Matt
@cinematt.bsky.social
I came here to talk about movies and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.
I watch *a lot* of movies but particularly Japanese cinema, and I’m slowly learning the language in hope of being able to seek out new discoveries.
I watch *a lot* of movies but particularly Japanese cinema, and I’m slowly learning the language in hope of being able to seek out new discoveries.
Just because I have no talent you think I shouldn’t be allowed to fill the world with an endless river of slop? For too long art has been judged on its merits, and I say “never again!”
no great artists have ever struggled, a famous thing about artists that we all know. everyone prior to three years ago lived lives of luxury.
![the stupid 'talent is a gatekeeping mechanism' thread that's going around, three posts reading:
tired of having these arguments so i'm gonna lay out the STARK reality of AI for some of you privileged fucks:
1. "talent" is a gatekeeping mechanism that has created a culture of professionalism that is no less of an ivory tower than academia, a moralized proxy for access to time, training, money.
2. being poor means having to make hard choices like:
[a] drawing something yourself in a way society would call "bad" (i.e. unprofessional)
[b] sacrificing resources you don't have to pay a real artist what they're worth (or learn yourself)
[c] not doing it at all, or
[d] using AI.
“just don’t use AI” is a luxury position. when people moralize choices made under scarcity, they’re pretending the menu is the same for everyone. it fucking isn’t.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dei7f7zh74xr3hoghei6ke3d/bafkreig5uei5qn5bkwhgniorhoyesfs73ovo76xwfk2yxprmtnbde4cvp4@jpeg)
February 7, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Just because I have no talent you think I shouldn’t be allowed to fill the world with an endless river of slop? For too long art has been judged on its merits, and I say “never again!”
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I have to say that this is the greatest thing that @theonion.com has ever done
February 4, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I have to say that this is the greatest thing that @theonion.com has ever done
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Labour alreaday have set a lot of this in motion, or rather ramped it up from previous administrations. Reform making clear where following that path will lead.
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Labour alreaday have set a lot of this in motion, or rather ramped it up from previous administrations. Reform making clear where following that path will lead.
Like all the best Third Window releases this was such a delightful surprise. I had the disc for years before I got around to watching it, and I was a fool for waiting so long. They only recently got it back in print so don’t miss your chance this time.
Girl Gangs vs Lolita fashion
KAMIKAZE GIRLS 下妻物語
The film that started it all!
Out on bluray from Third Window Films
thirdwindowfilms.com/films/kamika...
KAMIKAZE GIRLS 下妻物語
The film that started it all!
Out on bluray from Third Window Films
thirdwindowfilms.com/films/kamika...
January 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Like all the best Third Window releases this was such a delightful surprise. I had the disc for years before I got around to watching it, and I was a fool for waiting so long. They only recently got it back in print so don’t miss your chance this time.
Oh good, another world war. Love how many once in a lifetime events I’ve been able to rack up in the last decade.
January 20, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Oh good, another world war. Love how many once in a lifetime events I’ve been able to rack up in the last decade.
Well this seems like another reason to hate AI is around the corner.
James Cameron says he must find a cheaper way to produce the Avatar movies in order to continue making them. https://bit.ly/4qnlOpl
January 15, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Well this seems like another reason to hate AI is around the corner.
I am enjoying the #conformitygate discourse, and would be an amazing move were it true, but all the ‘evidence’ that people are seeing still very much works within the ending they told you about - you can simply choose to believe. Were they hints or continuity errors? That’s up to you.
January 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I am enjoying the #conformitygate discourse, and would be an amazing move were it true, but all the ‘evidence’ that people are seeing still very much works within the ending they told you about - you can simply choose to believe. Were they hints or continuity errors? That’s up to you.
Actually wouldn’t put it past Netflix to colorise Raging Bull because their stats show it would get better engagement.
December 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Actually wouldn’t put it past Netflix to colorise Raging Bull because their stats show it would get better engagement.
