Michael S. Duffy

Ph.D., Film Scholar/Media Historian, Special/Visual Effects, University of Nottingham and #NYU Alum

[dasha @dash_eats]

Simply too late for me but if you think you even could love someone you must take desperate measures to reach them

[Scott McCrea Adventures @ScottMcCreaWest]

This is going to sound silly, but The Incredible Hulk was GREAT television. Yeah, one third of them were stupid disco-trucker stories, and one third watered down The Fugitive. But the remaining third was often brilliant; a better ratio than most people realize. Bixby was great.

[Laurens Grant @LaurensGrant]

I didn't create this but will continue to share....just SO enraging. They own it all!

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales, growing 16% through June, according to a market research group. https://t.co/YwhOhieyrZ

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

A digital traffic sign on Los Angeles’ 405 Freeway was hacked to display the address of a website targeting Iranian dissidents, the New York Post reported.

The sign, near Persian Square in Westwood, displayed https://t.co/2zPLTB35uF, a website that described itself as part of a campaign to identify and punish people it called “traitors to the homeland.”

Caltrans confirmed that an unauthorized message had appeared on the sign and said it alerted the contractor on Sept. 15 to restore normal operations. The agency said a review of the message and access history was ongoing, the Post reported.

The report said the website has been linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Iranian-born critic Emel Karsaz said her name, photograph and personal details appeared on the site and that she filed a report with the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.

According to the report, the FBI did not confirm whether it was investigating the freeway sign breach.
https://t.co/Ulzuw4vcth

[lorenzo @vincegallodaily]

This really sums up 2026

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New poster for Mike Flanagan's ‘CARRIE’ series.

Releasing October 7 on Prime Video.

[Marshall Herskovitz @MHerskovitz]

There is effectively no antitrust enforcement left in the US government, overturning 135 years of bipartisan policy. Blame Bonta all you want, but this death-knell merger could only have been stopped by the feds.
Billionaires - and their foreign friends - now own America.

[Kellie Meyer @KellieMeyerNews]

With CNN banned from the White House and taken off the TV pool list for today, (they were originally listed as pool for Monday and for the President’s trip to the UN General Assembly) other major TV networks are standing by the outlet and, in an astonishing move, all together deciding not to cover events designated as pool coverage of the President.

What is important for people at home to understand about how this affects all of us is that the footage taken by one of the five major TV networks in the White House pool rotation (CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS) goes out to local affiliates across the country and throughout the world.

If people don’t get this footage from the main 5 outlets, then the only footage left comes from the White House itself.

As former WHCA president Weijia Jiang
@weijia put it yesterday, “America cannot have state TV.”

Right now there is no major TV pool covering the President’s movements.

[Variety @Variety]

Paramount has reached a deal with 12 state attorneys general that removes a major obstacle to closing its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

The deal comes just before the company was to begin accruing a $7 million daily “ticking fee” on Oct. 1. https://t.co/1VwaQfHHmB

[Jason Brodsky @JasonMBrodsky]

😂😂

[Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm]

Everyone in this photo has contributed a lot to film culture. I know (and love) a few of them.
But there were lots of great female film people there that night.

[𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖆 @sunlove]

400 years of human evolution in 1 photo

[d4doome @d4doome]

There's a lot of hostility towards A CLOCKWORK ORANGE these days because it makes people cry. It's an intelligent provocative movie and intelligent provocative movies are very much out of fashion among the "everything should have a trigger warning" brigade.

[TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog]

Reminder: Fuck Russia.

Happy Monday!

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Before the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens to the public on Tuesday, George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, threw an opening night celebration that will go down in the Hollywood history books. https://t.co/h8b1vz0pRp

[priscilla page @BBW_BFF]

a perfect movie. highly recommend checking out this screening (with an introduction by Isabel Sandoval!) if you can https://t.co/mjqEH6xL5A

[Alan Poirier @alan_poirier]

In case anyone is wondering what #Greenland is all about.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Iranians gathered in cities including Houston, Munich, Austin, Sacramento, Düsseldorf and Madrid on Sunday to mark the fourth anniversary of the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, videos sent to Iran International showed. Demonstrators chanted in solidarity with people in Iran and in support of exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi, calling for an end to the Islamic Republic.