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The thing with US reps sounding like Public Enemy songs all of a sudden is very welcome.

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Friends, it's that time again: my new @crooked-marquee.bsky.social disc and streaming guide is live! Some new releases, new Criterions, two new Hong Kong Cinema Classics, and much more... crookedmarquee.com/the-best-mov...

Today I begin writing the most depressing chapter of the book: the one on LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD and A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD 👎

A former book critic at Washington Post Book World wrote about last week's cuts, and while the whole thing is worth reading, the end cuts through the bullshit of algorithm/click-driven generated content to articulate the need for actual criticism and culture. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Finally saw SEND HELP last night (rips) and it is so wild to see a trailer, in a theater, for a new Star Wars movie and feel absolutely nothing

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

He said "God Bless America" in English and then went on to say in Spanish, "whether it's Chile, Argentina, Uruguay ... " and all the other Latin and Caribbean nations. He did this while literally marching with flags and a sign in all caps that said "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE"

The party has no idea how negotiations work

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

Chris Rufo's wardrobe consists entirely of hot dog costumes

Every so often I’m reminded that Extremely Woke and Gay Hollywood made a movie that sanewashed her and Gretchen Carlson by dint of their being women in the vicinity of Roger Ailes bsky.app/profile/mike...

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

Yay!!! (I played Sheridan Whiteside in my high school's production of this show, lol)

It would be hard to summarize what has happened to the GOP this last decade more succinctly than this pic.

On this day in 1979, 'The Warriors' was released. We discussed it (with insights from the lovely Walter Hill) on our FUN CITY CINEMA episode on the great subway movies:

On Alan Arkin's 'Little Murders,' released on this day in 1971:

Happy birthday to the great Joe Pesci. Still like this piece I wrote for Flavorwire during his semi-retirement:

Always amazing to see in real time the absolute failure of the conservative cultural movement, whose existence is only recognized at all thanks to billions in astroturfing money and years of gaming recommendation algorithms. They know it's all fake too but can't help but be frustrated by that

current Oscar nominee Elle Fanning in a mayonnaise commercial is how you know the entertainment industry is kinda fucked

I ask this genuinely but also knowing the answer: why are the millions and millions of dollars these people have never enough? have some self-respect!

WB coulda had this money if they hadn't dropped the damn ball on the Looney Tunes!!

"During In Living Color’s first season, a marketing impresario approached Fox with an idea that would stick it to CBS, the NFL rights holder and Super Bowl carrier that Murdoch had in his sights: a special episode of In Living Color that would air opposite the Super Bowl intermission."

I doubt this has happened before: 11 of this weekend's top 15 movies were made independently, inc. 4 of the top 5. There is nothing holding down overall grosses and attendance more than the fact that studios have forgotten how to do what they used to do, which is to fill the pipeline with movies.

Scream 7 like girl who gives a fuck

Shout out to my fellow nerds on the best day to run errands 🫡

It's almost as if you should, what's the phrase I'm looking for, do shit like this yourself

Holy shit victim blaming and a half. Calling those trafficked girls aspiring sugar babies is some real nasty work

'Taxi Driver' was released FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY, so here's me talking about it (and other stuff) with Scorsese on the FUN CITY CINEMA podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

I’m not a fan of either teams today and didn’t know who to root for until I saw a segment that showed the Patriots have adopted the “Warriors…come out to playyyyyaayyyy” as their pregame pump up. They even did the bottles on the fingers so respect.

P R E A C H

This this this. I've posted about it before but *multiple* AI slop James Gandolfini biographies appeared on Amazon in the days after GANDOLFINI was published, and any money those jagoffs made should have gone in my pocket. I did the work, I did the promo, they ripped people off.

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

Am I having a fucking stroke?

Saturday nights are for side-eyes

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Just go ahead and call it photo of the year, folks.

Charles Chaplin debuted his iconic Little Tramp character in the short film “Kid Auto Races at Venice,” which premiered on this day in 1914. One of my favorite Flavorwire pieces, republished here:

There's a candy-man quality to Rob Lowe himself. He has no weight, no density. It's not that he's a bad actor—it's that he doesn't suggest a real person. (1986)

I didn’t have access to WiFi on the plane and got more work done in three hours than I ever have in my entire life. I will learn nothing from this.