hell yeahhhh congratulations!!!

Doesn't posting about it before you actually read it make you feel a little, you know, dumb?

Have you actually read the article?

Phantom Frequencies: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Serpent’s Path, Chime and listening to inner darkness • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine With his deeply unsettling short film Chime playing in theaters alongside a new 4K restoration of his 1998 revenge thriller Serpent’s Path, visionary filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa tells Isaac Feldberg ab...

"I don’t think it’s the filmmaker’s responsibility to show what you’re supposed to take away from it, or reach any kind of conclusion. In fact, I find that sort of attitude to be very full of yourself, to feel that you must do that, as a filmmaker."

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It changes perception because it's real! I've always appreciated devs who go the extra mile for producing handwritten notes and textures in real life to put them in video games (Alan Wake 2 is a very unique prime example, Re Engine Resident Evil titles, Eriksholm, and TLOU series also come to mind)

Erupcja (2025, dir. Pete Ohs): Good film!

The Drama! I liked it!

Good for him! Too busy but would be happy to consult and will be seeing it

Blue Heron (2025, dir. @sophyromvari.bsky.social) –

You can best understand Singal best by realizing that he's a sadist that gets off on hurting trans people. The gaslighting, the victim blaming, the fake act of "just asking questions," are all a part of it. Everything is downstream of it.

Singal's power comes from the tone of reasonableness. But underneath it all are logical fallacies: a false dichotomy, a misleading historical analogy, inflammatory anecdotes, and a refusal to engage with the documented infrastructure of the opposition he purposefully ignores exists.

The NYT and Atlantic coverage legitimatized the right-wing framing. The NYT dedicated over 15k words of front-page coverage in just 8 months questioning gender-affirming care for youth. A FAIR study found the majority of its front-page trans coverage framed care as risky or trans people as threats.

A screenshot of an article from The Dispatch. The headline reads "Trans Issues Are No Conspiracy," with the subheadline, "The public pays attention to trans issues because trans activists wanted them to." It is categorized under "Society & Culture."

Jesse Singal is back on his transphobic bullshit by arguing that the trans rights backlash is self-inflicted and that anyone pointing to coordinated right-wing funding is peddling a "conspiracy theory." It's a masterclass in false dichotomy and victim blaming.

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Steven Soderbergh teases "a lot of AI" in his upcoming movies Steven Soderbergh teases "a lot of AI" in his upcoming movies

What kind of AI? To do what exactly? What models is it trained on? What's the approximate ecological impact? These are some of the questions to be asked of talent, always, when AI in filmmaking is discussed.

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This is the century where the human species turned genocidal against itself & the planet. From the industrial revolution all the way to climate change ego death psychosis – too many reasons to count. The choice will be to turn the tables or hide under them, waiting to die.

Asghar Farhadi Calls on Filmmakers to Speak Out Against Escalation of Iran War: ‘Attacking a Country’s Infrastructure Is a War Crime’ Asghar Farhadi has called on filmmakers around the world to protest against 'the destruction of civilian infrastructure' in Iran.

"I call on artists and filmmakers everywhere in the world to be a voice in these critical days and hours ... to stop the destructive aggression that has increasingly destroyed civilian infrastructure. ... Attacking a country’s infrastructure is a war crime."

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Saw FACES OF DEATH and lived to post about it!

‘Proactively fall in line:’ Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Saw Julia Ducournau's ALPHA. Found it deeply moving.

Ep. 335: Ridley Scott's Alien — OVERINVESTED Spawning a beloved franchise and dozens of copycats, Alien is part monster movie, part dystopian thriller, starring Sigourney Weaver in her breakout role. In this episode, Gavia and Steffan discuss th...

The latest episode of Overinvested is all about ALIEN, delving into the film's creative backstory, dystopian political worldbuilding, and wildly influential production design: www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/ali...

Yugoslavia Calling | Lily Lynch If the “short twentieth century” began in Sarajevo, perhaps it ended in Bosnia too.

“The Yugoslav Wars never ended, they just entered into global circulation.”

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The Current Debate | Oscars 2026: A Swan Song for Big-Budget, Auteur-Driven Cinema? On the brink of a Warner Bros.–Paramount merger, will US studios still bankroll daring works like “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another”?

"Sure, Hollywood may be weathering its umpteenth apocalyptic storm, but to reduce the fate of the entire art form to that of the US film industry is nothing short of myopic."

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Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened

“El Fasher represents a moral and political failure of the international system designed to prevent genocide”

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice. Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job Hegseth said "family after family" of service members killed urged the administration to “not stop until the job is done." President Donald Trump made a similar claim earlier this month.

EXCLUSIVE - Hegseth said that “family after family” of the service members killed in Iran war told him: “Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done.”

But a father who met with Hegseth tells @nbcnews.com he never said that

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

As Israel prepares to implement the ‘Gaza model’ in Lebanon, where is the international reaction? | Ben Reiff This is not the time for empty condemnations but sanctions and arms embargos, says Ben Reiff, deputy editor of +972

"This is not a time for empty condemnations, but for sanctions and arms embargos that will impede Israel’s ability to keep escalating its aggression."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thousands of JBS workers go on strike at meatpacking facility in Greeley The sides have been negotiating for the past eight months over pay and working conditions, but this is the first strike in more than 40 years in the industry

"Thousands of union workers employed by the largest meatpacking company in the U.S. went on strike early Monday morning, calling for higher wages and safer working conditions at the JBS facility in Greeley."

coloradosun.com/2026/03/16/j...

I get Max Richter's Hamnet soundtrack – if anyone earned the use of On the Nature of Daylight it's him, and the entire album flows from it / around it. It's genuinely interesting work by a fascinating musician – his work for the Royal Ballet's Woolf Works is transcendental.

Incredible wins for many. Happy for them! Shutting out The Secret Agent and It Was Just an Accident is an embarrassment. As for any further thoughts: