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30yr vet of the service industry here: the absolute worst tippers are white conservatives on Sunday afternoon after church. Hands down, no competition. They're also the worst all-around customers by a long stretch. There's not even a close second. Chime in, servers. Back me up.
Time to put down the dog whistle and pick up the bullhorn.
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At Starbucks, we were instructed to throw away all the sandwiches/salads/protein plates at the end of the day. No, you can't take them home. No, you can't donate them. Throw them away. We considered it "theft" and you would be fired if you didn't toss them. Multiply by 31,256.
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I know we're laughing at Britain and everything, but when Dolly Parton dies, I'm shaving off all my hair and wearing black for five years.
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Dunking on Lady Jessica for appropriating Muslim culture in DUNE 2 is like dunking on Kirk Lazarus for Blackface in TROPIC THUNDER. As I was watching I was like, well, he's made this so broad & simplistic no one could misunderstand & I'm the idiot for continuing to be surprised.
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Give Ke Huy Quan the Indiana Jones franchise. I have it all plotted out. I wanted John Cho for it because I thought I read that Ke Huy Quan didn't want to act anymore - now that I know that he does - and saw him in the Daniels' flick, give it to him. It makes sense.
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Haven't watched CHILDREN OF MEN in a decade and revisiting tonight I'm finding it almost unbearable. It's absolutely dead on about everything. What hasn't already happened, will happen. It's an incredible work of art but more, it's an incredible work of prophecy. Fucking hell.
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From the braintrusts that brought you ARGYLLE and that Jared Leto vampire movie at least twice: France Ford Coppola's new movie is not good enough for us to release.
Francis Ford Coppola's self-funded epic
#Megalopolis
is deemed too “experimental” and “not good” enough for the $100 million marketing spend envisioned by the legendary director. It's not clear if a studio will pick the film up
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Dear artists with projects in post at Paramount: download it now.
Warner Bros and Paramount are discussing a potential merger.
(Source: )
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Trauma does not make you stronger. Trauma makes you traumatized.
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I've learned about dozens of films from Scorsese & Tarantino (& the French New Wave critic/directors & Coppola & Schrader & Spielberg) - from their lists, films they've produced, distributed, restored. I have learned not a thing from the MCU save how cheaply you can buy loyalty.
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Your periodic reminder that Indiana Jones should pass the whip & fedora to a grown Short Round played by John Cho. And the prologue should be a rousing bit, set in the 60s in the Dr. No-esque volcano fortress of Lao Che, to retrieve and repatriate Nurhachi to a museum in China.
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"Lead them to Paradise" is not something a good guy says at the beginning of a holy war that we are told repeatedly leads to genocide, yet colonialism is so embedded in our value system as manifest destiny that it is impossible for many not to read it as a positive declaration.
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What bothers me most about many of the people who want the economy to reopen is that many of them seem not to be wanting to go back to work, but for minimum-wage earners to go back to serving them.
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The "fuck your feelings" party sure is doing a lot of reaction policing today.
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The plan of empathetic people is to shame people who are not capable of shame and that is why we fail. Take their money and things.
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I'm thinking about this because of this whole thing where people making shit money are complaining about the minimum wage being raised to a still-shit amount. Or the "I paid school loans so..." people. We are wired by capitalism to see *social* behaviors as wrong, criminal, evil.
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Consider that rules like this are designed to test moral conditioning. You abide by them to keep your job and you engage in appalling waste. You disregard them and distribute the food and you're "stealing" from the company. Where is your allegiance? What does it cost to comply?
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I would also say that raising the minimum wage by itself isn't enough. There needs to be universal healthcare. The value of a person's life can't be tied to their job. That's so deeply perverse, I can't believe I have to say it. Employers will find every way to withhold benefits.
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If we made a mistake and ordered more milk than could fit in the coolers - the delivery drivers would be instructed to pour it out. You can't deliver it somewhere else, you can't bring it back to the warehouse. Down the drain it goes. The waste was/is *immense*.
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Writers? Write.
Artists? Paint.
Dancers? Dance.
Filmmakers? Film.
Creation trumps destruction and division.
Do it with your whole heart.
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The "Golden Rule" is now whomever has the gold makes the rules - more than that, crafts the moral universe in which a corporation's bottom line and shrink reduction strategies supercedes basic human decency. Our moral rot starts at the bottom in this culture. It's who we are.
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I used to tell my son when he was very little that JURASSIC PARK was a documentary and that we'd visit it once they ironed out a few safety issues. He would answer, cautiously, "I... dunno, dad, those seem like pretty big issues." I love being a dad.
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Bob Iger isn't an outlier. He's saying every CEO's quiet part out loud. There needs to be a general strike right now. The income gap situation in this country is an untenable abomination. Support labor.
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The dumbest owners in the world become learned legal scholars when it comes to scrutinizing labor guidelines. You need FT to get benefits? You will be scheduled for one hour less than FT. You double the minimum wage for service people, we will understaff to maintain labor %.
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Anyway, it's fucked up. Eat the rich. Don't go after each other. The vast majority of us are struggling mightily just to make it to the next paycheck. Our enemies are not each other. Our enemies are the people controlling this sick, diseased narrative that our lives are theirs.
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If this is what's happening at Starbucks - a so-called "progressive" company - what's happening at notoriously shitty companies? Every year we would volunteer at food banks and the whole time I'm there sorting food, I'm thinking: "I threw away/dumped 200lbs of food last week."
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When I told Fincher that Alien3 was my favorite of the first three films, he paused a long time and then, with maximum exasperation, said "... c'mon, Walter." Anyway, happy birthday to the best Alien film.
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What kind of hack would look at an all-time, unimpeachable masterpiece and decide they should remake it?
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TEMPLE OF DOOM is a relentless, remorseless nightmare. A genuine feel-bad flick that single-handedly changed the way movies were rated. It's a grotesque, a film maudit, angry and thematically ugly. It's one of the most ferociously American films ever made.
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I watched Alex Garland's ANNIHILATION over a dozen times in the theater - I used empty auditoriums as my office for a while. I did the same with SILENCE. I hear a lot of people complain about movies, but I sure don't see a lot of them support the masterpieces when they do appear.
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I am in love with the tiny details in ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE. They are functional notes almost Miyazakian in their quotidian poetry. Here, Gwen takes a second to adhere herself to the underside of a ledge to take in a Manhattan sunset.
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In most service industries - the only real controllable costs are labor and cost of goods. That's where you squeeze profits. You increase labor and cost of goods stays static? I will staff half as many people to do the same amount of work and no one works enough to earn benefits.
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Stop telling me what their jobs were. Tell me their names. Show me their pictures. I want to amplify their stories because they were people who were complicated, and dreamt; they loved and were loved. They deserve more in death than more of the callow prejudice that killed them.
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At most restaurants as well - if you make an order incorrectly, it goes in the trash. Why? Because what if you made a mistake on purpose so you could take it home? Put it in the trash, thief. Most managers bonus on margin: labor and COGs. It's me vs. you, underling, sneak, peon.
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FT isn't just a qualifying bar for health insurance, by the way. Leave benefits are often contingent on FT status - and the maintenance of those hours for a set period of time. You need to average it, in other words, for three months? Longer? So don't get sick. Don't miss work.
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The system is built to set up an antagonistic relationship between "management" and labor. Understand that most managers in the service industry are making only pennies more than the people they manage - but they're given the titles & the means to exploit the workforce. What this
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feeds is the perception that the labor force is "lazy" and "opportunistic" and out to get more by doing less. So now we talk about raising minimum wage and people making $32,000 a year are like: "for *those* bums? I had to sell my *soul* by torturing those idiots to make $15/hr.
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Here's that time Paul Thomas Anderson drank my milkshake.
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At the end, as they prepare for another adventure, Indy demurs: "You get this one, Shorty. I have thirty years of papers to grade." As Shorty puts on the fedora, the theme swells, and decades of shame and self-loathing for my Asian-Americanness sloughs off me like an old skin.
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I know this looks bad, but I know several people who have worked with Taylor and I just wanted to stand up and say that he's apparently a lot worse - both as a creative and a human being - than a single article could possibly capture, no matter how damning. A real piece of shit.
Taylor Sheridan Does Whatever He Wants: “I Will Tell My Stories My Way”
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How could Americans vote a moron like Trump into office?... oh.
Americans are avoiding Corona beer amid coronavirus outbreak, survey finds
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So Netflix has dumped projects/films by Dev Patel, Lexi Alexander, and now Jorge Gutierrez. I can't... quite... place what these creators have in common... It doesn't have to be overt. It doesn't even have to be conscious. It's just, for some reason, easier, huh?
#Batgirl
Netflix Lets Go of Jorge R. Gutiérrez's Much-Anticipated Movie, 'I, Chihuahua' | Animation Magazine
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What is ultimately so beautiful about SPIDERVERSE is the same thing driving THE LAST JEDI: that heroism is a decision and not a hereditary birthright. And that we find our courage and our purpose sometimes because others help us to see ourselves.
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When a movie is bad, I tend to just let it be bad. It's hard to make something that's good. Most things are not. When a movie is socially, morally repugnant in some way, however, I feel like if I don't say something, I become complicit to its messages. WW84 is repulsive garbage.
