Benjamin Freed
@brfreed.bsky.social
internet clown posting bad/dumb/horny takes about the movies, the Knicks, media, or cyber. not here for work | see you at the movies: http://letterboxd.com/brfreed/
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so this is basically the Comet Ping Pong playbook
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
December 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
so this is basically the Comet Ping Pong playbook
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The 20 best films I saw in 2025, who directed, them, and where to find them
December 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The 20 best films I saw in 2025, who directed, them, and where to find them
just a thought but if @ddotdc.bsky.social swept the streets after the leaves fall off, then maybe I wouldn’t have to leave an obstructed bike lane for the car lane, only for a driver to tell me to “get your motherfucking ass in that fucking bike lane” and then threatening to run me off the road
December 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
just a thought but if @ddotdc.bsky.social swept the streets after the leaves fall off, then maybe I wouldn’t have to leave an obstructed bike lane for the car lane, only for a driver to tell me to “get your motherfucking ass in that fucking bike lane” and then threatening to run me off the road
Seriously, if anyone wants to partner up (i.e. you have a bunch of money for rent and me and my friends renovate and program the theater and run it at a profit), DMs are open
December 31, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Seriously, if anyone wants to partner up (i.e. you have a bunch of money for rent and me and my friends renovate and program the theater and run it at a profit), DMs are open
The 20 best films I saw in 2025, who directed, them, and where to find them
December 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The 20 best films I saw in 2025, who directed, them, and where to find them
just one of the great character actors of our time. As many others have, I will lament Isiah Whitlock Jr. with an emphatic
sheeeeeeiiiit
deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
sheeeeeeiiiit
deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
Isiah Whitlock Jr. Dies: ‘The Wire’ Actor & Frequent Spike Lee Collaborator Was 71
Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr., known for his roles in The Wire, Veep, Your Honor and The Residence and a number of Spike Lee movies, passed away Dec. 30.
deadline.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
just one of the great character actors of our time. As many others have, I will lament Isiah Whitlock Jr. with an emphatic
sheeeeeeiiiit
deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
sheeeeeeiiiit
deadline.com/2025/12/isia...
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this place Has The Juice🧃
December 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
this place Has The Juice🧃
one problem with limiting all your headlines to 64 characters is that people will be let down when they read this is actually two different people
December 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
one problem with limiting all your headlines to 64 characters is that people will be let down when they read this is actually two different people
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A lady in her eighties who lives in my building asked me if she should see Marty Supreme, or as she put it, "the one about the pisher who thinks he's a big shot," and I don't think this movie has anything to teach her that she doesn't already know.
December 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A lady in her eighties who lives in my building asked me if she should see Marty Supreme, or as she put it, "the one about the pisher who thinks he's a big shot," and I don't think this movie has anything to teach her that she doesn't already know.
the personal liberties newspaper with an editorial worthy of a second-grade essay contest
The best state of the year?
Here is the winner of the Editorial Board's new year-end tradition:
Here is the winner of the Editorial Board's new year-end tradition:
Opinion | The state of the year? Here is the first winner.
Which of the 50 improved the most in 2025?
wapo.st
December 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
the personal liberties newspaper with an editorial worthy of a second-grade essay contest
nah this is New England’s version of the Pennsylvania egg heist
December 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
nah this is New England’s version of the Pennsylvania egg heist
You do not gotta hand it to MTG (or anyone), but this does read as the story of someone who arrived in Washington as a committed ideologue only to be discouraged as the transactional nature of Congress chipped away at her idealism. Like a MAGA-dipped “Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington”
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
You do not gotta hand it to MTG (or anyone), but this does read as the story of someone who arrived in Washington as a committed ideologue only to be discouraged as the transactional nature of Congress chipped away at her idealism. Like a MAGA-dipped “Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington”
Mamdani should keep Adams in in some capacity as a guy who says weird random shit when City Hall needs a distraction
In his final news cycle as mayor, Eric Adams told New Yorkers to have raw sex because it is snowing nypost.com/2025/12/27/u...
