The Sonic Cinema Podcast is topical, as @bingemovies.bsky.social and @jmamenn.bsky.social and I discuss Sidney Lumet’s “Network” at 50, how the film was prescient, and how it didn’t anticipate a lot. #Movies #Films #FilmSky sonic-cinema.com/wordpress/20...

To close out this year, I was joined by Phil Fasso to look at American jingoism in contemporary action films. I have more topics in mind for 2026. I hope you continue to join me. #Movies #Films #FilmSky sonic-cinema.com/wordpress/20...

Next up, it was important to look at the press's responsibility to hold power to account. Joining me there was @jmamenn.bsky.social, and it was an important and vital discussion. #Movies #Films #FilmSky sonic-cinema.com/wordpress/20...

R.I.P. Udo Kier (1944—2025)

The time has come to share my favorite films, soundtracks and performances of 2024. This was an eclectic, exciting year for personal moviewatching and I look forward for what’s ahead in 2025. #Movies #FilmSky sonic-cinema.com/wordpress/20...

The newest episode in our “Fascism in Cinema” series is out today. Here, @jmamenn.bsky.social and I look at the press’s responsibility in speaking truth to power, and how it’s threatened now. #Movies #Films #FilmSky @bingemovies.bsky.social @dwlundberg.bsky.social sonic-cinema.com/wordpress/20...

Another episode of Sonic Cinema’s “Fascism in Cinema” series is in the can. It was great to talk to @jmamenn.bsky.social for the first time on the pod about holding power accountable in journalism. Look for the episode at the start of November. #Movies #Films #FilmSky

for active military or if you know someone in the military: “The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.” www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Seems relevant. Don’t let them erase us.

The Dude has spoken: "ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

Here's my 🧵of #LFF2025 📽️ reviews starting with the movies I have covered elsewhere. My strongest recommendation is for ROMERÍA, an enormous act of love with an all-time dance scene done by filthy gutter punks movieswetextedabout.com/romeria-film...

ALPHA #LFF2025 📽️ has another extraordinary scene set in a punk club with some unusual (and repulsive) body horror, but somehow even with Tahar Rahim's brutally beautiful performance Julia Ducournau didn't quite bring it all together intheirownleague.com/2025/05/26/c...

As for the others I've already covered at #LFF2025 📽️ let's go alphabetically (more or less). AFTER THE HUNT holds a woman responsible for a sexual assault committed by a man and I loathe this is how our culture addresses these crimes movieswetextedabout.com/after-the-hu...

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Canceling a streaming service? How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!

If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050, according to new research. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

OK EVERYONE!!! You know the assignment. @midcapeindivisible.bsky.social @51percentofus.bsky.social @indivisible.org support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art...

A six year investigation by NYT reporters found the nation’s largest bank enabled Epstein for years. 🎁 article

PENELOPE IS MISSING UPTOWN: Last seen between 119th and 120th St and Park Ave heading toward Lexington and Third. She's 28 pounds and chipped: 616099000072018. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT PENELOPE!

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BREAKING: Judge Breyer declines California request for immediate restraining order but sets a Thursday hearing: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Animal Care Services (ACS) 4710 TX-151 San Antonio, TX 78227 Phone: (210) 207-4738 ACS will only place holds on animals for approved rescues and fosters that have emailed the request to the monitored email: ACS Rescue/Foster: [email protected] (no third parties) Click pic!

I really liked LEFT-HANDED GIRL #Cannes about the way two very different sisters suddenly grow up in Taipei. There wasn't room in the review but there's also a pet meerkat in the movie movieswetextedabout.com/left-handed-...

Seeing claims about the judge "hiding" the defendant. Read the complaint, folks (written by DOJ). The guy was literally in the public area where the agents were. I guess he got on an elevator before they could get to him. The complaint says after letting the defendant exit she came back to the bench

Hoopla Digital — free with a library card — now has comic strips. More than 100 newspaper strips are available digitally + the complete PEANUTS. They also have manga, comics, and graphic novels — all free to "borrow." A treasure trove. www.hoopladigital.com/bingepass/co... #Comics #Manga #BookSky

Justin Wolfers explains the REAL reason why Trump & Bessent said today that their first deal will likely be with South Korea - because that country has had zero tariffs on virtually everything from the US for 20 years already.

Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

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The agency and Novo Nordisk, which makes Ozempic, said Monday that they had learned about "several hundred units" of the drug that made it onto the market outside the company's approved supply chain.

Hey Pullman, WA and WSU students! Charlie Kirk is coming to your campus Thursday 4/17 at noon to indoctrinate you with conservative BS. It’s free but you have to sign up. It would be awful if people signed up but didn’t go. Just awful 😉 events2022.tpusa.com/events/the-a...

"Is this market manipulation?..." Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford asks... As Trump pauses most tariffs and the stock market dramatically rises the highest amount since 2008 in one day...

If you've seen Warren Buffett on X or FB talking about FOTUS’ tariffs, it wasn’t him. Here’s what he’s actually said, and I quote, “Over time, they are a tax on goods. I mean, tooth fairy doesn’t pay ‘em!” So when MAGA comes at you saying Buffett agrees with the tariffs, you can call bullshit.

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Happy #transdayofvisibility!! I’m Wyatt, I’m a horror illustrator and comic maker. It would mean a lot if you shared my work. #tdov

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Yes! :) Current estimates (still counting) are 750k people protested today. #news #usa #strongertogether #handsoff #resisters #resist #protest #goodtrouble #riseup #demsconnect #teamblue #rise

Tough language from JPMorgan tonight: “.. we view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts. .. these policies, if sustained, would likely push the US and global economy into recession this year.”

Consumer Expectations Index—consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business & labor market conditions—dropped 9.6 points since last month to 65.2, lowest level in 12 years and well below the threshold of 80 that usually signals a recession ahead" www.conference-board.org/topics/consu...

🎯 Evasion of accountability! That’s exactly why they are utilizing 3rd party software!

Ossoff: It was reported that dinner with the President is on sale for $5 million. The whole family is cashing in. Don Jr. is setting up a new business empire. Jared’s investment firm got $2 billion from the Saudi Royal Family. Like Hunter Biden should’ve been more ambitious

I read this today & I found it fascinating. I don't know anything about valuation & how loans like the ones mentioned in this article work, but if this is accurate, Musk seems at risk. www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/this-is-ho...

🚨 IMPORTANT: In-person absentee voting starts TOMORROW here in Wisconsin. Election Day is April 1. 🚨 The balance of power in our Supreme Court is at stake. 🚨The despicable Elon Musk and his anti-American Orcs are trying to buy our Court here. 🚨 DO NOT LET THEM. 🚨 Support Judge Susan Crawford!

'The Third Man'. set in (and beneath) post-War Vienna, is available on BBC iPlayer for the next 28 days (1/3) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This is the second time USAID/State is punishing people revealing the truth that Marco is killing children. They're quite desperate to hide this fact, as if the reporters in Africa or court declarations are making it up.