Gas shortages? America caught up in a stupid war it can’t win? Time for a rewatch of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Drone footage captures the devastating destruction to the building right next to Glasgow's historic Central Station. Part of it has collapsed after a fire started in a vape shop and ripped through the whole structure.

Saw a community theater production of Oklahoma! today. It was excellent. One of the actors was only sixteen and he’s never kissed a girl before and didn’t want his first kiss to be in a community theater production of Oklahoma! so there were minor revisions to the musical to accommodate him

“The funniest writer in America” according to Bari Weiss

Too on the nose that Country Joe McDonald would die on the weekend our president is thinking about sending troops into Iran

I’m reading Clark Collis’s Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie. The Ain’t It Cool era of film discourse was such a wonderful time

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

But we’re told by Bill Maher that Iran is full of happiness

HBO is one of the most trusted brands in America. It’s weird how it’s constantly on the chopping block

I watched Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) There’s a scene in it where Holmes tells Moriarity he wants to strap him down and gradually draw out all his blood so Moriarty can lay there and study his own dying. JFC Sherlock.

Zootopia 2 had plenty to say about racism, colonial oppression, displacement etc and it’s one of the most financially successful animated features ever made

“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it's just another piece of content to be swiped through while we're waiting in line at the grocery store.”

Hit the road today and gas is up around fifty cents a gallon in this area

Heard a clip of Trump speaking today on NPR and, man, he sounds like shit. You get distracted by his awful visage when you have to watch him speak, but minus that distraction you get a better idea of how ill and messed up and frail he’s sounding

Finding his footing by getting drunk and watching Patton for the hundredth time while his AI decimates a girls’ school

I suppose Hamnet is okay just not my thing. But all the while watching it I kept thinking of Oscar Wilde’s “one must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal saying they hate cats is what happens when celebrities try to be relatable and miss completely.

Aside from the grossness of using AI, the bit sounds cringingly unfunny anyway. Also MacFarlane knows there were ways to get around using AI. But he wanted to use it and he’s making up BS reasons for doing it

Oscar BP nominees in order of how much I liked them One Battle After Another Sinners The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Train Dreams Marty Supreme Bugonia Hamnet Frankenstein F1

Bari Weiss is going to be running CNN soon so it’s good to see them jumping the gun by posting Bari Weiss level content

I’ve started watching the Universal Sherlock Holmes series where Holmes and Watson fight Nazis in WW2 Britain and keep thinking if they’d stuck to the timeline Holmes and Watson would still be solving crimes in the Beatles’ Swinging London sixties

It’s going to be morbidly fascinating watching how badly David Ellison messes everything up

Top Ten Horror Movies: The Thing from Another World (1951) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Mad Love (1935) Lake Placid (1999) House on Haunted Hill (1959) Halloween (1978) The Changeling (1980) Tremors (1990) Hold That Ghost (1941)

“You’ll never make Mother of the Year, lady!” Let this be a warning. If you toss your baby into a garbage can, Sgt. Joe Friday is going to roast battle your ass like a motherfucker.

POP QUIZ HOT SHOTS: what are some of the most stylistically bold and formally daring music docs you've seen that are about specific scenes or eras (as opposed to hagiographies on specific artists or bands)? (Signal boosts greatly appreciated for this one!)

If Mark Smith was still alive there’d be a Fall song about British people trying to play baseball

I’m convinced the religious nuts in the government told trump he could get to Heaven if he started the war with Iran, and I also think he is already bored with it.

All I know about opera is you’d better know your opera if you want to be a contestant on Jeopardy

Now that Hamnet is on Peacock I can go into Charlie Brown reading War and Peace mode and have it watched by Oscar night

#LastFourFriday #Letterboxd 3 Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies. The 20th Century Fox entries and the lower budgeted Voice of Terror from Universal where Holmes and Watson fight Nazi propaganda. Also Jeff Lieberman’s Remote Control, set in a 1987 new wave USA where everyone’s obsessed with VHS

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

I’ve only just watched Casablanca a few weeks ago but now with everything that’s been happening I want to watch it again

The Adventure Game Aptitude Test is the first of its kind, and the initial results are incredible. Only two people beat a three hour game without help

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Stephen Miller watching the last Avengers movie. No way does Trump have the attention span to watch a 3 hour movie

First day on the job as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas, Kristi Noem is going to find Prince Andrew sitting at his desk as Special Envoy for the Shield of the United Kingdom

Letting Kristi Noem give a press conference before she realizes she’s fired is a pretty hardcore start to white history month

The most famous Orwell quote right behind "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum".

War in the Middle East Britney Spears arrested for a DUI. Stock market bubble about to burst. Scrubs, King of the Hill and Malcolm in the Middle are back on TV. 2006 is so back, baby.

I used to think the easiest job in the world is being a right wing comedian but it can’t possibly be easier than being a Gen-Z male influencer

The most Sadean administration in the history of the country and maybe the planet

RIP Horshack. Another victim of notorious Forest Green criminal Jason Voorhees

TIL: Chester, Illinois has a "Popeye Trail" of 19 statues (28 characters) situated throughout the city in honor of hometown hero Elzie Segar. Beyond the main cast they have Castor/The Whiffle Hen, The Sea Hag/Bernard, Alice the Goon & Child, King Blozo, Toar & more. I have a nerdly urge to visit.

Top Ten Favorite Horror Movies The Black Cat (1934) Cat People (1942) Night of the Living Dead Blood Feast An American Werewolf in London Night of the Demon (1957) Dead of Night Candyman (1992) The Birds Nosferatu (1922) bonus: Rosemary’s Baby Romero’s DotD A Nightmare on Elm Street

If Scary Movie 6 wants to “cancel the cancel culture” they’d have a Melissa Barrera cameo but I don’t think that’s the cancel culture they’re talking about

@dsmaycollins.bsky.social I’m listening to an audiobook on Spotify you might be interested in, Raised on Radio, an oral history of all the “uncool” bands like Journey, REO and Styx. I’m up to Ann Wilson getting fired from her McDonald’s job for saying the greasy floor was a work hazard