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Yep. Hell there are half a dozen movies about the female knock off of a Charlie Chan knock off about whom there are over a dozen movies

Seriously I’m not mad about disagreeing about a bunch of stuff anymore I’m just BORED

Gonna disagree. I mean sometimes it tells me that they aren’t assertive with regards to forming their own opinions based on the context plus available evidence and overly reliant on “received wisdom” and are therefore boring and ignorable 😏

Syria's last embroiderers: 'I lost my home and my fields, but I always kept this bag' A symbol of the country's diversity, Syrian embroidery nearly disappeared during the 13 years of civil war. Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in late 2024, a group of women led by a German woman in her 70s has been trying to keep this age-old art alive.

Syria's last embroiderers: 'I lost my home and my fields, but I always kept this bag'

A ★★★ review of The Wind (2018) "You know why. Mesimer, prince of pestilence. Succorbenoth, bringer of jealous thoughts. Babael ... keeper of graves." Emma Tammi's atmospheric western chiller is probably a tad too thin and twisted u...

Emma Tammi's atmospheric western chiller The Wind is sharp and starkly photographed and eerily performed and genuinely chilling enough to be genuinely unsettling at times …but there isn't quite enough skin stretched over its prairie bleached bones.

One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness

Ever hear someone pause to explain who someone like John Houston is to a group they're speaking to and just want to like cry into your hands for a few minutes? No? Me neither I guess.

recreation of a macahuitl

I think we've reached the conclusion that what the majority of the men in the Trump administration secretly want, deep down, is to be tied up and for a muscular woman of color to paddle them while calling them "naughty" or something like that.

If that happens to you, use this paddle instead.

A ★★★★ review of The Wedding Banquet (2025) "What is this preposterous plan? Are you all stupid? Or is life so boring that you're determined to ruin each other's lives?" Tonight I ran back Andrew Ahn's sharp genuine, effecting and also occasion...

Ran back Andrew Ahn's genuine, effecting and also laugh out loud funny rema ... or rather Ahn’s genuine, effecting and also laugh out loud funny queer 'update' of Ang Lee's gay romantic comedy THE WEDDING BANQUET and have concluded among other things that the anti remake discourse should end. 🎥

This was delightful. See it if you haven’t.

Meet Mayor Paige Cognetti, A Fighter Running in PA-8 "Too many people have been in office to benefit themselves, not the people"

Have done some interviews with our top House candidates most likely to flip red seats blue next year.

First up - meet Mayor Paige Cognetti (@paigecognetti.bsky.social) running in PA-08. 1/
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Dec. 7, 1874 | Violent White Mob Massacres Black Citizens at Political Meeting in Mississippi Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1874, white mobs attacked and killed dozens of Black citizens in Vicksburg, Mississippi, who had organized to help a duly elected Black sheriff regain his office.

Well now I’m all curious.

like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics

And? 🦻👈🏾

Every time I see a professional film person complain about horror being the only that’s selling, being bitter + oldish I always think the same thing: Guess coasting on blockbuster, carriage fees and booms while disdaining audiences and treating most commercial genres like trash for decades was dumb

YouTube video by Pretenders Pretenders - Message Of Love (Official Music Video)

So one of the most me things ever might be that, well one time in like the early 90s Camille Paglia said some silly stupid shit about Chrissie Hynde on the Charlie Rose show (?), and to this day, every time I hear an old Pretenders song I both enjoy it and am infuriated re Paglia all over again. 🎧

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"Seek death with all your desires, and all your selfishness, and all the Seven Deadly Sins." was stuck in my head.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett onstage with a crowd behind her

Jasmine Crockett: “To every politician celebrating this decision, let me offer a word of caution — Don't get too comfortable — When you push district lines this far, you risk losing the very seats you thought you locked in“

I think we can turn Texas blue—

King Arthur Legend of the Sword is a criminally awful film but that one scene where the 10 year old he’s torturing tells Jude Law to fuck off and he just smiles and says “I always wanted a son” because he’s impressed. He’s SO GOOD in that scene. Like he forgot the film sucked for a second.

Two minutes later, they ate him

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OMG!

There isn’t a Hell hot enough.

It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all

You've heard of elf on the shelf... Pictured is Mr. Zulu from Star Trek riding Cthulhu.

The Old Gods are no match for Hikaru Sulu! 🖖

YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES: Why You Need To Watch This Criminally Underseen Adventure To an entire generation, this Steven Spielberg produced Victorian era adventure may feel like a fever dream. But it’s real and it deserves some love! Written by GREMLINS screenwriter Chris Columbus, we’re celebrating 40 years of YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES.

FYI: To an entire generation, this Steven Spielberg produced Victorian era adventure may feel like a fever dream. But it’s real and it deserves some love! Written by GREMLINS screenwriter Chris Columbus, we’re celebrating 40 years of YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES.

Red's out, purple (and Chase Infiniti) are in in first look photos from The Testaments Red's out, purple (and Chase Infiniti) are in in first look photos from The Testaments

Hulu's Handmaid's Tale sequel show puts Lucy Halliday, Ann Dowd, and the One Battle After Another star front and center.
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A ★★★★ review of The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (1968) "Liu Xiang, save yourself by flying now. Don’t come back here asking to die" There are two things I want to get into on this one and as regular readers might expect only one of those two things 100% h...

Joseph Kuo's brutal-beautiful rumination on revenge as generational trauma Swordsman of All Swordsman is incredible. No. Not unlike Chiun. It is better than that. It's a Pet Sounds to King Hu’s Rubber Soul playing with intolerable inhumanity of honor themes right out of Masaki Kobayashi's best. 🎥

Wait. Was I so busy this week that I missed the spirit awards nominations?