James

Nolan isn’t a conservative. If you’re talking about the DKR thing, I think time has shown how universal “violent demagogue weaponizes class resentment against the elite” is. I would also just watch Oppenheimer, which is about as left as a blockbuster is allowed to be.

Feel the same about Zero Dark Thirty. The politics are abysmal (torture is good!) but the film itself is astounding.

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I also lament the collapse of screenwriter Twitter. But also refuse to contribute to Musk’s fascist project. Hoping you’re good, brother! Got some great talent alongside me here, it seems!

In the last few days, we learned that there are minutes erased from Epstein’s prison footage, there’s an unidentified and unaccounted for figure in the footage, the FBI redacted all mention of Trump in the EFs, and Ghislaine is being sent to a low-security prison…DEMOCRATS SHOULD TALK ABOUT THAT

Real One list

Favorite movie by each. Go.

Audio cutting during the diner scene is heresy.

Gonna go out on a limb and say: if you can’t think of questions to ask someone, you shouldn’t be a reporter.

Saw someone out in the wild at a trendy LA hangout spot and, as I was passing them, accidentally glanced at their laptop. It was open to ChatGPT with the prompt: “what questions should I ask *celebrity name*” and it dawned on me. This is an actual fucking reporter.

This is great! I also think of westerns when I think of Dad Movies. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or Tombstone.

I think cheating is bad. I think a society that seeks out retribution and public disgrace of people they don’t know for the sake of clout is worse.

Anisimova played a hell of a tournament to get here, including a win over the #1 in the world, where she looked brilliant. Today wasn’t her day. She’ll be back.

I feel like Javier Bardem just always understands the assignment. Scariest villain of all time? Got it. Comedic friend/acolyte with a shit ton of pathos? Yep. Absolutely broken, confused, depraved entity? Let’s do it.

Watching Casablanca on the 4th of July, 2025 really hits, even more than it already does as simply one of the greatest movies ever made.

If you’re not rich, Trump and complicit Republicans (almost all of them) just raised your taxes and took away healthcare from people you love so that they could give billionaires tax cuts and ICE more money than the entire Marine Corps to kidnap your and your neighbors without due process.

Social media trivializes even the most heinous political info. The fact that you read “Kilmar Abrego Garcia tortured” and then see a photo of your friend at the beach just dampens any effect the word TORTURE should have. And yet, it’s the only way most people find out anything anymore.

This is my big “wait, what?” with the MSM. You would think they wanted Trump to win to juice ratings, but they’re not even sensationalizing the things that would actually get them viewers. Doing everything in their power to maintain and codify their own obsolescence.

28 Years Later really missed the boat by not playing Green Day’s “Saint Jimmy” at cut to black.

Isn’t that a gag in Man of Steel? They’re fighting in the city and Superman throws Zod (or other way around) into a construction site, and the sign gets changed back to 0.

That’s why I’ve always preferred Last Crusade. Raiders is erroneously fun, with some jaw-dropping visuals, but Crusade just tells a better story.

That’s two films in as many weeks that lure you in with the promise of a great and very popular actor, only to use them for like five minutes of the movie.

*taps the sign*

“Let Zack Be Zack”

For a while, it was a popular belief that decorum masked the insidious acts of evil people, but now that public decorum is gone, it looks like it actually constrained them from doing even greater evil.

If you watch Collateral (2004) and Miami Vice (2006) back-to-back, you’ve essentially listened to half an Audioslave album (epic!!). I wonder, are there other directors who use the same musical artist in multiple films? (In needle drops, not composers)

He wanted to bring the hammer down. I guess they took that literally.

This. Can’t fight cynicism with cynicism.

Does anyone remember a Medium post that made the rounds a few years ago that connected the dots on the data-driven simplification of NBA shots-taken spots, simplified corporate logos, and modern political unrest?

The way you all gleefully spoiled not just the *who* of a certain show based on a video game, but the *how.* No respect for other people’s experience either here or with the films/tv shows they watch.