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@itsmonique

I'm a movie quoting, parking lot dancing, glasses-wearing, pop culture blerd. In short an ENTP to the fullest.

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monique@itsmonique·
@Nan_dre_ I think about changing this every time I open the app and yet I keep landing here
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Nandre@Nan_dre_·
Hello, please reply to this tweet with your letterboxd top 4 as a screenshot for an upcoming stream where I perform fortune telling based on your favorite films, guess your heights, and recommend one movie i think you will enjoy
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Matthew A. Cherry@MatthewACherry·
Was listening to Raye's album like this sounds like Hans Zimmer produced some of these songs and lo and behold.
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monique@itsmonique·
This should've been a "summer blockbuster"
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

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Kendra Grace
Kendra Grace@msKendraGrace·
How lucky we are to live in a time where Nolan and Coogler share custody of 70mm IMAX cameras and Ludwig Göransson
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DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm·
SINNERS stats: • 4 Oscars • 3 BAFTAs • 2 Grammys • 2 Actor Awards • 2 Golden Globes • A on CinemaScore • $370M+ worldwide • 4 Critics Choice Awards • 97% on Rotten Tomatoes • One of the best reviewed wide-release films of the decade
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🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤
🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤@VHSDVDBLURAY4K·
Guillermo Del Toro doing King of the hill with Horror Classics
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Film Festival
Film Festival@LifeIsAFilmFest·
For last minute watch/rewatches, all the 2026 Oscar nominations and where the films are streaming: Best Picture 
Bugonia (Peacock)
F1 (Apple TV)
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Hamnet (Peacock)
Marty Supreme (VOD)
One Battle After Another (HBO Max)
The Secret Agent (Hulu)
Sentimental Value (VOD)
Sinners (HBO Max, Prime)
Train Dreams (Netflix) Best International Feature 
The Secret Agent (Hulu)
It Was Just an Accident (Hulu)
Sentimental Value (VOD)
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab (VOD) Best Animated Feature Arco (VOD) Elio (Disney+) KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (VOD) Zootopia 2 (Disney+) Best Documentary Feature 
The Alabama Solution (HBO Max)
Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple TV)
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (VOD)
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix) Best Director 
Hamnet, Chloé Zhao
Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
Sinners, Ryan Coogler Best Actor 
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (Netflix)
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent Best Actress 
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (HBO Max)
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue (Peacock)
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia Best Supporting Actor 
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value Best Supporting Actress 
Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons (HBO Max)
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another Best Adapted Screenplay 
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams Best Original Screenplay 
Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners Best Animated Short 
Butterfly (YouTube: youtu.be/Y5u1XJHr-UE) Forevergreen (YouTube: youtu.be/B4EPW7JUMTM)
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (YouTube: youtu.be/SeUfcc2trjs)
Retirement Plan(YouTube: youtu.be/2Mqa4zfJdx4)
The Three Sisters Best Casting 
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sinners Best Cinematography 
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
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Sinners
Train Dreams Best Costume Design 
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners Best Makeup and Hairstyling 
Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine (HBO Max)
The Ugly Stepsister (Hulu, Shudder) Best Original Score 
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners Best Live-Action Short 
Butcher’s Stain (Kanopy)
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama (YouTube: youtu.be/dxpjzOLVRR0)
The Singers (Netflix)
Two People Exchanging Saliva (YouTube: youtu.be/RuOEEu--j2Y) Best Original Song 
“Dear Me”, Diane Warren: Relentless (VOD)
“Golden”, KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied To You”, Sinners
“Sweet Dreams of Joy”, Viva Verdi! (jolt.film/watch/vivaverdi)
“Train Dreams”, Train Dreams Best Documentary Short 
All the Empty Rooms (Netflix)
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (HBO Max)
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy (HBO Max)
Perfectly a Strangeness (Criterion Channel, Kanopy) Best Film Editing 
F1
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Sinners Best Production Design 
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Sinners Best Sound 
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Train Dreams Best Visual Effects 
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Jurassic World Rebirth (Netflix)
The Lost Bus (Apple TV)
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Variety
Variety@Variety·
Universal Pictures is extending its theatrical window in a major strategy reversal: • The studio has committed to a minimum five-weekend exclusive run in 2026 and seven weekends in 2027 before their films move to home entertainment. • The move is a major win for theater owners, who have long argued audiences won’t rush to cinemas if movies arrive at home just weeks later. • “Our windowing strategy has always been designed to evolve with the marketplace, but we firmly believe in the primacy of theatrical exclusivity,” NBCUniversal Entertainment chair Donna Langley told the New York Times. variety.com/2026/film/news…
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📸 Bruce Cares🪴🐝
📸 Bruce Cares🪴🐝@Bruce_Cares·
The little Black Alt babies are doing scene hair but with braids and my heart is so full 🥹🥹🥹
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Mairin 🌻🌸 Thank you Kaori and Wakaba 🌻🌸
The ballet vs hiphop in figure skating discourse has me thinking of one of my all-time favorite SYTYCD performances. Please enjoy watching ballet dancer Alex doing hip hop alongside the brilliant hip hop dancer Twitch (RIP)
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Pop Base
Pop Base@PopBase·
Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores — who found that: • There are 306 Black-owned bookstores nationwide (8% of independent bookstores) • 14 states have no Black-owned bookstore • Nearly 90% report annual revenue at under $250,000 • Sales of books by Black authors declined by 14%, despite an increase in overall print sales Check out the directory: nab2.org/state-of-black…
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IAMNJERA
IAMNJERA@IAMNJERA·
Ryan Coogler breaking down the little-known aspects of film to get audiences interested is what we all needed after the pandemic’s impact on the theatrical experience. He reminded folks about the magic of moviemaking again, & that’s why Sinners has remained top of mind for almost a year.
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dior ✞
dior ✞@deeore5·
when DMX said "y'all gon make me lose my mind" he was probably at work
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dante
dante@allthingsdante·
Aldis Hodge leading CROSS on Amazon Idris Elba leading HIJACK on Apple Sterling K Brown leading PARADISE on Hulu Keke Palmer leading THE BURBS on Peacock Tessa Thompson leading HIS & HERS on Netflix Yahya leading WONDERMAN on Disney+ My’hala leading INDUSTRY on HBO 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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