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Paul

AdventureComedyScience Fiction

Directed by Greg Mottola

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien… From TMDB

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Paul is a 2011 adventure comedy science fiction film, directed by Greg Mottola, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen.

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  • Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

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  • Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2026

    PAUL NEWMAN’s advice to young Actors: “Study your craft, and know who you are and what’s special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set. Make sure you live life, which means don’t do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.”

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  • Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    PAUL NEWMAN’s advice to young actors: “Study your craft, and know who you are. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions & listen. Make sure you live life, which means don’t do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.”

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  • shing yin khor @shing.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2025

    I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

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  • Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2026

    This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.

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  • Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    Jake Paul looks like the first guy Jason Statham kills in every movie.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2024

    I’m sorry but going to Auschwitz to play a montage of fake posts implying your website could prevent the Holocaust is like something Paul Verhoeven would put in a movie that critics would call cartoonishly unsubtle

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  • MetalAusten 🦅🇺🇲🔥 @metalausten.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2025

    Jimmy Fallon-"Can you tell me anything about the movie?" Paul Rudd-"No, it's Marvel. You know super secret, important stuff. It's not like War Plans or anything." 💀💀💀

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  • Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2025

    If you’ve seen the new Paul Thomas Anderson film I think you realize right away that today’s Supreme Court is run by “Christmas Adventurers” now.

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  • Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    PHANTOM WIFE is my favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie

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  • Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    Sideways (2004) is a brilliant film. It might even be my favourite Alexander Payne movie - and he's directed a lot of good stuff. I can't think of a road trip movie with more heart, intellect and emotion, and Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church are great together. 🚗 #Filmsky #Moviesky #comedy 📽️

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  • Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    A real force in the Canadian Film Infustry - Paul leaves a blessed and positive footprint of historical proportions.

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  • pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    Sad news for film buffs. The Criterion Closet tipped over with Paul Giamatti inside. He’s currently on life support. Doctors are hopeful he’ll pull through but it’s touch and go

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    Hideo Kojima has been cast as Paul Moldebrandt in the Japanese version of 'Zootopia 2' It's his first voice acting role in an animated film (via Famitsu)

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  • Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2024

    I wish I could get into the Dune movies but they just don’t do it for me and it’s a shame because it’s the only huge movie series where the main guy is named Paul

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  • Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2026

    Trent does an excellent job here, but I was distracted by this henchman from a Paul Verhoeven movie

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  • Freezer @freezer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    The biggest lie of our generation was when everyone said The World's End was bad and Paul was a better Simon Pegg/Nick Frost movie.

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  • Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    Bill Hader doing an impression of Oliver Reed explaining the difference between acting on stage & acting on film. Love how he cracks Paul Giamatti up.

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  • FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2024

    If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a Die Hard movie.

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  • Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2026

    The new space force uniforms are directly inspired by the uniforms from the Starship Troopers film...which were inspired by the uniforms of the Nazis that Paul Verhoeven saw occupying the Netherlands during WWII

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    I know it’s the most cliched thing in the world to point at something and say it’s dystopian but for fucks sake we are all living in a Paul Verhoeven film

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Tombstone (1993) By Paul Mann

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  • Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2026

    I did a movie with Paul Gleason. Many mornings in the van on the way to location, he’d regale us with selections of his erotic poetry. Un-ironic, absolutely sincere and heartfelt readings of Paul Gleason’s erotic poetry.

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  • pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2025

    After watching One Battle After Another I think they should get Paul Thomas Anderson to direct a James Bond movie

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  • Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    Jean-Paul Sartre died in 1980. Incredible to think he may have seen the film “Every Which Way But Loose”.

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    Paul Walter Hauser, who plays Mole Man in #FantasticFour, gave the movie 3.5 stars on Letterboxd

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    The thing about living in a Paul Verhoeven movie is that those movies were fun because they weren’t actually happening

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  • Kaia 📚 @anjaciske.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    Watching The Sting again. What a film! The entire cast is terrific, the script is sharp, the costumes are fabulous. Paul Newman is brilliant, and his chemistry with Redford is off the charts!

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    Event Horizon (1997) 🎬🖤 Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

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  • Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    This is Paul Tazewell and he’s the first Black man to win an Oscar for best costume design.

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  • Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2025

    One Battle After Another, a Thomas Pynchon adaptation that Paul Thomas Anderson has dreamed of making for decades, is his first real action movie, a raunchy, funny, pulse-pounding thriller w/ Leo DiCaprio as a burnout revolutionary in a fascist dystopia that's all too real. slate.com/culture/2025...

