Grant Sauvé

AFP does a detailed image factcheck of messages issued by the Trump White House about "lawlessness" and "disorder" in Chicago and finds that images used are all from crime incidents in Republican-run states, namely Texas, Nebraska, South Carolina and Florida. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Writing about PRINCE OF DARKNESS prompted me to rewatch PRINCE OF DARKNESS and reminded me that PRINCE OF DARKNESS is top-tier Carpenter with my absolute favorite of his many awesome scores.

And I would submit that no genre filmmaker is as consistently great at endings as Carpenter.

Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

A churchyard homeless encampment was cleared less than 24 hours after the priest received the Toronto Book Award for writing about it - Toronto Life Reverend Maggie Helwig called the eviction a “very sad moment”

A churchyard homeless encampment was cleared less than 24 hours after the priest received the Toronto Book Award for writing about it

in my section alone, we're running monthly pieces about women-fronted action movies, Blaxploitation soundtracks, new Criterion releases, and frequent actor-director collaborations. Plus, reviewing all the new stuff. No AI, no herbs, no glorified PR

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

fucking cruel and unusual in every sense

This wannabe authoritarian POS is off his nut:

He is just like Trump.

He can never be allowed in power.

I think we're in a lot of trouble, and it would be a mistake to underestimate the threat. But the optimist in me looks at all the infighting and posturing even right now and thinks post-Trump MAGA implodes like post-Tito Yugoslavia. But maybe that's wishcasting.

A man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a white shirt and brown vest, sits at a workbench with a puppet dog with a shaggy gray coat and an open mouth. The dog is positioned next to a yellow bowl labeled "SPROCKET" filled with dark food, in a workshop setting with tools, a lamp, and various objects in the background.

Gerard Parkes had two iconic roles as a character named Doc.
In the 1980s, he was Doc on Fraggle Rock.
A decade later he was Doc in The Boondock Saints.
But his career is so much more than that, and he remains a beloved actor to this day.
This is his story.

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Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

An icon of poster illustration and design. Definitely on the Mount Rushmore with Saul Bass and others.

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everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

Laverne and Shirley Halloween costumes

Penny Marshall, who played Laverne, was BOTD in 1943

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

The living Israeli hostages have been released as part of a ceasefire deal that also saw about 2000 Palestinian prisoners freed.

Wait, but why are the Israelis “hostages” and the Palestinians “prisoners”?

In today’s video, that’s the question we’re exploring:

This guy is quietly excluding the press and being combative with them. I’m seeing the aim of Trump with Canadian implementation—backroom behind the scenes
The press is a fundamental pillar of democracy and he’s skillfully shutting it down

Goonies poster

Back to the future poster

The thing poster

Big trouble in little china poster

RIP to legendary poster artist, Drew Struzan.

Feel free to drop some of your favorites below to celebrate his unique contribution to Cinema.

He-man and skeletor by Struzan

The Thing by Struzan

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Struzan

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

Struzan by himself

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

Les Goonies

Indiana Jones

l'Empire Contre Attaque

BTTF

Drew Struzan est mort à 78 ans.

Il a fait tellement d'affiches iconiques que je ne sais même pas comment illustrer ce post 😭

should the government allow journalists access to them? yes. of course. but it's always been a carefully curated version of reality. denying access shouldn't be a death sentence to reporting. if anything, it should make you want to work even harder to figure out why they're keeping you out.

i'm just a little independent journalist but i don't think the credibility of your reporting should be dependent on access to a paid government mouthpiece

Rogers Park and surrounding neighborhoods were hit hard by immigration enforcement activity over the weekend.

There's no competition here, but I want to name that the same heavy, violent, fast-moving abduction pattern has invaded the southwest side about three times a week for over a month now.

I don't know how to get people outside Chicago & environs to understand what is happening here, but this thread captures the bleakness. It's happening in every corner of the city. The videos you see are only a fraction of the daily raids. Even those not at risk are aware of their own vulnerability.

genuinely i have said this to almost everyone in my life lately: whatever you’re seeing on the news, it’s much worse, and it’s obscene that chicago isn’t the lead story on every news broadcast every single day right now.

We featured Space Cabbie in DC Super Hero Girls too!