Christine Cherry

Brand New Day is a Spider-Man movie for people whose favorite MCU movie is Captain America: Winter Soldier.

The thing that baffles me is, who are these guys supposed to be? Am I supposed to know them? The whole point of guys talking about Star Wars on the internet is building parasocial relationships. You can't AI your way to parasocial relationships.

I accidentally posted in the middle of writing something but I'm keeping this instead. There definitely is something about.

There's something about

This is real "We're so back" shit. Pattinson predictably bonkers but I'm obsessed with every face Merritt Wever makes.

People don't understand how absolutely crucial the skits are to MST3K. Riffing in movies isn't as funny if you don't have a relationship to the people doing the riffing. The skits build the audience's relationship to the bots so that, when the movie is on, you're with your friends.

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

Oh god this shit is absolute catnip for me

Spider-Man will always work in every visual medium because (a) he is a Normal Teenager with Normal Problems and Secret Gifts, and (b) swinging between skyscrapers in daylight is awesome. What’s weird is that other superheroes are billionaires and aliens who either fly or prowl around at nighttime

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

"We can't address this until people stop annoying me on the internet" seems to be the driving philosophy at The Atlantic and most editorial pages.

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

*Me in Ben Sisko saying "The trouble is Earth" voice* The trouble is the 90s

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

“If gender turns out to be an arbitrary, transcendable division, and not a permanent and natural one, then what remains of how we order and rank the human race?”

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

*standing up on the plane* LISTEN UP The real reason that Doctor Who has been floundering for so long is that the format was perfected in 2014 when Peter Capaldi took the role and the show fully deconstructed itself into the fullest expression of what Doctor Who is and you just can't follow that

odysseus should have been more of a trickster. and he should have his face painted in a fun way…like maybe the way a clown does it…i’m just spitballing. perhaps he could meet batman in the film? and they DONT get along.

Michelle Yeoh & Hunter Schafer

I love Edward Gorey’s theory of art: “Art…is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”

It is always the exact same tantrum, too, delivered in the exact same manner, by the exact same people. You don't need to be a master of pattern recognition to put it together!

It’s too bad the new streaming show won’t understand the original’s themes. But then again, who does?

The most radicalizing thing about this era is listening to the most powerful people in the world speak about any subject whatsoever. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ec...

Jacob Gellar still out here being the best to ever do it

Can we get to the point where we just don't engage with all the Nazi chuds who are mad that a new popular movie isn't explicitly white supremacist? Who cares? They're friggin' Nazis.

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

An all time touch grass heat check and people addicted to dumbass social algorithms will prob learn nothing

mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.