Oh hi bluesky

Hot take: Noah Hawley's taste in music is way better than James Gunn's.

Honestly, a really good article. It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years. It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.

Reposting for the afternoon: B. Zane in the M. Brain! lytrules.substack.com/p/waltzing-w...

Looking at this list, I can see I like PTA better when he's doing single- or dual-character studies than ensembles. That doesn't bode AS well for me with One Battle, but let's hope it's the game-changer.

Billy Zane as Brando gives me a great headline, at least. lytrules.substack.com/p/waltzing-w...

RIP Henry Jaglom, whose conversational movies got a big boost from USC's 466 class and the fact that Jaglom himself bought all the tickets to keep them in theaters. Love him or hate him, he was a genuine auteur with a goofy hat, and friend to Orson Welles, as he never stopped reminding everyone.

New Substack name, new mission, same plea: Sign up to be a FREE subscriber and tell your friends! (Also plz open the emails, even if you don't actually read them!) The more followers, the better I am able to serve you content. lytrules.substack.com

If you drink as much as the Kennedys, Tylenol -- which requires a fully functional liver -- is indeed probably a bad idea.

Editors who ghosted most of their own writers should not, at any point, be complaining about the state of writing.

#MarvelZombies is a decent #Avengers animated movie, with a better buildup than Doomsday has been getting.

The Rapture is the dumbest fucking thing ever, and you are an idiot if you believe in it. #sorrynotsorry

One reason American Christian movies don't do well overseas is that idiotic add-on beliefs like the Rapture don't travel well to countries that have older Christian histories.

Now that we showed that boycotting Disney works -- how about doing that to every company that supports MAGA? (except those whose whole base is that, like Hobby Lobby or something)

#MarvelZombies awesomely plays like the Young Avengers movie we probably aren't getting, teaming Kamala, Riri, Kate, Yelena, Shang-Chi, Blade and more to fight a villain who's more established than Doctor Doom. For once in a zombie thing, it really IS about the characters and not the zombies.

Oh NOES!!!!

Bill Maher defending free speech and Kimmel on the same show as he has TOM HOMAN as the fucking guest and panders to him incessantly.

I'll keep it simple: More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history.

Kyle Rittenhouse's post-murder speaking career was funded by Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, BTW.

What movie do I consider perfect? Granting that my definition of "perfect" may not be everyone else's...Nonetheless, perfectly what it is in every way.

Journalism was great when it was drunks and freaks who couldn't stick a real job and began to suck when they established credentials.

New review today! lytrules.substack.com/p/night-of-t...

Reminiscent of Apollo Creed's entrance before a Russian punched him to "un-alive"

The whole "Democrats didn't get to CHOOSE Harris" (we frickin' did, if we understood the implications of picking a ticket called Biden-Harris to begin with) was, in hindsight, playing on anti-affirmative action prejudices without overtly saying so, and it sadly worked.

Stan Lee is the perfect AI avatar - his whole career was about taking the credit for other people's work

BAJA BLAST PIE COMING TO TACO BELL IN NOVEMBER

When I was on the Fantastic Fest jury about a decade and a half ago, this was my pick for best film. Literally nobody else on the jury agreed.

Play down climate change. Someone fucking explain to me how it's going to be possible to enjoy our Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits - or whatever the fuck it is these people care about - in a world with no fucking water. Climate change denial comes in all shapes and sizes.

Kash Patel was appointed by Trump to lead the FBI because Trump knew he would destroy the FBI. It’s not complicated. All of the people Trump has appointed were appointed because he knew they would destroy their organizations. This is all right out in the open, they’re not even hiding anything.

It's true! We saw a bit of it before the Kirk murder, but now it's like we're all being shoved at the family from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and asked why we aren't being nicer to them.

"My Republican pals want to enslave you -- and I get the opposition, I really do. But they're a good 40% of the country, so some of you will just have to be enslaved."

I said before that I'd pass the popcorn to see R_bert M_y_r B_rnett and J_sh _lson get in a Twitter war...RMB just subtweeted the first salvo over there.

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The reasons for this happening really bums me out and yet sadly is a sign of the times.

If you buy an annual subscription to my Substack, I will review the film of your choice, provided it is available to me. Today, by request, Runaway Train! (Subscriber requested reviews are available for reading to all paid subscribers, exclusively) lytrules.substack.com/p/runaway-tr...

I'm glad to hear that people still like this sort of thing.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Thanks to social media, it seems like hardly anyone comments on actual blog posts any more. lytrules.substack.com/p/dragged-by...

Big doubleheader review today! Downton Abbey 3 and The Long Walk! Not even paywalled! lytrules.substack.com/p/dragged-by...

Mattel executive: " I'm sick of everyone making dirty jokes about Fisto fisting!" Mattel design: " we'll solve that problem by giving him new weapons...huh huh" #mastersoftheuniverse #motu

A murdered lover. A false conviction. A galaxy on the brink of annihilation. Tim Scott believed his life had ended the night he was framed for murdering the woman he loved. Condemned to rot in a prison orbiting a dead world, he has nothing left—until an alien device called Enigma offers him the one

"Insufficiently mournful" is a crime in North Korea when the totalitarian leader dies, or the anniversary of same occurs. That's all that need be said about this.

I changed the name of my Substack. Here's why: lytrules.substack.com/p/why-mortal...

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

It's so weird to think that there is a high chance that I will be killed before my braces come off. I'm 52 now, and they'll be removed when I'm 54 or 55--provided I live that long, which I may not! Being trans has always been dangerous, but for some reason the danger feels a skosh heightened lately.

Finally we can have a Superman vs. Star Trek movie! Said nobody...I hope.