Bill Chambers
@flmfrkcentral.bsky.social
Founder and Editor, FilmFreakCentral.net; Member, TFCA, OFCS
My god, the opening shot of THE SEARCHERS in Dolby Vision.
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 AM
My god, the opening shot of THE SEARCHERS in Dolby Vision.
No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
January 2, 2026 at 2:10 AM
No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
If you're curious, here's my top 10 of 2025 courtesy of a TFCA Instagram story. Alt text provided.
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
If you're curious, here's my top 10 of 2025 courtesy of a TFCA Instagram story. Alt text provided.
So, same old same old.
January 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
So, same old same old.
Swimming with morays just to eel something.
Taking a cooking class just to meal something
Finding wild boars in the forest just to squeal something
December 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Swimming with morays just to eel something.
END OF DAYS rules. Schwarzenegger makes a coffee/Pepto Bismol/Chinese takeout/pizza smoothie for breakfast and gets his ass kicked in hand-to-hand combat with Miriam Margolyes, and Gabriel Byrne punches a hole through Udo Kier's head, and Mark Margolis plays the Pope.
December 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
END OF DAYS rules. Schwarzenegger makes a coffee/Pepto Bismol/Chinese takeout/pizza smoothie for breakfast and gets his ass kicked in hand-to-hand combat with Miriam Margolyes, and Gabriel Byrne punches a hole through Udo Kier's head, and Mark Margolis plays the Pope.
Welp, Google sent me AI-animated photos of my cat. Nope. N'uh-uh. Line crossed.
December 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Welp, Google sent me AI-animated photos of my cat. Nope. N'uh-uh. Line crossed.
Submitted a top 10 to a poll to be a good sport but I doubt I'll agree with it a year from now, which I guess is the fun of making one, like taking a picture of your new haircut.
December 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Submitted a top 10 to a poll to be a good sport but I doubt I'll agree with it a year from now, which I guess is the fun of making one, like taking a picture of your new haircut.
"You see this, this is Hi-Fi. Okay? High Fidelity. You know what that means? That means this is the highest quality fidelity. Hi-Fi. Those are two very important things to have in a stereo system."
Trump on the ballroom: "It's bigger than I told you. It's, you know -- after realizing we're gonna do the inauguration in that building, it's got all bulletproof glass, it's got all drone, they call it drone-free roof. It's dronessss -- won't touch it. It's a big beautiful safe building."
December 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"You see this, this is Hi-Fi. Okay? High Fidelity. You know what that means? That means this is the highest quality fidelity. Hi-Fi. Those are two very important things to have in a stereo system."
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I’m facilitating the rehoming of two sweet cats who belonged to a friend who recently passed unexpectedly. They deserve a stable place to land. 2-3 year old bonded pair, one male one female. Please send me a DM if you have the interest and ability to care for these sweet voids. Located in Oakland.
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I’m facilitating the rehoming of two sweet cats who belonged to a friend who recently passed unexpectedly. They deserve a stable place to land. 2-3 year old bonded pair, one male one female. Please send me a DM if you have the interest and ability to care for these sweet voids. Located in Oakland.
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Here's that comic I did with @lanedraws.bsky.social for @maconblair.bsky.social's TOXIC AVENGER. What an honor.
December 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Here's that comic I did with @lanedraws.bsky.social for @maconblair.bsky.social's TOXIC AVENGER. What an honor.
Going to watch this as God and Joe Dante intended: alone with my cat.
December 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Going to watch this as God and Joe Dante intended: alone with my cat.
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⏰️⏰️⏰️ One day left to apply for the Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award! torontofilmcritics.com/features/app...
December 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
⏰️⏰️⏰️ One day left to apply for the Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award! torontofilmcritics.com/features/app...
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It is accomplished! My latest SHINY THINGS column is up, running down the best discs I saw this year. If I didn't include your favorite, it's probably because I didn't get my hands on it. But, uh, that's a good thing! Physical media is experiencing a renaissance, you know!
The Best Discs of 2025
In which Norm rolls out his picks for the year's best 4K and Blu-ray releases ... just in time to fill out that holiday wish list.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It is accomplished! My latest SHINY THINGS column is up, running down the best discs I saw this year. If I didn't include your favorite, it's probably because I didn't get my hands on it. But, uh, that's a good thing! Physical media is experiencing a renaissance, you know!
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I have broken my silence on the best Blu-Rays of 2025.
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The Year in Blu-Rays
We got THREE Laurel & Hardy releases this year!
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December 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I have broken my silence on the best Blu-Rays of 2025.
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"Saved by the Bell: The College Years" is on and Screech is wearing a Dracula cape and Kelly's high heels to a professor's funeral.
December 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Saved by the Bell: The College Years" is on and Screech is wearing a Dracula cape and Kelly's high heels to a professor's funeral.
Have had this idea for a dark romcom rolling around in my head for a couple of years that I might finally put on paper in '26. The drawer of unmade scripts needs a new friend.
December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Have had this idea for a dark romcom rolling around in my head for a couple of years that I might finally put on paper in '26. The drawer of unmade scripts needs a new friend.
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These parents killed their child and we need to say it
“The vaccination has stuff we don’t trust,” said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died of measles. In March, Tom Bartlett wrote about his visit with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy.
Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/yADSKik3?lin...
Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/yADSKik3?lin...
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
These parents killed their child and we need to say it
Everyone mocks the guy with a thousand cables until he has exactly the weird one you need.
December 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Everyone mocks the guy with a thousand cables until he has exactly the weird one you need.
For the Saturday crowd.
FFC review: SONG SUNG BLUE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/song...
Song Sung Blue (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
*/****starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushibased on the documentary Song Sung Blue by Greg Kohswritten and directed by Craig Brewer by Walter Chaw I wonder sometimes about mo...
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December 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
For the Saturday crowd.
If you start watching THUNDERBALL now the underwater climax will end at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
December 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If you start watching THUNDERBALL now the underwater climax will end at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
Is Trump gonna drown this baby in Lake Michigan too?
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces pregnancy reut.rs/4scF61W
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces pregnancy
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Friday that she is expecting a second child, a girl due in May.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Is Trump gonna drown this baby in Lake Michigan too?
FFC review: SONG SUNG BLUE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/song...
Song Sung Blue (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
*/****starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushibased on the documentary Song Sung Blue by Greg Kohswritten and directed by Craig Brewer by Walter Chaw I wonder sometimes about mo...
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December 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
FFC review: SONG SUNG BLUE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/song...