Chris Topher

Honorable Mentions:
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
- Stop Making Sense (1984)
- Conclave (2024)
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Favorite first time watches of 2024:
- Dune Part Two (2024)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Challengers (2024)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)

A little confused. Not sure who this is, but I saw one of their posts in my feed and liked it/screenshot it. I tried to look up the page a half an hour later to read some more of their posts and couldn’t find it. Found out shortly after that I had been blocked. Not sure what I did.

…and, there we go.

Permanently deleted Facebook today. It felt really good. Might permanently delete my X account later today.

I had no idea they actually sold this. I’ve always bought the neoguri and chapagetti separately and then mixed them together when cooking. Game changer!!!

As it god damn should be.

Looks like this year’s Oscar’s will be less predictable than last year—which has me excited. After two years of heavy predictability in a row, it’ll be fun to watch a more surprising ceremony. I would love to see Demi Moore take home her first Oscar.

Anyways, my predictions moving forward is that the smaller/more prestige films are going to lead the way this year. Dune Part Two and Nosferatu are both in my top 5 of the year so far and I would like to see them have better chances. However, I’m really pumped to see The Brutalist in a couple weeks.

My biggest takeaway from The Golden Globes is that awards bodies (at least so far) don’t seem to be impressed by the event films of 2024. A bummer in my eyes. I believe Nosferatu should be receiving as much praise and awards buzz as Dune Part Two and Wicked have been getting.

I’ll also add that category fraud has been rampant in the Golden Globes for a while. The Martian (2015) was in the comedy category. I’m sure there’s similar examples further back in time as well.

Last night, I took an edible and went to see Hundreds of Beavers. It was one of the best theatrical experiences of my life.

Just saw someone post about exercising with portable cd players back in the day. And it got me nostalgic. I remember playing my cds off of this thing in my car back when I was 19. I borrowed a DC to AC power converter from my dad to power my laptop speakers since the ones in my car didn’t work.

Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes had drawn a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Pornhub ban now covers more than a third of US states Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee are the latest to restrict access to adult websites

I would love to see the below map posted alongside a similar map that shows VPN customers per capita in each state. For no particular reason at all.
🤣🤣🤣

www.independent.co.uk/tech/pornhub...

Final two Christmas presents came in today. Receiving the Se7en steelbook feels serendipitous considering I’m seeing it in IMAX tonight.

America's HELL Corporations It is long past time we grapple with the violence imposed on Americans from our exploitative for-profit health exploitation system

UnitedHealth CEO was killed 30 days ago on Dec 4. Mangione is on trial for that killing.

Since Dec 4, about 5589 Americans have died preventable deaths under America’s exploitative for profit health system.

So—when do CEOs who enabled these deaths go on trial?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/americas-h...

Whenever I read Sausage Finger’s truth social posts, all I see is an angry little boy. Desperately trying to hurt and bring as many people down with him as he can. If he can’t get his way (controlling how the entire world sees him), then he’ll burn the house down. If he can’t win, then no one can.

This is how my narcissistic brother sounds when he’s pissed off. Disrespectful, incapable of looking inward, blaming others for things that are his own fault, projecting his own flaws and fears outward towards others, attempting to speak his reality into existence (desperately seeking control).

It's time for Class War in 2025 New Year, a new chapter in the struggle, and a few resources

It's easy to despair. 2024 was a tough year, and 2025 will be tough too. But last year ended with historic Amazon, Starbucks, and rent strikes. These get less attention than elections, but this wave of class warfare has the potential to change history.

www.jphilll.com/p/its-time-f...

Showed my three year-old The Hunchback of Notre Dame today. And I noticed via the lyrics of Topsy Turvy that the Festival of Fools takes place on January 6th.

So is it cool if we now refer to Jan 6, 2021 as The Festival of Fools?

Completely agreed. On the one hand, I constantly think about deleting all of my social media because it fuels that anxiety/adhd side effect of always feeling that I’m in the wrong.
But on the other hand, I’m a creative and social media is a huge part of that.
The world we live in fucking sucks.

I miss real journalism which is why I support @bylinetimes.bsky.social @yorksbylines.bsky.social

Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited...

1. Retailers didn't like what their data was saying about shoplifting trends. So, after three decades, the National Retail Federation just stopped collecting data about shoplifting and invented a dubious new metric

It's already being cited by Fox News & the NY Post

Follow along for details

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there's a scene in Gladiator 2 where they fill up the Colosseum with water and a guy yells out something about Poseidon. i cannot help but respect how little Ridley Scott gives a fuck about history

Yes, this hasn’t come out yet. However, to anyone who is complaining that this is “just another remake”, I invite you to watch both of Guadagnino’s remakes alongside their source Material: Suspiria (1974) and (2018) + La Piscine (1969) and A Bigger Splash (2015). Guadagnino does things differently.