Joshua Starnes
@jstarnes.bsky.social
Film critic for Vital Thrills, former president of Houston Film Critics Society. Writer / publisher, Currently THE BOX for
Red 5 Comics, KULIPARI for Netflix. President of AMP Comics.
Red 5 Comics, KULIPARI for Netflix. President of AMP Comics.
Watching #Nuremberg is like coming across an endangered animal in the wild. www.firingthecanon.net/blog/nuremburg
Nuremburg — Firing the Canon
James Vanderbilt’s Nuremburg is a nearly perfect studio film. This doesn’t mean it’s a perfect film by any stretch of the imagination. It can be creaky with some obvious conflict and clima...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Watching #Nuremberg is like coming across an endangered animal in the wild. www.firingthecanon.net/blog/nuremburg
This is the most French thing I have ever heard.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is the most French thing I have ever heard.
Bandido is beating up Stokley in front of me #aewcollision #aew#wrestlesky
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Bandido is beating up Stokley in front of me #aewcollision #aew#wrestlesky
After the 2028 elections Pam Bondi’s bar license needs to be seriously looked at.
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
After the 2028 elections Pam Bondi’s bar license needs to be seriously looked at.
It feels like a lot of the boomer hatred is really based on their being the last group you can get points for publicly hating. Suggests even the righteous want someone to hate.
These are most people’s parents and grandparents. Why do you hate mom and dad and grandpa so much?
These are most people’s parents and grandparents. Why do you hate mom and dad and grandpa so much?
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
It feels like a lot of the boomer hatred is really based on their being the last group you can get points for publicly hating. Suggests even the righteous want someone to hate.
These are most people’s parents and grandparents. Why do you hate mom and dad and grandpa so much?
These are most people’s parents and grandparents. Why do you hate mom and dad and grandpa so much?
A tale of two responses
October 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A tale of two responses
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On this note, my alt account is @thesess.bsky.social in case I just up and disappear again. Would appreciate spreading the word (RT’s don’t get stuck with the “rude”
Label.
Label.
Heads up folks, J. C. Cantwell got suspended, they're not sure why, but they wanted folks to spread the word.
Some real bullshit is happening on Bluesky rn.
Some real bullshit is happening on Bluesky rn.
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
On this note, my alt account is @thesess.bsky.social in case I just up and disappear again. Would appreciate spreading the word (RT’s don’t get stuck with the “rude”
Label.
Label.
If none of my posts are labeled as rude, is that a good thing or a failing?
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
If none of my posts are labeled as rude, is that a good thing or a failing?
I understand this sentiment but would still rate Kevin McCarthy as the weakest due to his difficulty in 1) getting elected and 2) passing anything.
Beyer: I don’t like to do ad hominem attacks, but I’ve served with four different speakers. This is the fifth one—by far the weakest speaker, I think, in American history.
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I understand this sentiment but would still rate Kevin McCarthy as the weakest due to his difficulty in 1) getting elected and 2) passing anything.
Adolescent slang is perfectly penetrable. It’s frequently stupid but it’s easy to understand.
In the latest issue of @nymag.com I wrote about being a parent in the age of Six Seven www.thecut.com/article/what...
The ‘Six Seven’ Panic
Adolescent slang has always been impenetrable to adults. That’s the point.
www.thecut.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Adolescent slang is perfectly penetrable. It’s frequently stupid but it’s easy to understand.
There are some politicians I will consider giving money to but it’s not anyone running for governor in Virginia or California because I don’t live in either of those places.
It did gives me insight into where they bought their lists from.
It did gives me insight into where they bought their lists from.
October 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There are some politicians I will consider giving money to but it’s not anyone running for governor in Virginia or California because I don’t live in either of those places.
It did gives me insight into where they bought their lists from.
It did gives me insight into where they bought their lists from.
There’s a bunch of people trying to cast Obama as Marc Maron’s last guest as some sort of massive failure and that he’s letting show down and they are out of touch with reality.
October 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
There’s a bunch of people trying to cast Obama as Marc Maron’s last guest as some sort of massive failure and that he’s letting show down and they are out of touch with reality.
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The ebook version of ALTER EGO, my USA TODAY-bestselling/Anthony Award-nominated follow up to SECRET IDENTITY, is still on sale for $2.99 across all platforms! Less than a fancy latte. Don't miss it!
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Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 12, 2025
A comics world mystery, bestselling Sally Rooney, a National Book Award finalist, Palestinian history, and more of the best book deals of the day
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October 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The ebook version of ALTER EGO, my USA TODAY-bestselling/Anthony Award-nominated follow up to SECRET IDENTITY, is still on sale for $2.99 across all platforms! Less than a fancy latte. Don't miss it!
bookriot.com/book-riots-d... @flatironbooks.bsky.social
bookriot.com/book-riots-d... @flatironbooks.bsky.social
#tronares was better than I was expecting and better than Legacy thanks to a more engaging lead character and central conflict even if there’s too much nostalgia bait.
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
#tronares was better than I was expecting and better than Legacy thanks to a more engaging lead character and central conflict even if there’s too much nostalgia bait.
With #VistaVision back in the conversation it makes me think of when I first learned of it; not from Hitchcock films but from ILM who for a long time owned the bulk of surviving VV cameras for filming miniatures and effect plates due to its large negative area.
October 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
With #VistaVision back in the conversation it makes me think of when I first learned of it; not from Hitchcock films but from ILM who for a long time owned the bulk of surviving VV cameras for filming miniatures and effect plates due to its large negative area.
When I see people talking about wanting to throw out all current Dem leadership I see people not accurately calculating the odds of new leadership being worse.
It was the ‘throw them out and try something different’ impulse that got us both Trump administrations.
It was the ‘throw them out and try something different’ impulse that got us both Trump administrations.
September 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
When I see people talking about wanting to throw out all current Dem leadership I see people not accurately calculating the odds of new leadership being worse.
It was the ‘throw them out and try something different’ impulse that got us both Trump administrations.
It was the ‘throw them out and try something different’ impulse that got us both Trump administrations.
On Bluesky??? It’s built on smugness.
I don’t fully understand the appetite for smugness on social media
They’re acting like he’s the first person to ever go
September 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
On Bluesky??? It’s built on smugness.
Some fuckin rabbit holes in this place.
The problem that DC ran into with Harley Quinn very early is that a whole bunch of girls and women started adopting her as an icon because she was so funny and compelling to watch. Which tbh *shouldn't* have been a problem, no one cares when guys adopt villain characters as icons.
feels like "we like the new character design but don't want to feel bad about it" which is a fine decision for a personal fanfic but not so much for major franchise
September 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Some fuckin rabbit holes in this place.
It’s impossible not to see the comparisons between OBAA and Eddington. OBAA is actually harsher on the left than Eddington because it is also harsher on the right there is more acceptance of it.
September 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It’s impossible not to see the comparisons between OBAA and Eddington. OBAA is actually harsher on the left than Eddington because it is also harsher on the right there is more acceptance of it.
Not the main takeaway but couldn’t help thinking while watching One Battle After Another how it prophecizes all the 20-something rebels of today inevitably becoming the boomers they hate in 15 years.
September 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Not the main takeaway but couldn’t help thinking while watching One Battle After Another how it prophecizes all the 20-something rebels of today inevitably becoming the boomers they hate in 15 years.
I liked One Battle After Another but it’s not immediately the best thing I’ve seen this year - will see what else we get: www.vitalthrills.com/one-battle-a...
One Battle After Another Review
Vital Thrills' review of One Battle After Another, the new Paul Thomas Anderson film opening in theaters on September 26, 2025.
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September 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I liked One Battle After Another but it’s not immediately the best thing I’ve seen this year - will see what else we get: www.vitalthrills.com/one-battle-a...
One choice which has given me infinite inner peace is never giving a fuck about who anyone else follows. Not my monkey, or whatever.
just in case you need a link to the labeler that tells you when people follow the people you avoid
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September 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
One choice which has given me infinite inner peace is never giving a fuck about who anyone else follows. Not my monkey, or whatever.
Is this the future Best Picture winner? #onebattleafteranother
September 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Is this the future Best Picture winner? #onebattleafteranother
He’s saying because he has hard evidence now that even if Dems take back the House, Republicans in the Senate will never vote to impeach him no matter what he does.
In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
September 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
He’s saying because he has hard evidence now that even if Dems take back the House, Republicans in the Senate will never vote to impeach him no matter what he does.