Never seen an episode of this show. Perhaps I shouldn’t be hasty but feels like a good call.

"The president of the United States is a pedophile who can't stop bleeding" sounds like something you'd tell your kid to keep them away if you lived on the border

A very encouraging thread!

The problem for this movie is that it’s the first time an Avengers is coming out without a lead-up of mostly entertaining movies. It doesn’t feel like a capstone, it feels like an attempt at pushing the car downhill and popping the clutch.

School of Rock: a movie that can please anyone. Including a room of me, my two sisters, my one sister’s husband, and her two kids, all of us having wildly different tastes in movies.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!

Everyone knows real men only have semi-domesticated wolves that may at any moment turn on you and kill you.

Christmas just isn't Christmas without the late, great DMX doing his version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus reut.rs/4sbgSVO

I’ve seen every scene of A Christmas Story many times but I could not possibly tell you where any one is in relation to its runtime. Show me a random scene and ask me, is this the beginning, middle, end? No clue.

And Tiny Tim, who did not die, won’t go to heaven where the angels fly. He’ll go to a lake of fire and fry, won’t see him again until the 4th of July.

Interesting to see a very, very high profile and public example of the Dunning-Kruger effect taking place.

Still thinking about Wake Up Dead Man after seeing it yesterday. Interesting how it has a bit in common with Frankenstein in terms of where they land. Interesting how both moved me greatly. Interesting that this is true despite the fact that the older I get, the more I lean toward fullblown atheism.

Not fully satisfied with Pluribus’s season finale, but that is a great ending.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

This was a terrible crime this country committed against these men. I hope some day the perpetrators are held accountable.

Nolan making a fantasy movie is very interesting to me. Even with his Batman movies, which are essentially fantasy, his whole take was “let’s make this as realistic as possible.” Not a lot of fantastical/dream-like images in his movies — even the one about dreams!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Damn. He was also great in Generation Kill, probably still the best work about the Iraq war.

Heading into the new year like

"I don't like movies that *rely* on 'CGI'" is a ridiculous thing to say. "Nouvelle Vague" (2025), directed by Richard Linklater, visual effects by CGEV. youtu.be/1p0G-lGZkL4?...

I met Barack Obama in 2007 at a small event when his run for president was just starting. He asked me what I was working on. I said, a book about the 5 1967 Best Picture nominees. He said, quickly, "So...Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, In the Heat of the Night..." >

So much Trump sub-posting all over the place!

Maybe we can do the chattel slavery version of AVATAR next. Get Matt Damon in a wheelchair mind-swapped with a Black cat alien in a Deep South planet. Let's see if anyone gives a shit about cultural appropriation then.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

Holy shit.

Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

What if they actually went the route of The Game Awards and sold ad space during the show for new movie announcements and trailer premieres?

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election

Absolutely Not This Guy 2028!

many of our favorite directors afflicted by a serious case of “cgi deer syndrome”

Ummmm… hmm. On the one hand I like that this doesn’t explain or reveal much. But I’m also really curious what new things this has to say in a story about aliens, which is such well-trodded territory (even by Spielberg himself). youtu.be/UFe6NRgoXCM?...

Nothing Trump says or does can be shocking anymore. Anyone paying any attention and who is also not a piece of shit already knew like 20 years ago that he was one the biggest pieces of shit alive. It’s a great tragedy that he cannot simply be ignored and never given a single thought.

When the day comes, I will dance in the streets.

How do we stay sane and keep going in these times? I suppose it's a question people have asked in any given time in human history. Small comfort, though.

Of course, SNL would do this, they never had any sort of moral compass

13 years ago today.

This is great. youtu.be/E8WW4jJ59d4?...

WTF

A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?" He said, "I don't know, like $500?" Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.

Republicans:"Oh ho ho, but what if Bill Clinton is in the Epstein files? Checkmate, libs!" House Democrats: "Check out this signed photo of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein."

Ten years ago.

This looked awful lmao

Genuine surprise. Stoked for this. KOTOR is an all-time great.