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English, American Studies, and Cinema Studies Prof at St. Joseph’s University of New York (Brooklyn & Long Island). Happy husband of Andrea. Proud Dad of Hannah and Ben. He/Him/His

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Look at this ignorant moron try to answer a question about his own beliefs. Racists don't actually know anything, they just.... believe things.

12.02.2026 21:33 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
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Trump's former attorney. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

13.02.2026 21:21 👍 4657 🔁 1944 💬 121 📌 81
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The Current Cinema What I've seen and how I've liked it

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16.02.2026 17:05 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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R.I.P. Robert Duvall: Great in the movies you already know, and great in some you may not have seen Here we present five Duvall deep cuts — pictures that didn’t get cited in detail in the mainstream obits.

In which I recommend some Robert Duvall deep cuts: decider.com/2026/02/17/r...

17.02.2026 15:17 👍 83 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 5

Duvall had an innate sense of how to physically embody a character in terms of body language, posture and gestures.
I didn’t even notice that he didn’t duck for cover first time I saw Apocalypse Now.
If felt completely right that Kilgore wouldn’t flinch or be put out by explosions as he was war.

16.02.2026 21:10 👍 129 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 1
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Unconvinced by Bogart as a cowboy but he would have been a great Gomez Addams.

07.01.2026 15:06 👍 88 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 2

Optimism

09.01.2026 13:03 👍 117 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 2
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‘I keep seeing a guy with a scythe out there. Anyone else see him?’

10.01.2026 01:28 👍 78 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
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Trump, Musk & the internet’s vile misogyny has created a literal army of killers who have completed dehumanised women to the point where they feel they can murder them with impunity.
We have to keep watching over our children to try to counteract the poisonous propaganda by fostering empathy.

10.01.2026 08:59 👍 90 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0
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Walter Hill is 84
His films have given me a lot of pleasure.
If you’re new to him, first watch:
Hard Times
The Driver
The Warriors
The Long Riders
Southern Comfort
48 Hrs.
& then
Streets of Fire
Crossroads
Extreme Prejudice
Johnny Handsome
Geronimo
Will Bill
Last Man Standing
Deadwood

10.01.2026 11:07 👍 90 🔁 16 💬 10 📌 4
Smoke (1995). Paul Benjamin sees his deceased wife in Auggie's photo album.
Smoke (1995). Paul Benjamin sees his deceased wife in Auggie's photo album. YouTube video by Canal de Vídeo y Música

It’s Wayne Wang’s birthday.
Smoke is a beautiful movie.
This wonderful scene inspired one of my Film students to do what Auggie does with his camera every day for his A Level Photography project.
And of course, there’s the moment with Paul that the clip title refers to:
youtu.be/O8WmkAh2nXE?...

12.01.2026 11:35 👍 52 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 0

It’s a puzzler, for sure

12.01.2026 19:24 👍 1635 🔁 218 💬 2 📌 18
Bruce Wayne / Batman Has a Conversation With Himself
Bruce Wayne / Batman Has a Conversation With Himself YouTube video by loomyaire

The Batman tv show is 60.
Adam West should have got an Emmy for this scene alone.
I love DeNiro, Washington, Day-Lewis etc but none of them have had an acting challenge like this.
youtu.be/tgCkmUS1IYI?...

12.01.2026 22:12 👍 333 🔁 106 💬 7 📌 11
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Fox Producer: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show

AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show.

FP: That’s not true

AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why don’t you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.

07.01.2026 23:42 👍 31023 🔁 7195 💬 1181 📌 576

This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.

08.01.2026 04:30 👍 9307 🔁 1735 💬 395 📌 70

Your daily reminder that having to do this radiates weakness, not strength. Yes, there are people who will buy this. But if they thought enough people were going to buy it, they wouldn’t have to do this.

They have to do the hard sell precisely because they know how many people aren’t buying it.

08.01.2026 18:48 👍 748 🔁 189 💬 20 📌 9

That press briefing by JD Vance on the killing of Renee Good was one of the most disgraceful things I've ever seen, and pretty much a clear exercise in Orwellian gaslighting.

08.01.2026 19:20 👍 435 🔁 119 💬 13 📌 2
Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement

Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement

Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement https://theonion.com/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove-cons-1819575405/

08.01.2026 21:00 👍 3477 🔁 692 💬 55 📌 37

What an indecent waste of syllables--three paragraphs of "Gosh, things sure are complicated in this big world of ours and if we could all just sit and talk..." about the murder of an innocent woman by masked secret police. Centrist banality combined with narcissistic I-am-America's-pastor preening.

09.01.2026 15:47 👍 271 🔁 45 💬 30 📌 2
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Magellan movie review & film summary (2026) | Roger Ebert Diaz's visuals want to immerse rather than dazzle you.

"His visuals want to immerse rather than dazzle you,” writes @glennkenny.bsky.social about the films of Lav Diaz. The director’s latest, MAGELLAN, is in theaters now:

09.01.2026 19:45 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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The icing on the cake is that it was a no-bid contract.

09.01.2026 23:36 👍 7106 🔁 2822 💬 175 📌 92
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Is It Good Politics to Defend a Harmless Woman Getting Shot in the Face? I’ve seen some comments that whatever the hideousness of it President Trump’s...

Is It Good Politics to Defend a Harmless Woman Getting Shot in the Face? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-it...

09.01.2026 23:55 👍 472 🔁 117 💬 14 📌 11
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Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: 'White people very badly treated' Critics pounced on President Donald Trump Monday after he complained to the New York Times that the Civil Rights Act – the landmark 1964 legislation that outlawed racial discrimination – was “unfair i...

once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

12.01.2026 14:51 👍 10464 🔁 2578 💬 170 📌 135
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Listen to this! My favorite recordings of 2025

glennkenny.substack.com/p/listen-to-...

12.01.2026 20:22 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

i think this professional liar is one of the most disgraceful people in media

08.01.2026 14:40 👍 8713 🔁 1079 💬 231 📌 34
Bowie smokes a cigarette in a shot on the cover of M, the magazine of Le Monde. The story: "Bowie et nous".

Bowie smokes a cigarette in a shot on the cover of M, the magazine of Le Monde. The story: "Bowie et nous".

Remembering David Bowie on his birthday 🎂
📷 Markus Klinko & Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, for the album Heathen, 2002

"Bowie was his generation’s standard-bearer for rock as theater: something constructed and inflated yet sincere in its artifice, saying more than naturalism could."
- Jon Pareles

08.01.2026 15:38 👍 71 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 0
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Remembering the great Jose Ferrer, groundbreaking Oscar-winning Puerto Rican actor & stage, film, and television director, on his 114th birthday, who was one of the most respected, influential and acclaimed Hispanic American actors of his time.

He was #BOTD on 1/8/1912.

09.01.2026 06:18 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0