Today in “Hollywood’s memory is only as long as it’s most recent film”: Apparently the Hollywood Reporter can’t remember its own assessment that Sony had well and truly screwed up the Spider-Man franchise after The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Alex McLevy
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critic at large. Ex-editor @ The A.V. Club. Send me your poor, your unsigned bands, your horror films, your screener links, your taffy-based candies. Chicago.
This is already an unhinged take because Hemispheres and Permanent Waves are RIGHT THERE before Moving Pictures, but: Electric Version/Twin Cinema/Challengers 3 Feet High & Rising/De La Soul Is Dead/Buhloone Mindstate So Jealous/The Con/Sainthood
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
Cunningham was a superstar in high school and cannot deal with the fact that she’s an incredibly middling role player who comes off the bench in the WNBA and simply isn’t a relevant player. The only way she can get any attention is by vocally hating trans people.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
Okay I’m ready for my Zendaya/Anya Taylor-Joy buddy comedy everyone
that odyssey review was pretty funny but also kind of like if wes anderson did the iliad and someone went long on how everything looks like a diorama and the characters have a flat affect and there's a general named "Gen. Greek Tragedy" and like yes i understand that is a wes anderson movie correct
Consider this my yearly reminder that if you haven’t watched PENNY DREADFUL, you really should - or as I call it, EVA GREEN PRESENTS THE EVA GREEN SHOW STARRING EVA GREEN AND FRIENDS
Eva Green's Expressive Gestures
Alt: Eva Green doing wacky delightful gestures, honestly she’s just the best
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My beef with Morrissey runs all the way back to 1986 when he said this about Black artists. Nineteen Eighty Six, while the Smiths were still active. It’s not a “later phenomenon” don’t try and lie to me www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
Some bold opinions here from Councilman Jamm
Jeremy Jamm: You Just Got Jamm-ed! (Parks and Rec)
Alt: Jeremy Jamm: You Just Got Jamm-ed! (Parks and Rec)
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Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 2w agoA spokesperson for Council Speaker Julie Menin says the body is "concerned by the speed and process through which" Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Charter Revision Commission has advanced five ballot questions for November, warning of "unintended consequences."
This is the most misguided, out of touch, embarrassing James Carville-ass loser shit I have read all month, and I listened to part of a JD Vance speech a couple weeks ago.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoThe vibes may be exciting, but if Democrats are going to win this year and in 2028, they must reject the DSA. If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.
As one of the country’s preeminent makers of a deeply unstable form of hand grenade, I am pleased to report that today I have decided the government will pay me a ton of money to create as many of these volatile weapons as is necessary to get them into the hands of every American
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago“A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration, several of them sellers of experimental peptides, dismissed the concerns of the agency’s scientists on Thursday, voting in favor of allowing broad production of poorly understood peptide treatments.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
‼️ ICE goons kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Passaic, NJ ‼️ Prior to this video being taken, he was confronting ICE for trying to kidnap his neighbors. Video from 8:25am on 7/23/26
Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM
As soon as I saw them I thought “holy shit, those are real dolphins.” I’m sure at some point AI will be able to do it realistically but we’re not there yet and it is a legitimately awesome shot
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 3w agoThe dolphins that appeared in ‘The Odyssey’ were real and filmed by accident 🐬 ⚔️
Come for the obvious magic, stay for the chef’s kiss alt text
John Madden@mathletesfoot.bsky.social · 2w ago
New Fiddlehead is great, but with a review written by @ninacorcoran.bsky.social? That’s the good stuff.
Fiddlehead: Baby I’ll Change EP
Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
For people that don’t understand what the big deal was this video is actually a pretty great snapshot of how fucking hard they slayed
Alyx Vesey@alyxvesey.bsky.social · 3w agoAlso shoutout to that time L7 played Letterman and destroyed the equipment RIP Jennifer Finch m.youtube.com/watch?v=5miC...
fun reminder that this fatal-diarrhea shitshow (literally) is 100% these dipshits fault
Trump’s deep public health cuts hinder response to record US cyclosporiasis outbreak
Experts say layoffs, reduced disease surveillance and Medicaid cuts have made the foodborne parasite more difficult to track and contain
theguardian.com
Pete Hegseth is like if the concept of talking over a woman gained sentience
Remember when leftist dems were at least TRYING to push for the Green New Deal? I get that it’s a waste of time under Trump, but as I sit here struggling to breathe in Chicago, it’s coming back to me for some reason, who knows why
Holy shit @jamellebouie.net imagine my delight to bust open my new Criterion 4K of NETWORK and discover a new essay from none other than you
In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.
THROW ELON MUSK IN JAIL. HE IS BREAKING THE LAW. AND HE DOESN’T GIVE A SHIT.
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoElon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
Joan Sebastien Guerrero had a social security number. He had legal authorization to work here - therefore, he is by definition not “an illegal alien.” In addition, DHS isn’t even claiming he “weaponized his vehicle,” they’re arguing he fled. ICE is now straightforwardly admitting to murder.
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 3w agoWHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?
One hundred bones to anyone who punches this chooch right in the face and documents it
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4w agoPreaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...