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Things that have extended the average lifespan of working people: Unions Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid) Universal public education Labor laws Environmental regulations Social Security If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?

Will never get over the fact that the US is the reverse of most countries when it comes to this color demarcation entirely because of a historical accident (the colors being that way for the 2000 election).

love that Ryan Coogler made a horror movie that straight-up incinerated most of the young celebrated filmmakers of 'elevated' horror. Sinners is so warm and beautiful and horny and just effortlessly cool that it makes the rest look frigid and flat in comparison

BREAKING: Two sources tell NPR that DOGE employees have gained accounts on classified networks that hold nuclear secrets. The Department of Energy denies the story: "This reporting is false," a spokesperson told NPR in an emailed statement. www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

I was a stand-up comic, I've had 10,000 people hate me to my FACE. Feeding normies into what one could even consider a second-stage fame machine is nothing short of cruelty, and we turned it into a *requirement* for some jobs.

Watch the first trailer for Zach Cregger’s Weapons, starring Josh Brolin and Julia Garner 👀 In theaters on August 8.

"Look what they took from you" is consistently the most deranged genre of content. "Did you know there was basically NO racism in the 1990s?" "Why can't we go back to the 1980s, before CORPORATE GREED ruined everything??" "In the 1970s, teen girls could hitchhike and be TOTALLY SAFE"

the United States is now the kid who mixed pop rocks with Coke and died

Okay, since I have some new followers, let's learn the official Movies Silently Cheer! How long did the silent era last? FOUR DECADES What were silent movies about? EVERYTHING And the people tied to the tracks were? HAPLESS DUDES And what did DW Griffith invent? NOTHING

If anyone had a few spare billion dollars, we could easily do the whole ten year “rightwing radicalization algorithm” campaign in reverse, and get mean tough guy idiots with cigars to pull illiterate bros to the left and make them gay

genuinely thrilled for my Canadian friends and family, although now it’s like gazing longingly over the fence at your neighbor’s beautiful yard when yours is full of dog poop

So can we all agree now that Michael B. Jordan is a real deal no-shit opens-a-movie Movie Star?

The Misfits from Jem and the Holograms were portrayed as snooty, rich kid, plastic punks. However Jem and the Holograms used AI to enhance their music and performances making them the first AI grifters. In this essay I will

happy birthday daniel day-lewis 🎉

The official trailer for Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is here 👀 Starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, the film will be released in theaters on October 3.

Lemme just say: getting off twitter? Amazing.

Brokeback Mountain will return to theaters on June 22 and June 25 to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary 🤠

I waited so long to hear a US governor speak this way

I, personally, think they should give the Emmy to Mr. Noah Wyle.

So... Beanie Walker. If you want to see silent movie title cards done right, Walker was the best to ever do it. Nobody came close.

Icelandic Poppy bloomed! 🌱

Oh, Detroit and your Willy Wonka Tunnel of Terrors. So we meet again…

Hey, a few people have asked, so I thought I would just post it in case anyone else is curious and might find it useful: If you want to learn everyday cursive, not calligraphy, The Lost Art of Handwriting by Brenna Jordan is very good and has helped me a lot. Enjoy!

Pretty sure most people are missing the boat on why SINNERS is killing it at the box office. It's not the horror - horror tends to do well and there's better horror movies than this - it's the sex. It's the raw, filthy, sweaty, hungry, wet, horny-as-shit fucking. Ain't called "BLEEDERS," is it?

Make scientists stay away from politics again so this dumb fucking country can relearn some basic facts

Pupdate! We’re coming home to you, pupgirl!

“The NASA nerd-o-nauts don’t understand his salt-of-the-earth ways.”

That weird moment when you get to the airport and take a seat only to find yourself sitting opposite the same family you sat opposite of on the flight out.

Here's a not-so-attractive quicky pic of a cranberry jelly with suspended strawberries with a cream layer.

Today I talk to David Cronenberg on the show! Scanners, The Fly, Crash, The Shrouds, bodies but not horror. Great talk! Listen up! wtfpod.com

I've seen a lot of people hand-wringing about this. As a longtime theater usher/manager who cleaned up after literally hundreds of ROCKY HORROR midnight screenings, I have zero issue with this as long as it's ticketed as a Rowdy Screening. Let the kids have their RHPS moment.

