Eric Robinette
@sircritic.bsky.social
Film enthusiast and Beatlemaniac hailing from Southwest Ohio.
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Oh my god IT'S THE MEME!!!
Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner “MOGAMBO” (1953) dir. John Ford
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Oh my god IT'S THE MEME!!!
Guys … the last movie specifically told us Bond would be back, even though Daniel Craig would not. This isn’t hard.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Guys … the last movie specifically told us Bond would be back, even though Daniel Craig would not. This isn’t hard.
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today's not quite random theater photo:
Anthony Perkins and birthday girl Joan Fontaine in Tea and Sympathy (1954 or so)
Anthony Perkins and birthday girl Joan Fontaine in Tea and Sympathy (1954 or so)
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
today's not quite random theater photo:
Anthony Perkins and birthday girl Joan Fontaine in Tea and Sympathy (1954 or so)
Anthony Perkins and birthday girl Joan Fontaine in Tea and Sympathy (1954 or so)
Who's solving the Louvre robbery?
Right answers only
Right answers only
October 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Who's solving the Louvre robbery?
Right answers only
Right answers only
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Well, the evils of streaming finally caught up to me. Five years ago, I purchased Ric Burns PBS New York documentary from Amazon. I watched it repeatedly with no issues. Now, some genius changed the aspect ratio for episode 8 to 4:3, cutting off the image. Naturally, nothing can be done. 😔
October 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Well, the evils of streaming finally caught up to me. Five years ago, I purchased Ric Burns PBS New York documentary from Amazon. I watched it repeatedly with no issues. Now, some genius changed the aspect ratio for episode 8 to 4:3, cutting off the image. Naturally, nothing can be done. 😔
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Pirating new albums is another skill lost to time.
A guy in Michigan got a fluke preorder and put it up for sale on Facebook for $25. A nearby Swiftie bought it but didn't own a CD player, so she got one from Walmart, then realized you can't burn files to a computer this way so is just playing them in a Discord voice channel for thousands of people
October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Pirating new albums is another skill lost to time.
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It's not *quite* sweater weather yet, but it IS the first day of fall. So here is lovely Kim Novak in a nice cozy-chunky sweater.
September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It's not *quite* sweater weather yet, but it IS the first day of fall. So here is lovely Kim Novak in a nice cozy-chunky sweater.
So we want to have only two movie studios eventually ? Sure, why not? variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Warner Bros. Discovery Shares Spike on Report David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Readying Acquisition Bid
Shares of Warner Bros. Discovery spiked as much as 33% Thursday on a report by the Wall Street Journal that Paramount Skydance is prepping a takeover bid of WBD in its entirety.
variety.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So we want to have only two movie studios eventually ? Sure, why not? variety.com/2025/tv/news...
The cinematographer of Star Wars, Gilbert Taylor, shot A Hard Day’s Night and Dr. Strangelove too.
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The cinematographer of Star Wars, Gilbert Taylor, shot A Hard Day’s Night and Dr. Strangelove too.
Two thumbs down. WAY down.
The paper of Gene Siskel (and Dave Kehr, and Michael Wilmington, and the great Michael Phillips) will no longer have a film critic.
August 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Two thumbs down. WAY down.
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One of the many reasons it’s tough to trust the media is that they treated Biden’s decline as a serious story, but they continue to give a free pass to whatever this is.
Trump: "When you go to a voting booth, and you do it the right way, and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in -- they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate. I said, 'I don't know if I have it.' They said, 'Sir, you have to have it.' I was very impressed actually."
August 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
One of the many reasons it’s tough to trust the media is that they treated Biden’s decline as a serious story, but they continue to give a free pass to whatever this is.
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36 years ago in 1989 the Stones made the cover of Time and the headline includes “Aging stars”.
August 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
36 years ago in 1989 the Stones made the cover of Time and the headline includes “Aging stars”.
I understand the need for context and the sensitivity to backlash. Lennon/his estate have received way too much guff over the years.
However, I am NOT AT ALL in favor of trying to sanitize history and pretending problematic art never existed.
However, I am NOT AT ALL in favor of trying to sanitize history and pretending problematic art never existed.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Some Time In New York City receives a massive expansion with Power to the People, a 12-disc box that contains the One to One concerts and apparently not a single occurrence of the album’s single “Women is the N***** of the World.” ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-...
