Jack H Christal-Gattanella
@jackherbert.bsky.social
Adjunct Professor, semi-professional independent filmmaker, amateur/would be professional film Critic, driving instructor, couch potato and the luckiest husband. New Jersey is home for some reason. Cinetarium.blogspot.com
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Id make a Ned Flanders joke but he was actually a decent guy deep down (he even had that Left-Handed Store and everything)
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Id make a Ned Flanders joke but he was actually a decent guy deep down (he even had that Left-Handed Store and everything)
What was Gabriel Byrne's line from Miller's Crossing? "She's a grifter, just like her brother. They probably had grifter parents and grifter grandparents and someday they’ll each spawn little grifter kids.”
always fuckin' grifting. bsky.app/profile/akgr...
Has to be there 5 years to get her full Bennies (I think that’s what I read)
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
What was Gabriel Byrne's line from Miller's Crossing? "She's a grifter, just like her brother. They probably had grifter parents and grifter grandparents and someday they’ll each spawn little grifter kids.”
#Noirvember #Noirvemberchallenge
21. Favorite Film-Noir Made Outside the USA. Easy, "The Third Man" (1949, UK) (though Le Samourai is pretty damn close, old man)
21. Favorite Film-Noir Made Outside the USA. Easy, "The Third Man" (1949, UK) (though Le Samourai is pretty damn close, old man)
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
#Noirvember #Noirvemberchallenge
21. Favorite Film-Noir Made Outside the USA. Easy, "The Third Man" (1949, UK) (though Le Samourai is pretty damn close, old man)
21. Favorite Film-Noir Made Outside the USA. Easy, "The Third Man" (1949, UK) (though Le Samourai is pretty damn close, old man)
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We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
Yeah sure communist socialist but look at that punim
Trump is a diehard believer in human inequality. He sees the wealthy as superior, yes, but even more than that, he sees people with charisma — "stars," people "out of central casting" — as a kind of unofficial Elect that walk among the rest of the hoi polloi. He reacts to ppl accordingly.
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Yeah sure communist socialist but look at that punim
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I’m sure Chappell Roan was thrilled to hear about this, too.
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’m sure Chappell Roan was thrilled to hear about this, too.
Boom
We'll see if they actually mean it, but this announcement after one week confirms that Charlotte was impeccably well organized for this moment.
www.cbsnews.com/news/charlot...
www.cbsnews.com/news/charlot...
Federal immigration crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina, has ended, sheriff's office says
A federal immigration crackdown based in Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city, is now over, a local law enforcement agency said Thursday.
www.cbsnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Boom
It is even funnier if you say this in C-3PO's voice
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It is even funnier if you say this in C-3PO's voice
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A new Marist poll of registered voters has Democrats holding a 14-point lead over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot.
55% would back a Democratic candidate. 41% would back a Republican.
55% would back a Democratic candidate. 41% would back a Republican.
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A new Marist poll of registered voters has Democrats holding a 14-point lead over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot.
55% would back a Democratic candidate. 41% would back a Republican.
55% would back a Democratic candidate. 41% would back a Republican.
#Noirvember #Noirvemberchallenge #Noir
20. Favorite Gambling Scene in a Film-Noir - Melville's "Bob le Flambeur" basically the entire climax of the film
20. Favorite Gambling Scene in a Film-Noir - Melville's "Bob le Flambeur" basically the entire climax of the film
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
#Noirvember #Noirvemberchallenge #Noir
20. Favorite Gambling Scene in a Film-Noir - Melville's "Bob le Flambeur" basically the entire climax of the film
20. Favorite Gambling Scene in a Film-Noir - Melville's "Bob le Flambeur" basically the entire climax of the film
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I keep coming back to the Joseph McCarthy moment where the red-baiting senator was finally asked, “Have you no decency,” and his cult of personality burst. “Quiet, Piggy.” We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I keep coming back to the Joseph McCarthy moment where the red-baiting senator was finally asked, “Have you no decency,” and his cult of personality burst. “Quiet, Piggy.” We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment.
