Brandon D. Wilson

OMG!

There isn’t a Hell hot enough.

Like notably evil even in the annals of the 20th century. It will never stop infuriating me.

My 13 year old just said “‘Cringe’ is one of my least favorite words.” I told him I loved him for that.

Clarence Thomas, among his many sins, has a lot answer for with his absolutely shameful use of this word during his confirmation hearing.

A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.

Then he pointed at ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER and said “All About My Boner.”

At the Academy Museum. Romare said he couldn’t come up with a dirty joke based on ENTER THE DRAGON and I smiled. He’s still such an innocent despite his best efforts to be filthy.

I love that in NOUVELLE VAGUE Linklater gives everyone of note an introductory title card (even if they’re essentially extras in the scene), but in BLUE MOON Lorenz Hart has a brief interaction with George Roy Hill and Sondheim as a kid with no introduction or fanfare.

Today is A VIEW TO A KILL day for our Bond watch but Romare wanted to rewatch GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES instead. Can’t say I blame him.

One immediate question about the Netflix/WB merger: what happens to Sony's streaming deal with Netflix? Sony is the one studio without their own streaming service. Are they really going to put all of their content on a Warner service?

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

A shout out to Tucson protesters who used a bicycle chain to lock ICE thugs into the parking lot of a little restaurant they were raiding today, so that they had to call local cops to get them out.

Ratcatcher (1999) Morvern Callar (2002) We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) You Were Never Really Here (2017)

"I don't make films for everybody; if I did that it would be blandness beyond belief."

Happy 56th Birthday to the amazing Lynne Ramsay, fearless and talented Scottish filmmaker and cinematographer.

#BOTD in 1969

I slept through the film. Cannot, in fairness, log it on Letterboxd.

You are correct sir!

I was not ready for this. This is the longest I’ve ever seen the concession line. I just ran into a current student. That literally never happens.

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

a man with a beard and a hat is standing in front of a row of empty seats . ALT: a man with a beard and a hat is standing in front of a row of empty seats .

Guess I gotta take a teenager to see the new animatronics attack horror movie.

the fifa peace prize trophy with zombie-like hands holding up a crumbling earth

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

Yea, I think this feels pretty right. I think it's best of the bad outcomes in that it preserves WB as a studio instead its dismembering/consolidation into Paramount or Universal. BUT, how does TCM work separated from WB? Who knows! How about CNN? Or TNT?

I profoundly dislike Gavin Newsom, I think he would be an awful candidate, but I think he’s still better suited to the moment than this guy

Congrats to new 60 Minutes reporter Olivia Nuzzi.

Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE

Photo shared by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025 tagging @naomi.marie__, @nathanmiller612, @rubyscher, @holaarepa, @birksg, @chefjholig, and @haihaimpls. May be an image of text that says 'AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I.C.E. PAID US A VISIT AT AREPA YESTERDAY. OUR GM NAOMI & TEAM MEMBERS FOLLOWED OUR ICE PROTOCOL PERFECTLY, THE AGENTS LEFT & NO ONE WAS DETAINED. tO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO I.C.E. (1/5)'. christinanguyenmpls 11h We had an ICE scare yesterday and even though we’re afraid of the repercussions of being vocal, we feel that it’s also important to inform people that this is right at our front door. ICE is not some far away boogeyman. They are here right now, spreading fear in our community. We’re so grateful to our entire staff and their bravery. They did the right things and couldn’t have dealt with this situation in a better way. We are grateful to our community activists that came to support us from @miracmn @litosonlake and Monarcha. We hope that if you find yourself in the same situation, that you find these resources helpful. Peace and take care of each other ❤️

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: UNLESS THE AGENTS HAVE A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT, THEY CANNOT ENTER A PRIVATE AREA LIKE THE KITCHEN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION EVEN IF THEY LIE AND SAY THY DON'T NEED A WARRANT, STAND YOUR GROUND AND INSIST THAT YOU NEED PAPERWORK (2/5)'.

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: HAVE OTHER STAFF OR PEOPLE PRESENT RECORD THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE SAYING. (PEOPLE DOING UNLAWFUL THINGS HATE BEING CAUGHT IN TH ACT) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE & YOU CAN ASK M tO LEAVE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IF THY DON'T HAVE A WARRANT. (3/5)'.

WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S APPALLING. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE. WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE, HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI (5/5)

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

THIS THIS THIS THIS

Trump may have accidentally pardoned the pipe bomb guy?

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

A friend who has had a short film catch a big festival wave this year said she feel's like she's finally managed to get in the front door of a burning house.

WALZ: “.. Donald Trump’s calling our Somali neighbors ‘garbage’ and calling the state of Minnesota a ‘hellhole’. I’m assuming it’s unprecedented for a United States President. .. We’ve got little children going to school today, their president called them ‘garbage’.”

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.