Sonny Bunch
@SonnyBunch
Culture editor at The Bulwark. Words: WaPo, Atlantic, WFB, Commentary, etc. Pods: @SubBeacon; Bulwark Goes to Hollywood; Across the Movie Aisle. "Deranged."
Hahahaha oh man. Things are even worse at Twitter than I thought.
They’re giving everyone with a lot of verified followers free Premium/+ now. Probably to keep you posting
Hoping this kickass robot makes that super dog from the last movie look like a real piece of crap.
That CEMETERY MAN 4K is a must-own. Highly recommended.
The SEVERIN SUMMER SALE 2025 is less than a week away, here's a handy list of the titles that are ON SALE for 50% off SRP for the first time!
NYC: The extremely rare, official director's cut of Albert Pyun's Captain America is screening on August 1st at Regal Union Square as part of AAIFF. Truly not to be missed, an entirely different film from the one you've seen. aaiff.org/aaiff48/captai…
Would also add that our cultural barbell gets more and more severe (not necessarily in a bad way) each year. The Big Things that are Growing get implausibly big. The middle class is all but cut out, and the boutique/niche/small whatever you wanna call it get far more obsessive.
The only thing I'd add: it's indicative of the fairly terminal state of linear TV more broadly and broadcast TV specifically. And the specific mode of TV watching for late night—often in bed, killing time before sleep overtakes you—has been replaced entirely by phone time.
I’m not gonna lie: this line and this line read made me laugh and laugh. It made me laugh and laugh in the 90s and then again 30 years later. Norm Macdonald was the best of us. The new Vinegar Syndrome DIRTY WORK release is amazing.
A conservative-ish film studio in Dallas? Never been tried before!
A @maxwelltani mustread on a new effort by a Palantir exec to remake Hollywood
The only real conclusion to be drawn from Trump playing culture war hits like “bring the Redskins back” is that he is terrified of the Epstein stuff and terrified of losing his base by refusing to release the files.
Harry Potter as a book series was already wildly successful before any of that happened.
The Roald Dahl books, while hugely culturally important, did not have the single-minded and rapidly-moving machinery of several international conglomerates working behind them to craft movies, theme parks and online spaces to turn them into an augmented reality - or a lifestyle.
"The little box is an accelerant, one that connects people all over the country: It makes problems in your town problems in my town, it builds bridges between disparate communities of nutjobs." ICYMI @SonnyBunch reviews "Eddington": thebulwark.com/p/eddington-re…
Anime is taking over the world! I talked to Mitchel Berger at Crunchyroll about a big new survey they put together showing the attachment Gen Z/Gen Alpha has to the medium, as well as their (insanely successful) efforts in streaming and theaters. thebulwark.com/p/why-anime-is…
Criterion Collection announces they're adding an anime channel to their streaming service in August
Okay I just finished the first Death Stranding and … well …
Every time I see a clip of this game it feels like someone is playing a prank on me in an effort to convince me a fake game is real.