AI advocates resent artists because they don't have the drive to do the work. It's why they want to get rid of actors, directors, writers, etc. They don't believe in effort and work producing good art. They just wanna write a prompt and then let the computer do it.

For everything else around AI that makes it awful, the bone deep fact is "Something that looks real but isn't" will always be less cool than the effort and artistry that goes into doing it for real. It's why film geeks still flip out of practical effects, even if CGI has gotten close to parity.

Thinking once again about how Americana got done dirty by culture war nonsense.

As 50 Shades of Gray is to Twilight, so is "Wuthering Heights" to Wuthering Heights. cinapse.co/2026/02/wuth...

The Muppet Show special so perfectly captures the spirit of the original. Charming, earnest, a little knowing and a love letter to just pure joy. It's basically perfect and I hope they get to make so many more.

Personally, if I was running for Senate, I wouldn't want someone airing out their dirty laundry about the other in-party candidate in such a way that can best be described as "no receipts bullshit" and then having my name in their mouth. This Texas Senate primary is gonna be a nightmare.

The ride or die Biden crew being knives out for James Talerico should tell you everything you need to know.

After William Shakespeare and Paul McCartney, what other beloved British creatives should Paul Mescal play?

This is why this movie rules BTW. Feige was mostly hands off, which allowed Zhao to craft a beautiful film about existential dread and restlessness.

Potentially people are going to be mad at me, but I have to state this frankly: people who are mad that Democrats in the Senate didn't hold the line on a government shutdown until ICE was abolished don't live in our actual reality.

In celebration of the release of SEND HELP, share a GIF of your favorite Sam Raimi flick.

I really would love to have been a fly on the wall to see how they convinced Fetterman to not vote for the new funding bill.

Honestly someone needs to get in Trump's ear and let him know if he cuts bait on Miller and Noem, it would legit shoot his approval up ten points.

My first review of the year, and it's a doozy. Sam Raimi's nasty, sunsoaked new film reminded me of the gnarliest Tales From the Crypt stories in the best possible way.

Apropros of nothing, but Rachell McAdams may be the greatest face actor of all time.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

People referring to F1: The Movie as "original" is really going to be the thing that drives me crazy. As if it isn't drafting off (pun intended) a huge international brand.

An underdiscussed part of Trump's obsessions is how he clearly learned about the Golden Dome after becoming President and it's one of the top three things he can't stop thinking about.

I have a lot of thoughts about Send Help, the new Sam Raimi film, that will be formalized in a review next week, but for now I will say this: it is maybe the best episode of Tales From The Crypt ever made.

The Sinners backlash is beginning and I'm NOT HERE FOR IT!

Don't know if anyone out there who can see this needs to hear this, but being anti-surrogacy is also being anti-bodily autonomy.

My most controversial opinion as a film critic is that half stars are for cowards.

The great tragedy of Xitter being down is that all its addicts have nowhere to scream about it.

The Chicago Bears' special gift thus far this season has been picking apart sub-par defenses, and staying heads up through four quarters. Which makes me feel pretty good about our chances next week against the Giants.

Me seeing the Raven's injury report:

Beyond what you think of the actual act of it, the optics alone of the current administration literally dismantling the White House feels like too perfect of a bad optics for it to have actually happened. It's such a crazy bad look.

In my first not-a-review in a while, I wrote over on @cinapse.bsky.social about how KPop Demon Hunters is the biggest movie of the year: cinapse.co/2025/10/is-k...

Look, I am not a ambassador or foreign affairs expert. But safe to say if bombs are being dropped, you can say the ceasefire failed. It isn't "threatened."

Finally thought on the Unc Bowl for now: it is clear that Aaron Rogers sees the Steelers as a vehicle to write the final chapter of his own legacy, where Flacco is doing what he has done his whole career: being That Dude when a team called on him.

Woke up still thinking about Joe Flacco running a 10-yard bootleg.

Football is so great.

40-year-old Joe Flacco rushing for a ten yard first down for a team he has been on for a week and a half is all timer shit.

He didn't die. He just went back to his home planet. youtu.be/uR0T5jxkMJs?...

Still thinking about how the Chicago Bears are both one field goal away from being 5-1, and two field goals away from being 1-5.

I don't think Good Fortune is the best comedy film of the year (that is still Naked Gun) but Keanu Reeves as the idiot angel Gabriel might be the best comedic performance of the year. cinapse.co/2025/10/good...

Every once in a while Trump says something that reveals that whatever horrific things Stephen Miller says in public, the shit he says behind closed doors is somehow worse.

Wild ride of a skeet.

Here is how crazy the NFC North is. The Chicago Bears lost their opener with the Vikings by a field goal; if they won that game, they would be 4-1 and in the lead of the division. As is, they are in last place at 3-2.

If you feel like this once-considered sacrilegious remake does belong with the best of the Sawyer/Hewitt family (or belongs in the chili scrap heap out back), send your 200-400 words in via DM, or email me or [email protected]! Here's also a peek at the other films we're covering! :)

Kathryn Bigelow continues her streak of "films that demand to be seen, and one time will probably do it for most people." cinapse.co/2025/10/a-ho...

Cause, Effect

It is always special to get to see a new picture from your favorite filmmaker.

Finally getting around to reading Joe Klein's Woody Guthrie biography, and still early on in Woody's but it's basically one horrific tragedy after another.

The fact BC's post text, headline and sub-head are all the exact same thing has given me endless entertainment. Now that they all have a typo in it is the icing on the cake.

Draft dodging Boomers dying mad that we lost in Vietnam, rather than admitting that getting in proxy wars with Communism was always the mistake.

Are the Ravens a bottom five NFL team? Bottom three?

I don't know if I had just missed this was what the shutdown debate was over but apparently the issue at the center is Medicaid subsidies for ER visits for people without citizenship documentation.

Someone needs to do a counter on how many times the concept of "the enemy within" appears throughout this ramble. Because this is a de facto declaration of war against the US's own citizens.

Honey, wake up, the new "Please clap" just dropped.

This whole thing has really given up the game on the Right Wing's framing of violence and how politics shapes it. They are going out of their way to lie about what the shooter's political identity is, rather than just condemning it.