Hard to see how there’s any getting around those emails www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
‘Taxi Driver’ writer Paul Schrader accused of sexually assaulting his assistant
Exclusive: Schrader’s attorney, Philip Kessler, forcefully denied the allegations, telling The Independent that the 26-year-old woman’s claims were “desperate, frivolous, and opportunistic”
www.independent.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hard to see how there’s any getting around those emails www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Thinking about which directors really set out to make movie star movies. Guadanigno is the obvious. Soderbergh is great at it but doesn’t always do it. Coogler with his one favourite actor. Who else is doing it?
April 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Thinking about which directors really set out to make movie star movies. Guadanigno is the obvious. Soderbergh is great at it but doesn’t always do it. Coogler with his one favourite actor. Who else is doing it?
Something I’ve observed a lot on the casual left is a feverish belief the right will fail on their own terms when they do something radical. We saw it when Musk took over Twitter and fired loads of people (lmao the site will fall apart!) we see it now with Trump’s government.
April 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Something I’ve observed a lot on the casual left is a feverish belief the right will fail on their own terms when they do something radical. We saw it when Musk took over Twitter and fired loads of people (lmao the site will fall apart!) we see it now with Trump’s government.
If you post positively about this news today please know I WILL be liking it.
Coyote vs Acme has been acquired by Ketchup Entertainment for distribution!
The film stars Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor and Tone Bell.
The film stars Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor and Tone Bell.
March 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If you post positively about this news today please know I WILL be liking it.
House of Sand and Fog: the most coffee table film ever made?
March 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
House of Sand and Fog: the most coffee table film ever made?
Realised it's been nine years since we've had a non-Marvel live action film featuring Tom Hiddleston in any role at all and had to stare at the wall for a bit. Hollywood, get your act together.
March 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Realised it's been nine years since we've had a non-Marvel live action film featuring Tom Hiddleston in any role at all and had to stare at the wall for a bit. Hollywood, get your act together.
Lucy Mangan says some weird stuff. What do you mean "forbidden". How would you legally define "most awful misery"? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
March 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Lucy Mangan says some weird stuff. What do you mean "forbidden". How would you legally define "most awful misery"? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
If Netflix are looking for other British high concept dramas to license for the "Because you watched Adolescence" list they should dig up that Channel 4 one off where they dramatised a public execution of Gary Glitter.
March 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If Netflix are looking for other British high concept dramas to license for the "Because you watched Adolescence" list they should dig up that Channel 4 one off where they dramatised a public execution of Gary Glitter.
The scene in On Falling where she finally gets paid and immediately goes and buys six pastries is haunting me
March 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The scene in On Falling where she finally gets paid and immediately goes and buys six pastries is haunting me
I think this is a really good piece, but I expected it to more explicitly point out that "male supremacist" thinking is obviously going to be more appealing to white men. Yes alienation is real but also no one else is being told they deserve the rule the world - that's obv pretty seductive.
I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons
Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth
www.irishexaminer.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I think this is a really good piece, but I expected it to more explicitly point out that "male supremacist" thinking is obviously going to be more appealing to white men. Yes alienation is real but also no one else is being told they deserve the rule the world - that's obv pretty seductive.
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
June 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
My water bill goes up 43% this month and my block doesn't have meters so I can't even reduce my water use to mitigate it. Desperately hope no one unravels this system it seems great.
"Labour desperate for a private sector solution to avoid the biggest unravelling of a Thatcher privatisation" 🤪🤪🤡🤡🤡 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
March 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My water bill goes up 43% this month and my block doesn't have meters so I can't even reduce my water use to mitigate it. Desperately hope no one unravels this system it seems great.
In fact every time I log in here I just seem to see a bunch of people telling me off for not having more fun which tbh is not not very encouraging
"I want to switch over to Bluesky, but I just don't get the kind of engagement I get on Twitter."
Wow, you mean your strategy of following 18 people here and showing up once every three weeks to complain about how quiet it is hasn't paid off? Surprising!
