Jacob Oller
@jacoboller.bsky.social
Film Editor at @avclub.com
Video Game Movie Expert
Southerner in Chicago
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Southerner in Chicago
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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
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This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t
I think I’m going with the @nytimes.com on this one, thanks.
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t
it is now administrative policy that congress will react to every new event like this
January 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
it is now administrative policy that congress will react to every new event like this
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The consequences for lying us into Iraq were not only “nothing” but outright rehabilitation of Bush as a “compassionate conservative” who was part of a noble dying breed so why should anyone waste the time justifying this one
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM
The consequences for lying us into Iraq were not only “nothing” but outright rehabilitation of Bush as a “compassionate conservative” who was part of a noble dying breed so why should anyone waste the time justifying this one
“the full wrath of American justice” has recently been practicing for this by kidnapping sick kids and small business owners who are the wrong color
US AG Bondi general says Maduro and his wife have been indicted
January 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
“the full wrath of American justice” has recently been practicing for this by kidnapping sick kids and small business owners who are the wrong color
If Gerard Butler and Jason Statham teamed up they could make the Avengers: Endgame of January divorced dad movies
January 3, 2026 at 2:22 AM
If Gerard Butler and Jason Statham teamed up they could make the Avengers: Endgame of January divorced dad movies
had the sexiest year imaginable
January 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
had the sexiest year imaginable
Going in on a classic
January 2, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Going in on a classic
The Testament Of Ann Lee (2025)
It's not GOONING mom. It's not! It's ecstatic revelry! This is spiritual enrichment! Do you not see the fucking laurel wreath on my head? Hail Bacchus or smthng dude.
January 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
The Testament Of Ann Lee (2025)
fashionable so-called socialist won’t hang out with me or return my calls, more like asocialist
January 1, 2026 at 8:19 PM
fashionable so-called socialist won’t hang out with me or return my calls, more like asocialist
doing my grandmother proud by pressing everyone I know about having their black eyed peas this morning
January 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM
doing my grandmother proud by pressing everyone I know about having their black eyed peas this morning
Great lowkey NYE movie: Jafar Panahi’s debut The White Balloon
January 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Great lowkey NYE movie: Jafar Panahi’s debut The White Balloon
Been learning to draw and embroider this year and wow does it feel good to have more Making hobbies to balance out the Consuming hobbies
January 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Been learning to draw and embroider this year and wow does it feel good to have more Making hobbies to balance out the Consuming hobbies
youtube ads sound like they're bullying jesus
why does jesus keep hitting himself
why does jesus keep hitting himself
December 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
youtube ads sound like they're bullying jesus
why does jesus keep hitting himself
why does jesus keep hitting himself
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WAKE UP DEAD MAN
December 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
WAKE UP DEAD MAN
we're still alive and kickin' and we'll keep kickin' for as long as we can
Just hit publish on @avclub.com's year in review, which could not possibly include ALL of our favorite pieces of 2025, but it does reflect where we've been and where we're going.
www.avclub.com/best-of-the-...
www.avclub.com/best-of-the-...
The best of The A.V. Club: Our favorite pieces from 2025
The best of The A.V. Club: Our favorite pieces from 2025
www.avclub.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
we're still alive and kickin' and we'll keep kickin' for as long as we can
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If nothing else, if not for the AV Club's Random Roles, there's a decent chance we'd never have had the opportunity for Curtis Armstrong to tell his story about working on the Gary Busey film "Quigley".
December 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If nothing else, if not for the AV Club's Random Roles, there's a decent chance we'd never have had the opportunity for Curtis Armstrong to tell his story about working on the Gary Busey film "Quigley".
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I'm done writing for 2025, so it's time for the ol' Year In Review Roundup. Let's start with one of the defining moments of the cultural year: When Princess Mononoke went back to theaters at the peak of the AI Ghibli wave www.avclub.com/studio-ghibl...