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  • Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    NOW PLAYING: IRAN WAR THE MOVIE starring Liam Neeson, Paul Giamatti, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zach Galifianakis & Dame Judi STREAMING FREE HERE 👇

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    First logo for Curry Barker's next film ‘ANYTHING BUT GHOSTS’ • Follows 2 con artists whose fake ghost hunting business spirals out of control after encountering a real ghost • Starring Curry Barker, Cooper Tomlinson, Aaron Paul & Bryce Dallas Howard • In theaters on May 7, 2027

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  • Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.appBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    Speaking as a longtime Paul Thomas Anderson aficionado, Sinners was a way more important film — and a much smarter film — than One Battle After Another, which was entertaining at times but also full of misogynoir and bad revisionist readings of liberation movements

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  • Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    Straight out of a Paul Verhoeven movie.

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  • mtsw @mtsw.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2025

    I don't know if Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the all time great film directors but I do know he's probably the greatest-of-all-time Film Namer. Zero misses, every title is both fitting to the film and evocative and memorable.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

    ‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ has become Paul Thomas Anderson’s first film to pass $200M worldwide. Read our review: bit.ly/BattleDF

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  • Meg @meganroseruiz.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2025

    Another bubble surface paint for The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants. These were painted over drawings from the fabulously talented Thaddeus Paul Couldron!

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  • TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    This like a cutaway in a Paul Verhoeven film

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  • Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2025

    Today I saw Avengers: Endgame for the first time and tomorrow I’m going to see Friendship, which is a little inadvertent Paul Rudd film festival I’m curating.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    A live-action movie adaptation of ‘THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT’ has begun filming. Starring Willa Holland and Paul Sparks. (Source: Deadline)

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Feb 8, 2026

    Paul Thomas Anderson has won the DGA Award for Best Feature Film for ‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’.

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Young Frankenstein (1974) By Paul Shipper

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    Paul Walter Hauser has been cast in Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’ film 🧟‍♂️ (via DEADLINE)

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  • 𝙲𝙰𝙿𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙳 𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙰𝙷 @capecodpostaah.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    Tonight’s Film Selection🍿🎥🎬: The greatest hockey film ever made! (IMHO) Paul Newman & Director George Roy Hill had genuine chemistry. I’d never seen anything like the Hanson Brothers in my life & I haven’t seen anything like ‘em since! “OLD TIME HOCKEY!!” #TonightsFilmSelection

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  • Josh Adams @joshadams.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2024

    Stumbled across this Timothée Chalamet Paul Atreides portrait I did when the first Dune film came out. I always like how this turned out even if it isn't how I usually approach my work.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    Isabela Merced will star in a movie adaptation of Sega’s ‘THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD’ video game. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. (Source: Deadline)

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    The Towering Inferno (1974) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway head up an all star cast in this disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    Ella Purnell has been cast in Ari Aster's ‘SCAPEGOAT’ alongside Scarlett Johansson & Jacob Elordi. The film reportedly follows a surgeon operating on a Jake Paul-inspired character who dies during surgery. (Source: Deadline)

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  • Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    Hercule Poirot is in the public domain. There's no reason not to have a movie every year starring Paul F Tompkins.

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  • TW @twesq.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    If we’re talking film it’s either Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke or Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief

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  • NPR @npr.orgBluesky · Apr 3, 2025

    Paul Rudd stars in the new comedy-horror film Death of a Unicorn as a meek father who hits a unicorn with his car — and soon learns that's a very bad thing to do.

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    There Will Be Blood (2007) 🎬🤎 Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    these people look like parodies of news anchors. Paul Verhoeven movie-ass news anchors

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Last Starfighter (1984) By Paul Shipper

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  • Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    Blade Runner by John Paul Leon. #comics #art #film

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  • Refined Hue Magazine @refinedhue.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    Congratulations to Paul Tazewell, 1st Black Man to win an Oscar for costume design for movie. #Wicked #Oscars2025

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    Ari Aster's next film ‘SCAPEGOAT’ will reportedly follow a surgeon operating on a Jake Paul-inspired character who dies during surgery. The surgeon then faces scrutiny from his wife and brother, reportedly inspired by Erika Kirk & Logan Paul. (Source: nexuspointnews.com/exclusive-de...)

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  • weeder @weeder.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2026

    Third Paul Blart movie called Blarty Supreme

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    Event Horizon (1997) 🎬🖤 Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson

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