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Brian Mok
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Photographer of still and motion pictures.
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Director Park Chan-wook takes us through his filmography, from breakout hit Joint Security Area to diabolical new thriller No Other Choice 🎥 Watch the full interview: boxd.it/ec6

No Other Choice is in select US theaters now and expanding in January 2026.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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tvaziri.com
The End title card from Casablanca
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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wgawest.bsky.social
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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naughtydog.com
Happy Halloween to all of our fans! 👻

We hope you've had as much fun putting together your costumes as Ellie and Riley did.
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Just received my copy of Criterion’s Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set from last week’s @criterion.bsky.social flash sale. This thing is hefty with 30 Blu-ray discs containing 39 films and a book of essays. Really excited to dive into this one.
From PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966), a hand reaches out over a large image of a woman’s face. The stylized text on the bottom right corner reads, “INGMAR BERGMAN’S CINEMA”. A one-sheet listing all the films and features included in the box set.
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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santiagomayer.com
Reminder to disable biometrics on your phone before attending any protests. If police ask for the passcode, you do not have to provide it.
October 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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stephenwolf.bsky.social
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Really excited for this. Recently read the novel by Maggie O’Farrell and loved it. Also, Łucasz Żal’s cinematography has always been incredible. Great team with Chloé Zhao directing.
letterboxd.social Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · Oct 9
Watch the official trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal ✨

In theaters November 27 via @focusfeatures.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie on what writers have that #AI doesn’t: “Empathy. When you have empathy for the audience, when you can be the audience, that’s where the real process of filmmaking begins.”
October 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I really enjoyed working on this image! Congratulations @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social and @erikaishii.bsky.social on the release of Ghost of Yōtei! 🧡

It looks stunning, and I can't wait to play it myself!
Atsu (based on Erika Ishii from Ghost of Yōtei) and Ellie (from The Last of Us Part 2) sit on a cliff, making music. Atsu plays a shamisen and Ellie the guitar. A large wolf lies relaxed between them, eyes closed, one ear turned toward Ellie. A huge iconic mountain lies in the background, and yellow-orange ginkgo tree leaves swirl. The entirely hand-drawn, digital illustration looks like an ink work and is entirely in black and white; only the leaves and the kintsugi-repaired mask on Atsu's belt are yellow-orange.
October 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them..."

U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section III
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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kopfstoff.bsky.social
Small ink sketch inside a The First of Us book for an awesome comic artist with whom I'm planning an art swap. I'm hyped about that. 😊

Felt good to work with ink again after such a long time.

Happy #TheLastOfUsDay! ❤️
Ink sketch inside the Kickstarter exclusive The First of Us artbook. It's a portrait of Ellie from The Last of Us Part 2, partly in shadow. Wip shot, with my hand holding a brush, leaning over the ink sketch. Detail shot, focus on the eye.
September 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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tvaziri.com
Y'all gotta cool it with the "the average movie/TV show from the 1980's has better cinematography than the average movie/TV show from today" jibber jabber. That ain't true at all.
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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letterboxd.social
happy first day of fall 🍂
September 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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letterboxd.social
It’s their day today 🎶🕺🏻
September 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.

They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.

This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday mor...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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wgawest.bsky.social
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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letterboxd.social
Every August 31st, Joachim Trier’s masterpiece feels inevitable 🖤
August 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
August 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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wgawest.bsky.social
“More than 2,300 members of the Writers Guild of America West and East have signed the union’s open letter decrying the Trump administration’s ‘recent threats to the free press.’” #WGAStrong deadline.com/2025/08/trum...
Thousands Of Writers Sign WGA Open Letter Slamming Trump’s “Unprecedented, Authoritarian Assault” On Free Press
More than 2,300 members of the Writers Guild have signed the union's open letter decrying the Trump administration's "recent threats to the free press."
deadline.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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theintercept.com
“They don’t want people to feel comfortable helping Palestinians.”
American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained and Deported by Israel
Americans on the scene who tried to help Palestinians said Israel authorities detained, deported them — all as settler attackers roamed free.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.
'No Other Land' Contributor Odeh Hadalin Killed in West Bank Settler Attack
Odeh Hadalin, a contributor to the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was reportedly killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
www.rollingstone.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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A contender for the greatest "one and done" film ever made, The Night Of The Hunter turns 70 today. From the archives, our look at the Southern Gothic masterpiece:
The Night Of The Hunter
The Night Of The Hunter
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July 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM