Never been the least bit interested, but for the sake of my little pet project...I finally pressed play on Driving Miss Daisy....NASTY WORK boxd.it/e1fLMn

I needed this reminder that when in forms that realize his full potential as an actor and his abilities in the territories of farce, there is a very very very small and elite group of actors tht can fuck with Tom Hardy...

Generation upon Generation of stagnation from a place of great privilege, a wholesale of our soul for the sake of a collective ego, a mutation of our own humanity and connection to not only the "othered" but the planet, frankly I dont think there's anywhere else to go but accountability or ashes.

Still working away at my piece abt the black movie star relationship with whiteness and so I revisited In the Heat of the Night which Ive neve really moved, but see some usefulness in its existence ..

Kimalah has been going through this for so long and its all so evil, please anyone that can help or boost do, we are all we have.

Happy 61st Birthday, Jon Cryer 🎉🎊🎂 One of my favorite movie scenes ever....

Revisiting this EPIC, I found myself, as always, lost for words—and my breath. My favorite intro of a character EVER. His walk. The score. The rustling coats. The halt. The camera pan. The reveal. . . THE GRAPES OF WRATH, THE LADY EVE, THE BIG STREET, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT . . . Henry. 🤬. Fonda. 1/3

I do want to encourage yall to watch full interviews before commenting on clips out of context. Not necessarily because it will change the discourse (tho that is possible) but because something more incisive can come from engaging with material in full rather than in pieces.

Finished S2 of Bloodhounds and from a standpoint of entertainment is top flight material a whirling continuation of awe inspiring movements in story and action, as a text on the anxieties and tensions of a community and a state its not exactly a slouch either

I saw Fincher’s SEVEN at an early preview before the release and most people were there because they had won tickets from a Lite FM Radio Station (this was right after LEGENDS OF THE FALL made Brad Pitt a heartthrob) and let me tell you that “Marquis De Shar-Day” line brought down the house

it's SO, so good...

Chicago premiere of TEENAGE WASTELAND is tonight at 6pm at FACETS!! I’ll be introducing the film.

The great thing about helping individuals who ask for mutual aid is that you don't have to rely on a third party or intermediary to help. You don't have to trust someone else is going to help them for you. You can help them yourself. You can even be gratified when they thank you!

With alt txt I’ll add that “it’s just a tool, I’m interested in TOOLS” type of neutrality is disingenuous because it’s a tool that we ~know~ is harmful to people (labor abuses, often to workers in the global South, who do the necessary labeling work for genAI to function) and the planet itself

There's no way this doesn't clear out the nearby ecosystem, too. These fucking capitalists are killing us. LITERALLY.

It’s the same with Ayesha. Most of these MFs wish they could date or be married to Will or Steph. Just because they idolize them from their careers. Just because Will and Steph don’t say anything or they deem them as perfect…the women in their lives are not supposed to talk about their experiences

Jada Pinkett made a talk show SPECIFICALLY designed to talk about intimate issues, to be honest abt things we may have trouble speaking abt, and yall act she like she just up and decided to gossip abt the personal details of her life for no reason whatsoever.

Avatar and Dune are two films that are major regressions to the mean of white supremacy (especially within their genre) with the thinnest of veils as to what they're actually thematically saying, I hate them both

Just willingly outing oneself as having no sauce as a movie goer smh lol

Outside.

As it pertains to black movie stars in general it is historically and still very identifiable the differences between their "color blind" work and their specifically black works. It appears code switching happens in performance as well.

First Time trying Harolds Chicken and SIR

As Im prone to do, I went long on The Drama and the lack of courage displayed not only in its main conciet, but in its characterizations... substack.com/@blacknform/...

GOOD GOD

Dont know why I hadn't heard about "Bloodhounds" earlier, but Im damn grateful for the rec I got from a friend because...YEAH

My mind has like 30 fucking tabs open right now and I want to get rid of some so tracing back to this, there is something I've noted across plenty of films recently where the language is missing. This kind of radiating potency of syntax doesnt is missing..

Like I will never watch these films the same AGAIN

I have had my world rocked because WHAT

Rob Roy and Braveheart came out the same year, and since I just revsisted Braveheart, felt right to revisit this as well. Tho it is not at all difficult to see why Braveheart was the more popular of these twin films, Rob Roy is certainly the superior of the two. ...My LB review boxd.it/dN7hxl

Amazon getting effected by a war it technically created by financing the man who started it. Oh I know that “free bird” song is getting loud af in Amazon headquarters.

And we are live. If you have a Criterion Channel subscription you should be able to find the series that we programmed on their main page. I hope that everyone enjoys the series and finds a new favorite.

This one goes out to @jimgabrielmemorial.bsky.social love you buddy. Miss you terribly. www.rogerebert.com/the-unloved/...

After a prompt asking for the top 5 male performances of the 20s (as Im prone to do being as extra as I am about actors) decided to make a list of all my favorite performances of the 20s ! Which I now share with you (Bane voice) "The people"

How slow a start to the season are the Cubs going to get off to??? Ive admittedly been spoiled by the Dodgers and ewww Im not watching this all season man. 😭

There’s a woman in here that looks like she tossed her wig up in the air like a graduation cap and just ran up under it smh

Neo:

This country had WHAT sense of shared moral order in *checks notes* 1976???

Cubs gonna be trash again this year I see

I hate it in movies & tv shows when characters have to take part in some kind of ritual or procedure involving blood, and they take a big blade and slash their entire palm as if it's no big deal. I hate it even more if it's an action flick and the slicer goes on to do amazing athletic feats.

James Tolkan, a Tough-Talking Actor in ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Top Gun,’ Dies at 94 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/o...

That crop of HBO execs were some all-time fuckups. They beefed w/ Milch causing Deadwood to just end mid-story. They also had first look and passed on Mad Men around the same time (Weiner pitched MM while writing for The Sopranos). A few heads rolled shortly thereafter, if I recall. Bums, all.

"You recycled that TURTLENECK!"

Network procedurals are so blandly written right now they lack these kinds of references. Damon and Pythias is a Greek myth! Leopold and Loeb were murder pals Either someone thinks audiences won’t get the references … or the writers themselves aren’t well-versed enough to even think of them

IMMENSELY as well as anyone else we are in community with

Someone told me Deadwood also had the pigs as human waste disposal thing and I couldn't remember it so I restarted and I tell you what is popping out ...Al Swearengen is truly one of TVs greatest assholes, because WTF ??!!! 😭

Customer Service in General, but hotels yeah....it definitely allows you a unique view into ...well....people

They definitely DO NOT .

Okay so at the hotel where I work, why was this man in the open part of the bathroom (the stalls have whole ass doors, the main area -sinks, has none) with one finger in his ass the other hand jerking off??? And had the audacity to ask why he was being kicked out?

Revsisted 21 Bridges and getting to enough words that I think this is going to be a substack entry rather than a letterboxd because Im more convinced than ever that this is true fucking GEM of a movie with a real NASTY underbelly..Got Damn !