Alonso Duralde

@aduralde

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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Alonso Duralde@aduralde· 28d

New 4K of John Carney’s Sing Street coming in August. #filmsky 📽 lionsgatelimited.com

Photo of discs, booklets, etc. from Sing Street 4K box set

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jul 12

International DVD cover for Brain Dead (1990), starring Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton.

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jul 9

If you want the Blu-ray of Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast with the Johnny Ryan illustrations, there are only three left. #filmsky 📽️ vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

Johnny Ryan illustration of Santa Claus lying on the snow and being cut in two by a shark's fin.

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jul 8

Janus Films acquires Unzipped, with a 4K theatrical reissue coming in September. #filmsky 📽️

Black-and-white photo of Isaac Mizrahi and Cindy Crawford in Unzipped (1995)

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jul 4

Happy 102nd Birthday to the legendary Eva Marie Saint, who is still with us. #filmsky 📽

89-year-old Eva Marie Saint reclines on a couch.

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jul 2

One-sheet for the 1978 Katharine Hepburn family comedy Olly Olly Oxen Free (aka The Great Balloon Adventure)

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jul 1

According to IMDb, the US gets Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas on November 25 (limited), by which time it will have already opened in most other territories on the planet. Sony must be thinking awards and/or holidays. #filmsky 📽️

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jun 30

I'm a Wonka fanatic, but this Netflix reality show lost me -- with a vociferous "oh HELL no" -- with their "recreated voice of Gene Wilder" nonsense, even if his widow did sign off on it. #tvsky 📺

A hand with manicured, painted nails holding a Wonka Golden Ticket

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jun 23

Check out my latest physical-media column for LeonardMaltin dot com: #filmsky 📽️ leonardmaltin.com/whats-new-on...

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jun 23

#LastFourWatched #filmsky 📽️

One-sheets for Catalina Caper, Maddie's Secret, The Invite, Supergirl

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jun 20

James Burrows’ legacy as a director included more great sitcom episodes than probably anyone else in the history of television, and also one of the worst LGBTQ+–themed feature films ever made. RIP. #filmsky 📽

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jun 15

White House/UFC chief weather dude:

Chris Messina in the movie Pressure as an arrogant meteorologist who almost f—-s up D-Day by being too lazy to do competent forecasting. I’m

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Jun 9

People being real normal out here. #filmsky 📽

Instagram DM (sender’s identity blacked out); “You are single handedly bringing down the Disclosure Day metascore. Fuck you.”

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 29

For those who celebrate Hallmark Channel's Christmas in July, the network announces an unprecedented four premieres this year. (Plus a second season of their cruise-ship reality show.) #tvsky 📺 press-hallmark-1710766222.clipsource.com/post/hallmar...

Marcus Rosner and Vanessa Lengies in Snowbound for the Holidays (2026)

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 29

Please check out my monthly physical-media column for Leonard Maltin dot com: #filmsky 📽️ leonardmaltin.com/whats-new-on...

Cover of the Cinématographe 4K of Robert Altman's Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Cover of the Celluloid Dreams 4K of The Black Belly of the Tarantula

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 28

L.A.'s Instituto Cervantes is screening Plácido, Luís García Berlanga's 1961 Christmas-set satire, on June 2. Tickets are free with an advance RSVP. #filmsky 📽️ cultura.cervantes.es/losangeles/e...

Poster for the Spanish film Plácido, featuring an illustration by editorial cartoonist Summers, of a wealthy woman dangling a fish above the open mouth of a poor beggar.

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 28

My mind is blown: In 2006, I interviewed Catherine Deneuve for The Advocate, and afterwards gave her a copy of my first book. But it’s only two decades later that I realize she was photographed holding it. #filmsky #booksky 📽 📚

Getty Images shot of Catherine Deneuve holding a red purse and a copy of 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 20

Enjoy a little Christmas in June when LA’s Vista Theater screens caper thriller The Silent Partner as part of its “When Carolco Was King” series. #filmsky 📽 www.vistatheaterhollywood.com/movies/the-s...

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 20

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) and the Wombats performing at the Sydney Opera House in the finale of Starstruck (1982)

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 16

post an iconic movie image

the swirling "pink toothpaste" moment from the "Think Pink!" number in Stanley Donen's Funny Face (1957)

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 15

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 13

Varèse Sarabande announces a 40th (!) anniversary reissue of Danny Elfman's Pee-wee's Big Adventure/Back to School soundtracks in multi-colored vinyl options. #filmsky 📽️

Vinyl reissue of Danny Elfman's Pee-wee's Big Adventure/Back to School soundtrack, in red or green or splatter colors

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 12

Post a favorite childhood anti-AI episode superfriends.fandom.com/wiki/Profess....

Still from the Super Friends episode “Professor Goodfellow’s G.E.E.C.” with the professor standing in front of his supercomputer.

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 8

One of the things I love about living in this city is being able to see a 35mm screening of a mostly-forgotten flop because the rep house owned by the famous director is hosting a George Peppard retrospective. #filmsky 📽

Me, standing in front of a one-sheet of What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? at the New Beverly Cinema.

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 4

One of 2025's most unjustly overlooked releases finally gets a physical-media release in June, just in time for Pride. #filmsky 📽️ kinolorber.com/product/kiss...

Cover of the 4K for Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025)

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 2

Weekend extension! You’ve still got Saturday and Sunday to support the great shows (including Maximum Film!) of this great co-op podcast network. Just $5/mo gets you DAYS’ worth of bonus episodes! maximumfun.org/join @maximumfun.org @maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· May 1

We hit 300 - let’s take it all the way! It’s the last day of Max Fun Drive, and Max Film has a great ep today with Tre’vell Anderson! maximumfun.org/episodes/max... maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm

Maximum Film stretch goals:
200: Listener Movie Pick
300: We watch a “Kevin Classic”
400: Sit in on an episode recording

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Apr 30

Support Maximum Film! and all of the other exceptional and fiercely independent podcasts on Maximum Fun: maximumfun.org/joinmaxfilm @maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social @maximumfun.org

Picture of the Maximum Film keychain, which reads “Is This Important? Do I Care?”

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Apr 29

The big movie opening this week is about the media suffering in the wake of corporatization and consolidation. Support the shows you love, and keep them independent, by joining (or upgrading or boosting) Maximum Fun today! maximumfun.org/join @maximumfun.org @maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social

Alonso Duralde@aduralde· Apr 29

Check out my latest physical-media column for Leonard Maltin dot com: #filmsky 📽️ leonardmaltin.com/whats-new-on...