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Avid film watcher. Obsessed with 1970s Hollywood, and the Japanese New Wave. Enjoys feel-bad art across genres and mediums. ESL teacher in Asia for nine years. Writing a novel about life and film in Taipei. Leftist, interested in democracy preservation.
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“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

Alfred Hitchcock composes a shot of Ingrid Bergman in Spellbound bit.ly/k41Nye

submitted 630 days ago • 6 comments

Remember, when you say ACAB, this is who you're being mean to.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The trilogy goes: The Happening. The Happened. The Happening After Next.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Late-fascism.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My Bluesky feed is just garbage now. I really want to do a nuclear reset but I don't know how. At some point, my entire feed became politics. I guess that would be fine, but I don't learn anything from it. It's just memes and talking points. I want a social media I enjoy and learn from.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=HUOA... One of those songs I maybe heard once twenty five years ago and still made a huge impression.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: Khalil was detained last month after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had determined that Khalil's activism was antisemitic.

submitted 39 days ago • 345 comments

The biggest difference between Mudhoney and Nirvana was never that Nirvana got popular. The difference was Nirvana made good music. Mudhoney absolutely did not.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

A bad guy, it's easy to not care about someone like this being executed. Even without getting into the politics of should unrepentant psychopaths be killed by the state, the conditions of lethal injection are unethical. Hanging, firing squads, the chair... All are more humane.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Does the novelistic character trait of Trump loving Broadway musicals - often playing them at loud volumes when stressed - humanize him, or make him seem more villainous?

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Don't have the player, hate the g... No, actually, I have no hate for the game either. At least not the part about selling fake Trump signatures - that's just fucking funny.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Strictly in terms of coolness, snacking on carrots is the new smoking

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Thank God we have a president looking to protect small businesses. 🙄

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

RFK has a fetish for people being unhealthy. That's his whole MO. He wants the things that in his view unnaturally make them well, and for there to only be nature left to cull the week, as he sees it.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Relieved that this Your Friends & Neighbors show on Apple has nothing to do with the Neil Labute movie. As amazing as Jason Patric's monologue may be, I do cringe sometimes at the stuff edgelord-me liked back in middle school.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This press conference is insane. Just the rantings of a delusional old man filled with bitterness. He can't follow through on a single thought. The EU is screwing America because... They send out cars?

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 44 days ago • 1137 comments

Even if you didn't like it, if you felt it was heavy-handed or obvious, rewatch Triangle of Sadness. I can't think of another movie that was able to predict the moment we are in right now better. We *were* on the boat. Now we are on the island.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 48 days ago • 825 comments

I hope another immortal cuts this dude's head off with a sword. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Am I becoming a neocon hawk in my old age? The juanta in Myanmar exploiting the earthquake by attacking areas impacted by the most by the quake is just about one of the most evil things I've heard of and some kind of foreign intervention to crush the juanta is something I wouldn't be against.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I love this idea, but I can't imagine I'll be in a majority. It seems like the kind of thing that would also enrage people that are inherently against needle exchange programs.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Marine LePen, the face of France’s far-right movement and three-time presidential candidate, was banned from running for office after being found guilty of embezzlement.

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

'Northern Exposure' is just the bad episodes of 'Twin Peaks,' but good.

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This is a fascinating history of something that is both vital to a functioning democracy, and also just full of great aesthetics from the last fifty years. A must watch. youtu.be/jttdzOXeW0Q?...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Has Katherine Heigl weighed in at all on Gérard Depardieu being on trial for sexual harassment?

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Masahiro Shinoda died two days ago!? I only found this out because I saw a collection of his featured on The Criterion Channel. So many great Japanese film directors, but he might be my favorite. If you've never seen Pale Flower and you like your noir at its bleakest and most existential, watch it.

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This is awful, of course. But it's also just so very...odd. it's obvious propaganda, but it fails so thoroughly. Ironic cruelty that accidentally makes the fentanyl trafficker look like a saint being victimized by a fascist regime. Who thought this was effective?

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Doesn't Elon realize that his endorsement *hurts* Poilievre? No. No he doesn't. Keep on endorsing Pierre, Elon!

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Dir. by David Lynch.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The hypocritical nature of this Signal scandal is frustrating, but it's nothing surprising. Fascists insist others play by the rules in bad faith, laughing when the rules are applied to them. The callousness of the attack is what actually upsets me, like killing people is a football game to them.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Simulacra and Simulation was one of those pivotal books for me as a young man. It's full of great bits like this.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Now that I'm almost forty, I'm going to come out of the closet with my secret. I like fruity white wines better than dry reds. I'd say come at me with your judgment, but don't worry - I've already judged myself.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Can I just say, I was anti-space exploration DECADES before it was cool to be.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I know just about everyone hates it but me, but I do believe we'll look back at JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX as tapping into something we didn't know was there. There are definitely parallels between the movie and what's happening with Luigi Mangione right now.

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