Starting Pride Month appropriately, with Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

COME BACK TO THE FIVE & DIME, JIMMY DEAN JIMMY DEAN is officially my favorite Altman. Impeccably cast with my queen, Sandy Dennis, Cher & Karen Black! All of whom should have gotten a mess of awards. Sandy never made a bad movie, did she? (This is rhetorical!)

"whatever, everyone already uses it anyway so it's fine" is just not really the message a sorry person promotes. I'm frustrated by how everyone just gave him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not feeling very forgiving when this is the messaging. I don't think I'm being unreasonable either

Legendary. Lucas was one of the best editors of Hollywood’s greatest decade. Balanced momentum and space as confidently as Schoonmaker or Murch.

New pickup.

Just had my root canal done today. AMA.

For my newsletter, words on The Burmese Harp: cloudsofgaia.substack.com/p/defining-f...

Up there with [explosive shit] on the Trainspotting Criterion disc.

First round of @vinsyn.bsky.social purchases for Halfway to Black Friday.

Elon Musk has turned X into a machine that generates culture wars on demand. His racist and transphobic attacks on the cast of "The Odyssey" aren't just a distraction, they're the pop culture version of the Trump administration's anti-DEI propaganda. spitfirenews.com/p/the-odysse...

It just occurred to me that Harlan County USA is only the seventh film directed by a woman to receive a 4K UHD release from Criterion. Hoping that number increases over the coming days.

The new Boots Riley opening against Star Wars is pretty bold counterprogramming.

The bill wouldn't have passed without 8 Democrats voting for it.

Feel like I've aged a few years by hearing the Skype ringtone in a rewatch of Drive My Car.

TikTok just fed me a video about an AI “data centre” built into a giant floating buoy type thing in the ocean, which uses the forces of waves to generate electricity ladies and gentlemen, Southland Tales

Okay, super late, but these were my favourite first-time watches of April 2026: A New Love in Tokyo (1994, Banmei Takahashi) Ride Lonesome (1959, Budd Boetticher) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971, Werner Herzog) Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps (2024, Louise Weard)

Genuinely do not understand what's with the fascination as to what Elon Musk makes of the casting in The Odyssey, because we already new film literacy is not his strong suit.

We asked 100 people what is a good name for a man

1. California has reinstituted its anti-trans athlete policy. In track and Field, the California Interscholastic Foundation will force trans athletes to share the medal and podium with the next highest cisgender athlete. We talk to A.B. Hernandez in our latest piece.

If Schrader is just putting this out there in public, imagine the grim shit that comes up in his dimly lit nocturnal journaling.

Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to Israel's ongoing genocidal famine, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again:

Guys, let’s be fair. Stephen Miller needs entertainment too.

"Me and my spouse were in a head-on collision Friday night, February 27, down in the Virgin Islands, and now my neck is broken in 2 places. I was a passenger, and the young gentleman who struck our vehicle had no license, had stolen his mother's car, and left the scene."

Inde Navarrette joins Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams as one of the all-time great cinematic cryers. That's just how good she is in Obsession.

I love how this article is 70% breathless fearmongering before you get to the last section which says: “U.S. officials don't believe Cuba is an imminent threat, or actively planning to attack American interests”

Is Body Heat the most Florida movie of all time?

This is wildly bad, especially from a government who has a Minister of AI. So we're going to kill privacy, break encryption so contracted out AI services can monitor us all? Like what in the flying f**k is going on here? Somehow Liberal partisan shills will justify. Where are Lib MPs pushing back?

Hey, citizens of Canada, you might wanna act before you become closer to something like your neighbors south of you. As an American, I can assure you, losing your privacy, yielding even just an inch- sorry, yielding even just a centimeter of your privacy, sucks and causes all sorts of problems.

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

here’s my latest on bill c-22 (lawful access act): “The Carney government is about to take a massive step towards violating the privacy rights of every single Canadian.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/14/o...

this is obviously stupid but also "i should not have to see a black person in a position of power or influence" is a guiding belief of the trump administration

Worst attempt at a "This you?" I've ever seen

The shaky cam in the Bourne movies is nuts. There’s a scene where the camera does a full 180 and you can see the entire crew. The boom operator says “what the hell” and Paul Greengrass frantically shouts “cut cut cut!” Don’t know why they left that in.

Have debated how or if I even wanted to address this whole situation because, frankly, it’s embarrassing and childish. I wanted no part of it but seeing my name pop up so many times this weekend has been surreal so if you’ll forgive a novel, I’ll do my best.

hey, still recovering from that expense. my dad is also currently in the hospital and i might like to feed myself and distract myself depending on how long he’ll be there. i know there are people with more dire needs, so don’t feel obligated to help me, but i do need some help.

help Jaime get a crown! not the fun kind, unfortunately, but the very necessary kind

Kinda baffled by the number of people more or less gloating that they knew Dalia was fake and had been part of a well-informed whisper network for ages. Why were you hoarding that secret? Being a catfish enabler isn't much different from being the catfish.

Logging back in and finding out that a moot I occasionally talked with was apparently a catfisher?

And to spell it out: this fake catfish asshole accused my friend Brandon of being accomplice to sex pests with no proof and a number of you went along with it. And now you won’t even apologize. Fuck you. This community aint shit sometimes and migrating to Bluesky won’t change that

I am amplifying this because many of us were lied to but Brandon had his name regularly smeared for some time and his been the victim of an unjustified and false attack on his character and that deserves as much attention as the bogus accusations against him.

US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison

I have chronic pain issues that make it hard to write or do anything at all, and I have disabilities that compound on those issues too, and I write all the goddamn time without using AI because I'm not also a fucking loser.

Please help my friend get the dental expanses he needs.

Didn't think I'd be raising more than half my root canal expense so quickly, and I just want to say thank you once again!

help if you can!!

Even during the worst days of network television they wouldn’t have done this.

Help my friend Jaime!

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{extremely clark gable voice} Don't you give me that line of talk! That's absolute 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙨, Scarlett!