RFK Jr's voice is made of dry twigs snapping under the feet of a pervert who has been following you for miles on your forest run but has just decided stealth is no longer needed.

Just rewatched THE FIRM (Pollack, 1993) and I think its genius lies in every single supporting player (Hackman, Hunter, Strathairn, Harris, Busey, Bell, Brimley, Sorvino) getting to act like the main star of a movie that just happens to intersect with the Tom Cruise storyline for a bit.

how quickly we forget

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Yuck. My only (cold) comfort is that among the many things AI shares with the current POTUS (stupidity, disregard for human life and endeavour, abnormal hands etc) is its tendency to turn first, and most viciously, on its biggest cheerleaders.

Personally I think they should make Bluesky's random glitchy outages into a feature. Tell me that every time you logged on and found it was down, you didn't end up doing something more productive.

Reina, one of the cats I'm minding, likes to stare at me fixedly from the headboard until I wake up.

Quentin Dupieux in Cannes competition AND closing Quinzaine! Is that a first or has, like, Hong Sang-soo ir someone done it previously?

Whoever designed this UK edition to resemble an airport paperback tie-in from a movie starring Gerard Butler must really hate George Saunders. But I guess I love him enough for both of us.

Cleansing your TL with a picture of James Mason looking as beautiful as his voice.

As an extremely reluctant forced user of the horror that is MS recently, I cannot wait for other European countries to follow suit.

Yay!!! In celebration, gonna post a series of happy and jubilant stills from Béla Tarr movies. BRB.

Come on, Hungary, rooting for you (and for us all).

This evening in Madrid I went to see certified banger VICTIM (Dearden, 1961), as part of a 'selected by Kelly Reichardt' program, at this delightful cinema, which cost me 3 euros. And only because I splurged on an aisle seat; most tickets 2! TWO! II! euros.

Real difficult to sympathise with this shower when they renege on their promises, crow about having the country "by the balls" and provide cover for scumbag shit like this. Big fucking men. Donate if you can: msoe.ie/donate/

Na-Na-Na-Nanana-Naaaah, Nanana-Naaaah, Hong-jin. #Cannes

A couple of minutes later, the cat is gone and only his grin remains.

Ah, poor Joe, trying to bluster his way back to relevance in a manner that hasn't worked since his early '90s heyday when everyone was easily manipulated into enthusiasm for outlandish proposals due to cocaine.

so there's an app that helps you stop doing the thing that basically every other app helps you do

beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters

A good thing has happened, which is very disorienting in 2026.

Today's Spelling Bee really reinforcing how impoverished American English is to not enjoy the words BLAG, LURGY or BALLBAG.

Haven't yet managed to take a pic of this attention sponge that adequately conveys his freckle-nosed, boss-eyed glory. So just take my word that he is the softest thing I've ever touched, and has the most aggravatingly sweet habit of falling asleep with his nose tucked under the very arm I need.

Quite enjoying PARADISE because Julianne Nicholson, but my God, the soundtrack takes the "let's slather on another dirge-like cover of a classic pop song" trend to self-parodic new heights. Who even knew it was possible to make a drippier Mr Jones or a mushier More Than Words?

Enjoyed this piece about a film I have always loathed. However, please include me out of the parting shot: one of my personal markers of a well-lived life is that I was not then, am not now, and never, ever will be Amélie.

Today I learned that in the Spanish dub of TERMINATOR 2 when Arnie says "Hasta la vista, baby" it is changed to "Sayonara baby" which has become as indelible in the Spaniard psyche as the original is in the Anglophone world.

TWO PROSECUTORS is being released now and it is very very good. variety.com/2025/film/re...

Here for it only if it's 2hrs 20m of Sandra Hüller doing karaoke.

Love these photos of Mae Clarke (via @romanbone.bsky.social) taken in 1933 but looking from one side like it's 1923 and from the other like it's 1983.

Haha Orwell an unbased dumbass for not knowing that "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" is so much more baller when followed by TO PUT IT MILDLY

I finally got around to doing this last year and even though the vast majority of what I write is for the US and therefore not eligible, I just received word of a nice little bonus in store. @alcs.co.uk really does feel sort of miraculous.

Everything about this is traj, but the discovery that the kid landing these sick burns on a gobsmacked peon workforce is 20 (twenty) catapults it into a whole new dimension of lame.

what if we made a Dunesday that was basically Barbenheimer but a ginormous slog

Vigorous co-sign. Honestly, go see HOPPERS instead.

Oh my God, the grief in this statement, this incredible woman suffering privately while campaigning publicly for so many years, for the good of a cause she held above her own pain. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Not bad, guys, not bad. Many of the winners I wanted to win won. And many of the winners I didn't much want to win feel very hard to begrudge. And now onward into the next 364 blissful days of not caring about the Oscars!

the "Michael Jordan" of acting they call him

Don't love SENTIMENTAL VALUE but do love how Joachim Trier accepts awards so

Well this win is actually consequential and a really great moment.

Bill Pullman gave me a hug after the press conference for EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS, in which he is excellent. The man gives great hug.

Not into the AVATAR VFX win but did get a kick out of hearing a full-bore Tallaght accent ring out from the Oscars stage.

I'm sure there are exclusions to get mad about, but I think that In Memoriam was quite beautiful.

Ok this is a very funny bit.

Sometimes nice things happen to not terribly nice people, and sometimes one has to admit that in some cases, those nice things were actually pretty well deserved.

Was just wondering who Jacob Elordi's very hot date was when I discovered it is his mother and now I feel like a pervert.

Taking advantage of the commercial break to post my Recent Movie Hot Take: HOPPERS >> PROJECT HAIL MARY.

Hearing reports that the shot of Teyana Taylor applauding Amy Madigan's win has just opened up the Strait of Hormuz.

Want to know where this graffiti is so I can visit it on the reg to leave flowers (without a card).

I've read this Andrew O'Hagan piece about five times already. Just an absolute masterclass in describing your various subjects in the exact language they deserve. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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