Amy Woolsey
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Amy Woolsey
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· Nov 21
"[H]e found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there..."
I'm probably going to be thinking about this passage from Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These a lot in the next few years.
The more I think about it, the more Hamnet (movie) has grown on me. Chloé Zhao's filmmaking has a gritty, unfinished quality that enlivens the period setting. The emotion never feels staged, even when it's literally taking place on a stage.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The more I think about it, the more Hamnet (movie) has grown on me. Chloé Zhao's filmmaking has a gritty, unfinished quality that enlivens the period setting. The emotion never feels staged, even when it's literally taking place on a stage.
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Imagine you’re Ralph Fiennes giving a career performance, but it’s in a zombie movie so no one wants to bring it up during awards season.
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Imagine you’re Ralph Fiennes giving a career performance, but it’s in a zombie movie so no one wants to bring it up during awards season.
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Lord, give me the confidence of Nina Hoss' dress in HEDDA.
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Lord, give me the confidence of Nina Hoss' dress in HEDDA.
Suddenly craving the mellifluous sound of Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan's voices in Maestro.
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Suddenly craving the mellifluous sound of Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan's voices in Maestro.
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We're just six days away from finding out if someone left Snoopy in the vestibule.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We're just six days away from finding out if someone left Snoopy in the vestibule.
My #lastfourwatched includes two rewatches and two imaginative films about filmmaking. Millennium Actress especially blew my mind. #LetterboxdFriday
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My #lastfourwatched includes two rewatches and two imaginative films about filmmaking. Millennium Actress especially blew my mind. #LetterboxdFriday
Double feature idea: Millennium Actress (2001) + Train Dreams (2025). Love, grief, history, the journey is the point.
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Double feature idea: Millennium Actress (2001) + Train Dreams (2025). Love, grief, history, the journey is the point.
I don’t care a whit about New York theater history, but I adored Blue Moon. There are definitely moments — lines of dialogue, but also the way the actors look at each other — that achieve levitation.
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I don’t care a whit about New York theater history, but I adored Blue Moon. There are definitely moments — lines of dialogue, but also the way the actors look at each other — that achieve levitation.
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We want your annotated gatefold maps, appendices with worldbuilding notes, and a rambling introduction about how the story came together written as if it's a breathless account of a scientific discovery
Bonus points if you include a quiz
Bonus points if you include a quiz
Moratorium on 'deluxe limited editions' of SFF books if they don't have notes, introductions, or supplementary material, please and thank you.
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We want your annotated gatefold maps, appendices with worldbuilding notes, and a rambling introduction about how the story came together written as if it's a breathless account of a scientific discovery
Bonus points if you include a quiz
Bonus points if you include a quiz
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For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
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Mostly crap vibes out there, but at least Train Dreams was great and Alien: Earth finally got renewed
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Mostly crap vibes out there, but at least Train Dreams was great and Alien: Earth finally got renewed
Just saw who won the Booker. Boooo! (I haven’t read Flesh or any of his other work, but he’s not Kiran Desai, so I repeat: boo!)
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Just saw who won the Booker. Boooo! (I haven’t read Flesh or any of his other work, but he’s not Kiran Desai, so I repeat: boo!)
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Get Ready With Me to hunt down my father, who created me from the body parts of corpses and condemned me to a dreadful existence #BadDad #Frankenstein #Elizabeth
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Get Ready With Me to hunt down my father, who created me from the body parts of corpses and condemned me to a dreadful existence #BadDad #Frankenstein #Elizabeth
Dr. Zhivago, a historical epic that earns every second of its run time and captures history both as it was lived (best train sequence ever?) and as it’s remembered. I’m in awe that humans created it.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Dr. Zhivago, a historical epic that earns every second of its run time and captures history both as it was lived (best train sequence ever?) and as it’s remembered. I’m in awe that humans created it.
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^ "All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious."
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
^ "All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious."
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His score for Winter Soldier rocks too
we should acknowledge that job-a-day superhero movie composer and Zimmer apprentice Henry Jackman absolutely blacked out with this one
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
His score for Winter Soldier rocks too
Learned from the movie’s official website that it’s playing in two D.C. theaters (both Landmarks), so my Veterans’ Day plans are taken care of.
TRAIN DREAMS is out in limited theatrical release today. It will be on Netflix in a couple of weeks, but here's the thing: If you are at all able to, you really should see it on a big screen. You will not regret it.
www.vulture.com/article/sund...
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Train Dreams Is a Staggering Work of Art
Netflix is releasing one of the best films of the year but please, for the love of God, don’t watch this masterpiece on your phone.
www.vulture.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Learned from the movie’s official website that it’s playing in two D.C. theaters (both Landmarks), so my Veterans’ Day plans are taken care of.
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The Lowdown finale (and whole season) was excellent, and of course, I want to shout out costume designer Alyssa Blair Cawthorn for rounding off the season with these excellent looks (obsessed with Lee's black jacket details).
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Lowdown finale (and whole season) was excellent, and of course, I want to shout out costume designer Alyssa Blair Cawthorn for rounding off the season with these excellent looks (obsessed with Lee's black jacket details).
I hope The Lowdown gets another season (need more Hoot Owl shenanigans!), but if it doesn’t, the finale wrapped things up beautifully. Who knew the sensibilities of a sitcom and noir could work together so well?
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I hope The Lowdown gets another season (need more Hoot Owl shenanigans!), but if it doesn’t, the finale wrapped things up beautifully. Who knew the sensibilities of a sitcom and noir could work together so well?
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Yeah, this is the real thing, dem-aligned media is cultural media, film and television and music and books and stuff, that tell us stories that reflect back the values we want to have, rather than having an angry guy in a suit yelling it at us. It’s why republicans hate Hollywood so much.
Imagine a popular sitcom reveals that one of its more relatable characters is an illegal immigrant, and in a season-finale cliff hanger they are brutally arrested by ICE.
THAT is how you change minds, not The Nancy Pelosi Comedy Hour. As Fig said, Will and Grace is a good model.
THAT is how you change minds, not The Nancy Pelosi Comedy Hour. As Fig said, Will and Grace is a good model.
And yes, this media would not be *for* them, in some sense, but we need some theory of how this would work differently than any other time it has been tried. My vague sense of things is that democrats and independents who might vote democratic broadly are not interested in a mirror image of Fox News
November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Yeah, this is the real thing, dem-aligned media is cultural media, film and television and music and books and stuff, that tell us stories that reflect back the values we want to have, rather than having an angry guy in a suit yelling it at us. It’s why republicans hate Hollywood so much.
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Magnificent morning fall foliage at the Tidal Basin Sunday. Photo by CWG's Kevin Ambrose.
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Magnificent morning fall foliage at the Tidal Basin Sunday. Photo by CWG's Kevin Ambrose.
Just devastated for the fans in the stadium #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Just devastated for the fans in the stadium #WorldSeries
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2025: We Can’t Have Good Things
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
2025: We Can’t Have Good Things