I can't get over Epstein being evil enough to be banned from XBox Live, that sounds like an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt joke

Watched DIE MY LOVE, which turns out to be one of those movies which is clearly terrific but full of characters and situations I don't like one little bit. Fun counterpart to MOTHER! and not only because it also has a sink which isn't adequately braced

You all have dirty minds. Proceed.

Well, let's see what we can do to get that closer to 100%

Today we mark the 40th Anniversary of Need Another Seven Astronauts Day

A very small glove

But seriously: fuck you, Ted

I don't think we collectively paid enough attention to the pervasive surveillance scenario in which it's the citizenry rather than the state that has both the strength in numbers and the distribution mechanisms required to disseminate truth in the face of the regime's lies. It's what will save us.

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five... It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy."

Cyberpunk's not "dead," but it's old-fashioned, even tenderly nostalgic, like being a poetic '50s beatnik rebel in 1985 Countercultures get assimilated. The very fact that ChatGPT can slop-out a cyberpunk with such chatbotty confident-wrongness... it's not "electronic frontier" here in 2026

Nobody: Billy Wilder: Imma make a movie about Parisian hookers Everybody: Okay... Also Billy Wilder: Imma build about a third of Paris on a soundstage

Friendly reminder that it's not mandatory to watch the footage of people being murdered by jackbooted thugs in the streets: taking the citizen reportage on trust is self-care which doesn't render your revulsion and anger any less valid

You know you're totally simpatico with a filmmaker when you not only can't quibble in the slightest with their choices for an all-day movie marathon, but have already seen them all. Well, one quibble: I wouldn't start at 7am.

this is what’s up

Just got out of NOUVELLE VAGUE, and while it's clearly the least commercial thing Netflix could possibly ever throw money at it's a sublime snapshot of a moment in cinema that's in equal parts reverent, mocking, po-faced, self-aware and hilarious to just the right degree. Absolutely loved it.

Chris Pratt shits the Original SF Movie bed again. That's 3 for 3 between this, PASSENGERS and that one where he travels in time to shoot things, the title of which I can neither remember nor be bothered to look up. However, due credit for a 100m runtime when the premise has a 90m ticking clock.

COME AND SEE WITH BIG NATURALS JAWS WITH BIG NATURALS DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS WITH BIG NATURALS THE GUEST WITH BIG NATURALS THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD WITH BIG NATURALS SIDE EFFCTS WITH BIG NATURALS THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO WITH BIG NATURALS PRISONERS WITH BIG NATURALS

Regular reminder that if Kubrick and Hitchcock had access to CGI they would have been all over that shit.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "The development narrative crystallised during this period, transferring from a vague sense of environmental mastery to more specific visions of reshaping an infinitely malleable and abundant natural world."

Today in The Reveal, I add Bertrand Bonello's HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (a.k.a. HOUSE OF PLEASURES) to the New Cult Canon. A bold, enveloping, heartbreaking film about the oldest profession. Still my favorite of his: thereveal.film/the-new-cult...

This film is utterly bonkers and genuinely feels dangerous. A must-see

It me

Dropped a word I made up* into Google search to do my due diligence on whether it already exists, is a trademark, and/or means something rude in a language I don't speak, and the results are all about something else entirely. This is not very helpful. *using a careful melding of Latin roots, natch

The last lines of this novel are absolutely devastating.

Spent no more than 45 minutes this afternoon making a spreadsheet to put the numbers involved in the property thing I'm doing in one place, and then let me tinker with another set of numbers to balance them out, with the cells automatically going from red to green when they do. It was almost fun.

What's that you've got your panties bunched about, the STAR TREK captain wearing glasses? Could it just be that they're allergic to Retinax V? Or, just shut up, you baby.

*burns modem*

It used to be that on a Sunday one would head to the local insane asylum, hand over tuppence for the privilege, and spend maybe an hour or two laughing as the inmates debased themselves, frolicked, screamed, self-harmed and whimpered. These days we have social media for that and it's free.

In this week’s episode of @hdtgm.bsky.social the New York audience are competing over who was in a coma the longest

Apparently Jean-Paul Belmondo did indeed have to choke a bitch

I see the No Wokes In MUH STAR TREKs crowd are back at with a medley of their greatest hits: • racism • misogyny • homophobia • transphobia • apparently never having actually seen an episode of any of the flavours of STAR TREK which have comprehensively rejected all this reactionary ideology

Other people who went with a great orgasm: chokewank enthusiast David Carradine et al

So there was a girl on the Tube yesterday morning who was definitely checking me out, and we caught each others' eye more than a few times before she disembarked. Did I say anything to her? No. Am I going to take the exact same train as often as possible for the next few weeks to do so? Absolutely.

The look that says "Imma fuck yo shit UP"

Finally watched NIGHT MOVES (1975) and that's some bleak-ass neo-noir stacked with rounded, resolved and motivated characters. Excellent movie. You might imaging I'd pair this with NIGHT MOVES (2013) which is also many of those things, but I'm leaning towards Frankenheimer's 52 PICK-UP (1986)

Bitch, I've flown to whole other continents to see a movie.

Oh, I think it'll be sooner than that

PSA for people with vaginas: I’ve had so many convos with folks who don’t know that pelvic floor dysfunction is a thing even for people who have never given birth, that pain during sex isn’t something they need to tolerate (unless they enjoy it), and help is available! pelvic floor physio exists!

Watching paint dry a bit too thrilling for you? Try the Artemis II rocket rolling out to the launch pad instead: guaranteed excitement free

Kinetic Sculptures by Stuart Warren-Hill. New album released on 16th February youtu.be/qK5NUhyZL8I?...

Watching the first episode of the new season of 8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN and Rachel Riley is peculiarly shiny?

That's my secret, Cap: I always feast on the ass.

So cannot wait to have some gnarly Cyberpunk discourse over the next year when the TV show hits, so for those of you haven't yet got up to speed this looks like a terrific entry point

But seriously, fuck Hitler.

Nothing to see here, folks, just a very slow shutter speed localised to his face 🫠

SPIDER hive represent

Converting to Christianity on your deathbed after a lifetime of vocal antitheism which you at one point claimed would be your greatest legacy because "the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive" while still admitting to being an unbeliever? GTFO

Reasonably sure it's only a matter of time before we see an ICE-on-ICE shooting fatality.

Now, the creases on the trousers are understandable if unfortunate, but the thread hanging out of his jacket pocket? That's wild.

As it stood, it killed the successful Lemmy Caution franchise stone dead: French audiences in particular were expecting more suave detective hijinks rather than a solemn meditation on free will, surveillance society, and the futility of attempting to replace human emotion with cold unreasoning logic