A friend in Spain was feeling unwell and took a covid test. The good news is it’s not covid. The bad news it is the flu.
The astonishing news is Spanish covid tests are dual-Covid/flu tests and why in the hell are these not available everywhere?!
Amazon using AI-generated images to advertise classic movies now.
I honestly no longer know what we’re doing as a society any more. We’re destroying culture and history and any sense of a shared reality to save a couple of dollars on a poster? This has to end, or be made to end.
Margot Robbie is joining the Wes Anderson cinematic universe. The actress is joining Tom Hanks in Anderson's next movie, which begins shooting in Spain later this month (via (
@THR
).
When you feel like dirt and take a covid test and it’s negative you get relief, sure, but you’re also left in the grey area of not knowing what’s wrong with you. Ruling out a twofor, or getting the positive on the flu test to explain it, seems like the ideal test situation.
"It Begins" is a hilarious tagline for a (slow, meditative high fantasy) film that needs to make about $500m in a pandemic in order to secure a sequel that would actually be the second half of the film.
Yesterday my Dad was awarded an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland. After an hour or so of praise and well wishes from friends and peers, he smiled and he died.
Also worth noting the episode of Avatar that featured turtleduck also featured a farm where every animal was half pig. This show, it turns out, is good.
Guys, I'm not saying you need to check out the "Freedom Phone" trending topic, but if you wanna see a group of the worst people on the internet walking straight through a door marked "absolute scam", you now know where to look.
I like how these films became so terrified of unimportance that they just started throwing Harry Potter characters into the titles to make sure people come see them. And then they didn’t.
‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ has been officially titled…
‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’.
The film’s release date has also moved up to April 15, 2022.
See what other release dates have moved:
@Lisaelizabeth
Different treatments, different periods of infection, different degrees of potential to cause harm, death, long covid.
Maybe you get sick and assume it’s covid, hang out with a friend a month knowing they have covid because you “just had it”. But actually you had flu.
When Gremlins 2 was first released on VHS, producers replaced its famous projector malfunction scene with a gremlins-themed tracking error mishap. It's actually pretty great.
Incredibly excited and honored to announce that THE IRISHMAN, MARRIAGE STORY, AMERICAN FACTORY, and ATLANTICS will all join the
@Criterion
Collection later this year!
@BrettRedacted
There’s a joke in it where Deadpool implies Carano’s character is secretly a man because she’s strong and in my head canon that’s what sent her down THE PATH.
If the purpose of animation is to convey emotion, wonder, and a sense of the unknowable, then animation has regressed, devolved into the primordial soup, in just 25 years.
John Lasseter isn't the visionary behind Cars. A story artist named Jorgen Klubien pitched the idea of a movie about anthropomorphic cars and he and Joe Ranft worked on the story. John took full-credit, fired Klubien from Pixar, and Klubien only received $50k.
OK, gonna mute this now, to give my mentions a rest. So pleased so many people are as impressed with it as I am.
To those arguing how this could possibly make any difference, or just ranting against covid protections in general, this was never for you.
The John Oliver segment on Project 2025 is a really helpful summary of what the GOP are planning for after the election. It’s scary, but we need to be scared. Share with anyone you think needs to see it.
I have friends back home checking their phones every five minutes praying for a vaccine appointment. A major percentage of those in the US have a free shot awaiting them down the road right now and are letting it expire, at the expense of their health. It’s such a tragedy.
@TayllorJPoetry
@lilahv
@rosalinaosrs
@TheRealRLJ
@ChefWaites
In super short, she’s saying how it was shot for widescreen (Moonwalker’s cinema release) but all the action is essentially contained to the middle of the frame so when it showed on TV circa ’89 the image, while cropped, lost no impact (I’ve simulated it haphazardly here)
BREAKING: Buzzfeed announces it will increase the use of ChatGPT to create content after cutting 12% of its workforce last month.
Its stock has jumped up a staggering 146%.
I swear if I see one of you criticise Almodóvar for finding it unsettling how popular cinema has been stripped of sexuality to appease the Christian right and China, I will scream.
@KyleKallgren
Yeah I don’t like it either, and it is one of many things that give me pause about applying for citizenship. The fact that the “under god” was only added in the ’50s is just icing on the creepy clown cake
@ciscoda_
@KellyScaletta
@LedOverlord
@halalflow
Elon Musk once called a heroic rescue diver a paedophile because he didn’t want to use a submarine he built, Musk has foresworn any right to common courtesy until the day of his death.
@SithMorrison
After Batman & Robin, in which Bane was just a lumbering henchman of a devious villainess, they recast him with a major actor and had him be the criminal mastermind and WHOOPS TWIST he’s just the lumbering henchman of a devious villainess.
@_madisontayt
Glamorisation is the only form of destigmatisation the influencer class can conceive of.
I get what they’re trying to do here, and admire it somewhat, but the execution isn’t helping anyone.
Thinking about the woman in my audience for Tár who, as the credits rolled over the opening of the film, whispered somewhat loudly to her companion: “These are normally at the end.”
@DaveAtherton20
@bbcpress
Yes, this extremely famous trope that when I google it leads to absolutely zero hits beyond actual octopuses, other than those related to this University Challenge scandal.
Your insinuation that all Muslims must be well-versed in niche antisemitism is despicable Islamophobia.
Firstly, “Aquaman tops the Dark Knight” is some mighty slash fiction right there.
Secondly, I feel the photoshopped dollar signs are redundant in a shot of a dude emerging from the centre of the earth plated in gold.
@henrygetsplay
Oh, I’m used to it by now, but doesn’t mean I won’t stop making a stink about it
(I’ve not heard of them back home, either, in fairness)
@ScottWamplerBMD
The second involved him reaching into his pocket to pull out a USB stick. "Can I give you my reel?"
One Alice Tully's worth of groans descends upon him.
"Buddy," chirps George Clooney, "that jacket is all the reel you need."
One Alice Tully's worth of mocking laughter follows.
@disasterhomo
The Hobbit one is inexcusable, but in some defence for this film, it was shot in peak Covid. An 80-year-old actor shouldn’t have been in any room with anyone they didn’t need to be.
Best part of Greta Thurnberg being named Person of the Year is that you can see who to unfollow, mute and block from their responses to the news. She’s like a litmus test for online fuckery.
@pnassetti
@intothecrevasse
The Dutch culturally tend to be quite blunt and deadpan in a way that is regularly misunderstood by foreigners for rudeness