The original Speak No Evil from 2022 might be one of the most nihilistically neurotypical films I think I've ever seen in my life, and I think I hate it!

The original Speak No Evil from 2022 might be one of the most nihilistically neurotypical films I think I've ever seen in my life, and I think I hate it!

#Backrooms Creepy atmosphere, scares that range from fun to disturbing, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve give intense performances, and Parsons has great potential as a director, even if the plot, and the lore as presented on its own might leave you a bit lost.

Peabo Bryson, the iconic singer-songwriter behind the Oscar-winning Disney songs "Beauty and the Beast" and "A Whole New World," has died at 75 www.tmz.com/2026/06/02/p...

So after a certain debate opened up controversial opinions of varying degrees of good and bad faith, after social media presences were built on it, after, for better or worse, it exposed deep dissatisfactions with cinema's direction, after watching friendships end over it... it's all come to THIS!

Holy hell. This is staggeringly incompetent and dangerous. Might be one of the biggest security breaches ever.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Something I've had to accept is that the capitalist machine is designed to learn the wrong lessons from its successes and failures. It could make a THOUSAND movies that are theoretically for me, it wouldn't guarantee that they would be good for me.

There’s this weird Reddit-fueled idea that Hollywood has a problem with this when 8 years ago people were turning Twitter threads into sitcoms and movies. These are filmmakers building their own audiences and graduating into more mainstream media. They paid their dues & earned their spots. No shade.

BREAKING: The Hex Girls have also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration.

RIP Marcia Lucas, whose skill as a film editor and storyteller made a clunky independent film called STAR WARS greater than the sum of its parts. Rightly referred to as "Lucas's secret weapon," Marcia had an uncanny talent to see a film from the perspective of an audience--and won an Oscar for it.

Just about to book my ticket for Backrooms. Up front, outside of the teaser, I'm going in blind, I'm not familiar with the creepypasta, and I don't know if it's an "I'm old" thing, an "outside my autism range" thing or both, but I don't even know what a creepypasta is.

The Michael Jackson that is a perfect summation of the Star Wars prequels is “Smooth Criminal” Why? “Ani, are you okay? Are you okay, Ani?”

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!" J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

It's stupid to get emotionally invested in animation. Cartoons can't hurt you. The Cartoon:

The premise of the SWAT Kats revival comic; villains subjugating the system through control of technology, and our neurodivergent heroes have to contend with getting older, and their lifetime of minimum wage work and ambitious side-hustling coming to nothing! Everything's a millennial metaphor now!

I think the narrative persists because children's media with risque/intense imagery and themes is INHERENTLY experimental and INHERENTLY vulnerable to moral panic and corporate scrutiny, so either way, it feels tone-deaf coming from Turner who otherwise did so much for cartoons and classic films.

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hi did you know in addition to TheGamer, Valnet owns Screenrant Movieweb Collider CBR Polygon and more? They treat writers like trash and are a major force in making the internet worse

Not a single thing has happened since Brexit to suggest that this isn’t true for the reactionary regressive movement as a whole.

Turns out rationality and literalism aren't reliable, "one size fits all" lenses through which to critique art, and especially in cases like this, often ignores cultural, contextual, and emotional inspirations, like how manipulation works often by appealing to egos or emotions.

this ought to just be straightforward "attempted murder, 30 years, buh-bye"

#Hokum If you liked the haunted house/murder mystery fun of Oddity, you'll like Damian McCarthy's scary hotel thrill ride with plenty of suspense and creepy imagery with a great performance from Adam Scott at the centre.

Madkat from SWAT Kats, a British comedian possessed by a ghost jester lashing out at people who don't find him funny. On a rewatch, I wasn't even TRYING to make connections to Ricky Gervais or Russell Brand, but Roddy McDowell's vocal choices feel eerily prophetic! He even says "You're cancelled!"

Tom Kane has sadly passed away at the age of 64. He was the iconic narrator of ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ as well as the voice of Yoda & Admiral Wullf Yularen.

It’s becoming a bigger problem with fandoms, and I’ve noticed this with animation fans. They spend more time on social media than they do actually watching the media itself. They believe consuming some posts and videos that got a lot of engagement is enough for them to fully form an opinion on it.

It becomes inescapable after a while that a lot, and I mean a LOT of people on social media base their Opinions On Things SOLELY on the clickbait headlines. They don't even bother reading the articles most of the time, just the headlines. And the clickbait-makers are keenly aware of this.

2) Nerds who say “let creators have freedom!” tend to be wholly unprepared for the fact that a creator’s vision won’t line up with their preferences. And thus the lashing out.

I think it boils down to two reasons: 1) Animation nerds - and nerds in general - are forever caught in the catch-22 of wanting something to be popular then getting upset when it does because they don’t feel as “special” as they did when it was a niche thing.

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

Fantasia I know whether it's actually for kids is debatable, but it was the first movie I ever watched, and it was good enough for me.

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

My take on the Ted Turner/SWAT Kats thing is "both things are true," the executives misconstrued his stance on IMITABLE violence and their incompetent network/merchandise meddling got it cancelled, but Turner should've read the room given how reactionary the issue of media violence has always been!

Journey to Jo'burg, one of my favourite books from when I was about 10 or 11, it was such an emotionally intense read about poverty, racism, and systemic violence in the apartheid years of South Africa, I'm surprised I finished it at that age. I consider it required reading.

#TheSheepDetectives Charming performances from the humans to the vocal work for the sheep, the comedy, both dialogue and slapstick, is perfectly written, you'll find one bawler for every chuckle... and you'll be bawling for how surprisingly sad and heartbreaking its themes of memory are.

I'll believe it when I see a trailer, but it's a good reminder to go watch The Adventures of Tintin from 2011 if you haven't already.

Matt Braly has revealed that his scrapped Sony Pictures Animation has been saved by a Thai studio called Monk Studios who helped do some work on both Wish Dragon and Ne Zha 2 and will be named Afterworld. Man, I have not been this hyped to see a revival since Nimona. So happy!

The same "X is ruining children's minds" crowd were also happy to let GamerGate, ComicsGate, and the end of the Fairness Doctrine happen. Capitalism has always had a sociopolitical and socioeconomic monopoly on how psychologically healthy our relationships with media and technology are.

Bit of a deep cut, but A Man There Was from 1917, based on Henrik Ibsen's poem, Terje Vigen.

To be fair, yes, it does feel like the "instant gratification" economy leans toward recent media, but that's why nurturing curiosity starts off the grid. What's head-tilting is the insinuation that WE, the generation raised on reruns and re-releases didn't watch older films! A "you" problem, Stella?

boycotts work. anyone stating otherwise is spreading state & corp sanctioned propoganda

I guess people CAN put their money where their mouth is.

Seeing how much money is pooling into indie animation kickstarters continues to represent to me how much audiences want fresh animation and how much studios are still beholden to private special interest instead. The issue isn't the content, its the delivery system.

remembering Natasha Richarson on her birthday 🤍

“DEAD POETS SOCIETY holds up, huh?”

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

"Better tell this little person all about the Prime Minister's fucking CATASTROPHIC ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION!" Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It

Never thought I’d be living in a world so shitty that I’d find myself saying WHO CARES ABOUT UFO PICS RIGHT NOW