Carnivorous Death Ball was what we called my older cousin Brian, living in his mom’s basement into his 40s

Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.

lol

Ethan Hawke is 55. Here’s his 9min Ted Talk on creativity. I’ve shown this to my students to inspire them to be true to themselves as artists now & in the future. Refreshingly sincere & just great advice. youtu.be/WRS9Gek4V5Q

Strange Tales 72, 1959. Art by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.

almost posted a thought about Mamdani then remembered this tweet

Happy 5th of November!

just....enjoy this

The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?

Happy Halloween!

A very hard scene to watch but Diane Keaton is fiercely brilliant in it as Kay finally gets to call out Michael on ‘this Sicilian thing’. She was a great comic actress but was also stunning in dramatic roles as well. youtu.be/gxEvQwUJElc?...

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

He just admitted to that, and to accepting a bribe, AND planning a shakedown for more. Any other president would be in custody awaiting trial right now, like Duterte. Or convicted and awaiting sentence, like Bolsonaro.

Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

One of my favourite latterday Spielbergs. Yet another of his masterclasses in storytelling.

Welcome to the UK, where holding a sign which says “PALESTINE ACTION” (or could be interpreted as supportive of them) in a public square while protesting genocide = terrorism, but holding a sign saying “KILL EM ALL” in front of a hotel housing migrants = not terrorism, doesn’t even get you arrested.

RIP. The Limey - Tell Him I'm Coming! (1999) HD youtu.be/E9yuGEux_OI?...

From this day in 2015.

Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune Venice Film Festival, 1961 bit.ly/k41Nye

John Carpenter's The Thing was released 43 years ago today, and here's the teaser trailer. I love teasers that show nothing of what we'll see in the film, with "exclusive" shots.

43 years ago today, it was a great day for lovers of genre cinema. They woke up and had the choice of going to see Ridley Scott's Blade Runner or John Carpenter's The Thing. 👌 None was a great success, quite the contrary, and the reviews were generally mixed, if not negative. 😂

Really shockingly insensitive celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Amity Island shark attacks on here. People died!!

"Bluesky is dead" Meanwhile on Bluesky:

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

We've reached this stage a fair bit sooner than I was expecting...

I told you we’d be back

happy birthday to Frances McDormand. this excerpt is from a 2017 interview but I still think about her answer a lot. dream courtship

Yet again, #andor and the Gilroy gang was on the money www.kclu.org/2025-06-10/i...

Aw, the king of Those Guys. Absolutely fantastic in DS9's "Duet," an early episode that showed just how good the show would get.

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson in three days?! Come on, God

Describe your favorite movie in the most misleading way possible. A bar owner gets caught up in the bureaucracy of his ex-girlfriend's immigration problems.

We are not even six months into 2025, and movies have made $5.719 billion. The total for all of 2024 was $8.872 billion. But yeah, sure, cinema is dying.

That Vulture piece on AI in Hollywood is bleak. www.vulture.com/article/gene...

Powell & Pressburger alert! The BBC will again be showing a magnificent restoration of this gorgeous film this afternoon, and available on iPlayer after broadcast...

100% this from Tony Gilroy

Five favorite black and white movies: Seven Samurai The Apartment The Haunting 12 Angry Men Raging Bull

I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.

What DEATH OF STALIN gets very right is that having your entire existence subject to the whims of a bunch of bumbling, solipsistic dipshits is actually sort of terrifying.