Seeing Di Caprio pairing up with Paul Thomas Anderson made me think, who’s a director and actor - living or dead - who have never worked together that you would have loved to/ see do a film together?

Wonderful opportunity to talk to Academy Award winning makeup artist Howard Berger and @marshalljulius.bsky.social about their new book Making Monsters. Listen and enjoy open.spotify.com/episode/3v2v...

Air Force (1943) Howard Hawks’ propaganda piece has some of the most stunning action pieces. It gives 0 shits about subtlety. The Japanese are evil & the Yanks are good. Star Wars ripped all the air battles off of this. And great to see John Garfield Ramboing a machine gun.

Sleazy and sanitized at the same time, this is way too close to its subject. It left me wanting to hear from everyone who refused to participate. Good to see proof of the scientific hypothesis that If Sean Penn likes you, you’re probably a dick.

I’m glad Kimmel will return to the air but I also hope none of those mergers go through because huge monopolies create a shit culture

So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

Sleazy and sanitized at the same time, this is way too close to its subject. It left me wanting to hear from everyone who refused to participate. Good to see proof of the scientific hypothesis that If Sean Penn likes you, you’re probably a dick.

Air Force (1943) Howard Hawks’ propaganda piece has some of the most stunning action pieces. It gives 0 shits about subtlety. The Japanese are evil & the Yanks are good. Star Wars ripped all the air battles off of this. And great to see John Garfield Ramboing a machine gun.

It’s got a real “I’m Brian. And so is my wife” energy.

It’s the addition of wheels to make the act of carrying the cross easy and painless that really tells you everything you need to know about the absolutely uncritical and selfish ideological positioning of this kind of politics.

A rich and powerful man voluntarily bearing a cross onstage, but adding wheels so it's not remotely difficult, is the perfect picture for our country.

Virtue signaling much

The thing about being respectful when someone dies is that it is never considered enough. You then have to remain respectful while behave in objectively funny ways in exaggerated forms of public mourning. Like they’re daring you to laugh.

If you own a company and you make enough profit to pay yourself and your employees a living wage year after year, that according to capitalism as it now stands is a failure.

Is Life of Chuck worth a trip to the cinema?

Hi, I served in Afghanistan: this is an obscenity and a perversion against both Christianity and America. Fuck this shit forever. Thanks.

Since when do funerals have fireworks?

Morning

What if the Rapture happened two weeks ago and no one was good enough?

Happy birthday to my eldest and favorite daughter

Is Tom Homan taking a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent any different from me not liking Buffy the Vampire Slayer? by Ezra Klein

Behind the scenes: Blue Velvet

Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here. (1935)

The biggest mistake right of center pundits and influencers made was staying on a site run by a fascist with an algorithm and a lack of protections that makes a free exchange of ideas impossible.

I love the names of plants. You could get names for five novels and a punk band from this list.

He’s been in less than a year. How is the US going to look in 2028?

Now reading. A propos nothing at fucking all

Why are you surprised?

I think it’s truly awful that Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off the air and it’s a dangerous sign of America’s current status as an illiberal democracy but the same week Israel killed 31 journalists in a single attack in Yemen, 4 others were killed including a child. This also deserves coverage.

I think it’s truly awful that Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off the air and it’s a dangerous sign of America’s current status as an illiberal democracy but the same week Israel killed 31 journalists in a single attack in Yemen, 4 others were killed including a child. This also deserves coverage.

The James Bond Book Club returns with @alsatch.bsky.social discussing the first #007 #JamesBond continuation novel Colonel Son by Kingsley Amis podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/t...

Hostiles (2017) Scott Coopers brutal revisionist western begins with a cliche “Indian” attack & the remaining film deconstructs it. The westward expansion & genocide of the Native Americans is portrayed as psychopathic. Everyone is broken by the violence. Christian Bale’s racist soldier most of all.

Hostiles (2017) Scott Coopers brutal revisionist western begins with a cliche “Indian” attack & the remaining film deconstructs it. The westward expansion & genocide of the Native Americans is portrayed as psychopathic. Everyone is broken by the violence. Christian Bale’s racist soldier most of all.

The James Bond Book Club returns with @alsatch.bsky.social discussing the first #007 #JamesBond continuation novel Colonel Son by Kingsley Amis podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/t...

Why are you surprised?

Now reading. A propos nothing at fucking all

They’re getting away with it.

Morning

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

The USA is not sliding towards/heading towards/on the verge of authoritarianism/fascism. It’s already there. Resistance needs to be fighting to reverse EVERYTHING

I'm probably overly sensitive - but doesn't this sound borderline admiring?

This was an important novel for me growing up

I think I’m beginning to hate the Dems more than Trump. Trump is the iceberg, the hurricane. But the Dems are supposed to be trying to sail through it and they’re still in their bunks mostly. And some of them and stoving holes in the hull.

Damon Lindelof takes a stand.

Christopher Frayling on Sergio Leone podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

My piece on Robert Redford For @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...