Robert Snow
@robertsnow.bsky.social
Writer, videographer, and editor. Reviewer of movies and TV. Mistaken for Prince Harry at a gas station once.
The TV show The Middleman would do things like randomly have a shirtless Mark Dacascos fight dozens of Luchadors and use something called the Wu-Han Thumb of Death on their leader. We used to be a proper country.
Marc Dacascos In Middleman
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This was a pretty fun #LastFourWatched. I was conflicted on MOTU but it kinda won me over as I thought about it. Can't wait to see what Kane Parsons does next. And VOICEMAILS FROM ISABELLE proves Zoey Deutsch is a rom-com expert. #LetterboxdFriday
Setting aside the genie claim (patently ridiculous), "broadly benefit" gives him plenty of flexibility to screw over at least part of humanity.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
Joined @jasonchen16.bsky.social for another episode on some recent summer movies, including DISCLOSURE DAY and SUPERGIRL. Our ODYSSEY episode will be coming up next! open.spotify.com/episode/40GG...
Episode 141 - "Thank god Emily Blunt is in this." [DISCLOSURE DAY, SUPERGIRL]
The Extra Buttery Podcast · Episode
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As the owner of several AMC theater franchises, you can imagine I'm extremely left wing. But I bet you didn't realize I'm so left wing that I'm willing to bleed thousands of dollars every time I show the Odyssey to an empty IMAX theater to create the impression that a black actress is pretty.
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
i wrote about disclosure day, steven spielberg, and human compassion as sci-fi for @brightwalldarkroom.com
The Speculative Empathy & Radical Hope of Disclosure Day
For most of Spielberg’s career, science fiction has been the mechanism through which he learns and teaches empathy. But in Disclosure Day, empathy itself is the speculative leap
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You really can't keep anything on the Internet good forever variety.com/2026/digital...
Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report
Letterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties.
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I hate this headline. I hate it so much. Let me tell you why. It makes it sound like the AI was "cast" in a movie, except the movie is being made by the same people who made Tilly, it's all in house, I might as well announce that Dan Olson has been cast as the host of a Folding Ideas doc.
Saw some people wistful for this tradition, but there's no reason to feel low. These women are engaged in a process known as waulking, in which weavers soak freshly woven tweed in vats of stale urine. Then they beat the cloth until it softens and shrinks. The work songs help keep rhythm. 🧵
Not to be that guy but Netflix is not "re-creating" Gene Wilder's voice because Gene Wilder remains dead. It's using software to make a noise that viewers may think sounds like Gene Wilder (in a show that also sounds tone-deaf for unrelated reasons) www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/n...
Willy Wonka Competition Show at Netflix Uses AI to Re-Create Gene Wilder’s Voice
The streamer had the permission of the late actor's estate to generate the voiceover.
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JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights
Driving WB on O'Connor, just as you cross Victoria Park. There's a little dip in the road and it bends and suddenly for about 3-4 seconds the CN Tower is directly in front of you. It's so unexpected to see it in Scarborough and so brief. And makes me happy every time.
Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · last mo.I asked readers what’s their favourite view of the tower. Mine is swimming out from Hanlans beach. What’s yours? Quote w your fav. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.
RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.
Obviously braindead idea, but if it happens you can only hope that the prosthetics and contact lenses have evolved enough since 2000 that Carrey isn't miserable again.
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2mo ago‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ Sequel in the Works with Jim Carrey, Ron Howard www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... "No deal is done, but Jim Carrey is in talks to reprise his role as the classic Dr. Seuss character the Grinch, with Ron Howard returning to direct."
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Democrats want you to believe that sending FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of YOUR tax money to MEXICO to “manage” the “Dick Exploding Spider” population is “normal” SAME SENATOR SIX MONTHS LATER: (walking like a saddle-sore cowboy) This is the greatest public health crisis of our lives,
“if you died nothing in my life would change”: a twitter exchange about a pizza “face god and walk backwards into hell”: a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals “you cannot kill me in a way that matters”: a tumblr shitpost about mushrooms
Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 2mo ago“If you died nothing in my life would change” remains one of the coldest bars ever posted
Seriously? If you no longer belong in Canada…you will have to give up your Canadian passport! Idiots! Ever heard the saying “you can’t have your cake and eat it too”. Well. You are either Canadian or Albertan if you separate. You can’t be both unless you stay.
🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2mo agoCall out the bullshit grift when you see it. Such blatant lies manipulating vulnerable people they've convinced they're looking out for. LOL 😂 What a bunch of !d!0ts 😂 LOL
first the pope comes out as an ai-critical luddite, now he’s literally quoting gandalf in the anti-ai encyclical? these popes are almost making catholicism look cool
![213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” [187] The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization. For this reason, it is worthwhile pausing to reflect on some aspects of how we, each in our own way, can cooperate in building the civilization of love. Without presuming to exhaust this theme, I would like to propose five paths toward daily and public responsibility: the need to disarm words, building peace through justice, adopting the perspective of victims, cultivating a healthy realism and reviving dialogue and multilateralism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/bafkreie4kv7nnvt2yoae7hzib3h6ah33yaqu53aidljh3tw4soabailnsi)
Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...
