Midnight has dawned on my first Inktober! 🎉 Kicking things off with RPattz in The Lighthouse for the prompt “Mustache.”

Can I get to 10K on @letterboxd.social before the end of the year?! Get your daily dose of obscure film takes here: letterboxd.com/oldfilmsflic...

Marya’s Letterboxd is a fantastic resource for films directed by women, silent films, old Hollywood, noir, Palestinian movies and just about anything else made under the sun.

Big Gretch made a big gesture! www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news...

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Concerns have been expressed for US-Brazilian filmmaker Barbara Gomes Marques, who has reportedly been denied medical care after being detained by ICE www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2025-09... #filmsky 🎬

So many things I didn't know I didn't know 🫠

So many American movies are made in and with the cooperation of different countries around the world. These relationships include tax breaks for the US, employment opportunities for those countries, and they've been a standard part of production for decades.

Waking up to one psychotic thing after another…

Well, Jared Kushner just bought EA Games with Saudi Arabian money. Between this, Saudi Arabia's presence in the WWE, and the Riyadh Comedy Festival, Saudi Arabia sure as shit has controlling hands in large, influential chunks of US media. How is this not a security concern?

stone. cold. and we love to see it.

jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts

Charles Xavier: My school helps mutants control their powers. This is Cyclops, he was my first student and he is totally incapable of controlling his powers. This is Jean Grey, she started with Scott. She also cannot control her powers. And meet Rogue, yep you guessed it, can't control her powers

I can't pretend to fully understand the US Constitution, but it is important to note that many other democratic countries have laws that restrict hate speech, each with varying degrees of enforcement. SCOTUS has repeatedly voted against such potential amendments.

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

This was the inevitable endpoint of GamerGate.

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

Just in from the ICE facility in Portland

Everything about this deal is terrifying.

Whew! Got my Novavax this morning. If you are have Long Covid or a rough time with the mRNAs, there’s a lot of anecdotal reports that the side effects are significantly less. My last Pfizer post-LC resulted in a 6 week crash, but two doses of novavax have given me zero side effects. YMMV, of course.

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

Kaleb's advice in his last piece of published writing is flawless, and we should all do what he says, in his memory, if not for our own good.

Alan Siegel's new book is an answer to the question "Why do so many people still quote 'The Simpsons' so often?" defector.com/to-artistic-...

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

Today you can watch a sadistic rapist threaten and intimidate good people in a campaign of vicious retribution. Also, CAPE FEAR (1962) is on TCM at 6pm ET #FilmSky

I'm on the job hunt. I've worked as a freelance writer, editor, essayist, and film theorist for nearly 15 years, with bylines at /Film, FANGORIA, Rue Morgue, CBC Comedy, etc. I ran Shudder's The Bite, served as FANGORIA magazine's Managing Editor, and was the evening news editor at /Film. Any leads?

if you’re feeling high on One Battle After Another, i’d urge you to seek out Jules Dassin’s Uptight, an incendiary film from 1968, told from the perspective of the burgeoning Black power movement directed by the Jewish, blacklisted Dassin, and co-written and produced by Ruby Dee

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I'm on the job hunt. I've worked as a freelance writer, editor, essayist, and film theorist for nearly 15 years, with bylines at /Film, FANGORIA, Rue Morgue, CBC Comedy, etc. I ran Shudder's The Bite, served as FANGORIA magazine's Managing Editor, and was the evening news editor at /Film. Any leads?

AUTISM and TYLENOL A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared. “Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…” Full article:

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

we can’t overlook that trump appointees feel comfortable lying to congress because both parties stopped enforcing the laws against lying to congress

Jimmy Kimmel’s show wasn’t suspended because of comments about Charlie Kirk. Major media like the NYT keep saying that, but Kirk was just a pretext. In July, when Kirk was still alive, Trump reacted to the cancellation of Colbert’s show by saying “Jimmy Kimmel is next.” it’s not about Kirk.

It's only a matter of time before it makes the jump to this site, but one of the Charlie Kirk videos is EXTREMELY graphic, so if that's gonna be a hard watch, you can update your settings to turn off autoplay. settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

You bet your ass she won’t

Witness America’s cultural collapse in our exclusive trailer premiere for Jacob Gregor's End of History, premiering next month.

I did not have Colman Domingo dressed in drag, channelling The Rocky Horror Picture Show for a Sabrina Carpenter video on my 2025 bingo card. But thank you Lord, we've been truly blessed today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9vu...

So in other words… …. Cain was not able

Happy Friday! Have a listing for a Canadian house of nightmares! 🤓 www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were almost fired by David Zaslav for two bombs they didn't greenlight. Now they're on one of the best studio executive runs I've seen in decades. They're restoring the most celebrated studio in Hollywood to its former glory. Why aren't they getting more credit?

"And many have held that the American Presidency has become very much more personal and monarchical than any European monarch ever could be." – Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, 1964

I think First Steps is the first Fantastic Four movie I've actually liked. I genuinely enjoyed it. I've got my issues with it, don't get me wrong, but that can wait. I'd rather enjoy it in earnest while I can.

This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.

Big Spender keeps looping in my head and I can't help but hum to it every time it does. I'm pretty sure this is how I go insane.

In which I argue that it's time for Universal to go the Abbott & Costello route with the flagging JURASSIC PARK franchise (and if you don't agree with my choice of duo, a) you're wrong, but b) feel free to make another suggestion).

We all need joy to function, and we need to find it wherever we can. Especially while we're fighting with everything we've got. Here's some joy for your Monday. 🦉 owlsintowels.org