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3 stars is good actually

gambling should be broadly legal but you should have to place all bets in person, it shouldn’t even be possible over the phone. if you want to bet on missile strikes, you should have to look another person in the face and say it out loud while a line of people behind you gets audibly angry at you

Remembering Heath Ledger on his birthday 💞

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

I’m in one group chat where the whole thing is that we exclusively talk about and share poetry we like and somebody shared this in the chat today and we were all like “yes, absolutely right, this belongs in here alongside John Ashbery”

There is no one else like you. Don't forget it. Love y'all

One culture difference between the US and UK that I did not expect: cats Specifically, why Americans keep theirs inside. So, with love, let me gently explain that this is the difference between a country that has eradicated their apex predators and one that has not. Loose cat = coyote kibble

I had to explain the Know Nothings and church burnings to a friend for context for a project a while ago, and they were *stunned*. Just absolutely memory-holed — mostly because we got to join the “white” club on the early 20th Century.

A great executive I sold a tv series to, key to some of biggest tv shows of the past few years has just lost their job, trades reporting it’s possible their studio is looking to streamline development with AI. Feel terrible for them, but us screenwriters have been screaming ‘it’ll come for you too’.

Your number one - I mean NUMBER FUCKING ONE - priority when filming as a producer is the health and safety of your cast and crew. Number. Fucking. One. And this fucking guy is bragging about having helicopter stunts and calling protesting crew members commies. P.O.S. deadline.com/2026/04/jona...

Yup. I've made a career out of scrupulously avoiding any narration of institutional processes and systemic misrule in America and instead attending to vibes, imagery and hot takes. It paid okay. And based only on this piercing insight of yours, Freida, there might be a career for you as well.

From 2018: "Every once in a while, Twitter is great. Like the time a bunch of film directors dunked hard on an ignorant VFX take."

A “laugh track” is a very specific thing and calling live studio audiences a laugh track is an insult to the craft of sitcom writing.

This is apparently how I was looking for a lost earring last night

🚨 PSA: Michael Clayton is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel 🚨

Here's why I find this credible: It's a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. Of all the coordinates in Christendom at which to materialize, his ass lands there. When a mook tells you they are the reincarnated spirit of Eleanor of Aquitaine, fuck no. A bean farmer from Odessa, Texas? I'm listening.

"Get me a Diet Coke and Laura Loomer."

Women are also welcome to like my pictures

This is a tale that had to be told. Kate Crane could not allow it to be otherwise and she has wrestled long and hard with the past and emerged with a beautiful and honest book. Buy it. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Back to befriending Professor Fate. A bit of a breakthrough: I touched her for the first time

Also underreported: David Ellison was in public talking about his vague vision for how his oligarch’d Paramount Warner Bros is going to make great movies and I’m gonna say it: I told you so, it’s way, way worse than what Netflix would do. I’m convinced it was to train AI on those studios’ works.

Off Amanda's point, but: I read a pilot that was literally this a few years ago, and it was _SO GOOD_, and I'm so mad the network passed on it. It was such a smart inversion of so many tropes and did for menopause what Buffy did for adolescence. I'm mad it didn't get made!

Yes, I'm known for my scrupulous indifference to systemic misrule and institutional failure in this country. I mostly follow baseball, watch old movies and write light froth for a good living. Thanks for your piercing insights about what I didn't see as bad. Bless your righteous heart.

Kevin Smith credits me with inspiring him to write Chasing Amy. He says so in the published screenplays to Clerks & Chasing Amy.

“Oh hey it’s the mom from Unhappily Ever After” - me getting kicked off the first episode of Jury Duty

Groucho Marx, and the panther who heard the little suction-sound of the refrigerator door opening from his position deep under the bed in a room with the door closed at the opposite end of the house. #Caturday

Don't mind me, I am just sitting back watching everyone realize that when I talked about KKK dogwhistles in INTOLERANCE (the villains are reformers, Catholics, and Jewish people), I wasn't kidding.

What part of "utterly" and "to the core" eluded? How did the entire preamble about American citizenship ALWAYS being a flawed, compromised struggle not land? This current misrule is geometrically worse. Can we say so without folks rushing to assert an earlier awareness than the rest of us?

You may think that National Film Score Day would be off limits to silent movies. And you would be wrong! Hurrah for Camille Saint-Saëns, who wrote the earliest confirmed bespoke film score for THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE (1908)

This Daily Wire production sounds like a total shitshow and any film that doesn’t take safety seriously can fuck off right into the sun

Living there so hard that when my teenaged daughter sees me grab the remote and watches the television screen go grainy black-and-white she goes to straight profanity.

