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Posted by /u/Visible_Star_7783

Prisoners - Zodiac - Nightcrawler. I even enjoyed his Netflix movie The Guilty. Where he was basically the only cast member sat in front of a desk for 90 minutes but still pulled it off.

Nightcrawler is probably my favourite performance of all time what a great movie he plays the role of o sociopath so well.

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Bundle of Holding: Battlezoo

16 Jul 2025 02:17 pm
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The Battlezoo Bundle presents the Battlezoo line of monsters and monster hunters from Roll for Combat for D&D 5E and compatible tabletop roleplaying systems, compiled from winning designs from the annual RPG Superstars competition.

Bundle of Holding: Battlezoo

More pinch hits

16 Jul 2025 07:19 pm
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And the last 3 pinch hits I wrote during my hurt/comfort/and/more binge were finally revealed, haha. Not unexpectedly, with the way delays worked out and all, the first one I wrote back in April was the last one to reveal last week! All caught up now.

For [community profile] whumpex:

Sensory overload | Boku no Hero Academia | Hawks & Miruko | 1.8k words | rated T
Summary: Overtraining already hypersensitive feathers is bound to have long-term consequences. Hawks is utterly miserable, utterly on his own... and has been lying to himself for so long now, he kind of forgot the truth.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

For [community profile] diegetic_exchange (I didn't know that word before participating btw! What a cool concept for an exchange!):

Totally fictional | Boku no Hero Academia | Dabi/Hawks | 800 words | rated T
Summary: In universe, someone is passionately writing a heartfelt, if somewhat unsympathetic, fanfic about Hawks.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.

For [community profile] hurtcomfortex:

A game at which two can play | Boku no Hero Academia | Dabi/Hawks | 3.8k words | rated T
Summary: Members of the Creature Rejection Clan have infiltrated the PLF. To root them out, Toga comes up with the great plan of having Dabi and Hawks lure them out by being more obvious about their relationship in public. A PLF lieutenant debasing themselves with a heteromorph? Surely the CRC traitors will show their hand and target Hawks. What could possibly go wrong?

And thus Hawks ends up working an undercover mission for the PLF while technically already undercover at the PLF. Never a dull moment in his life.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
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Posted by /u/ArtHouseAMA

Hey r/movies! We're Javier Chavez, Ben Delgado, and Alan Mckenzie of Art House Convergence, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting, amplifying, and advocating for art house cinemas across the United States. Sean Baker & Samantha Quan are our Ambassadors this year. Ask us anything!

Hey r/movies! We're Javier Chavez, Ben Delgado, and Alan Mckenzie of Art House Convergence, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting, amplifying, and advocating for art house cinemas across the United States. Ask us anything!

One of our key annual programs is Art House Theater Day (AHTD), which brings audiences together to celebrate all that art house theaters – and independent film – contribute to our cultural landscape: ambitious and innovative art that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires. 2025 marks the sixth Art House Theater Day, which launched in 2016 in more than 150 cinemas across the country.

Co-chaired by Javier and Ben, the Programming & Communications Committee collaborated with our AHTD Programming Fellows, including Alan, to curate a dynamic and diverse slate of films for participating theaters to showcase. This year’s headliner is TANGERINE, featuring an exclusive, theater-only post-screening conversation with filmmaker Sean Baker, moderated by Eugene Hernandez, Director of the Sundance Film Festival and Head of Public Programming.

We're also excited and honored that Sean Baker and producer Samantha Quan are our AHTD Ambassadors for 2025!

Art House Theater Day will take place on Thursday, July 24. To find a participating art house near you, check out our map!

Please ask us anything about the line-up, Art House Theater Day, Art House Convergence, or film exhibition in general! We will be back tomorrow Thursday 7/17 at 3:00 PM ET to answer your questions.

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Posted by /u/Sisiwakanamaru

Lewis Pullman, Maya Hawke to Star in Rom-Com 'Wishful Thinking'

The premise sounds lovely

Writer-director Graham Parkes will helm the film, about a volatile couple who discovers their emotional state has supernatural consequences on the world around them. The pair must decide whether to fight for their relationship or accept that their powerful connection might be doing more harm than good.

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Posted by /u/SkepticScott137

What single lines can you think of that not only are iconic in themselves, but underly the entire movie, either one of its major themes, or the essence of its main character?

George C. Scott as Patton: “I love it. God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life.”

Tim Robbins: “Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.”

Jack Nicholson: “You can’t handle the truth!”

