Shirley Valentine (1989) Pauline Collins as the title Character #FilmSky #Movies #Cinema

Thinking about the toy that gets pulled off the market the moment one child chokes to death on the pieces and how we're going to lose a whole lot of kids to chatGPT goading them to end themselves without doing anything.

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I started to read the excerpts, but had to stop because the argumentation is so poor that 15-year old me would've been too ashamed to turn it in. How shameful that a judge would publish such drivel. It's "in conclusion, pronouns are a land of contrast"-level bullshit. Barely even trying.

BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts. Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.

watching MTG gaslight the nation in real time makes me feel like my brain is melting and leaking out my ears BITCH WE WERE THERE????????? if you were “impressed” by Nancy Pelosi, having your thugs storm the Capitol to try to kill her was a wild way of showing it

Lee Tamahori died?!? RIP. And… Die Another Day was fun, actually.

Every Supreme Court verdict should require written majority & minority opinions of a minimum length, signed, in order to be considered binding. The use of the shadow docket to cloak cowardice in darkness must end. There's no emergency so pressing that a judge can't dash off a freaking paragraph.

Damn...his terrific, but tough, ONCE WERE WARRIORS (1994) is in my Kanopy queue for rewatch. If you haven't seen, Maori family dealing with culture, abuse & issues of legacy in the modern New Zealand landscape. Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett) & Rena Owen never better! #filmsky 📽

Lee Tamahori (1950–2025)

Dangerous confession: I really don't like BRINGING UP BABY.

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

i don’t study fascism and i’m not fucking leaving, this country belongs to us, not them, fuck you

This would be great--and I don't mean "Here's why that thing you like is actually terrible and bad for The Cause," which is what it too often slips into. You can offer a progressive take on culture without being the giant scold who ruins every Thanksgiving!

broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now

Christ have mercy.

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

The protagonist of Predator: Badlands has a similar narrative arc to the hero of Hundreds of Beavers, encountering trap after organic trap in a dangerous land before figuring out how to use those perils to his advantage. #filmsky 📽

There's literally nothing you can buy for a trillion dollars. He can buy homes, daily parties, cars, computers, clothes, food, biweekly international vacations, and 10-year private educations for all of his children and his grandchildren and still have hundreds of billions of dollars left over.

"Would you PLEASE stop smacking my feet with your guitar!" "But the words carved into it say..." "Fascists! Not Fasciitis!"

I've seen the videos of journalists asking a boss to answer questions. He refused and locked himself away. Then he fired four journalists holding power to account. Stan Duncan at Condé Nast is a coward.

By the way Senate Dems, you realize that you absolutely cannot reopen the government right? Look at this shit here. He's being told by a judge to pay out OUR TAX MONEY already earmarked for SNAP and he's not going to fucking do it. What do you think he'll do with any "deal" you make?

Democrats he has just given you the easiest layup in the history of politics. He could've taken the off ramp political win with his base and blame the woke judge for forcing his hand but no he doubled down and appealed the ruling because HE WANTS PEOPLE TO STARVE.

If we ever start seeing films where some down-home rube (any gender) has to move to a city for ridiculous Hallmark movie reasons, has a comedic montage of things like not knowing how subways work & then loves it & stays & has a big-city sophisticate S.O. we'll know the cultural tide is turning

ICE goon outed!

Isn't this the whole point of BUGONIA?

I think it’s only fair that we get a “Have men ruined society?” op-ed

Found a chart of the Walmart Thanksgiving that is now "25% cheaper" on r/shrinkflation. Yeah, there's a reason it's cheaper; it's way less food and almost entirely Great Value brand. www.reddit.com/r/shrinkflat...

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

This is just a staggering number - truly incomprehensible. Hundreds of thousands of children dead because a fucking Afrikaner dismantled USAID.

Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon

Nothing to this one but venting: The transphobes are the most cowardly of bigots, people so terrified of what's in their pants & what's not in their hearts that they make it a calling to terrorize those who've done the work to know who they are. Mice have more courage, slugs have more grace.

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The IRS has decided to end Direct File, which was a free, government run tax-filing software for US citizens after one year. It was started under the Biden administration.

Guys, it’s totally cool, the gang of unidentified masked ICE agents armed like it’s Fallujah only burst into the daycare because they were in hot pursuit of a “female illegal alien.” What were they supposed to do, identify themselves properly & produce a warrant? Wait until the kids had left? Fie!

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And this is what they call “the ole Chappaquiddick Farewell” in the Kennedy family, dude couldn’t help it, it’s in his blood.

She is working VERY hard to fool you into thinking she is a new person. She is not. DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT.

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Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.

"I know how D.C. could lose 3000 pounds of ugly fat - CUT OFF REPUBLICANS' HEADS!"

“change” translated to “we need the clintons back, but Black this time” lol like everything was about identity. and at the time that was exciting for everyone, including me! but. once again, I was a teenager lol didn’t know shit about policy lol

I’m sure this will immediately get me blocked by obama lovers, but: i’m finding the obama comparisons re:zohran tedious. i was in high school when he was elected so I don’t remember a lot of it but like… I never got the impression that he was particularly principled, just Different

Genocide and trans rights purity tests are good actually.

BUT WAIT, you remember that one Dear Friends show "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Inquisition" from 10/18/1970 that was really good but there was a chunk missing? Any guesses? WHY YES, and here's a link to the restored show, again totally free: archive.org/details/ft-d...