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Fascinating result as Brookings Institution scholar and columnist E. J. Dionne is elected president of South Korea

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There has never been a movie I was less tempted to see than The Phoenician Scheme. Not Human Centipede, not Brown Bunny, not The Love Guru. Hell I'd sit through that triple-feature before I'd go see The Phoenician Scheme.

Ranking desirability of hearing phrases beginning "Glenn Greenwald . . .": 1. ". . . retires." 2. ". . . permanently banned from internet." . . . ∞. ". . . sex tape."

I have no problem with the concept "Netflix cop-show Slow Horses."

It's obviously terrible that the US government is doing this shit but also this is the kind of thing that can turn a woman into an asset for the Rebellion.

I'm not about kink-shaming but, I mean . . . c'mon.

Dear Filmmakers, If your movie is shot in Texas and Texas politicians had a say over any of its contents, I will NOT go see your movie and I am a person who spends A LOT of money seeing movies. Regards, Elliott

Is anyone still reading The Washington Post, the newspaper that changed its motto from "Democracy dies in darkness" to "Hey, turn out the lights!"?

Making a TV show based on a video game and then putting a bunch of obvious CG in it seems . . . redundant.

I keep seeing reviews of The Fountain of Youth that say "Guy Ritchie is better than this!" but, like--no, he's not? Okay, maybehe's the Spielberg of gun-toting blokes saying unintelligible things to each other but beyond that.

Between The Fountain of Youth and the trailer for The Smashing Machine I gotta wonder if John Krasinski and Emily Blunt had a contest going on as to who could make the crappier movie. He drew the CG Slop Dan Brown Dumbshittery card and she got the Painfully Preposterous Prosthetics Biopic one

What's the Emily Post on telling the visiting neighbor kid to fuck off and shut up? Not done, I guess, right?

Reached the Fuck it, I'm gonna look it up stage of Blue Prince

Obviously it better be three shells

Do people go to Hollywood thinking "I'm going to play two-faced, shifty government functionaries" or do the Henry Czernys of the world just get lucky?

Props to Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning for bringing back Rolf Saxon and NOT Jeremy Renner

Everybody shits on lawyers all the time but the day will come when you need to employ the services of one and that's when you will realize that you've been being far too kind about them all those years

It's petty ballsy to be adding trillions to the national debt while actively ripping out so many of the underpinnings that help keep the nation peaceful and stable, huh.

"Make the obscenely rich even richer" is for sure a pretty disgusting proposition--nice job, GOP.

Seriously. Quit voting for ancient people.

Or maybe a Grand Mon

How old am I? I am sit outside watching the Merlin bird app and get excited every time a new entry pops up years old.

Hey, hey RFK, How many kids did you kill today?

I've never read anything by this person but every time I see his name I get it backwards and think it's the answer to a question. Like "Do you have anyone who gavries?" "Yeah, this dude. He's my key gavriel guy."

Sad sight at the end of the dryer cycle

Crypto executives and their families are being kidnapped and tortured in France, and I think this is terrible because I didn't like giving the French credit for any good ideas

*may also be Tom Hanks's secret son bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

This is no exaggeration the most un-American shit I have ever seen.

I learned today--today! in the year of our Lord 2025, a full quarter-century into the the new millennium!--that these are the same person.

I think Donald Trump should be made King of America. To be specific, he should be made this king, and we should place him in increasingly stressful scenarios until he's finally crushed by rocks or whatever.

I am still amazed that this answer was invalid. Well played, NYT Connections

I would also watch a show where Cassian Andor becomes an interstellar Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo running a space drug cartel.