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@jamellpelle.bsky.social
He/Him
Actor/Writer
Here to express that love for film whether french vanilla, butter pecan, or chocolate deluxe.
Actor/Writer
Here to express that love for film whether french vanilla, butter pecan, or chocolate deluxe.
Ken Burns revolutionary doc piqued my curiosity about a show I had dismissed on sight - John Adams, and while it remained far kinder in tone to its goings ons than I would be, its sturdiness keeps it from pure romance. Besides that its a gorgeous show and superbly acted...
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Ken Burns revolutionary doc piqued my curiosity about a show I had dismissed on sight - John Adams, and while it remained far kinder in tone to its goings ons than I would be, its sturdiness keeps it from pure romance. Besides that its a gorgeous show and superbly acted...
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
Im nothing if not reliable, anybody that knows me, knows my feelings on this hidden gem..
Im nothing if not reliable, anybody that knows me, knows my feelings on this hidden gem..
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
Im nothing if not reliable, anybody that knows me, knows my feelings on this hidden gem..
Im nothing if not reliable, anybody that knows me, knows my feelings on this hidden gem..
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I don’t usually talk about meeting talent but I spoke to Jafar Panahi today before the screening of IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social (my 5th time seeing it) and I was in awe.
I also interviewed Panahi a few days ago for @letterboxd.social (stay tuned!!)
I also interviewed Panahi a few days ago for @letterboxd.social (stay tuned!!)
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t usually talk about meeting talent but I spoke to Jafar Panahi today before the screening of IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social (my 5th time seeing it) and I was in awe.
I also interviewed Panahi a few days ago for @letterboxd.social (stay tuned!!)
I also interviewed Panahi a few days ago for @letterboxd.social (stay tuned!!)
At some point we are going to have to have a conversation about Rose Byrne, because the versatility, the veracity, the potency of work is only getting stronger and its BEEN great for years.
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
At some point we are going to have to have a conversation about Rose Byrne, because the versatility, the veracity, the potency of work is only getting stronger and its BEEN great for years.
I have not even finished If I Had Legs I Would Kick You yet, but I cannot be quiet about this a second longer...Rose Byrne is giving one of those performances most actors can only hope they can reach for and grab in a career, and she has her entire body engorged in it.
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I have not even finished If I Had Legs I Would Kick You yet, but I cannot be quiet about this a second longer...Rose Byrne is giving one of those performances most actors can only hope they can reach for and grab in a career, and she has her entire body engorged in it.
Ima start putting Justin Jefferson in flex because with this QB situation he is clearly inhabited
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ima start putting Justin Jefferson in flex because with this QB situation he is clearly inhabited
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Essential Cinema right here
#SpaceApeCinema tonight at 1AM E, we remember the great Tatsuya Nakadai. Adapted from Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novel King's Ransom, Nakadai leads the investigation in a crucial entry in the police procedure genre with Toshiro Mifune as the target. Join us for Akira Kurosawa's classic HIGH AND LOW.
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Essential Cinema right here
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Ted fucking Lieu, too, huh...?
4 senior House Dems — Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, & Ted Lieu — voted for a Republican-led resolution to “CONDEMN SOCIALISM,” a symbolic measure that passed the chamber on Wed. The vote comes as NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet with Pres. Donald Trump at the WH today.
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Ted fucking Lieu, too, huh...?
"There's an old saying in Tennessee... I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me ... you can't get fooled again"
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
"There's an old saying in Tennessee... I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me ... you can't get fooled again"
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Watching Ken Russell's James Bond/Le Carre pseudo serious and John Woo's action Gumbo ..this is what exhilaration and excitement in pop cinema is supposed to be regularly, but regularly isn't...fucking w/ expectations, staying true to the specificity of genre and specificity of their art.
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Watching Ken Russell's James Bond/Le Carre pseudo serious and John Woo's action Gumbo ..this is what exhilaration and excitement in pop cinema is supposed to be regularly, but regularly isn't...fucking w/ expectations, staying true to the specificity of genre and specificity of their art.
