There are precious few certainties in life, yet I think we can *all* agree that were "The Matrix" made today, the role of Mouse would have been played by Pete Davidson.

Mexican entrepreneurship knows no limits… Behold the ICE officer piñata 🪅

You're Next (Whenever You're Up to It) #MildHorror

Excited about Geno's return to the Mariners, but bringing in my love of Vincent Price.

Brilliant!

Amazing screening tonight at the mostly-full, 999-seat Geffen Theater at the Academy! My first time seeing my favorite director in person, and my first opportunity to see a favorite film on the big screen since I saw it in '99.

Cal Raleigh does it! Fantastic Derby performance!

I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop working

This 30-second Japanese commercial for car stereos featuring Warren Oates and the music of Ry Cooder is better than any film you’ve seen this year.

I always go back and forth between Schifrin and Goldsmith as the greatest film composer, but really, only Schifrin in all the history of cinema made percussion and brass work for the image better than *anyone* before or after him, and likely anyone in the foreseeable future.

I can't find any protests tonight, and I don't know where to direct my fury that this absurd country decided to simply throw in the towel 366 days before the tricentennial for no other reason than to turn the billionaires into trillionaires just for funsies.

No one’s taking this one on, gonna have to eat his contract and DFA him

if your milk hotel is neutral in times of injustice, your milk hotel has chosen the side of the oppressor.

BREAKING: codebreakers have finally solved the Zodiac’s final cypher. After years of studying and many (MANY) attempts, experts have agreed that the decoded message reflects Zodiac’s last will and testament. it reads: ANDREW CUOMO FOR NYC MAYOR 2025

Tomorrow is the Dobbs anniversary. So many of the Democrats who endorsed Cuomo, a serial sexual harasser & danger to every woman & girl who gets close to him, will issue statements pretending to care about women. But you either support women or you support Cuomo-not both

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column

This sign above the urinal was a clear indicator that I was too old for the bar.

stanzi potenza is a national treasure

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

One of the ads running on Slant Magazine is by the State of Israel, laying out a deeply stupid and risible case for going to war with Iran. Absolutely appalling and infuriating. I can't find a link to it, but apparently it's been running on YouTube as well.

Hard agree We shouldn't be referring to these people as "Federal agents" until we get proof that they actually are that While we're at it, we should stop saying people are being "arrested" when they are being kidnapped And stop saying "deported" if they're being extrajudicially rendered

Looking for jobs on Indeed has started to feel like doomscrolling.

like i can't even begin to explain to you how many movies came out in the 2000s and had everyone dress like they were in the matrix as if it was the clothes alone that had made the matrix such a huge success and not the groundbreaking script cast action choreography sfx and production design

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

This idiotic curfew contains the whole of the William Mead housing project which is full of people who are already vulnerable to criminalization and profiling. Our folks had to call through all our lists to let them know because the city apparently saw fit to announce it with a text message at 8:07

Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is how powerful abusers don't really need to convince you of any one lie but rather just flood the zone with bullshit to render it "complex" enough that nobody feels confident enough to intervene on behalf of the victim

Who do they want me to marry, though?

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

And if you're at a protest and things start to get too scary, listen to your own gut. Don't do things just because some stranger or some "leader" with a megaphone gives an order. You feel sketched out? Don't do it. Don't march into that tunnel. Don't kneel in front of cops. Just bug out.

Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid? Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms. Wanna know another fun fact? If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

No big deal, just Anne and I seeing probably the second greatest animated Disney film on 35mm at the New Beverly.

My top four favorite heist movie (well, for right now) #filmsky

Watching "Last Week Tonight" every week is a great yet distressing experience. The most horrifying part of it: Max desperately tries after the episode to get me to watch fucking Bill Maher. Zaslav, I will *never* watch that racist shitbird, and him and Oliver are not related politically!

Wrapping up an excellent birthday weekend of NES, exploring LA (including a cupcake ATM!), a softball walk-off that got us into next week's playoffs, and finally watching my Blu-rays of "Screamers" and "Sansho the Bailiff."

Probably for the best that there's no analog to Malcolm Tucker in the Trump administration, but wouldn't it be amazing to hear the recordings of him absolutely destroying Hegseth and Waltz?

Here for tonight's Noir City double feature, "Detour" and "My True Story."

Had a great online hangout with friends, made some food, poured a cocktail, and now it's "Miami Vice" o'clock.

Looking at a recipe in a cook-book for people "on-the-go" and all of a sudden I get to a recipe requiring "12 oz angler fish fillet," and, yeah, will absolutely check for that at Ralph's when next I'm there...

I started a monthly book club but for cult films, using Peary's "Cult Movies" books and Tobias' "New Cult Canon" lists. Just wrapped this month's discussion, with Glazer's "Under the Skin" and Roeg's "The Man Who Fell to Earth." It went wide enough to encompass the "Westphall Theory," so good talk!

For a guy who's just not a power-hitter even in beer-league softball, getting a homer and two doubles in a game sure helps toward climbing out of depression, at least for a little bit.

Fully agreed!

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

I've been very hesitant to admit to most people that I was laid off last week. It dawned on me last night that once the anger (mostly) wore off that I've been left with a sense of shame. Hardly fair to myself, that feeling. Hopefully this realization will help me overcome my job search anxiety...

Walter Chaw is amazing not only because reading his works makes one understand cinema in new and vital ways, but I feel like I get a little better understanding of myself at the same time.

Sign even if you aren’t in Beverly Hills or even California!!!

I did the HK Cinematrix that was pulled for being too difficult, and even got the rarest correct answer for one of them! Cinemasochist Grid No. 2: The Hong Kong Trio I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2387 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play this special game at vulture.com/article/dail...

Ladies and gentlemen, your "opposition" party.