Abe Goldfarb

The Chinese poster for BODYGUARD FROM BEIJING. Jet Li in a suit holding up a gun, Christy Chung holding him as a shield.

THE BODYGUARD FROM BEIJING: Not a major Yuen-Li collaboration, but a delight nonetheless. A swift, cheerful bit of 90s gun-fu comfort food that neatly establishes Jet Li’s unexplored romantic bona fides. There’s some melodrama, some culture clash comedy (HK vs Mainland!) and a wailing climax.

Matt my god

She’ll be back.

Feels so GOOD

Same guy! This time in a brown corduroy jacket and Hawaiian shirt. Plus a bushy ginger beard with white patches around the chin.

how far we’ve come

Me! White guy. Dark red hair, big hornrimmed glasses. Little smirk. Peach colored t shirt with the number 1956 on it.

the beard…is on hiatus

face naked once again

Middle age is primarily about opening a new kitchen sponge and going "this is much better"

I am so keen for your take on it. I think it’s special. And it’s a little less arch, a little more naturalistic (but only a little). Interesting evolution for him.

STRANGE AND UNUSUAL BROADWAY DEBUTS to be Presented at 54 Below 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, will host a one-night-only celebration of Broadway's newest ghosts in the system - the debuting cast members of Beetlejuice!

This is going to be a LOT of fun. So excited to be a part of it. Come see.

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vote blue no matter who*

*some conditions apply

OEDIPUS on Broadway shattered me. Took a story I thought couldn’t surprise me and applied pressure til I couldn’t breathe. Mark Strong and Leslie Manville are doing things that would break most actors. My whole fucking body is rumbling. WOW.

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weird thing to brag about but okay

BUGONIA: SAVE THE GREEN PLANET! is one of my all time favorite movies. Lanthimos justifies the act of remaking it by going full Lanthimos. A riot of torment and beauty and sick jokes, acted to perfection. The tale’s conspiracy brain fever also feels peculiarly correct for the present moment.

Two of the works I’m proudest of in my life, hardly seems a coincidence they’re written by Mac

A monochrome lesbian romantic horror fantasy about couples therapy, and an apocalyptic thriller set in a bro’s basement. The man has range.

Enjoy, spooky friends!

I really like how Zohran Mamdani has run a campaign that is so focused on making New York City a safe (including from the fascism of our current federal government) and affordable place for all its residents, and I am really appalled by how racist so much of the opposition to his candidacy has been.

as a centrist i will be voting for the sex pest who killed grandma because the other guy has spent his whole life referring to a relative who isn’t the sister of one of his parents as his aunt

Kinda not sure what we're supposed to do about chatGPT being as normalized as it is. I feel like everyone that's either very young or very old is into it, millennials largely being the only normal ones lol

obviously there has been some confusion here, as the war was ended by the greatest diplomatic genius of our american century

the intellectual showdown of the century: a beloved multi-term progressive congresswoman and a swimmer who is famous for being bad at swimming

The new 4K of PEKING OPERA BLUES is nothing short of a miracle. It’s already one of the awesomest movies ever made (a queered, action-packed screwball espionage farce set in the aftermath of the 1911 revolution), but laying eyes on this restoration felt like seeing it for the first time. Wow.

oh you watch video essays? i watch movies in a big theatre with my fellow filmgoers

I agree we need a big coalition. So if transphobes want to fight fascism, I'd say they need to recognize that antifascism is going to need a big tent, so they're going to have to stop issuing political purity test and let trans people live their lives. We can't afford to shrink the tent for them.

Oh god I’m so sorry…and I’m glad Dorian has an owner who cares so much.

absolutely fucking rolling at michael jai white’s spawn casting story

Republicans want to demolish the White House and build golden ballrooms while millions starve is neither inaccurate nor difficult framing.

Playing the Dune tabletop game really clarified the ways in which I am not cut out for either tabletop games or life. Everyone else was warring over the larger objective and I was just sending diplomats everywhere to see if I could make friends with aliens.

not “better” as such

quite simply the least mad anyone has ever been

if you don’t spend several hours a day on your phone you’ll miss all the Crap and Bullshit

David Bradley deserves awards for his performance in this. It’s so goddamn beautiful. Like a protected ember of humanity.