Abby Olcese
@abbyolcese.bsky.social
Film critic/writer at The Pitch, Paste, Sojourners, rogerebert.com, others. Author of FILMS FOR ALL SEASONS: https://tinyurl.com/5n8hre5e
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Abby Olcese
@abbyolcese.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Films for All Seasons: Experiencing the Church Year at the Movies a book by Abby Olcese and Josh Larsen
The Spiritual Practice of Watching MoviesWhat's your favorite Christmas movie? Easter movie? Pentecost movie? Casual viewers and movie buffs alike have favorite movies to watch at certain times of the...
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Since I have a big crop of new followers: Hi! I'm Abby! I write about movies and sometimes other things. I went viral once for posting a photo of an Abe Lincoln impersonator. I wrote a book that just came out, and you should read it!
How many times do we have to keep trotting out tired metaphors about kintsugi before people recognize it's a cliche and stop using it?
January 22, 2026 at 3:35 AM
How many times do we have to keep trotting out tired metaphors about kintsugi before people recognize it's a cliche and stop using it?
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So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE.
There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.
Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.
24 hours. Go.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.
Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.
24 hours. Go.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!
www.fightforthefuture.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:35 PM
So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE.
There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.
Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.
24 hours. Go.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.
Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.
24 hours. Go.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
Please congratulate Buster on eight whole years (today!!) of putting up with my crap.
You can also congratulate me on sticking with him through that phase in 2020 when he kept knocking stuff off my kitchen shelves to get attention.
You can also congratulate me on sticking with him through that phase in 2020 when he kept knocking stuff off my kitchen shelves to get attention.
January 22, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Please congratulate Buster on eight whole years (today!!) of putting up with my crap.
You can also congratulate me on sticking with him through that phase in 2020 when he kept knocking stuff off my kitchen shelves to get attention.
You can also congratulate me on sticking with him through that phase in 2020 when he kept knocking stuff off my kitchen shelves to get attention.
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"Most films reflect the world, and the world is violent and in a lot of trouble. It’s not the other way around. The films don’t make a peaceful world violent—the violent world made the films. - David Lynch
January 21, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"Most films reflect the world, and the world is violent and in a lot of trouble. It’s not the other way around. The films don’t make a peaceful world violent—the violent world made the films. - David Lynch
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Everyone go read my brilliant friend @blondekwaidan.bsky.social 's writing. Spoilers for Bone Temple so go see Bone Temple first.
www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...
www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Is An Infernal Requiem For A Broken Britain
Nia DaCosta’s 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is as British as its predecessor - and that’s terrifying. Read our full thoughts within.
www.fangoria.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Everyone go read my brilliant friend @blondekwaidan.bsky.social 's writing. Spoilers for Bone Temple so go see Bone Temple first.
www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...
www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...
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EVERYONE SHUT UP IT'S HERE
January 20, 2026 at 4:54 PM
EVERYONE SHUT UP IT'S HERE
If this didn't have video I would've thought we had another @joshraby.bsky.social McDonald's drive-thru situation in our hands.
This is a WILD thread—that is still ongoing bsky.app/profile/musi...
January 20, 2026 at 4:01 AM
If this didn't have video I would've thought we had another @joshraby.bsky.social McDonald's drive-thru situation in our hands.
And then some of the wasps are wasps you actually *like* and want to think you're cool, but you don't actually have a relationship to them, so even if you did respond to their comment, all you'd get are crickets, which are an entirely different kind of insect.
I stretched that one too far, huh?
I stretched that one too far, huh?
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 AM
And then some of the wasps are wasps you actually *like* and want to think you're cool, but you don't actually have a relationship to them, so even if you did respond to their comment, all you'd get are crickets, which are an entirely different kind of insect.
I stretched that one too far, huh?
I stretched that one too far, huh?
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Saw someone’s criticism of the 28 YEARS LATER movies basically amount to “hurrrr durrr they put too many politics in my zombie movies” and I’m sorry that means you probably also watched Romero’s DEAD trilogy with your eyes closed and your bloodline is too weak for this world.
January 20, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Saw someone’s criticism of the 28 YEARS LATER movies basically amount to “hurrrr durrr they put too many politics in my zombie movies” and I’m sorry that means you probably also watched Romero’s DEAD trilogy with your eyes closed and your bloodline is too weak for this world.
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I'm at the civil war
I'm at the NATO war
I'm at the combination civil war and NATO war
I'm at the NATO war
I'm at the combination civil war and NATO war
January 19, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I'm at the civil war
I'm at the NATO war
I'm at the combination civil war and NATO war
I'm at the NATO war
I'm at the combination civil war and NATO war
This is the way.
movies don't need to be shorter, they need to have a video game based on the movie sponsored by a fast casual pizza chain available for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
January 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM
This is the way.
