Finished this. Tremendous show! Crazy stew of AI, Contact, The Matrix (Reloaded and Resurrection especially), Interstellar, Death Note (??), Ready Player One, Talking Heads (????). Plus presumably some literature I have not yet read. Big big recommend. Just 16 episodes!

I’ve fallen off Any_Austin as he’s gone pro and become an honest to god Video Essayist because I’m just a “Bleach over Nevermind” kinda guy I guess but caught up to this video and it’s a tour de force, do love to see Austin absolutely murdering it out there. + $10k to Palestine Children’s Fund nbnb

pitch: durational essay film where static shots of deranged objects boutique production/distro companies have sent to film influencers appear under narration reading an oral history of awards season swag. final shot is a bonsai tree slowly dying on a desk littered with awards season screeners

In this house, Clerks. gets its period. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace gets its colon and dash. Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant gets its Guy Ritchie. T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G gets its commas and all caps. charli xcx gets her lowercase. But you will NEVER see me write Evermore with a lowercase ”e” 😡

whether I abide by a game title's stylization is 100% a function of how much I respect them as art. 1000xRESIST and INSIDE always get their all-caps.

Welcome to BOG2006!!! Underworld and Underworld: Evolution are earnest, nerdy, and awesome. Happy to kick off our new year of movies by Bravely Standing Up for These Great Works against the vitriol of Bully Brian!! The Reclaimer of Slop has logged on

Welcome to BOG2006!!! Underworld and Underworld: Evolution are earnest, nerdy, and awesome. Happy to kick off our new year of movies by Bravely Standing Up for These Great Works against the vitriol of Bully Brian!! The Reclaimer of Slop has logged on

in the past week more than 400 people have cumulatively donated more than $23,500 to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund! it would be *amazing* to hit $26,000 by the time the video drops tomorrow 👀 www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

any time you think you know a "fact" about human and non-human intelligence, recall that we are often incredibly stupid/evil and most of our historical understanding of intelligence has been incredibly limited--sometimes purposefully, to justify exploitation--and we have SO much yet to learn

one of the better songs/performances ever performed/recorded

Goodbye CP (1972; Kazuo Hara)

Make Mine Music is really underrated. It aspires to be a Fantasia for popular music, and though it obviously doesn't reach those heights, it effectively demonstrates the animators' skillsets even amid studio turmoil and has some banger sequences (e.g. Two Silhouettes or Without You).

SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 NINTENDO 1988 NES

Bring this kind of movie back imho. Come back to us from Venomland Tom

I’ve fallen off Any_Austin as he’s gone pro and become an honest to god Video Essayist because I’m just a “Bleach over Nevermind” kinda guy I guess but caught up to this video and it’s a tour de force, do love to see Austin absolutely murdering it out there. + $10k to Palestine Children’s Fund nbnb

major rosetta stone for my aesthetic sensibilities: one time when I was little my mom and sister went out of town and to pass some of the time I would watch Alice in Wonderland on VHS, soft rewind it back (meaning I *watched it* rewind), then play it again, over and over, for hours lol

Finished this. Tremendous show! Crazy stew of AI, Contact, The Matrix (Reloaded and Resurrection especially), Interstellar, Death Note (??), Ready Player One, Talking Heads (????). Plus presumably some literature I have not yet read. Big big recommend. Just 16 episodes!

We’ve been watching the animated sci-fi thriller Pantheon that was an AMC show then an Amazon Prime show and is now on Netflix (🤷🏼‍♂️). Fucking great series, really good design, vocal performances, writing. Highly recommended if you missed it on original run (can’t imagine how that could have happened)

DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (Terrence Davies, 1988)

Are you, like me, hearing about Polymarket for the first time recently and wondering what it is? No worries, I’ve gotcha. It’s a dating app where polycules look for other polycules they can merge with to make bigger polycules to help with rent/mortgage payments. the More You Know 🌈

okay, a lot of folks reacting to this like it's not true, but when you look at data it's *extremely* true of the present moviegoing situation oh, what's that? you, a not normal person, as evidenced by being on Bluesky, *do* regularly drive hours to see movies? congrats! not most people

not a death of the author guy, but we really have to get away from the "what is this trying to say?" dead end mode of thinking

we are truly in our Bad Sentence To Read Era

me to the Last Jedi haters

this movie is Christian Haunted House coded but it looks unbelievable so it ultimately I'm very pro

FOLKS! Coming THIS MONDAY (1/19) to @boxofficegross.bsky.social! We had some delays in recording that Best of '05 episode, so, SURPRISE! Instead you get... "A new race, a new battle, a new hero..." A NEW SEASON!!!! 2006 BEGINS!!! SEE YOU THEN!

Look, movies are just bad and inherently reactionary. Cameras? Capitalist capture. Distribution channels? Capitalist capture. Discussion of the film? Capitalist capture. You liked a film? Capitalist capture. [insert Zizek quote, point to vague out-of-context idea from Marx]

my lifelong chaotic/omnivorous approach to criticism/commentary has meant that I have never found a home in commentariat of any particular thing, which I've found good for maintaining a degree of sanity and perspective but bad if you want to do it as a job or be otherwise seen/read by human eyeballs

Insane take to think Marv is cooler than Dwight in Sin City. Props on @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social for setting the record straight Clive Owen as Dwight is why I wore red converse high tops for most of my 20s

Both are flawed, Fantasia narrowly gets my vote. The passion some at the studio had for it is evident despite how much the final product hedges with awkward celebrity interstitials, boring music choices, ugly digital sheen throughout, etc.; it has its moments but it's a compromised object.

messaged my anime friend “city continues to beguile” like it’s 1910 and i’m writing home to mama back on the farm

post a game you remember playing nobody else remembers an obsession for a certain stretch of childhood: a kinda busted sci-fi adventure-puzzler where you play a little chip that needs to jump into and control robot animals with different skillsets in order to traverse various platforming scenarios

to anyone asking this: it's a school lunch thing. it's because Michelle Obama or whatever said kids shouldn't have whole milk at lunch, the dairy lobby (and no one else) threw a fit about it, and they put enough money behind it to get people to think it's an issue. so now kids can drink whole milk

Some chill and normal shit I wrote about Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron several years ago

Hope everyone enjoys as we close out 2005 and move into 2006. I think Kong is a suitably funereal way to close out the season, as it contains much of what makes 2005 cinema what it is and aspires to celebrate and mourn in equal measure the blockbuster medium of its moment

Are you, like me, hearing about Polymarket for the first time recently and wondering what it is? No worries, I’ve gotcha. It’s a dating app where polycules look for other polycules they can merge with to make bigger polycules to help with rent/mortgage payments. the More You Know 🌈

imagining an alternate universe where Rian Johnson is being handed countless blank checks by Disney instead of Netflix and eventually takes over Lucasfilm and unceremoniously Lets the Past Die and fires walking Wookiepedia Dave Filoni

Hope everyone enjoys as we close out 2005 and move into 2006. I think Kong is a suitably funereal way to close out the season, as it contains much of what makes 2005 cinema what it is and aspires to celebrate and mourn in equal measure the blockbuster medium of its moment

Is This Thing On? More like “is this thing out?” Because Bradley Cooper’s third outing as maestro shows a star is fading and multiplexes everywhere are experiencing the hangover of a limited playbook. Silver lining? Rocket Raccoon will return in Avengers: Doomsday 😎

Here's how the Earth article looked in 2001 when Wikipedia was a month old, long before Wikipedians realized their fledgling online encyclopedia would be read and edited by astronauts in space someday

Evil Dead Rise was really fun so I'm game for this but it's hilarious to tagline your umpteenth IP revival this way