Studio Ghibli faces its biggest villain yet: an ironic onslaught of AI
Hayao Miyazaki's environmentalist masterpiece Princess Mononoke returns to theaters while the Studio Ghibli style is stolen by AI.
www.avclub.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I'm done writing for 2025, so it's time for the ol' Year In Review Roundup. Let's start with one of the defining moments of the cultural year: When Princess Mononoke went back to theaters at the peak of the AI Ghibli wave www.avclub.com/studio-ghibl...
At least someone’s enjoying the weather
December 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
At least someone’s enjoying the weather
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This is a great story, and yet another reminder that -- for something that felt like a fun goofy feature when it launched -- as we lose more and more actors, the AV Club's "Random Roles" has turned out to be an amazing oral history project.
Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...
December 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is a great story, and yet another reminder that -- for something that felt like a fun goofy feature when it launched -- as we lose more and more actors, the AV Club's "Random Roles" has turned out to be an amazing oral history project.
Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...
![Well, fast forward to Goodfellas. That was sort of like a feeding frenzy in New York City, and I got an audition for it. I went in and I auditioned for the guy who gets who owns the nightclub—he gets hit over the head with a bottle by Joe Pesci. And I thought, “Well, look, they’re not going to cast me as this guy.” I mean, it didn’t make sense, you know? But I got a callback! So I went back and I go into the room, and Martin Scorsese says, “What do I know you from? I know you from somewhere.” I said, “Well, I did those readings at Paul Newman’s for you, for The Color Of Money. He said, “Oh, that’s right, that’s right! Look, that part you auditioned for—obviously, you can’t do that part of. It just wouldn’t work. But I have this character!” He’s a doctor and it’s in the part of the movie where he’s like the only person that that Henry Hill trusts while he’s all coked out and everything like that. He said, “Do you think you could do that for me? I know it’s not much, but if you could do it for me, I would really appreciate it.” And I’m sitting there thinking, “Okay, act like you’ve been there before.” [Laughs.] I said, “Yeah, sure, Marty. I mean, you know, it’s not about the size of the part. It’s what we do!” So he says thanks, and that’s how I got cast! [Laughs.] I didn’t say, “Well, gee, Marty, I have never done a movie before hardly.” But I got cast in Goodfellas—that’s how all of that happened.
I do remember I went to my day job—I was a waiter at a place on 10th Avenue—and I said, “I just got a part in Goodfellas!” And they said, “No way! Get out!” I said, “No, I met with Martin Scorsese, and they’re going to cast me as this doctor.” And one of the guys said, “Oh, I’m going down there tomorrow, and I’m taking my stuff, because if you got a part, I know I’m going to get a part.” [Laughs.] He was like, “They must just be handing out parts—they must need tons of people if they cast you—you just got here!” So he went down there and he didn’t get a part. And here I a…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bck7uabvjt4xu5uzn3exzhqj/bafkreihprpksbsipsbrgqrbrjh2t7moeap457yglhouhssilvkmowqc654@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...
somehow has the same energy as the Die Hard Christmas note, which was written in blood on a corpse
i do need everyone to see the note this thief left when he returned the stolen mandolins
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
somehow has the same energy as the Die Hard Christmas note, which was written in blood on a corpse
I'm closing out the year not with movies but with games, making the case for all things Blue Prince (even the heartbreaking randomness that can end run after run) www.avclub.com/blue-prince-...
Crosstalk: We argue it out over one of 2025’s biggest puzzles, the game Blue Prince
Did Blue Prince get too esoteric with its puzzles? Was its randomness too punitive and player-unfriendly? Two A.V. Club writers hash it out in the latest Crosstalk.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'm closing out the year not with movies but with games, making the case for all things Blue Prince (even the heartbreaking randomness that can end run after run) www.avclub.com/blue-prince-...
got the Iron & Wine guy on the wifi
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
got the Iron & Wine guy on the wifi
The job all of us want: drowning in an ever-complicating series of run-ins with eccentric goobers with silly names
I'm the head magic teacher at a British boarding school.
Emily Tesh, "The Incandescent"
Emily Tesh, "The Incandescent"
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The job all of us want: drowning in an ever-complicating series of run-ins with eccentric goobers with silly names
