It's not even the fact that our government is being run by fascists which is sending me into a spiral, it's the fact that so many institutions which previously tried to at least feign disgust are leaning into the fascism this time.
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It's not even the fact that our government is being run by fascists which is sending me into a spiral, it's the fact that so many institutions which previously tried to at least feign disgust are leaning into the fascism this time.
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tough as hell staying positive throughout all the horrors. I used to be better about it. To anyone I might be disappointing, please know the attempt is ongoing
GOD he's just the dumbest bitch ever, I hope he gets his dick stuck in a lightsocket
This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
Interested to see if you keep the implication early on in the novel that Corky has maybe had some...bad dates, shall we say, before he flips out and flees to Grossinger's. (I'm not going to hold it against the movie if you don't -- the last one did fine without it -- but I am curious all the same.)
All of this was basically said during COVID but what they're asserting is the right to kill other people, not just themselves. They want the freedom to get sick AND the freedom to participate in society without limitations, where they can make other people sick. If you don't like it *you* get out
Modern conservatism is literally baby philosophy. I get what I want and I don't care what the costs are. There's no reason to take them seriously any more than you would debate an infant
Can't just let this lie without noting there's more than a little bit of sarcasm here. The man is just a filmmaker. Like many (some of the best, really) he got his start writing the scripts before graduating to directing them and we often seem surprised a facility at one does carry over sometimes🤷♂️
Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left
For a writer David Twohy has a hell of a director's eye and it's glaringly evident by the 2m mark of this flick
Happy birthday, Carlos. This here is low-key one of your best movies. For all your (many) problems, you made more than a few good ones. Very curious about the doc next week. Anyway, as Spacehog said...in the meantime...
I used to be ashamed of all the rails of caramel I snorted as a younger, wilder man. Well, fuck that.
evolution of belief age 10: the devil exists age 20: the devil is allegorical age 30: lol there is no devil age 40: the devil is allegorical age 50: the devil exists and walks among us every day
Parents should make sure their kids are spending less time watching TikTok and more time watching John Woo's 1997 masterpiece Face/Off
The Simpsons really did predict our current political moment.
Like. A nation of laws would have people on trial for this. Punishment would be swift; sentences would be severe. I used to live in a place like that once. I wonder how long before it seems like forever ago
Their billboard budget must be astronomical
Nazi America is stupid in ways we never could have foreseen
*me, who was able to grasp this upon seeing WARGAMES at the age of 8*
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
good art has no bearing on your morality. don't twist yourself into knots defending the morality of an artist you like, or denigrating the art of someone evil. you can just accept that good art is not a determiner of morality-- not for its creator, not for its audience, not for its society.
Losers then, losers now.
this is a fucking insane person who needs to be institutionalized for the safety of those around them if nothing else
(Obviously I don't mean a haunted house story needs to be debauched -- it doesn't hurt! -- no, I just mean it's rare to lose such a big part of the source material and not feel the lack in the adaptation)
Wild how this holds back on virtually all the debauchery of the novel and yet I think it's one of the finest haunted house movies I've ever seen -- up there with POLTERGEIST and THE CHANGELING. That level of quality. The story, setting, and characters are just that good. Not to mention the scares...
he gets off on seeing others in pain -- a sadist. and the Nazis currently running our country put him in charge of our nation's health. yet somehow there are people who act as if all of this is legitimate and not intended to kill us all
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
The President is a rapist pedophile. Personally I'm pretty offended by that. If you're not? I hope you get cancer of the genitals and die so slowly they add you to a medical textbook
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
have some
Happens every year on Halloween in this house, CANNOT WAIT
I remain in the mood nearly a month later and while I do not yet have their latest release, this album from a few years back will certainly get the job done, so *ahem* fuck yes🤘🏼
That entire place is a window for him
Does it get any better? Well...no. It does not, actually.
oh look kids, it's a Nazi
We’re just innocent men
Happy birthday my brother! Sounds like it is whipping ass as it should. Allow it to continue being worth of you👊🏼
the hot new trend of 2031 is trad wives burying their dead, unvaccinated children
Multitudes: important to contain
He believes Trix are for everyone and won't let the system keep him down. The Trix Rabbit is a punk rocker, a dispenser of radical kindness, and an inclusive ally.
I love this guy and his bullfrog voice SO GODDAMN MUCH you guys
Yeah, man. Cool.
The price is unacceptable. There isn't anything else to say.
literal lunatics are in charge of public health right now
The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses. We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.
WHO IS CANDICE BERGEN?! ... this aggression will not stand, man
Yes, that famously celebrated group in America: women. What I wouldn't do to be celebrated the way women are celebrated in this country. Just falling all over themselves to applaud and venerate women!
Not really all that happy that the prime years of my life will be spent watching the world have to re-learn all the lessons we learned from 1900-1945
fuck these motherfuckers, perpetually
I had no concrete plans for a synth-heavy morning, mind you; I only realized I was in the midst of one. A subconscious vibe I'm chasing or needing, and now getting. Whatever it is, way to go me😎
Holy hell, more like this:
Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.
Barbara Stanwyck, 1933.
Chvrches? Oh God, yeah. Celebrate their entire catalog. When an album this good is probably your weakest release you're doing the damn thing is all I know.
Me: "heres my idea: its a horror game with cheese" E3 security: "ma'am, let go of the microphone" Me: *dragged off the stage* "IT'S CALLED PROVOLONE IN THE DARK AND-"
If he wants to die he should go, otherwise a firm no is in order here
Chuck needs to go lie down.
A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
I think they should still release the Epstein stuff even though the president died
I have never thought this was as weird as some did. It feels fairly organic, ironically. He didn't change his core style or what he does AT ALL, he just changed clothes for awhile is all. And it was a cool-ass fit, you ask me
This is the one where my man teamed up with a French producer and introduced electronic elements into his whole deal. Personally I think it's a cool little experiment and there's some outright bangers on it without question. Joe never did a whole album like this again, but I'm glad he did the once.
the thing about owning a cat is that they are cooler than you without even trying, and I mean always
making sure this line of communication my wife and I use remains vital and true
about 10 years ago or so I said on Twitter that if you really love movies you should try to own everything you can physically and I got yelled at about it for like three days straight because people were very very normal about it
Keep being awesome✊🏼
I'm used to it. But it still feels weird for this one. Everyone should love it.
Until I see them I don't believe they're there. It's a trick?
Not going to stop thinking about the comment that Trump is sending Confederate armies to occupy Northern cities. How much more is there to say? That’s not a “distraction.” It’s what the white supremacists who tried to secede have wanted for over a century. It’s not a distraction to them at all.
You have to bring the pizza yourself. No delivery
As a pseudoperson I just let it all hang. Real, imagined, I just want biscuits and gravy! When they offer that with verification I'll work for it. Until then everyone gets what I give and it ain't all gonna be gold. I'm okay making people wonder did I actually say that stupid shit
I'm used to being one of a small handful that loves a movie fiercely (like THE FRONTIER) but honestly, looking at Letterboxd, I had forgotten how many people hate THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL so much my brain legit believes everyone loves that one, even when confronted with clear evidence to the contrary
(About halfway thru HOUSE OF THE DEVIL was when I realized it would be a Jocelin Donahue double up this piece tonight. Now you know everything.)
The original poster below is rad (and is the main cover) but sometimes I've got to reverse that because man do I dig that alternate poster art and I'm so stoked Kino included it
For my money THE FRONTIER is absolutely on the short list of Best Noir of the 21st Century. Knows *exactly* the tradition it's working in and isn't afraid to be as ruthless as its inspirations. A mean little charmer, the kind that'll spot you their last smoke then kick your shin when you say thanks.
The Universal Monsters are making their seasonal return to streaming! 🎃 Just added to Tubi: BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) #FilmSky
my mind always goes back to Bill, who said it best
Not the 80s but feels like it, the way we want it to for a movie like this anyway
Truly.
URBAN HARVEST is the only *good* one if by good you mean "Anthony Hickox's brother goes fully ham on a Children of the Corn movie"
The left has this false sense that if Dems offered everything to rural America, they would become left-wing. Rural America has received more money than cities by a wide margin. Obama's ACA gave many healthcare for the first time. Trump said he would cut it. They voted for him in record numbers.
Fine, I guess
if you don't HOUSE OF THE DEVIL then you don't Spooky Season, y'all
Let's stockpile the good shit
If you identify as Republican at this point not only do I not give one solitary shit what you think, I actively view you the same way you see me. Yeah. Pretty fucked up, right?
I KNOW but it's gonna be fine shut up stop it
Pepsi families are the best families, there is substance there
THEY GOTTA STOP FUCKING WITH IT SCOTT
Shut up it's fine
DELICIOUS♥️
Y'all keep being even radder
YOU SAW MY POST MICK this should be no surprise
Fuck you Mick
"And you're older than a crucial good decision your parents should've made, but I bet they've gone over all that with you more than once, am I right?" usually shuts em up
Fuck with me about my Pepsi, see how shit goes for you
I don't give a fuck what place it's in. Just...leave it alone. Don't ruin my beloved Pepsi😭
It legit bothers me that Nick DiSalvo isn't recognized as AT LEAST the guitar wizard that he is. (His songwriting/arranging abilities are stupidly immense as well.) Like, what he does is too good for people to miss in the overall, I just worry he'll be fucking dead before he gets his rightful due.