Fucking hell when I pointed out this morning Ellison had a history of hiring (untalented) men who faced allegations of sexual harassment, had no idea a new one would drop in hours www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Brilliant and very accurate.

Today I was reminded that there was a character on Patriot named Jack Birdbath, and he wouldn't even come close to cracking a Top 10 Weirdest Things About Patriot list

die Tatsache, dass so ziemlich jedes Science-Fiction-Konzept von den größten Corporate Faschisten-Arschlöchern gekapert wurde, macht es mir nicht gerade leicht, eine meiner Lieblings-Sci-Fi-Serien der letzten Jahre anzufeuern www.youtube.com/watch?v=zojw...

For All Mankind: "This moon juice means I can live to be 150 years old." "Me too." "Me too." "We'll all be in season 27!"

Whoa-ohh, we're halfway there: "This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby" www.404media.co/this-app-war... bsky.app/profile/wolv...

“astrology for men” was too generous

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

I made this very same point on one of the few podcasts I've appeared on. We were talking about MILLER'S CROSSING and BARTON FINK, and watching those movies again made me think "Turturro is amazing and no one ever points that out anymore."

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

Marin Landau Sichtung in der heutigen Twilight Zone Episode.

“I’ve gotten interested in these very little, subtle things you usually don’t see in movies, very quiet, tiny, little moments that you see in life and which are very difficult to put into a movie. I watch people a lot and look for those moments.” - Tom Noonan, R.I.P.

RIP Tom Noonan, a friend for 18 years. Often typecast as villains, he was an actor's actor, a unique playwright & filmmaker, a gifted composer, and a pianist with a sweet voice. My kids & I used to go to his tiny apartment for dinner (pizza). We'd have a few drinks & he'd start to play. Magic.

New for What Else Is Alan Watching? subscribers: a look back at one of my all-time favorite brilliant-but-canceled series, the FX detective drama Terriers.

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

If there are still people to reflect on what is happening now in a 100 years, they will have a damning view of the easy ride the far right was given by the mainstream elite Incredible how the institutions we were told would protect us from fascism did not simply crumble but opened the gates

When depoliticization and preemptive obedience are the institutional policy in culture, we end up with such insightful and brave vocabulary as "sad" (- Berlinale) to describe a situation where racist state policy damages the institution and its artists.

We could spend all day talking about great Duvall performances and never run out, but I always think about OPEN RANGE (2003) - specifically, seeing it opening weekend and being keenly aware that Duvall had been doing it for so long by then that he really just *existed* onscreen. God, what an actor.

I know a lot of people still like to draw a bright line between movies and television, but you simply cannot fully measure Duvall's greatness without taking in all eight hours of his work as Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove. Treat yourselves if you can.

A Knight of Seven Kingdoms zeigt sich auch in seinem vermeintlich kleinen aber dafür meisterhaft inszenierten Schlachtengemälde hundertmal nervenaufreibender und spannender als alle Kabbeleien zwischen CGI-Drachen zusammengenommen.

Just crazy thinking out loud but what if consequences were for more than just poor people

I could fix her. But why would I want to?

I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.

Oh look, the exact thing that anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature knew was happening was happening: www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...

Neige mittlerweile doch sehr sehr zur These, die Funktion des Journalismus sei Eliten-Stenographie und die Blockade von Diskussionsräumen.

this is ACTING. we have abandoned this type of nonsense and i hate it.

wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me type-click-type.ghost.io/tell-em-mich...

ein sehr starker Qualitätsabfall begann in meinen Augen schon nach der 3. Staffel, aber vielleicht hat man sich nach einigen Jahren Pause wieder besonnen. Außerdem spielt die ausgezeichnete, aber stets unterschätzte Vanessa Bayer mit www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJq8...

Tom Wolfe wrote a brilliant essay about how tech tools meant to make work easier actually just increase the amount of work you end up doing... in the 1970s, about pocket calculators.

höre nur Gutes über "Nirvana the band the show the movie", was mich als "Blackberry"-Sehr-gut-finder nicht überrascht. Selbstverständlich gibt es keinen deutschen Starttermin www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2K9...

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Finally saw SEND HELP last night (rips) and it is so wild to see a trailer, in a theater, for a new Star Wars movie and feel absolutely nothing

wunderbar! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U-I...

The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

small crab eating a grape (important)

You don’t have to share trumps racist posts. Not about the superbowl. Not about anything. We could join truth social if we wanted. We’re here though.

P R E A C H

are…uhh…are we the penis?

The most important thing to me about my review of this week's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is that I cite Tom Spurgeon in it by name. AKOTSK is a decency fantasy, a term Tom coined—a heroic narrative that puts kindness, cooperation, competence and fundamental humanity above all else. (Gift link)

Doing art badly is good and sacred

hätte nicht mehr damit gerechnet, dass mich eine Game of Thrones Serie nochmal gebannt auf die nächste Episode warten lässt ...

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

A lot of "golden age" science fiction has interesting ideas and workman-like-at-best prose, and Asimov was no exception to this. He and many other GA SF writers benefitted from "first-mover" status, and also, editors who preferred neat SF concepts (and men) over exceptional prose (and women).

this is how I was hoping to spend my life; constantly on edge, mistrusting every messenger, tensely braced and skeptical to guard myself from ever guilelessly being moved by, or god forbid sharing, AI

Wonder Man überraschenderweise ein unaufgeregteres, unterhaltsameres Hollywood-Porträt als das laute, hyperaktive The Studio. Außerdem revitalisiert Ben Kingsley seine großartige Rolle aus dem besten Iron Man Film (Iron Man 3), außerdem starkes showcase für den unterschätzten Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...