ICE shoots alleged gang member near California's I-5 freeway Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on Tuesday shot a man they described as an alleged gang member wanted for murder in Patterson, Calif., leading to the partial closure of the I-5 freeway in...

ICE just shot another person

I guess I'm blessed this is the first I've heard that anyone has negative opinions on Pitt S2

This Movie is Like Stone YouTube video by Adaptive Difficulty

On Adaptive Difficulty this week, we talk 2001: A Space Odyssey. Our thoughts on the movie's overwhelming mystery vs. the book's solid answers, expectations and realities of reading hard science fiction, and how to go poop on a spaceship

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I'm giving away 10 free copies of my critically-ignored trick-taker CVLT! It's, like, really good though?

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A ★★★★★ review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A movie carved out of stone, critiquing it feels like daring to tell a cliff to have eroded a little differently. How it is is a fact, not a choice.

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Not happy about it, but I think we'll see well done translations become a niche relegated to things like the Criterion Collection - semi-academic/preservation coded nerd shit

While the broader population accepts some incomprehensible or dumb idioms in exchange for foreign cinema seeming domestic

a man in a mask is standing in a dark room . ALT: a man in a mask is standing in a dark room .

Trying to telepathically convince past Northernlion to pronounce synecdoche correctly

a man in a mask is standing in a dark room . Alt: The main character from Interstellar banging against a wall to stop something from happening

Trying to telepathically convince past Northernlion to play Megalopolis in cine2nerdle when he needs Coppola movies and the current one has Shia LeBeouf

I am waiting to see the ICE episode of The Pitt before making grand declarations about it

Wuthering Heights (2026)

Our new ep discusses Wuthering Heights (2026) by diving into gothic literary theory, class and gender dynamics in the era, and whether it'd be really, really weird to take notes on this one in the middle of the theater
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Fantasia

Fits their typical aesthetics in being more experimental in nature, and I also think they would have a real opportunity to do a luxe, academic feeling set by presenting stuff like the full roadshow version with restored audio

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Wuthering Heights (2026)

Our new ep discusses Wuthering Heights (2026) by diving into gothic literary theory, class and gender dynamics in the era, and whether it'd be really, really weird to take notes on this one in the middle of the theater
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Everyone else has covered the right of Beshear to be religious, but I need to point out Beshear is not a member of an Evangelical denomination. He attends a mainline protestant church.

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

Mad men is so good

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.

On this ep: how badly the Narnia movie wanted to be Harry Potter, how the movie disconnects from the war reality Lewis was writing in, how the movie gives Lewis' portrayal of women's roles short shrift, and whether the GameCube game is a secret classic (probs not!)

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I have a similar heuristic for whether to take any writing advice seriously, by asking "did Star Wars 1977 flout this"

Back for the November No Kings protest, I took an Abolish ICE sign and didn't think twice that what I was bringing was particularly radical or extreme. They do the bad things we're opposing! It just didn't cross my mind.

What ICE needs is more training. (extremely close to mic voice) potty training

The new ep of Adaptive Difficulty finally tackles that infamous white whale of both literature and film:

Tom & Jerry and the Wizard of Oz

A movie which, per its blank Rotten Tomatoes score, we now have the first published review of.

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For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

I think if you are watching the movie already understanding he's a character you can empathize and relate to in some ways, the ending goes down much smoother.

Not that he will behave perfectly from now on, but that his focus and priorities could shift and at least improve him.

But Marty is cool and Safdie and Chalamet know it! He's funny, he exudes an aura, even his ambition and drive has admirable elements which I'm sure the successful Hollywood creators related to while writing and filming, even if it leads the character to dark places.

Happening a lot with Marty Supreme, which people are either misinterpreting or upset at the ending of,

[spoilers ahead]

because they've decided they're Media Literate, and therefore know Marty is an unlikable narcissist unworthy and incapable of change.