2026 looks like the year Bluesky completely gave up on the Block strategy and just re-tweets every single piece of ragebait to 'dunk' on it, in reality just normalising and platforming all the worst fucking opinions because they feel social media posts are a good subsitute for progressive praxis.

If you'd like to reduce your blood pressure and eliminate a lot of needless in-fighting, I'd recommend muting or blocking Axios, Politico and Semafor as they seem to specialize in promoting quotes from anonymous Democratic contrarians in hopes of generating rage and engagement.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

A Place for Sinners by @aarondries.bsky.social

The point of adapting a book into a movie or show isn't 'replicate the entire thing word for word'

Erick is a ridiculously talented filmmaker! Cannot wait to see this one!

Die Hard is a diamond of a film. I couldn't write something that tight in a million years. It also would not occur to me to shoot air ducts and cubicle farms with anamorphic lenses like some kind of crazed lens-flare wizard, but that's why I'm not Jan de Bont

Please don't show the final shot of a season finale as soon as it airs, Jesus fucking christ, I hate how people do this.

My curmudgeonly thought for the day: We would not need so many "The ending of blahblahblah EXPLAINED" videos if full-length works of narrative fiction were still routinely taught in grades 5-12. If fairly straightforward plotlines are baffling this many people, something has gone seriously wrong.

What's that? A big finale of a TV show JUST aired? I'd better share every single screenshot of every scene so that people who may have been busy OVER CHRISTMAS will have no chance to watch it in context or good quality.

The @kinolorber.com 4K of MOUSE HUNT is absolutely stunning. Incredible transfer.

Finish the gay Screwball comedy I'm writing with @mehlsbells.bsky.social Write 2 horror features Start Outlining a fantasy novel Start Outlining a Verse Play Research and Outline a Gay Baseball comedy feature.

Revisited @brianduffield.bsky.social's SPONTANEOUS today. The film has become exponentially more profound in light of the world today. It's frustrations @ the "cosmic bullshit of the universe" reverberate and move me even deeper now. Phenomenally lit, too (hard sources, YAY!) Incredible first film.

What's that? A big finale of a TV show JUST aired? I'd better share every single screenshot of every scene so that people who may have been busy OVER CHRISTMAS will have no chance to watch it in context or good quality.

The full chested, overflowing joy of the "Gumption" scene is one of my favourite movie moments in cinema history. #TheHoliday

The full chested, overflowing joy of the "Gumption" scene is one of my favourite movie moments in cinema history. #TheHoliday

Rewatching THE HOLIDAY for christmas day with the family, and my god the storytelling so completely effortless, this is truly a masterpiece of the Romantic Comedy genre.

The way Anna Faris steals the show in JUST FRIENDS needs to be studied as a comedy masterclass

...and to Tiny Tim, who will NEVER die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, Tim. He wafts his cap as he pirouettes under the lamps and hangs his little crutch upon the wall. He says that he will never die.

I wrote about the Best TV Shows of 2025. seantcollins.com/2025/12/the-...

'Worst Of' sucks, in all forms. Gimme your favourites, gimme your deep cuts. I always prefer hearing what people love.

"I had planned to send [the children] to boarding school, since their education at the moment seems to consist mostly of marching around Salzburg singing scales. I think it would have been particularly helpful for the eldest daughter, who seems intent on losing her virginity to the mailman."

Premium: How The AI Bubble bursts in 2026 - The largest funder of AI data centers is pulling out, OpenAI and Anthropic need more money than ever during a massive VC liquidity crisis - and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is quietly shrinking. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

Perhaps this is a good time to point out that a show like Heated Rivalry couldn’t be generated by artificial intelligence because it would immediately get shut down by content guidelines.

This looks amazing!

okay Netflix, I'm going to go ahead and ask you to chill

Objectively, film criticism is DEFINITELY not that.

The notion there needs to be a "female entry point" for gay smut is wild because over 1/3rd of Gay Porn viewership on the internet is straight women. They make up almost ALL of the readership of Gay Romance books. FUND. MORE. GAY. STORIES. #HeatedRivalry

Fully assuming any “behind the scenes photo” that shows up nowadays is an AI generated slop hallucination

The High-contrast, Hard-souce lighting in HEATED RIVALRY is so glorious to see

every generation has some suck-ass movies that they cherish as untouchable classics…but have you considered that your generation is wrong and has bad taste while mine is wholly correct and also good-looking

Waking up to some several thousand notifications for a clip I posted purely for my AI-hating mutuals was an interesting way to start my weekend!

Jason Reynolds and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom join Urban Consulate in Detroit for a live conversation with Orlando P. Baile @ "Daring Ideas for the Future Series" Nov 2025 Video by JP Leong of Afrochine. youtu.be/UwwnjdXMhco?...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

This is the GAYEST western movie poster I've ever come across, and need to see this movie ASAP.

Happy Birthday to Steven Spielberg. Don’t really know how you say anything new about the guy at this point. Seen every one of his flicks. There may not be a better director of dynamic blocking and camera.

Psychotic.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

Warner has a sale so I panic-bought a lot of Blurays (about 50% blind buys), and a swath of DVD's (most of them silent films, @ptklein.com will be proud) starring William Haines cause DVD is the only format they exist in... I may lament this financially, but lawd, Physical Media Forever!

I'm not worried that AI will write or draw better than me, I'm more upset that we've revealed a massive trend in society towards incuriosity and being okay with not experiencing their experiences and that's sad

The new Silent Night, Deadly Night is one of the best slasher remakes ever! A fun remix that totally slaps on a textual, subtextual and metatextual level 🎅🔪 An instant ho-ho-horror classic and by far the franchise’s best installment since the original 💚❤️

Jessup is terrifying because he 100% believes in what he's saying. The current crop are terrifying because they don't.

Hardly scientific but I firmly believe that Cinematographers Named Robert >>>> Cinematographers Not Named Robert. (clockwise from top left, Richardson, Hardy, Elswit, Yeoman)

Hahahahahahahahahahaha fuck yeah!

François Arnaud has had the leading man-level-Charisma since Midnight Texas, and it's cool to see him flexing all that charm in Heated Rivalry and showing up in more things now! I hope he gets to be a huge lead in some movies, next, like a big rom com or something, he'd absolutely nail it.

I may be biased but I genuinely feel the 90s was EXACTLY where Hollywood found the perfect balance of business/craftsmanship and pure entertainment. Sister Act, Jurassic Park, The Birdcage, Titanic, Silence of the Lambs, Goodfellas, The Matrix, Truman Show, Mission Impossible, The Fugitive etc.

Loving seeing all the adoration for THE HOLIDAY. Genuinely one of the all-timer rom-coms and Christmas movies. Stunningly made. Brilliant script (she makes act 1 look so easy!). Terrific performances (what great late career work from Eli Wallach!) And it's Hans Zimmer's BEST SCORE.

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

Oh thank fuck! Criterion is doing KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON!