I know we Americans can overplay our mockery of the British having silly names, but then they go and produce a nazi named Bonehill-Paine.

So much untapped Anthony Trollope IP. You can film Phase 1 with the Barsetshire novels, Phase 2 with the Palliser novels, and then the big crossover event, which, if it's made into a 2-parter, makes a total of 14 blockbusters.

It's one thing to have bad opinions on here, whatever, but I really don't want to hear about how antisemitic al-Sayed is from people paying the world's richest Nazi so they have extra characters to tweet about it

Gonna make a trip timed to a note change, like catching a total eclipse.

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 4h ago

for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

Welp, I knew I was going to have to get into Judge Dredd someday...

Maverick Morris@stevewmorris.bsky.social · 5h ago

Judge Dredd: Compact Crimes - * Same size as DC’s Compact Comics * Every Dredd story in chronological order * New volume publishing each and every month in 2027 * Priced £9.99 in UK; $12.99 in USA * John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, Pat Mills, Mick McMahon, Brian Bolland, Ron Smith, and more!

It's a shame that Villeneuve isn't getting to the part of Dune with the rival offshoot Bene Gesserit who are so good at sex that they can mind control men, and the only way to fight them is by training men who are equally good at sex.

Are these people's brains so rotted that they genuinely do not remember four years ago?

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 13h ago

I have one answer.

The write-ups of every progressive victory will be find-replace versions of last year's "Sinners is a giant hit at the box office, but is it profitable enough?" articles.

Politico@politico.com · 12h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

This piece by Jeff Yang (aka @originalsp.in) was so satisfying to edit. It covers different aspects of The Odyssey and contextualizes them as examples of political filmmaking through allegory—the tale of a 21st century empire reeling from karmic blowback. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

The People from the Sea: How "The Odyssey" is About America

A reading of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster as a commentary on the current state of America.

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It's almost self-parody that a Trump-aligned doctor makes absurd claims about literal shit, and the NYT story is a positive review of trying his beef diet.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 23h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Only a fool would overlook a new Burns translation! Preorder now, and spare yourself the regret of seeing the rest of us reading it while you stand empty-handed!

Luke Burns@lukevburns.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Children of Light, the graphic novel I translated, is coming out on August 18th, and is available for pre-order! So far it's been getting some very nice reviews, which I'm gonna put in this here thread

This is the most insightful article on this film that I’ve seen.

Kate Duguid@kateduguid.bsky.social · 2d ago

don’t know this person but I liked this www.pivot-club.com/p/actually-n...

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!

The Children of Light, the graphic novel I translated, is coming out on August 18th, and is available for pre-order! So far it's been getting some very nice reviews, which I'm gonna put in this here thread

The Children of Light

An advanced alien race attempts to escape oblivion with the help of a world-sized spaceship, an omniscient supercomputer, and a mysterious group of godlike creatures in this astonishingly illustrated ...

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And a single sandwich is a panino.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 2d ago

A single piece of confetti is called a ‘confetto.’ spaghetti = spaghetto graffiti = graffito

Damn, not even once have I caused a timber measurer to measure some timber.

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2d ago

We did many other things this morning, and I caused the Timber measurer to measure some timber, where I found much fault and with reason, which we took public notice of, and did give them admonition for the time to come.

You can tell the media like James Comey because headlines about his trial so often refer to it as the "seashells case" or "86 case," rightly making it sound ridiculous. Would really be great if that same rhetorical skepticism made it into coverage of other show trials.

Top 20 directors, no order. Billy Wilder John Carpenter Howard Hawks Wes Anderson The Coens Scorsese Fellini Kurosawa Wong Kar-wai Truffaut Mike Leigh Almodovar Powell & Pressburger Miyazaki Baumbach Gerwig Elaine May Spielberg Park Chan-wook Louis Malle

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ok I decided to make a T20 directors list. Peter Weir Wes Anderson Paolo Sorrentino Spielberg Coen Brothers Fincher Todd Haynes Sofia Coppola Linklater Villeneuve Nolan Tarantino Francis Ford Coppola Paul Thomas Anderson Rob Reiner Kubrick Soderbergh Scorsese Spike Lee John Hughes

1.1% of the country is muslim 1% of the country is trans both have double the poverty rate of the average american apparently these 1% can take over the entire country but the 1% that holds ~37% of the total wealth aren't doing anything worth looking into

Brendan Gutenschwager@bgonthescene.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jake Lang unveils a banner at Cedar Point Shores Waterpark in Ohio reading “Stop Muslim Takeover of Democrat Party!!” and calling for the deportation of American-born U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

Agree with this. Ethical consumption may be difficult or even impossible but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more and less ethical kinds of consumption. It’s the mink coat of technology

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

I didn't think THE NOSE by Nikolai Gogol would be filmable but I hadn't counted on the pinscreen animation skills of Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker. This 1963 short is silent with an improvised score by Hai Minh

incredible headline. not a single word of it not insane

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 5d ago

The Culture Club leader was set to appear in a London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera until he got a little too into generative AI.

The Starfleet admiral in "Star Trek: Insurrection" who thinks that the smug aliens who get to live forever because their planet heals everything should maybe share a little of that.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d ago

Name a villain who was actually right.