(The Bone Temple) Really harrowing and gross but surprisingly optimistic and shot through with gentle beauty and I suspect Garland (across the trilogy) is ultimately telling a hopeful story about our relationship to one another, ourselves, and the earth. And making a true theatrical event of it.

(28 Years Later) The more formal shooting style feels as bold as the iPhone did as we re-examine the landscapes and faces with big wide readable imagery that has absorbed the adrenaline. Cameras evolving dialogue with its characters telling the story as much as anything. Wonderful stuff.

then inverts and expands the continuing threads, nature, evolution, nowness of apocalypse, sadism vs nature, gnarly body horror, so on and on to refract from new angles.

These companies just aren’t mobile enough to thoughtfully market their individual works, and so they leave money on the table and kill their industry and the will to live of their audience one cut after another.

During that period I still didnt pay for Netflix but would buy the blu rays when they came out. Ted Sarandos doesn’t understand that film fans, really any fans of a thing, are crazy, and will put time and money into their interests.

lmao shout out to the follower who made this for me

I don’t have Netflix but I would pay cash money for Fincher commentaries on The Killer and Mank, obviously. May December, things of this nature

Half 2025 Top Ten, half Bone Temple pep rally

I didn’t know he had a daughter?

Stripping language down to just words is breaking us all though. There’s a deeper thesis about literacy, psychic communication, and social media vortices to be had

This thread brought to you by a podcaster comedian and a NYT journo feuding and spiraling over the midterms, when their sentiments are both right.

Covid, the savage overthrow of the old dialectic world, and the fracturing of Twitter made a lot of smart people forget that they aren’t immune from disagreement just because identity has been validated by recognition and basic morality.

Doesn’t matter how left they themselves are or how aligned they are with their critics. It just goes to their heads when they feel any pushback. True of at least 60% or more of the people I follow and respect.

DNC just wants to run the camps.

The least they could do