Wow, you mean your strategy of following 18 people here and showing up once every three weeks to complain about how quiet it is hasn't paid off? Surprising!
March 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
In fact every time I log in here I just seem to see a bunch of people telling me off for not having more fun which tbh is not not very encouraging
I don't mind watching stupid films myself but I've found it pretty valuable reading/hearing from critics completely siloed from blockbusters. Always fun on the Film Comment podcast when they have to mention superhero films in passing and become totally bemused.
February 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I don't mind watching stupid films myself but I've found it pretty valuable reading/hearing from critics completely siloed from blockbusters. Always fun on the Film Comment podcast when they have to mention superhero films in passing and become totally bemused.
Also though, there’s no point arguing with the Cinemascore that other movies are worse. It’s not a measure of quality but of audience sentiment. The Green Knight got a C+!
‘CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD’ debuts with a B- on CinemaScore.
The lowest CinemaScore ever for an MCU movie.
Read our review: bit.ly/CaptainDF
The lowest CinemaScore ever for an MCU movie.
Read our review: bit.ly/CaptainDF
February 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Also though, there’s no point arguing with the Cinemascore that other movies are worse. It’s not a measure of quality but of audience sentiment. The Green Knight got a C+!
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Every time I read an interview with Judith Butler they sound so rational and humane, the opposite of the demonized caricature.
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
February 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every time I read an interview with Judith Butler they sound so rational and humane, the opposite of the demonized caricature.
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
There's one useful but underdeveloped point in this mostly daft piece: Corbet has inaccurately transposed the kind of turbulence you see on film sets into architecture and construction. Reminds me of jazz musicians pointing out Whiplash is more of a sports movie. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist
Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
There's one useful but underdeveloped point in this mostly daft piece: Corbet has inaccurately transposed the kind of turbulence you see on film sets into architecture and construction. Reminds me of jazz musicians pointing out Whiplash is more of a sports movie. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
There's a really weird certaintly Trump is going to be obsessively obnoxious about the Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong Oscar nominations despite the fact he's posted precisely once about the film since its premiere 8 months ago
January 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There's a really weird certaintly Trump is going to be obsessively obnoxious about the Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong Oscar nominations despite the fact he's posted precisely once about the film since its premiere 8 months ago
For all I can accept that Oscar voters see something in Emilia Perez that I don't, this is so completely baffling to me. Did they just not watch other movies this year? 13 nominations???
How well did EMILIA PEREZ do? With 13 Oscar nominations, the movie led today’s field, and if Selena Gomez had managed to snag that supporting-actress nomination, it would have tied the all-time record of 14 nominations held by ALL ABOUT EVE, TITANIC, and LA LA LAND.
January 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
For all I can accept that Oscar voters see something in Emilia Perez that I don't, this is so completely baffling to me. Did they just not watch other movies this year? 13 nominations???
The man has backed the AfD and Tommy Robinson, I'm not sure why we're supposed to consider this ambiguous? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture
Speaking at a celebratory rally in Washington, Mr. Musk twice extended his arm out with his palm facing down, drawing comparisons to the Nazi salute.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The man has backed the AfD and Tommy Robinson, I'm not sure why we're supposed to consider this ambiguous? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
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"Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated that they should stand behind their word and show your cow?" Lynch said.
One of my favourite small David Lynch moments is when he tried to do one of those ceramic art cows for New York City and submitted this and was rejected.
January 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated that they should stand behind their word and show your cow?" Lynch said.
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I personally know a number of documentary filmmakers who are perceived as having had a fabulous success because they played a lot of festivals and won some awards and were considered for Oscars, but they basically spent a year of their lives, promoting their work for no money
January 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I personally know a number of documentary filmmakers who are perceived as having had a fabulous success because they played a lot of festivals and won some awards and were considered for Oscars, but they basically spent a year of their lives, promoting their work for no money