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I cracks me up when people are like "You couldn't make THIS movie or show today because people are so politically correct and sensitive!" Sir. There was an entire board in Hollywood dedicated to sniffing out any onscreen hint of married people having sex. Lucy couldn't say "pregnant." Sit down.

I don’t think we appreciate Zendaya & Tom Holland enough for slipping off quietly, getting married in front of close friends & family, and keeping it to themselves, keeping the media from turning it into an unavoidable circus of a media holiday. This post is unrelated to anything else. Swear.

Medically, the beers you have while grilling don’t count. The science behind it is fascinating

Travis Kelce is having a day like a golden retriever that’s getting put down tomorrow

A friendly message to MAGA folks on this 4th of July weekend: you are the most traitorous, unpatriotic, anti-American, insurrectionist pieces of shit walking the earth right now. Fuck you.

America is a real shitshow right now and isn't doing a lot worth celebrating, but many of you live in it, so Imma gonna celebrate how much I love you rad mother fuckers for the fourth instead.

The Great American State Fair has officially pulled out of the Great American State Fair.

Even Messi looks disappointed Cabo Verde didn’t win

happy return of the living dead day 🧟

Between RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, the B-17 sequence from HEAVY METAL, and the movie DEAD & BURIED, Dan O'Bannon is responsible for the other half of movie zombie-dom. We talk about Romero a lot, but when you think of indestructible zombies hungry specifically for brains, you're thinking O'Bannon.

it’s called hot dog fashion reference

Happy Return of the Living Dead day to all who celebrate! May you survive the night and may all your Linnea’s Quigley!

Initially read this as Just4t Married! and thought that was a hell of a way to announce some personal news.

The guy who hides the zombie bite:

Instead of paying attention to yet another "Waaaah! Bluesky was mean to me!!!" thinkpiece, how about this scandal that broke last year. A protein powder company touted its delicious flavor and it WAS delicious... because it was really cake mix! (allegedly) calfkicker.com/a-company-al...

Look, I'm not saying it is going to happen tomorrow. I'm just saying there is historical precedence for it happening tomorrow.

"We need to get rid of this talk that we're somehow this exceptional nation chosen by God,” @esglaude.bsky.social told @brookegladstone.bsky.social. “We need to grow up. We can't grow up if you don't admit who and what you are.”

This is a good deal

I went (way) over on the cream cheese drip but the strawberry cheesecake Bundt turned out delicious

Chris Nolan’s Odyssey movie is going to have work so goddamn hard to reach the emotional heights of Cabral looking for his partner in the stands

I love how once a month now we get an article saying "So I left the Nazi bar to try out the new bar down the street and everyone there said I was a piece of shit for hanging out at a Nazi bar, so whatever you do don't fucking go there. They REALLY hate people who hang out with Nazis."

I saw Emerson, Lake & Palmer at Madison Square Garden in the early 70s. You‘d never suspect that would be a good enough reason for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to get married there, but apparently it was. Mazel Tov.

imagine holding off the most famous soccer player alive and ALSO upstaging taylor swift’s wedding

Excellent list by @briantallerico.bsky.social of 10 movies by foreign born directors who saw the USA more clearly than its own directors did. So glad to see Robocop on here. www.rogerebert.com/features/thr...

About to watch the match with Colombian wife wish us luck

Happy American Independence Day from Entertainment Weekly and Millie Bobby Brown.

So Bsky is being janky for everyone, right? This is more vibe-coding nonsense?

sure but if he drinks from the wrong cup, he'll age rapidly and die, so he's gotta wait to make sure he's only drinking from the right one. We've all been there, Mr. President!

Ok if Taylor Swift wants to give a million dollars to @weareravenous.com I, as a born and raised New Yorker, will personally absolve her for fucking up the city this weekend

I want to have a word with the writers of this new show WORLD CUP. That Cape Verde thing you had going was THE PLOTLINE. You don't have a better story than this this season. Come on. Time to Bobby Ewing this shit, call today a dream, and get Cape Verde back in the mix.

