this guy has it

Happy Birthday to Tony Leung.

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

I was right about Isaiah Joe.

Haskell Wexler didn’t embed his actress in the middle of the 1968 DNC protests and get tear gassed so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable.”

I did that job for years. I was often the first on the film alongside the director. There's a reason directors enjoy working with good storyboard artists: they have taste and instincts that can complement their own. At its best, it's more than just taking dictation, it's a creative partnership.

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

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This Day in Labor History: June 19, 1982. Two Chrysler workers, one a UAW member and the other a foreman, murder a Chinese-American man named Vincent Chin in drunken anger over hatred of the Japanese supposedly destroying the American auto industry. Let's talk about 80s anti-Japanese hate!

I was 176,497 of those watches.

Eve. Let Me Blow Ya Mind. NPR Tiny Desk. imagine if an artist today released a track this good

The 2026 NBA Finals is four for four in clutch time games

10 favorite Spielbergs why not 1. Raiders 2. Jaws 3. Catch Me If You Can 4. Jurassic Park 5. Duel 6. War of the Worlds 7. West Side Story 8. Poltergeist 😉 9. Sugarland Express 10. Minority Report

📽️ Why the Knicks' viral “beautiful game” play is actually a perfect encapsulation of the incredible tactics and high-level chess match that have defined the Finals Sound ON 🔊

Judging solely on production design and cinematography, this is the most beautiful movie ever shot.

Stories, comedy, interviews, news, criticism, and analysis are devalued by a word that makes them sound like sausage filling.

Martin Scorsese drew these storyboards when he was 11 years old. They are for a Roman epic entitled THE ETERNAL CITY.

Also cut ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE and was an assistant editor on the great MEDIUM COOL. Versatile legend.

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

One of TV’s most memorable moments aired today in 1990 when Bob Newhart woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette in the series finale of “Newhart.” Pleshette played Newhart’s wife in the earlier 1970s “The Bob Newhart Show.”

Grogu trying a lemon for the first time is hilarious and adorable! 🍋 buff.ly/Q54dpDt

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

I had this exact same thought reading this part.

Every Frame a Painting has a new video out and it's about colour in film in case any of you are interested, my followers who are disproportionately film geeks and colour artists: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5P2...

I believe Bob Iger rushed Rise of Skywalker into production because he knew he was retiring and wanted to go out with a strong quarterly earnings report and is the primary reason the movie is so awful.

“The Chosen One” in the Jedi prophecy is Shmi Skywalker, not her son.

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

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This is what you want to see when you watch a movie

Oh man. I can’t even think of Indian cinema without Asha Bhosle.

watched A HIDDEN LIFE for Easter and man, the film's unwavering rejection of complicity while asking hard questions about faith, suffering and moral obligation hits incredibly hard given everything that's been happening in the U.S. in the last 12 months. one of Malick's best

Philip Kwok is the stunt coordinator for HARD-BOILED and his Mad Dog character is quite possibly my favorite henchman in cinematic history. A fully established terror and man of action, who also has a code. Like 5 lines of dialog and an all-time character is born.

Working on a book about ensemble screenplays and this piece hits on some of the ways a story like this (ensemble, one day, one location) challenges what viewers typically expect from a show, esp in the streaming age.

Blows me away how phenomenal LONE STAR is. Truly transcendent storytelling. Few films would dare have a sequence as goofy-yet-gut-punching as that third act moment between Chris Cooper and Frances McDormand. Says so much without having to spell a single syllable out. It’s just remarkable.

Watched THE BAD NEWS BEARS last night to celebrate its 50th, and it's kinda wild that a major 1970s blockbuster sports movie feels like a 2020s A24 "elevated genre" sports movie.

With all of yesterday’s craziness, I missed that it was the 50th anniversary of THE BAD NEWS BEARS, my favorite sports film of all time. If you’ve never seen it, be warned - it’s very much a movie of its time. But it’s a masterpiece, with an ending that floors me every time. youtu.be/xSQxtMWJzGQ?...

Costumes from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Jodie Foster’s sweatshirt. Lester’s bloody pants and Jame Gumb’s shirt during the climax

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

I described the premise of this movie to my screenwriting students while giving notes in our workshop. They were shocked it existed.

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Sad news about Catherine O’Hara. So many good roles but my favorite was Gail in AFTER HOURS where she packs so many great moments in maybe 5-10 minutes of screen time.

Now THIS is a comedy skit! Lmfao

The yelp I let out at the end of this play…