Prince - With This Tear YouTube video by princevevo

A previously unreleased song from Prince was posted on his YouTube channel today to mark the 10th anniversary of his passing.

An AI-free OS for an AI-free product line with a written guarantee from Apple not to insert AI into users’ devices at a later date.

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Remember when big-budget movies had color?

The poster wearing a T-shirt that reads "Written and directed by The Wachowski Sisters" (white text on black fabric), while seated in a movie theater

The poster's legs, sporting blue jeans, black dress shoes, and red socks

T-minus ten minutes to SPEED RACER in IMAX. And yes, I'm wearing the socks.

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Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter in the movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," photgraphed from a 35mm film print using a loupe, from the moment before he sings "how about that?"

Last-minute happy birthday to Tim Curry

Too soon.

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This is like finding every episode of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in HD. We have simply never heard the father of all blues/rock music this clearly before.

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In case you missed it, I wrote about a PHANTOM OF THE OPERA screening at the Lincoln Theatre in Maine last month. It was an excuse for me to express some opinions about silent film accompaniment, and I also dug up a review of the film from when it played the Lincoln on first run in 1926!

Let's guess the last time this asshole bought something in a store.

Whoa!

Exactly one year ago today:

In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros

U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One

www.dvidshub.net/video/100269...

#Artemis 🧪🔭

Two thoughts: This gave me the first spark of hope that Lav Diaz will someday win an Oscar. (That he likely doesn't care about that matters more, of course.) And secondly, "competence porn" is now one of my favorite word pairings.

We’re at a point where we need to get back to the basics of film and television and toss away the bells, whistles and bright shiny lights of empty style and computer effects. And we need to let the people who know how to do this take over again.

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The protagonist of Terminator (1984) is a minimum wage waitress who rides a scooter to work. The protagonist of They Live! (1988) is a homeless dude who lives in East LA. The protagonist of The Matrix (1999) is a hapless corporate cog who hates his job enough to imagine the universe is unreal.

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This is wonderful news, and most lovely prose. I was fortunate enough to be able to see this theatrically when it debuted, and made the point of going twice that week knowing Carmike would likely not carry it over the following week—it didn't.

Rock and roll can never die: The unstoppable beat of David Chase’s low-key masterpiece 'Not Fade Away' There’s a new black-and-white cut on the Criterion Channel that lends a layer of timelessness to David Chase’s vision of a bygone era.

For @deciderdotcom.bsky.social , an appreciation of a non-Cosa-Nostra (as such) David Chase opus: decider.com/2026/04/07/d...

(In Keith Olbermann's voice)

Dunning-Kruger effect specimens

I know it's among the more polarizing of his films, but I'll also stick up for HUGO here on account of it's contrasting singularity. His shortcomings as a human notwithstanding, Kingsley's performance gets at my tear ducts in a way few grown men are capable of.

Mentally I'm already seated

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