Over the weekend we went from living under an aspiring dictatorship to living under a failed one. It's really not a whole lot more pleasant a condition, but it's very clear now that you can't build a reich on literally only very unpopular things.

RIP

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

Celebrating #NationalCartoonistDay with Charles M. Schulz, Carl Barks, Ernie Bushmiller, & Marie Severin.

Alongside the film, watch supplements from our edition of the beloved cult classic — including two commentaries, a program featuring Robinson and Grant, a documentary on the making of the film, and more!

Evening viewing recommendation? Celebrate the great Richard E. Grant on his birthday with the finest wine and watch his iconic performance in Bruce Robinson’s WITHNAIL AND I (1986) on the Criterion Channel! 🍷♥️

With our Directed by Jacques Tourneur collection now on the Criterion Channel, read Imogen Sara Smith on how the director suffused ordinary moments with an atmosphere of poetry, melancholy, and dread.

it's only tuesday

BLUE VELVET behind the scenes Polaroids by makeup artists Barbara Page & Jeff Goodwin 📸 If you missed it last month at Williamsburg, BLUE VELVET is coming to Nitehawk Prospect Park on 35mm, 5/16 & 5/17 at brunch.

Andor is the closest thing we have to a historically accurate account of the Rebellion. Movies are Jedi propaganda. Luke never existed; Leia did, but not as she's shown. Han Solo is a composite dirtbag. Chewbacca was a more important leader than them all but sidelined by humanocentric racism.

original trailer for Star Wars youtu.be/XHk5kCIiGoM?...

I think this is great

This is a great reason to spin one of the *oddest* hit hip hop records from the late 90s. I was on a youth group trip when this came out and someone bought it for the road trip. We played it constantly.

When on the Kent State campus I always stop and put my finget in the bullet hole in the metal sculpture on Blanket Hill. 1/2 inch thick steel. These were the bullets shot into a parking lot full of 500 students.

today is the anniversary of MCA's death, so I wrote a little newsletter about stories of the past. www.anxietyshark.ca/like-an-emce...

Just putting it out there - I'd kill to do a Rockford Files comics still set in the 70s

Every day, these shitheads do something for which there is no economic or legal justification other than "it will make some people mad and cry"

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Hammertime. #StarWars

Happy birthday to the divine and incomparable Audrey Hepburn, born on this day in 1929. ❤️ Here she is in Stanley Donen’s comic thriller CHARADE (1963), dressed in an iconic Givenchy wardrobe.

When you can hear a photo...

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

happy star wars day

It's May the 4th, so I'll post up some of my SW drawings. Thread! First up, a poster 1/

Andy Warhol presents The Plastic Inevitable Show with The Velvet Underground and Nico at The Trip - 8572 Sunset Strip, Hollywood, California • May 3—18, 1966

Dave Dorman

AKIRA (1988)

Read Nejishiki. Then read Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary. Tsuge was a defining talent in the comic space. He also beat and abused his wife and child.

Jill Thompson

Julie Delpy © Richard Melloul

Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep (1996)

Visitation (1976) by Gilbert Williams

🍍 💚 No better night to watch CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994) on the Criterion Channel🍍💚

Watch some of Steve's great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel!✨ SLACKER MYSTERY TRAIN PARIS, TEXAS NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Me trying to blow a medieval peasant’s mind: and the downloadable content for the game was actually already on the disc you were just paying to unlock it Peasant(chewing the gas station beef jerky I gave him): I saw the cobbler’s wife kissing Satan’s asshole in the forest Me (mind blown): waaaaaa

On the turntable today…

because I'm re-reading Uncanny X-Men comics from 1981, here's a Kitty Pryde Appreciation Post