Kevin Cecil
@krobcecil.bsky.social
Co-host of Nitehawk’s Movie Trivia Nite. Upcoming dates here:
https://nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark/movie-trivia-nite/
https://nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark/movie-trivia-nite/
Cinephiles at a party: “Claire Denis did her best work when Agnes Godard was her DP, no relation to Jean Luc, whose films were shot guerrilla style by Raoul Coutard, but clearly influenced by Hollywood DP’s Gregg Toland and James Wong Howe…Wait, what’s your name again? Sorry, I’m so bad with names!”
December 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Cinephiles at a party: “Claire Denis did her best work when Agnes Godard was her DP, no relation to Jean Luc, whose films were shot guerrilla style by Raoul Coutard, but clearly influenced by Hollywood DP’s Gregg Toland and James Wong Howe…Wait, what’s your name again? Sorry, I’m so bad with names!”
I just left a comment saying that I didn’t want my child exposed to AI slop and will unsubscribe if it’s not easy to opt out of and/or block all Sora generated bullshit.
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I just left a comment saying that I didn’t want my child exposed to AI slop and will unsubscribe if it’s not easy to opt out of and/or block all Sora generated bullshit.
Be kinda nice if celebrities and filmmakers loudly committed to not working with Warner Bros if taken over by Ellison. Make the shareholders scared of the backlash to Trump’s fascist bullshit.
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Be kinda nice if celebrities and filmmakers loudly committed to not working with Warner Bros if taken over by Ellison. Make the shareholders scared of the backlash to Trump’s fascist bullshit.
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This description of It's a Wonderful Life from Apple's store is technically accurate in every detail yet also somehow very funny.
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This description of It's a Wonderful Life from Apple's store is technically accurate in every detail yet also somehow very funny.
Algorithm commentary spot on
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Algorithm commentary spot on
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The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
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heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
Kinda funny Zohran and Cuomo both got more votes than Adams did when he won.
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Kinda funny Zohran and Cuomo both got more votes than Adams did when he won.
A little weird how many people wear KORN shirts in the year 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A little weird how many people wear KORN shirts in the year 2025.
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Mamdani voters, we gotta get off the couch. I'm over to the polling place today.
“Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge” — gothamist.com/news/voter-t...
Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge
The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.
gothamist.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Mamdani voters, we gotta get off the couch. I'm over to the polling place today.
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Three weeks after seeing BLUE MOON I finally realized what Shortened Ethan Hawke kept reminding me of
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Three weeks after seeing BLUE MOON I finally realized what Shortened Ethan Hawke kept reminding me of
I haven’t read Barry Sonnenfeld’s books yet, but do they explain how he went from Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Get Shorty and Men in Black to Wild Wild West, Big Trouble, Men in Black II, RV, and Nine Lives?
(I do like MiBIIi though)
(I do like MiBIIi though)
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I haven’t read Barry Sonnenfeld’s books yet, but do they explain how he went from Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Get Shorty and Men in Black to Wild Wild West, Big Trouble, Men in Black II, RV, and Nine Lives?
(I do like MiBIIi though)
(I do like MiBIIi though)
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Movie Trivia returns tonight (Tues) at the Prospect Park @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social!
Free to play, starts at 8 (arrive early for good tables!) 1-6 players per team, 5 rounds of trivia spanning the spectrum of cinema.
Free to play, starts at 8 (arrive early for good tables!) 1-6 players per team, 5 rounds of trivia spanning the spectrum of cinema.
October 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Movie Trivia returns tonight (Tues) at the Prospect Park @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social!
Free to play, starts at 8 (arrive early for good tables!) 1-6 players per team, 5 rounds of trivia spanning the spectrum of cinema.
Free to play, starts at 8 (arrive early for good tables!) 1-6 players per team, 5 rounds of trivia spanning the spectrum of cinema.
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wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place
Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece
just incredible
@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???
just incredible
@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???
October 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place
We should all cancel Paramount+ like we cancelled Disney+.
Fuck. That only would work if anyone was actually subscribed to Paramount+ to begin with.
Fuck. That only would work if anyone was actually subscribed to Paramount+ to begin with.
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
www.mediaite.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
We should all cancel Paramount+ like we cancelled Disney+.
Fuck. That only would work if anyone was actually subscribed to Paramount+ to begin with.
Fuck. That only would work if anyone was actually subscribed to Paramount+ to begin with.
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I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
www.mediaite.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.
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MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty
MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility
MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility
October 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty
MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility
MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility
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We're gonna need an active communist party if only to restore context to our political discourse, I can't listen to republicans calling chuck schumer radical left anymore
June 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We're gonna need an active communist party if only to restore context to our political discourse, I can't listen to republicans calling chuck schumer radical left anymore
Megan Ellison’s been really quiet lately, huh?
September 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Megan Ellison’s been really quiet lately, huh?
The late Scott Spiegel’s Intruder is a sort of missing piece in American indie cinema, tying together a joke in Raising Arizona, the gore in Evil Dead 2, the cereal box in Pulp Fiction, and the director of Igby Goes Down…
A ★★★½ review of Intruder (1989)
Scott Spiegel was a Wedge Antilles figure of the indie and horror scene. A high school buddy of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, Spiegel co-wrote Evil Dead 2, introduced Lawrence Bender (who produced Int...
boxd.it
September 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The late Scott Spiegel’s Intruder is a sort of missing piece in American indie cinema, tying together a joke in Raising Arizona, the gore in Evil Dead 2, the cereal box in Pulp Fiction, and the director of Igby Goes Down…
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An Update:
I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.
(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.
(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
September 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
An Update:
I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.
(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.
(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
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“Several board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air”
Via THR
Via THR
Bob Iger’s Wife, Willow Bay, May Have to Move Her Free Speech Fundraiser
A fundraiser for Willow Bay's International Women's Media Foundation, planned to take place at the power couple's Brentwood home next month, may have to relocate after her husband yanks Jimmy Kimmel o...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Several board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air”
Via THR
Via THR