“Critics say” you fucking dishonest ghouls? The fascist who wrote the law said it himself.

it will never cease to fill me with anger and sadness how israel instrumentalizes the holocaust to justify its policies and deflect criticism of itself while conducting itself in ways that mirror the atrocities committed against us and calling this observation "holocaust inversion"

Pueblo Bonito, biggest of the "great houses" in Chaco Canyon, after a recent snow. It is a kind of semi-circle shaped castle that once had something like 800 rooms. The photograph, taken from the bluffs above, shows the now roofless structure laid out in the narrow valley of the Chaco.

For years and years, Pueblos, Diné (Navajo), Indé (Apache), archaeologists, green groups, Utah and New Mexico politicos, and recreation, water, and timber interests fought over the land around Chaco Canyon, one of the world's most important archaeological sites. In 2022, ... (1/5)

While covering the latest Israeli settler attack in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers assaulted my photojournalist @cyrilthps and detained my team. But our 2-hour detention revealed a lot about the motives of these Israeli soldiers: acting in service of the settler movement.

Completely new dynamic developing in real time where journalists at traditionally extremely deferential news outlets like CNN are learning how to say basic facts about Israel without equivocation or obfuscation

Starts Wednesday!

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Free screening in Greenwich, London, on Friday 27th March 2026!

There are a limited number of seats left to fill - so please book as soon as you can if you would like to come.

KCL Strand Film Festival KCL Strand Film Festival – KCL Strand Film Festival25 March - 1 April 2026 The student-led KCL Strand Film Festival returns for its ninth instalment, with...

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We close the 9th KCLSFF on Weds 01/04 with RA.I.VE, a virtual Q&A screening of YICHU 1.0, a cyberfeminist odyssey thru RAVE CINEMA, exploring discourse and nuances surrounding the use of AI in audiovisual artistic projects, followed by a closing night party. www.tickettailor.com/events/kclst...

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KCL Strand Film Festival 2026 | King's College London The student-led KCL Strand Film Festival returns for its ninth instalment, with an exciting programme of features, short films, special guests, and live performances.

The KCL Strand Film Festival starts next Weds, curated by Film Festivals & Film Festival Studies students at @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social! 6 days of filmy brilliance incl. interactive horror + queer docs + filmmaker masterclasses + AI/AV raves + much more. FREE TIX!

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Screenshot of my Letterboxd review of One Battle After Another, which reads: "Believe (some of) the hype. This is entertaining as heck, looks phenomenal, and has some extremely salient things to say about Amerikkka, but... I can't shake a slight sense that it maybe has a little too much of a Centrist Dad kinda outlook on increasingly polarised political ideologies. In the same way that an unwavering identification with DiCaprio's character sucked all of the redemptive potential out of Killers of the Flower Moon, his otherwise excellent performance here shifts from wide-eyed revolutionary to 'a man with responsibilities' (albeit a berobed, 'reefer-smoking' man, that is as heavily indebted to Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski as was 'Doc' Sportello in PTA's previous Pynchon paranoia adap, Inherent Vice). And so this cynic's paradise of a satire paints a world in which there are objects of ridicule on both sides, even if the powerful baddies - caricatured members of a secretive, yet comical white supremacist cabal - feel inherently more dangerous than the failed/failing idealogues who are mostly found fumbling in the dark. I mean, the film even takes time to poke fun at contemporary culture's penchant for pronouns and safe spaces, precisely the kind of thing about which every Centrist Dad makes 'harmless' jokes. All that being said, the film's coda does at least offer some indication of where our sympathies should lie amid these cyclical battles. (Sidenote: I particularly appreciated the subtle ways in which it drew attention to the settler colonial complex rather than simply ignoring it.) Don't get me wrong, I bloody loved this. But also, don't get this film wrong, it ain't some revolutionary tract slipped under the Hollywood radar. It is rather good though."

All of which is to say that I stand by my original @letterboxd.social review:

The fact that a pretty right wing guy I know just posted elsewhere about watching One Battle After Another and saying how much he loved it really tells you everything you need to know. It's a fine film, but please let's stop pretending it's some sort of radical political statement.

My hot take is that the way X-Men has historically depicted Australia in general and Indigenous Australian characters in particular is cringy AF and I am praying for some kind of course correction.

Like, Bishop is canonically Indigenous. They've never, to my knowledge, even named his Nation.

I mean, it really depends on your definition of 'great' (and 'mediocre', come to that). I can think of loads of highly entertaining comedies, for instance, where I'd struggle to say the direction was particularly special or notable.

I mean, a bad movie is a bad movie, whatever we mean by that, but while undoubtedly a collaborative art, I suppose it's how the director brings all those elements together. A film can be impactful above and beyond the formal aspects, but for me, it's how that form and impact come together.

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I'd agree with most of that. Witnessing that dance scene in Sinners was undoubtedly my favourite moment in a cinema in the past year, but I think OBAA was better 'directed' overall (although I'm also no PTA stan, my favourite of his is still Inherent Vice, so make of that what you will).

I mean, of the nominees I've seen, I'd actually say Sinners for Best Pic and Anderson for Best Dir.

Mountains and molehills come to mind.

Just scrolled past some (white) commentator suggesting that if SINNERS wins Best Picture but Coogler doesn't win Best Director it would be a 'problem'. But why are those two things interlinked? It's entirely possible to think it's the best film overall, but not the best directed, surely?

A press release from the Tla’amin, K’omoks, Klahoose and Homalco Nations absolutely eviscerating local racist MP Aaron Gunn for having a tantrum about land acknowledgements

When it comes to press releases, this in the GOAT conversation:

A screenshot of the Guardian website with a headline reading: "Putin's 'hidden have' lies behind Iran's drone tactics, UK defence secretary says".

Wait. So if Iran are the 'hidden hand' behind Hamas, Hezbollah, etc., and Russia is the 'hidden hand' behind Iran, who is the 'hidden hand' behind Russia and is it puppets all the way down?

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

If you 'Brat Summer' dweebs had any guts, you'd make it a 'Fuck War Summer' this year.

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Toronto Film Critics Association Faces Collapse After Allegedly Censoring Indigenous Filmmaker’s Pro-Palestine Speech Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her trophy, the president resigned and 16 members have quit — with more considering their position: "This Is Killing the TFCA."

Can’t believe we’re still dealing with this.

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