writer, director, would rather be a storm chaser

Nashville, TN
Joined January 2009
Somehow missed THE SHOUT getting a Criterion release and just watched it in 720p on YouTube as reference for an upcoming project. Ha. Guess I'll end up watching it again once it gets here next week. Great movie.
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Josh Raby retweeted
RIP Tom Skerritt. A great actor who had an uncanny ability to show up in the most iconic movies, even if it was with the briefest part. I did a wide-ranging talk with him a few years ago that's still one of my favorite interviews [Gift link]: vulture.com/2021/10/tom-sker…
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Just watched one of the best horror movies ever made
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I'm a lifelong casual, takes a lot to get me to sit down and play, but the name BioWare was, for a very long time, all the assurance I needed. This is awful news.
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If you weren't already aware "It's here to stay; get used to it" could be directly translated as "JESUS CHRIST ALL THE MONEY'S ON FIRE" maybe this will help
BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.
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Certainly interesting that many of the biggest and best movies of the year are all grappling with living in a post-truth existence, we're all spinning narratives for ourselves and the world that we cannot necessarily complete
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I would say having not seen the film yet but loving documentaries that the death of doc filmmaking came when we taught audiences that documentaries only exist as an extension of journalism and not a legitimate branch of the art of moving pictures. The only rule is to document.
Replying to @AkilahObviously
I cannot articulate why it feels fascist to destroy the art of documentary filmmaking. Another institution that kinda wasn’t a problem. Partially think it should’ve been a reality show??
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The thing about the original Unsolved Mysteries is it had his voice coupled with some of the best direction of all time. I have piles of reference pulled from that show. I loved horror movies as a kid, but Unsolved Mysteries kept me up at night.
Replying to @JoshRaby
Few things horrify me to this day as completely as Robert Stack's voice. It terrorized my childhood and never let up.
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I just want to meet someone that had the same reaction to this moment in “Samuel’s Ghost”
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No disrespect, guy’s got a good voice, but you should not be allowed to host Unsolved Mysteries wearing anything but a suit. Farina often skipped the tie, but he always had his jacket on.
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We used to be a proper country, etc
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Josh Raby retweeted
Coming of age in the DC suburbs, before making my way online later in the 00s, I’d pore over the film section of the WP Friday arts supplement every weekend; Ann was my first favorite film critic, and shaped my early ideas of what film criticism could do; I owe her a great deal
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I ain’t ever seen a critter or a ghoulie sing “New York, New York”, I’ll tell you that much
would u rather be friends with a ghoulie, critters or a gremlin
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Josh Raby retweeted
I was happy to write a little something about my friend and colleague Richard Riehle for Variety.
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Sort of. They know they’re lying. They do. But they don’t think of truth as related to any individual claim. There is a bigger truth, the only truth, and it’s Them, or the Idea of Them, and they believe they’re honest about *that*. Everything else is an inconvenience or quibble.
What people misunderstand about Elizabeth Holmes is— an effective manipulator does genuinely believe what they’re saying, and does genuinely believe they’re doing nothing wrong. And a REALLY effective manipulator is kind of right.
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If someone had never seen a horror movie before and asked me which one to start to get into horror, I would pick Poltergeist.
Hadn’t watched Poltergeist since I was a kid. Watching it now, it really is phenomenal and still pretty scary
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That said, one of my dearest friends just showed it to his young kid for the first time and the kid said “That wasn’t scary at all.” Real Principal Skinner moment for me. I still stand by it.
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A movie I co-wrote starts shooting tomorrow. This is a first for me. I’m 43. Don’t ever quit.
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