This is so accurate
NEWS: It was never about the children.
Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
www.advocate.com/news/court-b...
I can't raise a red enough flag for the way states are attacking trans people in this moment. It is extremely bad, and escalating quickly (and relatively quietly)
Truly cannot have enough silos and havens for indie animation nowadays.
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of March 6th, 2026:
Wish I felt more motivation to see things in theaters - besides HOPPERS, which I liked a bunch. Very tired lately. Struggling to put my Top 25 of 2025 list to bed. Split opinions about THE BRIDE make me *very* interested in catching it, tho.
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of March 6th, 2026:
Wish I felt more motivation to see things in theaters - besides HOPPERS, which I liked a bunch. Very tired lately. Struggling to put my Top 25 of 2025 list to bed. Split opinions about THE BRIDE make me *very* interested in catching it, tho.
Kneejerk ballot for what my Best Actress nominees would be:
Danielle Deadwyler, The Woman in the Yard
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love
Amanda Seyfried, Seven Veils
Sayu Suzukawa, The Colors Within
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
GOOD.
Primary the hell out of all the collaborators.
Don't let them kill free speech, call your reps ahead of Thursday when bills including KOSA will be discussed again
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of February 27th, 2026:
Best film I saw last week doesn't come out till this one, so we'll see if AVATAR leaves to make room for HOPPERS. Am pleasantly impressed UMA MUSUME made some dent, if a small one. Will I catch PILLION before it drops out? Maybe?
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of February 27th, 2026:
Best film I saw last week doesn't come out till this one, so we'll see if AVATAR leaves to make room for HOPPERS. Am pleasantly impressed UMA MUSUME made some dent, if a small one. Will I catch PILLION before it drops out? Maybe?
This is such good news for artists.
Now companies would never in their right minds pressure you to use AI because you get to say: "We can do that as long as you don't want to own the stuff you make and ANYONE can use it for ANY reason without paying you for it." and they will NOT like that.
If I'd been invited, SPEED RACER would've made the cutoff.
Very good list! Some definite overlaps with what I would've added. Would love to see an ambitiously expanded version in the future, but curation is important to avoid diluting the outcome.
A government which does not want trans people to exist, and is legally allowed to force detransition in prisons, has created incentive for itself to put more trans people in prisons.
I can't emphasize enough that the idea of a Paramount-WB merger producing 30-40 movies a year is an absurd fiction. First WB will become the "classy" label within Par (which is only about Rescue Rangers, Scream and existing IP). Then it will become the specialty or streaming label. Then it will die.
Once again:
A) This would be handing two of Hollywood's only remaining studios to a right-wing Trump ally and his "Dad said I could have it!" son, who
B) has not begun to prove that he can successfully run one studio, let alone two.
An utter disaster, although in fairness, that is Zaslav's brand.
Horrible. Industry's fucked. So, so much is fucked. Ellison's about to destroy two film studios & severely ruin the media landscape. Yeah, nothing good about this.
They fucking wanted this to happen. They embarrassed this man *on purpose*. It sounds like he did what he could, but the BAFTAs and the BBC were determined to embarrass him.
He should sue for defamation.
The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.
These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of February 20th, 2026:
I'm seeing great things that make me happy about artists & entertainers working in this world, and I'm seeing mediocre things euthanized by serviceability. It's a mixed bag, and I wanna feel more optimistic than I do.
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of February 20th, 2026:
I'm seeing great things that make me happy about artists & entertainers working in this world, and I'm seeing mediocre things euthanized by serviceability. It's a mixed bag, and I wanna feel more optimistic than I do.
If @criterion.bsky.social adds SHE-RA AND THE PRINCESSES OF POWER to their Collection, then I'll sign off on their KPOP DEMON HUNTERS release.
They need my personal go-ahead to continue, so I feel confident in my personal bargaining power.
My biggest complaint with Criterion is the massive failure of animation representation. It is the sort of thing I'm glad GKIDS has risen to champion, but there are so many greats being ignored by Criterion.
Jankovics, Bluth, Selick, Svankmajer, Bakshi, Norstein. So many not currently repped.
Hey, the two best seasons of one of the best animated shows of our time? Not legally accessible.
If you're making something you feel is of immense value, you need to hustle and harangue whoever necessary to make physical media, cause otherwise they will erase you.
MULAN beat TREASURE PLANET. TREASURE PLANET is better than CINDERELLA. Therefore, MULAN is better than CINDERELLA.
But also, MULAN is better than CINDERELLA.
I'm not gonna mute someone cause the poll they launched has faulty wiring. But this has become a true and genuine bother.
I think Josh's bracket may be unsalvageable. Genuinely think people gamed the system and flooded polls with fake votes at the last minute for some of these. I am becoming actually annoyed at it.
Didn't even have much stock in yesterday's round, but I know when things don't add up.
