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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 14h

See Glen Run.

Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN is a faithful adaptation of the novel, and a prime example of why what started as a repository for Bachman-King Overdrive now plays as subversive AF 📽️

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'The Running Man' Turns a Stephen King Book Into a State-of-the-Nation F-ck You

Edgar Wright and Glen Powell would like to remind folks that we're amusing ourselves to death, the rich hate the poor, and we're all pretty screwed.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 3d

BOTD Alain Delon!!
MCCT5: 5)Purple Noon 4)L'Eclisse 3)La Piscine 2)Mr. Klein 1)JPM x3: Samourai/Circle/Flic
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The Shapeshifting Beauty of Alain Delon

To see the feline countenance of Alain Delon is to immediately understand his movie stardom. A New York retrospective surveys his career.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 3d

SENTIMENTAL VALUE is Exhibit A for saying Renate Reinsve is canon-worthy, Stellan Skardsgard locking down éminence grise GOAT status, Elle Fanning being one of the best listeners on screen today and Joachim Trier summer lasting into the autumn months 📽️

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Why 'Sentimental Value' Is One of the Best Movies of the Year

'The Worst Person in the World' director, Joachim Trier, returns with a drama that blurs the lines between art, life, and family. It's phenomenal.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 5d

There's a 50/50 chance you will love or hate DIE, MY LOVE. What Jennifer Lawrence is doing in the movie, however, is kinda awe-inspiring. This isn't performative punk-AF style bad behavior. This is a 100% free performance.

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Jennifer Lawrence Is Completely Unhinged in 'Die, My Love'

The actor goes for broke in this story of a new mother losing her grip — and gives what may be the most unique, untethered performance of her career.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 7d

A review of PREDATOR: BADLANDS, which — and I can not emphasize this enough — is not to be confused with 'Predator: Jungleland,' 'Predator: The Promised Land' or 'Predator: 10th Avenue Freeze Out' 📽️

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'Predator: Badlands' Is a Buddy Comedy (No, Really)

The sci-fi franchise best known for alien hunters stalking humans asks: What do you get when you pair a chatty android with the killer of killers?

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 11d

So NOUVELLE VAGUE hits select theaters today (before hitting Netflix on 11/14). It's cinephile catnip

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'Nouvelle Vague' Turns Film History Into the Ultimate Hangout Movie

Richard Linklater's brilliant, breezy look back at the making of Jean Luc-Godard's debut will indeed leave you breathless.

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FilmBuffRich @filmbuffrich.bsky.social · 15d

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online

The Library of Congress’s Historical Media Publications Collection is now a an online, searchable resource for film fans and historians.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 14d

What Kate said, the fisticuffs were minimal and I only gushed about @justincchang.bsky.social's writing and extolled the healing effects of bourbon once.

Kate Erbland @katerbland.bsky.social · 14d

It took nearly FOUR HOURS, but I had a hell of a good time picking the Gotham nominees for both Best Feature and Best International Feature alongside @tomilaffly.bsky.social, @justincchang.bsky.social, @davidlfear.bsky.social, and Peter Debruge. www.indiewire.com/awards/resul...

‘One Battle After Another’ Leads 2025 Gotham Film Awards Nominees

This year, nominees include big love for Paul Thomas Anderson, 'Train Dreams,' and a slew of strong indies.

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Hank Shteamer @darkforcesswing.bsky.social · 15d

Jack DeJohnette's art will live forever: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 15d

Went into STILLER & MEARA: NOTHING IS LOST expecting Ben Stiller to reminisce about his parents-slash-world-class comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Got something far more complicated, self-implicating, honest and dare I say healing than expected.

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Ben Stiller Had Issues With His Parents. So He Made a Doc About Them

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost is a tribute, a therapy session, and a look at balancing professional and personal lives that sometimes gets brutal.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 19d

Oof! And: thank you! Fixed

David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 19d

Grierson FTW

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 19d

[in Bono voice] Am I BUGONIA? I don't mean to BUGONIA... 🎥

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'Bugonia' Asks: Are Aliens Among Us? And Do They Look Like Emma Stone?

Yorgos Lanthimos' latest movie deals in conspiracies, corporate doublespeak, and celebrity weirdness being a plus. In other words: our current reality.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 20d

I saw it playin'
In a the-a-ter
Just a swirlin'
Its trau-ma
Me and it went for a ride, sir
And two hours later, Bruce, he cried...

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'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere' Is Darkness on the Edge of a Bruce Biopic

Jeremy Allen White gives us a moody, mercurial Boss in a look back at the making of Springsteen's bleak-rock masterpiece 'Nebraska.'

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 22d

After Russ Vought experienced the chaotic failures of Trump’s 1st term, he made it his mission to ensure that a second Trump term would not “lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

My latest👇 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball

Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 23d

Was lucky enough to geek out with Rebecca Miller, director of the definitive profile MR. SCORSESE, about all things Marty-related. Docuseries now streaming on Apple TV. It's five hours long and my only complaint is that it is not 10 hours long.

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'He's a Filmmaker Who'll Die With His Boots On': Rebecca Miller on 'Mr. Scorsese'

Director of the five-hour docuseries on Martin Scorsese opens up about asking to profile America's greatest living filmmaker — and why he said yes.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 26d

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Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74

Ace Frehley, the Spaceman of Kiss who played with the group from their formation in 1973 until 1983, and then again in the Nineties, has died at 74.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 26d

Eye-opening, that performance

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 26d

Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is a nail-biting thriller, an elliptical road movie, a dessert topping, a floor wax, and a backstage farce revolving around a killing instead a play. It's also one of the most deceptively profound movies of 2025.

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'It Was Just an Accident': A Master Filmmaker Gets Revenge

Iranian director Jafar Panahi spins a tale of vengeance — and gives us one of the most deceptively profound movies of the year.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · Oct 11

If you have good taste — and I know you do! — you'd see this ASAP.

IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU 📽️

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'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' Gives You the Nonstop Panic Attack That Is Motherhood

This relentless A24 comedy about Rose Byrne fighting a hostile world — and losing — answers the question: What if you made 'Uncut Gems' for moms?

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · Oct 11

and...

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the unhinged performance of mia goth in infinity pool (2023)

YouTube video by the final girls

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · Oct 11

These are the two greatest moments in cinema history and there is no third choice

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Outlaw King (2018) - Feast of the Swans

YouTube video by King Malric

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · Oct 9

"Luca Guadagnino's handwringer about campus politics and cancel culture is definitely a cautionary tale, as in we strongly caution you against seeing something this empty and enraging."

AFTER THE HUNT 🎥

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'After the Hunt': Julia Roberts' #MeToo Drama Is 100-Percent #OhHellNo

It takes a lot of hard work and the perfect alignment of movie stars to make a social drama this irredeemably awful.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · Oct 4

The headline says it all. Huge, huge, huge fan of Rebecca Miller's five-hour docu-series MR. SCORSESE, which I wish was twice as long... #NYFF 🎥

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'Mr. Scorsese' Is the Definitive Portrait of Our Greatest Living Filmmaker

Five-part Apple docuseries is everything a fan of the director of 'Taxi Driver,' 'Goodfellas,' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' could want — and more.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · Oct 4

There is stumping for your movie, and then there’s stumping for your movie, Benny Safdie-style…

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