Clint Worthington

@clintworthing

Writer/Critic/Meat Popsicle -- assistant editor @ RogerEbert.com, editor in chief The Spool. Words: Block Club Chicago, Consequence.

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Clint Worthington@clintworthing· 26d

Fuck it, here's me in a pre interview fit (for an upcoming Ebert piece), feeling myself for once

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· 28d

Revisiting 20TH CENTURY WOMEN for the first time since release; it... Might be a perfect motion picture? Such intricate, delicate textures, women teaching men what they think/hope men should be, bristling at the moments they fall short.

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· 29d

THE ODYSSEY: Lots to unpack here about Nolan revisiting the same concerns Nolan covered in OPPENHEIMER (Trojan Horse = Atom Bomb?), but it's mostly a grimly poignant epic. Also feels like Matt Damon on the other side of the war picture after SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. "Earn this."

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Jul 7

Early was such a vulnerable, open book with me, and that came out especially in exchanges like these:

Q: You mentioned that so much of you came out of this process, and I wonder how that translates to your relationship to Maddie as a character. What was it in the soul of her that you really wanted to inhabit? There’s this camp element, of course, but there’s a sincerity that comes with knowing her struggle, even if the stuff around her is a little over-the-top.

A: At the end of the day, I’m a deeply feeling, schmaltzy kind of person; to quote Deena, “It’s cool that you care.” And then Maddie goes, “It’s pathetic!” That’s the two sides of me, you know? I care, and I’m embarrassed that I care. So I try to layer on, I don’t know how many layers of irony, to mitigate the caring—to make less of a firehouse of sincerity and intensity. So I chose an archetype and a sensitive issue to work from, I think. This all moved so fast that it really felt like I didn’t know what I was doing.

But as time went on, and the more distance I got from it, I think I deliberately chose something so hot-button. It’s not relevant, of course; people have been talking about bulimia since the ’90s. But it is sensitive. I knew the only way through was to approach it with total commitment and sincerity. So, without realizing it, I created a project where I would be at the proverbial gunpoint and tap into the part of me that is a deeply feeling person who cares and is very sentimental.

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Jul 5

Also, these bomb ass ribs I made.

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Jul 5

Tonight's Fourth of July movie marathon is brought to you by: Michael Bay's America.

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Jun 27

Oceans Are Now Conversations

Dedication page:

THIS BOOK IS I

DEDICATED TO

THE SEA

A place of endless mystery, adventure, and beauty. And to all those who ply its surface and plumb its depths

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Jun 27

What better way to close out a beach vacation with family than to pick up a book of nautical fiction written by *checks notes* Gene Hackman??

Yes I snuck in feet pics on main, you're welcome

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Jun 25

Congrats to my sister in law, who just got engaged today!🎉 🎊 🥳 🎇

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Jun 22

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social:

And, Forky also has his own struggles in this movie: managing a relationship with Karen Beverly. Is Forky’s marriage the healthiest relationship one of your characters has ever had?

That’s a genius question. Okay, let me just track this.

I mean, Forky is kind of overwhelmed by and a little bit scared of Karen Beverly.

But I also love that, because he always keeps it real, and one of his lines is “I love her, but this is gonna be hard.”

Well, you know, they got married so young.

He works fast.

He was literally born yesterday.

And the only other married people he knows are the Potato Heads. And they’ve been around the whole franchise.

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Jun 13

Tonight's queer viewing: a film about committing self destruction by twink

The Letterboxd description for Luchino Viscontis Death in Venice

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· May 31

James DeMonaco writing all his Purge movies

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· May 22

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· May 4

About to revisit a high school ugly-cry sci-fi classic on honest to God film. God, I love the movies. @chicagocritics.bsky.social

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Apr 26

This could be us but u playin

Two backhoes/excavators parked facing each other, right up against each other on a city street. They kissin

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Apr 26

That said, the nerd in me will never forgive Jamie (or anyone else on the panel) for this

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Apr 14

Ope, juror badge secured - look out Orlando, I'm inside you

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Apr 14

What playing Crossplay with the wife is like

It's gonna let me play a racial slur that's also a kind of martial arts and it's so many points. And I'm using it like the martial arts definition. Don't freak out

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Apr 14

Oh FUCK YOU CROSSPLAY

The fucking New York Times crossplay app not letting me play the word "gooner." hate crime

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Apr 10

Update: the hole they dug to install the drain cap is finally filled, and I want so bad to put a headstone here

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Apr 3

Today, my wife Julia turns 35 (the Company year!) - we've been together for 15 whole ass years, through heaps of ups and downs and moves and deaths and promotions and pets and you name it. She's supported me through thick and thin, and I love her so much.

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Apr 2

This piece a really big hit among the kody kontingent

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Mar 31

Sighted in the stall of a Chicago movie theater bathroom; maybe the kids are all right

A bathroom stall door with the words "JD VANCE A BITCH" scrawled on it in Sharpie

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Mar 29

Trying a little play with presentation a bit at C2E2 today (clipons; maybe a piercing can come later)

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Mar 29

Me when I swallow

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Mar 28

Taking tonight to do that rarest and goofiest of things: going to a concert of a band from your adolescence that you otherwise never engaged with

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Mar 27

I cannot emphasize enough how the wacky old-age makeup they give these folks so that 40somethings can look 80 and 20somethings can look 50 is, to me, a feature and not a bug

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Mar 21

Checking another Taskmaster fave off my standup bucket list:

The empty stage for Mae Martin's show at the Riviera in Chicago

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Mar 18

Just in case you needed to see the end product: A black bean bolognese with beef, an Asian fusion versiony kidney of dish with ginger and black bean garlic sauce to help the bolognese get that deeper flavor without a whole lot of stewing. It's sooo good.

Clint Worthington@clintworthing· Mar 18

You know what's underrated? Cooking with wine while drinking the wine you're cooking with.