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November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Scorching reminder that there are no two more bullshit words littering today's media landscape than "critics say..." (I say that as an actual critic.)
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Scorching reminder that there are no two more bullshit words littering today's media landscape than "critics say..." (I say that as an actual critic.)
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
A reminder to Berliners: TRAIN DREAMS is playing this Mon, Tue and Wed at 2150 in Hackesche Höfe Kino and is so, so worth seeing in the cinema.
Anyway, I love TRAIN DREAMS. Please see TRAIN DREAMS. And for the love of all that's holy (for example: TRAIN DREAMS), see it big.
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A reminder to Berliners: TRAIN DREAMS is playing this Mon, Tue and Wed at 2150 in Hackesche Höfe Kino and is so, so worth seeing in the cinema.
Zohran Mamdani invoking a Mario Cuomo quote in his victory speech is so simultaneously lofty and petty that I want to buy a hat just so I can doff it.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Zohran Mamdani invoking a Mario Cuomo quote in his victory speech is so simultaneously lofty and petty that I want to buy a hat just so I can doff it.
Kinda love the impossible-to-love DIE MY LOVE
“The story is a thin, juddering downward spiral, told in the cinema of smithereens, with the energy of a bottle hurled at a mirror.”
@jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews Die My Love, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews Die My Love, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Die My Love review: a ferocious film from Lynne Ramsay
The intense relationship between newlyweds Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) drastically unravels after the birth of their baby in Lynne Ramsay’s ferociously maximalist psychodr...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Kinda love the impossible-to-love DIE MY LOVE
It's an ongoing pleasure watching SIRAT play at festivals and open in territories across the world like a series of controlled detonations. If you're within blast radius, you must check it out -- here's my review for afters, when you're picking your jaw up off the floor. variety.com/2025/film/re...
‘Sirat’ Review: Oliver Laxe’s Excruciatingly Tense, Escalatingly Insane Road Trip Through a Desert Purgatory
Oliver Laxe graduates to Cannes competition with a brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits.
variety.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It's an ongoing pleasure watching SIRAT play at festivals and open in territories across the world like a series of controlled detonations. If you're within blast radius, you must check it out -- here's my review for afters, when you're picking your jaw up off the floor. variety.com/2025/film/re...
This is how I discover a movie title I'm going to think about and savour twice daily for the rest of my life.
First watch: Poulet au vinaigre (1985, aka "Cop au vin"!). Not, despite the puntastic title, a comedy, but full of dark wit & sardonic detachment. When Inspecteur Lavardin (Jean Poiret) arrives about half way through to investigate a murder conspiracy in a small town, he seems respectable enough 1/2
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is how I discover a movie title I'm going to think about and savour twice daily for the rest of my life.
Heartening to see that the audience for this DocLisboa screening of SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM is almost exclusively composed of terrifyingly attractive young Portuguese swells.
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Heartening to see that the audience for this DocLisboa screening of SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM is almost exclusively composed of terrifyingly attractive young Portuguese swells.
That Louvre heist better have included a 28-minute-long wordless sequence or I swear
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
That Louvre heist better have included a 28-minute-long wordless sequence or I swear
Not even a quarter way through this dangerously demented moron's second term and this is where we are.
Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."
AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Not even a quarter way through this dangerously demented moron's second term and this is where we are.
Some superb bracket work from Siddhant here.
At the center of “Tron: Ares” is a woefully miscast Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) and an unfortunately visible Jared Leto ("accusations from underage girls"), making even more unpleasant an already haphazard cinematic headache. joysauce.com/tron-ares-is...
‘Tron: Ares’ is a waste of time and talent
Greta Lee gets stuck inside a digital mess alongside Jared Leto in Joachim Rønning’s threequel to the 1980s classic.
joysauce.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Some superb bracket work from Siddhant here.
Feel like I was stolen away and inhabited by Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS, one of those films that crept into my chest in its opening moments and made itself a nest in there. Didn't expect to be so moved, to be scooped up, cradled and swept away by it.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Feel like I was stolen away and inhabited by Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS, one of those films that crept into my chest in its opening moments and made itself a nest in there. Didn't expect to be so moved, to be scooped up, cradled and swept away by it.
