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Jacob Oller
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Film Editor at @avclub.com‬
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · Oct 17
This is the hardest I've ever known someone didn't watch the thing they were writing about
excerpt from an academic text I had to read in grad school: "Other shows for which the occupation is not blue collar or is not specified are set in working-class locales. The occupation of Hank of King of the Hill (1998) is unspecified, but the setting suggest a blue collar suburb."
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Mario and Luigi would be great at investigating a giallo
February 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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The Cremator on The Criterion Channel
February 19, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Inspired by The Mortuary Assistant, I decided to write about the scariest death-industry film: the feverish Nazi nightmare The Cremator www.avclub.com/the-cremator...
Death isn't the scary part in the Czech political horror The Cremator
Though surrounded by corpses, the long-banned Czech New Wave film The Cremator is scariest for its depiction of collaborators.
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February 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Possibly the greatest sentence ever written
When you get near the murderer’s house The great sarcophagus will start to go crazy
February 19, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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I do love that it responded like I spurned its clumsy advances
I hear you. I’ll back off. Take care.
February 19, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
February 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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probably Borderlands, because I was hyper-fixated on why there was a regular old can of Axe body spray in a bar scene, on the bar top next to all the drinks
yelix.bsky.social woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 1d
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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spinning my every encounter into a warped tale of class, sex, and violence AKA Park Chan-wookmaxxing
February 18, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Linklater is the only one who has used him well, but unfortunately he got mega famous for Top Gun instead of Everybody Wants Some and we all have to pay the price for that. (I still adore him in the two Linklater’s though and I’m rooting for him!)
February 18, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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i don't mind Powell, but man, when they tried to sell him in The Running Man as "the angriest man alive," it was like trying to imagine Ryan Reynolds as King Lear.
jacoboller.bsky.social Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 1d
We can’t keep doing this
Over the last five years, Glen Powell’s film presence has shifted from surprisingly handsome charisma bomb to obviously calculated (yet still undeniably handsome) dud. There seems to be an insistence on someone’s part—whether it’s Powell’s or his agent’s or the filmmakers who deal with them—on keeping the actor confined to a small range of slick, square-jawed smarm, whether he is a rom-com lead, a tornado chaser, a dystopian game show contestant, a fake contract killer, or, in How To Make A Killing, a man murdering his way into an inheritance. He’s always smirking, often quipping, and so strikingly put together that the various ways these films try to diegetically disguise him are laughably insufficient. This strained consistency, this self-typecasting, these in-movie reminders of his irrepressible good looks—it all bolsters the careerist case that Powell is a movie star, sometimes at the cost of the movies themselves.
February 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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"like a Dickensian hero who grows up to be an off-brand Patrick Bateman"

wait, what lol?
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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I never realized James Brown became The Godfather of Soul because he soundtracked a movie where Fred Williamson was The Godfather of Harlem
February 18, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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I wrote about Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, an imperfect adaptation (as all WH adaptations are) that gets closer to approximating Brontë's style and meaning than any other has. www.avclub.com/andrea-arnol...
Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights remains the novel's truest adaptation
If you want Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights came to the screen in its best form 15 years ago thanks to Andrea Arnold.
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February 18, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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They’ve finally done it, they’ve made me sick of Glen Powell. My review of How To Make A Killing: www.avclub.com/how-to-make-...
Glen Powell does more of the same in crime-comedy How To Make A Killing
An heir murders his way to the top in How To Make A Killing, a film with simple observations and a predictable lead turn.
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February 18, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Essential thread
cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d
what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇
photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.
February 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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love to write about The Movies
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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King
stefifofum.bsky.social Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 3d
"In lieu of flowers, the family and Zipporah Films kindly request that you support your local PBS affiliate or independent bookstore in Frederick Wiseman’s memory."
February 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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reading old Robert Duvall interviews and I love that he namedrops Ken Loach but was also like "check out Samira Makhmalbaf's 1998 debut!" www.avclub.com/robert-duval...
O: Is there any particular director who influenced the way you direct? RD: I found my own way, but I like some of the Iranian films. I liked the film The Apple, [by] a 17-year-old. But I would have to say, I keep going back to Ken Loach. I like the way he works. He listens rather than looks. I like the way he gets behavior, and he does improvisation in a good way. If an actor gets stuck, he can help them in certain ways. Certain directors give freedom, and I’ve worked with them. But I’ve noticed that sometimes when actors get stuck, the director doesn’t necessarily know how to help them. A director who gives you freedom but can also help an actor who gets stuck, that’s the kind of guy Ken Loach is.
February 16, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Frederick Wiseman in 2015: www.avclub.com/frederick-wi...
AVC: You’ve made 41 films. Does it feel like you’ve made that many? FW: No. But once it’s done I rarely go back and look at it again. AVC: At the end of it all, is there something that you’d like to be remembered for in this genre and this form? FW: Well, I’d like to be remembered for the 41 movies I’ve made! AVC: Certainly you’ll be remembered for those. But, is there— FW: No, but certainly, making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence. AVC: Can you imagine doing anything else as a career? FW: Yeah, I thought of being Roger Federer, but it’s too late.
February 16, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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this is the kind of country and era and genre-spanning completionism I live for
February 16, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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a guy who could somehow play Boo Radley and Tom Hagen and THX and Eisenhower and Stalin and Eichmann and Robert E. Lee
avclub.com The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 3d
Robert Duvall, the firm screen presence that brought authority and soul to some of the greatest movies ever made, has died.
R.I.P Robert Duvall, Oscar-winning actor of unlimited range
R.I.P Robert Duvall, Oscar-winning actor of unlimited range
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February 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Pew polled Americans and they all said, in unison, “no take only throw”
jayrosen.bsky.social Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 3d
"Eighty percent of Americans said voters have a responsibility to keep up with the news, but just 8% said they had a responsibility to pay for it." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
February 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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happy anniversary to a great movie and a great movie phone
Phone from The Killing of a Chinese Bookie that is just a naked woman with boob bell ringers
February 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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RIP Jean Gorin you would’ve loved Super Smash Bros
February 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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What’s striking about this clip, not even mentioning the content and substance of the message, is that I can’t remember the last time I saw a contemporary tv political talk show allow a guest to speak uninterrupted for this long
dytsras.bsky.social Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 5d
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching

you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM