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Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025) Dir: Christopher McQuarrie

regarding Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning a lot of you owe John Woo an apology

he’ll make a hell of a tenured professor after this

oh my god (h/t @mcgetting.bsky.social)

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One thing I don’t feel like people get: “academic freedom” is a principle, not the law.

Revisited Dead Reckoning last night and man those first 30 minutes are such a slog for this reason. You could lose the entire desert shootout since the very next scene with Cary Elwes et al. *immediately* recaps it for reasons passing understanding.

This feels very telling, as those of us who actually study higher ed would be able to tell central administration that this is their archetypal student now and they just don’t realize it yet.

The Boss never rests

It’s 6:48am, and here is me

😁 #lfc

If you see this, post a smile

TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.

George lived to see a Chicago pope and I genuinely think that’s beautiful

RIP George Wendt.

😉Watching this trailer like

Referring to this person as “the writer” feels outrageously generous imho.

FRIENDSHIP (2025) | Director of Photography: Andy Rydzewski | Director: Andrew DeYoung | #OnePerfectShot

cubs …….. goddammit

Nancy had another Monica Bellucci dream.

Netflix to cancel Sesame Street after two seasons that take seven years to produce

Studio Ghibli’s “Inland Empire”

CHAOS.

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 “Cubs win! Cubs sweep!” 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

revisiting M:I 5-7 before Final Reckoning next weekend and god I’m sorry but this sequence really does just whip ass unreservedly

reading texts from @mcgetting.bsky.social after he’s watched Fire Walk With Me

yeah I’ve been holding my tongue so as not to yuck anyone’s yum but insisting that Andor elide directly into Rogue One was *such* an unforced narrative error