In this episode, Tyler and I are joined by Josh Long to discuss music we discovered through movies. battleshippretension.com/episode-1011...

Damn, don't be such a narc (Coked up nutritionist is a really funny character, though)

Joseph Parker cleared to fight, cocaine finding came from nutritionist

Heavyweight Joseph Parker has been cleared to fight, with his provisional suspension following a positive drug test now lifted.

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I have a confession to make. I find it annoying when you change the key art for a film on Letterboxd to something other than the default. I'm sorry but I just do

I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann@hpichystockmann.bsky.social · 2d ago

Savage.

the american paradox

Natalie and I get drunk in “The One Where Ross Is Fine” and also watch Mystery Diners season three, episode four, “Catch of the Day.” battleshippretension.com/the-one-wher...

1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1921: The Phantom Carriage 1922: Nosferatu 1923: The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1924: Sherlock Jr. 1925: Battleship Potemkin 1926: So This Is Paris 1927: Metropolis 1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc 1929: Un Chien Andalou

Sylvie@slywit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Favorite film for each year of the 1920s: 1920: Way Down East 1921: The Kid 1922: Nosferatu 1923: The Grub Stake 1924: Sherlock Jr 1925: Lady Windermere’s Fan 1926: 3 Bad Men 1927: The Cat and the Canary 1928: The Wind 1929: Hell’s Heroes What are yours? #Filmsky 📽️🎞️🎬

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 5d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I college I didn’t have cable and my apartment had terrible reception so I had a friend who would tape 24 for me every week and then I’d return the tape to her at the next class. Now that was television

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

So exhausted already by the meme that the "tells" of gen AI writing are when something is structurally aping the way a decent professional writer writes, rather than when it's meaningless word salad. (You will take my em dashes, sets of three, and lack of typos from my cold, dead hands.)

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 5d ago

nothing shouts "I don't read much" more than when you equate em-dashes with AI. as Kat says here: 1) AI uses em-dashes BECAUSE AUTHORS USE THEM & AI IS TRAINED ON OUR WRITINGS! 2) "AI checkers" are complete bunk (just another AI bullshit machine), 3) this is not a "list of three" haha

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

Favorite new-to-me movies, July 2026: L.A.X. (1980) Macho Dancer (1988) Orpheus (1950) Possession (1981) Robin Hood (1922)

You know those HE>I stickers? I’m the he

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the monster they made, nurtured, and unleashed on the world will, in fact, destroy them as well.

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 6d ago

Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of "rabid" "idiot" Nazis, according to a new report.

There are no bad Metallica albums

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · last wk.

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

Barton Fink (1991). Bacon and John Goodman were both in James Wan’s Death Sentence

Starfleet Design 🖍🖖@starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 7d ago

Favourite film hard mode: no letter 'e' in the title, released in an odd-numbered year, lead actor only two degrees of Kevin Bacon max.

In this episode, I discuss the movies I've been watching, including Above and Below and Man Without a Star. battleshippretension.com/bp-movie-jou...

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

I'm casting a wide net and there's a lot here I haven't even seen but the sheer number of good and interesting indies coming out of Canada in recent years needs to be acknowledged. boxd.it/W8wa2

Canadian New Wave

I'm casting a wide net and there's a lot here I haven't even seen but the sheer number of good and interesting indies coming out of Canada in recent years needs to be acknowledged.

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In this episode, Tyler and I discuss the career of the late Nathalie Baye as well as Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend. battleshippretension.com/episode-1010...

Natalie and I eavesdrop in “The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss” and also watch Mystery Diners season seven, episode eight, “Vicious Cycle.” battleshippretension.com/the-one-wher...

Join Movie Meltdown for an epic Merrye family reunion… of sorts. This episode has been years in the making, as they visit a never before heard interview they did with the legendary Sid Haig! battleshippretension.com/movie-meltdo...

This is what “all lives matter” does. It’s just meant to stop the conversation

Molly Crabapple@mollycrabapple.bsky.social · last wk.

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Camp Miasma, Tony, Coyote vs. Acme, Bitter Christmas

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · last wk.

Which four films on this list are you most anticipating in August? 👀 View the list of titles on Letterboxd ➡️ https://boxd.it/VAruS

I refuse to let the word cheugy die until the specific forms of millennial cringe it describes are well and truly stamped out. I still see “did a thing” and “today years old” way too often

I discovered just how many people I knew who played tennis when Challengers came out and they all complained about the game play in the movie. Real forest-for-the-trees shit

Ethan Kocak@ethankocak.com · 2w ago

I have a personal belief that the more a person is a nerd for something: dinosaurs, The Odyssey, etc, the less likely they are to enjoy a popular entertainment version of that thing.

Jesse V. Johnson releases films more often than I get my oil changed so I don't know how he keeps operating at such a high level but Above and Below is another lean ripper of a movie