Is it a hot take to say most books have cover art that is the equivalent of a no budget feature?

RIP Chuck Norris. Watch Invasion USA for the pure outrageous excess of one of his best.

If only someone had warned us

He's so good at this. He's speaking to the current moment by drawing comparisons many need reminding of in the US, and paying tribute at the same time.

YouTube really needs a block button. It's too inundated now with AI slop. I never want to see those channels, yet it's not possible to block them.

Celebrating St Patrick’s day by recommending an Irish film (in Irish! and English! and French!) set in an era of Irish history that has - to the best of my knowledge - never been put on screen before or since. youtu.be/ECmlAkQy-DA?...

Happy St Patrick’s Day! 🇮🇪🇵🇸☘️

Only six more months to award season.

I suspect there are tech issues affecting this telecast. Delays with cues, long silences, poor audio. Something is up.

The sound has been really bad this Oscars.

You're kind of cooked when an audiobook's narrator does a voice for one of the characters and it's dreadful.

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Oscar campaigning these days is mad. Evicting cats. Ballet is boring. Now this… just waiting for Sean Penn to announce “conscription in upcoming water wars will solve housing crisis,” and Leo to post he’s anti-vax on everything but Ozempic.

BlueSky is a bit boring, but it's the healthy kind of boring. One glance at any of the other more active social media apps and I'm reminded that this place is more representative of reality. Long may it stay free of bots, AI bad actors and activated foreign trolls.

I wonder how all the kids who were named Danaerys and Khaleesi are getting on

Not to be a cliche but it was both of the last two Indiana Jones sequels. Also Man of Steel was reprehensible to me.

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in Lidl, currently jestergooning to the maxx on these moids

I have no opinion on The Mandalorian and Grogu film other than they should fix the title at least. Grogu and the Mandalorian rolls off the tongue much better.

Whenever something I post gets no engagement on here I think that’s odd, no one saw that one on their timeline. I wonder what happened there.

Damn. We’re losing all the best people. I’m worried sick I’m next

It's still so strange to see the United States under Trump is now an active adversary in the world. Against every single thing they once stood for.

Almost 5pm and it’s still bright out. As we say in Ireland. Up the Ra. Ra being the ancient Egyptian sun god. We give thanks to our Sun deity, and praise him.

“The next time someone shares with you some anti-London b******t, be sure to send them this video" Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky... #racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghate

I've been rewatching Voyager and aside from the sad fact the show's 480p now, another note I had was how they really did start feeling homesick too fast. By week two away! Surely it'd all feel normal by then. Also, Janeway had the worst table. I dislike this thing *almost* as much as Neelix.

Send Help was superb. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien are hilarious. Such a fun script, and brilliantly directed as you'd expect. The movies are back, baby!

Finished this. I didn't expect to feel by the end of this breezy show that I hope they do more as I really would love to see more of Kingsley's Trevor Slattery. A lovely creation.

Wonder Man is very charming and fun. It's a lovely double-act going on with Sir Ben Kingsley and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Six episodes in, it's not really a superhero show at all. It's just a story of two desperate actors.

Repost an image of your favourite bird > Turaco. I just learned of these magical little fellas last week. We live on an incredible planet. I wish we’d be cooler about it.

I was kidding here. AI is not replacing art. It can’t. It’s like thinking a hairdryer can replace a hairdresser, and it’s actually a handgun.

I think I’ve figured out how to get people to read something you’ve written. Preface it with, “I wrote this about us/you,” and then follow it up with, “Are you OK with me putting this out there?”

We are in Hell

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ writer Rhett Reese reacts to viral AI video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting: “I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”

I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.

They should've given Martin Short some sort of special Oscar for just the facial expressions he makes in this scene. bsky.app/profile/benc...

Once the corps and oligarchs 100% took the news mass media it was really game over wasn’t it? Reagan killed the fairness doctrine. Clinton & Repubs then scrapped rules prohibiting media consolidation. Followed by 25 yrs of mergers, hiring careerists & firing real journalists and here we are.

I’ll be honest with you, I just had to look up what decidedly meant as I’ve always just assumed its meaning until just now. But as I only ever see it paired with mixed I let doubt creep in. Turns out I was right. Anyway… Doing anything for lunch?

The USA have kept an Irish guy who has every legal right to be there in a concentration camp for months. Imagine someone telling you this in like 2015.

and Mike loves it

I like the look of that Cliff Booth sequel, but I worry it's going to be so muddy to watch with all the compression these platforms like Netflix impose.

With the recent success of YouTuber Markiplier's film 'Iron Lung' at the US box office, we took that notable news as a cue to chat about YouTube in Hollywood and pick our favourite content creators. There's a list of all of those mentioned in the show notes. www.bestbitspodcast.com/screen-play

I never noticed this either.

Bezos is worth 250 billion and he fires people from the newspaper he owns. His hourly interest alone could fund that paper forever, and his daily interest could fund ten more as vital and he’d continue to make ungodly profit. These people are psychopaths.

I wonder what Reese Witherspoon is doing right now with her ape NFT…

The most farfetched aspect of Wonder Man is that his agent texts him back as soon as he sends a message.

All the worst people celebrated Brexit.

Scream has gone the opposite direction of most horror franchises and become less comic the further it's gone on. Usually sequels this deep in start poking fun at themselves, and their legacy, but Scream has abandoned the sly wit of the Wes Craven era. A shame, really. That was what set them apart.

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The reliance on shows these days to do flashback eps that build out the backstory of the protagonist, pausing the forward momentum of the main narrative to do so, is frustrating. I know with opinions like this there are examples of when it's worthwhile, but I'm still bored of the trope all the same.