One upside of the tariff bullshit has been the regular bourbon sales over here as everyone scrambles to reduce excess stock. Impressive that the best thing for business is now ‘just stop making our product for a year’ when the stuff they’d be making now wouldn’t even be ready to sell this decade.
Bourbon-maker Jim Beam, owned by Japanese alcohol giant Suntory, plans to pause production at its main U.S. distillery for all of 2026 after slumping demand caused an oversupply of whiskey.
Jim Beam halts production at key U.S. distillery amid bourbon glut
The brand, owned by Japanese alcohol giant Suntory, said it’s halting whiskey distillation at the James B. Beam campus in Clermont, Kentucky.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
One upside of the tariff bullshit has been the regular bourbon sales over here as everyone scrambles to reduce excess stock. Impressive that the best thing for business is now ‘just stop making our product for a year’ when the stuff they’d be making now wouldn’t even be ready to sell this decade.
And there it is folks. OpenAI just bought their way out of being sued by Disney, and give themselves and Disney an avenue to sue anyone else that uses the IP for training. The American Dream: steal your way to the top, then buy out the competition or crush them with legal bills.
OpenAI’s billion-dollar Disney deal puts Mickey Mouse and Marvel in Sora — The Verge
A new three-year licensing agreement announced between Disney and ChatGPT operator OpenAI will allow the Sora video generator to create “user-prompted social videos” that feature more than 200 charact...
apple.news
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
And there it is folks. OpenAI just bought their way out of being sued by Disney, and give themselves and Disney an avenue to sue anyone else that uses the IP for training. The American Dream: steal your way to the top, then buy out the competition or crush them with legal bills.
Well, fuck. Best get buying any WB physical media you’ve been putting off…
If Netflix takes the WB catalogue streaming only that will be a horrendous loss. They own a gigantic chunk of cinema history.
If Netflix takes the WB catalogue streaming only that will be a horrendous loss. They own a gigantic chunk of cinema history.
In a deal that would dramatically change the entertainment industry, Netflix, led by Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, is poised to win the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery‘s studios and HBO Max streaming business.
Hollywood Blockbuster: Netflix Poised to Win Battle for Warner Bros.
In a deal that would dramatically change the entertainment industry, Netflix, led by Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, is poised to win the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery‘s studios and HBO Max streaming business.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Well, fuck. Best get buying any WB physical media you’ve been putting off…
If Netflix takes the WB catalogue streaming only that will be a horrendous loss. They own a gigantic chunk of cinema history.
If Netflix takes the WB catalogue streaming only that will be a horrendous loss. They own a gigantic chunk of cinema history.
What’s that? You’re doing The Exorcist again? Hope you’re not letting David Gordon Green near it this time. No? Mike Flanagan? Doctor Sleep Mike Flanagan?
a man in a blue jacket with the word bbc on the bottom
ALT: a man in a blue jacket with the word bbc on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
What’s that? You’re doing The Exorcist again? Hope you’re not letting David Gordon Green near it this time. No? Mike Flanagan? Doctor Sleep Mike Flanagan?
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Also how old are the people that remember better times 50 years ago? Because there is basically nobody who was both working a job with real expenses like kids and a mortgage in 1975 and is still doing so today.
Also how old are the people that remember better times 50 years ago? Because there is basically nobody who was both working a job with real expenses like kids and a mortgage in 1975 and is still doing so today.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Also how old are the people that remember better times 50 years ago? Because there is basically nobody who was both working a job with real expenses like kids and a mortgage in 1975 and is still doing so today.
Also how old are the people that remember better times 50 years ago? Because there is basically nobody who was both working a job with real expenses like kids and a mortgage in 1975 and is still doing so today.
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As transgender awareness week begins I just want to say something to my Ally followers.
The fight for trans rights is and has always been entirely about whether you let cruelly abusive puritans treat us as freaks.
We just want to exist in public in peace. We need your help.
Please
The fight for trans rights is and has always been entirely about whether you let cruelly abusive puritans treat us as freaks.
We just want to exist in public in peace. We need your help.
Please
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
As transgender awareness week begins I just want to say something to my Ally followers.
