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by now I should know that the correct approach to this franchise is "listen to the soundtrack with eyes closed and imagine the film you want," and yet...

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opening this week: film by the same director with Reznor / Ross soundtrack

Awh yeah

Faced with a post-truth ideological movement, media orgs have only two options:

1) Regularly distort reality to please the post-truth movement, and lose the trust of truth-based news consumers

2) Try to regain trust from the reality-based audience whose trust you lost while fruitlessly chasing 1

I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.

Same.

claire on the cover, hell yeah

Which one though??

the script practically writes itself! in a cool way, not an LLM way!

Body-snatchers in the age of deepfakes? A paranoid invasion thriller while in the grip of fascist institutional capture? Pointing and screaming incomprehensible gibberish en masse? I'm there, I'm sat, I'm buying the novelty popcorn tub.

feel we're culturally about due for another INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS remake

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I'm like this with my increased propensity for blood clots. Transatlantic team-up imminent

A ★★★ review of Prince of Darkness (1987) I can't really count this among my favorite John Carpenter films—it lacks the iconic minimalist menace of HALLOWEEN (1978) and it also lacks what you might find at the opposite end of the spectrum: th...

October horror run begins with PRINCE OF DARKNESS letterboxd.com/jbushnell/fi...

@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview.

I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

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More like this, please.

Magic is real.

Great movie!

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Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York Gift, Tom and Remi Messer, 1986 © 2016 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Untitled by Alexander Calder, 1971
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I agree with this read. And plot beats that make a kind of sense in the heat of a late-60s "sexual revolution" feel a little extra weird when PTA transposes them into, like, 2008 or whenever the first part of BATTLE is supposed to be set

I saw the link but was not previously familiar

😇 nice to start my (US) day with a song

😍

Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago