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a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich
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a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich
well this just looks really fucking good
to anyone here who's seen the film, are the photos animated, as in the people in them are moving like animated characters, or have they animated a 3D effect to mimic many of the photos' stereoscopic origins?
Ava DuVernay's 14th, about the 14th Amendment, uses AI to animate old photos that are in the public domain, and the filmmaker wants people to see the documentary for themselves before deciding how they feel about it. tinyurl.com/c6nj6vf7
because this quote from the original Hollywood Reporter article sounds like the latter, but i'm still not clear about it www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
guy's like "i'm gonna dig in on Digger" and immediately next post he's hitting us with Naipaul. Jason operating at levels we didn't know existed.
I will now discuss why I think Digger is brilliant. First, I do love the Hudsucker Proxy so a kind of screwball take on capitalism is my taste. So that's my bias...
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just got assigned to interview Bill Hader, but i really don't know how i can possibly top the greatest Bill Hader interview of all time...
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just got assigned to interview Bill Hader, but i really don't know how i can possibly top the greatest Bill Hader interview of all time...
one of my favourite movies of the year
Concrete Turned to Sand (London Film Festival 2026) — Personal And Universal Concrete Turned to Sand starts with a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Dispossessed’. The final line of a well-chosen paragraph, “the sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness,” perfectly sets up the engrossing…
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i do remember, early on during COVID, my uncle was completely convinced that because he drank multiple glasses of whisky per day (i know), he was immune from the virus. he'd read it on Facebook, he said, like that was some impressive source. he of course did eventually catch COVID.
I feel like because of mark zuckerberg your average boomer or gen x american has the dietary theories of like this guy, at best
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wrote about catching The Traitors bug, and offered up some reading and watching recommendations in the latest Sunday newsletter
wrote about catching The Traitors bug, and offered up some reading and watching recommendations in the latest Sunday newsletter
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In fairness (sorry), the film flatlined the second it expanded from 4 to 472 screens. It's not You Can See Everything; it's four hours, with good but not great reviews, about someone who's already in our faces 24/7. But I do think we should watch for how easy, or not, it becomes to stream or rent.
This seems like a big deal