The Sonic Cinema Podcast is topical, as @bingemovies.bsky.social and @jmamenn.bsky.social and I discuss Sidney Lumet’s “Network” at 50, how the film was prescient, and how it didn’t anticipate a lot. #Movies #Films #FilmSky
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A pleasure as always, Brian! Thanks for having me
To close out this year, I was joined by Phil Fasso to look at American jingoism in contemporary action films.
I have more topics in mind for 2026. I hope you continue to join me. #Movies #Films #FilmSky
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Next up, it was important to look at the press's responsibility to hold power to account. Joining me there was @jmamenn.bsky.social, and it was an important and vital discussion. #Movies #Films #FilmSky
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R.I.P. Udo Kier (1944—2025)
The time has come to share my favorite films, soundtracks and performances of 2024. This was an eclectic, exciting year for personal moviewatching and I look forward for what’s ahead in 2025. #Movies #FilmSky
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Thanks for a great discussion Brian!
The newest episode in our “Fascism in Cinema” series is out today. Here, @jmamenn.bsky.social and I look at the press’s responsibility in speaking truth to power, and how it’s threatened now. #Movies #Films #FilmSky @bingemovies.bsky.social @dwlundberg.bsky.social
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Another episode of Sonic Cinema’s “Fascism in Cinema” series is in the can. It was great to talk to @jmamenn.bsky.social for the first time on the pod about holding power accountable in journalism. Look for the episode at the start of November. #Movies #Films #FilmSky
for active military or if you know someone in the military:
“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/
Seems relevant. Don’t let them erase us.
The Dude has spoken:
"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"
Here's my 🧵of #LFF2025 📽️ reviews starting with the movies I have covered elsewhere. My strongest recommendation is for ROMERÍA, an enormous act of love with an all-time dance scene done by filthy gutter punks movieswetextedabout.com/romeria-film...
ALPHA #LFF2025 📽️ has another extraordinary scene set in a punk club with some unusual (and repulsive) body horror, but somehow even with Tahar Rahim's brutally beautiful performance Julia Ducournau didn't quite bring it all together intheirownleague.com/2025/05/26/c...
As for the others I've already covered at #LFF2025 📽️ let's go alphabetically (more or less). AFTER THE HUNT holds a woman responsible for a sexual assault committed by a man and I loathe this is how our culture addresses these crimes movieswetextedabout.com/after-the-hu...
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Canceling a streaming service?
How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!
A firefighter, shown from behind, looking out toward smoldering trees in a mountain valley. A headline reads: "Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050, Study Finds." Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times
If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050, according to new research. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
OK EVERYONE!!! You know the assignment.
@midcapeindivisible.bsky.social @51percentofus.bsky.social @indivisible.org support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art...
A six year investigation by NYT reporters found the nation’s largest bank enabled Epstein for years.
🎁 article
Heartbreaking film!
PENELOPE IS MISSING UPTOWN: Last seen between 119th and 120th St and Park Ave heading toward Lexington and Third. She's 28 pounds and chipped: 616099000072018. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT PENELOPE!
Well done.
All links now live! Happy reading everybody
BREAKING: Judge Breyer declines California request for immediate restraining order but sets a Thursday hearing:
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TAZ - ID. hashtag#A757334 (M) Estimated Age 5 YEARS, BLACK/WHITE, LABRADOR RETRIEVER/BLEND DOG. Weight LARGE LBS Heartworm Test: NO TEST Heartworm Smear: NO TEST Days At Shelter: 6 Evaluation Notes: 5/23/25 Dog is laying down upon approach and sits up for offered treats with a tense body, wide eyes and a tucked tail. He retreats away from me as I enter kennel with a tense, trembling body, wide eyes and a tucked tail. He continued to take treats offered to him on ground and by hand with same body language. He allows me to pet him as I offer him treats with same body language. He is able to be leashed and walked outside by walking behind him. Once outside he freezes outside of building where he is hyper-vigilant and sniff the air with a tense, trembling body, wide eyes and a tucked tail. After a few moments, he turns around and stands at the door seemingly interested to return to kennel. He is easy to return to kennel. Behavior due to environment and/or under-socialization. Play Group: 5/25/25 Dog was fearful upon approach with tucked ears and tense body. He was able to be leashed and carried outside into the yard. He laid down in the yard near handlers with a tense body and tucked tail and allowed other dogs to greet him. He was most interested in staying near handlers watching the other dogs play. Behavior possibly due to undersocialization. Vet Exam Notes: 5/22/25 Pt on vet exam list for pale gums and ticks QAR, very nervous and cowering in corner of kennel, some fleas and ticks observed, light pink mm, ambulatory. Provecta to be applied for flea & tick treatment and prevention during work-up, continue monitoring Placement requests submitted after these times, to different emails or by rescues, and fosters not currently approved to work with ACS provide no guarantee a pet will not be euthanized (killed). Animal Care Services (ACS) 4710 TX-151 San Antonio, TX 78227 Phone: (210) 207-4738 ACS will only place holds on animals for approved rescues and foste…
Animal Care Services (ACS)
4710 TX-151
San Antonio, TX 78227
Phone: (210) 207-4738
ACS will only place holds on animals for approved rescues and fosters that have emailed the request to the monitored email:
ACS Rescue/Foster: acsrescue-foster@sanantonio.gov (no third parties)
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I really liked LEFT-HANDED GIRL #Cannes about the way two very different sisters suddenly grow up in Taipei. There wasn't room in the review but there's also a pet meerkat in the movie movieswetextedabout.com/left-handed-...
Seeing claims about the judge "hiding" the defendant. Read the complaint, folks (written by DOJ). The guy was literally in the public area where the agents were. I guess he got on an elevator before they could get to him. The complaint says after letting the defendant exit she came back to the bench
Hoopla Digital — free with a library card — now has comic strips.
More than 100 newspaper strips are available digitally + the complete PEANUTS.
They also have manga, comics, and graphic novels — all free to "borrow." A treasure trove.
www.hoopladigital.com/bingepass/co... #Comics #Manga #BookSky