Still trying to get my arms around this magnificence of John Woo's Bullet in the Head, but things I can say is
A. Tony mufuckin Leung! Sir the ACTOR YOU ARE, THE ARTIST YOU ARE...The complex combination of emotion on display here ..in an ACTION MOVIE..
A. Tony mufuckin Leung! Sir the ACTOR YOU ARE, THE ARTIST YOU ARE...The complex combination of emotion on display here ..in an ACTION MOVIE..
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Still trying to get my arms around this magnificence of John Woo's Bullet in the Head, but things I can say is
A. Tony mufuckin Leung! Sir the ACTOR YOU ARE, THE ARTIST YOU ARE...The complex combination of emotion on display here ..in an ACTION MOVIE..
A. Tony mufuckin Leung! Sir the ACTOR YOU ARE, THE ARTIST YOU ARE...The complex combination of emotion on display here ..in an ACTION MOVIE..
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...I haven't seen the Broadway show, so I don't know if that suffers from this as well. But Wicked: For Good, while a generally fun watch, is a whole lot of fairy dust, cramming elements from The Wizard of Oz that aren't developed and barely make any sense here. It's like an amusement park ride.
a picture of a witch with the words think of what we could do behind her
ALT: a picture of a witch with the words think of what we could do behind her
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
...I haven't seen the Broadway show, so I don't know if that suffers from this as well. But Wicked: For Good, while a generally fun watch, is a whole lot of fairy dust, cramming elements from The Wizard of Oz that aren't developed and barely make any sense here. It's like an amusement park ride.
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The thing that's been an issue with the Wicked movies (especially the second one) is that they are so toothless. Neither really explores the complex questions of religion and evil or nature vs nurture that Gregory MacGuire spends a lot of time grappling with in his novel...
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The thing that's been an issue with the Wicked movies (especially the second one) is that they are so toothless. Neither really explores the complex questions of religion and evil or nature vs nurture that Gregory MacGuire spends a lot of time grappling with in his novel...
Public Transpo vibes
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Public Transpo vibes
Revisited Sunset Boulevard as I am prone to do, and I remain steadfast that too much is made of the theatrical quality and not enough of its purpose, and more importantly of the humanity and more subtle marks in Swansons goaty performance...
November 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Revisited Sunset Boulevard as I am prone to do, and I remain steadfast that too much is made of the theatrical quality and not enough of its purpose, and more importantly of the humanity and more subtle marks in Swansons goaty performance...
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New today on the site:
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973): Weaponized Expectations
Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat By the Door is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
New today on the site:
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
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if you're the praying type, please put one in the air for my family 💓🙏🏾
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
if you're the praying type, please put one in the air for my family 💓🙏🏾
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200 is barely enough to help me rent a a shelter and family’s needs for just one day.
The halt in donations has made the situation even worse and created an additional space for suffering.
The halt in donations has made the situation even worse and created an additional space for suffering.
My dearest friend set up the weekly and monthly donation options so that we can stay alive after a tent was destroyed just 100 meters away from us last night. The sand covered our faces while we were still alive.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
200 is barely enough to help me rent a a shelter and family’s needs for just one day.
The halt in donations has made the situation even worse and created an additional space for suffering.
The halt in donations has made the situation even worse and created an additional space for suffering.
There was an interesting film somewhere in the "Smashing Machine" the performances sure try and make you believe it, but that film never fully steps forward...
boxd.it/bLtSQT
boxd.it/bLtSQT
A ★★ review of The Smashing Machine (2025)
The reverence for the thing it means to critique eats away at its most interesting aspects until nearly none remain. There's several movies working completely to opposite ends; the one being the criti...
boxd.it
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
There was an interesting film somewhere in the "Smashing Machine" the performances sure try and make you believe it, but that film never fully steps forward...
boxd.it/bLtSQT
boxd.it/bLtSQT
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If you're doing a best books of the year round up, just saying I think my book is pretty good. . . .
Marya E. Gates
Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors In Their Own Words A collection of profiles, interviews, and definitive cinematic images, Cinema Her Way shines a light on female filmmakers who have made…
maryaegates.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If you're doing a best books of the year round up, just saying I think my book is pretty good. . . .
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Trailer for the doc Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere. His work is decades of piercing photography, including iconic photographs of MLK.
“I used to go out on the street trying to emulate Henri Cartier-Bresson…and usually my timing was off by a few seconds.” He’s referencing “the decisive moment.”🫶🏾
“I used to go out on the street trying to emulate Henri Cartier-Bresson…and usually my timing was off by a few seconds.” He’s referencing “the decisive moment.”🫶🏾
OFFICIAL TRAILER | STEVE SCHAPIRO: BEING EVERYWHERE
YouTube video by Abramorama
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November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trailer for the doc Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere. His work is decades of piercing photography, including iconic photographs of MLK.
“I used to go out on the street trying to emulate Henri Cartier-Bresson…and usually my timing was off by a few seconds.” He’s referencing “the decisive moment.”🫶🏾
“I used to go out on the street trying to emulate Henri Cartier-Bresson…and usually my timing was off by a few seconds.” He’s referencing “the decisive moment.”🫶🏾
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as a Black person whose independent study of her own history & culture have been GRAVELY overlooked by the institution, i agree with her. 🤷🏾♀️
some of those "hidden history" books have helped me, but they are NOT as popular, studied, or lauded as BBAHs which often LIE abt my people's history.
some of those "hidden history" books have helped me, but they are NOT as popular, studied, or lauded as BBAHs which often LIE abt my people's history.
I'm arguing that many "hidden history" books did make waves, both in the institution and the public. And that lots of the BBAHs that she says "do not offer Americans an understanding of their past that is useful for living in a pluralistic, multiracial, multiethnic democracy" in fact do just that.
i got something completely different from that excerpt.
she's saying that BIG BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN HISTORY™️ books are the doorstops. that the hidden stories--that she, like me, wanted to tell--didn't make waves in the institution.
idk...am i reading this wrong?
she's saying that BIG BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN HISTORY™️ books are the doorstops. that the hidden stories--that she, like me, wanted to tell--didn't make waves in the institution.
idk...am i reading this wrong?
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
as a Black person whose independent study of her own history & culture have been GRAVELY overlooked by the institution, i agree with her. 🤷🏾♀️
some of those "hidden history" books have helped me, but they are NOT as popular, studied, or lauded as BBAHs which often LIE abt my people's history.
some of those "hidden history" books have helped me, but they are NOT as popular, studied, or lauded as BBAHs which often LIE abt my people's history.
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literally the basis of my back-and-forth with that guy a little while ago.
even Black academics have this issue.
even Black academics have this issue.
Im really enjoying Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc, and Im so-so on Death by Lightning both are incredibly well done and engrossing, but what's lacking in both for me is any layered understanding beyond white folks.
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
literally the basis of my back-and-forth with that guy a little while ago.
even Black academics have this issue.
even Black academics have this issue.
Im really enjoying Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc, and Im so-so on Death by Lightning both are incredibly well done and engrossing, but what's lacking in both for me is any layered understanding beyond white folks.
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Im really enjoying Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc, and Im so-so on Death by Lightning both are incredibly well done and engrossing, but what's lacking in both for me is any layered understanding beyond white folks.
Couldn't tell ME Denzel wasn't running through her on this line reading, especially the nod that accompanies "Everybody pays" in which she drops her cadence and her voice to a whisper...WHEW
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Couldn't tell ME Denzel wasn't running through her on this line reading, especially the nod that accompanies "Everybody pays" in which she drops her cadence and her voice to a whisper...WHEW