The Knicks are my local baseball team, right? I know so little about sports save that Daryl Strawberry plays right field and he's better than Homer.

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community! 🏳️‍⚧️

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community! 🏳️‍⚧️

I've been watching a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generation lately. Turns out 'competency porn' is my comfort genre.

Tolkien would have had very little patience for the modern tendency to wink at the audience every few minutes. He wasn't interested in stories commenting on themselves. He was interested in stories creating the illusion of reality.

This fucking sucks.

HAPPY GHOSTBUSTERS DAY! On June 8th 1984, my favorite movie of all time was first released in theaters.

I remember someone pointing out a while ago that the golden age of the Simpsons was loaded with hundreds of pop culture allusions and references, and nowadays most people who make those same references are quoting golden age Simpsons without context.

Reminds me of this tweet that I saved ages ago.

A big reason Across The Spider-Verse made me lose all enthusiasm for the next film (which *still* hasn't come out, despite being the second half of one story from seven years ago) is most of it was *just* commenting on Spider-Man as a franchise. Into The Spider-Verse was *actually* about something.

I've come to hate meta-humor/commentary because it means you get these stories that aren't actually about anything other than...itself. No themes or a message or a grand point made, just oh-so-clever self-referential horseshit. Especially when it just copy/pastes social media discourse.

One of my favorite animated series is Gargoyles, which is full of Shakespeare references and likely why - when I got older - I was able to get into Shakespeare, unlike many of my peers. That isn't to say being referential and name-dropping can't get annoying, but so can *everything* being meta.

I remember making this exact point, a year ago, with animation as recent as 30yrs ago vs their modern counterparts today, and everyone gave me shit. Jokes on you, though! I am vindicated!

"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."

"You have to be flattered that somebody wants to sort of try and make your movie again. But the difference is between a rip-off and an homage is that you are supposed to add something." — Nicholas Meyer, director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan commenting on Star Trek Into Darkness

Imagine if Peter Jackson had spent the marketing campaign for The Return of the King telling audiences not to compare it to The Fellowship of the Ring. That's what this feels like.

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O Antony!

RIP... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey, @crzydemona.bsky.social and I know that guy!

Keith David's livestream is about to begin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdQj...

Movies have always been a business, but it feels like we're increasingly rewarding metrics over artistry. Follower counts, brands, engagement, AI... none of those things tell me whether someone can actually create great art.

Genuinely one of the most influential graphic novelists of all time and her passing is so heartbreaking. Please read Persepolis if you haven’t, it’s a poignant story of resistance that deserves all the love

What integrity looks like.

“Every scene must advance the plot” isn’t advice for lifeless, mechanical writing; don’t take it literally. Scenes can still reveal character, be chill, and advance the plot.

Oh fuck you, Martin Scorsese. Wait a second, this article isn't about Martin Scorsese. It's about Joe Russo embracing AI. Strange how some people suddenly stop caring. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

Literacy is the GOP's worst nightmare.

I'm not asking people to not watch Avengers: Doomsday. I'm not even asking people to agree with me. I'm asking them to engage with the contradiction. If AI is bad, then why is Joe Russo getting a pass? That's the whole question, and it shouldn't be a difficult one to answer.

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

If AI in filmmaking is bad (and it is), then it should be bad regardless of whether the person using it is Joe Russo, Disney, Martin Scorsese, an independent filmmaker, or anyone else. Consistency matters.

Oh, MAGAs are surprised and angry about self-mythologizing, shirt-rending, taxpayer-compensated grifter and ersatz America Firster Michael Flynn turning out to be a highly paid foreign agent for a Kremlin ally? My eyes just *rolled out of my fucking head*

Today's theme is people showing their asses. Scorsese showed his ass by embracing AI. MCU fans continue to show their asses by refusing to condemn Joe Russo's embrace of AI. And I am showing my ass by being publicly livid about all of it.

This one doesn't just break my heart, it shatters it. Of all the filmmakers I never expected to hear embracing AI, Martin Scorsese was near the top of the list. How very Joe Russo of you, Marty. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

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MOI!

Every serious film lover eventually reaches that point. You stop asking, "Why doesn't everyone love what I love?" and start saying, "Different audiences want different things, and that's okay."

So true it hurts

I'll watch the original Escape From New York, thank you very much!

Frankly I don't want to live in a world where what we consider good cinema all comes down to how much it makes at the box office.

If he's racist enough against the right groups, maybe white people will give him a cookie and tell him he's one of the good ones.

Maybe I’d be more open to the idea of fantasy and SF having fundamental philosophical differences if it wasn’t constantly used to bash fantasy.