NEWS: SoFi Stadium cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers, and food attendants voted 96% to authorize a strike, just a week out from when the stadium is set to host its first World Cup game www.huffpost.com/entry/unite-...

Have been thinking about BACKROOMS more and more (especially when reading the interesting analysis people have been making about the film’s potential reflections on AI/the internet) so went back to see it again. Not only did it grow on me even more, but the hangups I had almost entirely faded away 📽️

I love the @antigravitymag.bsky.social hurricane tracking map. Here it is side by side with a vintage K&B map my kid got me. Nicely done! 💜

The Dirties is quite a movie to see with an audience. only counted two walkouts.

NEW EPISODE: Let's list out the good, the bad, and the wtf from Mando & Grogu. whodatjedi.podbean.com/e/the-mandal...

It’s my birthday, and the most bestest birthday gift you could get me is a subscription to the free @certifiedforgotten.com newsletter.

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

We were interviewed by Criterion about the New Trans Cinema movement and our series highlighting trans filmmakers that we programmed on the Criterion Channel. www.criterion.com/current/post...

Opening this weekly newsletter update with a piece on 'The Bride!' - finally. Coming today. ⚜️🍿 moviegoingwithbill.com

Catching 'Backrooms' this morning. Been impressed and happy with the packed seats as of late, though this early screening looks like it'll be a tad lonely. Hehe.

The first popcorn bucket for ‘THE ODYSSEY’ is an IMAX camera.

New post about the origins of Tux and Fanny: personhouse.substack.com/p/pink-and-p...

The most important cultural lesson of the late 80s/early 90s

Remember Reince Priebus? Me neither.

‘Backrooms’ is already A24’s highest-grossing film ever domestically 💰 The movie has been out for 6 days

“My guess: at 83, they gave his family a gang of money (they throw tens of millions left & right) he wanted the income stream4them& feels like ‘AI’ will fall on its face anyway, so he doesn't give a fuck. If that’s not the case, extrafuck him. Separately, go see ‘I Love Boosters’ today.”

Politics can be a team sport on behalf of the city we love. (I’ll leave the no-look passes to the Knicks for the rest of the series).

"The event is now scheduled for June 19 to coincide with Juneteenth festivities in the majority-Black parish." - @veritenews.org veritenews.org/2026/06/02/d...

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They made this sequence happen SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO and people out here saying they need to use A.I. to make their movies -- get bent

I paid $2,184 dollars for this.

We've got an extra special addition to our archive to announce today: Nintendo 1991 Funente Oy, a Point-Of-Sale VHS tape from Finland that contains 24 different late 80s Nintendo commercials in better quality than we can find anywhere else online! Read more here: hitsave.org/high-quality...

Democrats: “He can’t run again, there are term limits, it’s the law” Trump: “I’m running again and I control the voting machines” The Supreme Court: “Yeah, he’s allowed” Democrats: “Well what the heck? I guess we’ll just have to beat him at the ballot box, get out the Practical Idealism banner”

Working on three newsletters (1 weekly, 2 monthly exclusives) and some drafts on a new Medium series about communal moviegoing experiences. Plenty. ⚜️🍿 moviegoingwithbill.com medium.com/movie-theatr...

Suozzi. Gray. They're Capitalists! and don't you forget it, punks.

It’s my 40th birthday - can you spare $40 bucks for labor reporting?

For his back pain, Dad is trying a pre-loaded Sativa vape pen for the first time. Instantly, I made pothead jokes. It's good living right near a marijuana pharmacy.

Jordan anticipated the conditions that gave rise to BACKROOMS with uncanny prescience here

Backrooms' biggest scare is capitalism aftermath.site/backrooms-movi...

I will never not laugh at this line & its delivery in Psycho Goreman

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

If you've never been to Fantasia, I promise you that its 30th anniversary this Summer is definitely going to be the best time to remedy that. Seriously. Come to Fantasia. Do it.

We are going to rebuild accountability journalism from the ground up. I cover education in New Orleans - a school system that is decentralized through 20 nonprofit charter school management groups. Help me get to 150 subscribers this evening ~ it's free. www.lamplighter.news/p/a-kipp-med...

Just lost a pretty big revenue stream for my writing career so if any editors are looking for indie politics writers to report on stories for them don't be shy about DMing me lol

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Scorsese “endorsing” AI

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They are seriously fucking with Jack Quaid getting him to mocap a cube.

I need some advice. In 2023, I was run off Twitter due to transphobia I lost an account with a lot of followers and that account was primarily how I got work. Since then my work has suffered. I can't seem to make any traction anywhere else.

MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN short clip explores how humor becomes more than entertainment under authoritarian systems — it becomes a form of resistance, sanity, and survival. We look at how ordinary people use jokes, irony, and absurdity to expose power. #oscarWinner youtube.com/shorts/WDOOt...

Wistfully reminiscing about the time I was the editor on this Scorsese NYT op-ed.

Did he "sell out" with 'The Irishman' first, or was that just an oddity? (personally, I think it's all so silly)

When I saw this trailer in theaters I got excited cause it feels like a movie that's *at least* set in the world of The Guest--a movie I absolutely love--even if it's an indirect sequel I will be stoked. Either way I'm a fan of Wingard & Barrett so I'm there with bells on youtu.be/L24CYVpQ-LI?...