John Kinard

They run an AI-generated ad on Tubi that takes place in an ersatz Tattoine cantina with all the aliens betting on celebrity baby gender reveals and global warming. It pulses with evil.

Yes

Katharine Hepburn sitting above the canals of Venice in David Lean's Summertime

Summertime (1955)

An interview with the homeowner from mayaeaglin on Insta. h/t @meghancolleen.bsky.social

Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns, Barbara Hershey, and Richard Thomas in Last Summer (1969)

Frank & Eleanor Perry's Last Summer (1969). Every performance is great but Catherine Burns manages something beyond description as Rhoda.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”

Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

What

I feel like no one talks about George Stevens anymore?

Two black bears hanging out in Highlands, NC

Making new friends on fall break

There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

All movies should somehow include Anthony Perkins in an information silo.

Soderbergh’s Presence—a formal experiment but also just an excellent haunted house movie

Highlight of the oeuvre is Karen Black accusing a pigeon of conspiracy in Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Terrible unrepresentative movie poster for Peter Bogdanovich’s Saint Jack with Ben Gazarra.

This is a masterpiece? There should have been dozens of Ben Gazzara/Denholm Elliot movies.

Demented that Ice Storm got no acting nominations that year—Sigourney Weaver should have been given dominion over several counties in Connecticut just for the way fishes keys out of a key party bowl

Goddamnit

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

And Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter’s premise is a woman who misunderstands (willfully?) the Fargo true story title card

First time I saw this one was right before watching The Trout—the tonal range of his filmography is unbelievable

OHMSS should have ended in James’s death not Tracy’s and Diana Rigg should have then taken over as Bond

Elizabeth Taylor with giant Bloody Mary in Boom!

Losey loves distractingly huge glassware

Annie Lennox in Edward II

Annie Lennox in Derek Jarman’s Edward II

Promotional image for the movie Sorry, Baby with writer/director/lead Eva Victor holding a kitten

Excellent