I called it.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 8h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Once again, I try to understand why I have so many photos of Isaiah Thomas on my hard drive.

Made some tourists' day by pointing this out.

I know it's been years, but I'm still not over the fact that a critic blew up her life over Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.

Coming to Monty Hall SEPTEMBER 10: Classic Simpsons trivia, WFMU style! A slew of us Gen-X / Millennial cusp staffers will host. I used to have this FMU podcast where I was basically the Phil Schaap of Simpsons: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Me at a party trying to make small talk with the dude who only watches superhero movies. (A compilation of very real conversations I’ve had with several guys over the years.)

I would argue that Titane, Pig, and Poor Things are live-action Pixar movies for adults.

Brown Anthony™@anthelonious.bsky.social · last wk.

If they're going to keep making "live action" versions of classic Disney and Pixar movies, they should let Gregg Araki have a shot.

He was so beautiful that HERO IMPERSONATES JUDE LAW was a legitimate genre.

Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

I can't wait for everyone to meet this insane cast of characters I got to watch for the past few years. Between Chimp Crazy and Sean Combs: The Reckoning, this project is the lightest thing I've worked on in recent memory!

Monsters of God | Official Trailer | HBO Max

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My 12-year-old may not have loved sitting through 2001: A Space Odyssey (in IMAX), but they did appreciate getting the reference in Zoolander two days later.

Got back from England just in time to deal with open enrollment. Will be returning to England.

Rewatched THE PLAYER and forgot what an MVP Richard E. Grant was.

This is also my story (except I never got that sweet pin!)

Retroist@retroist.com · last mo.

I was a Suncoast Motion Picture Company Employee of the month 6 times. Things have been largely downhill since then.

This is why I use Tidal.

Support the Courtlistener and the Free Law Project! www.courtlistener.com

Nate Raymond@nateraymond.bsky.social · last mo.

New: The U.S. federal judiciary says it is going to hike fees to download documents from its online court records system known as PACER in order to accelerate the development of a new, more secure case management and public ​access system. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I like to imagine the moderate democrats as Lara Flynn Boyle in Wayne's World.

Politico@politico.com · last mo.

Moderate Democrats fear they’re on the verge of losing the party’s ideological civil war to progressives.

Gonna tell my kids that this is The Warriors musical.

Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.

DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Support the Prairieland Defendants at their SENTENCING! Tues June 23rd 8:00am 501 W 10th St, Forth Worth, TX > Show solidarity inside and outside the courthouse > Rally and press conference after sentencing is delivered > Breakfast and lunch provided > Reminder: NO PHONES (1/2)

New favorite Paul Schrader anecdote just dropped, courtesy of @isaacbutler.bsky.social and THE PERFECT MOMENT, out today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The thing about reading @markharris.bsky.social’s Mike Nichols book is there are moments when you’re reading something universally relatable about the difficulty of creating something, and then you hit a phrase like “he was in a dry period, and had overextended himself in the horse market again.”

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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Every alien movie assumes that math is the universal language, but what if it turns out to be something entirely different, like quotes from Anchorman or something?

Eraserhead is a Father's Day movie!

Jonathan Demne, Stop Making Sense

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 2mo ago

Directors making cameo appearances in their own movies 👀 What's your favorite director cameo?

Scoring this for $3.00 feels very very wrong.

Damn, Paul!

He's about to reveal who murdered the countess.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2mo ago

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

I stand in awe of the Coppola family's willingness to spend time with their cousins.

Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.

Mamdani Remembers Some Knicks Guys during phenomenal parade speech

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