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Robben Island by Pamela Sneed

18 Jul 2025 10:59 am
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The only antidote I may have to Trump’s election
is in a small ferry to Robben Island
one that shuttles you to the former prison
where those who fought against apartheid were held
The only answers may be in one wool blanket
a basin
toilet
cell
and the tiny windows of  Robben Island
in the discarded artillery
the rock and the limestone yard
where many were blinded
driven mad
Now the survivors former prisoners
give tours
their faces carved like tree roots exposed
The only answers may be in the surrounding peaks of Table Mountain
its Twelve Apostles
all now standing as testament to what
through years of struggles
can be defeated
overcome


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Posted by /u/Dadopagos

I never write on reddit but I felt the Need to talk about this movie because It became my favorite movie of all time. First of all, the characters: the characters are great, between the three, the villian is who is the most lackluster, but even then, it's like and 8,5 out of ten simply because of the lack of plot relevance that I felt, since the movie Is centered around the other two characters, which are the best thing about this movie. Oh my God I have Watch some other movies with Clint Eastwood but in this one he really shined the most, even if he is not the most interesting character he is still my favorite. The Ugly Is the One that as I said Is the most interesting but also the most espressive character of the movie, I don't have much to say about him but he simply got me invested so much in the story that he had to be mentioned. Now, the story Is interesting, the movie Is also funny sometimes and the ending Is an actual master piece. The movie went on for 3 hours but I loved the characters so much that I think It should have been longer, especially focusing on the Bad. What I think is the biggest problem is the war stuff which was still good, but the lowest part of the movie. I thought that the music was also really good, It was perfect for the ending. Now, to get to the best thing about this and all of Sergio Leone's movies: how unpredictable they are. I thought from the start that the Good would have died, but he didn't. I also thought that the Ugly would have shared the Good's same fate, but he didn't either. The final scene was really great and I honestly couldn't even think of how Sergio Leone could have made It better. One final thing that I loved were the shots. They are so creative, and I also loved how there wasn't much blood, not that I care but he always found a way to hide It: the First scene, the pillow and many others. Overall this movie was great and watching It dubbed in my language really improved my experience, since the dubbers were absolutely phenomenal. I really can't wait to watch the others when I have time. Edit: I Say tons of negative things but this my favorite movie of all time. I Simply thought that people didn't want to see me ranting about how cool and perfect that movie is, even if it is.

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Posted by /u/These_Feed_2616

In my opinion, he has the greatest filmography of all time, so many classics under his belt. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, The King Of Comedy, GoodFellas, Casino etc. what’s your favorite performance of his? Mine is a tie between Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, his performances as Travis Bickle and Jake LaMotta respectively are some of the greatest of all time!

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Posted by /u/Clyph00

The Mist (2007). I was neutral through most of it, but the ending hit so hard and unexpectedly that it completely redefined the movie for me. It went from a standard creature feature to one of the bleakest, most haunting endings I’ve ever seen.

What is that movie that you feel the end just changed how you had felt about it from the beginning?

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It's not exactly a secret that I hate Miles Vorkosigan being in the military, so for RL reasons I was thinking hmm could Miles instead become a doctor, and then followed up immediately with "absolutely he could not" and in fact I could not think of any position in a hospital that he would be suited for, but then I realized I was overthinking this.

Miles would be a great plumber. It's perfect for him. No boss, just clients, and he can pick the interesting jobs. It's bounded but also a place for creativity. He has to find out what the problem is and fix it. Because of his size, he may even be a better choice for certain jobs than other plumbers. He can pick his hours by picking the clients and the jobs, and then hyperfocus on a problem until it's over. If he wants, he can pack his schedule, or he can relax it. But he's not answering to anyone and people are grateful for his help because it's a problem they can't fix themselves, and it's also necessary: everyone will at some point require the assistance of a plumber.

The only problem is that there's no wonderful recognition and pride from his peers, unless we can get him to value the opinions of other plumbers, and then he can just brag about all the impossible disasters he fixed before breakfast. The sense of accomplishment is built-in, as in the sense of being valuable and needed.

And I feel like even Miles Vorkosigan would not find a way to commit treason whilst doing it.

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Posted by /u/West_Conclusion_1239

I want to talk about "We Need To Talk About Kevin" (2011), made by the great Lynne Ramsay, whose filmmaking i fell in love with since i saw "You Were Never Really Here" (2018) with an astonishing performance by Joaquin Phoenix, and i can't wait to see "Die, My Love" and her other films.

I digressed a little bit, now going back to the film, my god, in a way it's a terrifying film.

It's really a film about the evil disposition that a person can be born with.

Kevin is a malevolent person since he was a baby, taunting her mother by crying only when he was with her, and instead was behaving as a good baby only in the presence of his father.

A deeply disturbed person with absolute lack of empathy, capable of extreme violence toward his family, manipulative and sadistic.

You can't even trace the origin of this evil, he comes from a wealthy family, who has been always loving toward him, no "physical conditions", nor problems related to actual intelligence.

His mother did the best he could with him, he can't even complain about absent or abusive parents, and his sister is the exact opposite of him, the incarnation of purity and innocence, and in fact he put acid on her eye, for pure cruelty and envy.

Unnecessarily cruel and manipulative murderer for no reason, a modern Antichrist.

I don't know what the message of the film is other than "Some people are just born evil, regardless of their context".

Thoughts??

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The only fate more glorious than dying for the uncaring empire is dying over and over for the uncaring empire.

Red Sword by Bora Chung (Translated by Anton Hur)
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Posted by /u/ArtHouseAMA

Hey r/movies! We're Javier Chavez, Ben Delgado, and Alan Mckenzie of Art House Convergence, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting, amplifying, and advocating for art house cinemas across the United States. Ask us anything!

Hey r/movies! We're Javier Chavez, Ben Delgado, and Alan Mckenzie of Art House Convergence, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting, amplifying, and advocating for art house cinemas across the United States. Ask us anything!

One of our key annual programs is Art House Theater Day (AHTD), which brings audiences together to celebrate all that art house theaters – and independent film – contribute to our cultural landscape: ambitious and innovative art that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires. 2025 marks the sixth Art House Theater Day, which launched in 2016 in more than 150 cinemas across the country.

Co-chaired by Javier and Ben, the Programming & Communications Committee collaborated with our AHTD Programming Fellows, including Alan, to curate a dynamic and diverse slate of films for participating theaters to showcase. This year’s headliner is TANGERINE, featuring an exclusive, theater-only post-screening conversation with filmmaker Sean Baker, moderated by Eugene Hernandez, Director of the Sundance Film Festival and Head of Public Programming.

We're also excited and honored that Sean Baker and producer Samantha Quan are our AHTD Ambassadors for 2025!

Art House Theater Day will take place on Thursday, July 24. To find a participating art house near you, check out our map!

Please ask us anything about the line-up, Art House Theater Day, Art House Convergence, or film exhibition in general! We will be back tomorrow Thursday 7/17 at 3:00 PM ET to answer your questions.

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Fandom: The Expanse (Book Series)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: The Investigator (proto!Miller)
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: [tumblr.com profile] elenstar
Why this piece is awesome: I really love eeriness, the shadowed face, and the colours here! The protomolecule swirling around him, creating his outline, the shining eyes out of the black shadow... Very cool.
Link: https://elenstar.tumblr.com/post/174670709712/113-times-a-second-a-drawing-for-wtf-fandom

Bonus: The same artist also drew a set of six drawings for the final book in the series, Leviathan Falls, which look almost like they could be movie posters. But while the Investigator also appears in the show and is more or less safe to view even if you don't want spoilers, two of these six are indeed quite spoiler-y. If you don't care about that or have already read the book, I definitely recommend checking these out as well. There's an atmosphere of space travel and eery alienness in all of them, the colour schemes are fantastic, and I really like the inclusion of the different spaceships as well. Just awesome all around.

Ford v Ferrari

16 Jul 2025 09:42 am
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Posted by /u/Clearlyanantagonist

So after watching “F1” last week I decided to go down a racing/car movie binge and I just finished F v F and have a quick question that probably just went over my head.

So to my understanding in the 3rd leg of the race Bandini had a lap on Miles and everyone else essentially as he was in first. So when Ken comes out of the pit he has to make up that lap nearly 2 since they left the pit at the same time and luckily Ken manages to do it and also get Ferrari to push itself to hard and have to leave the race leaving him in first.

This is where my confusion comes in, so if miles lapped everyone else to catch up to Bandini he was essentially a lap ahead of everyone which is why I thought he decided at the end to finish together with 2nd and 3rd place Fords but in my head I assumed yea if they finished together it looks cool but wouldn’t matter because Miles still had a lap on everyone including the other Fords so he’d quite obviously be the winner 🥇.

They also say it’s a technicality because 2nd place Ford started farther back and as someone who’s not a racing expert I didn’t understand that take nascar or F1 for example maybe I’m wrong but say the guy in first position Lewis Hamilton, Liam Lawson maybe 5th position and Kimi Antonelli in like 10th. To my understanding the way the movie describes it is because Kimi started farther back he’d get the win? Is that a thing ?

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Posted by /u/justinsluss

M3GAN 2.0 comes to 4K and Blu-ray in September

The 2025 sequel “M3GAN 2.0” is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray on September 23rd via Universal Studios Home Entertainment. It will also arrive on 4K UHD Blu-ray SteelBook (pictured in the center above). Gerard Johnstone directed and co-wrote the film. It stars Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ivanna Sakhno, and Jemaine Clement.

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