Benjamin W Shrader
@cp3eeo.bsky.social
Disabled public speaker, self advocate, writer, and film critic. Follow for DE politics, movies, theme parks, and Star Wars stuff. Still mad at blue sky for locking me out of my old account.
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Benjamin W Shrader
@cp3eeo.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Such an honor to see “wake up dead man in a packed house and briefly ask something to @rianjohnson.bsky.social afterwards! What a night, review in next tweet!
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James L. Brooks’s strange, shaggy rom-com “Ella McCay” tries to do too much, and succeeds only partially, David Sims writes:
A Throwback Rom-Com About One Millennial Trying to Have It All
James L. Brooks’s “Ella McCay” is wacky and weird—but it doesn’t quite work.
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
James L. Brooks’s strange, shaggy rom-com “Ella McCay” tries to do too much, and succeeds only partially, David Sims writes:
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I can’t believe i’m going to get to see Patrick Stewart as Professor X die for the fourth time on screen in the new Avengers movie
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I can’t believe i’m going to get to see Patrick Stewart as Professor X die for the fourth time on screen in the new Avengers movie
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I'd love to replace twitter with this website but I won't lie: it's a little off-putting that so many of the popular movie tweets are like, stuck in 2012 making fun of m night shyamalan and saying avatar is just dances with smurfs
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'd love to replace twitter with this website but I won't lie: it's a little off-putting that so many of the popular movie tweets are like, stuck in 2012 making fun of m night shyamalan and saying avatar is just dances with smurfs
Aquaman voice; my man!
Payakan
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Aquaman voice; my man!
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That little droid did it!
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
That little droid did it!
Congratulations! Can’t wait for this!
Feels great to be coming out of podcast semi-retirement and to be getting an excuse to blather about movies on the regular with Richard, who will soon be filled with regret when I try to make "wrong kid died!" into some kind of regular bit about HAMNET
It’s true! The great @alisonwillmore.bsky.social and I are debuting our new show Critical Darlings on the Blank Check podcast feed on January 1st! Come listen to us talk about all the awards-season movies, won’t you?
December 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Congratulations! Can’t wait for this!
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Feels great to be coming out of podcast semi-retirement and to be getting an excuse to blather about movies on the regular with Richard, who will soon be filled with regret when I try to make "wrong kid died!" into some kind of regular bit about HAMNET
It’s true! The great @alisonwillmore.bsky.social and I are debuting our new show Critical Darlings on the Blank Check podcast feed on January 1st! Come listen to us talk about all the awards-season movies, won’t you?
Yay! New @rilaws.bsky.social pod!
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Feels great to be coming out of podcast semi-retirement and to be getting an excuse to blather about movies on the regular with Richard, who will soon be filled with regret when I try to make "wrong kid died!" into some kind of regular bit about HAMNET
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So... it's REALLY BIZARRE that this version of 'Animal Farm' is less "missing the point" than "doing a whole NEW point" where 'Soviet revolutionary govts will corrupt themselves from within" is replaced with "Stalinism gets spoiled from outside by Western capitalism" 🤣
youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM?...
youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM?...
Animal Farm | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 1 | Angel
YouTube video by Angel
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So... it's REALLY BIZARRE that this version of 'Animal Farm' is less "missing the point" than "doing a whole NEW point" where 'Soviet revolutionary govts will corrupt themselves from within" is replaced with "Stalinism gets spoiled from outside by Western capitalism" 🤣
youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM?...
youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM?...
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"The same class of AI models that enables facial recognition’s rise can also undermine it. [DiffProtect] is built on diffusion models, the technology that underpins many of today’s photorealistic AI image generators."
👀👀
DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”
DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”
A new kind of digital camouflage emerges from DARPA AI research | Biometric Update
The technique, called DiffProtect, quietly rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
www.biometricupdate.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"The same class of AI models that enables facial recognition’s rise can also undermine it. [DiffProtect] is built on diffusion models, the technology that underpins many of today’s photorealistic AI image generators."
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Totally correct
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Totally correct
Genuinely think this is the most depressed I’ve been since November 2016. I honestly don’t know what to say or do except to say that the experience of seeing a movie with people you love and people you’ve never met is worth fighting for.
Fuuuuuuuuuuck
Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. in a deal worth $82.7 billion, a deal that would unite two of the biggest libraries in film and animation and reshape the streaming and, potentially, theatrical landscapes.
www.cartoonbrew.com/business/net...
www.cartoonbrew.com/business/net...
December 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Genuinely think this is the most depressed I’ve been since November 2016. I honestly don’t know what to say or do except to say that the experience of seeing a movie with people you love and people you’ve never met is worth fighting for.
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Who controls what IP isn't what's at play with this new merger: it's about who gets your attention & dollars. It means fewer shows & fewer movies as not to step on each other's dicks.
1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Who controls what IP isn't what's at play with this new merger: it's about who gets your attention & dollars. It means fewer shows & fewer movies as not to step on each other's dicks.
1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?
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The practice interview between Lois and Clark in James Gunn's Superman is genuinely one of the best written and acted scenes I've seen in any comic book film.
a man says people were going to die
ALT: a man says people were going to die
media.tenor.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The practice interview between Lois and Clark in James Gunn's Superman is genuinely one of the best written and acted scenes I've seen in any comic book film.
I say it every time I go to the airport. It’s the most realistic shot at a 45 to 49 State sweep in our modern environment if someone would just have the courage
For real, though.
If you're too young to remember this, DHS was a thing we just made up right after 9-11 to get Bin Laden and, like... it took awhile but we got that guy 🤷♂️ We don't need this sh-- anymore. Somebody could totally run and win on "We're done now. Airports can be chill again."
If you're too young to remember this, DHS was a thing we just made up right after 9-11 to get Bin Laden and, like... it took awhile but we got that guy 🤷♂️ We don't need this sh-- anymore. Somebody could totally run and win on "We're done now. Airports can be chill again."
Yeah okay, abolish ICE or whatever OR
Eliminate the Department of Homeland Security altogether. Move TSA back to Transportation and restore FEMA as an independent agency. Sort the other half-dozen component agencies back into their natural homes.
Less criminal abuse and around $40 billion savings.
Eliminate the Department of Homeland Security altogether. Move TSA back to Transportation and restore FEMA as an independent agency. Sort the other half-dozen component agencies back into their natural homes.
Less criminal abuse and around $40 billion savings.
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I say it every time I go to the airport. It’s the most realistic shot at a 45 to 49 State sweep in our modern environment if someone would just have the courage
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defending the pedophilia president and being pro trans is the same to this guy it’s just absurd
Bill Maher Buries the Left AND the Right in Searing CNN Interview: Why Can’t They Just ‘Be Normal?’
Bill Maher Buries the Left AND the Right in Searing CNN Interview: Why Can’t They Just ‘Be Normal?’
Bill Maher bashed both Democrats and Republicans during a CNN interview on Sunday, saying Republicans like Trump go "too far" while Dems push "revolutionaries"
The post Bill Maher Buries the Left AND the Right in Searing CNN Interview: Why Can’t They Just ‘Be Normal?’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
defending the pedophilia president and being pro trans is the same to this guy it’s just absurd
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Sigourney Weaver discussed Lucasfilm’s current approach to making #StarWars stories:
“What’s interesting about Star Wars now is they’re no longer trying to do the Star Wars to end all Star Wars. They’re letting the universe exist, and tell[ing] really interesting stories within that.”
“What’s interesting about Star Wars now is they’re no longer trying to do the Star Wars to end all Star Wars. They’re letting the universe exist, and tell[ing] really interesting stories within that.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Sigourney Weaver discussed Lucasfilm’s current approach to making #StarWars stories:
“What’s interesting about Star Wars now is they’re no longer trying to do the Star Wars to end all Star Wars. They’re letting the universe exist, and tell[ing] really interesting stories within that.”
“What’s interesting about Star Wars now is they’re no longer trying to do the Star Wars to end all Star Wars. They’re letting the universe exist, and tell[ing] really interesting stories within that.”
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love this scene in the movie
Big Boss
'Super Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back'
Super Nintendo
'Super Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back'
Super Nintendo
November 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
love this scene in the movie
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come see a sleepy david sims talk for a couple mins before the utter delight that is KISS KISS BANG BANG
Really excited to see this in theaters for the first time. Tickets are still available!
Wow, I feel sore. I mean physically, not like a guy who's angry in a movie in the 1950's. nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark...
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
come see a sleepy david sims talk for a couple mins before the utter delight that is KISS KISS BANG BANG
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If we all agreed on everything, art would be boring.👍
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If we all agreed on everything, art would be boring.👍
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I think this guy may be the single worst democratic politician of my lifetime
NEW: Jeffries praises Eric Adams in a statement, saying he has "served courageously and authentically for decades" and that "meaningful progress has been made" during his mayoralty.
Says he will "publicly weigh in" on the mayoral race "well before the start of early voting.”
Says he will "publicly weigh in" on the mayoral race "well before the start of early voting.”
September 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I think this guy may be the single worst democratic politician of my lifetime
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Andre Easton is a socialist candidate running to primary Ritchie Torres in NY-15. Watch the video.
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Andre Easton is a socialist candidate running to primary Ritchie Torres in NY-15. Watch the video.
Such an honor to see “wake up dead man in a packed house and briefly ask something to @rianjohnson.bsky.social afterwards! What a night, review in next tweet!
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Such an honor to see “wake up dead man in a packed house and briefly ask something to @rianjohnson.bsky.social afterwards! What a night, review in next tweet!
Thank you Seth for speaking the capital T truth, everyone else is afraid of. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to help that last part.
both TROS and Superman told me my innate goodness trumped my dark aristocratic lineage but I dunno I think it's gonna take one more movie to truly convince me
October 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thank you Seth for speaking the capital T truth, everyone else is afraid of. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to help that last part.
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Pennsylvania Democrats:
here's an offseason election to make a point of voting in, because (a) it's important for protecting basic rights, and (b) Republicans apparently don't know or care about it.
here's an offseason election to make a point of voting in, because (a) it's important for protecting basic rights, and (b) Republicans apparently don't know or care about it.
Pennsylvania Republicans are mounting an unusual effort to oust three Democratic state supreme court justices and deprive Democrats of the court majority they’ve enjoyed for the last decade.
Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
boltsmag.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Pennsylvania Democrats:
here's an offseason election to make a point of voting in, because (a) it's important for protecting basic rights, and (b) Republicans apparently don't know or care about it.
here's an offseason election to make a point of voting in, because (a) it's important for protecting basic rights, and (b) Republicans apparently don't know or care about it.