my dream ticket. Since then, I fell in love with Elizabeth Warren (and future pres AOC) and moved even further to the left. But that's not everyone's journey (yet) and I can back this combo full-hearted. (While pushing them for more)
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3 years
Explaining to my cat that he's been cradled by an Oscar nominee.
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Amy Nicholson
5 years
Oh snap my new shirt just came in the mail. @paulscheer you need one too
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Amy Nicholson
5 years
Happy 100th birthday to the movie zombie! Here they lurch in the 1919 French flick, J'ACCUSE. Director Abel Gance cast real WWI soldiers to play dead WWI soldiers who demand that their country look death in the face. (Months later, most of the performers died at Verdun.)
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4 years
help i cried 4 times during eurovision
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5 years
WHERE WAS JOE VS THE VOLCANO IN THAT MONTAGE???
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7 years
Next week! The Canon returns. Here's a quick hello and a preview of this month's episodes.
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8 years
In light of recent events, Earwolf and I have decided to place The Canon on hiatus.
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4 years
Julia Garner is a big deal. And she's gonna get bigger. My profile of her is in the March issue of Rolling Stone....and here!
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6 years
New podcast! On Oct 1st, I'm launching an 8-episode miniseries with @TheRinger on HALLOWEEN. I've been talking to serial killer experts, child psychologists, small town tour guides, horror rappers & of course John Carpenter and Jamie Lee. Trailer here!
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5 years
How long till STAR WARS is nothing but small, cute, speechless toys who screech and bloop, and all dialogue is a 2002 dial-up modem?
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Amy Nicholson
6 years
I'm done with this. We need to be led by people who will fight back.
@thehill
The Hill
6 years
Pelosi: It's not my plan to impeach Kavanaugh if Dems win back the House
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Amy Nicholson
6 years
Guys. @paulscheer talks about bad movies. I talk about maaaaybe important movies. Together, we're gonna talk about the *best* movies -- the AFI Top 100! -- on our new podcast UNSPOOLED! So stoked please clobber me in the head with a film reel.
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5 years
How do you shoot a scene that's thrilling, sexy, dangerous, or awful -- while making sure the actors feel safe? Here's how four of this year's most intimate scenes were filmed.
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5 years
My uber driver has never seen a Marvel movie. He's seeing ENDGAME solo this afternoon. Almost wanted to give him my number to hear his review.
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11 years
OFFICIAL: The Mexican poster for I, FRANKENSTEIN has the greatest foreign retitle ever. http://t.co/NiPKfWjHVS
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5 years
Debra Hill finally gets her NYT obituary πŸ’œπŸŽƒπŸ’œ
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6 years
I've been in Istanbul for a week and can confirm that KEDI is real. @DorotaMischka and I toasted this lil' lady.
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5 years
me buying tickets to see CATS again like
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7 years
Speaking of THE BROOD.
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2 years
My podcast wingman @paulscheer just surprised me with THE TOM CRUISE CAKE
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8 years
Well, since I already subscribe to the NY Times and the Washington Post, today is the LA Times' lucky day.
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4 years
Literally my #2 movie plotline gripe is when a female journalist sleeps with her subject. "We don't do that!" I scream at the screen. Sigh.
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3 years
As shocked as anyone that I dug the hell out of DUNE. Denis Villeneuve rarely makes films that feel human. (ARRIVAL excepted.) Here, that's a bonus. He's confident creating an alien land with its own cultures and rhythms. I sank into his Arrakis. Can't wait to see it again.
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5 years
UNDER THE SILVER LAKE is so much fun. Feels like a side eye to people who hated IT FOLLOWS' last act -- a mockery of literal-minded, no-fun, pop culture obsessives. I mean, I hated IT FOLLOWS' last act. But I'll take the hit.
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Somehow, PREY is my first Predator movie and....I think I'll just stop here because no way could the others be as gripping and gorgeous, or as whittled down to sharp, pure adventure cinema.
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Amy Nicholson
8 years
Why yes, you do get a result when you google "Mad Max: Furry Road."
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6 years
oh come ON
@archpaper
The Architect's Newspaper
6 years
The EPA is allowing asbestos, a substance banned in most countries since the '70s, back into the manufacturing process for some building materials.
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Hello! Meet my new podcast miniseries: ZOOM. It's a fun, short, curiosity-driven series on the science and history behind the movies -- here's a trailer! Ep 1 is on aliens. Ep 2 is on horses. ZOOM gonna drop randomly all year, so subscribe!
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7 years
Five Myths about Hollywood. FIRST: It's always been a boys club. (It's my WaPo debut!)
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4 years
The only part of WW84 I want to talk about is that it is CLEARLY not the 4th of July.
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7 years
I met Sue! An original Rockford Peach! Asked if LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN got anything wrong and she said, "Our manager didn't scratch his balls."
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Hop into a random London cab and the driver is one of the kids from the 7 UP doc series. Tony, the would-be jockey!
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Amy Nicholson
7 years
I'm thrilled to write for Variety! (And I'm always down for airport paperback pulp.)
@AskDebruge
Peter Debruge
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I'm so excited to share @TheAmyNicholson 's first review for @Variety β€” if only we could've given her a better movie!
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7 years
Oh my god. This is already so much better than BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS.
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Amy Nicholson
6 years
The two most important alt-weeklies died this year, yet I still believe in the readers and the writers and the NEED. What I don't believe in: corporations and hero billionaires. Like the papers' original founders, we gotta figure out how to do this ourselves.
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6 years
Mary Pickford, badass. Wrote a tribute to a difficult woman I admire more every year:
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Hadn't planned on making this my first movie of 2021, but I ain't mad.
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Amy Nicholson
7 years
I just checked and it's still up.
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
7 years
Meanwhile, over in Ted Cruz' likes.
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Amy Nicholson
7 years
I like VALERIAN and I also like @emilyyoshida 's analysis of why nobody saw it.
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4 years
There is bedtime. BUT. There is drinking a whiskey and playing Super Mario 2.
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@TheAmyNicholson
Amy Nicholson
6 years
Nothing makes me want to scream-sob more than HALLOWEEN UNMASKED coming to an end. Our final episode is alllllll about the new film (with mild spoilers -- be warned!)
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