“Aides said [Trump] talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that prompted Chief of Staff John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter.” —Miles Taylor, who worked for the first Trump Administration.

Shout out to the guys rolling solo to the erotic movies at the New Bev this month.

STARFLEET ACADEMY is so weird - at its core it's actually pretty good TREK, but the packaging and setting are often aggravating. Like, this week Paul Giamatti establishes himself as a great TREK villain, but so much of his modern lingo grates (even as he delivers it excellently)

hold on i gotta take this

Legitimately tempted to buy this dumb shit

Protect our beer

The kids today don't know about Chinese water torture

What's a perfect movie that never got a sequel?

The Epstein files have Baal worship back in the conspiracy news. So who the heck is this guy anyway? www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

I pissed my pants when I saw that train headed towards me on the screen

ICYMI

If my one move was running around banging pots and pans over Spyglass’ position on Palestine, I probably wouldn’t hit the step and repeat of a Saban Films event and then have the biggest PR company in genre email everyone pics of me at that event so they could see how full of shit I am.

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist! Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

We are living in a deeply sinister age

I really think when Trump won by larger than expected margins (though still small), many conservatives truly believed they had finally won a cultural soft power victory and burned a lot of the actual political capital they had on trying to seem inevitable, and now more people hate them every day.

Free Mon. at the Aero! Casting director Francine Maisler in-person. Enjoy a SINNERS (2025) / CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (2013) double feature followed by a Q&A with Maisler, whose other credits include 12 YEARS A SLAVE, DUNE, BIRDMAN, THE REVENANT, & LITTLE WOMEN. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

The Epstein files have Baal worship back in the conspiracy news. So who the heck is this guy anyway? www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

The dude just says shit

Somebody tell Mike Flanagan there are other authors.

this post has a ton of quote tweets claiming american pop culture was actually never influential. bluesky moment.

I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show

There's a reason TV stations used to air this every night

I don't know, there's been an incredible variety of memes clowning on Charlie Kirk in the months since his death.

The automated clip making robot on our podcast recording platform once again finds the gold in our conversation

"I want to protect the things that are real. That’s a big part of what’s happening with film and television right now and with storytelling. How do we protect these things we love?" Noah Segan discusses crafting The Only Living Pickpocket in New York with @thekentman.bsky.social:

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Finally, a Muppet reboot that gets it right www.patreon.com/posts/new-mu...

It would be hard to summarize what has happened to the GOP this last decade more succinctly than this pic.

I just checked out the TPUSA White Supremacist Halftime Klan Rally and there appear to have been like 200 people in the room

Macbeth: SHIT

White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!

I wrote about JAMES, the Pulitzer winning novel that retells HUCKLEBERRY FINN from Jim's perspective. www.patreon.com/posts/recomm...

Is this one of those humiliation rituals insane right wingers like to talk about

The idea that if you find out an artist you liked is/was a bad person you should purge your home of their work is magical thinking, like the physical object carries a dark curse upon it.

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

Honestly very insane times

Almost the cast of the original Twister

In Vonnegut's HARRISON BERGERON people are handicapped if they are too exceptional in some way. It's in the name of equality. If you're beautiful you have to wear a mask. If you're smart they blast noise in your ears so you can't think.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

Since NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD zombie movies have been inherently cynical. 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE breaks that and it couldn't be more welcome at this moment in time. www.patreon.com/posts/bone-t...

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Ohhhhhhh, that’s who Gary Larson was drawing

Since NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD zombie movies have been inherently cynical. 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE breaks that and it couldn't be more welcome at this moment in time. www.patreon.com/posts/bone-t...

lol this is the most ominous letter I've ever seen in my life.

I was skeptical of DC KO BOSS BATTLE, where DC superheroes fight characters from other franchises/comic lines. Having now read it the comic disappoints even my low expectations by being lazy and boring. How is Joker vs Annabelle mostly them having tea?

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I thought HAMNET was really well made, but I just didn't love it. I didn't even cry, and I cry at commercials.