one of the many reasons you know that Harry Potter hbo show is gonna suck is that they don’t have any Mike Leigh collaborators on the roster. not a one.

Okay, looks like the USMNT has secured a bracket slot. Looks like there's a good chance they'll eventually play whoever the winner of "group G" is in the round of 16. I wonder who's in group G... oh no.

I think soccer would be more interesting if the field was half as large. It gets pretty exciting whenever they're near the net but then whenever the ball is stuck in the center it starts to feel like that one episode of The Simpsons. Cut that out part and it would be all action all the time.

A lot of people are going to call Toy Story 5 a "pointless sequel" which isn't fair. It trying to make a point about technology and a worthwhile enough reason to make a sequel. Whether or not it actually has anything smart or interesting on the topic is another question, but it is trying.

She can Pokemon Go hug a cactus

I used to defend Hilary a lot... I don't do that much anymore.

Well, I already own most of these on 4K in some form individually, so I kind of just need a stand alone Lolita release. Still, pretty big news.

Nearly two thirds of a billion dollars to make a piece of shit about dino-locusts?

Bad. A Netflix/Warner acquisition would have also been bad but Warner was big enough that Netflix was unlikely to be able to destroy it completely. Lionsgate on the other hand is small enough that they may well just absorb and digest it and remove a competitor for people's attention from the market.

Why Politicians Fail To Understand The Elaborate Mythical Realm I’ve Made Up In My Head

If people are interested in Cabo Verde soccer culture check out the 1998 movie "Dribbling Fate" which is presently on Kanopy. The movie is only alright, but it's a movie I saw before Cabo Verde soccer was cool and I'm not going to turn down this rare opportunity to flaunt my knowledge of it.

Mitch McConnell will receive a level of medical care he has spent his entire career preventing other Americans from having

Realizing that Gene was born before talkies and lived long enough to review Avatar….

Disclosure Day is a bit of a weird one. Generally entertaining throughout, some sweet blocking and shot selection by Spielberg, and has some "big grand ideas" going on that will hit harder for some than others.

Only "violence and some language?" Shit. The dream of seeing some cyclops dong is over.

This doesn't even look like it holds much popcorn. Also I sure hope I'm not stuck sitting behind someone with one of these.

I know all the lyrics to "Santeria" by Sublime, and not really by choice.

The difference between Russia/Qatar and the USA is Russia/Qatar used the World Cup to hide their human rights abuses, and the USA are using it to flaunt them

Here's Amazon just telling me they're spying on my television as if that's not some Orwellian bullshit. Is trying to sell $5.25 in batteries really worth announcing their creepy data monitoring?

I'm not sure where the "HR = female" stereotype comes from. I don't know the gender of the HR people at my company because I don't interact with them at all, probably because I don't do shit that gets me reported to them.

A new 60 Minutes will probably be 1000 times better than Vichy 60 Minutes... but still get a fraction of its viewership be cause it isn't timeslotted after football. Will be the Bluesky of news magazine shows.

I want a T-shirt that says: "Billionaires think you are being selfish."

Not having the easiest time picking someone to root for in the NBA Finals, both teams have strong pros and cons.

Euphoria is and always was a dumb show that I mostly hate-watched, and my expectations for the finale were exceedingly low but it was somehow even more ill-conceived than I could have imagined. Like, they found new and interesting ways to suck. What the fuck?

Lol. This is like when Batman made a lot of money and the cigar chomping studio execs assumed this meant "the kids" would also want to see The Shadow, The Phantom, and Dick Tracy.

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Looks like the NYT just dropped another of their nearly weekly pieces about how the media isn't talking about the problems of American masculinity. Expect another piece two or three weeks from now and I'm sure other publications will fill the gap with their own identical observations in-between.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

I can see from some responses that people are still confused about what's going on. A lot of us liberals are very literal! So we assume Trump is "confused" about this. He's not. "Trans" is an all-purpose category on the right now to describe anyone who doesn't conform to rigid MAGA gender roles.

Obsession, which has a 1.50:1 aspect ratio. Unless there's an example I'm not thinking of that probably makes it the highest grossing movie with that narrow of a ratio since The Artist and if it makes $33 million more it will be the highest grossing since The Blair Witch Project.

Backrooms takes a while to get going but does deliver eventually. I think Obsession stole its indie-horror thunder a bit but it's a strong effort in its own right. The fact that its director was born in 2006 makes me want to stare into a void.

"When someone gives you a seat on a rocket ship, you don't ask 'which seat' you get on that rocket ship."

May it be known that we won't really be celebrating the country's 250th in July. The U.S.A. as we know it was not officially a country until the constitution went into effect on 3/4/1789 We'll be celebrating the REAL 250th in 2039

I really wish Aquaman 2 hadn't come out after this. This is exactly the stupid-ass ending the Snyderverse deserved.

Do these people think God has a dick?

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Hey, the decibel record for booing was meant to be broken

This is quite the misplaced nostalgia. VHS was already basically on the way out when these movies were released, they're very much "DVD movies." It's like releasing a vinyl edition of an album from the late 90s/early 2000s.

The trailers for I Love Boosters doesn't exactly make it look "normal" but the actual movie is orders of magnitude more batshit insane than the advertising lets on. Not entirely in a good way, it's kind of a mess.

The Mandalorian and Grogu is mid. Not unentertaining at times and has its moments, but its kind of pointless and also doesn't advance either of its title characters in the slightest, in fact it kind of regresses them. Passable as a "very special episode" of the show, middling as a theatrical film.

Going to guess that "Kneecap en espanol" is a pretty strange experience.

New Lovecraftian horror just dropped.

What?!

This is probably the first piece of promising news I've heard about this movie. Bond is supposed to be a star-making role, not a role for stars.

There are a lot of horror movies where there's a "happy" ending where the monster is dead or whatever but you're left to wonder "how the hell are the survivors going to explain all this to the cops."

Obsession takes the well worn concept of the "monkey's paw" and takes it to a logical extreme. It's a lot darker than its kind of dopey concept would suggest and is (intentionally) a deeply uncomfortable experience. Some imperfections in the execution but a strong horror ride all the same.

I dunno. Maybe because that's a stupid thing to want?

Say what you will about Christopher Nolan as a writer but the extent to which the lines "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" and "Some men just want to watch the world burn" have both aged like fine wine is just... depressing.