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Brandon King
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He/Him // 28 // Currently @ KTAR News, @plotdevicespod // Music @ The End of History, Nick Noodle & The Angelhairs // Class of 2019 Cronkite ASU // IG @ themovieking45 // Letterboxd @ brandon_king // Always try to be nice, never fail to be kind
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Not my own band as my most played song (go stream ‘Wish’ by Cablebox lol)

Also, another year dominated by film scores, this is not shocking, but some of the non-movie omissions are a bit perplexing (no Beatles, Black Country New Road, Florence + The Machine, etc.)
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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bdk45.bsky.social
NEW VIDEO!📽️

Compiled my Oct. and Nov. movie reviews for KTAR News in this here video, including...

-Wicked: For Good
-Deliver Me From Nowhere
-Now You See Me 3
-Good Fortune.

Give it a watch if you've been curious!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJSL...
Oct and Nov. '25 // Brandon King's Movie Reviews from Arizona's Morning News
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November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.

"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.

Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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rendy.bsky.social
I had a wonderful chat with SINNERS' Miles Caton (SAMMIE!). He shares how brought his city-kid experience to Preacher Boy, embodying the film’s central themes, and co-writing "Last Time (I Seen the Sun)" with Ludwig Göransson and Alice Smith.

Exclusively for Rendy Reviews Subscribers:
'Sinners' Actor and Songwriter Miles Caton on Self-Reflection and Collaboration in Discovering Sammie's Soul
Caton discusses the process of finding Sammie, what it meant to embody the film’s central themes of balancing religious values with the pursuit of the "Black American dream,"  and his collaborati...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
bdk45.bsky.social
NEW VIDEO!📽️

Compiled my Oct. and Nov. movie reviews for KTAR News in this here video, including...

-Wicked: For Good
-Deliver Me From Nowhere
-Now You See Me 3
-Good Fortune.

Give it a watch if you've been curious!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJSL...
Oct and Nov. '25 // Brandon King's Movie Reviews from Arizona's Morning News
YouTube video by Brandon King (TheOfficialBrandonKing)
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November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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johnedwinmason.bsky.social
Think about this from the perspective of the musicians who create the music & who the monopoly power of the major labels renders relatively powerless. You will be furious.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
bdk45.bsky.social
They’re playing The Decemberists in this Safeway.

Don’t know why, that just feels promising to me.
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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carlosfilm.bsky.social
I interviewed the Mexican American skaters from El Paso, Texas who appear in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. For LA Times’ De Los, we talked about their experience working on a major film and collaborating with PTA, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Benicio del Toro: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.

If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.

Here's one! toastedseattle.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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rendy.bsky.social
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN captures the queer virtue of belonging, which no iteration has done before. For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I discussed the queer resilience subtext via the creature’s tale, generational trauma, and familial acceptance.

Read here www.autostraddle.com/frankenstein...
Frankenstein (2025) and the Queer Pursuit of Being Loved for Your Full Self
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein directly draws a line between parental abuse and monster-making.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
bdk45.bsky.social
Self-promo time:
Since August, I've been contributing Friday movie reviews on-air for KTAR's Arizona's Morning News, including this week for #TheSmashingMachine.

So if you've been at all curious about my latest reviews, they're compiled below, check them out! 🍿🎬

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Aug-Oct. '25 // Brandon King's Movie Reviews from Arizona's Morning News
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October 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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ninametz.bsky.social
Sometimes I see posts where people advocate for creative folks or journalists to divest from the larger systems of employment and "start your own!" and I understand the sentiment! But then there's never any discussion of the logistics (which are a *substantial* challenge even for existing entities)
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
bdk45.bsky.social
(eh-hem)

LEEETTTTTSS GOOOOOOOOOO!!!
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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carriecourogen.bsky.social
wrote about robert redford bit.ly/redfordfamin...
a famine of beauty
Robert Redford represented all that was good—and fleeting—about America
bit.ly
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.

When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
otsumamiboy.bsky.social Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 7
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.
September 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
bdk45.bsky.social
Me hearing the ‘Superman’ sequel drops a few months ahead of ‘The Batman P2,’ and doing the math in my head, and wait what if-
Bart Simpson writing on a classroom chalkboard, “I will not encourage Matt Reeves’ Batman to be in the DCU.”
September 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
bdk45.bsky.social
Folklore, but if Taylor got really into Silent Hill instead of The National.
lukesteuber.com Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Sep 2
I took this picture 20 years ago and every so often I have to check on it to make sure that creepy ass shit didn’t escape the film and is like standing behind me or whatever
A foggy forest scene with tall, bare-limbed trees fading into the mist. A rustic wooden treehouse is elevated among the trunks in the background. In the foreground, a weathered picnic table sits on damp grass, while strands of string lights hang between the trees, their bulbs unlit in the misty light. The overall atmosphere is quiet, eerie, and serene.
September 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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There should be lawsuits here
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Aug 25
YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos

• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened

• Features like ears are being altered

• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity

• There's currently no way to opt out

(via BBC)
August 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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stereogum.com
Former Mastodon member Brent Hinds has died in a motorcycle crash at 51
Former Mastodon Member Brent Hinds Dead At 51
Brent Hinds, former guitarist and vocalist for the great Atlanta metal band Mastodon, has died. Atlanta News First reports that Hinds was killed on Wednesday night in a motorcycle crash. According to ...
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August 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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szacharek.bsky.social
In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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moryan.bsky.social
there are much worse problems.

that said, as someone who loves writing reviews & has written thousands & is proud of that & thinks reviews are important, seeing culture coverage, critics & reviews constantly take it on the chin for the past decade--esp last few years--has been really fucking hard.
August 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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toonhive.bsky.social
6 years ago today, ‘Infinity Train: Book 1’ premiered on Cartoon Network.
August 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM