Maybe my favorite line reading in all of THIS IS SPINAL TAP.

what the UN should have done:

[made me spit out my coffee]

Experiencing a solid four-star movie streak on @letterboxd.social

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" 🔥

Never forget: bullies are cowards. Push back and they crumble.

Spectacular mail day! Includes all the great stuff I ordered in @severinfilms.bsky.social’s summer sale. 🫶🏻

Still thinking about Robert Redford! Tonight's double bill:

This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. eating peanut butter out of the jar 2. cracking the spine of a new book 3. your cat deciding to lie down on your lap 4. taking a moment to daydream 5. plugging in a USB cable right side up on the first try

Star Wars, about fighting imperial fascism and authoritarian control, brought to you by Free Speech Advocates, Disney *checks notes* oh no

Screening AMADEUS for the kids tonight.

A Democrat with a spine? Unreal! 🤯

It's not *quite* sweater weather yet, but it IS the first day of fall. So here is lovely Kim Novak in a nice cozy-chunky sweater.

Turns out the joke's on me, as I have *not* been able to get this earworm out of my head for the past three days. 😬

This is amazing, in a horrible way

Goh...

I will gladly settle for Michael Gambon and John Lithgow. (Though I was much more excited to learn that I also share a birthday with the divine Rebecca Ferguson ♥️)

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company). All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

I'm such a big fan of THIS IS SPINAL TAP that I actually don't want to see a new movie that pointlessly reunites these old men — if that makes sense.

"Their goal is to instill fear, to make you feel helpless, hopeless, to break you down. Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize. Speak truth to authority. Because the story’s not written — the pen is in your hand."

Potentially the greatest continuity polaroid ever.

THE STRAIGHT STORY (TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME is #1)

Reminding myself to first contemplate this image before deciding to open this app to check up on current affairs. 🫣

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I love this so much I FEEL IT IN MY BONES 😆

fwiw, based on nothing but my own read, I think this stuff matters more than Disney+ cancelations

Today I finally finished JW Rinzler and Lee Unkrich’s massive two-volume book that is truly the final word on Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Just ordered my tickets to see ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in IMAX next weekend — sadly, it isn't being screened in VistaVision or 70mm anywhere in the Netherlands. Still: very excited to see it!!

Tonight I get to introduce the 11-year-old to one of the most purely entertaining movies ever made.

If there's anything funny about this -- debatable -- it's that Trump has an entire team of Project 2025/Federalist Society ghouls who have painstakingly built a foolproof backroom legal system to legitimize fascism and then Trump just goes THEY CAN'T MAKE FUN OF ME I'LL SUE and gives it all away

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

I smashed the pre-order button so hard on this. Looks amazing! 🤩

This amazing nervous crab perfectly represents the way I now engage with the daily news.

I had the best time today in my Introduction to Media Studies class using a sequence from Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” for an exercise on how to analyse mise-en-scene and cinematography.

Nothing but absolute bangers the last couple of days #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Earlier this year, I joined the #52FilmsDirectedbyWomen challenge, and today I completed it with Marielle Heller’s heartbreaking CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? boxd.it/EPfpy

Here's a diversion for you all: contributors to @ebertvoices.bsky.social wrote about 11 of the late, great Robert Redford's performances. My pick is Sneakers. Everybody else's entries are fantastic, and there are some surprises. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

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Rewatching Del Toro’s Gothic tour de force CRIMSON PEAK — a movie I find positively ravishing when I’m in the right mood, and wholly insufferable when I’m not.

Kurosawa: the greatest master of composition. Just one breathtaking shot after another in HIGH AND LOW. 🤯

I watched Sneakers again, coz of Bob, but mostly because I am always looking for a reason to watch Sneakers. It's great fun, but it can also still speak to the modern world: letterboxd.com/andrewclarke...

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

It’s been a while since I last watched QUIZ SHOW: not just the best film that Robert Redford directed, but one of the greatest American pictures of the 1990s.