Richard Whittaker

It's already up 70 cents in Austin. I filled up at $2.39 earlier this week, topped up today at $3.09 at the same gas station.

The Bride! Review: Frankenstein’s Riot Grrrl • The Austin Chronicle In punk cinema, you’re either a Derek Jarman or an Alex Cox. Jarman was a master of subversive control, a genius in finding beauty in ugliness and perversion in the divine. Alex Cox threw everything a...

"There's a lot going on in The Bride!" is not the same as "The Bride! knows what to do with all its ideas" or "The Bride! is good." www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...

So gas in my neighborhood went up 30% this week. Strap in, kids.

Moana barely has a story, and really suffers from lacking a big enough villain. The Little Mermaid has Pat Carroll. Case closed.

I guess @joegross.bsky.social just transcended.

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Matt Donato and Matthew Monagle

If you're a @certifiedforgot.bsky.social member, we're launching our monthly video series tomorrow. Get recommendations on horror movies, horror books, and horror games from @donatobomb.bsky.social and myself.

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If you think "no green screen, no blue screen" means no VFX, you don't understand modern filmmaking. Even the lowest budget films do digital fixes. Stop trying to "gotcha" Miller and Lord.

E. Elias Merhige's House of Leaves.

Can they take the Paul brothers with them?

No. He never said that.

Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley's Under Milk Wood.

There's some delivery decisions in The Bride! that left me scratching my head.

Ken Loach's Red Riding Quartet.

Luckily for her, it wasn't Orwell.

He did. That was part of the budget absurdity.

Hoppers Review: Pixar Becomes One With Nature • The Austin Chronicle Mabel Tanaka (voiced by Piper Curda) is no Doctor Dolittle. She loves animals – a lot more than she does people – but all she can do is watch. Luckily, her college biology professor (Kathy Najimy) has...

Hoppers is the kind of fun Pixar comedy that carries a big, necessary message in a warm way. That, and it's got some top notch beaver comedy, and I'm pretty sure that Dave Franco is now a Disney prince. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...

Grimm Guignol Ryan Gosling's directorial debut melds fantasy and realism

Apropos of nothing, has Ryan Gosling ever been less than great in every movie he made?

Also you need to see the only film he ever directed, Lost River, which I love beyond words. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/grim...

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The Bride! Review: Frankenstein’s Riot Grrrl • The Austin Chronicle In punk cinema, you’re either a Derek Jarman or an Alex Cox. Jarman was a master of subversive control, a genius in finding beauty in ugliness and perversion in the divine. Alex Cox threw everything a...

The Bride! is the second weird cinematic cover version in recent weeks which spent more time on odd grammar in the title than on the script. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...

Molly, there are rules about posting porn on here.

De Luca still sees himself as a New Line script guy who somehow lucked into being an exec, and is riding that train until the wheels come off. He loves movies and the theatrical experience.

How I arrived on BlueSky.

Eh, there are traces of Caravaggio in the cinematography, but it's more Cox's "anarchy for anarchy's sake."

I've seen comparisons to "Wuthering Heights" and both needed to know what the hell they were trying to be.

How I arrived on BlueSky.

The Bride! reminds me why, when it comes to punk cinema, I prefer Derek Jarman to Alex Cox. I admire the big swings, but nothing connects.

"He *SMASH* owe me" is just an ungodly line delivery.

James Earl Jones Fences You Ain't Never Liked Me YouTube video by Hannah Sullivan

We genuinely do not talk enough about what a force of nature James Earl Jones was. No one will ever come close to his Troy Maxson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVZr...

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Anyone need a film/video editor? I'm finishing up a project and looking for my next one. I do commercials, trailers, shorts, features, music videos and more! www.electricowlcreative.com