Jake Cole

President rapist. Cabinet full of rapists. A rapist and an abuser on the Supreme Court. Pro-rape policies.

The Republican Party is objectively pro-rape.

Topo Gigio Gang rise UP

“Everyone is 12 now” also and at times especially applies to reading comprehension of the arts

PRESIDENT’S PHYSICIAN: He’ll probably be out cold for a while; this last episode of diarrhea was quite painful for him.
STEPHEN MILLER: Hm. Is there any chance we can get him to say something incredibly racist at 3pm?
PHYSICIAN: (pulling out a syringe filled w/ liquid Adderall) I love what I do.

I was supposed to review the 4K of Hard Boiled, but Shout’s production run shorted so they nixed review copies, but ofc by the time I learned that and tried to buy a copy it was sold out everywhere and I have refreshed every day to see if it’s back in stock lol.

Oh, and Prophet I’ve heard incredible things about. And I didn’t even realize Rucka’s Lazarus was in this lol this is the deal of the year.

The Remender titles and East of West alone make this a steal. Hell, I already got the HB bundle of Remender Image titles in a separate sale and still paid for this for EoW

Despite my usual “why are you publishing these on 12/1” grumbling, the EOY music lists cropping up have felt the most interesting and varied they’ve been in ages. Even the relatively ubiquitous picks are idiosyncratic; how many years has a record like LUX been on every niche and mainstream list?

I’m v aware I sound like an old man when I say “this Bad Bunny album is good stuff!” but I’ve circled back to it here and there over the last few months when I have time to maybe listen to some songs in the PR styles it’s pulling from, or reading translated lyrics and it only grows for me bc of it

Jeffries was too busy going on CNN the same day to praise Trump for “securing the border.”

Probably the most elaborate fantasy she’s responsible for is the cordyceps spores she has animating her limbic system due to all the black mold in her home.

I got offered a LOT of money to host an official HP podcast and turned it down immediately. I’m assuming since I am not a podcaster that they have an extremely long list of people who have also said no to this. Dunno what‘s going on with the actors but the comics are holding the line lol

*sits backward on chair*

Let me tell you kids about another Carpenter who a lot of people criticized

Jean-Luc Godard, Who Defined the French New Wave, Dies at 91 The director’s six-decade career was an ever-adapting project to examine cinema’s relationship to the other arts and its inherent aesthetic and moral responsibilities.

Happy birthday Jean-Luc Godard, who made cinema at the speed of thought. I wrote an all-too-short obit for Hyperallergic when he passed. hyperallergic.com/jean-luc-god...

The conversion rate for NWOBHM comebacks is insane. Raven, Tokyo Blade, Wytch Hazel and ofc Saxon all still putting out quality stuff is kind of bananas for a genre whose two breakout acts are also having killer elder statesmen eras even if it feels misleading to still tag Priest & Maiden as NWOBHM

Don’t fret, Aerosmith fans, Steven Tyler will still be in the attraction

The HFR in 2 was the best I’d seen to that point but still felt jarring at times, but here it feels sharpened up just a bit and it really comes across well when seeing both real and CGI water.

Yeah I didn’t clarify that as well as I could have but that’s what I was getting at by “captured” vs animated. But I think the HFR in this is less jarring than it was in 2 and sharpened up the water motion a bit.

From the water animation in Pinocchio all the way up to Avatar 2 and 3 I am always mesmerized when water is either drawn or captured in a new way and Avatar 3’s water scenes somehow look even better than 2’s

Artist’s rendering of the reaction during Moby Dick when Ishmael drifts away from whales and the glory of whaling to American continental expansion

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”

Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

I stand by my Letterboxd post that Ron Howard validates the auteur theory because if it wasn’t real, the sheer amount of mega-talented crew hands he always hires to *try* to compensate for his awfulness would result in at least one movie that looks good

Get in the van, kids, we’re going to Quiville

Trump sitting under a giant fast food heat lamp slumped over and babbling until he snaps somewhat into focus to spew out another racist rant all while his hatchet-faced Oops, All Wormtongues cabinet praise him for making the sun rise is really the only way any of this could have ended.

He’s a Teamster but for vomit

BEST ACTRESS: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Also i disagree that its story is irrelevant. Ppl bring up Dances with Wolves but there are questions to what degree someone can give up his identity that only sci-fi can broach. And in the naked moral justification of violent indigenous resistance it’s much closer to “red westerns” of East Germany

I don’t begrudge anyone for finding Avatar too corny but when people are just like “yeah it’s good spectacle but that’s it” I am so bewildered because we are STARVED for spectacle. I’d rather see a $350 million movie where every red cent went on the screen than one where $250M went to actor salaries

“The Avatar movies have no cultural impact” buddy you better thank your lucky stars something made in America is still this popular in China.