Just gonna add to this with a why-the-hell-not quick excerpt from the DIE HARD book to underline the point: if John McFuckingTiernan doesn't think you should take unnecessary risks, then this bloviating dipshit should fully shut the fuck up

In the early days of Letterman that had a regular bit, “The NBC Book Mobile.” My all time favorite book was “The Tom Bosley/David Doyle Letters,” chronicling a correspondence that began after they got each other’s mail.

Every few weeks, a pundit on Bluesky has a big Disaster Movie Actor Going for Their Oscar moment and does the whole "BLUESKY IS BAD AND AWFUL AND CRUEL, OH WOE UNTO US, WOE!" and it is our solemn duty to treat this situation with the seriousness it deserves.

Dallas Sonnier not even bothering to hide how much of a douchebag he is anymore

This weekend A24 is releasing a film whose trailers & marketing materials offer no discernible plot, tone, or even genre: just two of the world's prettiest people getting married. For decades, story and IP have been what bring audiences in, not star power. This weekend we see if that has changed.

Before and After Such is the power of a hanburder

Howdy Doody is a fake. The original puppet designer kidnapped the first puppet in a dispute over money. Instead of ponying up, the producers said he was having “plastic surgery” and made a more conventionally attractive Howdy. We have essentially no record of what the original puppet looked like.

For me, the question isn’t whether generating art with AI is good or bad. It’s just definitionally impossible. Art is what humans create to express the nonliteral. An algorithm, however much data it has, has no sense of the nonliteral. It might make something that pleases you, but it can’t make art.

I highly recommend that all British tourists in America try to visit small towns because your accent will cause you to be treated like a celebrity. It doesn’t matter if it’s not posh, we don’t know the difference, you may as well be queen. (But don’t come now, come back when it’s not scary)

Dog Bar. Pet store. Dinner on a patio with a delicious bone. Now to nap while mom and dad watch horror movies in the rain. Perfect Puppy Friday.

There is a certain arch, hyper-literate journalism voice that has a sort of "You're a smart person for reading us, and we know how silly this is, wink wink" tone that I think the Trump era has thoroughly eviscerated, even though publications seemingly think otherwise, hence the responses to this.

How I look at the flight attendant during snack time so they know I’m awake and would like a cookie

We already knew Dallas Sonnier was a piece of shit but WOW Dallas Sonnier is a piece of shit deadline.com/2026/04/jona...

The Top 10 Most Popular Films on Letterboxd This Week 🚀

Excellent rebuttal to this week’s “Bluesky is dying” discourse. Bluesky’s userbase ballooned post-inauguration and a lot of those users fell away, as is typical of such waves. I was happily using Bluesky exclusively during that low bit on the left

It’s the first week of the quarter, so what do we do? We stop hoarding our precious fluids and share them with the world! Set the reminder on your phone.

STAR WARS: MAUL - SHADOW LORD is incredible. Pulling from filmmakers like Michael Mann and Ridley Scott, this action-packed “bad guys vs. worse guys” story is the pinnacle of STAR WARS animated storytelling. Cops, gangsters, Jedi, lightsaber fights - MAUL - SHADOW LORD has it all. You are not ready.

Some of you still don't know that Achewood was reborn on Patreon and is better than it ever was: www.patreon.com/cw/Achewood

It kind of stinks that Edinburgh was full of echoes of Scott mania but relatively little actual Scott stuff for sale. I wish they would uproot the tacky Harry Potter merch shops and sell me Rob Roy swords, Ivanhoe armor and Waverley side arms.

You know what I am nostalgic for? The time when the default fantasy was dorky new age faerie stuff with much glitter and no rape

And I'm sure the ghouls in power consider this a little bonus. They get off on destroying beautiful, fragile things.

NEW: @nytimes.com is reporting an A-10 Warthog was downed near the Straight of Hormuz. The A-10 pilot appears to have been rescued. *Note: A previous version of this post incorrectly said the A-10 pilot's status was uknown. I deleted it.

Since Jan Sterling's birthday seems to be sparking discussion of ACE IN THE HOLE (1951), I've taken down the paywall on my 2007 review. Enjoy, if that is the word we want for Wilder's bleakest movie: open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...

A great write up! reactormag.com/five-sci-fi-...

Necessary context: Child's best friend now only goes to daycare on Fridays. Child: It's Easter today! Me: No, that's Sunday. Today is called Good Friday. Child: Yeah, because [best friend] is there! For Easter!

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Describe your bluesky account in a single image.

Give me six seasons and a movie, just from this clip.

Fascinating story of the 1972 ‘Blue Marble’ first complete photo of Earth from space taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on a Hasselbad loaded with 70mm film. There are definite changes seen now, the shrinking of polar ice caps and expanding desertification.

