This is actually very aligned with my take that the best way to do James Bond now is to make him a romance novel hero (which is what made Pierce Brosnan so effective)

The weirdest thing about getting older is reaching the point where the nostalgia cycle catches up to you

Imagine my pleasant surprise in starting up Widow's Bay and realizing it's an honest to god monster of the week show. TV really is back

THE MANDALORIAN: It's me, Din Djarin, here with Pitchfork, sharing our Pitchfork Perfect 10 albums. You want to go first, little buddy? GROGU: [cooing, swaying, only his big ears and little hands poking out from behind the vinyl reissue of "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?" by The Unicorns]

If people are fighting over a Maltese falcon, it's The Maltese Falcon.

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

What if Bluesky doesn't have to be Important. What if social media doesn't have to be Important. Remember less than 20 years ago when social media didn't exist and we just hung out on forums and anyone who suggested the forum was Important would have been referred for a wellness check.

Watching the Bourne Supremacy on a hotel television with motion smoothing and letting the TV's algorithm and Paul Greengrass' shaky cam duke it out

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

My new short film Bootstrapped is an official selection of @chattfilmfest.org! You can come see it in person or online as part of their virtual festival!

A reminder that in the 1960s, the tax rate for people making over $400,000 a year (roughly $4.5 million today) was 91%. It was 84.357% in the MAGA much-beloved 1950s.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Not 90s but I was definitely listening to "Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl" and Feeling Things.

Absolutely agreed overall but also Douglas Adams is in the same category as my dad of people who were very important to my development as a human being who I'm glad that I never had to find out their opinions about trans people

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

I feel like "Two Weeks" by Grizzly Bear is at least part of the conversation

Here we go once again.

I don’t know what to tell you. If you want to interact with self-affirmed marginalized people then you should expect to have your worldview challenged & from there you should engage with their perspectives from a place of humility. This is not about right or wrong, but consideration & recognition.

"It'll be okay as long as we still push through a Democratic majority." No, bitch, it will not be okay. It will never be okay that Black Americans do not have a voice and have to depend on the kindness of strangers who have shown repeatedly that they do not give a shit about us in the voting booth.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Incidentally, much of the HHS focus on gutting “DEI” grants in science was in part a reaction to the success of social epidemiology research by women who demonstrated unequivocally that social determinants are far and away the biggest drivers of health. It really was capitalism and racism all along.

Wasn't there some sort of Star Wars holiday this week or something?

Mel Brooks secretly funding Lynch and Cronenberg's æ 'brilliant but hard to sell' post-debut projects while not taking credit because he wanted audiences to take their work at face value w/o the distraction of "Mel Brooks means funny" is the purest thing that ever happened in the US movie industry

"Oh, we don't think that Batman's parents were killed by a criminal in this one. That would make him kinda weird about crime, right?"

We can’t nominate any Democrat who doesn’t put Supreme Court reform at the top of their list.

These are the Star Wars prequels of our time in that they were bad then and bad now and don't let anyone convince you otherwise

I genuinely think it's the closest thing we'll get to The Princess Bride in the modern blockbuster era

Once a month I wake up and learn there's been another Met Gala and everyone on the Internet tries to gaslight me into believing that this is a yearly event.

Kennedy's goal here is consistent with all of his other policies aimed at undermining proven health interventions: he believes the people who benefit from them are defective and he wants them culled from the population. It's comic book villain logic, specifically Viltrumite logic.

The Canto Bight sequence is the most genuine piece of Amblin filmmaking made in the 21st century

As far as I'm concerned, there are four Star Wars movies, the OT+The Last Jedi. Everything else is sparkling space opera.

rise and shine divas it's time to Be Well!!!

Me, flipping a light switch: "I'm just like Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels!"

I feel like I'm the only person who is super hype for this movie but also I feel like I will be vindicated when it comes out

I don't disagree with this necessarily but question what it means practically. How are we supposed to hold voters accountable? On a large enough scale that it matters and works effectively?

The Passion of the Christ and Grogu

My 10 Favourite Films, off of the top my head (One per director) The Fellowship of the Ring Portrait of a Lady on Fire The Exorcist III Mulholland Drive When Harry Met Sally Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Evil Dead II The Mask of Zorro Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Spirited Away

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

the voting rights act actually worked, which is why the conservative legal movement immediately went to work on dismantling it this has been the focus of john roberts' entire legal career

This is a big reason why "look at this graph, it says you're better off" generates rage on here. It's detached from the fact that nothing is ever going to go down in price ever again without a huge and probably quite forceful intervention from ~somewhere~

Huh. I do really want a Zorro movie, is the thing

The vast majority of Oscar Best Picture winners are pretty solidly middlebrow, often to great effect. Indeed, strictly speaking, most great populist art is middlebrow. Some is low- or highbrow, but the middlebrow is where the stuff that aimed for profundity AND a mass audience lived.

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Even in terms of pure rhetoric I think the story of the year is that ordinary people--many of whom weren't previously very politically engaged--are furious, while professional politicians very much aren't. Just listen to basically anyone who lives in Minneapolis for 5 minutes

Obviously any would-be assassin or mass shooter is looking for some kind of fame, but this feels like someone who is specifically trying to engineer a Luigi Mangione situation