rob dunson
@wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social
PGH. Movie guy, library guy, movie library guy.
cohost Box Office GROSS
https://open.spotify.com/show/30HWgT2vsbVUtgKokSkvNE
videos on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/@dunsonmovies
writing at THE ART OF ILLITERATES
https://artofilliterates.substack.com/
cohost Box Office GROSS
https://open.spotify.com/show/30HWgT2vsbVUtgKokSkvNE
videos on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/@dunsonmovies
writing at THE ART OF ILLITERATES
https://artofilliterates.substack.com/
Pinned
Windows (for piet and peter)
YouTube video by dunson movies
youtu.be
My new short film is here...built from footage of an Austin, TX parking garage I shot two years ago on my JVC Camcorder, I built a kind of mise-en-abyme/perpetual canon indebted to the video work of teacher and filmmaker Peter Rose. Complemented by my reading of a story about perception. Enjoy!
Stay til the end to discover the absolutely hilarious career trajectory of Saw II auteur Darren Lynn Bousman
FOLKS, @boxofficegross.bsky.social Ep. 37 WANTS TO PLAY A GAME!!! @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social and I fly solo and head to the dungeon to cover the cruel, rote, quirky, nostalgic, unequivocally huge stupid hit SAW II!!!
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November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Stay til the end to discover the absolutely hilarious career trajectory of Saw II auteur Darren Lynn Bousman
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November 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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There’s no possibility of a big breakthrough in movies—a new release of energy, like the French New Wave, which moved from country to country and resulted in an international cross-fertilization—when movies are financed only if they fall into stale categories of past successes. (1980)
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
There’s no possibility of a big breakthrough in movies—a new release of energy, like the French New Wave, which moved from country to country and resulted in an international cross-fertilization—when movies are financed only if they fall into stale categories of past successes. (1980)
celebrate 20 years of Chicken Little with this tremendous thread of beautiful images
I am watching Chicken Little (2005) and losing my mind.
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
celebrate 20 years of Chicken Little with this tremendous thread of beautiful images
One pretty good thing about not being particularly online the past 10-15 years is just never needing to know wtf people are/were talking about when they casually referred to “Dasha”
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
One pretty good thing about not being particularly online the past 10-15 years is just never needing to know wtf people are/were talking about when they casually referred to “Dasha”
this mf gets Kevin Smith better than anyone
A review of Dogma (1999)
This movie is accidentally avant-garde for the extreme disjuncture between its sounds and images. Scene after scene is dense with extraordinary information about heaven and hell and angels and demons ...
boxd.it
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
this mf gets Kevin Smith better than anyone
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You mean the "dump all the small films into 1500 AMCs for a week and let God sort 'em out" strategy isn't working? Shocking.
While I'm ranting: It takes time, nurturing, strategy, and deep knowledge of release patterns and regional idiosyncrasies to nurture a film from, say, October deep into awards season. That's how smaller movies used to make money. And I'm not seeing a lot of distributors eager to put in that effort.
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You mean the "dump all the small films into 1500 AMCs for a week and let God sort 'em out" strategy isn't working? Shocking.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfj... probably like a top ten video on youtube dot ocm
Mark Dindal Birthday
YouTube video by Autism Animation Channel
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfj... probably like a top ten video on youtube dot ocm
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While I'm ranting: It takes time, nurturing, strategy, and deep knowledge of release patterns and regional idiosyncrasies to nurture a film from, say, October deep into awards season. That's how smaller movies used to make money. And I'm not seeing a lot of distributors eager to put in that effort.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
While I'm ranting: It takes time, nurturing, strategy, and deep knowledge of release patterns and regional idiosyncrasies to nurture a film from, say, October deep into awards season. That's how smaller movies used to make money. And I'm not seeing a lot of distributors eager to put in that effort.
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Anyway, yes, there is a huge problem getting adults to go to the movies post-pandemic. In 2016, 98 movies grossed $25M domestically; this year, about 60 will. You can't make moviegoing into a weekly habit again with so little product. But "People hate stars/dramas/comedies now" isn't the lesson IMO.
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Anyway, yes, there is a huge problem getting adults to go to the movies post-pandemic. In 2016, 98 movies grossed $25M domestically; this year, about 60 will. You can't make moviegoing into a weekly habit again with so little product. But "People hate stars/dramas/comedies now" isn't the lesson IMO.
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Another issue: The gap between who media and the internet thinks is a big star and who normie moviegoers think is a big star is widening. We can talk about Sydney Sweeney all day long, but say her name to a lot of people over 40 and I promise you, you will be greeted by a blank stare. >
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Another issue: The gap between who media and the internet thinks is a big star and who normie moviegoers think is a big star is widening. We can talk about Sydney Sweeney all day long, but say her name to a lot of people over 40 and I promise you, you will be greeted by a blank stare. >
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One unacknowledged story of this fall's awful box office might be that every star seems to have decided to do their "This one's for me" movie at the same time. There is, honestly, no universe or financial environment in which Die My Love--one among many examples--would ever have made real money. >
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
One unacknowledged story of this fall's awful box office might be that every star seems to have decided to do their "This one's for me" movie at the same time. There is, honestly, no universe or financial environment in which Die My Love--one among many examples--would ever have made real money. >
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My new short film is here...built from footage of an Austin, TX parking garage I shot two years ago on my JVC Camcorder, I built a kind of mise-en-abyme/perpetual canon indebted to the video work of teacher and filmmaker Peter Rose. Complemented by my reading of a story about perception. Enjoy!
