I wonder if Paxton will agree to debate Talarico.

FOUND: the man who has watched every film and video by Los Ingrávidos.

I haven’t seen THE ODYSSEY yet but I have some strong opinions about it that I’d like to share. Sorry, hold on. Newsmax is calling.

The nosedive of American society can really be traced from the elimination of Cinemax free preview weekends.

Usually wait for the Venice lineup before a second round of NYFF predictions but looks like we'll be getting our first announcement tomorrow so decided to move it up; plenty of space/time/questions left: taipeimansions.com/2026/07/15/n...

Say, isn't it about time for @swenryan.bsky.social to make his educated guesses regarding the NYFF line-up?

THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.

I'll have the french fries. I'll have the onion rings. I'll have the COMbination french fries and onion rings.

BITTER CHRISTMAS (Pedro Almodóvar, 2026)

This just came up in the queue. It’s been decades since I heard this. youtu.be/F1NBpVKWh_c?...

Jenkin-Heads: How do you feel ROSE OF NEVADA compares with BAIT and ENYS MEN?

Also a bit jarring when Odysseus finally makes it back to his home shore and announces “ten toes down.”

Hm! Trump has come out condemning the teleprompter tech who made Kalshi money from his speeches. A lower level Latino employee will be the scapegoat for an administration-wide problem. Cool. Nothing fishy here.

250 seems like a good point for blowing it all up and starting over.

They don’t care about fertility any more than they cared about women’s sports. They want to own women and children as property. The only real fascist goal is domination. They have no other. The rest is just whatever lie they’re currently telling to disguise that fact.

Paul Greengrass? He’s still a thing?

JK Rowling is not the president, nor does she hold any elected office. So am I allowed to say I hope she stops living?

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

I was rewatching parts of AI last night (prepping for reviewing SHEEP IN A BOX), and was struck by the Flesh Fair scene. It can be parallels with the hospital attack scene from WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES. Both scenes embody a humanist desire, a fantasy, that there is a moment when violent mobs will….

In the UK, it’s called a home run “DARBY.”

I have tried in general to keep politics out of my classes. But what counts as political keeps shifting. I maintain that I am not being political by saying (for example) racism is bad for society. Goal posts move but I’m staying put.

THIS IRRESISTIBLE MAN #LadyG

Did you know that Men Without Hats had a *third* hit in Canada? It's called "Hey Men" and it calls out toxic masculinity. In 1989! youtu.be/P2N4sTa4Ymg?...

Is it. Is the whole town talking.

“He was always nice to me” has always been and will always be a terrible way to evaluate someone’s character. It’s whether or not they’re shitty to the people from whom they can’t extract value.

I will always remember Sen. Tankerbell for his raucous sense of humor. I recall one time back in ‘71 when he stood on the senate floor and told the “milk machine” joke. RIP!

GOT THE DEAL! No peppers but still good.

Josh Widdecomb no doubt feeling the added pressure of being the one remaining Widdecombe.

I never thought it would happen With me and the bin from Clacton

Is there a legal loophole whereby Count Binface can run in Maine?

AAAAARRRGGHHHH!

Who made the better geographical blunder? “Coast to coast, LA to Chicago” -Sade “New York to east California” - Kim Wilde

MY WIFE CRIES is kind of amazing. Schanelec continues to surprise and evolve. Such a refreshingly ALIVE filmmaker.

Now that we as a society are willing to overlook Nazi tattoos, I think maybe it’s time for us to reconsider drunk driving. We cannot be smoothgroin HR scolds on this! Also, littering is cool.

I'm very proud of this one, and I hope you'll take a few minutes to read it. Ross McElwee is one of my all-time favorite filmmakers. We connected over the losses we have both suffered, and the result is one of my favorite interviews in a career with quite a few of them.

Nigel Farage resigning to force a by-election is like quitting Xitter in a huff and waiting for people to beg you to return. Troll behavior now the standard for real life. Pathetic.

US society is hopelessly poisoned. We are a nation for which amorality is such the default setting that anyone staking out a moral position MUST be engaged in some kind of angle. No one can be assumed to genuinely care about anything. “You’re just mad that he gets away with it and you can’t.”

Wearily tapping the “political punditry is a sport to them” sign

I dunno, maybe handing all the power to any asshole seated behind a microphone wasn't the best way to safeguard the republic.

everybody who looked the other way on dealbreaker after dealbreaker because they were so stoked on their great white populist hope deserves the humiliation she’s going to be forced to bear instead. yall made her into a sin eater because you wanted a slur-saying left so badly

Elaine Chao and the GOP are keeping McConnell’s body alive in order to prevent a special election in a climate unfavorable to Republicans. That’s who these people are. They are sick inhuman bastards.

Someone blocked me for badmouthing Texas. I think my work here is done.

BELGIUM ROCKS

I wouldn’t call that jaw-dropping, hoss.

How's that "dirtbag left" thing working out for ya?

there is a rich vein of "if we perform enough of a caricature of masculinity that's gotta make republicans stop calling us pussies" anxiety in Democratic politics that started with Truman and has not stopped for even a single election cycle since

With all this Tilly Norwood /AI crap in the news, I’m surprised no one’s talking about the Albert Finney / Susan Dey film LOOKER. Prescient!!

The “A.I. is inevitable” people have learned the lesson of this administration, namely that if you repeat completely unsubstantiated bullshit often enough, media will keep credulously boosting, and much of the public will think “it must be true if we keep hearing it.”

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. Please consider contributing to Sen. McConnell's re-election campaign.