ROOM AT THE TOP is the SLIDING DOORS version of A PLACE IN THE SUN. I will take no further questions.

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

I really hope they ban us from the Olympics, and I love the Olympics. America needs to be woken up by the global community.

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

The president kidnapping the head of state of another country feels like it should be a good enough reason to call out of work

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

i am so tired of my life being held captive by the whims of hateful old men

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

The owner sold it to private equity, and people have got to stop doing that if they want brands that last.

A pool room. By which I mean, a big giant room that’s also a pool table. The rug is green. There are pockets in the corners as big as fountains. There are billiard balls the size of Volkswagen Beetles, but inflatable so you can push them around and ricochet them off each other and off the walls.

Confining your interest in cinema to the time you’ve been alive and in the language that you speak is spiritual deprivation

People coming over from Twitter now that Grok is doing things that are fully and rightly illegal almost everywhere... Yeah, you stuck it out when Grok was pro-Apartheid and cosplaying Hitler. I can't stop you from coming here but at least have the decency to not expect the red carpet treatment.

I know they're trying very hard and maybe it'll grow on me, but whenever I hear the new Kermit voice from those upcoming MUPPET SHOW teasers, this is what it sounds like.

Mamdani really did just describe exactly a guy like him and his job and they can’t process it like Rumpelstiltskin being told his name no issue

Memento (2025)

And the sinners in Hell want icewater, Satya, so I guess NO ONE'S gettin' what they want today, huh. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Tell me you were never in a maternity ward in the fifties without telling me you were never in a maternity ward in the fifties. Maternity wards LOVED that song.

let me just say what we're all thinking: this fuckin rules

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Now Watching: THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959)

I feel in my bones that the wave has started to crash back in and Certain People/Companies who thought they were safe to abandon everyone they’d been pretending to care about will suddenly realize that those people have money/power and I, for one, will be holding a grudge until the end of time 💜

Over halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far? 2020: Small Axe 2021: Summertime 2022: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair 2023: Godzilla Minus One 2024: I Saw the TV Glow 2025: Sinners

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Hi, I'm depression and low self-esteem.

HE'S SHOWING YOU HOW TO DO IT. HE'S GIVING YOU THE BLUEPRINT!! AND HES SHOWING US WE DON'T HAVE TO ACCEPT ANYTHING LESS THAN EXACTLY THIS

This is very, very good, and I'm not just saying that because @billiejsweeney.bsky.social writes and helps out with editing for Assigned.

It's just going to be this shit over and over again, isn't it? Socialism means you can only eat dry bread and wear potato sacks for clothes.

Looking at this as a hopeful touchstone for 2026.

If you’ve never seen this glorious, GLORIOUS music video before, do yourself a favor: Try to figure out what the FUCK is going on.

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Monthly Trans Creators Boost! Happy new year! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the notes and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome.

KEEP TELLING BULLIES "FUCK YOU, MAKE ME"

I’ve been waiting for someone to do this for what feels like an eternity.

If nothing else, if not for the AV Club's Random Roles, there's a decent chance we'd never have had the opportunity for Curtis Armstrong to tell his story about working on the Gary Busey film "Quigley".

Ruin two bands by combining them. Florence + The Presidents of the United States of America

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. He was a great actor. Rest in peace, sir.

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

Mark Cuban blocked me. The dude has more money than god and a lowly film critic was more than he could handle.

I published 24 reviews and retrospectives in December 2025, which amounts to approximately 30,000 words overall. At least I've been keeping myself busy!

I was asked to highlight some of the best queer cinema that 2025 had to offer, and that list includes LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS, LAVENDER MEN and CASTRATION MOVIE. Check it out at @thewrap.com!

51 to go! I'm freaking out, this is going to be so close! If you have as little as $6 right now, you can sign up for an annual membership and support me for my work for all of next year. I have my freelance/podcast tax bill coming due soon too. bsky.app/profile/kate...

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

I have heard about this controversy. I think it’s bullshit. LISTERS should be listed in Letterboxd. I know multiple people who have already emailed Letterboxd to complain and I invite you all to join them.

“This must be the year Britain finally kills off gay ideology” “This must be the year Britain finally kills off disabled ideology” “This must be the year Britain finally kills off black ideology” …See how bigoted it sounds!? Also note the radicalisation of Suzanne Moore via transphobia!