That’s the stuff, buddy

This is how they played The First of Us

A return to normalcy requires rebuild, investigate, imprison

ALPHA - Once again, the foreign-language distribution market’s determination that a single festival’s negative reaction need define a film’s reach has dimmed the bulb of a raw, nervy, deeply moving film.

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

Please see Gus van Sant's Dead Man's Wire, a hostage film & social tapestry that is "unabashedly inspired by the best crime dramas from the 1970s, including Dog Day Afternoon,The Sugarland Express, Network and Badlands, and can stand proudly alongside any of them." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dead...

Due to my being laid off last year, we're jsut looking to close a small financial gap so I can cover Sundance again this year. Anything at all helps! Thanks! gofund.me/1e0755d92

I agree with the second part, which they’ve been doing nonstop, and with increasing fervor, for decades, and ironically has allowed them to retain power. Meanwhile Dems sit back and are certain the winds of change will start to come into their favor any day now so they don’t need to be bold at all.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

People keep saying his aides are showing him AI videos, but it obviously does not take that much work. They just tell him the videos show something else and he believes them.

That isn’t really how I would describe BIRTH…

Continually fascinated by what sexual content counts as “mild” in the minds of the absolute freaks who update the IMDB parents guides

Cruel Intentions (1999) lmaooo

New Dick Grayson exclamation just dropped

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Fox Producer: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show. FP: That’s not true AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why don’t you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.

ICE didn’t just shoot a woman, they blocked the ambulance. Eyewitnesses say thugs parked SUVs to delay lifesaving care and refused to let a doctor reach her body. Then DHS spun a story to justify it. It’s murder. Call it out.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

My LA FLOR “review” is mostly just answering questions I had going into it, and which people seem to have found useful. PIANO PLAYER fits the “popular LB review” rubric of basically being a zinger but also picking up something intriguing in the film. Glad my 3 & 4 are just regular reviews though.

Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated

i was the only home whose cable didn’t go out when the sopranos finale aired and it showed tony looking up and seeing two guys walk into the restaurant holding hands. then it cut back to tony shrugging, which you have to understand in 2007 was a very powerful statement

Dear AP, children cannot consent to this and Grok is inanimate so can’t come under fire. You’re looking for the words “deep fake child sexual abuse material generator.”

Uh oh!

Just how bad is Grok's nonconsensual porn problem? Musk's AI chatbot is generating another sexualized image of someone without their permission every single minute:

If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.

Danish guy gets it

Honestly incredible relevant J6 content

I’ve only got obvious answers offhand - The Sopranos and Twin Peaks But also, by total happenstance, Hannibal

My favorite Visconti, and I adore his work.

Bela Tarr’s films were very difficult to see for a long time, but I’d hear about them, and they became mythic to me. Then I saw them - intricately designed, a howling from the pit of the soul - and the myth only grew. Feels like losing a pillar propping cinema’s highest, most ornate ceiling. RIP

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Time to find out if the Cinematheque’s January Giallo program got watchable prints this year!

Catching up with SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. Jeremy Strong has to be stopped, this is unconscionable.

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

After lurking on my to-watch list for 3+ months, THE ICE TOWER finally rose to my screen this morning, as I was nestled in from the rain, a little sleepy, and I sat for two hours totally mesmerized, challenged and comforted at once, stepping freely through dreams, fantasy, and body. Incredible film.

The Dems’ fear of being called a bunch of pansies for not supporting an illegal military operation once again proves that it’s just gender all the way down

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

THE SECRET AGENT - Seen a lot of people say they liked this considerably more on second view; I think that would almost assuredly be the case and I doubt I’ll ever know for sure.

While I do agree that chatbots are not capable of thought or agency and should not be conceptualized that way, if you deputize them to speak for your company that output should be considered yours. If you don’t like it don’t make an LLM public facing. Hire a guy. There’s lots of guys.

Imagining Peter Bogdanovich going through his little index cards to make the equivalent of a Letterboxd Wrapped and presenting it to a thoroughly-unimpressed John Ford

People who think “homework cinema” exists need to be slapped around a bit

Wee Kino order from their winter sale, just enough for the free shipping threshold.

This theme somehow covers TRON: ARES

Sort of buried in here but the note that it basically does not matter how much you tip - the company adjusts the base pay down the more you tip - is very illustrative of the limits of being a “good consumer.”

I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature

Running the numbers on my 2025 viewing for financial planning in ‘26…definitely gotta cut some streamers, but AMC A-List got me 64 movies ( roughly $5.25 per film), our American Cinematheque membership saved my wife and I over $100, and moviepass reduced 30 $15-$20 tickets to $12 apiece.