📽️ "I Am Mother" is live now for members - the fifth film in our Thinking Machines series. A sealed bunker, 63,000 frozen embryos, and an AI that ended humanity because she genuinely loves her daughter. #filmsky #ThinkingMachines
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📽️ "Ex Machina" is live now for members — the Thinking Machines entry where Alex Garland argues that building consciousness without morality is the most dangerous thing a creator can do. Caleb thinks he's running the test. He's not. #filmsky #ThinkingMachines
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📽️ This week's Next Reel ep is live! 🎥
In our Thinking Machines series, we dig into Spike Jonze's Her—AI love, a voice-only performance that works completely, and why this film feels truer every year.
#filmsky
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📽️ The postwar domestic melodrama trapped anxiety inside the house—and filmmakers like Sirk, Minnelli, and Ray coded their critique into Technicolor and decor. Film scholar Patricia White joins Andy to map the cycle from "Mildred Pierce" to "Home from the Hill." #filmsky
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📽️ "WarGames" is live now for members (and a tease for everyone else!)—our Thinking Machines bonus asks whether WOPR is the film's most complete character, and how this movie actually changed federal law.
#filmsky #ThinkingMachines
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Sitting In The Dark Podcast artwork featuring low-budget movie set and actor in a moster mask
Indie Cinema, baby. Chelsea Stardust curates three horror films made for almost nothing and built to last. The Battery, Starry Eyes & Hellbender — new #SittingintheDark.
#IndieHorror #HorrorPodcast #filmsky
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🎥 This week's Next Reel ep is live! 📽️
We dig into Donald Cammell's Demon Seed, the Thinking Machines series entry where AI gets personal—hubris, a smart home turned prison, Julie Christie, and a genuinely bonkers ending. #filmsky
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What a title! I just love horror anthologies.
📽️ This week's The Next Reel episode is live!
"The Escape Artist" is one of the more obscure films we've covered — Ricky Jay trained Griffin O'Neal to do real magic in one-ers. The results are something.
What drew you to this one? #filmsky #Magicians
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📽️ The forgotten "Colossus: The Forbin Project" kicks off our Thinking Machines series. Live for members, everyone else next week!🎥
The AI works perfectly. That's the problem.
What does it mean when we build something smarter than ourselves?
#filmsky #ThinkingMachines
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📽️ This month's Movies We Like episode is live! Costume designer Jenny Beavan joins Andy and Pete on "The Leopard" — and what Piero Tosi's invisible craft still teaches designers today.
What film changed how you see costume design? #filmsky
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📽️ Returning to our Magicians series with The Escape Artist, Caleb Deschanel's feature debut and a rarely seen American fable. Two sons, two very different fathers, one story that almost holds together.
Whose arc did you think the film was actually built around? #filmsky
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So creepy!
Ghostface from Scream 7 … a promo shot from the Film Board Podcast.
Ghostface called. We picked up.
Film Board digs into Scream 7 — the chaos, the reveal, the AI angle, and whether the franchise has anything left to it. Tommy gives it sad stars. Steve defends it. @mandymiscast.bsky.social wants a musical. @itsmepete.com is easily swayed.
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🎥 Our own @sodacreekfilm.com joins Matthew on the Superhero Ethics podcast to discuss awards season and why there's so much to enjoy this time of year even if some choices make you raise your eyebrows. #BAFTAs controversy covered too! Check it out! #FilmSky
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I need to revisit it again, even if we do t end up covering it on the show. So much fun! Classic 80s.
Now Highlander… there’s a movie I haven’t seen in ages. That would be a fun one to revisit and discuss on the show. Maybe the whole franchise
We covered it on our podcast but man, we could never do that weeklong conversation justice with a master like him.
It was a phenomenal week of conversation. So much to dig into with this film. It really made for an unforgettable experience.
Roger Ebert used to come for a conference every year to the Univ of Colorado Boulder campus and would host a weeklong chat about a film, breaking it down shot by shot, scene by scene. Dark City had just come out, which he loved, and he got permission from the studio to do his breakdown with it.
Talk about a filmmaker who knows intrinsically how to make beautiful images.
Love the cover art.
We're talking about it later this season as part of our Zhang Yimou series. I haven't seen it yet so am very excited to finally check it out. I've only heard good things!
We're gearing up to record about Colossus: The Forbin Project for our show next week, kicking off a new series called The Thinking Machines. Looking forward to it!
📽️ This week's Next Reel episode is live! 🎥
Michael B. Jordan steps behind the camera for "Creed III"—and Pete and Andy can't stop arguing about whether the script earns the film's final fight. What do you think: does "Creed III" land the legacy question? 🥊 #filmsky
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Worth it if you get the chance!
Two crazy people working together
Such a great movie. And a great doc about getting it made too!