Mayor Adams turns Christmas time into Valentine’s Day by calling snowy Saturday a ‘good baby-making day’
New Yorkers should find love in the latest snowstorm, Mayor Adams said.
nypost.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Mamdani should keep Adams in in some capacity as a guy who says weird random shit when City Hall needs a distraction
Die My Love: Chaotic and dreamy…a horny hot mess with Malick vibes boxd.it/ciVWXn
A ★★★★ review of Die My Love (2025)
Not sure what won me over more: That I will enjoy almost anything where Jennifer Lawrence is a hot mess, or that this is a hot mess with that looks like a Malick dreamscape filtered through nightmare ...
boxd.it
December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Die My Love: Chaotic and dreamy…a horny hot mess with Malick vibes boxd.it/ciVWXn
I will also just be playing piano music at my job today
April 18, 1930: The BBC announces there is "no news" that day and plays piano music. www.bbc.com/news/enterta...
'There is no news': What a change from 1930 to today
On this day in 1930, the BBC played piano music because there was no news.
www.bbc.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I will also just be playing piano music at my job today
This is our generation’s “Man Getting Hit By Football”
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is our generation’s “Man Getting Hit By Football”
hey why just Gen Z? plenty of millennials who’d love to be the meat in a Varang-Frankenstein’s monster sandwich
Never seen Gen Z so horny for movie characters as they are for Oona Chaplin’s Varang and Jacob Elordi’s Frankenstein’s creature. The shot of Timmy Chalamet’s butt in Marty Supreme didn’t do anything. The age of monster fuckers is upon us.
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
hey why just Gen Z? plenty of millennials who’d love to be the meat in a Varang-Frankenstein’s monster sandwich
Fellowship: “They have a fucking cave troll.”
Two Towers: “Meat’s back on the fucking menu, boys!”
Return of the King: “Abandon your posts! Flee! Flee for your fucking lives!”
Two Towers: “Meat’s back on the fucking menu, boys!”
Return of the King: “Abandon your posts! Flee! Flee for your fucking lives!”
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Fellowship: “They have a fucking cave troll.”
Two Towers: “Meat’s back on the fucking menu, boys!”
Return of the King: “Abandon your posts! Flee! Flee for your fucking lives!”
Two Towers: “Meat’s back on the fucking menu, boys!”
Return of the King: “Abandon your posts! Flee! Flee for your fucking lives!”
I see you
The huge box office is what makes it such a paradox. Everyone sees them, and then what? No “May the Force be with you,” no Quidditch, no MCU-like fan theorizing. Compared to the other franchises of its scale, it has weirdly little hold over the popular imagination. I repeat: “Jake Sully.”
December 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I see you
does he think Italians just sprouted out of the ground in New Jersey?
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
does he think Italians just sprouted out of the ground in New Jersey?
Marty Supreme is tremendous. A nervy, funny, thrilling adventure that needs to be seen and heard on a screen as big as its title character’s ambitions. Looks really great in 70mm too.
December 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Marty Supreme is tremendous. A nervy, funny, thrilling adventure that needs to be seen and heard on a screen as big as its title character’s ambitions. Looks really great in 70mm too.
Marty Supreme might be breaking The Brutalist’s record for “greatest number of stupid film bros at AFI Silver for a 70mm screening”
December 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Marty Supreme might be breaking The Brutalist’s record for “greatest number of stupid film bros at AFI Silver for a 70mm screening”
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Did you know that Christmas Day is one of the biggest filmgoing days of the year?
If you’re headed to a matinee today, remember that theater operators are working extra hard to make the movies magical for you and yours. Be sure to thank them and to treat them and your fellow filmgoers kindly!
If you’re headed to a matinee today, remember that theater operators are working extra hard to make the movies magical for you and yours. Be sure to thank them and to treat them and your fellow filmgoers kindly!
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Did you know that Christmas Day is one of the biggest filmgoing days of the year?
If you’re headed to a matinee today, remember that theater operators are working extra hard to make the movies magical for you and yours. Be sure to thank them and to treat them and your fellow filmgoers kindly!
If you’re headed to a matinee today, remember that theater operators are working extra hard to make the movies magical for you and yours. Be sure to thank them and to treat them and your fellow filmgoers kindly!