Wil McMillen
@wilmcmillen.bsky.social
Spent years in the video store trenches. Now I use my wisdom for trivia night.
Minnesota by way of DC by way of Wichita Kansas
Current Events: Future writer of “Dirty Harry Chokes On A Bagel”
Currently watching thru every Looney Tunes release
Minnesota by way of DC by way of Wichita Kansas
Current Events: Future writer of “Dirty Harry Chokes On A Bagel”
Currently watching thru every Looney Tunes release
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Wil McMillen
@wilmcmillen.bsky.social
· Sep 13
God Bless This Mess: Vietnam, The Monkey’s Paw, and Dead of Night – Perisphere
| Wil McMillen | Dead of Night aka. Deathdream plays at the Trylon Cinema Wednesday, September 24th. For tickets, showtimes, and other series information, visit trylon.org. “My brother came home yeste...
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New article from me on the @trylon.org Perisphere blog. How Bob Clark’s 1974 film Dead Of Night reflects a culture that keeps repeating itself. Give it a read!
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Look, I'm not trying to be passive aggressive or anything but...you know what? Never mind. It's fine. It's fine. I SAID IT'S FINE.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Look, I'm not trying to be passive aggressive or anything but...you know what? Never mind. It's fine. It's fine. I SAID IT'S FINE.
Yentl
What’s that one movie where the guy is minding his own business and this group of thugs start hassling him but the don’t know he is secretly a great fighter and he beats them up and then says something snarky?
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Yentl
Reposted by Wil McMillen
It's hard to overstate what a catastrophe it would be for moviemaking and moviegoers if the Ellisons are allowed to acquire Warner Brothers and merge it with Paramount. I know that rooting for Comcast and/or Netflix sticks in a lot of throats here but those would be far better alternatives... >
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It's hard to overstate what a catastrophe it would be for moviemaking and moviegoers if the Ellisons are allowed to acquire Warner Brothers and merge it with Paramount. I know that rooting for Comcast and/or Netflix sticks in a lot of throats here but those would be far better alternatives... >
Noirvember 2025
Film #5: Night Of The Juggler (Butler/Furie, 1980)
**** 1/2 out of five
What if the subway chase in THE FRENCH CONNECTION, but for two solid hours? A former disgraced cop sees his daughter get abducted, and gives chase. That's the whole plot. 1/
Film #5: Night Of The Juggler (Butler/Furie, 1980)
**** 1/2 out of five
What if the subway chase in THE FRENCH CONNECTION, but for two solid hours? A former disgraced cop sees his daughter get abducted, and gives chase. That's the whole plot. 1/
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Noirvember 2025
Film #5: Night Of The Juggler (Butler/Furie, 1980)
**** 1/2 out of five
What if the subway chase in THE FRENCH CONNECTION, but for two solid hours? A former disgraced cop sees his daughter get abducted, and gives chase. That's the whole plot. 1/
Film #5: Night Of The Juggler (Butler/Furie, 1980)
**** 1/2 out of five
What if the subway chase in THE FRENCH CONNECTION, but for two solid hours? A former disgraced cop sees his daughter get abducted, and gives chase. That's the whole plot. 1/
Oh my god this is the hardest I've laughed in a long time.
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Oh my god this is the hardest I've laughed in a long time.
Do you call it a hamburger sandwich? Or a cheeseburger sandwich? No.
It's a hot dog and I'll die on this hill.
It's a hot dog and I'll die on this hill.
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Do you call it a hamburger sandwich? Or a cheeseburger sandwich? No.
It's a hot dog and I'll die on this hill.
It's a hot dog and I'll die on this hill.
Reposted by Wil McMillen
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
Republicans are like the woodpeckers that keep chipping away at my house: noisy, destructive, and all of my ideas to get them to stop are illegal.
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Republicans are like the woodpeckers that keep chipping away at my house: noisy, destructive, and all of my ideas to get them to stop are illegal.
I’ll get a lot of side eye for this but the best thing any president has done in my lifetime is when George Bush raised taxes on the wealthy in 1990.
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’ll get a lot of side eye for this but the best thing any president has done in my lifetime is when George Bush raised taxes on the wealthy in 1990.
They definitely boned.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
They definitely boned.
Cauliflower sucks.
November 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Cauliflower sucks.
Love this.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Love this.
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Mumford And Sons have a lot to answer for.
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Mumford And Sons have a lot to answer for.
I made it to the very end of my busiest month at work in years and will be doing absolutely zero tomorrow alert the authorities. *collapses in a heap*
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I made it to the very end of my busiest month at work in years and will be doing absolutely zero tomorrow alert the authorities. *collapses in a heap*
In the time since I was born (1975) earth's population has gone from 4 billion people to 8 billion people. Yet we're pushing AI that uses datacenters that vacuum up all the water. We're not a bright species. We deserve whatever cataclysm that's going to drop this population number with a quickness.
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
In the time since I was born (1975) earth's population has gone from 4 billion people to 8 billion people. Yet we're pushing AI that uses datacenters that vacuum up all the water. We're not a bright species. We deserve whatever cataclysm that's going to drop this population number with a quickness.
Reposted by Wil McMillen
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
I was deeply irritable this morning. This thread cured me.
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I was deeply irritable this morning. This thread cured me.
Brainworms, the whole lot of them.
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Brainworms, the whole lot of them.
Noirvember 2025
Film #3: The Blue Gardenia (Lang, 1953)
**** out of five
Great story whose solution is kind of arbitrary. Until the last five minutes, it was gripping, exciting, and I had no idea whether they were going to go all the way with it and make her guilty.
Film #3: The Blue Gardenia (Lang, 1953)
**** out of five
Great story whose solution is kind of arbitrary. Until the last five minutes, it was gripping, exciting, and I had no idea whether they were going to go all the way with it and make her guilty.
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Noirvember 2025
Film #3: The Blue Gardenia (Lang, 1953)
**** out of five
Great story whose solution is kind of arbitrary. Until the last five minutes, it was gripping, exciting, and I had no idea whether they were going to go all the way with it and make her guilty.
Film #3: The Blue Gardenia (Lang, 1953)
**** out of five
Great story whose solution is kind of arbitrary. Until the last five minutes, it was gripping, exciting, and I had no idea whether they were going to go all the way with it and make her guilty.
Now, more than ever is the time to retire “Now, more than ever”
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Now, more than ever is the time to retire “Now, more than ever”
Reposted by Wil McMillen
Leavitt: I'm not going to tell you what we all know he did.
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Leavitt: I'm not going to tell you what we all know he did.
It’s very manly man to care what other manly men do to their man faces.
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It’s very manly man to care what other manly men do to their man faces.