I’ve never skipped reading a prologue, but my actual opinion is that a huge proportion of them are redundant and should have been cut

My favourite thing about the screenshotted post is that the Gunn Superman movie is all about Clark refusing to be a coloniser the way his parents wanted

I always used to cite this as one of my favourite tweets but Mamdani has ruined it for everyone

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

The Larry Sanders Show. Without Larry Sanders there’s no 30 Rock, no The Office or Extras, no The Thick of It or Veep or Curb Your Enthusiasm, I could go on at great length,

Had to get off the JoCo Cruise ship and head straight to the airport but San Diego already No Kings-ing it up. Think it’s going to be a big one, levels of "fuck that guy" reaching unprecedented heights

I don’t have strong feelings about the British Royal Family but I do support abolishing the monarchy purely so I can upset Americans by telling them I’m a republican and also a socialist

RIP Jim Wheelock, a good cartoonist and a great guy. He used to be found every year propping up the bar at various UK conventions and at Angoulême, where half the passers-by would think he was George R. R. Martin. Here he is with the man himself, in happier times

Sam Kieth did not bend for comics. Comics bent to him. I won't call his manner of drawing merely a style because that implies some level of artifice. Maybe not since Kirby had mainstream comics seen an artist with less filter between his imagination and the printed page.

So I read this pilot the other night and it really is incredibly bad. Which is baffling, because Nora and Lilla Zuckerman wrote the good season of Poker Face, and after they left that show to do Buffy the season without them wasn’t nearly as good. So what went wrong?

I have problems with Loss Angeles as a city, there’s so much of it. I assume if you move here you have to attend evening classes that explain everything but as a tourist I’m simply dumbfounded by its baffling profusion of neighbourhoods

There have been recent years where I've seen almost none of the top movies and didn't know anyone with strong opinions on which one should win Best Film, so this was a good Oscars. But Benicio was robbed

ICYMI: I wrote about Marvel yesterday. And here’s Millie pondering what Spider-Man comic she would recommend if a guy in a bookstore asked her about it

Taking a break from stressing about the problems of the world to focus on a much cheerier topic: the problems at Marvel Comics thecommasplice.com/marvel-comic...

Facebook toy pages all have riveting stories in the comments such as “I had that and then I lost it” and “my parents wouldn’t buy me one” and also “I never seen that one before”

I feel like a good and socially useful writing prompt for sf writers would be to turn out a bunch of plausible scenarios where a new technology automates 40% of jobs and the result isn’t just "40% of people are unemployed forever; the hunger games"

Large number of Aronofsky films in the replies here but I didn’t see anyone mention Caught Stealing so I guess it falls to me. Fuck that film!

Googling stuff after watching this I learned that The Hangover had its initial release in The Hague, which feels like exactly the opposite of what should have happened

I used to think fart noises made with the mouth were so funny. Now I only laugh at the fart noises from a butt

The Canton Express in Glasgow. Walking distance from my flat, open until 5am most nights, huge amount of amazing food for not much money. I lived off their chicken in black bean sauce and crispy pork with gravy for years. Heartbroken when I went there one night and it had closed with no warning

Sunday night timeline cleanse please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there

rip

As well as all the other good stuff about this film, it’s an incredible document of how busted New York looked in 1971

I can never quite fully invest in the sexy vampire. Things get weird when you think too deeply about a cold undead phallus that, at best, I imagine, feels like being fucked by Vicks vapo rub

Isiah Whitlock Jr. (1954–2025)

I love sparkling water because sometimes what I really want is to be perfectly hydrated but also in a small amount of pain

The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of

Woke up from a dream where the success of Heated Rivalry meant Harlan Ellison had been hired to produce the sequels Again, Heated Rivalry and The Last Heated Rivalry but despite buying 200 scripts never filmed an episode

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Looking for some help locating a holy grail. In 1989, The Sunday Times ran a promotion called "The Great Ghost Hunt". An illustrated poster of famous British hauntings came free with the paper, and in the following weeks they published quiz questions relating to the various spooky happenings. (1/X)

Horror story that begins "The old man posted 150 times last night"

Of course Dracula was actually the name of the scientist, you should really say "Dracula's Vampire"

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen REM (with Patti Smith!) Shellac Ennio Morricone Mdou Moctar Portishead

Many good things about this book, including that if you say the title aloud it sounds like Hi-Ex Bastards, which would be an great name for a Judge Dredd story

Reading a book from the 1970s where the main character has an extremely medically inaccurate stroke. I’d write to the author to complain but sadly he died in 1994 (not of a stroke)

She’s a heterodox thinker, she only believes in 13 of the 14 words

People say Cancel Culture is real and then you see Lydia Tár being invited to meet the Pope. 🙄

Superman (2025) was a fine movie but wouldve been way better if at the beginning Superman turned to the camera & said "i no longer look like Henry Cavill" & then specified the exact plot reasons why

Angry woman at the hotel restaurant in Barcelona this morning carrying a small dog in a sling and telling the hostess "Just so you know, in Canada it would be ILLEGAL for you to deny us entry" The US is ceding its leadership in international affairs, the Ugly Canadian is unleashed on the world

No, Nut November!

[spluttering awake a full year after Agatha All Along went off the air] They should have called that show The Deft Hand of Harkness

"You think you’ve got problems, mate - I’ve gotta go see that overhyped asshole Pagalici tonight just because the wife likes him ... Anyway, I'm writing you up some Sertraline"

Hey nice black lagoon. would be a shame if someone were to find the creature from the black lagoon in it

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Car salesperson: this baby can go from zero to 60 in 7 seconds Abraham Lincoln: what Car salesperson: zero to 3-score in under a score Abraham Lincoln: HOLY SHIT