I know many of you are watching The Shark Movie™️ for 4th of July, but perhaps this year you can add Jess & my annual tradition, a double feature of coming-of-age movies set at summer theme parks: @gregmottola.bsky.social's brilliant ADVENTURELAND and Rash/Faxon's adorable WAY WAY BACK. Perfect pair.

it was a queer, sultry summer, the summer cabo verde won the world cup

Grumpy though I may seem about unavoidable news stories, I do fucking love people being in love. Everyone with a good heart deserves to find someone to share it with. So for that, I will raise a glass of the good stuff to love. And marriage. A good marriage fucking rules.

Since the start of this relationship, diehard Gaylors have argued it is performance art commentary on heterosexuality(????), and while the likeliest explanation for all of this is that a narcissist is marrying an overgrown sixth-grader, the Gaylor theory of the case only grows more potent.

Scott and I get asked about this on the regular now, but Scott based his idea of the mask on THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) and the Epstein of it is just a coincidence that one of the most evil men to ever live had an equally evil smile. In the original story, The Grabber is a clown.

Watching the entire John Wick series today with @mzspress.bsky.social, who chose it. My lady knows how to plan a day.

Watching the absinthe drip in the 1913 exploitation film ABSINTHE. It was not the only picture on the subject either, the absinthe scare gripped the world and led to bans as rumors of its hypnotic and homicidal effects spread.

Browsing video game memes

Ah, excellent, the next installment of Universal Dark Universe

I think this is his best directed movie. I love how the score is almost continuous throughout the running time of the film. It makes me feel like I'm watching an opera.

Like clockwork, someone will decide they want to farm some hateclicks and will post a "Bluesky is dying! Bluesky is a bubble! Bluesky was mean to me!" piece. I just want to share this GIF. We are not the same.

this how you come home from the club with stinky ankles

an update

Professor Fate is happier with her blanket nest now that I have added a book

An old police reporter today takes a slight detour in St. Louis to visit the resting place of one of the true OG's of Jewish gangsterdom. And yes I threw Charlie a quick Kaddish. IYKYK.

"Pardon me, sir, can you direct me to the nuclear wessels?"

Fun stuff!!!!

One issue with my Hays Code post going kinda viral is I am now flooded with people I have never interacted with @-ing me (I have replies limited) to 'splain how the Hays Code worked.

We are pretty much back to normal except… I washed her blanket nest. The nerve!

today’s forecast:

If you have been invited to the "Wedding of Taylor and Travis" DO NOT GO. It's a NYPD sting op for career criminals, much like their infamous "Meet the Yankees" pancake breakfast held in 1989.

This man gives great speeches

Last October, I decided that I would start really using my art instruction books and follow one book at a time cover-to-cover and one thing I discovered (which should have been obvious) is that interesting projects and pretty pictures fail if the text is not clear and the workflow is not planned.

You couldn't make A FOOL THERE WAS (1915) today! Not because of political correctness or woke but because vamp films have been out of style since 1919

I hear people are melting down about Stephen Graham possibly playing Neil McCauley but I'm extremely not mad about it. I think he's an inspired choice. I love Bale, Driver, and DiCaprio but... I actually think Graham is the best actor in the bunch.

no complaints

This was a great piece of work and I will absolutely be grabbing this up.

So in 2019 Tom Hooper’s CATS movie cracked the time-space continuum and plunged us into the darkest timeline, but yesterday we saw the Jellicle Ball and I think that show might just be able to staple it back up

Me showing off my dance moves

Stop previews from autoplaying on Apple TV sixcolors.com/post/2026/07...

I have reviewed over 800 silent films since I started and I maintain a spreadsheet to make sure I have them all sorted for reference.

good news, i found the star of my james woods biopic!

Looking forward to the next Taylor album about finishing a streaming series because you seemed like you weren’t interested in it so I figured I’d watch it on my own wait was that wrong I mean you never communicated anything approximating that it would be wrong for me to do that so how would I know

I have always identified myself as Californian and not American. I don't remember ever NOT saying I was a Californian.

if Taylor really wanted to keep everyone out of her wedding she should just have put it on Ticketmaster

:white smoke issues from chimney:

seriously, does any movie capture what it feels like to be this goddamn hot better than Do the Right Thing?

[1980s network TV announcer voice:] "Tonight, on Chicago Pope..."

My Brazilian friends, regardless of their feelings on broader US policy, going back decades, would LOVE if the men's team beat Argentina. They would revel in it.

Also Messi’s nowhere near the pure evil of Ronaldo, a guy with the body language of an insectoid from zeta reticuli who’s commanded a human body to terrorize earthlings

My Australian Finger Lime has set fruit!!! 🌱

Your dog on the 4th of July is just trying to explain to you that sudden explosions are weird and bad and wait why aren’t you freaking out at this? Are you in on this, somehow? Because alarm and worry is the only sane response.

I know nothing of this Stephen Pollard person but may I present Snub Pollard, the superior Pollard

Shabadadoo you take this woman

semi-regular reminder that you can read everything on my patreon for free, and you can subscribe for free. paid subs are also very exciting to me, and much easier to explain to your partner than an OnlyFans subscription.

On this week’s SCOTT HASN’T SEEN, we watch the batshit crazy Marlon Brando / Val Kilmer film THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU, as well as the documentary about it! Joining us is Scott’s former colleague on SHARK TALE, writer/director Rob Letterman! Available exclusively at @cbbworld.bsky.social!

Great piece about a great movie, though unfortunately it told me something I didn't know and wish I'd never heard: John Carpenter wanted to follow Prince of Darkness and They Live with a third movie to make a trilogy, but it hasn't been made and probably won't be.

Mushroom elk burger

I decided to pretty much just review movies from my favorite stars and studios for my 1926 theme month. 1926 as a cinema year hits just right and I plan to relax and enjoy myself.

Saw Aliens on 70mm tonight, millionth time I’ve seen it, and man every modern blockbuster is really just doing that one huh

I still think the most annoying social media behavior is when I post a silent movie GIF (that I made, from a movie I saw) and someone (who has not seen the movie) wants to argue with me about its content and meaning. Sir or ma'am...

"Every few months since the economic devastation of 2020, a ' Cinema, Dead or Alive?' type article has appeared in some major media outlet. But lately, to my relief, the pendulum has definitely swung towards 'alive.' www.rogerebert.com/features/fif...

Holy shit we could have all this?

When a post leaves your cozy circle, do yourself a favor and turn off quotes. The stages of post quotes 1. People adding to the conversation 2. People saying things you actually say downthread 3. People going off on an odd tangent 4. People quoting just to quote because it's a small social network

First name plus bunch of numbers, no avatar equals blocked

Awesome article by @alansiegella.bsky.social about the cult of the Costco with great quotes from @doughboys.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social and Yours Truly! Check it out at www.theringer.com/2026/07/02/f...

If you know me, you know how much I balk at the idea of culture being "counterprogramming," but in this case I think it might count. If it's playing near you, consider going to see the new documentary MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD today: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/m...

It’s so important in N America to stream these matches on Telemundo over Fox News’s partner channel. Even if you don’t understand a word of Spanish you’ll get more insight than their dull leaden commentaries and worst ever broadcasts that cut the opening ceremonies & celebrations.

No. More. Seeds. Must. Not…

This whole thread is so good

God’s live reaction to what has transpired in NYC

My three goals this long weekend: Construct porch swing Construct second squash arch Kill vinca

I do actually have at least two friends who are at The Wedding and I admit I am excited to hear about it later

Gonna be hard to forgive some of you for making me think MINIONS AND MONSTERS was gonna be good

I wrote a little Declaration of Independence for you independent filmmakers. Please share!

No one ever talks about how mean everyone is to Klinger.

Cape Verde! (don't know anything about soccer but that was incredible)

America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Accidentally let some zucchini go too long (shown next to actual school bus for reference).

Okay, part one of the media room is complete. This was a pain in the ass to put together. Thank you to @scorpiogeekgoddess.bsky.social for the spinning.