A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?" He said, "I don't know, like $500?" Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.

There are a few films I still need to see before I consider my 2025 "complete," but this was by far the biggest one. Let's do this, Bi Gan! #Resurrection

This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Totally forgot I had pictures of this

can we just skip some things this year. like maybe chill on the spotify wrapped and for the love of god no die hard discourse that shit is tired. just sugar cookies with sprinkles. red or green sprinkles, frosted or not, however you like them. you can put them here in this thread if you want

“Device hoarding” un fucking real Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit

RIP, Udo www.slantmagazine.com/film/udo-kie...

I saw Udo Kier less than 2 months ago at a Q&A for THE SECRET AGENT and BACURAU. He was charming and witty, full of energy and hysterical stories. A legend and an icon. #RIP

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”

Maybe Zohran Mamdani should have come out for ending the shutdown so Democratic Senators could have opposed it.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Savor this moment, friends. They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

This account will be equal parts hopeful and gloating for the rest of the evening. To that end: Pour one out for the pile of NYC billionaire money that was utterly incinerated tonight!

From @rickperlstein.bsky.social, just the antidote to sentimentality you need!

My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)

I'm just happy to have an extra-innings Game 7 of the World Series that Cleveland won't lose.

Also... Question #1: "Why is every little thing explained in movies these days?" Question #2: "Why do fans complain that every little unexplained thing is a plot hole?" HINT: These two things are related.

Lav Diaz and Gael Garcia Bernal following the screening of MAGELLAN (which, at 2 hours 45 minutes, is, in Diaz's words, "quite a short film").

It's that time again!

My condolences to Mariners fans. I've been there, and it fucking sucks.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Shohei Ohtani is the first player with two 116+ mph home runs in a game under Statcast (2015, regular season or postseason) HE IS ALSO PITCHING TONIGHT

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a pioneering trans activist from the Stonewall era on and a woman who lived an extraordinary life, has died. She was one tough customer. I have always loved this quote from her and if you've ever tried to ascertain the truth about a moment in history, you may relate to it.

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

At some point you just have to declare the other AL slot vacant and hold some kind of conclave, right?

ppl dunk constantly on things like philosophy and sociology and then turn around and go "maybe the computer *is* actually talking to me"

PUP, the Jeff Rosenstock band, and Ekko Astral all on stage together, closing out the show with Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know," definitely goes on a short list of my favorite live music moments.

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

This whole section really.

Draft of the recap for the Guardians game in tomorrow's newsletter. Subscribe to Cup of Coffee for similar hard-nosed baseball analytics. www.cupofcoffeenews.com

The Guardians and Tigers will play their games at 9:00 AM each day, and it's unclear whether MLB will choose to televise them or opt for three extra hours of pregame for the Yankees and Red Sox series.

A wild finish to clinch during a roller coaster run.

Apparently the secret to the Guardians winning important games is me missing the game because I was busy watching an awesome movie. Will make for some interesting decisions next week.

It's time.

This is one thing giant movie studios can still do--the crazy big swing that costs a lot of money and is not tied to an algorithm or concern about "viewer retention rate at minute three"--that no other entity can. It is one reason the film ecosystem still needs them.

John Oliver was right, the bullies are weak, and “Fuck you, make me” will immediately make them walk it back youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g

Releasing a Star Wars trailer like "break glass in case of PR nightmare.'

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.