The first legit holy shit celebrity I ever met, and to this day one of the kindest. Classy, hilarious and uniquely talented. I don’t have anything else to say. I just love this man.

Trump is being criticized for not flying White House flag at half mast to honor solders killed in Iran but in his defense it's not like any of them were podcasters

Oh fuck this, there’s tons of great rock music still, a lot of the best stuff is made by queer artists, Corgan hasn’t written a good song since I was in 2nd grade I think that’s more the problem

One thing about Jamelle is that he absolutely drives a lot of his peers crazy because he’s better at his job than they are at theirs. I think the reasons for that are not hard to figure out.

Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored

Everyone in this administration lies about everything, but the lies about the President’s health remain the most amusing.

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

One of the biggest problems with modern media is the way they uncritically repeat the bullshit these liars say to them in their sales pitches. Stop being PR agents for assholes.

While the storytelling is a little rough around the edges, I still had a lot of fun with #Hoppers, and I liked its message about the limits of anger as a productive social force.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that every warmonger during the invasion of Iraq didn't learn a goddamn thing.

Here's story we did, laying it out: Derek Chauvin had a body-cam not only when he killed George Floyd, but also when he knelt on necks of others, including a 14-year-old. The boy's mother begged, "“Please, please do not kill my son!” Supervisors ignored it all www.propublica.org/article/how-...

Seems crystal clear that neither Netanyahu nor Trump want an actual democracy in Iran, they want a regime they can manage/work with like the gulf states.

This is tougher than the last few rounds, but I feel like MULAN is more of a complete picture than THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE.

There’s going to be $79 billion worth of debt, there will be thousands of layoffs, and yet they’re pledging to increase production? Just shameless lying.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

In six months, the campus left is going to turn the corner.

There’s one thing the media isn’t telling you about the proposed merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery: What you can do to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyk...

Of course there wasn’t. Trump just likes bombing brown people and it makes him feel alive as his body slowly decomposes.

I know One Battle After Another won the DGA and PGA but it still feels like Sinners is very much in it. You can’t discount the SAG nor the 16 Oscar nominations. It also feels like a populist choice that can easily net a bunch of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places on voters’ ballots.

I feel like with the exception of Best Actress, no acting category is really locked down. Oscar night should be interesting.

The fact that Democratic leadership hasn’t called for him to drop out yet is so embarrassing.

Presenting any category during the pre-show is so tacky and disrespectful.

Favorite first-watches in Feb. 2026: - Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie - Marty - The Voice of Hind Rajab - Mr. Nobody Against Putin - Belle (2013) - How to Make a Killing - The Last Emperor - Retirement Plan - Lone Star - Hoppers

Granted, this isn’t “new” US foreign policy, but it’s never been done as oafishly or carelessly as this. Just no thinking longer than the current news cycle.

Not to condone it, but there was reason that the Bush administration spent a year manufacturing consent for the Iraq War.

Easy decision.

Palm Springs

During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC

Guys he's not starting a war to distract from the Epstein files. He's starting a war because he wants to start a war. Killing people in other countries makes him horny. If it also distracts from the Epstein files, great, but he doesn't really give a shit either way.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I don’t know how true it is that Disney wanted to strip the environmentalism out of #Hoppers, but if they did, they failed wildly at it. Very much a pro-ecology, pro-community movie (and also quite sweet and funny).

Among other things, he’s a coward. Happy to be belligerent from afar and on camera but does not want to confront the American people

I guess Operation Epic Fury is better branding than Operation Please Stop Talking About Epstein or Operation Maybe This Will Help Me in the Midterms or Operation We'll Work Out the Details Later.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

"Everyone is 12" theory going strong

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

Joseph Kahn has made 4 features that haven't made a dime. How can he have an understanding of the movie theater business when his films are in and out of them after a week?

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

Hard-to-see great film alert: ALL THAT JAZZ is on TCM Sunday night.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

the swagger of these mediocre do-nothing zilches is staggering. The photo has all the bravado of a rich dentist who flies to Africa, pays a guide to find some old elephant at a watering hole, blows its brains out, then poses with it triumphantly like they heroically took it down

What an amazing programming series. www.academymuseum.org/programs/ser...

Jamelle Bouie is good and smart and usually correct, he has supported trans rights multiple times in his columns, and no stranger has any right to tell him to quit his job.

Like, of course Ellison’s Paramount wants to resurrect Landis’ career. But even if he wasn’t a piece of shit, he also wrote bad movies!

I imagine this will be tougher for some, but I have issues with MOANA’s plotting, so it’s pretty easy for me!

One of the best distillations of this whole Paramount mess I've read so far, courtesy of @mattgoldberg.bsky.social www.commentarytrack.net/paramount-wb... My take: we're all fucked but at least we're fucked together!

After sleeping on it, I've assembled a few thoughts on the Paramount-WB deal:

SCREAM 7 has now tipped into that place where everyone says it’s such trash that now I absolutely must see it.