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Swartacus
@andyzswart.bsky.social
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Unfrozen caveman film criticism served lukewarm on the frozen outer rim of the Minneapolis exurbs.

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Swartacus @andyzswart.bsky.social · Apr 19
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Some other stuff I’ve written. Maybe I’ll do this some more. #writing #writingcommunity #laidoff
Andy Swart
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I decided to watch this Wolfgang Petersen popcorner in honor of the wreck of the old Fitz, since it's probably the closet that cinema will ever come to recreating such a scenario.

#letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #edmundfitzgerald #andreagail #writingcommunity #writesky

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A ★★★½ review of The Perfect Storm (2000)
What do you want to be remembered for? I had to run in to take a piss. I tried going at Kwik Trip, but an employee was cleaning the men’s bathroom right at that exact moment. This caused me to to have...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy

50 years today.

📸 #holga
🎞️ #kodakportra160

#believeinfilm #120film #filmphotography #lomography #edmundfitzgerald
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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del Toro intwines himself within this classic text in a way that I felt Eggers fell slightly short with Nosferatu. There’s life and color amongst the bleakness whereas Eggers’ dirge felt like crawling around in the soil on your hands and knees.

#letterboxd #filmsky #writesky

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A ★★★★½ review of Frankenstein (2025)
“The world will hunt you just for being who you are.” Gorgeous filmmaking as always from del Toro wowing in the first act with an outstanding frozen north battle and a Barry Lyndon-esque flashback seq...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

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#believeinfilm #photography #120film #filmphotography #lomography #filmisnotdead #asundaycarpic
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The ‘ol piss in a measuring cup prank eh? That’s not creepy, unless you're a freshman pledge at a fraternity in 1992 getting hazed by a chubby offensive lineman that looks like Flounder from Animal House.

#letterboxdFriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #elevatedhorror

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A ★★ review of Bring Her Back (2025)
Who the hell uses a camcorder anymore? I will admit as a frame within a framing device, it’s still pretty cool. I like that they didn’t put much makeup on the kids zits, and nothing like some goofy ta...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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#letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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The tight shot of Bronson balling his fist after the melon slaughter is better than anything in any action film from 2010 on. Pure indulgent malice ensues…

#letterboxd #filmsky #writesky #moviesky #charlesbronson #elmoreleonard #🍉

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A ★★★★★ review of Mr. Majestyk (1974)
Hey guys, I thought of a job I could do. I'd have to go back in time to 1974 to do it, but what do you think of "migrant labor pimp" on a business card? The gig is kind of like a server in a greasy sp...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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We set ourselves on fire.

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#believeinfilm #120film #filmphotography #lomography
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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One of the better films I've seen about depression nailing you so hard you can barely speak or stand up and leave your room. Nebraska is in my top 10 albums of all time. This film attempts to show its painful birth.

#letterboxd #filmsky #writesky #brucespringsteen #depression

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A ★★★★½ review of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)
This isn't a film about Bruce Springsteen, it's a film about clinical depression and how it can happen to anyone no matter their status in this world. It's also about how that doesn't mean you have to...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Crapshoot Rapture.

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#believeinfilm #photography #120film #filmphotography #lomography #filmisnotdead
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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[the morning after Bond sleeps with May Day]

Max Zorin: You slept well?

James Bond: A little restless but I got off eventually.

#letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The bang a gong get it on looking titles sequence is roughly 14 and a half minutes long and was probably the snuff film that played on the wall of the whore den Sonny Crockett busted up on South Beach in 1984.

#letterboxd #filmsky #writesky #jamesbond #christopherwalken

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A ★★★ review of A View to a Kill (1985)
"Moore isn't just long in the tooth—he's got tusks, and what looks like an eye job has given him the pie-eyed blankness of a zombie." -Washington Post critic Paul Attanasio The gales of Anti-Hooptober...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Here in spirit.

📸 #holga
🎞️ #kodakportra160

#believeinfilm #photography #120film #filmphotography #lomography #filmisnotdead
October 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The director of Pearl Jam's Jeremy video should sue these guys for stealing his 4 minute MTV spot and trying to expand it into a 129 minute prestige horror picture.

#letterboxd #filmsky #writesky #moviesky #horror #writingcommunity

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A ★ review of Weapons (2025)
I'm probably going to trigger some people with this one, but I am just not into Weapons (unless they are nunchucks, those are dope). I thought this film was laughable and I don't understand the love i...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Dark Horse.

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#believeinfilm #photography #120film #filmphotography #lomography #filmisnotdead
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The “dumb bumpkin” portion of this was a little doofy for my tastes but you can’t really be mad at Elvis Plissken blurting out corned beef Americana like “More mayonnaise momma!”

Dollar Tree Cinema presents…
Elvis ‘79

#filmsky #letterboxd #writesky #johncarpenter #elvis

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A ★★½ review of Elvis (1979)
Dollar Tree Cinema Presents... John Carpenter's Elvis aka The Anti-Hooptober If Pat Hingle is involved you know this shit is going to be choice. Plus Kurt Russell and John Carpenter warming up for the...
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October 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Laughing.

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#believeinfilm #120film #filmphotography #lomography
October 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Gangsters don't read books or ponder faith, but Marty does. The name Dalai Lama means "oceans of wisdom" and Kundun is Marty jumping into that ocean with no life preserver.

Marty! Kundun! I liked it.

But do I get it?

#letterboxdfriday #filmsky #writesky #letterboxd #thesopranos
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A ★★★½ review of Kundun (1997)
Marty...Kundun. I get it! I haven't thought about “I GET IT!" in a very long time. I was reminded of it by Sam Evans' impressionistic, childlike art on instagram. I just love his work, there's nothing...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Marty! Kundun! I liked it.

#letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
October 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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You know me, I had plans.

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#believeinfilm #120film #filmphotography #lomography
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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This one goes hard and never even thinks about tapping the brakes. Carpenter is going full Eddie Harris here. He's using Crisco, Vagisil and his own snot to get hitters out and it mostly works. Also Sheryl Lee is naked and has a tramp stamp of a 🐍

#filmsky #letterboxd #writesky

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A ★★★★ review of Vampires (1998)
*contractually obligated October Carpenter rewatch* Do you ever look back on your life and think, what the hell WAS that? John Carpenter's Vampires makes me think in such ways. Last time I saw this wa...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Jack Kerouac

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#believeinfilm #photography #120film #filmphotography #lomography #filmisnotdead
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Paul played the Licorice Pizza song.

83 yrs old. Absolute insanity.
October 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Austin: Stay curious, Craig Waterman
Craig: Okay. Bye.

#letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
October 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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As I navigate unemployment, some days the only joy I have is a trip to Subway. I go to the one that has a push button ordering board. Which means I don't have to talk to the artist who makes it. Just like the 5 automated rejection emails I got before 10am did.

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A ★★★ review of Friendship (2024)
“Things have been ok.” Full mug coming through here. More like empty mug. You ever have that feeling that it’s all been said before? It’s all been tried, it’s all succeeded, it’s all failed. Living in...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM