Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
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Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
'your social media will fail unless you make it the sort of place that these absolute assholes would love'
yeah this the first I heard about it so thank you!
Like, really and truly, I have yet to hear criticism of this site from anyone I actually want to see and hear from. Silver, Yglesias, Greenwald -- the anti-Bluesky brigade is loaded with motherfuckers I could go the rest of my life without thinking about
Amen
prefect
Aside from the comical inaccuracy of this post, I maintain that I will stay on this site till I'm the last one here as long as Glenn fucking Greenwald isn't on it
It took me a good few months to realize that Graham Linehan actually looks like that, people weren't just posting like a stock photo result for "weird wanker"
Friday stack on Tuesday since I’ll be at TIFF on Friday
A bunch of them are literally addicted to the site and afraid of losing the massive followings they've staked their careers on bsky.app/profile/marl...
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.
a real thing that def exists!!!
How’s about we begin with “suck my dick”
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
Is James Cameron a better director than John McTiernan? Probably. But did McTiernan dedicate his career to making five straight Die Hard sequels nobody wants? No. He went to federal prison instead.
Favorite first-time views of August 2025: 10. THE HOUSE (2023) 9. MEMOIR OF A SNAIL 8. CITY ON FIRE 7. RAZORBACK 6. EENIE MEANIE 5. SAVING FACE 4. HIGHEST 2 LOWEST 3. SHIN GODZILLA 2. WEAPONS 1. SHOESHINE
at the I'M SORRY WHATS
And not incidentally, he's low-key perfect in DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE -- with a hard assignment! This is an entirely new supporting cast we haven't met, but Greene and Collen Camp and Larry Bryggman are so immediately credible that we just believe they've been working with McClane for years.
One of the great character actors in all of movies, and in the truest sense -- whenever he turned up in a movie, no matter the size of the role, it immediately kicked up a notch. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Co-writing ED2 should guarantee this man’s passage to the best possible heaven... #RIPScottSpiegel
Rules
There's a phone call scene in GREENBERG that at least made Greta a movie star *in my mind*
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
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.
glad to finally have an excuse to watch this one
I've received footage of Rudy's accident from law enforcement
Man can't make any statement without mentioning 911
so was jesus the ultimate nepo baby?
He should fight the Predator
Those shows ran simultaneously Preeti!! How would that have even WORKED?!? CONSIDER THE LOGISTICS!!!
Interesting from someone who swept homeless camps because the next verse is : “Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?” – James 2:15-16
Fixed it.
I saw a comment on .. somewhere where a person referred to people who love AI as “botlickers” and I haven’t stopped laughing about it
It would be... so very easy to do this
And yeah, for my money the major advantage Sundance has over TIFF is you really can do all P&Is if you wanna, they have several running all day every day, and TIFF does.... not
(You def will lets like make a plan and everything)
Same
The great thing about TIFF is there are SO MANY GREAT MOVIES that i apparently can't get into lol
Enjoy that strawman, maybe buy him a nice top hat and tails
No, we have 1-3 years to boost a nominee (and there are plenty) who isn't a bag of fucking shit. See how much simpler that is? You're not a "real democrat," you're a spineless fucking weasel. You're a fucking collaborator. Live with THAT.
fascist dems like this asshole are the problem. they'll always have some reason why fighting for basic human rights is bad and wrong because they don't actually believe in human rights, their goal is to stop you from doing anything at all.
Me when my wife sees the browser history
IN SUMMARY
A writing trick I learned is that you can often delete your first paragraph and start with the second one. That's often because the first graf is unnecessary stage-setting and throat-clearing. But sometimes, as below, it's because the first graf is entirely made-up.
It’s an ugly bit of business that’s unfairly pulled focus from his genuine gifts as an actor… which is, ironically enough, what my piece is about.
Ok but like… why? It’s demonstrably false, it’s wildly homophobic, and it was primarily spread by Stallone as revenge against Gere for not being properly in awe of his talent when they were both starting out.
There are technically better car chases than the Rome sequence in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—DEAD RECKONING (PART ONE), but this is the only one about being handcuffed to Hayley Atwell while she’s wearing a white dress shirt
Wtf man
A celebration of Richard Gere, born on this day in 1949:
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Ouch…
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
🤷♂️
this is why I pay for photoshop
I'm forever telling our writers you can just pitch a movie you wanna write about because you wanna write about it! there doesn't have to be a peg! And most still do not but Ciara WENT FOR IT
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
You're all insane! Every last one of you!!
Honestly how fucking dare he
Love to rebound from an internet fiasco by dating the person the Internet’s most notorious stan base hates most in the world.
Imagine creating a treat as absolutely perfect as an OREO cookie and then being like “let’s see what other bullshit we can stuff in there”
WHAAAAT??? But in the MOVIES sheriffs are all such HEROES!! How can this BE?? HAVE WE BEEN MISLEAD???? ABOUT COPS??? BY THE MEDIA????
The guy got 2000 reposts and 500 credulous comments.
but maybe i'm built different
Idk man I feel like at some point I might be like "why am I riding or dying this fucking hard for a dude who hates trans people, hates homeless people, and fucks women 20 years his junior, three years away from an election where he's probably not gonna be the candidate" and that might make me sad
Gandalfini
what a hill to die on
Sat down with the head of another startup that wants to “revolutionize” the entertainment industry with gen AI, and I came away from the conversation even more deeply convinced that all of this stuff is a morally and artistically bankrupt scam
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
l m a o
On Robert Aldrich's 'The Longest Yard,' released on this day in 1974:
ok yes that scans, same but Reels
You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air. Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨
If they were literally trying to destroy the human race what would they be doing differently
I did this the other day for each and every one of the 15 or so titles of mine it stole. Let's do this!
Right, exactly. All love to Bernie, but we are so far past the moment of strongly worded opinion pieces. Time to brush up on your Machiavelli and get deviously creative, before we all die of the plague.
Everyone right now
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
I don’t care what Bill Maher thinks about literally anything, whether I agree with it or not, because it has been decades since he did anything except get attention for saying uninteresting things. People go after Kardashians and so on for “being famous for being famous.” Maher is the same.
Yessssss
So many netizens tonight seem to be indulging in the kind of hopeful flights of fancy typically reserved for kids on Xmas Eve. It’s all silly, of course. But seeing the joy it brings warms the heart. We haven’t lost the capacity to dream.
I cannot think of another actor on the planet who could do what she does in that restaurant scene with Benny Safdie and Joseph Cross
PREACH
Not exaggerating
Man, don't come at Jason about New York movies, that's like coming at the menswear guy about ties. Clown behavior.
This is hilarious to me bc my district replaced human reading interventionists with an AI program that is useless and now I have to work HARDER to make up for lost resources. It is also universally hated by almost every student, causing one of my kinders to THROW A CHAIR when he was told to use it 🙃
Imagine how those of us who hated Wicked 1 feel
People truly will just say any damn thing to any damn buddy on the World Wide Web huh
😳
Just cause a studio makes stuff you like doesn't mean they wont turn around and do evil shit.
Too bad you don’t know anyone in power who could coordinate that ☹️
It's funny that even the Post can't find a bad photo of Mamdani. If anyone should know it, a cover is 90% photo and 10% words.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
There it is