Brilliant! And yet...incredibly stupid

Everybody at Museum of the Moving Image deserves a raise. #FilmSky

i love it when horror movies end with the protagonists summoning a large demon to eat smaller demons, and then solving the residual "large demon" problem by feeding it dynamite. sadly i've only seen this once (ghoulies ii) but i think it should happen more

We are witnessing the silencing of American media | Robert Reich From the Washington Post to CBS, companies are caving to Trump. This is how democracy dies

"America needs its Eduardo Porters, Stephen Colberts, and all others in the media and in academia who have helped the nation understand just how truly dangerous Trump is."

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He Who Gets Slapped Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films present Lon Chaney in director Victor Sjöström’s 1924 tale of revenge He Who Gets Slapped in a Flicker Fusion Blu-ray edition.

omg HE WHO GETS SLAPPED is getting a Blu-ray from Flicker Alley!!

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Give Osgood Perkins a FINAL DESTINATION movie.

A Maine Woman Paid Her Back Rent. Her Record Still Says She Was Evicted. Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never…

Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction.

But in Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records — even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted.

With @bangordailynews.bsky.social

Playing now, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934).

How is atarting with 15% more effective than starting with the other 85%? This is paper straws all over again: self-congratulatory placing a band-aid on a bullet wound.

“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”

At least five states rely entirely on federal dollars to pay for their maternal mortality reviews. Committee members expressed alarm that this money may evaporate.

“If we get defunded, I suspect it would be devastating,” one said.

By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

'Out of view': Trump demands Obama portrait be moved to hidden stairwell President Donald Trump has ordered the official White House portrait of former President Barack Obama to be relocated once again — this time to a "hidden" staircase out of view of visitors.CNN reported on Sunday that Obama's portrait was moved to the Grand Staircase, along with the portraits of form...

Trump personally ordered Obama’s White House portrait shoved into a restricted stairwell, defying protocol to erase it from public view, a petty move that underscores his obsession with rewriting history to suit his grudges.

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Trump is rushing to build his ballroom. A review process could take years. The National Capital Planning Commission has taken years to approve much smaller White House projects than a ballroom planned by President Trump.

Trump is rushing to break ground next month on a giant White House ballroom, but has not yet submitted the project for a review that experts said is required by law and often takes years to complete.

I missed the part where blowing hundreds of millions in taxpayer money on gaudy, unnecessary White House upgrades counts as “cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.” Or did we just drop that whole narrative?

The Beggar Maid (1921) A Silent Film Review A short film depicting the story behind the Edward Burne-Jones painting, designed to class up the joint in Hollywood but mostly remembered for launching the career of Mary Astor.

This week's review covers THE BEGGAR MAID (1921), Mary Astor's breakout role (she was just 15) and an adaptation of the painting by Edward Burne-Jones (itself adapted from the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

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Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame Collectors tell Rolling Stone an exhaustion with streamers is making owning physical media the next big thing — again.

Streaming promised a new world, but consumers aren’t entirely happy with the trade off.

“There’s this false notion that everything is online...And it’s just simply not true."

"It's so important to be able to own your media."

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia

I would 100 percent help Big Bird eat his birdseed smoothie before he dozed. Maybe the Count could tally up everything in the meal and bar carts.

Marlon Brando, The Wild One 1953.

Happy 1st Birthday to Denahi or “Denny” the northern fur seal! Denny now weighs about 45 lbs and chows down on 7.5 lbs of fish a day—though squid might just be the favorite on the menu... 🦭🦑🎂 Happy birthday Denny!!

I love this lore so much.

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

Somewhere, there’s a newspaper my dad kept from the day I was born with this fuckin strip in it.

An orange mint cup to start with sweet pickles. Chicken soup, the chicken breast with apple curry and glazed sweet potatoes, some rolls on the side and it's Schraft's, I'm going to see if the soda fountain can make me a sundae with that coffee ice cream.

The true villain in AI desecration of THE WIZARD OF OZ is Warner Bros. Discovery, which is getting 5% of the gross (per Indiewire).

WBD is allowing this to happen — and profiting from it.

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The Seven Year Itch, Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, 1955.

Charlie Chaplin, Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance in The Cure (1917)

one of those moments when you thank the universe for movies

A page on Jill Riley from the book Baywatch: The Inside Story. The text by Shawn Weatherly reads: "Jill was a very brave woman. I would never swim in the ocean like she did. But she was never brave enough to tell Craig Pomeroy that she was in love with him. Jill hired Laurie, a slightly deranged young girl, to break up Craig's marriage to Gina, so that she could move in. When that didn't work, she decided to fake a shark attack so that Craig would rush to her side and profess his undying love for her. But that backfired...the shark wasn't as reasonable as Laurie, he ate her."

Just remembered this absolutely bonkers backstory Shawn Weatherly wrote for her character Jill in Baywatch: The Inside Story.

Obscure YT of the day: ever wonder what Jameson Parker did after SIMON & SIMON & PRINCE OF DARKNESS? He did the Indiana Jones-type adventure CURSE OF THE CRYSTAL EYE (89) w pretty Cynthia Rhodes (DIRTY DANCING, RUNAWAY)! From the director of 70s flick ZEBRA FORCE!

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The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever. While the IRS move applies across the country, Texas — with more than 200 megachurches — will be the epicenter for pastors and congregations to test out their new influence, one expert said.

Texas is expected to be where IRS’ new stance on religious leaders endorsing candidates will matter most, one expert said. More than 200 megachurches call Texas home.

“Texas will be the epicenter for testing all these ideas out,” the expert said.

W/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social & @texastribune.org

Here's a McDonald's in Weymouth, MA that's absolutely loaded with McDonaldland playground equipment. Let's go back. (1981)