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THERE WAS A MUSICAL????

It's omelette time

That was cool

There's always arthouse & indie cinema

It's pre WWI masculinity.

(See Fussell's Great War and Modern Memory.)

Every day there's a headline like "President's fire safety officer says we're going to set everything on fire and if you think that's bad you're woke"

That’s the Chicago Way: Siskel & Ebert first teamed up 50 years ago - The Boston Globe Our film critic gives two thumbs up, WAY up, to the film review team that influenced generations of film critics (including him).

My Siskel and Ebert tribute is in print in the Globe today.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/21/a...

Set photo from the 1983 film version of SE Hinton's novel The Outsiders, about the clash between rich kids and poor kids in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 1960s. From left to right, in period bluejeans, T-shirts, and denim jackets,: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise.

"These are young men who love without qualification or care for gender norms—time and again Ponyboy observes and remarks upon his brothers’ and friends’ beauty. It’s not sexual, but can be if that’s how you want to read it."—@alishamgl.bsky.social on S.E. Hinton! www.rogerebert.com/features/rig...

Excellent!!!

Looking forward to this!

A Cocaine Bear movie poster featuring Fozzie Bear.

movie posters featuring the muppets: thread

Such amazing creatures

"The students dropped out because the conditions were so atrocious, and the growers weren't able to mask that up."

Oh my gosh! I didn't know about this! Thank you!

Yeah, it's shitty

Never understood this "everything must be available to me when I want it" mentality. I came up in pre-Internet Dallas, which got movies weeks or months after NY and LA. I wasn't mad, I didn't feel mistreated. And I didn't resent NY/LA critics for seeing things that never came to Dallas at all.

It's just a subject that interests me! A large percentage of films about revenge are kind of two-faced about it. They have the heroes restrain themselves at the decisive moment, then kill off the offending party anyway with an accident, intervention by another character, etc

Do you remember Space: Above and Beyond? I think that might've been the first time I saw the use of a snap-zoom in an outer space battle.

Excellent movie – I have admired pretty much all of this director's films, and every performance by this actor

The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat

Mainly though if you didn't want your users to freak out over rumors that you're secretly stealing and misusing their personal data, your entire sector should have played the past two years and also the past two decades differently

Excellent read. I have to get this book for my son.

I Like to Almost Kill People by Driving Past Them at 125 mph in My Modified Honda Accord Everyone’s got their thing. For some, it’s baking. Others, gardening. Me? I like to take a modified Honda Accord, drive over 100 mph, and swerve be...

"One thing I should make clear, though, is that I’m not a jerk. I don’t have to have my way. I’ll do this in a Kia Forte too."

Absolutely fantastic piece on SE Hinton and the history of the teenager.

That one I thought was great, because it had a fully thought out aesthetic

It wasn't just doing things because it could

@juliebozza.bsky.social I read this for Rumble Fish

Excellent!

Set photo from the 1983 film version of SE Hinton's novel The Outsiders, about the clash between rich kids and poor kids in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 1960s. From left to right, in period bluejeans, T-shirts, and denim jackets,: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise.

"These are young men who love without qualification or care for gender norms—time and again Ponyboy observes and remarks upon his brothers’ and friends’ beauty. It’s not sexual, but can be if that’s how you want to read it."—@alishamgl.bsky.social on S.E. Hinton! www.rogerebert.com/features/rig...

Truly honored, thank you so much!

Alisha has been doing one marvelously original piece after another. It's a pleasure to edit and publish her work. Here's her appreciation of S.E. Hinton!