Detective Hole, hole detective

I just found out that the Melania documentary everyone is clowning on was directed by *Brett Ratner*, and sincerely, that should absolutely be a significant part of the clowning going forward

What do you mean, "why's it got to be built"? It's a data centre! You've got to build data centres.

When I teach genre, this is a major frustration for me. Prestige/elevated/literary/etc are marketing genres! Every work has genre. But prestige works get marked as "not genre" because genre, like accent or race, is something you only need comment on if it's outside of the enforced norm.

Proud of my boy 🥰

Every time someone calls a pretty normal movie "bonkers" I react like a fucking crazy person. You ain't seen SHIT, man

rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people

Yes yes alt text is great for accessibility but have we considered its REAL benefit (explaining what joke is referenced in the image so I, out of touch with all popular culture, don't have to embarrass myself by asking)

found an alternative to TikTok called Reading A GD Comic Book

MOVIES

The Trump admin is teetering on the precipice of "taking away the guns" and fuck me wouldn't the response to that be a political sight to see

Amid worries about AI disinformation, the apparent fallout from the Minnesota shootings does seem to suggest that there's still some fight in Truth yet

My social feeds: YouTube (algo): pop culture analysis, 3D animation, politics, Smashing Pumpkins concerts TikTok (algo): autism, Star Trek Facebook (algo): drumming, hydraulic press, Niko Bellic ragdolling, medical cannabis ads X (algo): dunno Bluesky (linear): you cunts Instagram (algo): filth

The new Court Theatre's seating issues are a real shame, because the work they/we are doing there is frequently outstanding. Not unsolvable issues! But also not the sexiest thing to fundraise for (which it probably would need)

If anyone tries to cast the USA as an empire that can't possibly fall, have them consider the historical events that led to this milquetoast Subway signage joke

This bizarre lyric misinterpretation is making my fucking eye twitch

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

Treat international sports involving the US like the 1981 Springbok tour tbh

when the star trek gonna be good

Remarkable that the human race has still not invented a better mode of storytelling than 90s Star Trek

Somebody isn’t in touch with how NZ is doing these days

It's crazy that SINNERS got all those acting Oscar nominations and not one of them was the one I came out of the cinema going "holy shit THAT performance" (Miles Caton)

the angle mostly died out on "AI will make each person their ideal story/movie/game/song" but for anyone who never got the problem a major part of the value of media is we want a common thing to talk about. we spend more time talking about it than consuming it. if you're the only person who saw it 🤷

The idea of what "an Oscar movie" is has changed more in the last 10 years than at any point in the Academy's history. The only comparable period is really in the late '60s/early '70s.

me: i would never name a child after punctuation ~ swinton: what the fuck dude

MAUL: SHADOW LORD trailer really showing how far the rendering in animated SW shows has come in the last nearly 20 years (!). Visually speaking, looks fucking stupendous.

Holly Hunter in STARFLEET ACADEMY is definitely the comfiest lead character in any Star Trek show

Reminder that the trades are really just mouthpieces for the major studios, and the studios were petrified that SINNERS being a success would mean other artists might follow Coogler’s lead and negotiate ownership of their own work.

It's not a "snub" when a bad movie doesn't get nominated, folks

This interview is very funny. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The main thing Elon Musk took from us when he bought Twitter was destroying the only customer service platform that corporations will actually answer you on

people who use polling to drive their policy platform don't actually believe in anything

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Any trip on your budget: never

I see FALLOUT is entering the Even More Expensive area of its universe

tfw you won the election and economic anxiety is no longer useful to you but you also have no interest in alleviating it

climate change is not a real thing. it is coincidentally imperative that we seize all lands above 66° N for purposes of national security and real estate speculation.

Remember when the line was "there's nothing you Luddites can do about this, enjoy being poor"

Does he think they were literally out of GAME OF THRONES

I have fucked to THE TWO POPES, literally anything can be a date movie

The secret strength of Twin Peaks is that the cosmic Lynchian horror is communicated through full-cheese soap opera, and that's why the much-reviled Season 2 is vital to its identity

Product may not succeed if people don't buy it? Holy shit, the market insight

Rolled credits on Hades 2, which I'm assuming means I'm just over halfway through the game

It is funny how much The Shining influenced Elevated Horror movies - the tracking shots, the elliptical storytelling, basing your biggest scare on the idea of "what if a lady was old?"