I think I've seen this stretch of commentary half a dozen times, always with tears of laughter. Ben Affleck is right: This is his best work.

Wrote a big column about the art of the compact disc and the most "CD album" albums of all time. What makes an album perfectly suited for the CD format? Explored that idea in depth in very personal and nerdy ways! uproxx.com/indie/cd-alb...

Hot to Go just legit made me feel better for 3 minutes

As a baby Gen Xer I usually feel like I am very similar to my millennial friends - until I see they have liked a post by a brand on Instagram

regret to inform you that I loved The Accountant 2

Emailing me is actually illegal, but not emailing me back? That’s right, also a crime.

I'd complain about apparently everyone on this site using the wrong "it's," but that would doom me to make the same mistake almost immediately and its not worth it.

Hello and welcome to Women Are Really F*cking Going Through It In Your Genre Entertainment week.

Post your official Alex Garland ranking 👀

Rin-Tin-Tin will not be upstaged by Nanette (his irl wife) in CLASH OF THE WOLVES

“The Take It Down Act will likely become law, and then we’ll get to watch as the Trump administration — which has already announced its plans to abuse it — gets handed a shiny new censorship weapon with ‘totally not for political persecution’ written on the side in extremely small print.”

On this date in 1863 was born Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, a Russian engineer managing and planning the Tsar's railroad system. After 1919, he offered his expertise to the Bolsheviks. Stalin instead had him killed. "Seriously, fellas," he told his firing squad, "this is no way to run a railroad."

When Eva was a baby, an owl tried to get her, or, rather, scouted her because even as a baby, I think she was too big for owl food but it was the eeriest thing. I was out with her and heard and felt it pass overhead. Eva freaked out and ran under me and I carried her in.

Our entire lives, we're told media literacy was a useless, subjective "soft" subject and not enough of us ever questioned who it was telling us not to develop critical capacity, to obey, to sleep.

Oh thank god, I’ve been looking for books by male writers www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

They earned it, and they co-wrote a banger of an episode. Also voted "most likely to survive an apocalypse by being deceptively scrappy" by the room!

An underrated selling point of the parliamentary system is the ability for a candidate to lose twice the same night www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

I canceled my account when they hinted at doing this last year. The app stinks anyway with its constant freemium demands. I may as well play Candy Crush.

The stars? They’re back! Tony Hale has a new podcast "The Extraordinarians" AND a new movie "Sketch." Then, team building expert Cruchette Dungan leads everyone through some exercises before vigilante "The Night Wolf" drops by! 🐺

Welp, no more GIFs on inside baseball fandom posts either. Anything I post with a GIF ends up in the Discover tab, apparently. I’m just going to start posting about jello until the Discover algorithm stops liking me.

Bluesky is still Bluesky

I heard Musk say these things would work briefly as gliders. Give that a shot, too, morlocks.

He’s one of the smarter handsome guys that Hollywood has produced

Thanks, Canada. Seriously.

But how is he not starting with Armageddon?

Sickos: Yes, hahaha, yessss

The whole world feels like it's sliding right and I hate it.

I don’t think anyone understands better than Ben Affleck who Ben Affleck is

For the first fifteen years of projected cinema, there were no movie stars. Early filmmakers would engage stars of the stage and other media for quick performances but film stardom as we know it was simply not a thing.

One of my favorite videos. We all should have learned about 9/11 from Bill Paxton after emerging from the ocean’s depths.

The first trailer for Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is here ✨ In theaters November 14.

been awhile since i've heard a grosser run of 6 words than "Chuck Todd, Host, The Chuck Toddcast"

#THUNDERBOLTS!?! FOR ME??? How kind.

It's fine to remember to check your teeth and makeup on the way to a meeting, but it's CRUCIAL never to do so on the way home.

Looking for a silent film? I have reviewed over 750 of them! My index: moviessilently.com/index-of-mov...

Some part of me thought it was Principled and Honest and Dignified or some shit to stay and know what the trolls and misogynists and freaks were saying to me. Fuck that. It was too much.

