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September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! It’s a FREE way to support your embattled local library, and it’s a way to access great services like Kanopy and Hoopla. #filmsky #booksky 📽 📚
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
There is nothing this simpleton loves more than rebranding things. He's like the David Zaslav of presidents
Happy ‘Ber Months! There’s still time to pre-order the revised and expanded edition of my holiday-film guide Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas. #filmsky #booksky 📽 📚 preorder-movie-little-christmas.carrd.co
Vulture Cinematrix No. 525: Sep 2, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2687 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...
But the New York Times has not?
ICYMI — “LA wouldn’t be standing today” This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
The people who have spent the last three months gassing on and on about how "dangerous" Mamdani is are looking stupider and more dishonest by the minute.
“It is simply a different action aimed at making Trump’s fascism happen. In turn, it is essential to remember that so much of that is accomplished through propaganda.”
Thanks, hope he enjoys it!
Bone-petite!
Thank you!
Despite the AP framing, President Trump didn’t say anything. Someone operating the president’s Truth Social account typed out that statement. He’s still in hiding
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
BLOODSTAINED ITALY triple feat; Fessenden’s WENDIGO + THE LAST WINTER, and THE RESURRECTED, on 4K UHD; THE STRANGE AFFAIR from VSL; VICE ACADEMY 1-6 from VSA; THE FILMS OF HISAYASU SATŌ: VOL #1 from Pink Line; from Cinématographe, GANG RELATED! VinegarSyndrome.com 🩸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujrE...
Happy ‘Ber Months! There’s still time to pre-order the revised and expanded edition of my holiday-film guide Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas. #filmsky #booksky 📽 📚 preorder-movie-little-christmas.carrd.co
he looks great!
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
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This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
I bet the White House staff is busy setting up a bunch of cardboard cutouts in the Oval Office like in Home Alone
Interestingly, appears Hallmark going to double pump season two episodes of CELEBRATIONS WITH LACEY CHABERT, as back-to-back debuts scheduled for both September 15th and 22nd. If S2 has 8 episodes, as reported, will wrap by October 6. Meaning: FINDING MR. CHRISTMAS could start earlier than expected
Old Man Yells at Himself
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
happy labor day!
Wild how poorly they’re handling this, like they could just post a generic photo, instead they’re pouring fuel on the fire
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Grave of the Fireflies?
I think it's time to discuss the 25th Amendment.
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Never felt better in my life is what someone in a Final Destinaton movie says seconds before they get hit by a train
Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing
Blue states should team up on purchasing, protocols, distribution
Every Conjuring movie is like “what you are about to see is the darkest and most evil case the Warrens ever faced.” They cannot all be the worst one you guys.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
“Donald Trump” posting on Truth Social that he NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE. Also, DC IS A CRIME FREE ZONE! President DJT
In an effort to corral support for his threats to send military forces to Chicago, President Donald Trump said that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are “screaming” for him to come to Chicago. So, we thought: let’s ask them. youtube.com/shorts/8I4Ys...
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Out of the first five questions, four are about gender identity. There isn't even a pretense that they're looking for qualified educators. They're interviewing candidates for the bathroom police.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
They’re calling it the most believable story ever told
New exculpatory phrasing just dropped y'all (see headline)
You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Did Harry and Marv set the ticket prices?
Disney fan club D23 hosting 19 special "immersive" showings of HOME ALONE, to celebrate film's 35th anniversary, starting on November 1. Tickets include gift bags, photo ops and other festivities for hosted-screenings across US. Tickets go on sale to D23 members September 4. d23.com/d23-event/d2...
This will be bad for repeat business.
If most sex workers were cis white men, there wouldn't be such an effort to disenfranchise sex workers. That's a hill I will die on. Sex work is one of the most prominent ways for people who are seen as 'less than' in a white supremacist capitalist hellscape to survive Thats why it's hated.
"In short, if Trump and Kennedy are going to divide the country over public health, Democrats should polarize the living heck out of this debate as well—but on *their* terms." YES
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
If you played me this clip of a Georgia congressman named "Buddy Carter" talking with this accent, I would've called you a hack filmmaker.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
"Sure, I could double check that Raddatz is with CBS, or I could just go fold the laundry."
ALL HAIL OUR GLORIOUS SAVIOR MISTER TRUMP
Vulture Cinematrix No. 523: Aug 31, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2687 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...
I have somehow spent decades getting those two actresses confused. The fact that there's so much dubbing going on probably added to the chaos.
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
Figured it out - it’s another actress, Agata Flori, who bears a strong resemblance.
I have a question for a specific kind of movie nerd: Does Daliah Lavi appear in Operation Kid Brother (aka OK Connery)? #filmsky 📽
Your A.I. avatar of your real face isn’t flattering or cool, you have the vibes of a character on the Silicon Valley tv show and not one of the sympathetic ones
Here's a thing about the whole "poptimism made critics scared to be negative" thing that people seem to have forgotten. Pre-internet, access to big artists was controlled by publicists and managers. 🧵
We are basking in the warmth of Chile and enjoying the festive tune “Hot Christmas” by the Hot Santas. Listen now on the Festive Foreign Film Fans podcast!
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
CHICAGO…
WHAAAAT??? But in the MOVIES sheriffs are all such HEROES!! How can this BE?? HAVE WE BEEN MISLEAD???? ABOUT COPS??? BY THE MEDIA????
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as “spokesman” for this Administration’s policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, “Am I w/this guy?”
Trump saving up to buy back the counter-reformation and get himself some indulgences.
"This is all the same project: attacking the government and re-engineering it to serve as a weapon against the American people. It’s the greatest act of civilizational self-mutilation since the First World War."
Wouldn't it be nice?
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
If people weren't raised on this history they almost certainly don't know that the Black Panther Party's bread and butter activity (pardon the pun) was feeding people
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Probably a question for @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social but I would guess the film in question (not knowing what it is) was made by an outside production company, had its moment on Hallmark, and then when that deal expired, GAC swept it up.
This is everything: #filmsky 📽
Threatening the people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize
It helps that it’s a house even the characters can’t afford. Huge apartment, though!
I've read so many things that made me angry today but here's one that makes me happy: The 50th anniversary rerelease of Jaws is expected to gross about $10 million this weekend. Everybody go see Jaws! Bring the kids! (If they're, I dunno, 10 or older? I saw it when I was 11. It rocked my world.)
One of the world’s foremost experts? Get the fuck out of here, Doogie Himmler.
And now government doctors got my entire channel removed. Don’t worry. I won’t base my entire identity around this or claim it is worse than covid. 😂
Press screening of the latest Downton Abbey movie last night. Felt doomed empathy for Mr. Carson's obsessive silverware cleaning. Dude is retired and walks from the village to the big house to help because he just knows in his soul that they're not polishing the ornate candlesticks properly.
On Deck the Hallmark we review the all-improv Christmas movie The Holiday List, which makes a great case for screenplays. (Audio on podcatchers; video on Philo) #tvsky 📺 @deckthehallmark.bsky.social @philotv.bsky.social
If he thinks a few transgender people out of several thousand murderers is "a common denominator," wait until he hears how many of them were using automatic weapons.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
The Trump Administration celebrates the long tradition of violent domestic insurrection against the United States. Next up, a massive statue of All-American Patriot Timothy McVeigh!
Irish documentary SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, it's first U.S. subscription video service appearance.
The replies here are building up a lot of promises to Venmo cash to any reporter who will actually ask this question, so if you're looking for a quick buck *and* a boost of fame, take your shot!
This is an absolute slap in the face to every single serviceperson who has protected this country and the Constitution. Ashli Babbitt was a traitor who deserves no recognizance whatsoever. Every person involved in this decision deserves the same.
I want to see every Democratic senator and representative exhibit, at the very least, the level of courage being shown by the CDC staffers who are walking out in protest.
"Did you people throw this kind of shit-fit at Denny’s, or did you just order a Moons Over My Hammy and keep on truckin’?"
Fascism is impossible without a culture of denial. It is deeply unpopular and repellant. It cannot win unless millions of people actively convince themselves it is a passing phase or not as bad as it seems. This is why we’re stuck in this mess. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
This is the way
When Klansmen dynamited the 16th Street Baptist Church and killed four girls, the blast knocked out the face of Christ from one of the stained glass windows. TIME ran the image on their cover. Of course, that was way back when we still cared about our kids being killed. Ancient history now.
He's going to make sailors drag a destroyer down Pennsylvania Avenue, isn't he