Hard to believe, at one point a bunch of people were paid yearly salaries to watch and reflect about how they felt about movies. And some of the writing was pretty great.

just need to accept that from here on out it is a non-stop stream of very sad deaths and at some point one really fun one

It's telling how hard this America's Next Top Model doc leans on "Standards were different back then" as if awareness of eating disorders, body shaming, etc. were simply never discussed in the early 2000s. They were discussed! >

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

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Here's Last Week Tonight's segment on ICE and DHS from last night youtu.be/5-KDUOHEZFk

White supremacy is just a job you do, like architect or serial killer

This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

Two titans of film died today. One, Robert Duvall, was a consummate character star, able to play good (Boo), evil (Col. Kilgore) and all the complexities in between. The other Frederick Wiseman, was simply the greatest observer of the human species in the history of the cinema. Which is to say ever.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

This has been my hunch for a while, but it's good to have it confirmed. As I've noted before, Obama faced the same challenge with race that JFK did with religion. Their enemies were so primed to charge them with playing favorites they felt the need to downplay a topic closely tied to them.

Since the passing of Catherine O’Hara, I’ve been trying to remember the SCTV sketch where she says, “Close your nostrils, it’s getting dark in here!” Found it.

alright every body follow along with me drag brunch: equivalent to child sex trafficking actual child sex trafficking: witch hunt, moral panic

They want us to follow the norms of American law when it comes to ICE identification **and** they want us to follow the norms of American law when it comes to voter ID? I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent if, like Tom Emmer, you were repeatedly kicked in the head by a mule.

Something I wrote last year, upon the big retro at @filmlinc.bsky.social, about this singular artist. RIP, king crookedmarquee.com/the-comfort-...

John Anderson’s lede at the Times

That time we reviewed a Wiseman movie on Deck the Hallmark. #filmsky 📽 @deckthehallmark.bsky.social

So to be intellectually consistent, we should allow every voter to carry military grade firearms, and have the right to murder anyone who drives their car close to them.

RIP

Duvall and Wiseman on the same day. The support beams of cinema are falling down.

This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES. This is extremely intentional. If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”

www.politico.com/news/2026/02... A federal judge has ordered the trump administration to restore slavery-related exhibits at the national park site on the foundation of former President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia...

The Epstein files include an order for 55-gallon drums of acid; Bannon abandoned a Florida rental where the Jacuzzi had been wrecked with acid www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

So basically this

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

The 4th Amendment isn't a suggestion

Note that this is a newish amendment to the Save America Act. The earlier version was plenty bad. But this is even worse. Curiously, I had a really hard time finding this latest version online. I knew to look only bc the Brennan Center alluded to an amendment along these lines.

All the President's Men comes out on 4K tomorrow. No doubt the Post breaking the Watergate story led to generations of oligarchs thinking, "Well, we can't have THAT happen again." #filmsky 📽️

Very smart messaging from the White House here, making everyone think about Donald Trump as a ruthless predator.

No to all of this.

RIP legend

Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist

My review of I Can Only Imagine 2 for The Film Verdict #filmsky 📽️

When Democrats retake the House they should subpoena this Bond villain just for the spectacle of it alone.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

The combination of having a stupid and destructive idea and the unearned confidence to boast and preen about it is not new, but in the RFK Jr. era, these guys have all gotten so LOUD. In any case, this editor belongs nowhere near journalism, and for "ingest" alone, he should be invited to retire.

One thing you see in both the smug dope from the Plain Dealer and the Cruise/Pitt clip is profound resentment at the idea that creative work is a skill with human variables--experience, instinct, practice, imagination. There is real anger at the very idea that non-technological human talent matters.

Dear @PepperidgeFarms pls make the cookie dividers edible they're killing my momentum

Another great clip from our HIGH ROLLERS ep, featuring @jordanmorris.bsky.social flophousepodcast.com

So @criterion.bsky.social is having a 30% off flash sale on its 4K catalogue. You should grab PLAYTIME.

As we build out Trump's lies, let's not forget that the one they were most desperate to cover up before these came out was Melania's ties to Epstein, she of the Einstein visa.

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

Most people don’t know this but the C in CBS stands for Cool (with pedophiles) www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

This would be, in every way, worse than a Netflix-WB deal. No point in preserving the integrity of the theatrical experience for a company funded by a right-wing ideologue. I don't believe there's a world in which Larry Ellison funds One Battle or Sinners. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/b...

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wrote about the "I never want to see a child ever run away from our own government ever again" guy. I think he shows why Trump being a dogshit president temporarily solves many of the Democrats' worst problems with the media. And we have to take advantage of this moment.

"...what we’re witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps in the People’s Republic of China." This is a piece you need to read and share while we can.

Learned about this list from @aduralde.bsky.social and just ordered a bunch of cookies for my office. www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans...