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Die erste Staffel von “The Pitt” habe ich an einem Wochenende durchgebinget, 15 Folgen, um die 15 Stunden, ein langer Marathon, und die Serie schien wie gemacht dafür: In nicht-wirklich-aber-gef... smoitzheim.online/posts/the-pitt-ist-auch-...
Okay but she's lowkey spittin here
Substack will *not* save investigative reporting:
- It’s slow and sporadic to produce, and newsletters require weekly (at least) consistency.
- It requires multiple reporters, editors, data folks, lawyers.
- It often requires travel expenses, record fees, database subscriptions, etc.
- Lawsuits.
podcast is a medium for the people and celebrities should not have them
Amy Poehler I love you but fuck off, you're crowding out the people who talk about actually interesting things, everybody is listening to you ignore the problems with Fred Armisen or listen to Maya Hawkeye talk about work ethic
[Apple Podcasts embed] Willkommen zu einer neuen alten Folge von Podcarsten geht ins Kino! Wir hatten lange keine Zeit, neue Folgen aufzunehmen, hoffen a... smoitzheim.online/posts/podcast-die-geschi...
Almost all discourse about reading is driven by people who openly hate reading, and is fueled by people taking their weird and off-putting whining seriously instead of telling them to fuck off and read better.
Wieso lese ich eigentlich jetzt erst, dass seit Jahresbeginn mit dem Wehrpflicht-Modernisierungsgesetz alle Männer zwischen 17 und 45 eine Erlaubnis brauchen, wenn sie länger als drei Monate das Land verlassen???
Wtf???
obsessed with Joel Kinnaman‘s
old man performance in the new season of For All Mankind youtu.be/D5QTTn8Tkag?...
one reason i think snl uk worked is that, frankly, britain is better at comedy than america, but america is better at tv than britain, so letting americans show british comedians how to do tv (and spending american tv money to do so) was always a good idea
it's happening with cars too, where the rising touchscreen tide is rolling back and physical controls are once again re-asserting their place in the cockpit
it turns out that "everything's computer" is just pure ideology, rather than a way to actually improve peoples lives
The movie poster for Blue Moon, 2025 - ★★★★★
Blue Moon, 2025 - ★★★★★
Watched on Monday March 16, 2026.
https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/blue-moon-2025/
The movie poster for Tree, 2015 - ★★★★★
Tree, 2015 - ★★★★★
Watched on Saturday March 28, 2026.
https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/tree-2015/
I think we gave filming podcasts a fair enough shake and can stop now!
The movie poster for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, 2025 - ★½
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, 2025 - ★½
The black-and-white scenes of his childhood are hysterically funny.
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The movie poster for Project Hail Mary, 2026 - ★★★½
Project Hail Mary, 2026 - ★★★½
Would this be better if it was shorter than a full business-week, sure. Do I wish it had some more actual jokes and a bit less "Sooooo, I met an alien?" type quips, boy do I. Is every moment of awe... letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/project-...
The movie poster for Blue Moon, 2025 - ★★★★★
Blue Moon, 2025 - ★★★★★
One of those movies where I can't tell if it really is a borderline masterpiece or just feels so specifically made for me that I'm vastly overrating it. Probably the latter but who cares I loved every sec... https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/blue-moon-2025/
This year’s Oscars offered something special: two equally beloved frontrunners in “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners." Better yet, the ceremony “did a good job making plenty of room to celebrate both movies sincerely,” writes David Sims:
“Scrubs” ist nur eine Sitcom. Ich habe eine starke persönliche Bindung zur Serie und verbinde gute Erinnerungen mit ihr, aber ich würde nicht sagen, dass sie in der Geschichte der...
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Die Ausstrahlung der kürzlich verliehenen BAFTA-Awards löste eine Kontroverse aus: Als Michael B. ... smoitzheim.online/posts/rassistische-zwisc...
Me (tasting the 10th wing on Hot Ones): Oh, this one’s actually fine. Sean Evans: Is it true you have a deadly nut allergy? Me (face swollen, choking): How do...
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
i often think about this review
Ich hab die Tage ja über "Unfair Flips" geschrieben, ein Spiel, in dem Erfolg und Misserfolg ausschließlich vom Zufall abhängen. Dennoch hat das Spiel eine aktive Speedrunning-Community. "Unfair Flips" zu...... smoitzheim.online/posts/die-optimale-strat...
The movie poster for The Muppet Show, 2026 - ★★★★
The Muppet Show, 2026 - ★★★★
It took Disney more than 20 years to realize that the way to make the Muppets good again was to simply make more of The Muppet Show. The Hollywood executive brain must be studied.
Sabrina Carpenter w... https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/the-muppet-show/
just some relatable dating content [YouTube Embed]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/tUnADzX3Ei0
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