Really really thankful to Animus Magazine and Elena Lazic for this opportunity and for the many suggestions which have made the piece it is.

Saw Highest 2 Lowest, and if I were to compare it with the original, it's nowhere close. Kurosawa's film is all about ethical dilemmas. Spoke Lee's version is about choices made for the social media audience. Even as a standalone film it doesn't work. A$AP Rocky's "Both Eyes Closed" is great though.

Funny that no media in the UK are sharing news about excess deaths in Spain as a result of heat

Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

A breathless read reflecting our breathless times. Had a lot of fun!!

After a long hiatus… Animus long-form essays are back! John Kidwell writes about cinema’s response to the unfolding climate crisis over the last 30 years: animus-magazine.ghost.io/be-scientifi...

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A film about CMS systems and online rage-baiting, a nerdy tech-bro troll of a film, a film for Elon-types who don’t have any sense for the inspiring grandeur or grace of Superman, of humanity, of John Williams’ theme, or—if I may—of cinema itself.

New SUPERMAN is garbage for babies. Squandering the rich Superman mythology to instead show fighting, large-scale destruction, and idiotic multiverse shit like your usual MARVEL crap.

Elisa De Almeida. What a player..just played one of the best balls I've seen live.

helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-... such a touching article by @helendecruz.net. Devastating news about her health and am so very thankful for her positivity and philosophy. And for her music among other things.

Another friend was falling under the spell of fascist YouTubers - the only thing that broke that spell was showing him how much his rants were hurting the people who he loved and trusted. He was lonely, isolated, hooked on YouTube. What brought him back wasn't clever debate, it was human company.

It's always great to read an intricate and scathing critique.

Enjoyed reading this review so much! And it's compelled me to try watching BEAU IS AFRAID again.

Introducing 𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓼, a new Animus podcast with @elazic.bsky.social & @manilazic.bsky.social. Expect animated chats about cinema, digressions into unrelated topics, and trivial facts from our personal lives. Do NOT expect to immediately be able to tell us apart. open.spotify.com/episode/3oMo...

‼️ Welcome to the new Animus website 🎉 One place to find the longform essays (all free to read), info about screenings, events, and the Animus Cine Club, BUT ALSO all instalments of Psycho., all episodes of The French Dispatch, and all the other extras. Visit animus-magazine.ghost.io 💙☁️

From the band's March 13, 2008 performance at Austin City Limits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ws...

Don't ask questions to ChatGPT. Ask @casparsalmon.bsky.social ! Send your film thoughts for the next edition of the @animusmagazine.bsky.social advice column for cinephiles, Psycho. ✍️: bit.ly/animus_psycho

The 50 Best Club Teams of the Last 100 Years Before I get into my list of the best 50 club teams of the last 100 years, I wanted to lay out some of the criteria behind it.

This is next week! If you’ve seen and loved BETTER MAN, please consider sharing with your friends. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure, get a ticket!

NEW PIECE. Late in the day but without any update on the weekend I wanted some kind of update out. Plus, I still have a backlog to catch up on. In this piece I cover Marko Elez's bounce out of, and back into, government as well as the AG Lawsuit which cites me. www.crisesnotes.com/day-eleven-o...

Really cannot get past how big of a fucking tool Hakeem Jeffries is Like we knew he wasn't cool but he is such a big fucking tool!!!

Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!

A great piece of reporting on the PCC landlord and the many other instances where he's basically been allowed to do whatever he wants just because he has lots of money. He obviously cares a lot about his image, however, so let's keep talking about him: www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...

....helped by quislings and cowards like Starmer's Chamberlain-lite Labour Party. We're backsliding at such a rate that, since my writing this piece and it getting published the situation for LGBT+ folks has gotten drastically worse over in the USA.

@nathantankus.bsky.social Hi Nathan! I thank you immensely for your meticulous and tireless work in defending US institutions from being taken over. I write to ask how international observers who are reasonably well connected in academic and cultural spheres help amidst this crisis. 1/2.

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Why aren’t Democrats doing interviews with patients enrolled in the cancer trials that Musk just cut funding for?

If you want to “Make America Healthy Again,” one of the worst things you can do is slash the budget of the world's largest public funder of biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health.

The entire Trump scam is that the lowly peasants get hard borders and hypernationalism, the chosen elite get to bribe, travel, pillage and steal worldwide. Jetset globalism, carpool fascism.

Word of mouth has been building around BETTER MAN, the Robbie Williams biopic from THE GREATEST SHOWMAN dir. Michael Gracey. Your chance to catch the film sensation of 2024 in the cinema & with a crowd, + post-film convo to unpack what we'll have just seen. 🎟️: www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

Hey Elon👋🏽 Every single person in this country deserves to know their rights. That's legal. Maybe you should brush up on our laws given the fact you're breaking them to steal American's sensitive data. PS. This video is manipulated, and I wasn't even at the event shown.

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

We are witnessing mismanaged imperial decline covered up by the attacks on the long time allies.

Simple Mathematik: Ohne Die Linke hätte die Union heute mit der AfD und FDP eine Mehrheit gehabt.

The essay, at its end, gives some suggestions about what can be done not only to resist but move beyond fascism. Please do have a read if you have a moment, and please share if of interest.

The defining question of the next few years isn’t “what should we pay to live our desired lives”, it’s “who gets to be recognised as human, and why.”

I know being precise with the facts is important, but "did this person do a nazi salute" has GOT to be one of those "well, if you have to ask..." situations

Throwing it back to 2023 when Animus screened a rare rescued print of E. Elias Merhige’s SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE @princecharlescinema.com & @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social — the film where Willem Dafoe had his first brush with the Count, playing actor Max Shreck from F.W. Murnau’s original NOSFERATU.

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Super super article on of my favourite actors. I only wish he would get more roles that befit him. I still remember his small role in INSIDE MAN. It is so weird and hard to pin down.

Amazing essay by Caspar. I never knew Piccoli and Belmondo acted together. I need to see Le Doulos immediately.

Caspar writes so beautifully about the appeal of Karl Malden and his "disciples", other performers and character actors who made a habit of stealing scenes from movie stars. What a thrill to publish him every week. Please subscribe so that I can keep doing it!

Have you even lived if you never walked in the summer heat for 2.7 km from the village to the nearest town... to the post office to find a payphone to call your crush only to hang up when his mum picks up on the other side?

Just watched A Different Man and I couldn’t have been the only one who didn’t realize Adam Pearson was playing Sebastian Stan’s character before his procedure but nope. It’s Sebastian under makeup. I thought Pearson was playing two different characters.

Forgot to share my 2024 top 5! Tough competition this year.