|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They didn't even have THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE as an option yesterday.
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith@mrbeaks.bsky.social |
528 followers 221 following 1015 posts
Freelance entertainment journalist. Thief of hearts. Perturbed.
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They didn't even have THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE as an option yesterday.
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As Nate Dogg is my witness, I would argue that David Zaslav is in dire need of regulation.
0 replies 1 reposts 10 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is pretty devastating. Also, uh, wanna run, George? (I can say with a fairly high degree of certainty that he does not and will never.)
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/o...
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Between this and Cinematrix not having THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE in its movie database, not a stellar puzzle day.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As Nate Dogg is my witness, I would argue that David Zaslav is in dire need of regulation.
0 replies 1 reposts 10 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
BURGERTIME's only real flaw. (This reminds me of my hometown's long-shuttered greasy spoon, where you were never sure if your eggs had been dusted with pepper or cigarette ash from the chain-smoking cook.)
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I love this movie. Oddball Tom DiCillo indie comedy starring John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener and Lisa Blount. Got dumped into art houses over the summer of 1997 and quickly disappeared. Delighted to see Soraya Roberts spreading the "off the grid" gospel at Defector.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I am quite looking forward to GLADIATOR II: SHARKS IN THE COLOSSEUM.
www.slashfilm.com/1613489/glad...
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
And give Anthony Carrigan some kind of retroactive Oscar because he's fucking wonderful in that movie.
2 replies 0 reposts 20 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is true. She just falls into a shtick rut. My biggest issue is that, outside of the first scene, there's no danger in the first act. That movie needs an Alex Kintner.
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Write Gertz's character out of that movie and you're on your way!
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
My Solomonic view is that NYT—perhaps the president’s primary persecutor recently—showed its whole ass with this swiss-cheese Parkinson’s specialist story. It’s blatantly copied from right-wing charlatans, unvetted. And a nimbler White House and campaign would be making it pay dearly for that.
41 replies 289 reposts 1334 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They're already running DEI smears against her. It's gonna be some flood-the-zone racist bullshit.
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
TWISTER is a visual f/x reel masquerading as a movie.
1 replies 0 reposts 9 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I thought it was a dud at the time. The sequel looks listless, too. Hope I'm wrong!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I can still sing (well, hum) the CAVEMAN theme song.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Prolific hitter with surprising power in his prime. Fiction's Rickey Henderson.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
No, but Kurt Vonnegut does.
1 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
Phil Plait
@philplait.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Left-wing parties banded together in France, even though they disagree over many policies, to push down the fascist right-wingers and keep them from power. It's a template of sorts for what we should do come November.
13 replies 73 reposts 367 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Got 90 mins into Ron Shelton's DARK BLUE last night (first viewing since '04) and thought I'd found an underrated B movie ripe for reappraisal. Then that badge ceremony happened. Can't remember if that was Ellroy's original ending, but a film that rough deserved a nastier finale. Kurt's great tho.
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
And it wasn't an it's-his-time career achievement Emmy either - though I'm not sure if that happens as often with the Emmys as it does with the Oscars. (Also, holy crap, not a single nom for P&R???)
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I don't know how much longer I can keep my Games subscription.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Lovecraft Burger.
1 replies 0 reposts 13 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The INSIDE OUT characters in my head.
1 replies 0 reposts 6 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
On my Cinematrix game today. Three Stallone 1%-ers.
Vulture Cinematrix No. 102: Jul 6, 2024
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2677
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
Play at:
vulture.com/vulturecinem...
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I love Quatermass. Nigel Kneale viewing the space race through a Lovecraftian lens is very much my jam. This is Kneale in Matheson territory, but have you ever seen THE STONE TAPE? We probably wouldn't have PRINCE OF DARKNESS without it.
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I might have one of those stashed away somewhere...
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
That's the moment that hooked me at age 11. LIFEFORCE was my coked-up, horned-up Quatermass gateway drug. Probably one of the ten most important movies in my life.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
andy™
@andylevy.net
[ View ] |
what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct
33 replies 82 reposts 767 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
DELIRIOUS didn't get a theatrical release, but this, inexplicably, did! (Which I'll never forget because I got an email every day for several months alerting me to this fact and would I like to interview anyone/everyone associated with it not named Vince Vaughn.)
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If EDDIE MURPHY: DELIRIOUS counts on Cinematrix, VINCE VAUGHN'S WILD WEST COMEDY SHOW: 30 DAYS & 30 NIGHTS - HOLLYWOOD TO THE HEARTLAND should count, too.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
David Zaslav keeps on winning!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Too many people who should know better were sharing that Nuzzi piece yesterday like it was holy writ. She's bad. (If you're new to Nuzzi, read the article shared by Drew in his follow-up skeet.)
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Aw yeah, the new Trendy Mees dropped!
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The rarest choice for an Emmerich starts-with-a-vowel movie is hinky. There's another option that just about no one saw (I only remember it because I interviewed the screenwriter). Got Will's rarest '90s movie tho! Vulture Cinematrix No. 100: Jul 4, 2024 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2658 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Garbage"?
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
And here's to Salvatore, Quint's little buddy, whose big scene landed on the cutting room floor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcgN...
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Happy Independence Day.
1 replies 4 reposts 22 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I did this a lot. My white whale was Krokus' "Screaming in the Night," a 6-min power ballad w/ no radio edit. 40-sec gutair-and-wind-fx opening kept it out of heavy rotation. Finally caught it on Detroit's WLLZ (98.7). Heard it starting over the outro of "Flight of Icarus" and smashed "record"!
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Happy Independence Day.
1 replies 4 reposts 22 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"We bought the house in the fall. This is summer."
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm wherever on all of this, but did Biden's team explicitly refer to it as a "grim ultimatum" or words specifically to that effect? If not, this ain't "breaking news". It's punditry.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...
25 replies 401 reposts 1114 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I, uh, got it it in one. Stunned because I didn't review it, and thought it was a disappointment given the talent involved. First I've thought of it since the crix screening. Perhaps I was more let down than I realized.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I will revisit this weekend, but my current position is that Towne did Fante's ASK THE DUST hot-blooded justice. I think it's the best thing he ever directed, and richly deserving of a critical reappraisal (it got beat up in '06, though I know Rosenbaum was a fan).
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It could still happen, under a different title maybe...
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Hope they nail this because Affleck would be spot-on casting for David Klein in Carnahan's too-good-to-go-unmade adaptation of WHITE JAZZ.
variety.com/2024/film/ne...
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"The law will no longer do it." That's about as hard as I expected Biden to go.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
On my motherfucking tombstone.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Jeremy Smith
@mrbeaks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Executive orders instituting UBI and straight up forgiving all student loan debt. Take the autocracy for a spin, for good, and see who pushes back.
2 replies 0 reposts 2 likes