a perfect holiday movie. big charlie brown energy.

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

I agree with Dana, though I have a much harder take. These movies stack the deck against the protagonist to unbelievable extremes. That's when I start rooting for these characters to die horribly. A movie like Full Time does this type of anxiety ride right: www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/15/a...

My review of the Pluribus season finale, which ended on an all-time mic drop:

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

The sequel to DIE HARD should’ve taken place the day after when John McClane spends Christmas Day with his wife and kids, opening presents, sitting by the fireplace drinking cocoa and reminiscing about the dozen German guys he killed the night before.

Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet

“Daddy, why can’t you spend Christmas with us? “Sorry, son. I have to redact our president’s name from thousands of files that say he’s a pedophile.”

If i ever see you post about having asked chatgpt anything im unfollowing and muting u and thinking quite a lot less of you

who up rankin they bass

CW: SA, infanticide According to this Epstein file Trump regularly paid to sexually assault a 13 year old on a yacht and watched as they disposed of the 13 year olds new born child off the side of the boat in lake Michigan. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

Finding out Erika Kirk was on a reality show years ago explains that the thirst to be in the spotlight has been very strong with her for a long time and is clearly driving her. Deep down, maybe she wanted her husband out of the way and got her wish.

enjoying the quiet but critical work of "former entertainer"

But we’ll all remember which driveways those trucks were parked in, you can bet your ass on that

As long as movies or shows need oily businessmen or morally dubious members of government, David Rasche will always get work.

Pluribus finale: great final line of a season, or greatest final line of a season?

“The real aim is for Bari Weiss is to destroy CBS News,” said people on this site a day after nearly everyone admitted they hadn’t watched a 60 Minutes segment in years until yesterday.

Please don’t give Christopher Nolan another thing to explain with laborious exposition.

Do you ever think about how we’ve spent most of the last decade having to listen to a decrepit pedophile complain on the internet?

::jerk off hand motion::

At a city council meeting about an AI data center going up in my community. It's packed and people are furious. Calling the mayor and council members corrupt. Loud applause for open socialists and anarchists. Naked anti-capitalist rhetoric. Most folks here didn't even know about it until weeks ago.

What's endlessly frustrating is that Trump has done nothing in the last year that he didn't openly campaign on doing if he regained the presidency, but checked-out voters didn't bother paying attention, and lots of politically informed voters refused to believe him. So much rotten ignorance.

I know people want to think villains are as formidable and intelligent as they're written in movies. But we are currently dealing with a truly potent mix of evil, stupidity and incompetence sustained by those who follow them being even more evil, stupid and incompetent.

Almost certain AI wrote this tagline. Smells like a computer being literal-minded. Lands like a thud. Has no wordplay or poetry.

Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.

They got "Coppola" but couldn't get "Francis Ford"?!

jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

bari Weiss and Kate McKinnon used to fuck. For some help processing this mentally, take some sandpaper you own and start using it on the surface of a nearby peach for as long as you can without self harming

Sunday was a big night for CBS. The CBS News-produced special about Rob Reiner drew 6.2M same-day viewers. The full special is streaming for free on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYG6...

There's a lot of talk about how "it's inevitable" and "everyone's using it" in regards to gAI and I think it's pretty clear folk are misjudging just how much hatred there is toward it, the more the industry fucks with our jobs, tech, prices, privacy. You use this shit & your blacklisted to me.

Did they ever have gabagool cut into the shapes of H, B and O?

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Pluribus fans, just a reminder that the finale is debuting tonight at 9 Eastern, due to the holiday. My review will publish tomorrow morning at

I'm always bothered by the "nobody's making them like James Cameron" fawning from the press when stories have come out from multiple sets of him nearly drowning his actors and crew. Thank Christ no one is else is making them like him

I wonder how many positive articles there would be if Michael B. Jordan took a page from Timothee Chalamet's "marketing" of MARTY SUPREME and showed up at interviews as Smoke or Stack.

We watched it together a couple of times.

good god lol

Is it good the primary reaction to next December's tentpole blockbuster is "What are YOU still doing here?"

5162x2160 I prefer CinemaScope.

Guys like Cameron think that having a certain amount of money and power means they can't be the butt of a joke anymore even though them having those very things makes them ideal targets.

Seriously convinced a huge problem is studios keep pushing IP out of touch with the main theatrical audience, who is now about 25. We had a Predator sequel and Running Man remake in space of a week, both nearly 40 year old movies! Not really surprising Minecraft has been the biggest movie this year.

A massive storm moving across SoCal could pose serious threats to the region during the holidays. Coastal and valley areas are expected to receive 4 to 6 inches of rain over the course of the storm. Up to 10 inches is forecast for the foothills and mountains.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

NYT reporter John Carreyrou and five other writers sue xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Perplexity, accusing them of pirating their books to train AI (Blake Brittain/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...