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space pirate, robot whisperer, word wrangler, marteau sans maître, purveyor of weapons of mass deconstruction – formerly bylined at Birth.Movies.Death
Now, are they going to expect trans women to take the larger portions?
December 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Now, are they going to expect trans women to take the larger portions?
In the spirit of the season, let us set aside our differences about whether or not DIE HARD is a Christmas movie and come together in reconciliation and agreement that this DIE HARD key art is abysmal.
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In the spirit of the season, let us set aside our differences about whether or not DIE HARD is a Christmas movie and come together in reconciliation and agreement that this DIE HARD key art is abysmal.
Gonna watch an Apollo I documentary, the endpoint of which is inevitably dudes getting fried in a pure oxygen atmosphere because NASA hadn't figured out that a pure oxygen atmosphere was a bad idea and even more so when you had a hatch which was both dogged and could only be opened from the outside
December 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Gonna watch an Apollo I documentary, the endpoint of which is inevitably dudes getting fried in a pure oxygen atmosphere because NASA hadn't figured out that a pure oxygen atmosphere was a bad idea and even more so when you had a hatch which was both dogged and could only be opened from the outside
I mean, I've BOUGHT it more than six times
December 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I mean, I've BOUGHT it more than six times
Formula 1 World Champion Lando Norris in tears, hugging his peers and his team members and his boss and his parents and being totally overcome by his achievement: that's the opposite of toxic masculinity
December 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Formula 1 World Champion Lando Norris in tears, hugging his peers and his team members and his boss and his parents and being totally overcome by his achievement: that's the opposite of toxic masculinity
This is the good shit
There are details in the models that makes technical advisors and historians take to strong drink. The battleships have straight bows rather than clipper bows and the West Virginia didn't have casemate guns forward (that ended with the New Mexico class).
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is the good shit
Those boots are also made for kerbstomping.
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Those boots are also made for kerbstomping.
Just ordered a copy (£3 at Waterstones for UK readers!) on the basis of this paragraph alone.
This passage shocked me to my core.
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Just ordered a copy (£3 at Waterstones for UK readers!) on the basis of this paragraph alone.
Mark Zuckerberg's funding could have provided clean water in developing countries, helped alleviate homelessness and poverty, enhanced global education, cured or eradicated a disease.
Instead he'll be remembered as the power dork who managed to spunk $80bn up the wall with nothing to show for it.
Instead he'll be remembered as the power dork who managed to spunk $80bn up the wall with nothing to show for it.
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Mark Zuckerberg's funding could have provided clean water in developing countries, helped alleviate homelessness and poverty, enhanced global education, cured or eradicated a disease.
Instead he'll be remembered as the power dork who managed to spunk $80bn up the wall with nothing to show for it.
Instead he'll be remembered as the power dork who managed to spunk $80bn up the wall with nothing to show for it.
Nobody's seen it, but what Matthew Lillard injects into the single episode of TRUE LIES in which he guest stars almost redeems the entire series with an off-kilter but deeply empathetic and fun turn that finally hits a tone the show was aiming for from the outset but none of the regulars can manage
December 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Nobody's seen it, but what Matthew Lillard injects into the single episode of TRUE LIES in which he guest stars almost redeems the entire series with an off-kilter but deeply empathetic and fun turn that finally hits a tone the show was aiming for from the outset but none of the regulars can manage
I am also in favour of the return of a very specific kind of public execution.
December 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I am also in favour of the return of a very specific kind of public execution.
JAY KELLY is kind of the platonic ideal of a Netflick: a meandering self-involved and knowingly pretentious movie about movies and movie stars and the death of both from a singular auteur writer/director, with an absolutely stacked cast doing great work and absolutely zero box-office appeal.
December 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
JAY KELLY is kind of the platonic ideal of a Netflick: a meandering self-involved and knowingly pretentious movie about movies and movie stars and the death of both from a singular auteur writer/director, with an absolutely stacked cast doing great work and absolutely zero box-office appeal.
Oh. No.
AI ‘creators’ might just crash the influencer economy
AI ‘creators’ might just crash the influencer economy
On the slop-filled internet, Jeremy Carrasco uses his platforms to spread AI literacy.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Oh. No.
"Let me have silence always in the centre of the shouting, that is essential. Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle scratching upon this gramophone of the circular cosmic spot."
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Let me have silence always in the centre of the shouting, that is essential. Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle scratching upon this gramophone of the circular cosmic spot."
Pitiful.
What does apple crumble symbolise? Absolutely nothing.
