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New Big Picture - QUENTIN TARANTINO NEEDS TO SHUT UP

December 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM

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Our fellow Boston critics, @bsfc.bsky.social, are announcing their award selections for the 2025 season today. Follow their account or @tyburr.bsky.social as they appear to be sharing their selections on Bluesky.

December 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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Our hearts go out to those affected in the horrific tragedies in Providence and Sydney.

December 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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Spoilerpiece Theatre

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*NEW EPISODE!!* We discuss the films:

• WAKE UP DEAD MAN
• DUST BUNNY
• INFLUENCERS

Listen: spoilerpiece.libsyn.com/episode-596-...

December 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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New Big Picture - QUENTIN TARANTINO NEEDS TO SHUT UP ALREADY
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The 10 Best Movies of 2025

December 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM

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📝New Newsletter | My picks for Best Movies of 2025 are up. I've also included the times and locations where you can watch them.

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It's that time of year again! Time to make lists and share my favorite movies of 2025. Below, I'll be sharing my 10 favorites (and some honorable mentions). New this year, I'll be sharing where you ca...

Whit Stillman sits down for ‘Metropolitan’ Q&A; holiday screen traditions meet Austen classics - Cambridge Day

December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM

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Oscar Goff

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New in @cambridgeday.com! This week: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (and some weirder Xmas fare) at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, the end of the HFA’s Naruse series, dueling Austens, and Whit Stillman live!

To local cinephiles, few holiday traditions are more beloved than The Brattle Theatre’s annual screenings of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” But there's much more going on, including a 35th anniversary scree...

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December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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I talk STAGE AND SCREEN gems to see NOW ! https://joyceschoices.com/movies-theater-a-sherlock-carol-sweeney-claus-hamnet-wicked-for-good-sentimental-value/

December 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM

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Spent some time talking about the Netflix x Warner Bros. acquisition for Paid subscribers. Consider becoming a paid subscriber today. #filmsky

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Netflix x Warner Bros.: Is This the End?

You might notice the paywall below. This is an article for Paid subscribers. Becoming a paid member gives you access to this article and countless others. It's the Pictures is 100% independent and ev...

209: The Best Movies of 2025

December 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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🚨New podcast | @reelrecon.bsky.social and I share our picks for our favorite movies of 2025. Before that, we talked about Netflix x WB and Star Wars coming back to theatres. #filmsky

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December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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Oscar Goff

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New on @cambridgeday.com! @grrlhaus.bsky.social at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, YI YI, Christmas movies, Don Hertzfeldt, and more— catch ‘em all on the big screen!

Plenty of shorts from Grrl Haus, RPM, Hertzfeldt and a 'Mosaic,' plus a long but great 'Yi Yi' - Cambridge Day

“Yi Yi,” an easy pick for one of the best movies of the 21st century, returns with a 25th anniversary restoration; Grrl Haus Cinema, the RPM Fest and animator Don Hertzfeldt bring shorts; and a “Cambr...

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December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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Spoilerpiece Theatre

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*NEW EPISODE!!* We discuss the films:

• HAMNET
• ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
• IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Listen: spoilerpiece.libsyn.com/episode-595-...

December 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Review - "FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2"
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Review - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2 (2025) #FNAF2

REALLY THAT GOOD - STAR WARS

December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East

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Well. The original 1977 theatrical cut of "STAR WARS" will return to theaters for its 50th Anniversary. Good a time as any to dust off this feature retrospective from 2019 👍
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The Movies That Influenced Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

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December 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM

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Wrote about my experience seeing KILL BILL: The Whole Bloody Affair and the movies that influenced it. #filmsky

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A weekly entertainment newsletter on movies, television, and anime. An extension of the It’s the Pictures podcast.

Classic Review - KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2014)

December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East

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So, this review of the original "KINGSMAN" - which people tell me is (inexplicably, to me! 🤷‍♂️) somehow one of the "most controversial" videos I did a decade or ago - apparently also became lost media for awhile. I've now restored/remastered it:
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Timothee Chalamet Rules the World in Marty Supreme

December 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM

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Spoilerpiece Theatre

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*NEW EPISODE!!* We discuss the films:

• THE SECRET AGENT
• REBUILDING

Listen: spoilerpiece.libsyn.com/episode-594-...

December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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Max Covill

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Timothee Chalamet gives his best performance ever in MARTY SURPREME. I can't wait to watch it again. #Filmsky

www.itsthepictures.com/marty-supreme/

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Review - SHELBY OAKS (2025)

December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East

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Review - "SHELBY OAKS" (2025)
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Review - ZOOTOPIA 2 #zootopia2

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November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM

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WOW

Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 19d

The evening was capped by a meeting of two titans of cinema, Jafar Panahi and Fred Wiseman. (*mind blown*)

Filmmakers Frederick Wiseman and Jafar Panahi at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 11/25/25

November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East

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Review - ZOOTOPIA 2
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#Zootopia2 #Zootopia