Terrific little movie.

when you're such a baddie that even though your character got exploded with dynamite onscreen, the filmmakers still can't bring themselves to kill you off.

Ardeth Bey having the time of his life being strapped to the wing of a plane is an A+ beat.

I know Vosloo isn't wearing a distressed leather duster but let's be real, it sure looks like he's wearing a distressed leather duster.

Objectively hilarious that the characters figure out that Imhotep is after 1) everyone who opened the chest, and B) Rachel Weisz, and Brendan Fraser then immediately leaves those three alone and unguarded so he can do a fetch quest with John Hannah.

It's a very Stephen Sommers choice that the titular mummy just...shows up. No moody tease, no steady escalation of glimpses leading up to the grand reveal. Just BAM here's a CGI monster guy running around, yelling at Brendan Fraser.

It is wild how, apart from Bouie, political writers have just the most dirt-worst takes on pop culture. What is that? Is this what spending every day staring at poll data does to you?

The pair of glasses that ruined my life.

One part of THE MUMMY mythology I've never cottoned to is that the Medjai 'punish' Imhotep by...turning him into an unkillable demigod that they must then spend several thousand years standing vigilant over lest he be unleashed and destroy the world. How is that better than just...like...killing him

Kumail on this TASKMASTER season proving that hapless nerds who get jacked are still hapless nerds.

A drop of dream fuel - The Dreamer by Caspar David Friedrich

It's been too sobering to see fellow critics make the claim of "I didn't do the research" near the end of their effusive reviews, when such brevity and placement rather reveals how much they seemingly didn't *want* to do the research. Lest victims' testimonies get in the way of their good time.

There are only four, maybe five actual leaders at the national level of the Democratic Party, and she's one of them.

Michael Jackson and Donald Trump are both examples of people who are so monstrous and weird that it overwhelms your brain and prevents you from seeing the full scope of how monstrous and weird they are.

"Tellingly, Donald Trump has called for the firing of almost all of the other late night hosts—Colbert, Kimmel, even Seth Meyers—but excluded Fallon from his hit-list, because Trump recognizes that there’s nothing about Fallon’s empty banality that could be anything close to a threat."

Even as a critic who has tried to write about MJ’s legacy with nuance and grace, I appreciate the clarity the director of Leaving Neverland brings to the table

Maybe don't try to romanticize the life of a pedophile without mentioning the pedophile bits and then act affronted when critics point out that your movie barely functions as a movie.

I'm still only vaguely clear on who 'Mr Beast' is, but in every single picture of him there is just NOTHING going on behind those eyes.

It’s been a real banner year for “that guy who gives off those vibes? Yes it turns out it was completely correct”

THE BRIDE! is on streaming now. My review has been unavoidably delayed but it goes long on an aspect of it I've not seen anywhere else: it is an incredible, exceptional, violent, damaging and dirty metaphor for being an actress. Maggie Gyllenhaal got her revenge on Hollywood!

AOC is genuinely smart and talented and savvy. But watching stuff like this is just a reminder of how much of what people respond to is how she just.. acts like a normal person. Whereas most Dem pols are socially awkward lawyers and accountants trying and failing to act like normal people.

She is the best pure talent currently on the national stage.

Rod Serling died at age 50 and it may in fact have been the hardest 50 ever documented.

As a fish-boy who loves A) riding bikes and 2) eating pasta, LUCA really speaks to me.

My nieces and nephew started watching LUCA but then they left and anyway long story short I am watching LUCA and LUCA rules.

ICYMI, @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social and I chatted magical princesses, blue collar adventurers in hats, and flying in both THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE and Studio Ghibli's CASTLE IN THE SKY. We also talk 2005's CONSTANTINE, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, DTV action, and more. open.spotify.com/episode/79SH...

Oh! Lawrence Fishburne *got it*!!!

Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

Man, my Bsky feed today is full of a lot of mealy-mouthed walk backs. No, fam, the enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend and I'm not gonna ignore decades of cruelty and greed because I like who he's attacking. So, no, I will NOT be siding with Coyote against ACME and will be taking no further questions

The true proof of Paxton’s brilliance is that every ALIENS ripoff has a Hudson equivalent and every single time you desperately root for that character to get their face ripped off before end of Act 1. But Hudson’s a fun hang despite the whole point being that he’s a terrible hang.

Not saying it's the most evolved of worldviews, but there's something awfully persuasive about the James Cameron approach to trauma, i.e. what if you went to where Trauma lived and shot Trauma in the face and then blew Trauma up and then shot Trauma in the face like five more times.

what if i fucking kill you

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

John Cena squeezing Tweety like a stress ball, already worth the price of admission. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43...

THE FURIOUS - This is the best goddamn movie I’ve ever seen in my whole fuckin life. @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social #SpringFest

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park." The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Man, ALIENS is just such a great movie. Shame we never got a sequel, since you'd think there'd be so many fun stories to tell about Ripley and her new family. Real. Shame.

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

Cameron's dialogue has always been the easiest thing to knock, but "You always were an asshole, Gorman" followed by him producing the grenade is the sort of note perfect, 11/10 character writing that other screenwriters spend their entire career chasing.

What a testament to Bill Paxton that Jimmy C. handed him a character that was nothing but unlikability personified and even still when he gets got you can't help but go, "Aw, poor Hudson".

Love detail that Newt (and Ripley to an extent) only starts to chill out AFTER the Colonial Marines have been shredded. Like, it's only once things are completely fucked that she can go, "Ah, finally back to the ol' status quo. Now I can get cosy."

The most impressive trick in ALIEN's script is how it moves Ripley to the center position so quietly you don't even realize she's going to be the last man standing until pretty much everyone else is dead. The most impressive trick of ALIENS, then, is that Cameron knows he can't do that with Ripley-

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters: you brought this on yourselves you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster you earned this

Not saying it's the most evolved of worldviews, but there's something awfully persuasive about the James Cameron approach to trauma, i.e. what if you went to where Trauma lived and shot Trauma in the face and then blew Trauma up and then shot Trauma in the face like five more times.

Oh no! Is the bull's horn OK?