what this shows is that it has always been within the power of congressional republicans to say no to this man, and they must be held accountable for all the times they did not

Welp, time for the Big Strong President to mysteriously go radio silent for a few days

"There’s a director in Portugal who is still making films at over 100 years old,' Eastwood once told me, referring to Manoel de Oliveira, "and I plan to do the same thing." Happy retirement, Clint. JUROR #2 was a decent way to sign off.

The big takeaway from the Spring box office isn't that horror is hot. Horror has been hot for the last few years. The big headline is that PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THE MOVIES AGAIN. Gen Z has found what they'll pay to see...IN THEATERS! This is amazing for the industry and film lovers both.

this really is wild they just asked Meta AI chatbot support for access to high profile accounts and it obliged comes after Google complete broke its search results these are not serious, capable companies deserving of professional respect. they rushed shit product to market.

three things: 1. hell yeah scott pelly, that's a mic drop right there. 2. dylan byers has this news, and his sourcing usually seems spoon-fed by execs so. maybe not a great sign for nick bilton. or, for that matter, bari weiss. 3. hell yeah scott pelly

Jeez, wait a week and open Midnight Madness with it you guys

I find it moving that Lynch's legacy in the queer community is now forever tied to the phrase "fix your hearts or die". It has become a rallying cry. It is bigger than him. It is bigger than Twin Peaks. It is beautiful.

Lynn Shelton didn't get nearly enough credit for her direction at the time. HUMPDAY is right its characters' faces, making us share their discomfort; YOUR SISTER'S SISTER luxuriates in stillness. And LAGGIES is the one no one saw, for some reason.

okay but why though

oh for crying out loud

This is the way.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

This is good, you should read this.

They're literally doing the "Sure, Pop-Pop, let's get you to bed" meme.

... does he know how we got there

Watching NEAR DARK again, and good god Bigelow was cooking with gas.

I choose to believe he's fallen into a coma and we're somehow seeing the landscape of his unconscious.

By the way, if you're curious how the horror community feels watching these movies clean up at the box office: we're fucking elated. In horror, rising tides raises all boats. We're all rooting for each other. After the lean box office of last fall, this spring has been refreshing and exciting.

Dead Ringers, 1988, dir. David Cronenberg

What's the over/under on "How long into the show until Fox News cuts away out of pity"?

GUY RITCHIE'S ENDLESS HALLWAYZ

Bigger than Elvis, remember

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Viggo promoted Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD at TIFF 2011 by wearing a Habs jersey to interviews and carrying the team's flag with him everywhere, which I learned when an elevator opened to reveal him flapping it across the entire width of the car, just in case anyone was waiting to get on.

This is four sentences.

This is a beautiful idea, except that I shall be buried WITH my discs. (This may in fact be how I die.)

Too funny not to write about, zeteo.com/p/trump-live...

Everyone please watch this baby condor try to get in its box like a miniature drunk person in a chicken costume.

THIS IS A REAL QUOTE?

Great thread on Marcia Lucas, the editor whose work was a key part of Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, & other classics of the New Hollywood era & thereafter.

Oh, I didn’t like those grapes anyway; they were too sour

Sheep explosion, looks like

Last RT: I had an interview like that once, with a film producer who specialized in blatant knockoffs of popular horror movies and couldn't believe I had the gall to ask him whether he expected to be sued by the people who made the originals. It was a short interview.

I cannot believe that we have gone so long without base level journalism that this feels somehow radical, and the guy being interviewed literally cannot conceive of being asked basic questions

Scott Bessent looks like the telepod fusion of Dana Carvey and Will Ferrell, I can't unsee it

Crimes against humanity.

"When I was their age I had jars of it under my bed, JAAAAARS"

The Fabulous Stains have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration -- ah, who are we kidding, they were never invited

I mean, of course Stephen Miller is doubling down on this, he's a humanoid lima bean genetically engineered not to feel shame or self-doubt.

hey this is fascism

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Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Japanese DVDs of ERASERHEAD and (sigh) Johnny Depp's directorial debut THE BRAVE. I had the Sony with the switches, baybeee

STOP PRETENDING INCOMPETENCE IS STRATEGY

YEAH IT DID

Well, that's a double dumb ass on them.

UGHHHH when will city councillors accept some of the blame here. Major streets zoning in Toronto means our commercial corridors are threatened with densification because we can only build there!!! If you let people build in million-dollar neighbourhoods instead we'd reduce development pressure!

The deadpan visual gags on this show, from notes to illustrations to board games, are on a level all their own.

This is utterly abhorrent. Just two days ago, I attended a town hall with hundreds of local residents who strongly oppose the takeover of the Toronto Islands and the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport. Premier Ford does not give a shit about local democracy!