Freelance writer @DefectorMedia, @thebafflermag, @esquire, Air Bud admirer. coreyatad@gmail.com. follow me on Bsky @ coreyatad.com.
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Feb 26
a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich gq.com/story/tony-kushner-wa…
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Disclosure Day’s flaws come from Spielberg now having his head fully in Kushner mode, but getting Koepp to write the script because Kushner would never touch sci-fi
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numerous scenes where i thought to myself, “The Tony Kushner version of this is better”
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not even being cute here, the movie has action, but it’s structured on a series of mostly one-on-one philosophical conversations, and sure Koepp wrote the Jurassic Park flea circus scene, but clearly Spielberg wants Angels in America
“The great work begins.”
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i like that Josh Safdie's beard is in this photo
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Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.
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Was there (at home in front of a radio) in 1973; the wait, and the drama, and maybe understanding better the magnitude of the achievement, make this even sweeter.
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just remembered the Nixon stuff in Disclosure Day and chuckled
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kinda wanna know if that was a Spielberg thing or a Koepp thing, because it's such a specific portrait
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the difference between Spielberg and Shyamalan is that Shyamalan believes in God, while Spielberg believes in UFOs
I think Spielberg’s more hopeful notes feel almost like an ideal that he’s trying to convince himself of just as much as anyone else, but the darkness is still there (which also makes it interesting!), whereas M. Night just fully unwaveringly believes that shit
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This is a GREAT episode.
Jun 12
New pod: Cut the BS, let’s discuss who gets paid what on a massive indie hit like Obsession. With producer/professor @mynette Louie. Listen! Watch! open.spotify.com/episode/0Zh…
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RIP film critic Gene Shalit, King of the glib one-liners. On singer Glen Campbell in TRUE GRIT (1969): “Glen Campbell has never acted in films before, and his record is still clean.”
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RIP to the God of Film Criticism
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Gene Shalit, Longtime 'Today Show' Film Critic, Dies at 100 variety.com/2026/tv/news/gen…
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Jun 13
Lone Star followed by Men with Guns on 35mm with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, what a night
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Gene Shalit, Longtime 'Today Show' Film Critic, Dies at 100 variety.com/2026/tv/news/gen…
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Jun 12
oh so this guy is an IDIOT idiot
Can I just point out how funny this is, given the paper is owned by Canada’s wealthiest billionaire family, all of whom inherited their wealth.
Should we hate them for that? Of course not, because that would be gross.
But, it reflects our tall-poppy syndrome at its finest.
Personally, I’m glad that the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is getting a nice payout, as will many others who took a big risk investing in SpaceX.
I wish we had more audacious entrepreneurs making big bets and generating great jobs and wealth here in Ontario. I want to create an environment that makes it even more likely.
The world is not zero sum. The size of the pie is not fixed. If we make more, everyone can get a big piece.
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