Pretty undeniably the real best performance of the year, even beyond the fact that no-one else has to give as much to a role to begin with, Byrne plays it in a way that keeps Linda constantly and almost impossibly between completely open and entirely inscrutable. It's monumental In a very rare way.

It is my firm belief that an event of mass violence should never be politicised in a functional country. The response from all politicians and commentators should be one of practicality, healing and above all, respect for the victims.

The Bondi Junction mass shooting is horrible, my thoughts go out to the victims and their families. It is concerning that I see opportunists champing at the bit to use this tragedy to spread hate, because that same hate is what caused the horror we see now.

"Meet a nice girl at the first reformed church" ok Ernst Toller why don't you go back to your barbed wire and catholic guilt 🙄

The secret agent is too good, it's exciting to see such a daring and formally bold movie get recognition from major awards bodies. Moura is the stuff of legends, Filco is a master in his prime. Reminds me of Aftersun and Saint Omer in all the best possible ways.

Secret Agent the GOAT

It's the perfect way of saying nothing at all. The hypothetical is too unspecific to communicate anything beyond the tidiness of its own allegory.

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Oof I did not know wow. That's beyond awful.

Isn't that the other masterson or am I missing something? Genuine question

They all think they're Nikolai Tesla but they're actually a less impressive Thomas Edison.

*correction, not a guy, but writes like the stereotype of "guy who's sure he'll write the great American novel"

You can see them go in on Pynchonesque tangents and just lose the thread. Like maybe take a second look at the review because man is this not fit for publication. I wish writers would take the time to work out their language instead of brutalising it like this.

But they can't, no-one can write like he does - it's pointless to go up against him because line for line the man is a genuine genius, someone who has refined his craft in every aspect. This guy is just some reviewer on a lucky break, spouting vaguer and vaguer aphorisms in the face of irrelevance.

I will say it's very funny that people who write about Pynchon feel the have to get into literary "measuring contest" (if you catch my drift) and dry out their prose with witless, flavourless verbosity. Especially if you're critical, you need to prove you can write like he can for some reason.

Seems that no critic wants to engage with the medium they're critiquing at anything beyond a surface level which... kind of defeats the point of criticism as an art.

Tangential but I read the review of anemone on Roger Ebert's website and it was bafflingly awful, more of a summary combined with vague put-downs of the film's pacing - I though we agreed pacing is the critique of hacks!

Reading shadow ticket reviews and many of them seem to be mad at the fact it's a Pynchon novel? The new yorker review especially is just the reviewer being vaguely grumpy that they have to read the book. I hate what the critical establishment has become.

Never forget that stand-ups are the ad-men of fascists. They will sell any inch of their soul for a cent and promise it wholesale for the cheapest laughs.

PTA's new movie supplants the original Vineland ending for one that I find very fitting, it's a master stroke. I can't help however but imagine that today Brock Vond wouldn't be called back, he would just reach the end of his rope. Just have no further money to expend. That's the end of the admin.

RIP to one of the all-time greats. Watching #AllThePresidentsMen in film class got me serious about movies. Thank you to the truly legendary #RobertRedford for the movies, the magic, the charm, and reshaping the industry with #Sundance ❤️

Clarifying, I do not advocate for violence against Ralph babet in any way. I was noting his rhetoric is more violent the extremest of acceptable sentiments for a parliamentarian. I think he should be expelled, that is a fairly extreme punishment in Australia. And I would like it to stay that way.

Ralph Babet should be suspended from parliament until he resigns for inciting political violence! He is advocating for the extrajudicial killings of civilians. He should be censured in parliament and frankly if the power still existed, not hung (as he would do to others) but expelled.

Exactly! If it were political violence, they would target someone important.

The fascism is already there! And don't say ICE is facing difficulty because they clearly aren't being impeded in any meaningful way.

The admin doesn't need political capital for repression, they have already made a mockery of the law in every conceivable way, they have armed mobs (ICE), they have concentration camps described as "unliveable" and they have brought in the army!

I've thought more about Kirk and I have to say, man what a pointless death. There's a supreme emptiness in someone so pointless dying. No reason to be sad, or angry. Nothing was achieved, because Kirk never did anything. A pointless life, a pointless death.

I see no reason for American lawmakers to pay any attention to the death of Charlie kirk. He was not a man worth speaking of, not worth condemning political violence for. He was a waste of air till the very end.

E-bow the letter and exhuming McCarthy!

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