I had no idea that The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was a bumbling "enemies to friends" comedy

In the 80s and 90s, bullies were portrayed as macho himbo jock types; in the 00s and 10s they were portrayed ass aggressive, gatekeeper incel fanboys. Now there's no need to assign any subcultural trope to bullies; it's clear that they are really, in the end, just assholes.

Apropos of everything awful about this, I'm reminded of the main antagonist in Gattaca, a capitalist eugenist who quipped "I haven't a violent bone in my body" Anyway it's revealed he's the murderer

ICE has killed 9 folks in the first 26 days of ‘26: • Alex Pretti • Renee Good • Keith Porter • Heber Sanchaz Domínguez • Victor Manuel Diaz • Parady La • Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz • Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres • Geraldo Lunas Campos They all deserve justice. And for us to remember their names.

Hard to say definitively as of yet, but I think Law and Order classic FINALLY got back on the right track. Straight-forward but twisty murder narratives; grittier, down-to-earth characters in what feels like normal circumstances; that varnish of hope within a tactile-feel of a real New York.

I think it was a combo of 3 things: 1) terms (privilege, praxis, gender-coded language, etc.) meant to function in rigors academic discussion got muddled in tumblr-era excitement 2) reveals of gender/sexual identities/definitions created an energy that seemed to force everyone to learn it all

I keep thinking about episode of South Park where the parents were paying actors to pretend to be deadbeat versions of their kids from the future to inspire them to work harder - Stan finds out and tries to trick Randy into admitting the truth but Randy is so committed to keeping the fiction alive -

Watching Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning, and it's not beating the allegations that these last two MI films are just extended Doctor Who episodes, with Ethan being a time lord. The finale of the second film takes place in rock quarry for goodness sake

Using /sarcasm, /s, /joke, or /j to indicate your post is being sarcastic was always awkward but understandable to clarify intonation in a post where text connotation can get lost; the use of (complimentary) or (derogatory), however, seems to "fit" better as a tone indicator

While a little clunky here and there, Gumball is still the best animated show out there. The rare animated show to make poverty and financial struggle a core theme of its premise. It uses metaphor and allusions so brilliantly its honestly astonishing. The Score is almost as good as The Words!

Not for nothing else, this is a great "final line of a dramatically tense scene in a movie," like this is a line a writer would write in the movie version of all this nonsense, and this dude just said it

“What makes Donald Trump so unbearable isn’t merely that he’s cruel. […] What makes him intolerable is how empty he is, how profoundly excavated, how untouched by the basic elements that make someone human.” jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/what-endur...

Anti-DEI brainworms exists in the same way anti-disco existed. It wasn't just because these people are racist/sexist/anti-LGBTQ, it's because they realized that marginalized people are VERY GOOD at what they do! It's bottom-line jealousy.

Love that Fantastic Four stole the Mass Effect FTL-engine designs wholesale

FYI: Nathan Rabin needs your love and appreciation right now. He was in a very significant car crash earlier this week and is in the hospital recovering. (His family was also in the car, they’re fine, but he got the brunt of the injuries.) Now’s a good time to support him: www.nathanrabin.com

I'm watching this episode right now and y'all the best part is that he specifically acts and talks like a reporter from Batman, it's amazing

I always wanted to pitch a reality TV show where 12 contestants compete to cook weird meals with limited ingredients for professional chefs who are various degrees of high

I have to say, after watching the new Hazbin Hotel episodes, and then watching the new Joe Cappa show Haha You Clowns, I think, beyond anything else, they're just fundamentally two different understandings of how storytelling works

But why is it blue text on black paper?

Thinking the Democrats are solely focused on healthcare despite every other awful thing happening right now only because a healthcare insurance CEO was shot and killed. That's it.

Absolutely love Candi Stanton's cover of Listen to the Music by the Doobie Brothers, one of the sickest baselines I've ever heard youtu.be/lfq6OTZdXHg?...

I really enjoyed Sinners but my biggest criticism is how the (genuinely cool) music montage scene gave little to no credence to soul, funk, Motown, and disco artists, which also owe their development to blues. One fancy-dressed rocker as an ode to Rick James types is fine but too simplistic imo.

Absolutely love a TV series based on a movie based on a play gets the tagline "Believe in original stories"

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The first Star Wars film and Saturday Night Fever both came out in the same year

I had to stop what I was doing and grab my iPad to record this clip from #StuGO, I was trying so hard the whole time not to laugh.

Had some time this week (finally!) and I went to check out StuGo, thinking I'd watch an episode or two. Binging the whole thing now. It's pretty incredible, but it's also clear why Disney seemed to have so much trouble marketing it. It's *unhinged*.

So I know that the new season of The Proud Family rankled a lot of folks with the "kick Penny out the house as punishment but it's actually abuse" storyline (admittedly much deserved) but this 3rd season is actually really good?

This is one of those songs that they instantly knew would be a hit. MSF backed arrangements. Norman Harris at guitar. Thom Bell and Phil Hurtt as producers. A sound that somehow fits a chill/relaxed vibe AND could cook in the club scene. And it was a B-side!* www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojCi...

Mickey 17... wasn't good.

why didn’t American Eagle not just immediately shoot another campaign with a non-white model using the same “great jeans” ad copy then start rolling it out as a diversity campaign with a new model of varying backgrounds/limb differences/etc. every few days turning it into “we all have great jeans” ?

But if you hear of any good jobs while I'm hooting and hollering on Batman: The Ride, email [email protected]. And for a full archive of quality pop-culture writing from the past 17 years, visit erikmadams.com.

This was the VERY point that the American Pie movie was trying to make

The recent-ish Chip Whistler Big City Greens episode did a "don't do evil like your nemesis or you will become like them!" plotline and it's actually kinda sickening to yet again see this plotline in this day and age, especially with the genuine evil happening all around us today.

The sea shanties thing seemed like it hit its peak through TikTok's video multi-reply feature (like that great fake hostage video series of videos) and it's weird we don't see that kind of thing anymore

Finally getting around to Squid Game S3 and (vague spoilers) at the very least I like that the ultimate cruel antagonist is someone you just don't see coming

I think a big reason that the Epstein thing is sticking is because a lot of excuses in Trump's first term was that he was stymied from exposing the deep state due to Dems having a majority in Congress. Now that's not the case, his base is expecting him to do just that.

It's gotten to the point that even *networking* isn't enough to help with finding employment

Everyone loves Steven Spielberg because of one simple fact - he just knows how to end his movies

For a project for my Women in Animation mentor circle: does anyone have experience with ftrack?

Season 3 of Legend of Vox Machina has a particularly gross and nasty portrayal of hell

I watched Gattaca last night and was absolutely stunned - a sci-fi setting that hides the fact that it's really a late 1950s style Gothic queer narrative!

People think I'm crazy when I say this, about 40 minutes of this movie are some of the funniest, most hilarious bits in all of cinema

Watching the new episodes of Phineas and Ferb, and recognizing why this show works in a way that Milo Murphy's Law and Hamster and Gretel didn't - there's just a looser comedic energy here that those other shows couldn't grasp for some reason.

Here is three straight minutes of Donald Trump saying things will be happening “in two weeks” (spoiler alert: none of them ever happened)

It doesn't get ranked up as high as it should, but Terminator has an all-time great car chase.

Beyond excited to join this stellar cast of talent! Mr. Frazzle is going to be a very fun dude to play~ Can't wait to be neurotic as HECK

If folks are this upset by a Sabrina Carpenter cover, they would have called Child Protective Services on my parents because they had Ohio Players albums out in full view.