I continue to be bummed that Bill Burr is playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Most of the lineup is the expected bunch of garbage human beings, hacks & prostitutes but Burr has spoken out about human rights in the past. I believe he fundamentally understands why it's wrong. Somehow that's worse.

Kimmel missed more days of work than this guy.

If only there were a place where heartbreak felt good...

It's pretty clear that ICE is little more than a jobs program for the biggest piece of shit from your high school.

We're so close to the whaling industry being subsidized back into existence because someone will whisper in Trump's ear that we only abandoned whale oil lamps because of "woke."

We live in a world where the President of the United States is exactly as informed as my 70-something parents. And trust me when I say those people consume nothing but garbage and are fucking idiots.

Nine Inch Nails with Boys Noise, everyone's going to love it

This New England game has reached the "this is such a beatdown it's actually quite dull to watch" stage. The Pats are back (provided they get to play Carolina every week)!

Remember when the Pats used to bench running backs for fumbling?

Today's Cinematrix is how I had to learn (remember?) that Burton's PLANET OF THE APES wasn't nominated for best makeup. Terrible film but, I'm sorry, that's a fucking travesty. Oh right, they nominated A BEAUTIFUL MIND for making Crowe and Connelly look like a melted candles instead. Good call!

Haven't really kept up w/ ESPN lately beyond PTI and MNF. Didn't realize how much they'd gotten in bed with WWE. I know this is a minority opinion but watching SportsCenter hosts having to hype "WrestlePalooza" and smile through wrestlers doing mic work is crawl-under-the-universe embarrassing.

Fuck, Dutch late-night TV goes hard. And this is probably their obsequious, Fallon-esque show.

Opened the AMC app and was greeted by this. At this point Taylor Swift and overpriced, novelty popcorn buckets are the only things keeping the company afloat.

Vanity Fair bringing Nuzzi on to cover the all-important "who's sending thirst trap selfies to members of Trump's cabinet" beat.

Where was Jimmy Kimmel when Gold Derby wouldn't let her submit predictions? Where was he when Telluride didn't invite her to their extra fancy meet and greet? Did he stand up for her when she could barely sell sponcon for that crucial post nominations voting window? She lost "everything!"

This seems bad for my fantasy team...

We can only hope HAMNET has the same enduring appeal as past TIFF People's Choice winners THE LIFE OF CHUCK, BELFAST, JOJO RABBIT, GREEN BOOK, and THE IMITATION GAME...

Admittedly I was targeting premieres which have greater demand but quite the poor showing this AM trying to secure Beyond Fest tickets. Locked out of everything except for SIRÂT.

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr:

This Seinfeld episode will be paying dividends for years (I also have plenty of "hate the Drake" ones standing by).

We'll never know if we could have won Vietnam because Cpl. Bone Spurs sat out the war in protest of "woke."

Over the last few weeks Oscar prognosticator extraordinaire Bill Simmons has predicted 5(!) acting nominations from the cast of SINNERS and Denzel Washington for Best Actor for the new Spike. If he was as bad at picking football games as he is at this he'd be in traction or sleeping under a bridge.

Congratulations to Cory Booker on his recent engagement. Unrelated, here's a clip from THE DEPARTED.

He scheduled an impromptu press conference to announce they're moving some jobs from Colorado to Alabama (big whoop) but, really, to quelle rumors that he's dying or dead and they've been trotting out a lookalike for the last week. Let it not be said that online mockery does nothing constructive.

No TIFF me for this year (can't pretend I'm a lifer or anything; only been the last two years) but I'm... what's the opposite of FOMO? Whatever that is over reading critics share tales of being frozen out trying to secure tickets to public screenings. Someday I'll know the horror/pleasure again...

My "I was helping a victim of domestic violence when I was then engaged in a major car accident some time later" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Those late in his career SB rings really did obscure how monumentally terrible Belichick was at assessing talent coming out of college. And that's not even taking into account him drafting a literal serial killer.

ESPN mobile breaking news alert announcing Swift/Kelce engagement. It's over. The culture's cooked.

This is giving strong "That Mortadella's number three? He used to be Junior Soprano's driver!" energy.

What's the inverse of the Vince McMahon gets incrementally more excited meme? Because I need that for HAMNET's impending release. The return of "serious filmmaker" Chloé Zhao... 🤨 Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel... 😐 About Shakespeare being sad... 😑 Co-starring Paul Mescal... 😶

"I wish the film (which nobody has actually seen) that based on the marketing appears to be RUNNING ON EMPTY with more car chases, shootouts and explosions played more like a sober, cultural reckoning about the genocide of indigenous peoples" is a totally normal thing to think.

I don’t even disagree with her but I’m not sure throwing Jordan Peele under the bus is a sound longterm strategy.

It's all in good fun but the amount of Boston hate in HIGHEST 2 LOWEST feels v. thirsty. The sort of sweaty desperation you get when your city hasn't won a (big 4) title since Obama was president. Very kid brother, lashing out for attention because it *really* eats at them. Ya just love to see it.

An oldie but a goodie.

I know this isn’t the reason everyone is piling on him today but Jesus fucking Christ, this guy…

This fucking dummy keeps posting highly sensitive information online (in this instance a QR code for a train ticket to Venice a few weeks from now). I paid him the kindness of painting it out but it's up on his blog still. It's astonishing the Nigerian princes of the world haven't cleaned him out.

That's not how "titular" works.

Every country in the world that is not the U.S. has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible.

I'm heartened by the largely positive reviews for SKETCH, a VFX-heavy, family comedy which opens on Friday that I wrote about at TIFF last year. When I saw the film was acquired by Angel Studios (of SOUND OF FREEDOM "fame") I began to second guess myself but glad other were charmed by it as well.

Appropriately enough, the story broke just before the trade deadline.

Stop the count! Stop the count!

Retire bitch.

The other takeaway from this week is that prominent pop culture figures from the 1980's are dropping like flies so maybe it's just a matter of time before the roulette ball bounces onto you know who...

The real tragedy of today is we'll never know what cabinet position Trump would have nominated Hulk Hogan for after the inevitable midterms bloodbath.

The Wall Street Journal going all-in on exposing Trump as a sex-pest (or worse) is quite the "Nixon to China" moment.

I know rule # 1 is to never believe Ruimy but I wouldn't be shocked if the film had a surprise screening/premiere at Fantastic Fest considering a) it's only a week before the film opens wide b) the film allegedly has a genre bent to it and c) that's what PTA did for THERE WILL BE BLOOD.