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I know that all the talk of whether the dog from Good Boy is eligible for an Oscar is marketing-talk and I haven't seen the movie yet but I want to remind everyone that in true Air Bud fashion there's no rule that says a dog can't be Oscar-nominated. In fact, there's precedent.

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert “TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.

"A rave of a movie that acts as its own hallucinogen, best experienced on a huge screen with a state-of-the art sound system. If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat." My **** review of TRON: Ares. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...

Other, more serious countries, have actual constitutional/supreme courts. We, alas, have a 9-member super-legislature that doesn't even pretend anymore that it is following the law or constitution.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

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The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.

Contemptible & pathetic.

Remember when the Kony 2012 guy had his brain so broken by social media he was found naked on the street doing weird sex stuff and vandalizing everything within reach? What if 13 years later we made the whole government out of that guy

Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.

Also an early OOP UK-only LE - Robert Altman’s teen comedy O.C. AND STIGGS - will now be released in US/CA as a Region A edition.

He's right that after he's gone all the political journalists who cover for him today will laugh about how bad it was and how "everybody knew"

You know, we could have easily been in a situation where Greg Mottola and Jon Hamm would be turning out Fletch movies every couple of years. What a great time we'd have had! But no. It's all AI and cryptocurrency for us.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

There's a man in back of this place. He's the one who's doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream.

Me three months ago:

Belongs to a friend

Didn’t know they’re now making microwaves in CinemaScope.

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled.

Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff. For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.

“Historically, when left to their own devices, states don’t necessarily do the right thing for kids with disabilities and their families,” a former director at the federal Office of Special Education Programs said.

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it's been quite a year

Hitler committed suicide. Mussolini was shot and then his corpse was attacked and hung. Pinochet died under house arrest, while facing criminal charges in Europe and in Chile. Idi Amin died in exile. The Shah of Iran died in exile. Pol Pot died under house arrest. Mobutu died in exile. Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad. Saddam Hussein was hung. The Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo was assassinated. The last Somoza dictator was assassinated in exile after being overthrown. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez all died in exile. Argentina's Jorge Rafael Videla died while serving a fifty-year sentence. Ferdinand Marcos died in exile. Only last winter Assad fled Syria; only last summer Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh. That hasn't been the fate of all dictators but for many of them the chapters after their power crumbled were not what they would have written. Nor is this reassurance that justice or democracy always wins or dismissal of the damage each of them did. I was just thinking and then decided to compile a list.

In a handicraft moment, I made this little list for you. I hope you enjoy it.

Found 5 reels of what appears to be work print for a movie called CIRCUS. Could use help in better nailing down details if you can read this text. Element is in rough shape and about to turn, but I don't want to throw it out if I can repatriate it instead.

‘The Degenerate’ Trailer: Controversial and Derided Grindhouse Auteur Andy Milligan’s Art, Impact on Queer Cinema Fuels Tribeca-Bound Doc (EXCLUSIVE) Director Andy Milligan's wild works helped to shape both the grindhouse and queer filmmaking.

Love to see Andy Milligan getting shine in Variety of all places. What a world.

Big congrats to @severinfilms.bsky.social and Josh Johnson

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

Such a great screening. Opening theme blew me away and then the rest of the film delivered. What a picture!

‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

In case you missed it... WIRED talked to *actual* federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

Happy 4/20 everyone