Alonso Duralde

Alonso Duralde

@aduralde.bsky.social

Film critic (thefilmverdict.com) Podcaster (linoleumcast.bsky.social bfastallday.bsky.social maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social deckthehallmark.bsky.social) Member, LAFCA & NSFC. Books: HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE XMAS, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE. he/him🌹🏳️‍🌈🎄📽

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Do you host a podcast about: 📽 Film 📚 Books 🎄 Christmas 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Culture 📺 Pop Culture in general ? I would love to come on your show this holiday season to talk about the updated edition of my Yuletide film guide Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas. Drop me a DM. Thanks! #filmsky #booksky

Alonso Duralde@aduralde.bsky.social

Please enjoy these wonderful podcasts that have had me on to talk about the new edition of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (thread) #filmsky #booksky 📽️ 📚

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Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

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The right can't seem to see the distance between "I just see trans people as people" and "I will force everyone to become trans whether they want to or not, so help me God"

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

I don’t think we should get used to a man this wealthy, this full of hate and this willing to demonize a small minority having so much power in our economy and in our politics. To defend democracy, we must defeat the oligarchs.

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"And an accompanying streaming deal which is due to be announced soon." Yeah, dudes, Peacock already "announced" that deal by putting it on their recently released November schedule… Don't know what to tell you. deadline.com/2026/10/alex...

deadline.com'Unbearable Christmas' With Alex Moffat, Julia Stiles Gets Sales DealStoic To Launch AFM Sales On Holiday Comedy 'Unbearable Christmas' With Alex Moffat, Julia Stiles, David Cross

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the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

checking in on the president of the united states

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Editor's note: a birth certificate does, in fact, make you an American. Unfortunately, so does institutional racism. Mickey Rooney's stunt double here can go fuck himself.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

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a dozen texts today and all of them are "hello david i am your neighbor and the election is soon and BLAH BLAH WONK WONK WONK" except i voted already for a straight communist ticket and all i want is for one of these robot messengers to tell me that first of all i am cute and have a nice mustache

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I, for one, think it’s great that the online right has decided to make the president‘s expensive and largely illegal renovations to the White House the focal point of the election

We're making "Alonsotober" a thing, as I return to @christmaspod.bsky.social to talk to Tim about some of the most iconic Ebenezers of the big and small screen. #filmsky 📽️

Can’t Wait For Christmas podcast@christmaspod.bsky.social

When you want to talk Scrooge on screen, you turn the the guy who *literally* wrote the book on Christmas movies, @aduralde.bsky.social #Scroogeapaloza #Alonsotober cantwaitforchristmaspod.com/2026/10/25/c...

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BET has some of their original Chrsitmas movies, including A WESLEY CHRISTMAS, A MIRACLE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and THE SOUND OF CHRISTMAS available to watch, for free, with ads, via their official YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@BETNetworks...

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“Oh there are a lot of things voters want to hear about — how many times I took the dementia test, how hot Jon Husted’s ass is, how great data centers are, how you’ve gotta trust the pedophiles …”

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Q: What are you hearing is the top issue for voters? Trump: I’m hearing we turned the whole thing around.

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Assholes Usually Drive It

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

If you’re thinking of buying an Audi, don’t forget that an Audi executive appeared at a Trump rally this weekend to try to boost an American dictatorship. Make your car-buying decision accordingly.

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[completely ignoring the part about saddam hussein, a dictator who built garishly opulent palaces laced in gold, because I'm an idiot who doesn't understand how anything works] how dare obama besmirch the cheesecake factory

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So if you’re furious as you fill up your tank, just remember Exxon is making a lot of money off you.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

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In fairness (sorry), the film flatlined the second it expanded from 4 to 472 screens. It's not You Can See Everything; it's four hours, with good but not great reviews, about someone who's already in our faces 24/7. But I do think we should watch for how easy, or not, it becomes to stream or rent.

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this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

This was like his 3rd glitch during the speech where he just randomly stops mid-sentence and makes a weird noise or, in this case, just opens his mouth and freezes for 3 seconds while saying nothing, then continues. Pretty sad that TV networks refuse to cover this situation.

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“I mean, not *you* … but I’m making a fucking killing. These things are great! As long as you don’t live near them, am I right?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on data centers: "I say let them come in ... you should really be cool on data centers because you can make a fortune with the data centers" (Note the total silence of the crowd during this rant!)

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Racism is not a distraction or a scam. It’s the whole point. I thought we learned this from the Nazis.

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social

It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

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scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AUBREY FLINT will get its US release the same day as the UK, with a day-and-date limited theatrical and digital release on November 6. Digital pre-orders are available now.

Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing!@sleepykittypaw.bsky.social

MERRY CHRISTMAS AUBREY FLINT looks really good to me, and that US distributor, Samuel Goldwyn Films, did put out the trailer, but without any release info (just ends with "Coming Soon"), though I've seen "December" bandied about online. youtu.be/m8_KfWfcCbg?...

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With just six half-hour episodes, POLICE SQUAD remains, pound for pound, the single funniest television program ever produced.

Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social

Huh. "Police Squad!" is coming to Netflix on November 1. That's another of those shows that has either never or almost never been streaming anywhere.

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When there’s finally an effort to hold these criminals accountable for the crimes they committed, we‘re going to see a lot of pundits wring their hands and say it’s politically motivated and insist we need to turn the page and look forward and a lot of other cliches that dumb assholes like to use.

Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

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these people are shameless!

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

“Toxic Empathy” author Allie Beth Stuckey is now asking for folks to understand that ICE has separated a good man from his family over a paperwork issue.

We made it! Welcome to the first Christmas Movie Minute of 2026.

Maximum Film!@maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social

There's a new Austen adaptation in town, and who better to gossip about it with than @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social? Plus a boatload of movie news, the first Christmas Movie Minute of the year, and a listener email that gets into esoteric interests. 🤓 #filmsky maximumfun.org/episodes/max...

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Every aspect of life as a gay man is unimaginably better than it was when I was born in the mid 80s. We beat the plague that was killing us by the hundreds of thousands and then won broad social and civic equality.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Library holiday horror titles coming to Shudder in November, include… November 1 CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980) BETTER WATCH OUT (2016) A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY (2015) DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS (1984) November 26 BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006)

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Peacock library holiday coming Nov 1… ALMOST CHRISTMAS BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS BEST MAN HOLIDAY FAMILYMAN FRIENDSGIVING VERY MERRY MUPPET CHRISTMAS IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE JINGLE ALL THE WAY LEGEND OF FROSTY THE SNOWMAN LOVE ACTUALLY MERRY FRIGGIN CHRISTMAS PLANES TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES RISE OF THE GUARDIANS