First thing I do at my Mom's house is toggle through the settings on the various (constantly blaring) TVs to rid them of this visual leprosy, whereupon my relatives sigh and throw each other "she's at it again" glances because they CANNOT SEE THE DIFFERENCE. What is wrong with your EYES, people?
At the in-laws for Thanksgiving and it’s truly breathtaking how shitty movies look when motion-smoothed. It’s like the visual equivalent of someone farting in a room. Drives you right out.
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
First thing I do at my Mom's house is toggle through the settings on the various (constantly blaring) TVs to rid them of this visual leprosy, whereupon my relatives sigh and throw each other "she's at it again" glances because they CANNOT SEE THE DIFFERENCE. What is wrong with your EYES, people?
After the universal raves out of Toronto, my TL today is nothing but HAMNET pan after pan. Putting ol' Jess, with her signature Lukewarm Take, in prime eyerolling position, doling out the heavenward glances to stan and hater alike.
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
After the universal raves out of Toronto, my TL today is nothing but HAMNET pan after pan. Putting ol' Jess, with her signature Lukewarm Take, in prime eyerolling position, doling out the heavenward glances to stan and hater alike.
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operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency
me: i know a lot of popular songs. a lot of times when i’m out and about and i hear a song, i know exactly which song it is
operator: oh wow. were you born in any particular year
me: i sure was
operator: that’s great. gotta love it
me: i know a lot of popular songs. a lot of times when i’m out and about and i hear a song, i know exactly which song it is
operator: oh wow. were you born in any particular year
me: i sure was
operator: that’s great. gotta love it
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency
me: i know a lot of popular songs. a lot of times when i’m out and about and i hear a song, i know exactly which song it is
operator: oh wow. were you born in any particular year
me: i sure was
operator: that’s great. gotta love it
me: i know a lot of popular songs. a lot of times when i’m out and about and i hear a song, i know exactly which song it is
operator: oh wow. were you born in any particular year
me: i sure was
operator: that’s great. gotta love it
::alert /technopeons:: hail+emulate leader re /flawless assimilation /human concepts *fun* *laugh* *party*
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
::alert /technopeons:: hail+emulate leader re /flawless assimilation /human concepts *fun* *laugh* *party*
RIP to the magnificent, beautiful and deeply bananas Udo Kier. Everyone I know who has met him, no matter how glancingly, has their Udo Kier Story. May we all live half such enormous, outrageous lives.
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
RIP to the magnificent, beautiful and deeply bananas Udo Kier. Everyone I know who has met him, no matter how glancingly, has their Udo Kier Story. May we all live half such enormous, outrageous lives.
Excellent story. I appreciate it ending on a note of generous, sorrowful empathy toward its subject, but also fuck them and their ilk to hell and beyond.
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Excellent story. I appreciate it ending on a note of generous, sorrowful empathy toward its subject, but also fuck them and their ilk to hell and beyond.
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Looper
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance. www.fox5ny.com/news/michiga...
Michigan man who shares same initials as JD Vance convicted of threatening to kill president, vice president
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance.
www.fox5ny.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Looper
Some wild nighttime creature after my own inky heart left the big windows of our shared hotel bathroom wide open to the 4am rain of Amsterdam.
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Some wild nighttime creature after my own inky heart left the big windows of our shared hotel bathroom wide open to the 4am rain of Amsterdam.
Clicked through purely to check how many people replied or QT'd with tim%robinson%hotdog%suit.gif
Somewhat surprised to only count 8, but the night is young.
Somewhat surprised to only count 8, but the night is young.
I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Clicked through purely to check how many people replied or QT'd with tim%robinson%hotdog%suit.gif
Somewhat surprised to only count 8, but the night is young.
Somewhat surprised to only count 8, but the night is young.
Stumbled upon best bar in Amsterdam feat. Ari the Cat and Tito the Cinephile Barman (not pictured)
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Stumbled upon best bar in Amsterdam feat. Ari the Cat and Tito the Cinephile Barman (not pictured)
Presumably working off an AI summary of the Greek myth that omits some salient details.
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Presumably working off an AI summary of the Greek myth that omits some salient details.
As I am too polite to ask the man next to me on the train with the restless leg to stop the jiggling, I sadly have no choice but to beat him to death.
