Dr. Al-Hashimi fine as hell tho

Spielberg could do an insane remake of Spione

Minority Report: y’know, Spielberg doesn’t get enough credit for being a really weird guy

about halfway through Iris Murdoch’s The Bell, and she really was the best writer, eh?

$25 for every volume of The Complete Peanuts, which spans the full fifty years of the comic strip, is honestly one of the greatest deals ever. I'm floored.

Minority Report on 16mm tonight

oh are the mets playing?

The Year of Anne Hathaway continues!

oh fuck yeah, Tenet star Himesh Patel!

lotta the anti-cursive comments on here sound a lot like when kids at school go, "Why do I need to learn multiplication when I have a calculator?"

oh my god, Happy Gilmore should've finished the job

a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich

we've recreated 2012 Twitter, and i fully expect the return of Kony

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it’s like not my highest priority rn but for those of you dunking on cursive: it likely helps with other skills that make children better at learning journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

apparently the latest development in the Chappell Hates Kids saga is that the security guard was actually working for Sabrina Carpenter and is the same guy Kanye West fired for leaving Kim Kardashian alone in Paris the night she was robbed

hosting a “comedy” show

are these shows just After the Hunt?

lmao, can’t wait to see how my dad defends this

Buh buh, buh buh, buh buh Buh buh, buh buh, buh buh Neh Neh-neh Neh-neh-neh Neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh Neh, neh, neh-neh neh, neh-neh Oye como va, mi béisbol Bueno pa’ gozar: béisbol. Oye como va, mi béisbol Bueno pa’ gozar: béisbol. defector.com/beisbol

👇 oh what, it’s an issue that’s been right-wing coded for years now? who gives a fuck, co-opt that shit, prove to people that the left actually does want to preserve the good things about society

a new local Toronto literary publication has landed! Toronto Review, set to feature criticism, essays, fiction, interviews, and more. and check out the names involved! thetorontoreview.ca

Alex Ross Perry was right. David Fincher ruined the look of television (and a lot of movies).

See also Ontario Place (only progressive position was "NO CONDOS", was otherwise left to rot) and corner store beer (an easy win that no progressive govt will reverse but none would implement either.)

as someone currently trying to make journaling and note-taking a regular habit, i recently discovered that cursive really is faster and easier on the hand, so… gotta agree with Shapiro

incredible movie

following up a Béla Tarr picture with the only logical option: more The Traitors UK s4 what’s going on with Jade is really unfortunate

Damnation: amazing how Lynchian some of this feels considering they were making stuff at the same time

i am enormously honored to have written an essay for the new @criterion.bsky.social edition of Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon." enjoy—and go get yourself a copy! www.criterion.com/current/post...

the ideal movie snack situation is a bag of popcorn, something chocolatey, and a drink from a Coke Freestyle machine you can’t get anywhere else

this ranking made me apoplectic, good work Matt!

i do disagree with claims the Potter books were always bad kids literature. a lot of the same people would recommend me books like The Golden Compass, which are equally silly and basically unreadable, just fucking terrible prose. we’re talking kids books here, not Tolstoy.

just saw that the Harry Potter series showrunner was also a co-executive producer on Killing Eve lmao

Béla Tarr's Damnation for the first time tonight, only my second of his

hbo is innovating by going straight to the live-action remake aesthetic without needing an animated original

me, watching the Harry Potter trailer: at least when Leni Riefenstahl was actively supporting a genocidal agenda, she still made Olympia

k, i know it's really beside the point, but holy crap they really did go, "What if Harry Potter was a Netflix show?" lmaooooooooo

the trick here is it wasn't even an adversarial interview (i wasn't Chotinering him), but i have a perspective i'm bringing to the piece, and i wanted to challenge him with it, but also for him to challenge me back and he did! i learned some important stuff that will change the story

interviewed a top level corporate source for a story yesterday that was more like a debate than an interview, and it produced so much better and more rigorous material for my piece than if i'd just asked questions and let him answer in smooth executive speak

despite my often "pragmatic" leanings, i know i'm left-wing because when discussing solutions to various social ills, i somehow end up advocating extremely socialist ideas

You either have this sort of political juice or you don't. Cannot be taught.

"Rodrick Rules!" - Christopher Nolan

yeah, i honestly don’t think it’s that hard to go “this was an important facet of my childhood, before it all went sour and evil, but now that it has, i’m disengaging”

I covered this story for Defector because it falls under two of my beats, Amazon's Reacher News & Views and Suburban Brain Disorder. defector.com/suburban-hom...

they're calling him Mid-Sized Jason Blum

Strangers With Gamgee

Just saw Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. Rarely have I seen a movie that left me equally torn between wanting to know every single thing about how it was made and wanting to know absolutely nothing about how it was made. What a delight. And I've never even seen the show!

one thing i’m not super into on The Traitors UK is how many people have some like special secret they’re hiding