The fight for trans rights is and has always been entirely about whether you let cruelly abusive puritans treat us as freaks.
We just want to exist in public in peace. We need your help.
Please
The fight for trans rights is and has always been entirely about whether you let cruelly abusive puritans treat us as freaks.
We just want to exist in public in peace. We need your help.
Please
Letterboxd tells me I have seen a mere 32 of Tatsuya Nakadai’s films. Can’t think of one that wasn’t worth the time. I hope I get to see many many more of them. RIP to a legend.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Letterboxd tells me I have seen a mere 32 of Tatsuya Nakadai’s films. Can’t think of one that wasn’t worth the time. I hope I get to see many many more of them. RIP to a legend.
This might be the release of the year for me. Truly an amazing time to be a movie lover, and I doubt there has ever been a better time to be a Japanese movie lover. Radiance in particular are bringing us wonders.
Available as part of our Nine Film Oshima boxset, RADICAL JAPAN: CINEMA AND STATE, open for orders now and shipping very soon:
Radical Japan: Cinema and State - Nine Films by Nagisa Oshima (LE)
This first volume in an ongoing series explores the films of new wave icon Nagisa Oshima (Cruel Story of Youth, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence).
www.radiancefilms.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This might be the release of the year for me. Truly an amazing time to be a movie lover, and I doubt there has ever been a better time to be a Japanese movie lover. Radiance in particular are bringing us wonders.
I’m over the moon about this one. Absolute bangers, and parts 2 and 3 have only been available with extremely dodgy auto translated subtitles. Radiance picking them up is an incredible result.
UK/US: Long unavailable outside of Japan, Sadao Nakajima’s sprawling THE JAPANESE GODFATHER TRILOGY is based on the true story of the country’s largest crime syndicate.
All Blu-ray world premieres, special features include a new filmed interview with screenwriter Koji Takada.
All Blu-ray world premieres, special features include a new filmed interview with screenwriter Koji Takada.
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’m over the moon about this one. Absolute bangers, and parts 2 and 3 have only been available with extremely dodgy auto translated subtitles. Radiance picking them up is an incredible result.
@theguardian.com can’t believe you set the year boundaries so it was impossible to do a Wes Anderson clean sweep on this, because Tilda hadn’t yet worked with him in 2010.
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
@theguardian.com can’t believe you set the year boundaries so it was impossible to do a Wes Anderson clean sweep on this, because Tilda hadn’t yet worked with him in 2010.
Going to see Frankenstein next week. Will have to work hard to leave me more horrified than I was upon discovering that a Tuesday afternoon screening now costs fifteen English pounds.
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Going to see Frankenstein next week. Will have to work hard to leave me more horrified than I was upon discovering that a Tuesday afternoon screening now costs fifteen English pounds.
This should be a surprise to nobody. What is more of a surprise is how few filmmakers are being vocal AI haters. Any director that has had to fight a fucking stupid note from a studio head or been forced to reshoot after test screenings should be terrified of it.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This should be a surprise to nobody. What is more of a surprise is how few filmmakers are being vocal AI haters. Any director that has had to fight a fucking stupid note from a studio head or been forced to reshoot after test screenings should be terrified of it.
Does America realise it is actively in a civil war already?
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Does America realise it is actively in a civil war already?
I used to run a video store. It was a good space. We had years long relationships with customers, could make recommendations, talk about the movies to explain why they were good, cut your decision paralysis down to a couple of titles to pick from. The algorithm could never.
Yeah, I think I see the problem here - it's not that the video store was good, it's that you miss being a teenager
October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I used to run a video store. It was a good space. We had years long relationships with customers, could make recommendations, talk about the movies to explain why they were good, cut your decision paralysis down to a couple of titles to pick from. The algorithm could never.
Can’t believe another Jared Leto film bombed. He was such a box office draw in…
a man with white hair and a beard is standing in front of a green wall .
ALT: a man with white hair and a beard is standing in front of a green wall .
media.tenor.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Can’t believe another Jared Leto film bombed. He was such a box office draw in…