I’d like to believe Rudy’s story about the car crash, but I remember Shop Rite 2022.
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I’d like to believe Rudy’s story about the car crash, but I remember Shop Rite 2022.
"The fractured narrative replicates the characters’ fractured perspectives. From within their secure rooms, where they can’t even bring their own cell phones, these people struggle to reach the outside world." -- @bilgeebiri.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow's latest www.vulture.com/article/revi...
When it’s nice enough to have the door open and you get that good afternoon bookshop light
"Jeffrey Dahmer is pushing the boundaries of culinary art and is acting boldly to fight food shortage"
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Words are magic
Mexico could retake take the Alamo by nightfall
Get yourself a partner who will bring your enemy's head in a bag, I sez
Something bad, eh
"Do Democrats cause cancer?"
Why I am a proud Illionian. Pritzker has turned this state around so drastically its incredible.
I love it when a politician sounds like a human being who likes living in reality
"He's worried. About the wrong. Border." -- Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, whose speech today focused on the unchecked flow of illegal guns in Chicago. "They are coming from red states," he said simply.
Chicago won’t take this lying down, and I’m glad to have a Governor who won’t either.
Pritzker is a real man
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment" The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare. No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment. www.freep.com/story/money/...
This is scary but I'm taking The Film Maven off Substack and have transferred to Ghost. Not only does this give me complete ownership of my work, but also means I won't continue to lose money to Substack and Apple. I lay everything out for Subscribers here. thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/the-film-m...
Good for you!!
TFG is innovative, in his own horrible way. Traditionally, heads of state who launch an invasion to get the public's mind off a scandal invade OTHER countries, not their own.
I got to write about "Agnes of God" for @ebertvoices.bsky.social I feel so so so lucky to know @briantallerico.bsky.social and @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, thank you for letting me write this. www.rogerebert.com/features/an-...
You're a wonderful writer! It's our pleasure to!
I'm really liking Benoit's look Like a possibly alcoholic English profiler
"In this bedroom are fourteen light switches. Ten of them do nothing. One turns on the television. One sounds an alarm in the home of your grouchy next-door neighbor who hates Americans and will let his French bulldog poop on your doorstep. Can you choose the right one in time?"
ANNOUNCEMENT AT 2 PM
"When I wrote that piece, the idea of exposing personal details of my life to scrutiny or criticism was terrifying," writes Esme Hewitt. "What I wasn’t expecting was for someone to take my words and claim them as their own."
her: we should try role playing in bed him: you know i’m allergic to gluten
Nobody ever talks about ‘Public Enemy Number Two’. It’s as if they just don’t care.
I'm gonna start training, and by training, I mean eating a lot of oatmeal and taking a lot of naps.
every day between 2-3pm 🥱
If you ever feel like building it out into a McLaughlin Group, I do an impression of the Pepperidge Farms guy, also known as Fred Gwynne in Pet Semetery
YES AND I HATE IT
Having seen Killer Joe, I can't tell you what a relief this is
I need to what's going on in this picture
well and truly one of the best. what a loss, man.
Thief (1981)
Truly, one of the great labor movies, and one of the most cathartic, because it's about a working man who gets exploited and goes on a rampage
Yes--but I think that can be folded into the plot function of it, however. She didn't intend to learn a lesson that she could apply to an ongoing investigation, because that wasn't the purpose of the meeting, but that's what ended up happening!
Knowing how crap Marvel pays their cover artists for a multi BILLION dollar company this actually tracks. 20 years of a race to the bottom has ended with editors now patting themselves on the back for plagarism slop.
I think a lot of the work is very high-quality Season two of Fargo and certain sections of Legion, especially
^ another reason to watch this: the show is from 1981, but it was repeated in 1988, which means you get to see the ads that were running during an election year
I saw this as a kid and it blew my mind --it's postmodern, metatextual. There used to be stuff like this on network TV. People complained about the lowest common denominator aspect of the business, and they were right to, but the format also regularly allowed stuff like this, which is brilliant.
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"I’d argue that Wolfgang Petersen produced the most satisfying high-budget, high-gloss erotic thriller of the era.” In his latest Unloved series, @honorszombie.bsky.social waxes poetic about SHATTERED. www.rogerebert.com/the-unloved/...
This kind of sums up the general attitude in government and a fair part of the population right now
I interviewed him for the Vulture TV podcast years ago and he said that stuff about the scene in Fargo. I don't remember if I actually took issue with him during the interview, because it was pretty stunning to hear from the showrunner of freaking Fargo, but I've been thinking about it ever since.
It also serves a plot function: it shows Marge, who has a very highly developed sense of her own capabilities, with good reason, that it is possible to fool her. The first major thing she does after that is go back to talk to Jerry again.
"Fry: I need to get really good without practicing. Robot Devil: [evil laughter] Hell is full of ten-year-olds who wanted exactly the same thing."
That's what I look for in music, for sure: someone with absolutely no idea about music.
"FRANKENSTEIN makes something almost new, and definitely rich and strange, out of a story we all thought we knew well,” writes @glennkenny.bsky.social about director Guillermo del Toro’s “breathtaking coup” of a film. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fran...
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What a great idea!!!
A reminder that the trial record in this case is so incredible that you would not believe me if you didn’t simply read it yourself.
Actual LOL
The wicked witch, on top of being evil, is such an ASSHOLE
Totally
You ever think about how nazis were actually pretty solid at identifying art that did vs didn't align with their ideology, i.e. they loved Wagner but hated the Surrealists But modern nazis are like "WATCH MY VIDEO ESSAY ON WHY ROBOCOP PROVES WE SHOULD GIVE CHATGPT A GUN"
And: the pacing! As many times as you've seen it, it still pulls you along.
Watching The Wizard of Oz with @mzspress.bsky.social for the first time in many years. Huge news flash: it's perfect. Also: different parts of the experience predominate when you get older. This time I'm moved by the sweetness and generosity of the 4 main characters. They're so nice to each other!
Not many people know that he took this home with him after the shoot and has worn it to bed ever since
Yeah, but it's honestly not much of a contest It's like saying I'm the tallest person in a room with nothing but kindergarten age children
The main thing they all have going for them is, they can be very funny
That five, maybe six of them are actually good movies And I've seen 'em all and will gladly watch more!
Perfect
"I told my family that I was in a movie called Summer Camp. I didn’t know they’d changed the name to Meatballs. Well, another film called Summer Camp opened up at the drive-in where I live in Burlington, and my brother and sister went to see it, and it was a softcore porn flick."
Can’t even enjoy Guiliani getting in a car accident without blue sky libs calling it “a distraction.” I’m banning that word, yinz can’t handle it. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
“Are you ok dear? You’ve barely touched your John Carpenter’s The Thing”
y'all know what day it is
The highlight for me was the scene where she goes to talk to his brother. When we get the reverse shot of her, suddenly it racks focus to the background, and there's nothing in it. And you know what it means.
That's a great one, but there's a lot of scary moments to choose from that movie
Bit off more than it could chew, pun, kind of intended But it's got heart and brains
Yeah, that was scary as a motherfucker It made me feel like I was losing my mind
That having been said, my pick for the best directed horror film of the last 10 years is The Invisible Man
Scariest Conjuring movie? I'm gonna go with the second one This director is an absolute master of the pan left, pan right fake out After 20 minutes, you get to the point where you're constantly scanning every corner of the frame anxiously
Interesting – I think of it as more of a theological movie, but you can certainly make that case
Samson: I think I broke his fuckin' neck! Announcer: think he broke his fuckin' neck! Team doctor: One side, one side. [examines player] Get the ambulance! I think he broke his fuckin' neck. Samson: See! I told you I broke his fuckin' neck!
Excellent lineup by Richard Roper. I pretty much agree with the ranking except I don't think Heaven can Wait is really a football movie . www.rogerebert.com/features/tim...
"There's one thing I can't figure out, sir. You said you were on the zipline at the time of the murder, but your maid said the Dr. Pepper machine was closed when she left that night. So how could the killer get into the Blockbuster without you seeing them enter?"
There could've been a classic columbo episode set inside this house
Can’t tell you how excited I am for this movie. Given, well, everything, I’m craving these bursts of creativity & intelligence from all you talented people.
"...an exhilarating riposte to the conventional wisdom about dream projects. The writer-director makes something almost new, and definitely rich and strange, out of a story we all thought we knew well." -- @glennkenny.bsky.social on Frankenstein www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fran...
I know it’s fiction but one of my favorite movie scenes is when Orson Welles and Ed Wood are commiserating at Musso & Franks over what a bitch it is to get a movie made.
I love it
Orson Welles took money from the Shah of Iran to make independent films and even did VO work to shill for him, because it’s either that or shill for Hollywood. Mike Leigh talked about the irony of making a film like Peterloo about workers protest for Amazon.
I'm pretty unshockable about this because I'm the child of people who supported themselves by playing in nightclubs and I think we both know what sort of people tend to own nightclubs
UPDATE I have been informed that Ben & Jerry's is also compromised What is the world coming to?
If this life were a horror film, he would get an especially juicy demise What would you picture? I'm thinking, legs and arms broken, and then he's dumped into a pit full of maggots
Blasphemy in American to say this, but I think memorial day should be just about remembering people that meant something to you I don't think a soldier's life innately has more value than a firefighter's or a teacher's or the guy detailing your car
I’ve spent a good amount of time in Poland and this is just honestly how their assholes talk. His wife’s statement is also pretty ass.
He's not wrong Earlier today, I was trying to think of an entertainment corporation that a person of conscience wouldn't feel somewhat guilty for taking money from, and I couldn't come up with anything Maybe if Ben & Jerry's opened a film division
Different translation of the statement about the Polish CEO who stole a cap from a child at the U.S. Open I didn't think it was possible, but it's even worse than the one that's been circulating
They might as well just grow out and wax their mustaches for twirling.
I know super-rich CEOs have always had an asshole streak, but I really do believe we're dealing with the new genetic strain here, one that doesn't even pretend to be a normal human
But he's the Greaser Pope
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New exculpatory phrasing just dropped y'all (see headline)
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
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