You could've prevented this but you loved killing Palestinian babies too much

Joe Biden had more power than any other single person to prevent all this, and he decided following the law and prosecuting a fascist pedophile wouldn't be civil.

How funny it is in One Hundred Years of Solitude when soldiers believe they are fighting a civil war over oedipal marriages. Meanwhile in reality our current civil war is being waged over Republicans' right to rape children

We are in a civil war right now and the Democrats are on the side of the federal government.

Its day will almost certainly come, but The Long Goodbye

the certain date

It's already demoralizing to be a federal thug, a barely sentient ogre. Nobody likes or respects you. But then you go to work in -19 weather thinking surely today you'll get a break from people yelling at you. But no there they are. They're not even cold

Heartbroken to discover that my local theater is closed due to weather and the one night only screening of The Harder They Come (1972) is canceled. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and I was very excited to see it on the big screen. I hope it gets rescheduled soon.

I'd be more sympathetic to the idea that the Oscars should honor the heights of film art and mostly ignore genre film if I hadn't seen what the Academy awarded when genre films were largely shut out lol

I like the idea of a woman playing James Bond, but it's tough when the perfect actor died 34 years ago

Personally I see it as a land of contrasts.

It’s honestly heartening to see baby shit soft all these guys are. Like this is Michael Scott doing improv levels of sad

whether you think america is literally the great satan founded on a bedrock of violence or you think america is a deeply flawed country with a celebrated tradition of resistance, i think we can all agree it's only one of those and anyone who disagrees with your read is naive or irredeemably evil

I'm told Elon Musk did not do any Normal, Not Antisemitic Hand Signals at Davos, or indeed any event since the inauguration. Why has he stopped using this innocent gesture?

As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.

It's interesting that the Oscars are getting more international in their nominations but also nominating more genre films.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

Some say you should only judge a movie on what it's trying to do/be and not what it's not, but I think it's often worth criticizing a movie for what it chooses not to be.

I'm gonna try to watch a bunch of films from 1930 in the next few weeks

It's interesting to hear Europe criticize the US for its aggression. When it is their continent which produced Count Dracula...

“You’re so morbid, Jonathan—the paper comes, and that’s the first section you always head for.”

me (bursting open my apartment window like ebenezer scrooge): you there, boy! did it happen? boy (gloomily): no sir

"upside down" one of the more whimsical things serious adults say regularly. Up there with walkie talkie

Off to the pictures! Tonight: The Sting

I urge you all, but especially lovers of 18th century religious revival and folk music, to go see The Testament of Ann Lee on the biggest screen you can find

Do you guys think it's weird that I like Licorice Pizza but don't really care for Rushmore?

i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded

The 2025 Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Female Focus Best Woman Director Award shows this has been a great year for women and nonbinary directors, even with a Kelly Reichardt snub

It doesn’t matter if ICE still has funding, you grind absolutely everything you can to a halt. Congressional Dems know how this works, this is just feigned helplessness. It’s like a husband who pretends to be bad at housework.

I don't like to see my bus passed by another bus

scoreboard

Off to the pictures! Today: The Testament of Ann Lee

people said the same thing about Act Up protested in a Catholic church. they were right to do it then and these protesters are right to do it now.

So the YA boom is definitely partly a cause of our current literacy crisis, right? There weren't adults who only read Magic Tree House or Nancy Drew books around in like 1992.

My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains

Off to the pictures! Today: 8 1/2

I went on Substack to suggest to Simon Rosenberg that there might be some valid reasons for Minneapolis activists to be suspicious of Dem party fundraising. Ooof.

Off to the pictures! Today: No Other Choice

Exactly. Dems keep trying to pivot the conversation back to affordability but what is their signature policy on this issue? Once we’re finally talking about it they have nothing to say.

Finishing The Inquisition in Hollywood today!

We made it

And it’s pretty clear that people think of nonviolent as simply being passive, when nonviolent was a larger umbrella that encompassed agitative demonstrations. A sit-in at a whites only restaurant is nonviolent but it’s not passive. Occupying buildings, cars, etc are all nonviolent.

Management/tycoon game fans, I started playing Hollywood Animal a couple weeks ago and it whips. It's early access, right now it covers the golden age of 1929-1948, but the act 2 update coming soonish is rumored to double the timeline.

Professor Leonard Cakes:

Seeing some backlash against Trump's Nazi teens edging into defend the gerontocracy territory. It's okay for elected officials and bureaucrats to be under 40, if they're not Nazis.