Jared Leto *is* AI: a tacky thing corporations keep forcing on consumers by putting him in everything even though he’s unprofitable and nobody likes it

Between this and booing the Star Spangled Banner, Australia not getting another one of these lmao

"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong

Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975

Shocking new footage proves that they resumed the football game that Bane blew up after he made his big speech. This is from the second quarter.

Better keep giving Jared Leto starring roles, then

“Why are you still so mad?” is the question that makes all of them even madder.

the illinois state police are helping ice because they support them and @govpritzker.illinois.gov is sending the isp to help ice because he supports them. if that wasn't true they wouldn't do it and it's fuckin stupid to write fanfiction trying to wishcast otherwise

It's also, in a moment of universal coincidence I choose to regard as significant, the anniversary of Robert Forster's passing in 2019. Long live JACKIE BROWN, one of the best movies of the 1990s.

There are a few chapters of Moby Dick that coalesce some aspect of the book—its critique of society/capitalism, the balance of individualism vs collectivism—but this one is maybe the purest summary of the actual conflict of the book, that gaining knowledge only clarifies the depths of your ignorance

Just got back to chapter 104 of Moby Dick and “Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand!” remains maybe my single favorite sentence in literature.

Always a lighthearted salon game to chart out how twelve lifetime *zero-laughter* broken brained billionaires decided in their thinktank groupchats that American comedy was their most dangerous enemy, and so simply purchased and wrecked it over ten years with the dumbest algorithms.

my life for one of these white dudes in power to risk simply push past and risk getting arrested for doing the job they are explicitly legally allowed to do

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Yeah I remember the DVDs being passed around high school like wildfire my freshman year back in that interregnum between its cancellation and being revived bc of DVD sales and Adult Swim ratings and it was a blast when it first happened and/or I was a teen lol

It’s funny how the classic format really isn’t that much different on paper than Family Guy but the latter manages to thread its gags together into the momentum even though they often have no tangible ties while the latter is just Scenes from a Hat disjointedness

Also I miss the days when close-quarters combat in movies was slow chops from actors who had at least three drinks that day. The only “mixed” martial arts James is doing is the martini he had 15 minutes earlier

Is Goldfinger the Bond movie where James is most actively trying to annoy everyone the second he encounters them? I know the competition is steep but

Yeah it was always funny back in the day when naysayers would say “this is just auteurism” and we’d say “yeah that’s the point”

That list was one of my Bibles for so long, it was a personal high when I got to start writing for Slant.

Conversely it felt for a while like Billy Wilder was (erroneously, stupidly) put in a naughty corner for being “just” a good writer and not a great filmmaker but I think sanity finally won out there.

There were signs along the way like this (Jacques Rivette arguably got the ball rolling on it AND Showgirls), but it didn’t pick up steam until later

It’s not just you, Mann is one of the earliest reclamation projects of the social media era of criticism bsky.app/profile/jake...

The term “vulgar auteurism” now makes nonnas reflexively make the sign of the Cross and superstitiously spit into the dirt but it has been mostly lost to time that it was coined in direct response to what was then an upstart view that Michael Man deserved canonization

FWWM absolutely did a 180 in critical evaluation during the heyday of Film Twitter. Around the time of its 20th anniversary there was a rush of pieces about it that then snowballed