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Kristen Grote
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I don't know how to talk about anything but movies and it's ruining my life.

Tech Stuff: @kmgdev.bsky.social

🌐: SEA > PDX
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Four favorite films of the decade so far:

FIRST COW*
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
AFTERSUN
I SAW THE TV GLOW

*premiered in 2019 but didn't get a theatrical run until 2020
May 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Episode 92 is ready for your eager, gaping eyeballs. Mailbag about trilogies; a new epic battle of “Raunch v Rom,” and two movies about girls working hard and gettin paid, LOVER GIRL (1997) and SUPPORT THE GIRLS (2018). youtu.be/HbpJKF-Lzoo?...
VIVA! Physical Media 92: Your Eager Gaping Eyeballs
YouTube video by ScarecrowVideoSEA
youtu.be
April 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Growing up on a diet of fairy tales and folk tales unfortunately led me to believe the main obstacle I would face in adulthood would be riddles
April 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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"When Sonic is pregnant, it's interesting."
April 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I stand by this
April 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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David Lynch’s hallucinatory crime thriller WILD AT HEART (1990) is about two lovers, Sailor and Lula, on a sex-filled, rocking road trip, aware all the time that they are being hunted by Lula’s mother’s cronies.

Join the wild ride when it opens Friday, 4/11, at Downtown: siff.info/wildatheart-bs.
April 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hard salami implies the existence of soft salami
April 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Favorite first-time watches in March

PARIAH (2011)
ANGELS IN AMERICA (2003)
MICKEY 17 (2025)
THE FURY (1978)
April 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Resisting the urge to do a hopping vampire movie deep dive
March 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Blowing on a spoonful of ice cream to make it less cold
March 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Again, if somebody said a stunt coordinator was a buzzkill and they wanted to just feel their way through jumping off a building because it felt more authentic that way, that would be a valid opinion for them to have but they would not get their way. An intimacy coordinator is for set safety.
Gwyneth Paltrow and other celebrities have expressed uncertainty about the rise of intimacy coordinators in Hollywood, claiming it disrupts the art or authenticity. But the profession was adopted to prevent the abuse exposed in the Me Too movement.
Who Needs Intimacy Coordinators?
Gwyneth Paltrow and other celebrities have expressed uncertainty about the rise of intimacy coordinators in Hollywood, claiming it disrupts the art or authenticity. But the profession was adopted to prevent the abuse exposed in the Me Too movement.
www.vulture.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If I only could
I'd make a deal with God
And I'd get him to swap our faces
March 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Bird people getting mad about inaccurate bird sounds in movies is my favorite flavor of film drama
March 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Favorite first-time watches in February - boys kissing boys edition!

WILD REEDS (1994)
I'M SO EXCITED! (2013)
BOYS IN THE SAND (1971)
O FANTASMA (2000)
March 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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was asked for my big hot take of oscars night and it’s that they probably shouldn’t have spent more time mourning james bond than they did david lynch
The Oscars spent more time mourning 007 than David Lynch – what a travesty
In a ceremony that championed independent film and individual creativity, the visionary director behind ‘Blue Velvet’ received only a cursory mention. Meanwhile, James Bond was treated to a mind-boggl...
www.independent.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Conan should host every year from now on, yeah?
March 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Dang his wife Betsy Arakawa was only 63 and they took their dog with them too. Some pretty intense things are yet to be revealed.
February 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
They should do like a Star Trek Columbo show where a character goes to different planets to solve mysteries
February 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Guy Pearce appreciation post
February 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Boy this "doing things every day" really takes it outta you
February 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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This Day in Documentary

Questlove's 'Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)' is now streaming on Hulu.

See why we made it our Pick of the Week and find more listings here: https://buff.ly/40L3Q4B
February 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Valentine's Day falls at the start of a 3-day weekend this year. You know what that means: 4-day fuckfest.
February 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
tbh I probably would risk detection by the nazgul for sausages and nice, crispy bacon
February 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM