Jim Thompson / Five Noir Novels of fhe 1950s & 60s
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04.03.2026 15:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Jim Thompson / Five Noir Novels of fhe 1950s & 60s
Look at this beauty! I renewed my @libraryofamerica.bsky.social membership & they sent it to me.
04.03.2026 15:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0That I want Nurse fired waaaayyyy more than I want Sirianni fired is not something I expected a mere 6 weeks ago.
04.03.2026 02:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
HBO Max added 50 pre-1980 films in March, bringing its total to 485.
Paramount+ added 3, bringing its total to 17.
If, as announced today, Paramount intends to merge the two services, this is a concern. #FilmSky
Why do I have to pick just one? I think Platner is BOTH really dumb and Nazi-ish.
02.03.2026 21:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One Perfect Shot: Sinners (2025)
d. Ryan Coogler
They're calling them 'Epstein's Angels'
02.03.2026 17:15 — 👍 1254 🔁 180 💬 15 📌 2The longest section of Pete Hesgeth’s wikipedia page is “Abuse and sexual assault allegations.”
02.03.2026 14:37 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Wolf Blitzer + Ving Rhames is Gen X’s Hobbs & Shaw.
02.03.2026 14:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0On the plus side, Paramount buying CNN means Wolf Blitzer can return to Mission Impossible.
02.03.2026 14:18 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1So if Trump ends it five times and restarts it six times, he’s ended five wars. (I’m starting to see why his casinos went bankrupt.)
02.03.2026 13:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel
02.03.2026 03:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0could a dying empire do THIS
01.03.2026 19:06 — 👍 3462 🔁 630 💬 78 📌 20The Warner Bros. story now has a title, "One Bad Merger After Another."
01.03.2026 18:45 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0Amen. Just placed my order!
01.03.2026 17:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.
01.03.2026 00:23 — 👍 4166 🔁 741 💬 10 📌 13It feels like only recently John Boorman — still with us, age 93! — started receiving the respect he deserves. What a career!
01.03.2026 17:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I forgot about The State of Things! Prob haven’t seen it in ~25 years. This is inspiring me to rewatch asap.
01.03.2026 02:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Top shelf Peter O’Toole. Steve Railsback was never better. And the always underrated Allen Garfield gives my favorite supporting performance of a screenwriter ever.
01.03.2026 00:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The defining feature of the Trump administration is glee at the suffering of girls.
28.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 678 🔁 172 💬 3 📌 3“‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.'” — G.K. Chesterton (1901)
28.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We will be reading & hearing this insane shit for the rest of our lives.
28.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Make Kalshi Shitty Cereal Again
28.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Make no mistake about it: We are At War now ― with somebody ― and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.” — HST, 2001
28.02.2026 13:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Operation Friendship (2025)
28.02.2026 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Best Picture Nominations, 1990:
Dances With Wolves (🏆)
Awakenings
Ghost
The Godfather Part III
Goodfellas
If I redid the 1990 nominations now:
Ghost
Goodfellas (🏆)
The Hunt for Red October
Misery
Reversal of Fortune
Ha! At least in that case they weren’t trying to become the next Netflix.
27.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Jason Kilar & AT&T grievously mismanaging WB, which is why Nolan and others left, allowed Zaz to take over. Which is how we got to yesterday.
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