not sure if he’s talked about it elsewhere, but i love hearing that the structure of One Battle After Another took inspiration from Les Misérables (1935 film version) had not put that together before, but it’s so obvious now that i know

There’s nothing consumer friendly about depriving people of the chance to see a movie in a theatre because of “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” release windows.

Which brave internet soul will cosplay an icon?

wrote this about Netflix back in 2019 thebaffler.com/latest/the-n...

the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)

SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth. MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...

maybe i am going insane

chicago pope is easily the funniest thing the catholic church has done in more than 100 years

Do you remember the first time you heard “Midnight City?”

David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

No, I refuse to believe this and will continue to use it as a metaphor for all organisational life. If anything, I might do it more.

Hey folks, you don't have to share AI trash on here to convince me it's bad. Feel free to just not share whatever AI slop is annoying you. You'll make the world a better place by reducing the spread of this particular contagion.

This is one of the most important issues in "AI" discourse. We're lumping together all sorts of things that are categorically different and should be treated in totally different ways.

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

I know I’m late to the party, but I just watched Season 1 of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal and… dang!

a few small beers

Seyfried was in Twin Peaks and First Reformed the same year, that’s amazing

Seeing One Battle After Another again tonight… haven’t been this jazzed to see a movie a second time in theatres since Titanic.

Same.

Earthseed, including The Book of the Living, was created by Octavia E. Butler

So actresses get replaced by AI but agents are still needed? Figures.

In the last week I’ve seen the already under-rated A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY and the hype-deserving ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in my local theatre and I gotta say… movies are good.

Silksong continues to surprise and delight at every turn. What a game.

geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

hell yes. we're approaching a point where AI generated controversies can be followed with AI generated backlash, leading in turn to AI generated fallout. it's a perfect closed loop. we'll finally be free

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my first piece for @truthdig.com, about the political grey areas in recent films from Alex Garland, Ari Aster, Celine Song and more

Gently grate the pear into the base ingredients.

The OA. A thousand times the OA. It’s cancelation was what radicalized me against the streamers and our current tech overlords… and there is only one way they can win me back.

we're so close to jean jacket and gordon lightfoot playlist weather i can almost taste it. peak canadian cosplay temps 🔜

Silksong! Silksong! Silksong! I was so excited to get home after a very long day and dive into this… and, still getting my feet wet in the world, I’m so jazzed to be in it.

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Craig Maxin really went for it in these opening lines to CHERNOBYL

Find the River

Now that The Toast is gone, it's very hard to find the text of the greatest piece ever produced, The Pitch Meeting for Wishbone imgur.com/gallery/pitc...

love going out into the woods to visit with my tinnitus

not gonna spoil it. just go look lol

this site is bad! it's going to fail! its user base has plateaued! it's not making any money! nobody here is smart except for me! everybody here is stupid! nobody is having any good discussions! i don't like being here! ok that's it for now. be back in 90 minutes

is that what i think it is

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Weapons time…

I really liked Lightning Crashes in grade 7

If I walk into one of these, will I end up in the Overlap?

please I'm dying lmaoooo