Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

So someone paid $3 million for a ticket?

Rep. Randy Fine is really working hard to be the most loathsome GOP member of Congress.

Sinners deserved all sixteen of its nominations. I’ll be surprised if it actually wins a fourth of them. (I’m not saying it doesn’t deserve to win all sixteen—just that Academy politics and, yes, racism make it unlikely.)

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

An important thread.

The Plot to Enslave America. They are testing this out on immigrants before turning it on everyone else

Happy 2109th birthday to Marc Antony!

Noem killed her dog. Let's stop pretending she cares about the murder of a human being under her watch.

One of the two or three greatest debut films in history. Citizen Kane is probably the only one I’d say is greater, if for no other reason than its impact.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

It really is dispiriting to be continually reminded how morally empty so many people in this nation are.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

While I respect arguments otherwise, I’m gonna side with those who call the current administration fascist.

Maybe God *does* care about sports events, and that’s why we’re living in hell. God’s more interested in hitting the parlay than world peace.

Leaving 2025 like…

Around 1990, I peed next to Umberto Eco. In 2002, I peed next to Don Knotts at a McDonald’s in West LA.

Whenever I’ve felt the need to apologize for being a white male, it’s been because of the behavior of other white males. Persons of color and women never made me feel ashamed of my European cisness. It’s always been white men who did that, simply by association.

Exactly this, except my dog Olive.

I’ll give you two.

Dr Nah

On the other hand, this might make an interesting scene in Bad Santa 3.

So suddenly my feed is bombarded with random skeets from people with absolutely atrocious taste in film.

It might seem meaningless in the grand scheme, but I really feel like Western culture went askew when “Muskrat Love” was a hit. Seriously. WTF.

Among other things that annoy me about current film criticism: insisting that a film is good because it’s a “big swing.” Babylon and Megalopolis flailed around a lot but *hit* absolutely nothing. Grandiose intentions are not substitutions for coherent storytelling.

I’ve grown to hate “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (the song). It’s an irrational visceral hatred whenever it comes on.

Does Trump think Daniel Plainview was (a) a real person and (b) Venezuelan?

Me, before the final in my intro course, every semester: The last question is designed for you to get full points. You really can’t screw this up. My students, every semester: Hold our beers.

Here’s another reminder that whoever coined the word “impactful” should burn in hell.

Have any other academics noticed that many students will refer to a person by full name *on every reference*? If a paper is about, say, Taylor Swift, they use Taylor Swift every time?

Silent Night Deadly Night (1984) is on Shudder now, featuring one of horror cinema’s greatest performances—Will Hare as Grandpa. youtu.be/afLeqqv2z44?...

I can only assume the apocalypse is nigh…

Three things can be true. Quentin Tarantino has made some great movies. The dude is also an asshole who needs to know when to shut up and stop disrespecting actors. He’s right about Paul Dano being the weak link in There Will Be Blood.

Nothing is a Christmas movie. No movies are about Christmas.

Particularly bad look all around.

I take the fact that this person reskeeted my post but denied me the opportunity to respond as proof I am right.

I don’t like berets. Nobody looks good in them.

Tarantino expressed it horribly, but he’s right about Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood. He simply doesn’t have any of the charisma Eli needed to be a believable preacher. Dano is a fine actor who was miscast in that role.

Not much of a cat fan, but yeah… this cat has it.

Damn.

I think PREY is the best Predator film (and I saw the original in the theater in 1987), but my god does PREDATOR: BADLANDS look ass.

Is anybody else suddenly getting a lot of German-language posts in their discover feed?

His flow was wack, but MC 900 Ft Jesus was a prophet. youtu.be/8vgDpI8kU98?...

People need to know not to F around.

Murphy: "If we want to win the argument nationally on the economy, then we've got to break our addiction to incremental economic change. And we've got to talk about big, bold ideas that reorder power in this country."

The doctor, of course, was the local coroner.

Thank goodness that the people will finally have a prequel in a film series that is the cinematic equivalent of Big Macs dusted with Pixie Stix. This will certainly make cinema vital again.

I’m sparking debate with my claim linking Donald Trump’s existence to lightning strikes at shit pits at pig farms, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Surely a minority position, but ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER isn’t *that* good. Like all of Anderson’s films after THERE WILL BE BLOOD, it feels remote not as a Kubrickian aesthetic but rather as a lack of purpose. 1/2