The angel Gabriel: Father, your Son has died. He has descended into Hell. Brian Cox, as God: My son has died? My SON has DIED? Gabriel: I am so sorry. Brian Cox God: For WHAT? Finally a good fucking Friday around here.

had back-to-back deadlines this week, this is me tonight

Buffy The Vampire Slayer seemed like great fucking show back in the day. But now, all these years later, after rewatching all seven seasons, it seems like a great fucking show.

this movie has everything - Cary Grant saying “good girl” - the Nuremberg trials

Every so often, I log into any other text-based social media site and discover how badly The Pitt has destroyed minds.

Ok but if you read that NYT Waffle House story it’s … a journey and please go read it because what www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

14 Films That Influenced BTS: The Return 🎤 With BTS: The Return streaming on Netflix now, director Bao Nguyen shares films that influenced the documentary following the band’s return. View the list and read notes on his picks here: boxd.it/TspNu/detail

Also the best kind of petunia

More of the Scotland book haul

If you cannot enjoy this headline you are definitely spending too much time on Bluesky

Back on my learning watercolor nonsense

Starting to see some unconfirmed reports that a UH-60 Black Hawk may have also been hit. Source: x.com/CarlaBNewsma... Source: t.me/mehrnews/367...

I wish The Drama pissed me off or provoked me at all. Despite a very strong beginning, spry editing, and capable performances, I was bored by the hour mark. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

We shall see. There’s been interest over the years but nothing concrete. But I would *love* to bring Brittle to the screen.

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image.

FYI for Americans, Jackson’s is now carrying Jackman’s a British micro paint brand with lovely sheer shades. I should warn you, though, that the gum arabic used smells like buttered popcorn so CERTAIN people who shall remain nameless thought it was an edible snack.

April's theme is... Optimism! Silent movies were full of confident protagonists who won the day through spunk and determination and just being nice... and there were also satires on this very attitude. moviessilently.com/2026/04/04/t...

Did I... forget to end the WRITING SPRINT? I got too engaged! You can stop now!

Before he returns as the sadistic Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek Legacy, John Jarratt will star in the Australian survival horror film SHED. Set on Christmas Eve, 10-year-old Mia is accidentally locked inside a farm shed just as a violent stranger descends upon the property.

hey is anyone hiring

Very rude of my phone’s Face ID to not recognize me when I am wearing makeup.

“Experts are dubious.”

caught The Blade on the big screen tonight, and this shot of Vincent Zhao is a contender for the best anyone has ever looked on film

This being posted by Consequence Magazine is pretty funny

"Like so many reportedly mature films coming out of Hollywood, The Drama confuses posturing at an idea with actually exploring it, and that incuriosity ultimately sinks the romance, too." Angelica, as always, brings the necessary heat.

Watching the new season of SUGAR. About five months ago, I was driving home from the movies late at night and suddenly found myself in the midst of a film shoot, with a couple of camera cars around me and Colin Farrell driving Sugar's convertible in front of us. LA used to be like this all the time.

The BACKROOMS viral marketing campaign is well underway. Watch the in-universe commercial for Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/394453...

Current mood.

“Beverly Hills Cop II” (1987) is a far better movie than “Beverly Hills Cop” (1984).

Okay, in case you were confused by the latest Bluesky is Dying Discourse: User 1, a pundit, complained that they were being harassed for their views. "Oh, you know the ones." User 2 cherry picked stats showing Bluesky had fewer active users than its post-inauguration height

How do people skip breakfast?! Mine has been unconscionably delayed and I could rip the head off a canary and drink the contents.

They were eating shirred eggs in my book so now I’m trying to make shirred eggs. Books are so dangerous.

Emergency discourse topic: Portugal was robbed in Eurovision 1981 AND 1982 and Spain sent an Argentine tango on purpose in unmatched political trolling

From what I can tell Bluesky is dying not because of leftists or whenever but because the algorithm really fucking sucks

Was National Film Score Day today or yesterday? I am actually fine with it just being a revolving celebration and we post film scores everyday

NEW: NBC reporting helicopters were also hit during the SAR attempts. All crew are safe.

I am not the target audience for this outlet or its nonsense but I feel fairly comfortable saying this is not, in fact, “one of the biggest questions facing Democrats right now” Personally I’m more interested in what to do about the concentration camps but I’m not a lifelong Republican in libface

Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind! If you wanna test me I'm sure you'll find The things I'll teach ya Is sure to beat ya! They pardoned me And I went free Not the son of God Which I found odd Now I got more guilt Than Jordan’s got silt Here we go now! - Barabbas the Rapper

These are adorable. We have 10 of them. mzs.press/Retro-Camera...