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SINGIN IN THE RAIN is one of those movies where people forget how experimental and strange it is. Does it have a couple of the truly iconic scenes in movie history? Sure - and it also has moments that are full-on "let's do this beautiful thing that makes no literal sense at all."
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There are like 10 people in Hollywood who could do this and not lose their entire careers immediately. Here's the first one to demonstrate the faintest hint of a righteous moral compass. Go ahead and say your smart shit, but he stood up when it wasn't popular. That's not nothing.
Top CAA agent Maha Dakhil ignited a firestorm with her Instagram posts, including one that said, “What’s more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that genocide is happening.”
In response, Dakhil was relieved of her duties as co-chief the motion pictures…
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Do I have your attention for a second? PREY is fantastic.
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Wanted to test out the new HD television with the most beautiful picture I could think of.
@rianjohnson
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@philkijak
Oh dude. The most tears from my service teams on Mother's Day - not even a close a second - rude, entitled, when I waited tables I caught the most racisms on Sundays, too, from pastel-color clothed pricks. "Walter? You seem more like a Hop Sing."
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Imagine the scene where Indy dismisses Shorty when Shorty's trying to tell him something, and suddenly realizes that this is how his father used to treat him and decides in that moment to do better by his adopted son. Ford can act when asked to act. Ennoble his farewell.
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MULAN and RISE OF SKYWALKER to young women: "No, dear, you're not special. These women are special because they were born with dynastic mutant superpowers. You are ordinary and hard work will only get you a baby. Again, they are heroes and you are just consumers. Got it?"
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Dear fish in barrel, you have ten minutes to leave the barrel before we start shooting into the barrel. We are the good guys.
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This is the dean of Howard. The DEAN. Of a college. Entrusted with the safety and education of *women*.
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I can't tell you how much I love Doug Liman's EDGE OF TOMORROW. Thought I'd just toss that out there.
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When she starts crying, I start crying. She's articulating something very personal here, and very familiar, too. We all wish it: to be seen as something more than the one or two default molds you stick us into when you look at us.
“This is something I’ve been waiting for… for a long time.” —Michelle Yeoh on
@allatoncemovie
& meeting with the
@Daniels
Watch the full video here:
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To be clear, Netflix has made some insanely good movies with filmmakers who weren't getting a phone call from the traditional houses. I am incredibly grateful for Netflix the last few years.
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Watching the despecialized STAR WARS and jesus that movie was so good.
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MOONLIGHT wins best picture.
Bros: SJW woke politics!
JOKER gets 11 nominations.
Bros: This time honored and exhaustively vetted voting process has again sanctified and further rewarded the single best film of possibly all time. People complaining are SJW snowflake Philistines.
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I just think sometimes about how Gen-X has been essentially robbed of a meaningful voice by these Skekses and their perverse, never-ending, jealously-held gerontocracy. It's not ageism to long for *generational* representation.
Mitch McConnell inexplicably freezes during press conference, is quickly escorted away
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I didn't know this about Marilyn Manson, an artist l always liked. This sucks. Fuck that guy.
Evan Rachel Wood describing the abuse she suffered when she was in a relationship with Marilyn Manson
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I've watched about 100 movies just from the 1950s in the last twelve weeks - I can't tell you how singular NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) is. It must've felt like an alien visitation at the time. It's utterly modern, completely scandalous, and easily one of the best movies ever made.
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Apple fans are reporting headaches and burst blood vessels as they bring back the Vision Pro before their 14-day return window closes.
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This is not the way. This led to the internment of Japanese-American citizens in WWII. Stop it, you ignorant motherfuckers.
Russian restaurants in New York City are being hit by cancellations, social media campaigns and bad reviews online after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite most owners being openly antiwar and many coming from Ukraine.
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@AntheaMcQuoid
Especially since 90% of the dialogue is "they're lying to them to steal their stuff and if they win billions upon billions will die." Just over and over like a mantra. And STILL people are like "seems like they're lying to them and billions will die. HA! BAM! DUNK! FACE!"
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Cena has fulfilled over 700 Make-A-Wish requests. You get one life. That he who could do anything he wants with his time chooses to do this is hope.
Misha, a non-verbal teen with Down’s Syndrome, didn’t understand why his family had to flee Mariupol this year.
To placate him, his mother told him they were travelling to meet John Cena.
Cena heard… and went to Amsterdam to oblige.
Just brilliant.
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Got an angry, hateful letter promising we had lost a reader for my implicit support of Gaza in the DUNE 2 review and I want to apologize... for it being only implicit. Fuck all the way off. Free Palestine.
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This lamb is throwing the most incredible shade against those dogs.
