Derek Smith

Ah yes, who can forget all Iranian bombs constantly being dropped on the United States over my entire lifetime?

Still processing this, but what a pleasure it was to chop it up with a true master for a bit.

Still processing this, but what a pleasure it was to chop it up with a true master for a bit.

Nakajima Sadao’s THE JAPANESE GODFATHER TRILOGY, available today on Radiance Films Blu-ray, broke new ground in the yakuza film just as the genre’s death knell was tolling loudly. tinyurl.com/mr3fkhcx

'Ghost Elephants' Review: Werner Herzog Chases a Dream in Angola 'Ghost Elephants' shows that Herzog is determined to capture the poetic phenomena of nature and the dreams it continues to instill in us.

GHOST ELEPHANTS shows that iconoclastic German filmmaker Werner Herzog is fiercely determined to explore new frontiers. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.

National Beef Council Debuts New ‘You’re Supposed To Feel Like That’ Campaign

National Beef Council Debuts New ‘You’re Supposed To Feel Like That’ Campaign https://theonion.com/national-beef-council-debuts-new-youre-supposed-to-feel-like-that-campaign/

Would happily cut off Sam Altman's food supply in the name of energy conservation.

“The Board of Peace should be spelled B-O-R-E-D”

Performing the magic trick of transforming $30K into unwatchable garbage?

Frederick Wiseman was perhaps the best chronicler of Modern America in any medium, full stop. RIP.

here is how you get into Wiseman

Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

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I am going to turn this into a daily inspiration calendar.

"Sadie may not realize it."

"but whether or not she thinks she's listening, she's being penetrated."

"Good thing she didn't hear you say that."

Joe Breen asleep at the wheel watching A Letter to Three Wives

She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.

One of the best films of last year. Check it out!

One of the best films of last year. Check it out!

John Cassavetes’s films were born out of emotional truth. One of his greatest, A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, arrives on Criterion Blu-ray in a stadalone edition this Tuesday. tinyurl.com/27y6jzrf

'My Father’s Shadow' Review: A Family (and a Nation) on the Cusp of Change Hope and fear are inextricably bound throughout Akinola Davies Jr.'s semi-autobiographical film 'My Father's Shadow.'

Hope and fear are inextricably bound in Akinola Davies Jr.’s semi-autobiographical film MY FATHER'S SHADOW. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.

The most "don't threaten me with a good time" of all time

It's tiny Sully from da Rehearsal haha

BLUE MOON (Richard Linklater, 2025)