John Lennon's Early NYC Period Collected in New 12-Disc Box, 'Power to the People'
The 'Power to the People' box set celebrates John Lennon’s legacy with 123 tracks, including unreleased recordings from his NYC years.
ultimateclassicrock.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I understand the need for context and the sensitivity to backlash. Lennon/his estate have received way too much guff over the years.
However, I am NOT AT ALL in favor of trying to sanitize history and pretending problematic art never existed.
However, I am NOT AT ALL in favor of trying to sanitize history and pretending problematic art never existed.
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So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.
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It's fun how my physical media ownership strategy has moved from "What stuff do I like?" to "What stuff do I need to make sure I have in a readily available format no matter what," like I'm stockpiling for the apocalypse.
August 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It's fun how my physical media ownership strategy has moved from "What stuff do I like?" to "What stuff do I need to make sure I have in a readily available format no matter what," like I'm stockpiling for the apocalypse.
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I wrote about Sydney Sweeney, a celebrity whose image is so semiotically potent, and yet ideologically unfixed, that the whole question of What She Means becomes contested political territory.
www.vulture.com/article/can-...
www.vulture.com/article/can-...
Can We Not Be Weird About Sydney Sweeney for 5 Seconds?
A jeans-genes pun is not a rich enough text to sustain this level of analysis.
www.vulture.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I wrote about Sydney Sweeney, a celebrity whose image is so semiotically potent, and yet ideologically unfixed, that the whole question of What She Means becomes contested political territory.
www.vulture.com/article/can-...
www.vulture.com/article/can-...
I have a question about the presentation of the original THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT (1974). Why are certain 1.37 clips blown up to fill a 1.85 aspect ratio? Most of the 1.37 shots are correct. Was this the way it looked projected? Maybe @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social knows?
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I have a question about the presentation of the original THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT (1974). Why are certain 1.37 clips blown up to fill a 1.85 aspect ratio? Most of the 1.37 shots are correct. Was this the way it looked projected? Maybe @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social knows?
No McCartney tix for me. No accessible seats and the lowest price is $800. Pretty sure I’ve seen my last show of his. Eight shows is a good run.
July 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
No McCartney tix for me. No accessible seats and the lowest price is $800. Pretty sure I’ve seen my last show of his. Eight shows is a good run.
Quote from a friend after I told him McCartney tickets were going for $1K:
“If Jimi Hendrix rose from the dead and charged $1000 for a show, I’d wait until it was YouTube. lol”
“If Jimi Hendrix rose from the dead and charged $1000 for a show, I’d wait until it was YouTube. lol”
July 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Quote from a friend after I told him McCartney tickets were going for $1K:
“If Jimi Hendrix rose from the dead and charged $1000 for a show, I’d wait until it was YouTube. lol”
“If Jimi Hendrix rose from the dead and charged $1000 for a show, I’d wait until it was YouTube. lol”
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Something tells me that if a Democratic President wants to abolish ICE, this court will have a different opinion.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Something tells me that if a Democratic President wants to abolish ICE, this court will have a different opinion.
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I don't think I have *ever* seen an op-ed that told conservatives to climb down off their high horse, be the bigger person, and reach out to their left/liberal family members. It's just assumed that hard-right folks won't change, and nobody should ask them to.
They claim they want to be a paper for everyone across the political spectrum, but if they really believed that, they’d publish these didactic pieces telling parents not to snub gay children, too.
July 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I don't think I have *ever* seen an op-ed that told conservatives to climb down off their high horse, be the bigger person, and reach out to their left/liberal family members. It's just assumed that hard-right folks won't change, and nobody should ask them to.
Today’s triple feature: MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE, BARRY LYNDON (projected for the first time) and DOGTOOTH. (First time period.)
July 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Today’s triple feature: MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE, BARRY LYNDON (projected for the first time) and DOGTOOTH. (First time period.)
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SUPERMAN may be the goofiest superhero movie I’ve ever seen - and I mean that in the best sense of the word. Absolutely ebullient fun. A little overstuffed? Yeah, but the spirit is so giddy, I didn’t care. This is the live action movie most like a comic book, and that’s all to the good.
July 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
SUPERMAN may be the goofiest superhero movie I’ve ever seen - and I mean that in the best sense of the word. Absolutely ebullient fun. A little overstuffed? Yeah, but the spirit is so giddy, I didn’t care. This is the live action movie most like a comic book, and that’s all to the good.