The cover of JD Vance's forthcoming book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. The photo used for the dust jacket depicts a very pretty church in an Appalachian setting, with woods in the background and what looks like the beginnings of a sunrise over distant hills. One look at it and you'd probably think, "That is definitely a Protestant church," and you'd be right

Great item today from @cheetah.bsky.social on JD Vance's forthcoming conversion memoir. TL;DR: Although Vance is Catholic, the cover photo for his book depicts a (very photogenic) Methodist church. www.thebulwark.com/i/192730409/...

Seriously

We need Pope Leo to declare "prosperity gospel" and Christian Nationalist beliefs as heresies

Even better if he & several other mainline Protestant leaders could do it jointly

We also need him to excommunicate JD Vance and other Catholics with political power for selling those heresies

JD Vance has published a memoir about his conversion to the Catholic faith.

The book cover features a Protestant church. LOL

JD Vance is an American adult convert to Catholicism, which is to say a Protestant

The perfect new adaptation of The Thin Man would be Tom Hardy and Margaret Qualley as Nick and Nora Charles. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.

a close up of a man wearing sunglasses and talking on a cell phone . ALT: a close up of a man wearing sunglasses and talking on a cell phone .

The only guy who should be wearing Raybans

Now that Paul Thomas Anderson has won Best Director who is the next great director that still needs to win?

For me it's:

- Ryan Coogler
- Park Chan Wook
- Rian Johnson

Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson posing together with their Oscars

the boys!

If you didn't catch the names in PTA's speech, the 1975 Best Picture nominees are Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There are no skips; there is no wrong place to start. They will make you love American movies anew, and demand the best from them.

'Sinners' Proves Audiences Crave Sex, Vampires—and Fresh Ideas Ryan Coogler’s horror movie has shattered box office records—and the myth that audiences don’t care about original stories.

Ryan Coogler’s horror movie has shattered box office records—and the myth that audiences don’t care about original stories.

Tweet from the Prime Minister of Israel: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Antisemitism knows no limits or boundaries. Israel is attacked because it is the Jewish state. Temple Israel in Detroit was attacked today because it is a Jewish house of worship."

Speaking as a Jew living in Diaspora, who needs to exist as a minority at a time of rising antisemitism, I would really appreciate it if the Prime Minister of a country where I do not live would not say that attacks on a sovereign country are analogous to attacks on a synagogue.

Absolutely loved "The Bride!". The directing, visual style, script, and performances were top notch. Jesse Buckley could be the most daring actress of her generation. It is an absolute cinematic cocktail of everything that makes movies great.

Shopping/Development Agreement signed on "The Bonnie and Clyde Trilogy".

An alternate history of what happened if Bonnie and Clyde escaped their fates and worked to redeem themselves and fight against ruthless capitalists.

David Chase’s NOT FADE AWAY was already an all-time favorite and one of the truest movies I know, but the black-and-white version (now on @criterionchannl.bsky.social) still managed to be a total revelation. Makes it all work even better. Difficult for me to articulate how much it moves me.

Yeah by putting their faith behind the director of Run Hide Fight a man who makes Taylor Sheridan look like Boots Riley

aw man we were only a week away from senate democrats tweeting that something must be done

Joe Rogan Calls Basic Constitutional Right a ‘Crazy Law’ Rogan added his two cents to the conservative war on birthright citizenship.

Good start with Michael Malice send him back to Russia.

Dick Tracy is one of the most beautiful-looking films ever made. It's a tribute to the way that we remember reading comic books as children - the colors pop, the scale astonishes, the framing always built to be purely rousing. It is a fully-realized world of artifice and emotion.

George W. Bush Can Suck It He didn’t throw shade at Trump; he whitewashed authoritarianism.

“The lesson of the Trump years is that liberalism and democracy are not self-sustaining. That guardrails are dependent on the courage and wisdom of individuals. That we only get liberalism tomorrow if we choose to protect it today.”

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The only thing AI can make that is passable slop are science fiction/fantasy because realism no matter how hard they try looks like a bad video game.

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

Robert Duvall out of that entire generation was the best. He could play naturalistic to operatic. The proof of how important an actor he was, his absence in Godfather III. The draft with Hagen really is about Tom being the throughline throughout the entire trilogy and the relationship with Michael.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

This is a woman who has never had to fear any physical or verbal retaliation in her life.

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

A tweet from @ futurevictim_ that reads "the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard"

Never Forget