matthew lillard and skeet ulrich should be next in line to do waiting for godot

This is a fantastic piece and gets at something that bothered me about Train Dreams (the film) I couldn't quite articulate for myself.

Considering seeing Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair despite the fact that I don't love either Vol 1 or 2 (and in fact find the back half of Vol 2 to be a real slog) simply because I love watching long movies in the theater.

The person sitting across from me on the train what might best be described to you as a fart sandwich.

"Godard is the first filmmaker to bristle with the effort of digesting all previous cinema and to make cinema itself his subject... Filmmaking for Godard is neither occupation nor vocation, it is existence itself." David Thomson on Jean-Luc Godard, born 3 December 1930.

Alexandra Pavlovna Lobanova - senior telephone operator of the 254th Red Banner Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, Junior Sergeant. During an enemy air raid on Kazatin on June 2, 1944, she repaired communication lines twelve times under heavy bombing, ensuring uninterrupted fire control.

You vs the guy...

That special ingredient? You guessed it, it's potatoes.

The new art zine is here! theartofcoop.bigcartel.com/product/rock...

If your movie is from Brazil or Argentina I’m gonna damn see it

Peter Falk & Wim Wenders during the filming of Wings of Desire (1987) © Ralf Strathmann

This is like what Lights Camera Jackson's list would be.

no one else has been so consistently artful in describing the last decade of conservative politics than David Roth, and for this accursèd talent the least he deserves is a Pulitzer defector.com/the-conserva...

I bet these things go hard on Quaaludes

Reporting back from the front lines of The Thanksgiving Discourse Wars. A minor skirmish on Hill 484 (aka Movie Ridge) turned into a bloodbath as enemy combatants insisted that one of the pressing issues of the day is that Tropic Thunder Couldn't Get Made in 2025 Because of Woke

Sometimes I take a bunch of hard drugs before I log on to give my posts an aura of danger, like with this one.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Day #168: The Exciting World of the Metric System (1976)

When another boy has a box

This James Bond reboot sucks

One of my favorite type of guys is the tough-guy actor who is right-wing coded but actually kinda woke: Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin, Sterling Hayden, Gene Hackman, Robert Ryan

My first YouTube video featuring an interview! Talked to the creator of Bring Back Doors. A website that catalogs hotels that do and don't have bathroom privacy.

What if we’re the shithole country?

Breaking

Hardee’s Slimer Sundae (1989-1989): Vanilla soft-serve topped with a green, bubblegum-flavored sauce. This sundae was released as part of a massive promotion for "Ghostbusters II", and the sauce was meant to evoke the thick, viscous ectoplasm from the film

As much as I'd like to live in a world where Celine and Julie Go Boating is a cultural touchstone on par with The Matrix, "everybody" is doing some serious heavy lifting.

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

My 16-year old nephew who mostly listens to drill and soundcloud rap has suddenly gotten obsessed with The Highwaymen. It's honestly adorable, and I love the ways kids that age make those sorts musical connections.

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

I wanna hold the hand inside you I wanna take the breath that's true I look to you and I see nothing I look to you to see the truth

I've been a bit lax on providing quality content in my posts of late so I'm making up for that with this one.

I stand by this prediction

"pay me money to read this horrible thing" no no my friend. that's the inverse of how it works

It's becoming increasingly clear that the reason Dems didn't leak the Epstein files any time between 2021-2024 is not because they lack some ruthless political instinct, but because they didn't want embarrass their pals like Larry Summers and bunch of banker jagoffs.

Just overheard a guy mumbling to nobody in particular, "I wish I knew who your mother was, I'd offer to shit on her face," which is either a devastating roast or a sincere bit of pervert gallantry.

"After being conned more than a few times in the last twenty-five years, most Americans have figured out that regime changers are professional liars. Why should anyone believe their lies this time?" daniellarison.substack.com/p/regime-cha...

All of the systemic issues with living in the world under late-capitalism aside, having 90% of all political actors and media figures be nothing more than a collection of severe personality disorders is not a great way to live

This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Ezra Klein's entire "abundance" shtick is just reheated early 2000s vibes-based deregulatory corporatism its primary function is to preempt good faith progressive reform as THE answer to authoritarianism because the extraction class don't want corporate accountability or to pay taxes

on today's Very Special Episode of "bring back shame"

This seems very bad. On the plus side, F-35s are a bit too pricey to be slamming into any skyscraper towers.

Hmm, as of this moment Mean Streets Taxi Driver The King of Comedy Raging Bull Casino

This is the basic standard every college and university should meet for their detained students.

Pope Leo is short for Pope Leonora Carrington

Smokey is the kindest, more righteous character Paul Schrader ever wrote, and this includes Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ

Evil Dead 2 1987 d. Sam Raimi

I see a lot of posts saying in one form or another how the Democrats need to hold the Trump admin and its allies to serious account (prosecutions, impeachments, etc) and I'm sorry, but the Democrats are not going to do a single one of those things.