Now, cake, that's got real historical resonance when it come to protesting against societal inequality, and also a solid track record of getting results.
In the meantime: stricter bag checks at major tourist attractions.
What does apple crumble symbolise? Absolutely nothing.
Now, cake, that's got real historical resonance when it come to protesting against societal inequality, and also a solid track record of getting results.
In the meantime: stricter bag checks at major tourist attractions.
Tower of London closes after apple crumble thrown on crown jewels display
Four people arrested after apparent protest against UK inequality claimed by civil-resistance group Take Back Power
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Pitiful.
What does apple crumble symbolise? Absolutely nothing.
Now, cake, that's got real historical resonance when it come to protesting against societal inequality, and also a solid track record of getting results.
In the meantime: stricter bag checks at major tourist attractions.
What does apple crumble symbolise? Absolutely nothing.
Now, cake, that's got real historical resonance when it come to protesting against societal inequality, and also a solid track record of getting results.
In the meantime: stricter bag checks at major tourist attractions.
Something I 'm realising in hearing James Cameron talk about the performance capture tech used in AVATAR is that, yeah, it totally frees the actors' performance from the demands of lighting, scenery and set-based distractions, but it also only works with and in fact demands fully-animated characters
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Something I 'm realising in hearing James Cameron talk about the performance capture tech used in AVATAR is that, yeah, it totally frees the actors' performance from the demands of lighting, scenery and set-based distractions, but it also only works with and in fact demands fully-animated characters
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no one has ever gotten the spirit of our country as right as paul verhoeven making robocop
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
no one has ever gotten the spirit of our country as right as paul verhoeven making robocop
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The funniest part of this farrago is going to be when Zuck quietly abandons the whole Meta dealio and reverts the branding to Facebook
Meta Platforms is planning cuts to the metaverse—an arena Mark Zuckerberg once called the future of the company—and will shift spending to AI wearables.
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion since 2020.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The funniest part of this farrago is going to be when Zuck quietly abandons the whole Meta dealio and reverts the branding to Facebook
Someone did a lifetime of acclaimed and interesting work and died at 96? Okay, good game, but not a tragedy of a person having their life cut short in its prime.
December 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Someone did a lifetime of acclaimed and interesting work and died at 96? Okay, good game, but not a tragedy of a person having their life cut short in its prime.
Hey, how about we don't do the "Herp derp, who can remember anything about the highest-grossing film of all time" rodeo every time there's a new AVATAR?
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hey, how about we don't do the "Herp derp, who can remember anything about the highest-grossing film of all time" rodeo every time there's a new AVATAR?
When I'm right, I'm right.
And I'm always right.
And I'm always right.
I was prepared to dunk hard on this piece but it doesn't actually attempt to answer the question the headline sets up, but instead posits a much more interesting one: what if this is a toe in the water for a full-blown rerelease of the original STAR WAR trilogy?
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
The original Star Wars is back – but what if George Lucas is right about it not being much good?
After 48 years, the 1977 theatrical cut of the movie is set to screen again this summer. It will surely look rather different this time round
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
When I'm right, I'm right.
And I'm always right.
And I'm always right.
Watching one of those hipster movies shot in square aspect ratio
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Watching one of those hipster movies shot in square aspect ratio
Beyond delighted that the BFI's Richard Burton season includes the glorious mess that is BOOM!
Elizabeth Taylor! Richard Burton! Noél Coward! Tennessee Williams! John Barry! Joseph Losey! Dangerous drunken filmmaking at its finest!
Elizabeth Taylor! Richard Burton! Noél Coward! Tennessee Williams! John Barry! Joseph Losey! Dangerous drunken filmmaking at its finest!
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Beyond delighted that the BFI's Richard Burton season includes the glorious mess that is BOOM!
Elizabeth Taylor! Richard Burton! Noél Coward! Tennessee Williams! John Barry! Joseph Losey! Dangerous drunken filmmaking at its finest!
Elizabeth Taylor! Richard Burton! Noél Coward! Tennessee Williams! John Barry! Joseph Losey! Dangerous drunken filmmaking at its finest!
Today was my last Friday at work this year, so naturally I structured the day so I could go home at lunchtime, where I am staying while this rain persists.
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Today was my last Friday at work this year, so naturally I structured the day so I could go home at lunchtime, where I am staying while this rain persists.
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Paul Dano next time he sees Quentin Tarantino approaching.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Paul Dano next time he sees Quentin Tarantino approaching.