anyway a clear takeaway of today is that nobody remembers the start of The Thing

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I always feel a little guilty when a famous actor dies and I immediately reference their most famous role. “Harry Potter actor dies” makes my teeth itch but Tom Noonan was AMAZING in Manhunter. I can’t not mention it.

Bill Watterson, 1991

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

Illegal poacher, having shot a white rhinoceros: "So, we'll saw off the horns and get these to you" Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich: "No, no, I want the complete horns, head, skin in one piece" Poacher: "Ah ...ok" Sytsevich: "Make sure to leave the mouth open, I want to peak my face out of it"

Happy birthday to the fantastic @bearmccreary.bsky.social (Battlestar Galactica, Europa Report, Caprica, Foundation, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Tales from the Galaxy's Edge, The Cloverfield Paradox, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Snowpiercer, Halo, and many other great soundtracks) 🥳

They got Ben Wheatley writing for 2000 AD! Knew he was a comics fan, had briefly met him when at a London ComicCon years ago and I was lucky to be sitting around a pub table with Bill Sienkiewicz, Klaus Janson, Mark Millar & David Mack. Wheatley seemed too nice a guy to have made Kill List :)

I think Tom Hagen is my favorite character in the Godfather movies, and Duvall really sells his role as both the most trusted insider and the forever outsider.

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Case closed. They finally arrested the iceberg.

greatest headline of my adult life

Guillermo del Toro is such a huge fuckin' nerd (he said, 100% admiringly): www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Werner Herzog

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

This is the quote he's referring to and damned if every one of us who's worked in traditional tv prior to the streaming era isn't silently screaming in frustration right now. TV worked perfectly well before everyone tried to become GoT

Not sure if everyone knows this but Cypress Hill and The London Symphony Orchestra made that Simpsons joke a reality a little while ago

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

First page of David Niven's autobiography - that starting paragraph :)

For all the movie marketeers in the land could not save the Queen's film...

Greg Ketter is Good People ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0nd...

Stephen Tobolowsky trying to convince Steven Seagal to kill his serial killer character in The Glimmer Man after Seagal decided he no longer wanted to want to kill onscreen due to a spiritual awakening:

"New Star Trek is bad, new Star Wars is bad, new superhero stuff is bad," Yeah yeah yeah man I get it, I was twelve and had a dad too it's not a perfect system read Faulkner or some shit don't worry so much about this stuff

Post a comic cover you love.

I need you to understand, this is one of the best comics you’ll ever fucking read

In life David Lynch was known widely for being the absolute king of weird beard arthouse filmmakers. In death, he is known mostly for his kindness, work ethic, and just being an all around rad person that made films HIS way. And I absolutely love that. What a legacy. Rest in peace, king.

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.

Alan Rickman died 10 years ago. Here’s Jason Isaacs on getting acting advice from him about how to react whilst watching a Quidditch match:

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. To order my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats', see here: www.tomgauld.com

Just a reminder that you've never seen a Calvin & Hobbes animated movie or cartoon is because Bill Watterson didn't want to give Hobbes a voice so he could always live inside your head exactly the way you imagined him. And to this day you have no idea who he ever has voted for. But you can guess.

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.” - Brad Meltzer The Mutant Massacre storyline kicks in. The X-men find themselves against genocidal murders who destroy the under-privileged mutant outcasts of underground NY. JRJr gets the attitude perfectly.

This is how they played The First of Us

I checked out his timeline, and guy Musk is promoting (someone with >100k followers) is just posting straight up Stormfront ca. 2005 material, or White Aryan Resistance material ca.1989. The world’s richest man and the GOP’s most important funder has turned X into Stormfront.

I guess this answers the question what if Kill Bill was set in the apartment block from Rosemary's Baby. I'm down for Zazie Beetz to bust up some bad lads. #TheyWillKillYouMovie www.youtube.com/watch?v=31J9...

Natalie Horberg, The New Yorker, Jan 12, 2026

This is what living in the year 2026 should look like this is the coolest shit I’ve ever seen

Ah, the progress of history

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie