watching screeners for the second season of a show so weird, and whose mawkishness should completely sink it, yet it's also oddly one of the most compelling and moving things on TV

still high on this one

was just watching the Weapons trailer again to remind myself how good that trailer was, and it just made me wanna watch Weapons again, which proves the case

doing commercials used to be a shameful thing that you had to go to Japan to do

Fincher hasn’t been held to a high enough standard

i have finally seen K-Pop Demon Hunters, which was perfectly fine, though unsettling as propaganda for a pretty ugly industry and insidious consumerism, but god damn how did Sony execs watch that movie and decide to sell it off?? all-time Hollywood ball fumble.

TIFF playing ads for Botox before movies is… 😙👌🏻

A Poet: went to see this film basically on a lark, having half paid attention to a trailer i thought looked amusing in a Napoleon Dynamite kinda way. turns out it’s a fucking incredible movie. starts as the funniest film of the year and morphs into one of the most moving.

cinema

asked Siri to play the next podcast in my queue, but it played Alanis Morissette’s Hand in My Pocket instead, which was also the correct choice

yep, and while pressure from lower classes sorta spurred the robber barons’ sense of civic duty, the reality is their idea of elitism was copying a fantasy of European aristocracy the new age robber barons successfully convinced the world that it’s okay for CEOs to wear hoodies at business meetings

Ed Harris saying he wants to play the former husband of Gladys from Weapons instantly made me reconsider my opposition to Cregger doing a prequel

really need to get back to eating right, except that would require shopping for groceries, which for me would mean walking outside for more than 10 minutes, and it’s basically hell frozen over out there

the film adaptation is also aces

no idea how i missed this, but it’s great

Christopher Nolan is clearly a massive 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) fan.

TIFF playing K-Pop Demon Hunters today? hmm, maybe i’ll go and finally check it out. why not.

I've been thinking about Julia Loktev's MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS since yesterday. One of the powers of long cinema in a theatre (324 minutes here) is that it can completely saturate your thinking/imagining space. And it's a shared experience, shared with the temporary community in the theatre.

there’s only one real flaw with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: it should’ve had a fun theme song

this is NOT a pairing i ever would have predicted though, as Safdie suggested, Marty Supreme and Mr. Bean have some things in common

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what the fuck is this

btw, Bugonia, great movie. has sat well, and was actually better the second time. fwiw and all that.

"She's perfect, but you know how I abhor perfection in anyone but myself."

your morning dose of Phoenix

At press time, it remained unclear whether adults should be held responsible for their actions.

lurking the Sam Harris subreddit, the current drama is over Harris releasing a video explaining, with receipts, how he clearly had no real connection to Epstein, but going on to say, "I would be surprised if Trump is the sort of guy who wants to sleep with a 13-year-old" his fans are real upset

crazy to see a politician with integrity

we traded power for convenience and got fascism

where is the lie, I ask you www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...

with few exceptions, politics people should be banned from posting about art

looking forward to my rewatch of Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights this weekend

wait a second, the Winter Olympics start *tomorrow*??? i don’t like how this snuck up on me. are the Olympics washed, or have i just not been paying attention?

you know, the Democrats might be more appealing to people if they stopped constantly running blatant grifts on their constituency

lotta great political films from 2025, but Friendship might sneakily be the most on-point depiction of our political moment of them all

too many in the online left make the leap from "laws are poorly enforced and regularly subverted" to "why laws even?" bit of a problem when you're trying to preserve *checks notes* democracy

facts

btw, Ian McKellan's the star of The Christophers, Steven Soderbergh's upcoming two-hander with Michaela Coel, and it is fucking great and the performances are incredible

The Departed is one of two films i've seen in which i picked up on a couple scenes being placed quite brazenly out of order. the other is The Dark Knight Rises.

[whispers] both are pretty far down my list, below Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, After Hours, Last Temptation, Age of Innocence, Bringing Out the Dead, Shutter Island, Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, Irishman, and Flower Moon, and maybe some others

"How do I act so well?"

sharing this again because the Jack Fisk interview is just so fucking great

Industry is on a whole other level this season

Diane Wiest!

this muppet over here living the dream

current Kermit voice… no good

breaking: man who has more money than god enjoys acting like the petulant god of the old testament. news at eleven.

incredible 🤣

i'm gonna cry 🥲

apparently some people are mad at this, despite it being the obvious right move when Hochul would be really difficult to unseat and is currently working with Mamdani to enact his promises