Windows (for piet and peter)
YouTube video by dunson movies
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My new short film is here...built from footage of an Austin, TX parking garage I shot two years ago on my JVC Camcorder, I built a kind of mise-en-abyme/perpetual canon indebted to the video work of teacher and filmmaker Peter Rose. Complemented by my reading of a story about perception. Enjoy!
"stars don't sell movies" means little when the movies are abrasive/challenging etc...Anyone But You was a hit, but Sydney Sweeney has made zero (0) films like that since and surprise, they're not hits! Die My Love is not exactly JLaw's most mainstream move! OBAA is R-rated, weird and very long!
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"stars don't sell movies" means little when the movies are abrasive/challenging etc...Anyone But You was a hit, but Sydney Sweeney has made zero (0) films like that since and surprise, they're not hits! Die My Love is not exactly JLaw's most mainstream move! OBAA is R-rated, weird and very long!
I know this is kinda mean-spirited but I honestly find this so funny
Oof. 😢
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I know this is kinda mean-spirited but I honestly find this so funny
convinced this man is using a hammer in the worst and dumbest possible way while wearing an Adopt Don't Shop hoodie as a favor to the Dog Breeding Lobby. Only thing that makes sense of holding and using a hammer this way
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
convinced this man is using a hammer in the worst and dumbest possible way while wearing an Adopt Don't Shop hoodie as a favor to the Dog Breeding Lobby. Only thing that makes sense of holding and using a hammer this way
Can’t wait to spend 51 dollars and 99 cents plus tax on a steelbook for the brand spankin new satire Of the moment, The Running Man
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November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Can’t wait to spend 51 dollars and 99 cents plus tax on a steelbook for the brand spankin new satire Of the moment, The Running Man
No War of the Worlds or Jerry Maguire; Letterboxd users stay losing
Ahead of receiving an Honorary Oscar at The Academy’s Governors Awards this weekend, we take a look at the Letterboxd community’s ten highest-rated Tom Cruise films (in alphabetical order). boxd.it/2O6
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
No War of the Worlds or Jerry Maguire; Letterboxd users stay losing
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SONIC SPINBALL
SEGA INTERACTIVE DEV DIV 1994
GAME GEAR
SEGA INTERACTIVE DEV DIV 1994
GAME GEAR
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
SONIC SPINBALL
SEGA INTERACTIVE DEV DIV 1994
GAME GEAR
SEGA INTERACTIVE DEV DIV 1994
GAME GEAR
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Playing the Harris tomorrow tonight with Three Rivers Film Festival. I’ll be intro’ing repping @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social; say hi!
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Playing the Harris tomorrow tonight with Three Rivers Film Festival. I’ll be intro’ing repping @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social; say hi!
much respect to the band Kurt Cobain taught little dweebs like me about by writing FUHGAWZ on his shoes (which you better believe I ripped off as a 12 year old with my own Chucks) but BLEACH would be my album of '89 if not for Disintegration and this isn't one of best Fugazi records
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
much respect to the band Kurt Cobain taught little dweebs like me about by writing FUHGAWZ on his shoes (which you better believe I ripped off as a 12 year old with my own Chucks) but BLEACH would be my album of '89 if not for Disintegration and this isn't one of best Fugazi records
the earth is a cold dead place and I am no longer afraid to die, is this anything
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
the earth is a cold dead place and I am no longer afraid to die, is this anything
last four friday 🎞️ great program of Cameraless Animation via @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social Monday; Four Nights of a Dreamer restoration downtown on Tuesday; finished and dropped my new film WINDOWS on Wednesday. Let's not talk about the 45 minutes of Chicken Little that I watched last night...
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
last four friday 🎞️ great program of Cameraless Animation via @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social Monday; Four Nights of a Dreamer restoration downtown on Tuesday; finished and dropped my new film WINDOWS on Wednesday. Let's not talk about the 45 minutes of Chicken Little that I watched last night...
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listen to my podcast
THIS WEEK, @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social welcomes @maxrebosroadie.bsky.social to The O.C., bitch. But first, can @jondauthor.work shut up about Miss Piggy? A new Tasting Menu out where all good pods are cast.
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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There are just so many movies out there. You’ll never run out. It’s great.
Watching a children's giant monster movie when suddenly... HOLY SHIT! I did not expect it to go that hard.
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
There are just so many movies out there. You’ll never run out. It’s great.