Cars were invented, and over the years they were improved a great deal. They got us places. But then someone decided that cars should fly. They can’t fly, but the resources devoted to making them fly meant they stopped working on the road, and got unsafer than they’d ever been. THAT IS WHAT AI IS.

I know Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have been busy with producing, and about the whole SOLO fiasco, but it honestly shocked me to realize it's been 12 years since they directed a feature.

I honestly can’t recall how many of the SCARY MOVIE features I’ve actually seen, but my best recollection is that they were always collections of references, as though ticked off from a checklist. That’s what the new trailer reminded me of, when I wasn’t cringing at the “lol wokeness” stuff.

Fash and MAGA types referring to Iranians as Arabs maybe ought to have gone to school or read a book or something because less 2% of Iranians are Arabs. If you’re gonna be an awful c**t, at least be an awful c**t accurately.

My emotions are kind of close to the surface in this time, but I didn't expect that while catching up with SAG Awards acceptance speeches, I'd find myself repeatedly getting misty-eyed.

HOPPERS marks the third time already I've heard Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl" in a movie this year (twice at Sundance), so it's time for a trend piece.

I'm not sure I could have seen it coming that the author of ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL would effectively become Pixar's house screenwriter.

It must be nice to be a sociopath, because all the new products are for you. The smart glasses will give you that woman’s address, the betting apps will finally let you make bank on war crimes.

As annoyingly ubiquitous as Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You” was, I now cherish every time I heard it as another dollar in the pocket of someone who knew how to do good with it.

Every single person involved in such an endeavor is a fucking monster, no exceptions. Whatever had to happen to your soul to wager on mass death is fodder for TALES FROM THE CRYPT plots.

what if we did 2003 again but with even stupider people in charge of everything

very unbecoming of a fifa peace prize winner

‘So, going around the table, let’s see what each of us has been doing to promote world peace. Donald?’

Well it was nice having one last night of sleep.

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

CARS (2006): Is it. Is life a highway.

Thrilled it's happening, and once again wondering where to direct financial support for these efforts.

Feels like time for some "Oscars prop bets." ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: +/- 5.5 total wins? SINNERS: +/- 3.5 total wins? What odds would you need to get to take the field vs. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS sweeping Animated Feature and Original Song? Safest parlay for the 4 acting awards?

New @cityweekly.bsky.social reviews of this week's theatrical and streaming releases: SCREAM 7; MAN ON THE RUN; DREAMS; Oscar-nominated Animated and Live-Action Shorts. www.cityweekly.net/film/film-re...

How activism can act as a natural antidote to right-wing propaganda (especially when you have a dogshit president)

The Ellisons were really upset about the KKK getting massacred in Sinners, huh

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Trying to find whether there is already a legal fund set up for challenging Kansas’ trans driver license law; please point me in the right direction if you are aware of such a thing.

Well, there’s one checkmark towards a site I may one day decide never to use again.

This photo of Marco giving full “Bond villain at the baccarat table” vibes

I wrote about why AI can never write the sort of story that truly matters for @cityweekly.bsky.social : www.cityweekly.net/ae/big-shiny...

It is entirely possible this is a legitimate injury, but at this point in the Jazz tank-athon, I'm guessing the NBA will want to interview team doctors with the intensity of cops trying to get a low-level crook to flip on their bosses.

Personally I like technology but I understand it as something that 1) Reliably 2) Does something useful. That doesn't seem to be true for these chatbots outside of some limited applications but we're supposed to act like it is and saying otherwise is Luddism

Horses famously took up painting, directing, knitting, glassblowing & yoga with all their newly acquired free time

Day Two of watching an Amazon screener via Flow Capture in twenty minute chunks before it crashes and locks me out. I love how even the smallest distributors have licked this technology but with the $2 trillion company it’s still like trying to watch a Magnolia link in 2012.

Crowd-sourcing kind of an odd journalistic ethics question: A dear friend of more than 40 years is married to the artist who co-created THE POUT-POUT FISH, movie adaptation opening in March. Apparently no additional financial benefit accrues from movie's performance. Any issues with me covering?

when life gives you lemons, cool! many uses for lemons. what's next, life? flour? eggs? a pork loin?

I'll go one further. I'm not watching, but everything news (or meme) worthy will be on Kimmel & Colbert, both of whom are going live after the SotU to dunk on him in real time. You'll have more fun seeing all the highlights there. (Also, giving them great ratings would piss him right the fuck off.)

Masterful Troll, TCM.

When you're getting owned by Lauren Boebert on matters of appropriate behavior, you have truly lost the thread.

Find you someone who loves you as much as retirement planners love sending me “free informational dinner” invitations.

Find me a year with better animated features top to bottom than 2009: FANTASTIC MR. FOX UP THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG THE SECRET OF KELLS SITA SINGS THE BLUES (festival debut 2008 but distributed 2009) CORALINE A TOWN CALLED PANIC CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS

It’s time for a new episode of Mousterpiece Melodies, and I can bear-ly believe how wild this one is. @mattsinger.bsky.social joins @scottrenshaw.bsky.social and I to discuss the insanity of the 2002 film The Country Bears: mousterpiecemelodies.podbean.com/e/mousterpie...

I want to hang with the people I want to hang with. A party where you let assholes know they’re not wanted isn’t an “echo chamber,” it’s a party you don’t want to leave immediately. Relevance is a business problem.

I love that we have collectively come up with a hundred different euphemisms for You Know What—“the funniest thing,” “the big news event,” “the long-awaited demise,” etc.—yet we all understand exactly what’s going on.

I say this as someone for whom Disney’s ROBIN HOOD was a formative experience, my first theatrical movie as a child and one I listened to repeatedly on the “story record”: You people are out of your gotdam minds.

Absolutely phenomenal example of sports photography capturing this crucial save from the gold-medal game.

What should be an unmitigated joyful, celebratory moment for all Americans is - of course - co-opted by the dumbest people alive for performative partisan assholery. What a disgrace.

I was not watching the Olympic hockey, so I decided to scroll through my feed to identify when the winning goal happened, and I think I found it …

Funyuns. Shut up.