Jeremy Strong is this intense actor who is so intent on demonstrating his intensity that he’s like listening to a soprano who just sings nothing but high C notes.
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Lies Movies Tell: no. 22: Nobody Goes to the Toilet (except if dosed with laxatives) jbleasdale.substack.com/p/lies-movie...
Lies Movies Tell: 22. No One Goes to the Toilet (Unless They’ve Taken Laxatives)
“Films fib at 24 frames per second,” Jean-Luc Godard
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It’s time to ditch the idea Hollywood is a liberal cabal. It’s always been run by feral capitalists & most of its creatives strive for fame & money with no regard for social impact. Money makes them conservative. The fact u can name the liberals (Ruffalo & Sarandon) just proves how few there are
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 20h agoDanny Trejo, Harvey Keitel, and Henry Thomas starring in a Ben Shapiro’s pro ICE propaganda film… Were retirement, poverty or seppuku not options? variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Actually I’d rather never see either of them in a Liverpool shirt again
John Bleasdale@www.johnbleasdale.com · yesterdayWirtz and Kerkez are both very depressing presences. I want Wirtz to somehow shine but I don’t see it happening whereas Kerkez is just poor.
I wrote this before the second yellow for Gravenbach. What a pile of shit this game has become.
John Bleasdale@www.johnbleasdale.com · yesterdayI don’t know if I can be bothered watching football anymore. It just all feels so fixed. How can we trust any of this?
I don’t know if I can be bothered watching football anymore. It just all feels so fixed. How can we trust any of this?
Wirtz and Kerkez are both very depressing presences. I want Wirtz to somehow shine but I don’t see it happening whereas Kerkez is just poor.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi (Gift Article)
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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This picture by Adnan Abidi seems to sum up 2026. A woman fighting disenfranchisement of Muslims in a country being ruled by a would-be autocrat who wants to make India into an ethno-nationalist state
Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
nytimes.com
Sunday listening with @www.johnbleasdale.com’s Writers on Film #PodCast who is speaking to Allyson Nadia Field about her new book: Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History during Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2026: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
Werner Herzog is a bit of a hero of mine but this is almost hilarious in its egocentricism. He make Lotte Eisner’s death all about him, walking from Munich to Paris in the depth of winter and soon all he can think of is foot ointment and milk. Works best as a Confederacy of Dunces type novel.
Normal: Bob Odenkirk is always watchable and it has its moments but there’s an oily fascism to this kind of massacring violence. It isn’t sharp enough to be satirical and soon collapses into a series of inventive kills.
I wrote an essay for the Blu-ray release of Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens documentary John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office, narrated by Chloe Sevigny
A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI
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Andrew Nette@pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d agoIt’s the 55th anniversary of THE FRENCH CONNECTION. But rather than another post about how undeniably groundbreaking Friedkin's effort was, my latest Substack newsletter talks about another aspect of the film. The story of the real French Connection. andrewnette.substack.com/p/the-real-f...
If you’re going to execute people, why not livestream? It’s obviously an abhorrence but it’s just a Nazi hat being put on a Nazi hat
Ben Affleck, an actor/director I like, has a new film out on Netflix. ANIMALS is yet another remake of Kurosawa’s HIGH & LOW, and it is dreadful. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
Ben Affleck’s Animals Is a Catastrophe
What on earth happened to this movie?
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“They’re kids! They’re kids!” Monstrous. Abolish ICE.
NEW EPISODE: Allyson Nadia Field on the first black kiss on film at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto at Pordenone podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
Guy who made “that’s what she said” his THING 20 years ago and now can’t stop even though it brings him no joy and knows people don’t like him because of it
NEW EPISODE: Allyson Nadia Field on the first black kiss on film at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto at Pordenone podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