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
As I am too polite to ask the man next to me on the train with the restless leg to stop the jiggling, I sadly have no choice but to beat him to death.
my people
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
my people
Scorching reminder that there are no two more bullshit words littering today's media landscape than "critics say..." (I say that as an actual critic.)
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Scorching reminder that there are no two more bullshit words littering today's media landscape than "critics say..." (I say that as an actual critic.)
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
A reminder to Berliners: TRAIN DREAMS is playing this Mon, Tue and Wed at 2150 in Hackesche Höfe Kino and is so, so worth seeing in the cinema.
Anyway, I love TRAIN DREAMS. Please see TRAIN DREAMS. And for the love of all that's holy (for example: TRAIN DREAMS), see it big.
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A reminder to Berliners: TRAIN DREAMS is playing this Mon, Tue and Wed at 2150 in Hackesche Höfe Kino and is so, so worth seeing in the cinema.
Zohran Mamdani invoking a Mario Cuomo quote in his victory speech is so simultaneously lofty and petty that I want to buy a hat just so I can doff it.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Zohran Mamdani invoking a Mario Cuomo quote in his victory speech is so simultaneously lofty and petty that I want to buy a hat just so I can doff it.
Kinda love the impossible-to-love DIE MY LOVE
“The story is a thin, juddering downward spiral, told in the cinema of smithereens, with the energy of a bottle hurled at a mirror.”
@jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews Die My Love, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews Die My Love, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Die My Love review: a ferocious film from Lynne Ramsay
The intense relationship between newlyweds Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) drastically unravels after the birth of their baby in Lynne Ramsay’s ferociously maximalist psychodr...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Kinda love the impossible-to-love DIE MY LOVE
It's an ongoing pleasure watching SIRAT play at festivals and open in territories across the world like a series of controlled detonations. If you're within blast radius, you must check it out -- here's my review for afters, when you're picking your jaw up off the floor. variety.com/2025/film/re...
‘Sirat’ Review: Oliver Laxe’s Excruciatingly Tense, Escalatingly Insane Road Trip Through a Desert Purgatory
Oliver Laxe graduates to Cannes competition with a brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits.
variety.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It's an ongoing pleasure watching SIRAT play at festivals and open in territories across the world like a series of controlled detonations. If you're within blast radius, you must check it out -- here's my review for afters, when you're picking your jaw up off the floor. variety.com/2025/film/re...
This is how I discover a movie title I'm going to think about and savour twice daily for the rest of my life.
First watch: Poulet au vinaigre (1985, aka "Cop au vin"!). Not, despite the puntastic title, a comedy, but full of dark wit & sardonic detachment. When Inspecteur Lavardin (Jean Poiret) arrives about half way through to investigate a murder conspiracy in a small town, he seems respectable enough 1/2
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is how I discover a movie title I'm going to think about and savour twice daily for the rest of my life.
Heartening to see that the audience for this DocLisboa screening of SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM is almost exclusively composed of terrifyingly attractive young Portuguese swells.
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Heartening to see that the audience for this DocLisboa screening of SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM is almost exclusively composed of terrifyingly attractive young Portuguese swells.
That Louvre heist better have included a 28-minute-long wordless sequence or I swear
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
That Louvre heist better have included a 28-minute-long wordless sequence or I swear
Not even a quarter way through this dangerously demented moron's second term and this is where we are.
Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."
AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Not even a quarter way through this dangerously demented moron's second term and this is where we are.
Some superb bracket work from Siddhant here.
At the center of “Tron: Ares” is a woefully miscast Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) and an unfortunately visible Jared Leto ("accusations from underage girls"), making even more unpleasant an already haphazard cinematic headache. joysauce.com/tron-ares-is...
‘Tron: Ares’ is a waste of time and talent
Greta Lee gets stuck inside a digital mess alongside Jared Leto in Joachim Rønning’s threequel to the 1980s classic.
joysauce.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Some superb bracket work from Siddhant here.
Feel like I was stolen away and inhabited by Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS, one of those films that crept into my chest in its opening moments and made itself a nest in there. Didn't expect to be so moved, to be scooped up, cradled and swept away by it.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Feel like I was stolen away and inhabited by Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS, one of those films that crept into my chest in its opening moments and made itself a nest in there. Didn't expect to be so moved, to be scooped up, cradled and swept away by it.