Watch the trailer for Fear Street: Prom Queen 👑 The film will be released on Netflix May 23.

Now Alex Jones will have no lunch table to sit at in hell

I’m stunned to report that I enjoyed THUNDERBOLTS and that it may in fact be one of my favorite post-ENDGAME MCU films. It looks great, the action rocks, and Florence Pugh really brings a lot of heart to it. Its biggest issue is the villain’s arc, which feels like it was put on ultra fast-forward.

At least some* of the cultural/media capitulation to Trump 2.0 seemed driven by the sense of a big generational rightward shift in the public. With polls turning so fast on him, curious if any of that will pivot, and how abrupt/weird it will be if so *not nearly all! this is a tweet, not a book!

Ha ha ha Saturday Night Live, so cringe Oh shit

Spent this morning trying to bargain for equal wages for equal work and benefits, which the company is refusing to move on. Honored to do this work even when management is being rude af.

I remember when I had to think twice before I spelled the word “fascism”. Now I use it everyday. Sigh. www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

Man, if MAX dropped a full season of TEENJUS on their service tomorrow, I would watch every second of every episode as long as it's the Uncle Baby Billy version. That musical number last night was incredible.

I thought THUNDERBOLTS* was pretty unwatchable until the final 30 min, which is grand and emotional and gives an enticing glimmer of what an MCU film could be if half the dialogue wasn’t exposition dumps and self-referential goop.

My 55th (!!!) birthday is in a couple of weeks, so I just locked down IMAX Chinese tickets for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, Tom Cruise's birthday gift to me this year. Got what I consider the best seats in the joint. Can't freakin' wait.

It’s almost “sleep with the AC on all night” season, also known as “$400 ConEd bill” season, also known as “I’d kill for an overhead fan but I have anxiety about the fan falling and decapitating me in my sleep” season. I guess I could just say “summer.”

But would you even be an artist if you weren’t excitedly starting a new project each week that you will absolutely never think about again

There’s something wrong in Maybrook. The trailer has arrived for Zach Cregger's WEAPONS:

NO ONE: NO ONE: ABSOLUTELY NO ONE: ME: Humanity decided to have a base 10 number system thousands of years ago and now we’re stuck doing 100 days retrospectives like 1/15th of the way through a presidency for the rest of our lives and don’t you think time is meaningless and also human governance

I’m so hungry I could eat a receipt covered in Jacob’s mudpie

Went to a screening this morning at an AMC where none of the escalators had been turned on. No one has suffered like I have suffered.

there is no greater freedom than getting to where you are going and not having to park

Thunderbolts* is definitely the best Marvel movie in a minute, whatever that's worth, but this back-to-basics adventure still can't quite outrun the emptiness at the center of the MCU. Florence Pugh rules tho. my review*: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

One source said the DOGE accounts would be a "toehold" to start asking for secrets. "They're getting a little further in, it's something to make note of," they concluded. "It could lead to something bigger." www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

(the ones thinking about fighting gorillas are the same ones that sit around thinking about the roman empire)

Appropriate night to share the greatest, and most, Canadian video of all time youtu.be/54kCX3K5Erc?...

How about when I buy something at the store and they print the sales tax on the receipt?

ÈTOILE’s pilot contains the line, “Let’s face it, Jack. A lot of our dancers are abandoning toe shoes for TikToks,” and I kept watching anyway. Hmm? What’s that you say? “Hero?” Me? Ah hah hah hah. No. I’m just a critic with a job to do.

Inside Out if it was filmed inside my head

Gave the lovers in book two the most embarrassing high school couple song, and now I have to listen to it 500 times every day, and Spotify is getting ideas about me.

JAWS: 50th Anniversary Edition swims onto SteelBook, 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and Digital on June 17. It has over 5 hours of extras, including the new documentary JAWS @ 50: THE DEFINITIVE INSIDE STORY.

This is horrible, and it should be constantly repeated that NO ONE should be enduring this. Not a single person, regardless of citizenship status or criminal history/allegations.

A truly sad day for us old white guys. I feel hip broken over this. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Some real fascist shit. newrepublic.com/post/194481/...