Very niche question: Is anyone doing good critical work on contemporary microbudget Black filmmaking?

Remember 35 years ago when Clinton cursed us with Carville and Stephanopoulos?

Now I’m glad I walked out of her boring Bob Dylan cover show.

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterday

Cat Power is antivax

I wish I loved anything as much as YouTube loves trying to make me like Khruangbin. If there's a psy-op in music right now it's Khruangbin. Please, please leave me alone, Khruangbin.

If I'm not mistaken, today's the day TIFF announces the good movies.

A top 5 screening of my life was Tsai Ming-liang introducing The Wild, Wild Rose and then hanging out and talking about his childhood love of Hong Kong musicals for nearly an hour.

Dylan Cheung@dylancheung.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's been reported that Grace Chang, Hong Kong's preeminent Mandarin screen diva of the 50s, passed away this afternoon, one day shy of her 93rd birthday. Watch Mambo Girl and The Wild, Wild Rose to see her at the height of her powers.

The Odyssey was truly great, and definitely requires ear protection. Thanks to all who advised bringing plugs (I have mine with me at all times) - random SPL checks showed it hitting 104db - as loud as the last couple of Sugar shows I saw 😵‍💫

A dozen ideas immediately came to mind, so I'll go with a personal favorite that might go overlooked. Sailin' Shoes (1972), Dixie Chicken (1973), and Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1974). Little Feat's run from 1971-1978 hasn't been matched by many.

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What'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)

Only a teensy tiny fraction of books are truly rare, unique, or scarce. But the idea that people destroy the 1,921st copy of a book no one is interested in always freaks people out. They are appalled that libraries weed books, too.

Lady Yapper (KJ Colt)@moistenedtart.bsky.social · last wk.

futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry

Landscape Suicide is on Tubi.

I mean, I guess I could get a ticket to see Rush in Atlanta.

Joanna likes the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies so we saw the new one last night. Fwiw, it's more thematically rich, and a lot more fun, than The Odyssey.

Did y'all know Glen A. Larson (Buck Rogers, Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica) created a series called Half Nelson (1985) starring this zany duo?

Meanwhile.

Live Updates: Iran and U.S. trade more missile strikes as 5-month war appears to expand to Egypt

Drone strikes hit gas vessels at an Egyptian port on the Mediterranean, as a poll shows little American support for the five-month war with Iran.

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Darren Hughes@longpauses.bsky.social · 3w ago

He's dying, hated, and embarrassed, and his response is to double down on an already disastrous mistake. How long until they start talking about a "surge"?

Because you're all dying to know, my take on the Emily Wilson discourse is that listening to an interview in which she describes so vividly and enthusiastically what the poem is and what the film might have been helped explain my frustrations with Nolan's one-note interpretation.

Same Ross Douthat

This is an interesting way to measure how much cultural capital a song has maintained 36-46 years after hitting number 1. I'm happy to report Paula Abdul has been memory-holed. Aside from Madonna and Janet Jackson, has there ever been a worse three-year run of pop music than 1987-89?

EVERY #1 Song Of The 1980s Ranked From 231-1 By Spotify Streams 🎸🎶

YouTube video by Return Of The Retro

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Last four Friday

"If this feels like science fiction, that's because it *was* science fiction until Tuesday." - @caseynewton.bsky.social Seems like a pretty big deal that two of OpenAI's models escaped a sandbox and committed crimes--autonomously and against the expressed commands of the models' engineers.

OpenAI cyber models broke out of training environment to hack Hugging Face

The incident is unique because it was "driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system," according to Hugging Face.

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I can't quite wrap my brain around Mamdani, a politician who shares my politics, is genuinely eager to improve the lives of his constituents, and has the skillset to make it happen. Wild.

Susanna just posted a new live recording of "Love Will Tear Us Apart," a song she's been covering for twenty years. If you've never heard her version ... it's such a gut punch.

Susanna & Juhani Silvola 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' Live Video 2026

YouTube video by Susanna

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Warner Bros attempted to do an entire $90 million film non-union in the US by “subcontracting” every single job to a single company. So IATSE went out and unionized the whole damn thing.

Voych@voych.bsky.social · 2w ago

Workers at Swaybox Studios, the team behind the upcoming Batman animated film 'Dynamic Duo,' have voted to unionize with IATSE. The decision, certified by the National Labor Relations Board, marks a significant step for crew members on the Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and DC Studios project.

Does Gen Z know about Dark City?

Darren Hughes@longpauses.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have you watched Dark City recently? Rad movie. CGI might’ve peaked in 1998.

Tubi commercials keep gettin crazier and crazier

Have you watched Dark City recently? Rad movie. CGI might’ve peaked in 1998.

Vincent Gallo is selling the Brown Bunny van. FYI.

I like it when scientificish experiments confirm my biases about the chuds in oversized trucks I deal with every day on the interstate.

NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Mark Rober, an engineer at NASA, analyze how many cars went out of their way to hit rubber animals he placed on the side of the road 6 percent — mostly SUVs and trucks" www.businessinsider.com/six-percent-... "Truck and SUV drivers are 8 times more likely than car drivers to try murdering animals"

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

31. Have ever been in a group project with a brilliant neurodivergent person who would prefer to do it all themselves but doesn't have all the tools AND lacks the social skills to delegate*? That's the Talking Heads dynamic! * This is me tbh