"Nobody is perfect" is what you say to Jack Lemmon at the end of Some Like it Hot. Trump is a termite
GOP Rep. Salazar won't criticize Trump calling a woman reporter "piggy" -- "President Trump is a very different type of politician. But I always say I look at his policies and not his personality. Nobody is perfect."
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"Nobody is perfect" is what you say to Jack Lemmon at the end of Some Like it Hot. Trump is a termite
AI is going to be used for sooooooooooooooooooo (breathes in) ooooooooooo much porn
I wrote about this oncoming apocalypse in my Playboy piece - NOBODY is prepared for what easy deepfake technology is going to do to us all.
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
AI is going to be used for sooooooooooooooooooo (breathes in) ooooooooooo much porn
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Epstein survivors have been fighting since 1996. THEY are the reason anything has come to light.
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Epstein survivors have been fighting since 1996. THEY are the reason anything has come to light.
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NEW: The Trump administration continues to face wrongful deportation claims amid ramped up immigration enforcement. One of the latest cases involves a transgender woman sent to Mexico despite an order barring that due to her risk of torture or death -- "inadvertently," per DOJ bit.ly/3XEvsac
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
NEW: The Trump administration continues to face wrongful deportation claims amid ramped up immigration enforcement. One of the latest cases involves a transgender woman sent to Mexico despite an order barring that due to her risk of torture or death -- "inadvertently," per DOJ bit.ly/3XEvsac
Great fucking news everyone at last, raccoons are on track to become even more plush-like, they too yearn for domestication
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets
City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#noirvember #noirvemberchallenge
19. Can't come up with (or just havent seen) anything else that could top The Set-Up by Robert Wise. Not to discount Kubrick's work on the boxing scenes for Killer's Kiss, however.
19. Can't come up with (or just havent seen) anything else that could top The Set-Up by Robert Wise. Not to discount Kubrick's work on the boxing scenes for Killer's Kiss, however.
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#noirvember #noirvemberchallenge
19. Can't come up with (or just havent seen) anything else that could top The Set-Up by Robert Wise. Not to discount Kubrick's work on the boxing scenes for Killer's Kiss, however.
19. Can't come up with (or just havent seen) anything else that could top The Set-Up by Robert Wise. Not to discount Kubrick's work on the boxing scenes for Killer's Kiss, however.
"Piggy" from 34-time convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, (alleged) child rapist criminal con man traitorous poopy-pantsing wet cement brain MAN
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Piggy" from 34-time convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, (alleged) child rapist criminal con man traitorous poopy-pantsing wet cement brain MAN
I once was stuck naming a character for a short film I was writing and looked over at my DVDs and just happened to see Ghost World, clicked my fingers and went "ah! Thora!" 😆
This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.
Elite parenting
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I once was stuck naming a character for a short film I was writing and looked over at my DVDs and just happened to see Ghost World, clicked my fingers and went "ah! Thora!" 😆
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Other nations have the original copies of the Epstein files because they had to deal with their own citizens being on the list.
Let’s see how this goes.
Let’s see how this goes.
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Other nations have the original copies of the Epstein files because they had to deal with their own citizens being on the list.
Let’s see how this goes.
Let’s see how this goes.
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Eleventh Circuit throws out Trump's suit against CNN in a per curiam unpublished ruling. Meaning Trump's arguments were totally meritless, not even worthy of a published opinion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Eleventh Circuit throws out Trump's suit against CNN in a per curiam unpublished ruling. Meaning Trump's arguments were totally meritless, not even worthy of a published opinion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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THUNE SAYS EPSTEIN BILL COULD PASS US SENATE BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT, POSSIBLY LATER ON TUESDAY
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
THUNE SAYS EPSTEIN BILL COULD PASS US SENATE BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT, POSSIBLY LATER ON TUESDAY