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When you watch over 400 movies a year and 375 of them are pretty much the same movie, you begin to appreciate it when something just cocks an arm and swings for all it's worth, whether or not it lands.
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I... just really feel like a lot of you haven't watched EVIL DEAD 2 enough or recently enough. I also think this is an evergreen sentiment.
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If your enemies are teachers, doctors and librarians, I'm going to humbly suggest you're the problem. You're the bad guy. When you were a child, did you dream to grow up to harass and villainize these particular people in these professions? What happened to you? What happened?
As highly visible and politicized book bans have exploded across the country, librarians have found themselves on the front lines of an acrimonious culture war, with their careers and their personal reputations at risk.
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The most important guardians of our cultural history are boutique distributors and, yes, pirates. I can find almost anything through pirate sites and almost nothing through "legitimate" channels - and it's still just a fraction of what's rotting in vaults or headed to landfills.
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JK Rowling could've been Dolly Parton but she chose to be Ted Nugent. Ain't that some shit?
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Hey look, the opposite of an uplifting story. Billionaires exist, but this dying child is the one spending his last wish on the homeless. Bezos could forgive all student lunch debt into perpetuity with the money he made in the last thirty minutes.
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God it's beautifully directed. Perfect really. And it's so hateful. Just vile. Except Short Round. He's clearly the moral truth in the film, the pure soul, the hero incorruptible. He functions as Indy's best possible self and deserves to take over the franchise as an adult.
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Oh holy shit. Campion used to be my favorite living filmmaker but she's making a play now to be one of my favorite people, too.
Jane Campion responds to Sam Elliott's
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SKINAMARINK is of a piece with AFTERSUN and WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR. While oldenheimers are going on about high frame rate and 3D, the real future of cinema is films made by this generation of filmmakers, reared on the Internet and its PULSE-like visions of eternity.
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@clmazin
This is the most disturbing image that I've ever had conjured in my head. I lost something today I didn't know I could give.
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Thinking of that time I told David Fincher "y'know, I actually love ALIEN3 a lot. Like, best of the series a lot." And he pauses for a long beat and says "Come on, Walter."
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I get all the white people not connecting w/EEAAO on an emotional level. As I've increasingly found myself contemptuous of white people, it's been hard to give half a shit about the 98% of movies about their quotidian sads. Funny how dehumanization correlates w/lack of empathy.
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Go ahead and give a look-see at the diverse filmmakers Scorsese and Tarantino have fostered, have won distribution deals in the United States for by putting their names behind them. Just go to Mr. Google and ask it. Educate yourself just a tiny, miniscule, basest of basest's bit.
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Like, hate or indifferent, why would anyone want Wes Anderson to make something different? Are there not enough other filmmakers? Why would you want Pink Floyd to sound like Led Zeppelin? Van Gogh, pretty good but man, I wish he did something different sometimes?
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Counterpoint: Fuck you, you salt-bloated piece of hen shit.
David Zaslav says scrapping films for tax write-offs took courage.
“What content is going to help us win? The content that wasn’t, we made a strategic decision on. It was difficult & painful... But it was necessary.”
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McDonalds has 517k employees who average around $10/hr. If they paid everyone for 80hrs at that rate - two weeks - they would be out about $413m. Their annual profit is about $5.9b. That's *billion*. $413m is about 7% of that. Say you had $100 and $7 could help 517k people...
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When I was 4 I asked my dad why Han shot first. He said that good men are not good all the time and bad men are not bad all the time. Then he drew me the Yin-Yang and showed me the element of the one in the other. Then he said, in formal Mandarin (I'll never forget): MACLUNKEY.
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HALLOWEEN ENDS is fucking fascinating. Seriously. It's extraordinarily innovative in what it's doing. It demands engagement - something our fast fashion culture abhors above all. Damn.
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Seems like not a terrible time to recommend Isao Takahata's GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. It changed my life - every part of how I see other people. It cured me of a bias I had held my entire childhood into college. It is a work of surpassing beauty and extraordinary empathy.
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The World Cinema Project, the African Film Heritage Project. Did you rent Beat Takeshi's SONATINE from Blockbuster? Thank Tarantino for that. Wong Kar-Wai's CHUNGKING EXPRESS? Did you like Joanna Hogg's SOUVENIR films? SHIRLEY, TOMORROW, DROILE DE PERE? All women filmmakers.
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I really wrestle with this, but this is where I am at this moment: if you dig into the creators of things that you like, you will very likely find things you don't like. It's up to you what your limit is & who you want to support. Same goes w/any product you consume. Everyone
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Just finished "Strange New Worlds'" and yeah, they fucking nailed it and also stuck the landing. Now officially my most anticipated next season of television.
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