Observation Pizza in KC never had a bick and mortar. You ordered ahead via Venmo, texted them on arrival, and they brought it out like you were ordering drugs. It ruled.
The Bob Marley (olive oil, pickled mushrooms, sweet potato, pine nuts, some kind of green) was so good it made me yell curses.
The Bob Marley (olive oil, pickled mushrooms, sweet potato, pine nuts, some kind of green) was so good it made me yell curses.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 19, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Observation Pizza in KC never had a bick and mortar. You ordered ahead via Venmo, texted them on arrival, and they brought it out like you were ordering drugs. It ruled.
The Bob Marley (olive oil, pickled mushrooms, sweet potato, pine nuts, some kind of green) was so good it made me yell curses.
The Bob Marley (olive oil, pickled mushrooms, sweet potato, pine nuts, some kind of green) was so good it made me yell curses.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms:
two men in red vests stand in front of a sign that says hotel
Alt: Key and Peele doing the valet "my sh*t" dance
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:48 AM
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms:
Putting your book nook that looks like a magic world for tiny people next to the book with a five-and-a-half-minute hallway is the correct call, I think.
January 18, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Putting your book nook that looks like a magic world for tiny people next to the book with a five-and-a-half-minute hallway is the correct call, I think.
The Seven Dials Club gives off MASSIVE Sleep No More energy.
January 18, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The Seven Dials Club gives off MASSIVE Sleep No More energy.
I regret to inform y'all that I went to Costco today with my aunt (I'm an outsider with no membership) and am *deeply* excited to try the nice cheap wine I bought. Which one do I try first?
January 17, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I regret to inform y'all that I went to Costco today with my aunt (I'm an outsider with no membership) and am *deeply* excited to try the nice cheap wine I bought. Which one do I try first?
Put this on because of the cold winter vibes, and oops got totally bodied. Should've known better.
Jens Kuross - Stereotype (Official Audio)
YouTube video by woodsist
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January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Put this on because of the cold winter vibes, and oops got totally bodied. Should've known better.
Hot take: I really dislike Moulin Rouge despite repeated attempts to try. Hyperkinetic Baz Luhrmann is really not for me. I finally decided it's ok for me to like Strictly Ballroom and nothing else.
What is the movie you have seen the most times that you would say you do NOT like?
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Hot take: I really dislike Moulin Rouge despite repeated attempts to try. Hyperkinetic Baz Luhrmann is really not for me. I finally decided it's ok for me to like Strictly Ballroom and nothing else.
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This movie whips, go see it. I’ve been thinking about it since TIFF, and was fortunate enough to interview Mona Fastvold about it during the Chicago International Film Festival
Director Interview: Mona Fastvold
The director/cowriter of the upcoming "The Testament of Ann Lee" talks about creativity and the mystery of faith
seeingandbelieving.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:21 AM
This movie whips, go see it. I’ve been thinking about it since TIFF, and was fortunate enough to interview Mona Fastvold about it during the Chicago International Film Festival
Y'all, I almost cried when I saw the *studio logos.* I can't express how nice it is to be able to finally SEE this thing after years of watching a DVD rip.
It's getting wicked cold tonight and we're experiencing something called a snow squall, which in this house means only one thing:
It's finally time for oceans to become battlefields.
It's finally time for oceans to become battlefields.
January 17, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Y'all, I almost cried when I saw the *studio logos.* I can't express how nice it is to be able to finally SEE this thing after years of watching a DVD rip.
Ted Sarandos has clearly never been to rural America, where that's pretty much required.
"You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to see a movie," says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
www.avclub.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Ted Sarandos has clearly never been to rural America, where that's pretty much required.
It's getting wicked cold tonight and we're experiencing something called a snow squall, which in this house means only one thing:
It's finally time for oceans to become battlefields.
It's finally time for oceans to become battlefields.
January 17, 2026 at 12:57 AM
It's getting wicked cold tonight and we're experiencing something called a snow squall, which in this house means only one thing:
It's finally time for oceans to become battlefields.
It's finally time for oceans to become battlefields.
-Chris Isaak
-Nick Cave
-Angel Olsen
-Nick Cave
-Angel Olsen
Fun question: Who has the sexiest singing voice? Not singer who is sexy physically? But whose voice alone is sexy.
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM
-Chris Isaak
-Nick Cave
-Angel Olsen
-Nick Cave
-Angel Olsen