Jake Cole
@jakecole.bsky.social
Freelance critic and terminally online figure. Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jakepcole/
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Jake Cole
@jakecole.bsky.social
· Nov 19
You know what, we do movie prompts all the time and I enjoy them but where my real heads at, 1 like = 1 favorite heavy metal album
The pretty simple fact of the matter is that Weinstein was the only true “casualty” of MeToo in Hollywood, and that is solely because he was a bully to men too and everyone pounced on the excuse to oust him. If he’d nicer to directors and male stars he’d still be free and working.
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The pretty simple fact of the matter is that Weinstein was the only true “casualty” of MeToo in Hollywood, and that is solely because he was a bully to men too and everyone pounced on the excuse to oust him. If he’d nicer to directors and male stars he’d still be free and working.
“I don’t know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know World War IV will be fought with T-shirts. “ —Albert Einstein
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“I don’t know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know World War IV will be fought with T-shirts. “ —Albert Einstein
Getting home to my Eyes Wide Shut 4K finally delivering, let’s go.
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Getting home to my Eyes Wide Shut 4K finally delivering, let’s go.
Insane how much replay value Jenny Nicholson’s Star Wars Hotel video has. P much the ideal customer (even a former theater kid park employee!) meticulously breaking down how low Disney has sunk into aggressive IP language control, duplicity, and guest-hostile design makes it that much more cutting
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Insane how much replay value Jenny Nicholson’s Star Wars Hotel video has. P much the ideal customer (even a former theater kid park employee!) meticulously breaking down how low Disney has sunk into aggressive IP language control, duplicity, and guest-hostile design makes it that much more cutting
Imo Bill Hicks’s “Chomsky with dick jokes” tagline really started the ball rolling but Jon Stewart’s notorious Crossfire appearance is probably when it really broke out at a mainstream level. But even in that interview he pointed out that comedy was elevating because “news” media was breaking down
I don't remember any more when we started to take, or were supposed to start taking, comedians so seriously? 20 years ago-ish? There was always reverence for Carlin, Pryor etc, but mostly within comedy world, not popular culture at large.
I wonder if Maron and WTF popularizing digging into the pain and such of so many comedians had a role here
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Imo Bill Hicks’s “Chomsky with dick jokes” tagline really started the ball rolling but Jon Stewart’s notorious Crossfire appearance is probably when it really broke out at a mainstream level. But even in that interview he pointed out that comedy was elevating because “news” media was breaking down
As a documented sicko who has watched Threads of my own volition three times, it was inevitable that I would get around to Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War but my god am I feeling bad rn
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
As a documented sicko who has watched Threads of my own volition three times, it was inevitable that I would get around to Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War but my god am I feeling bad rn
QVOTE FROM STABBED MAN
incredible quote lol
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
QVOTE FROM STABBED MAN
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The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
God I LOVE this movie. The obvious point of comparison is Elephant but imo this is the far more intuitive embodiment of what in the culture sparks school shootings
My first home entertainment gig was an audio commentary for Fassbinder's Merchant of the Four Seasons in 2008. Seventeen years later, and I've logged my 300th title with a video essay on glorious oddball Matt Johnson's found footage banger, The Dirties.
My full list: horrornonna.com/home-enterta...
My full list: horrornonna.com/home-enterta...
The Dirties (2013) Blu-ray Collector's Edition
Two best friends, Matt (Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams), are outcasts at their high school smart, funny, and constantly harassed by bullies. To cope, they channel their pain into a film project call...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
God I LOVE this movie. The obvious point of comparison is Elephant but imo this is the far more intuitive embodiment of what in the culture sparks school shootings
“We held out until he was the most hated president in the history of nationwide polling before giving in” why even have attorneys
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“We held out until he was the most hated president in the history of nationwide polling before giving in” why even have attorneys
Every screenshot is more British than the last
At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
November 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Every screenshot is more British than the last
“as the father of a daughter” / “now that I’m personally affected” quibbles aside, GOOD. As someone who used that word on a damn near daily basis all the way through high school until it was beaten into my head how vile it was, seeing the attempt to bring it back as a hack slur enrages me
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“as the father of a daughter” / “now that I’m personally affected” quibbles aside, GOOD. As someone who used that word on a damn near daily basis all the way through high school until it was beaten into my head how vile it was, seeing the attempt to bring it back as a hack slur enrages me
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when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
One of the very first things that made me a Bandcamp devotee was a 4h20m (natch) mix of 8- and 16-bit era video game music called Welcome to Warp Zone. 11 years to the day it came out, its maker just put out a sequel. It’s morning in America. nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/return...
Return To Warp Zone!, by Nmesh
10 track album
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November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
One of the very first things that made me a Bandcamp devotee was a 4h20m (natch) mix of 8- and 16-bit era video game music called Welcome to Warp Zone. 11 years to the day it came out, its maker just put out a sequel. It’s morning in America. nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/return...
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If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
I actually started laughing when On the Nature of Daylight dropped in Hamnet. Get a new sad song signifier!
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I actually started laughing when On the Nature of Daylight dropped in Hamnet. Get a new sad song signifier!
Oh my god yes AND Excalibur on 4K???? God is real.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Oh my god yes AND Excalibur on 4K???? God is real.
One of the most criminally underseen and underrated films of the last 30 years and imo the best direct or spiritual adaptation of Gibson yet made despite having an operating budget of what looks like $250.
Back with more Abel Ferrara for Cinématographe, with his William Gibson adaptation NEW ROSE HOTEL that has long been an under celebrated title in his filmography. I managed to secure new interviews with both Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento for this alongside a slew of other extras, grab one!
New Rose Hotel
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November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
One of the most criminally underseen and underrated films of the last 30 years and imo the best direct or spiritual adaptation of Gibson yet made despite having an operating budget of what looks like $250.
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I'm at the blowback I'm at the limited hangout I'm at the shocking lack of CIA narrative control I'm at the combination blowback limited hangout shocking lack of CIA narrative control
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm at the blowback I'm at the limited hangout I'm at the shocking lack of CIA narrative control I'm at the combination blowback limited hangout shocking lack of CIA narrative control
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Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Used the holiday week to clear out some reading and between Joe Abercrombie’s The Devils feeling twice as long as its narrative could support and Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field being a scattered mess this really hasn’t been my year for new fantasy by old favs.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Used the holiday week to clear out some reading and between Joe Abercrombie’s The Devils feeling twice as long as its narrative could support and Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field being a scattered mess this really hasn’t been my year for new fantasy by old favs.
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I can’t remember the last time I legit cried laughing at something but the second verse of this song has done it
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I can’t remember the last time I legit cried laughing at something but the second verse of this song has done it
I’m repeating “bag lunch, smart!” like it’s a stadium chant
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I’m repeating “bag lunch, smart!” like it’s a stadium chant
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
This is a glorified vegetative state of existence. You lack all motor control except the ability to order Uber Eats. Ask AI for tips on how to end it, that’s about the only thing it gives reliable info on.
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is a glorified vegetative state of existence. You lack all motor control except the ability to order Uber Eats. Ask AI for tips on how to end it, that’s about the only thing it gives reliable info on.