This seems like very good info for people in the US.
October 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This seems like very good info for people in the US.
I turned on actual terrestrial television for the first time in about six months and 4 out of the first 10 channels are covering Taylor Swift's album release.
October 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I turned on actual terrestrial television for the first time in about six months and 4 out of the first 10 channels are covering Taylor Swift's album release.
28% is "more than a quarter," not "nearly a third," but sure, go ahead and inflate the made-up numbers on your completely spurious horseshit story.
Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
www.independent.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
28% is "more than a quarter," not "nearly a third," but sure, go ahead and inflate the made-up numbers on your completely spurious horseshit story.
Well yes but there's also the generation who will watch a tiktok of someone watching the video while doing their make up as excerpts from the original article appear as text on the screen.
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Well yes but there's also the generation who will watch a tiktok of someone watching the video while doing their make up as excerpts from the original article appear as text on the screen.
They're really going for the EXIT 8 promotion in Taipei! As well they should. It's fun! My review: variety.com/2025/film/re...
September 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
They're really going for the EXIT 8 promotion in Taipei! As well they should. It's fun! My review: variety.com/2025/film/re...
One of these days some septuagenarian Man of Letters is going come down broadly on the side of "wokeism" and I am going to die of shock.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
John Banville: ‘You cannot censor me. They would try it now with all this wokeist nonsense’
The author on his latest novel, Venetian Vespers, how Graham Greene treated him ‘very badly’, and his support for Israelis
www.irishtimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
One of these days some septuagenarian Man of Letters is going come down broadly on the side of "wokeism" and I am going to die of shock.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
New Yorkers into delightful things: Go see DRY LEAF, playing NYFF Mon and Tue with a Q&A with director (and, more importantly, my Busan FF co-juror) Alexandre Koberidze.
variety.com/2025/film/re...
variety.com/2025/film/re...
‘Dry Leaf’ Review: A Gorgeously Eccentric Road Trip Through Blurry Rural Georgia
Alexandre Koberidze's bizarre and wonderful "Dry Leaf" plays pixelated hide-and-seek with reality and memory across the soccer-mad nation of Georgia
variety.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New Yorkers into delightful things: Go see DRY LEAF, playing NYFF Mon and Tue with a Q&A with director (and, more importantly, my Busan FF co-juror) Alexandre Koberidze.
variety.com/2025/film/re...
variety.com/2025/film/re...
For the record, I have now seen ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and in case you haven't heard: it is ever so good.
a man in a blue jacket is standing in a room with a sign on the wall that says ' ec '
ALT: a man in a blue jacket is standing in a room with a sign on the wall that says ' ec '
media.tenor.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
For the record, I have now seen ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and in case you haven't heard: it is ever so good.
I simply cannot believe that anywhere other than Ximen District in Taipei looks like this at 7.30pm on a Sunday.
September 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I simply cannot believe that anywhere other than Ximen District in Taipei looks like this at 7.30pm on a Sunday.
I am back in Taipei
September 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I am back in Taipei
Inadvertently hit on the perfect way to finally see WEAPONS: in Busan with a student lunchtime crowd, nursing a somaek hangover, sitting next to a big soft Korean dude who leaps about 3 feet out of his seat with every jump scare.
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Inadvertently hit on the perfect way to finally see WEAPONS: in Busan with a student lunchtime crowd, nursing a somaek hangover, sitting next to a big soft Korean dude who leaps about 3 feet out of his seat with every jump scare.
Well, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a grand old exercise in apocalypse nostalgia, honking urgently about some ancient period when one could plausibly believe that there were minimally competent and ethical humans in the White House.
September 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Well, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a grand old exercise in apocalypse nostalgia, honking urgently about some ancient period when one could plausibly believe that there were minimally competent and ethical humans in the White House.
Say what you like about Trump, every single Aberbaijani-Albanian I know is a huge fan.
September 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Say what you like about Trump, every single Aberbaijani-Albanian I know is a huge fan.