Liberty University has Reza Pahlavi, descendent of Iran’s former king, peddling the War in Iran as good to the youth of the GOP as we speak?

Now that everyone in the world has seen PROJECT HAIL MARY Lord and Miller didn’t magically level up visually from 22 JUMP STREET like people keep saying. They shot 2 seasons of a Sam Richardson Whodunnit on AppleTV called AFTER PARTY where each episode has a different visual style. They practiced.

Peter Thiel’s aversion to “saving humanity” was well covered, but the rest of his diatribe — on the Trans experience — was ignored. Georgia, once a Film Twitter prescence, now a greater writer, has penned a stellar rebuttle from the same theological arena Thiel uses as smokescreen. Great stuff.

This is very in-line with the Dylan I saw “in concert” last year. Turned off the cameras as soon as he took the stage and stayed behind a tall piano the whole time. Just the top of a grey perm bopping back and forth. Could’ve been anyone up there in a perm, but it was too weird to be anyone else.

Annual March Madness post for Blank Check: Vote Wes Already What Are We Doing Here The show would have this speech in there.

@bdgrabinski.bsky.social victorious

Let me sort bookmarks into folders

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Critical Darlings is now on its own feed! This week we cover PROJECT HAIL MARY, the death and life of the live-action family blockbuster, and Ryan Gosling’s rollercoaster career. Give it a listen! pod.link/1885681327

They’re afraid of Schumacher-ing Dwayne The Rock Jonson, give me a break

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

Was the only person in the gigantic pre-check que, sped through at record speed.

Can’t believe that my first flight in a year is tomorrow, the day of Trump’s inevitable airport TACO.

Everytime I tell a normie about the millennium challenge they straight-up don’t believe me.

“I’ve seen Elf 163 times”

People have been stoned for less

The Constitution protects the acts of naming federal law enforcement agents and documenting how they behave on the streets. Under no circumstances should Congress grant this administration new legal weapons to use against Americans who do either of those things.

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Sam is mad at me because I told him that posting that Mamdani was an animal responsible for 9/11 was disgustingly racist and now he is making it crystal clear how he feels, I think

Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign. Together we were able to do things never seen in American politics, to set a new standard from what we should expect from the people who try to represent us. What we built matters, regardless of the outcome. And the work isn’t over.

The number of reviled plotlines from the comics in the new Spider-Man trailer is staggering

In Theaters: A new Colleen Hoover adaptation is in theaters right now from filmmaker Vanessa Caswill & starring Maika Monroe: REMINDERS OF HIM. EoM Contributor @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social says, "In the most pedestrian, solid-double way, the movies are so back." (Complimentary?) #RemindersofHim

Not enough discussion about how SINNERS and OBAA work as complimentary stories, if all this “political analysis” has coalition building in mind at all.

It’s starting

98 years and they still haven’t figured out that cutting people off is bad

now that’s a win right there. great work on Sinners. #Oscars

A TIE

REMINDERS OF HIM: the kind of down the middle studio fare we used to make. Nothing grand, just a solidly made film. Unmentioned in the review: this movie has a very good Phoebe Bridgers joke

As a kid, I attended a church in the suburbs of Baltimore that had a “9/11 Rememberance Service.” They hung US flags from the cross and did a whole sitting->standing choreography while worshipping with “I am proud to be an American.” The assistant pastor slipped Iran into sermons frequently.

My bank just called me to “check in” and “see if I’m still statisfied with my service” and I’ve never had such a chill run down my spine.

Someone check Chuck Schumer’s shoe situation

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

"Blueskee"

Blank Check pitting Wes Anderson against James Gray in Round 1 was an attack against me personally.

“Claude, the ethical option”

An immaculate looking film, worth the time

Richard Nixon’s all the way down

Can’t believe I had to watch THE BRIDE instead of NIRVANA, THE BAND, THE SHOW, THE MOVIE for my birthday. This is an assault on *the real America.* Should’ve re-watched CRIME 101.

THE BRIDE is so much more insane a swing than the trailers telegraph.

With enemies like these, who needs enemies?

El*n and Altman are gonna have to invent invent the Cyber-RV if they want to try again

Phew 😮‍💨

Always thought this video with 800 views by a guy on YouTube named Daniel Cupps should have a few million more. It is even better that it ends in the most reprehensible way I can think of. No better way to prove the point.

A LITTLE PRAYER is one of my favorite films of 2025, now on Blu-ray. In the review, I talk about the film’s impact on the city of Winston-Salem, it’s run at A/perture cinemas, and walking the grounds of the film’s finale. Also the blu-ray’s pretty good.

One heck of a day, but at least this is out there: THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE is a major work, and it finally has a chance to be treated as such. The Criterion is luxurious, and I couldn’t help but rexamine the film through it’s mirrored ending with NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. The tale of two Eds.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

ICYMI: Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s docu-drama THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB is now available on digital. If you’ve missed it, allow EoM Contributor @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social to explain why you should rectify that ASAP.

I am suddenly interested in the X-Files