I'm like. insulted that the testament of anne lee isn't getting the rollout and discussion and fervor that the brutalist or hamnet did. this movie removed the top of my skull and poured in light.

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

people who do this should be put in stocks at the center of the bridge for twenty four hours.

I can't believe I've never heard of these! also, did they, you know ... I mean there must have been early shippers, yes?

let’s be primitive horses with mama

these people are scum and nothing less than war crimes trials will satisfy me.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

“Do violent video games make you violent” as a moral panic was such a shame because it elided the position of violence in the narrative, which DOES have real implications. Playing DOOM does not make you violent, but playing COD does propagandize you into supporting the American imperial project

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

the thing that really blows my mind about the whole ms rachel liked comment debacle (which was obviously an innocent mistake), is that she handles her own social media. like why in the world is someone with as many followers as her in her own comments!

Someday we’re going to stop being surprised that other animals also, like, live in the world. “Rats have empathy!” “Fish have culture!” No shit Sherlock, we’re not the only people here.

i'm from the european country with a spotless history which does not benefit in any way from american imperialism and definitely doesn't help supply the US military and support their operations, so i get to act smug at american citizens i think. boo, american citizens, boo

boxd.it/cJ5nWX my TLJ review, which is mostly about how poe should have been court martialed.

rewatched the last jedi recently and man that movie is way worse than I remember. some good thematic ideas absolutely buried under bloat and bewildering character moments. it really only has the reputation it does because it came between two even more terrible installations.

Art by • Philippe Druillet

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

in an elevator today I explained the architectural concept of a pillar to a seven year old neighbor. this community shit is easy.

a defining thing about this era is creators making what is obviously derivative art, sometimes a deliberate homage to older work, and then folks claiming it to be an incredible innovative original work after its been around long enough.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

anyway I think the fetishistic focus on meat eating from rfk is just an extension of the brutality, dominance and ruin these freaks visit on everyone they perceive to be less than them.

insane that hamnet won best picture at the globes; that's 47% of a beautiful movie and 53% absolute eye roller.

it should be against the law for a man to narrate the audiobook of a female historian's work. begone!!

this is an absolutely defensible take (I have so much sympathy for her ending and for her character), but you do have to sit with the fact that it relies on omelas-ing both the soul of young verso, and the completely sentient, unwilling, and helplessly objectified painted verso.

i wrote about the music of Marty Supreme, the heartbeat of the film

living in the 2020’s

Marty Supreme joins Nightcrawler in one of my favorite micro-genres: the stressful, blackly comedic adventures of a scamming little freak who is also the personification of America (derogatory).

SCANDAL: SO CALLED SOCIALISTS PAY A FAIR AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR WELL MADE CLOTHES INSTEAD OF CHEAP GOODS PRODUCED UNDER TERRIBLE CONDITIONS

New York City has a new mayor

one of the underlying premises of One Battle After Another is that revolutionaries are people, not political archetypes, and they are flawed—cowardly,selfish, impatient, short-sighted—in the way people tend to be flawed

trying to block heated rivalry on my tumblr dash right now

[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented). Season's greetings to you all!

chloe zhao's Hamnet contains one of my most hated narrative tropes, and I can no longer keep silent!!

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

the thing that bugs me about avatar discourse online is that there are serious lines of post-colonial critique to be made about the franchise, but its haters are often operating in bad faith, while its fans are often resistant to engaging with anything beyond the text or cameron's stated intentions.

Penelope waiting for Odysseus ink on scratchboard 2013

now they co-occur winter solstice & new moon the darkest of nights ❄️🌑❄️ #haiku #poem #poetry #imageandverse #writingcommunity #art by John Felsing

This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

lmao a poster practically designed as a fuck you to all the people moaning about historical inaccuracy

this is a great idea, and everyone who is saying "oooo, will mr. beast host it" is just getting in cheap shots. people don't watch award shows on network tv anymore, and most of the ones interested in the movies at all watch clips from the telecast on youtube later.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

I don't care about awards but clair obscur means so fucking much to me that if it isn't hailed as game of the year I'm going to chew through my chair.

i stand by this statement every year

when movie people talk about "Big Jim", they're talking about james cameron. not me. when I talk about "Big Jim", I am always talking about jim steinman.

I know there’s so much going on, but this WB/Netflix news is hitting me hard. The company that made Casablanca is gonna be owned by goons who have an allergy to streaming anything made before 2005 and who’d sooner die before they call it a movie instead of “content.”

GOD the whole look of this is exactly my speed

Some people need to remember that asking a good question is sometimes better than making a statement, and it’s a valid way of saying something with your art

the tell here is "absolve themselves of moral responsibility". this person thinks it's up to the director to Justify any darkness or ambiguity. I hope this is trolling or that they're seventeen or something. otherwise, oof.