🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

For my entire life, the people protesting US wars have always been ultimately vindicated and that being right is completely forgotten when the next war comes.

Truly amazing.

He would've fit right in!

"One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster..."

Kaleb Horton photography. No people--who needs 'em.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again

Tehran, Iran. Photo by Akbar Mehrinezhad. 💔💔💔

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

This was my response when my agents asked if I wanted to pitch on this reboot back in November. I really hope more creatives do the same so that the likes of Max Landis are all they can hire. I may not make an honest buck but I’m a hundred per cent American and I don’t work for no two-bit Nazi.

Well well well

Bill breaking out one of the classics for this occasion.

Episode 103: Careful (1992) Careful, children, careful! The mountain village of Tolzbad rests precariously in the mountains, always in danger of being destroyed by avalanche. The people of Tolzbad lead lives of quiet desperation, repressing their secret--and often dangerous--desires.

Happy Birthday to Guy Maddin! Hear him on our CAREFUL episode: www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2013/02/epis...

Important content: Jet LI’s daughter explains to him what the slang term “G.O.A.T” means. 🥹

(shamelessly stolen from one of Jet’s many social media platforms)

The Dems who take the most from AIPAC will say the least.

'The Pitt's' Rape Kit Storyline is Quietly Revolutionary The show’s real-time storytelling gives viewers a startling look at a process rarely captured on TV.

One thing I appreciate about The Pitt is its thoughtfulness in using the real-time format to reframe the tropes of the medical drama. The past two episodes' painstaking account of a sexual assault exam is a remarkable example.

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Quentin Tarantino should have been run out of town for speaking ill of this man

This aged well. Note the author.

Please be true.

For 10 years now, I've wanted to call Moonlight (the film) Midnight, and just noticed that I used it in an editable/now edited review of another film. Embarrassing. And it doesn't even make sense. Moonlight is a great title, but my brain and certain words don't always get along.

Anytime! I admire her talent. I don't admire her politics, but her partner is of Israeli descent, so I'd imagine that's a factor. They've been together for 35 years, which is pretty astounding.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Cucalorus 30 Dispatch #2: David Fortune's Astounding Directorial Debut <i>Color Book</i> COLOR BOOK  (David Fritz Fortune, USA, 2024, 115 minutes) Every once in a great while I'll see a festival selection so accomplished that aft...

Final post. I first saw Color Book at @cucalorus.bsky.social in 2023, and in knocked me flat. Was thrilled to reconnect with David Fortune at @siffnews.bsky.social in 2025, and to meet the amazing Will Catlett. One of the best debuts--one of the best *films*--of the last decade. #BlackHistoryMonth

1. JAWS, and the making thereof
2. aspect ratios
3. where to eat in Manhattan (below 81st street)
4. why DVD region codes were a necessary evil
5. dogs, and how to pet them

Whenever tensions rise in the Middle East, an informal network of prominent figures launches attacks on supporters of the Palestinian cause—undifferentiated from Hamas—and in particular targets La France Insoumise: Sophia Aram, official comedian on France Inter; Philippe Val, who formerly ran Charlie Hebdo and France Inter; Frédéric Haziza, star journalist at Radio J and contributor to Le Canard enchaîné; essayist Raphaël Enthoven, cofounder of the newspaper Franc-Tireur; the imam of Drancy, Hassen Chalgoumi; actress Charlotte Gainsbourg; founder of the far-right monthly Causeur Elisabeth Lévy; and Amine El Khatmi, former member of the Socialist Party and cofounder of Printemps Républicain, a fundamentalist secularist movement. Full text: www.thenation.com/article/world/france-pro-israel-lobby-media

She was in The Phoenician Scheme and every episode of Amy Sherman-Palladino's Étoile on Prime, but it was cancelled. She hasn't released a full-length album since 2017, which is too bad. And...she has, in recent years, aligned herself with some problematic people, which is especially unfortunate.

Operation Epstein Fury

The problem with the war in Iraq was that George Bush was an idiot. With the Iran situation, we've got... [checks notes]... oh jesus christ

From the NYTimes: "The administration has not provided Congress and the American people with critical details about the scope and immediacy of the threat," Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said in a statement on Saturday. He called for Congress to "quickly return to session and reassert its constitutional duty" by passing legislation to curtail the military campaign against Iran.

What Chuck seems to lack the clarity or courage to say:

• Only Congress can declare war

• Congress did not declare war on Iran

• This war is illegal

• Wars of aggression are considered to be "supreme international crimes" by the International Criminal Court. The phrase was coined at Nuremberg.