Between this and Bernie’s AI bill yesterday, I think we may need to accept that well-meaning guys in their 80s may not fully appreciate that AI is a destructive grift.

I went into MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE pretty skeptical, but its childish enthusiasm kind of won me over despite the film's many flaws.

Well, that's certainly one way to waste $550,000.

As someone with zero nostalgia for MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, the new movie was better than I expected. Kind of reminded me of GI JOE: RISE OF COBRA with the feeling of a child smashing their action figures together.

Tonight’s screening is #MastersOfTheUniverse. They’ve given us all swords. I hope this trend continues. I expect to get a sword at Practical Magic 2.

One of the basic rules of being in a fight - and she's spent her entire career picking fights - is that the other person in the ring is going to hit you back, and she always acts like that's somehow not allowed in her particular smol bean case

The President’s deep unpopularity matters. If he were even at 50%, the GOP likely wouldn’t have challenged him.

I miss Raisin Squares.

Marilyn Monroe turns 100 today, and her complex legacy is summed by her tragic, potent finale: The Misfits. www.avclub.com/the-misfits-...

Snyder hasn’t had a no-doubt box office hit in twenty years, but ok.

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

think about how remakes like POLTERGEIST, ROBOCOP, and TOTAL RECALL are basically lost to time, and move on with your day

Reporting on how Talarico is reaching new people with his relatively run-of-the-mill mainline Christianity really shows how the media and political dominance of right wing evangelicalism has constrained the American religious imagination.

CBS meetings now

Favorite First Watches (May 2026): - Victor/Victoria - Beautiful Thing - Obsession - Andrei Rublev - The Sheep Detectives - Raw Deal (1948) - In This Our Life - Body Heat - Body Double - Scream Blacula Scream - Power Ballad

I’m trying to make more video content since that seems to be an effective way to reach people. Give a follow if you’d like. I’m on Insta…

Good word of mouth can help movies like Obsession, but only if they spend enough time in theaters for that word to get around. www.avclub.com/obsession-bo...

Ya I feel like a very similar phenomenon where they are obviously connected and PR hungry, have no real fanbase or constituency but can still plausibly generate hate clicks with uncritical coverage? bsky.app/profile/jose...

Axios is going to report a deal is 48 hours away at least once a week for the next 3 years

i feel like the "story" of "Tilly Norwood", in terms of the newsworthy thing that's happening, would be a behind-the-scenes report on the company's PR team that keeps getting these articles placed in major news outlets and keeps getting them written with the company's preferred framing.

This weekend is certainly exciting for Parsons and Barker, regardless of what you think of their movies. But I’m curious what becomes their next step. We still have this massive donut hole where you’re making low-budget features or huge blockbusters, and that mid-tier is so essential.

some of the more all-in fascist types sense this, the RTVRN types, but “the past was great until you people messed things up” is, in the arts, a boring dead-end. There’ve been great conservative artists thru history. But American conservatism is pure grift. There’s not much grist for art there 2/3

we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Even people who aren’t industry pundits are hyper focused on the box office right now because everyone loves an underdog story. I don’t even like Obsession or Backrooms as much as most but what is happening is fascinating and welcome, reminds me of watching Blair Witch blow up in ‘99 in real time.

just thinking about how the dismal performance of the new Star Wars hits theaters more than any other sector. Disney strong-arms theaters into booking a certain number of screens, then leaves them with empty houses

The writing is sharp, but I feel like the headline and the coverage defeat Akner‘s observations. Norwood's handlers just want it to be profiled in the Times to keep the grift going. The critiques are inconsequential.

If I worked at Amazon MGM and was looking at the massive box office for OBSESSION and BACKROOMS, I’d already be looking to write off MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. Like the cinematic equivalent of a Blue Origin rocket detonating on the launchpad.

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We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

watching the chuds turn literally everything into Gender at all times is so exhausting and stupid figuring out that You Don't Have To Do That is, I believe, the single most helpful realization a young man can make, it's such an enormous life improvement to just embrace what you actually like

I think it’s cool that weird puppets scampering about in space is exclusively for the 40-and-up crowd now, while the kids are all into Chiwetel Ejiofor hanging out in empty office spaces

“The kids want liminal spaces!”

Some of you on here

Regardless of how you feel about these movies in particular, we're witnessing an extraordinary shift in Hollywood filmmaking. Take note.

It was Marcia who cut together the trench run sequence in STAR WARS, using every last second of FX footage, reducing the number of Luke's attempts on the port from three to one, and adding a "ticking clock" of the approaching Death Star. It's her savvy storytelling that makes the sequence coherent.

After having seen STAR WARS 500 times as a kid, I remember having my mind blown learning that the entire "the death star is about to blow up the rebel base as its being attacked" beat of the ending was invented in the editing room using outtakes and ADR. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Rest in peace to a cinematic genius who deserved FAR more credit. Check out the article to read a few of Marcia Lucas’ staggering achievements.

Between the box office performance of Obsession and Backrooms (as well as several other recent films), it feels like something about American moviegoing tastes and habits are shifting very quickly in a way for which most of the people with the money to finance movies are completely unprepared.

I always think of what the smart and menschy director Arthur Penn told me about the early- and mid-'60s years just before everything changed when I interviewed him for Pictures at a Revolution: "It wasn't just that we were sick of the system. At that point, the system was sick of itself."

“The new James Bond game doesn’t have enough kissing hot girls and his boss is DEI,” I say to my microwave as a frozen dinner turns in slow circles, each rotation another sliver taken away from my soul

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

This remains so funny to me. Note the “last updated” line.

Breaking news: The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn, and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.

Honestly, this is good because it removes any plausible deniability about the type of people Trump put in charge of his domestic paramilitary operations

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It's genuinely funny a 74 year old senator got played by the most obvious conman ever and is now posting passive aggressively like a pre-teen who hasn't learned subtlety yet.