Here's the official synopsis for Adam Wingard's A24 action-thriller ONSLAUGHT: When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter. Adria Arjona stars. Trailer tomorrow.

Happy Pride Month to everyone who brings a little more color to our world 🏳️‍🌈🫶🏳️‍⚧️

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The buzzy success of multiple horror things right now — Widow’s Bay! Obsession! Backrooms! and that’s just right now! — should be a message to film/TV folks to set their sights on the bevy of excellent horror novels out there. I say this selfishly as a writer, sure, but also as a reader of them!

Mockery is a legitimate form of protest and people underestimate how much bigots hate it.

For the evening crowd

Walter deserves a Pulitzer just for turning Paul Giamatti's last name into a verb.

Walter is the best person writing about movies today and it isn’t even close. Every time I read one of his pieces I leave able to see films in a new light.

For the morning crowd.

BREAKING: The Old Gods of Asgard have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration

Taxi, obviously

I just posted about Lemieux a few days ago when he carried the torch into the arena. Shockingly sudden. And only 60.

Bones and All

RIP Sonny Rollins. Saxophone Colossus doesn’t even begin to describe him. Literally one of the best to ever do it.

I think about this comic all the time.

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.

An interesting double feature would be Companion and Obsession followed up by a round table discussion of who the victim in each movie was.

Mississippi State advances! Go Bulldogs!

Saturday vibes

Go home, fur babies. You’re drunk.

Pics from around the property.

That Mississippi State NCAA softball game was fucking amazing. Go Bulldogs!

my heart goes out to all the talented creatives at Bungie who struggled under catastrophic mismanagement for years trying to make a good game who will likely be thrown into the worst games job market in history

Destiny and the people who worked on it deserved better than this.

Sadly though, only a few videos are out there. I did write up a thing for Destiny after The Final Shape, but I just don’t know if I have it in me to do another one now that it’s over. I’ll leave it here in case anyone is interested. See you starside Guardians. open.substack.com/pub/rotundba...

Destiny and Destiny 2 are the two games with the most impact on my life and I am forever grateful for the experiences I had while playing them. I wish the promise of more Destiny was assured but I will be happy for the moments I had.

For the morning crowd

After watching Banana Ball, not sure how I’m supposed to find regular baseball interesting.

I have had PiHole running at home and for over a year so when I travel I am always surprised at how utterly unusable so many sites are.

I have been lectured to my entire life that the greatest sin in politics is to look down on these cosmically ignorant fuckwits, or to hold them accountable for their decisions. We're just supposed to flatter their Illusions and dutifully repair all the shit they destroy.

Mixtape would be so much better if the main character wasn’t an insufferable asshole.

I’ve only played this game for an hour and so far this review feels spot on.

The Sheep Detectives was delightful.

It's very frustrating living in a country where the Republicans are given a free pass by the courts and by the media to do whatever deranged dangerous bugfuck batshit they want, but when Democrats make any change at all, the media hamstrings them and then the courts brain them with a cinder block.

Every year that I watch this these two have found more and more joy in each other and it is just absolute perfection.

Much like the competition chefs I see on TV, food is in my blood but in my case it’s due to this Ranch dressing IV drip.

Amazon's sins are countless, and there are far more sinister ones than this -- but I hope their desecration of comics earns all involved an eternal haunting

Watched Forbidden Fruits and it is crazy how effective it is to move the typical High School setting of a Mean Girls movie to a shopping mall with zero narrative friction and the added benefit of not having to pass older actors off as HS students.

My favorite one is "why don't you get someone to review movies that actually likes movies?" and I'm like... I've watched 1000 movies a year pretty much every year for 27 years now. I wish I *merely* liked movies. I love more movies every year than most people watch movies. Just not the one you like.

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Congrats Montreal. Y’all played your fucking hearts out.

I don’t care if this gets me labeled a Dad Rock enthusiast or what but this new blues heavy Black Keys record is 1000% my jam.

Game 7 let’s fucking gooooo!!!!!

What a beautiful write up.

doing a cool samurai thing where I slice an incoming arrow in half with my katana, instantly killing my two buddies standing just behind me

there is something genuinely clarifying and useful about this kind of stuff. they are totally hoods off and proud of it, which means we should not hesitate to describe them accordingly