@cheryanne@aus.socialCharlie Chats Movies
Welcome to my film and TV podcast, where I invite friends to discuss and debate anything in the arts...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/charlie-chats-movies/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBen Affleck, who sold his AI company InterPositive to Netflix for nearly $600M, says Hollywood's AI panic is subsiding and the tech is not a "terrifying alien" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m
@tgpo@social.linux.pizzaApparently, I am sincerely asking a coworker "Who is Tom Holland?" years old. 👴
#movies
@Nathan@social.lostinok.comTook my daughter to see Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in the theaters tonight. Still slightly disappointed to raise her in a world without Gene Wilder in it, but I’ll do the best with what we have.
#movies #genewilder
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/…
@cdarwin@c.imSony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that
they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies
and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal.
As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 titles from the PlayStation Store.
In a legal notice first spotted by gaming news outlet PlayStation LifeStyle,
Sony said that affected customers will lose the ability to stream titles i…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukDeath of Stalin has to be one of my favourite movies. Have seen it so many times and it always makes me laugh.
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.deToday's events just reassured me that regularly buying music and movies in a way, that I can truly own them, was the right call, and I should buy more games DRM-free on GOG or itch, if they are available, there.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLetter: WGAE withdrew its sponsorship of NY film festival Urbanworld after it unveiled a new programming section for directors using generative AI in their work (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/movies/urbanworld-writers-guild-ai.htm…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldHome Movies
Check out a home movie from 1967.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/home-movies/
@cheryanne@aus.socialPhysical Film Files
From the film itself, to the artwork, the packaging, and the special features—this is about celebrating movies the physical way...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/physical-film-files/
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.deSo let me get this straight:
- The next console generation will likely cost 1k
- It will be digital only
- Prolly no good sales for that reason
- They can remove the games however they want like they are already practicing with movies
So buying digital DRM-free on PC is superior, at this point?!
#ConsoleGaming
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAMC Theatres launches Leawood Films, a new label for distributing small and mid-sized movies while allowing filmmakers to maintain ownership of their feature IP (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/amc-theaters-leawood-films-launch-12370…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI collected some home movies on my family reunion trip last week. #genealogy #familyhistory
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.c…
@Defiance@sfba.socialAli G is back??
#film #movies #comedy
https://www.…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI haven’t seen the Odyssey movie yet, but this is an interesting commentary on it and the zeitgeist were in.
#movies
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/busines
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaFinally got around to moving from Trakt to SIMKL as Trakt just keeps firing shotgun at their own feet at every turn. I hope SIMKL doesn’t end up the same way :-S #movies
@sherold@mastodon.online"Doesn't surprise me much that the most impressive examples of AI cinema lately revolved around memes coming to life."
Credits: Alex Patrascu, @maxescu on X.com.
https://x.com/maxescu/status/2092666875201163720
@jake4480@c.imFinal trailer for Coyote vs. Acme: #CoyoteVsAcme #movies
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe case to buy physical media: Sony is removing all purchased Studio Canal movies from users libraries - no refunds - including:
▫️ Terminator 2: Judgment Day
▫️ Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
▫️ Hot Fuzz
▫️ Total Recall
▫️ Rambo: First Blood
▫️ Paddington
▫️ Moonlight
▫️ Bridget Jones’s Diary
☑️ Sony Removes Hundreds of Purchased PlayStation Store Movies From Customer Libraries
@crell@phpc.social
@luana@wetdry.worldSony wants to kill the one and only console advantage over PCs
And this comes right after they removed many bought movies from user libraries, providing no refund at all
At least Sony also announced they won't subsidize consoles as much anymore, so at least people will be less prone to get a console over a PC (even tho they're probably doing this thinking on fueling game streaming)
Oh and Sony also said they won't be porting their games to PC anymore so that sucks.
@gwire@mastodon.socialI was watching Hindi action movie "Alpha" on Netflix, and there's a scene where they build up to a big reveal of... some guy. Or rather, a character from a series of movies I'd never seen. I got a brief sense of what it must be like for a normal person to watch their first Marvel movie without having spent their youth marinated in its lore.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialA ladle is rarely counted among a witch's famous implements, but how else are they going to dole out potions from a steaming hot cauldron?
Plus, you can whack a goblin with it if they try to get rowdy.
Demand better from your books, movies, and video games. Demand equippable magic ladles.
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaI think pairing Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story as a double feature with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert might make people less friendly towards that latter.
#Movies
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Weyes Blood:
🎵 Movies
#WeyesBlood
https://weyesblood.bandcamp.com/track/movies
https://open.spotify.com/track/6f4itfvWzS59Qu7JWorhxn
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.orgIt took me about 1 to 2 hours and a #RaspberryPi 4 to set up my own #Jellyfin installation.
This is basically a „private #Spotify“ with your own music (also handles movies/shows but I‘m not using that). With Manet, there‘s also a very slick iOS app to use with the Jellyfin server.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI will be using this insult everywhere now.
#TheOdyssey #meme #movies
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @Techmeme@techhub.socialNBCU and YouTube reach a multiyear deal to include all Peacock content in YouTube Premium subscriptions in the US starting in early 2027 (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nbcuniversal-youtube-peacock-premium-subscribers.html…
@padraig@mastodon.ie
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 49 nodes and 180 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldCounting Dogs And Broken Films
Athena apparently knows exactly how many treats she’s supposed to get, while my dad’s old home movies proved a little less cooperative. Between updating my genealogy site and repairing a broken 8mm film, it was a surprisingly busy quiet week.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI have written a movie review of a movie I have not yet seen. I read one too many reviews of it, and figured I'd give it a shot.
Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
I hope you find it entertaining!
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/movie-re
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaDo you know what happens when a fan to movies and series like me comes back from vacation without having seen a single episode of my favorite shows or any cool new releases in the last three weeks?
Well, it's time for Netflix, HBO, Disney Channel… Ha! Just kidding. P2P. Fuck them and their rules about when I can watch all this stuff and at what (ever-changing) price.
@cheryanne@aus.socialCan You Give Me A Flick?
Bryce and Nic both are both involved in the entertainment industry and they both love movies! While Bryce scoffs at Nic's artistic and glossy recommendations, Nic turns his nose at Bryce's gritty and often macho taste...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI love how in early movies when someone got an email the computer makes a loud noise since it was a special occasion. With the amount of emails nowadays that would get irritating.
@anneroth@systemli.social
@enriquericos@mastoart.socialWhen I am halfway depressed (no, I'm not trivializing the term), there are three movies that help: Alien, Aliens and The Thing.
So I'm shutting down news feeds, comms and reality itself. I'll be relaxing in cold, hostile places with terrifying monsters, thank you very much.
#depression #movies #coping
@publicvoit@graz.social @tgpo@social.linux.pizza @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHarvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sexual assault on a Project Runway staffer, in what could be his third and final sentencing (Nancy Dillon/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 46 nodes and 191 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @davidaugust@mastodon.online @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFilmLA: on-location shooting of shows and movies in Los Angeles fell 12% YoY in Q2, falling to 4,711 shoot days, down from 5,394 in Q2 2025 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/filmla-production-decline-q2-2026/
@Nathan@social.lostinok.comI’m a little late to the party, but watched Perfect Days by Wim Wenders tonight. A truly beautiful film that is as close to perfect as you can get. #movies
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialParamount's WBD settlement comes under harsh criticism from Mark Ruffalo, Connecticut's AG, and media advocacy groups over consolidation and workforce concerns (Matt Stevens/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/movies/paramount-agreement-reac…
@cheryanne@aus.socialMeDIDa
A podcast analysing all sorts of media about multiplicity and dissociative identity disorder. Books, movies, television, gaming, and beyond...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/medida/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @bobmueller@mastodon.worldAthena apparently knows how to count. At least, she knows when I short her one treat.
Meanwhile, I upgraded my genealogy site and managed to break one of Dad’s old 8mm films during digitization. Fortunately, it broke at a splice, and I found a clever way to repair it.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.co…
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaThis might be my favorite movie review ever.
> One of the worst films I have a very screen. Terrible writing, acting and terrible dialogue.
#Movies
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInternal docs: Paramount plans to launch a free tier for movies and shows in Q3, requiring users to register via email (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/paramount-free-tier-pluto-tv-streaming-youtube-tubi-elliso…
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 12 nodes and 42 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/sony-ce
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldDigitizing old home movies has been opening the memory vaults. Then a random genealogy search uncovered my Uncle Ross’s witness statement about a B-24 Liberator lost over Germany in 1944.
Now I have a whole new trail to follow as I research his WWII service—and maybe even the aircraft he flew.
https://www.bo…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFocus Features' horror hit Obsession crosses $500M in gross at the global box office, becoming the highest grossing film ever with a budget of less than $1M (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-…
@cheryanne@aus.socialChemistry Read
A smart, funny culture podcast unpacking the TV shows, movies, books and documentaries we can't stop thinking about, and what they reveal about relationships, friendship, sex, identity and human behaviour...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/chem…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldFamiliarly Unfamiliar
Digitized home movies are stirring memories of things I’d forgotten, while a random genealogy search uncovered something much bigger: my uncle’s witness statement about a B-24 bomber lost over Germany in World War II.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/familiarl
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @cheryanne@aus.socialHorror Movie Massacre
A fortnightly podcast exploring the conception, creation, and cultural impact of your favourite horror movies...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/horror-movie-massacre/
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 47 nodes and 219 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldA temporary pool pump, a replacement pump, some major menu changes, and the beginning of a project I’ve wanted to tackle for years: digitizing my old 8mm home movies.
The first reel dates from 1961 and includes my parents, my infant brother, and several other relatives. I’ve had these films since around 2000, so finally seeing what survived all those years—and seeing some family members who are no longer with us—was pretty special.
@cheryanne@aus.socialHitchPod - A Podcast About Alfred Hitchcock Movies
A podcast about the movies of Alfred Hitchcock...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle's free, ad-supported streamer Google TV Freeplay adds VOD support, letting users choose from over 10,000 shows and movies, and expands its live TV lineup (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/978152/google-tv-freeplay-on-demand
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldNew Life for Old Movies
The pool saga finally seems to be over, I’m making some significant changes to our menu, and I’ve started digitizing old 8mm home movies—including footage of family members who have been gone for decades. Plus, it’s football season again.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/new-life-
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTheater execs are split on the Paramount-WBD deal, as Paramount offers to guarantee 30 films annually for three years; California's AG wants asset divestitures (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/am…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA group of House lawmakers launches the Movies, Music, Entertainment & Sports Caucus amid an industry push for a federal film and TV tax incentive (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/house-entertainment-caucus-sydney-kamlager-dove-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demovielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.).
This network has 24129 nodes and 95580 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAlamo Drafthouse is launching a distribution program for indie movies that were well-received at film festivals but didn't attract traditional distributors (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/alamo-drafthous…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Netflix will report box office grosses for six upcoming movies with theatrical releases, including La Bola Negra, which will have 46 days in theaters (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-report-box-office-the…
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow special-edition popcorn buckets designed for major movies became lucrative; AMC Theatres estimates they will generate $100M in revenue this year (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/bus…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demovielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.).
This network has 24129 nodes and 95580 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHollywood is having its best year since 2019, with global ticket sales up 15% YoY in the first seven months and five movies crossing $1B in revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-hollywood-movies-are-back/
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWith the addition of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, four movies in 2026 have earned $1B at the box office globally, the most in one year since the Covid pandemic (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/hollywood-2026-billion-dollar-movies.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: California's settlement talks with Paramount include a $30M penalty for each film short of Paramount's pledge to release 30 movies per year in theaters (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNorth America's 2026 summer box office revenue of $4.76B is 17% below 2019, adjusted for inflation; est. Jan. 1-Aug. 16 tickets fell 30% vs. same period in 2019 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/07/business/media/summ…
