“The Last Action Hero” had a scene where Tom Noonan as himself complains he only gets to play creeps, while earlier in the film he looked like this. That’s called having your cake and eating it too. RIP.

Too many great performances to list, so I’m gonna watch Lonesome Dove, which I somehow have never seen, despite my love of westerns and grizzled character actors. It’s on prime, Tubi, a bunch of other places.

Neither my heritage nor inheritance involves $400 million Qatari planes.

The momentary calm before a Monty Python sketch breaks out.

What’s something dumb about you that you have to explain to professionals? For example, every doctor’s appointment, when they take my vitals, I have to tell them I’m not nervous, I just have a fast pulse, it’s not White Coat Syndrome, I’m fine.

@natestorring.bsky.social @adamschoales.bsky.social Me listening to the Springfield Googolplex: Podcast: What movie would make the best double feature with Ace in the Hole? Me (loudly): Network!! Podcast: I’d say Network. Me: YAY!!! My dog:

No kings, solo el rey.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

I love the Seahawks’ 3rd down foghorn. It makes me think they’re summoning the troops at Helm’s Deep. #superbowl

My top 10 westerns (not in order, added difficulty - only one per director): The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Unforgiven Johnny Guitar The Searchers True Grit (2010) The Quick and the Dead High Noon Rango Blazing Saddles The Proposition

A great argument for immigration reform in Europe: Do unto others. “Spain was once a nation of emigrants. Our grandparents, parents and children moved to America and elsewhere in Europe seeking a better future during the 1950s and 1960s and following the 2008 financial crisis. …”

If I were a female reporter assigned to the White House press pool, I’d sue my boss for creating a hostile work environment and suborning sexual harassment.

The last Oscar glass ceiling is in danger. Another reason to love Ryan Coogler: He has ONLY hired female cinematographers: Rachel Morrison (Fruitvale Station, Black Panther), Maryse Alberti (Creed), Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Wakanda Forever, Sinners).

It just hit me “Imagine” is way more in line with Yoko’s art than John’s and she deserves credit. Her conceptual art, her book “Grapefruit” - it’s all her telling us things to imagine. Years before they met. Read these, then imagine there’s no heaven.

@sonyaballantyne.bsky.social You’re the only person who’ll appreciate this. I’ve been crazy tired lately, and my husband caught me a couple times singing “Wake up! (bah duh!) Wake up, Good-man! (bah duh DA!)” He doesn’t know deep cuts, so is confused.

Going out to protest the death of Catherine O’Hara

One decent rule of thumb would be to live your life in such a way that Bruce Springsteen doesn’t write and record in like 72 hours a “Fat Shithead Clogged My Toilet” about you (a @leharrumph.bsky.social classic)

I’m falling in love with Minneapolis, and would consider moving there, but NorCal has made me soft. I’m in a pocket with no extremes: 45 degrees low in the winter, 75 high in the summer. I can’t leave! My limbs will snap off!

Reminder to ICE/CBP: They kept arresting and charging klan members who targeted civil rights activists for decades, and concentration camp guards well into their 90s.

#thetraitorsus is so wonderfully stupid, but I’m finally rooting for someone. Rob is calm, cool and collected until Michael Rapaport misused “commiserating” too many times, and he yelled at him. I want him to win all the money and then some.

For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.

I expect ICE to head to Philly (or maybe Detroit) closer to the election. They will get a spectacularly ugly welcome, meaning Fox has nonstop footage of Black people “rioting,” declare martial law, maybe arrest some Dem politicians, and fuck with the election.

I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...

It is illegal to lie to federal officers, so your response to *everything* is “I wish to remain silent. I’m not answering your questions.” Add “shame on you” or “go fuck yourself” or “I’m not telling you where Anne Frank is either” at your discretion.

For the BFI, 10 great films from 1926 www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

The only reason to care about birth rates is so you have enough kids to compete against each other to escape a series of traps, each more devilish than the last, to determine your sole heir. They don’t have to be your own kids. It’s more interesting if you mix it up.

30 years from the fringe right about government overreach and jackbooted thugs coming to steal our freedoms, and now that it’s here? Crickets from the patriot militia libertarian types. They never hated the government. They hated desegregation.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

I don’t think the Republicans could EVER be prepared for how people will react when Trump passes. They’re going to be so horrified and disgusted. Wondering what sort of monsters they share the country with. But turnabout is fair play.

Look out, Hemingway.

Going into 2026 like …

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Saw a woman at RiteAid and was admiring her crocheted hat. Looked down at her face and she was Robin Wright. I wanted to say I was staring at her hat, not her, but just smiled and nodded hi.

I had a dream last night about a murder-themed restaurant whose speciality was “Pork Chop à la Those Who Wronged Me.” I love it when I’m funny in my sleep. I also had a pet ladybug the size of a football.

ThirtyTwentyTen: The Final Recommendations ThirtyTwentyTen Dec. 5-11: Movies recommended this week: ▫️Richard III (1995, Tubi, hoopla) ▫️Nixon (hoopla) ▫️Brokeback Mountain (rental) ▫️Syriana (rental) ▫️Memoirs of a Geisha (Netflix)

American Christians have had it so easy. The First Amendment has prevented Protestant/Catholic wars as intended and the largest minority religion believes you shouldn’t try to convert anybody, let alone the whole world.

Recommend catch-up! ThirtyTwentyTen Nov. 7-13: Movies recommended this week: ▫️Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (Netflix) ▫️Fuck (rental) ▫️Zathura: A Space Adventure (Netflix) ▫️Love the Coopers (Hulu, Tubi) ▫️Trumbo (Tubi, hoopla) ▫️The 33 (HBO)

Like a lot of people my age, Trading Places was my introduction to Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche. And that’s why I giggle and think quotes like this whenever I see them on TCM in movies from the 19-freakin’-30s.

Usha, girl, take the kids to your parents, file for divorce tomorrow and run for Senate as a Democrat. Landslide, honey. You thought MTG got a soft landing? You have no idea.

Your assignment: Tell me random movies or whatever you were introduced to by ThirtyTwentyTen and now are a favorite. Go! I'll start: Easy A

Let's make this easier: This is Spinal Tap 🎸: HBO The Sure Thing 🕶️: Not streaming?! Boo hiss! Stand By Me 🛤️: Netflix The Princess Bride ⚔️: Disney, Hulu When Harry Met Sally 🥪: Starz Misery 🔨: rental A Few Good Men 🫡: rental The American President 🌹: rental Ghosts of Mississippi 🧑‍⚖️: kanopy

Flipping between tabs for updates about two mass shootings and this nightmare scenario in between stories of ICE pepper-spraying a baby and going full “papiere, bitte” makes this the shittiest start to Hanukkah since, I dunno, 1944? Can I get one last FUCK 2025?

I didn’t know the French Revolution dedicated a day to your mama.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode 🙄: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

The goal amount is a straight Nazi meme. They say Jews have been expelled from 109 countries in history, and they want the U.S. to be 110. (Thanks to all the far-right researchers exposing their bullshit for teaching me about that one. And I ain’t going anywhere, losers.)

This will devastate the Horrible TikTok “Easy, Yummy” Recipe industrial complex.

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