It’s official -
@DeclouxJ
and I are providing a commentary track for this stunning Blu-Ray of one of the most notorious martial arts films of all time.
Streets 7/23 from Film Masters!
EXTRAS:
• Liner notes by Lawrence Carter-Long
• Full Commentary track by The Important Cinema Club
• New documentary by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
• Original trailer recut using restored film elements
My problem with a modern celebrity like Chrissy Teigen is that in addition to being absurdly rich she also wants to be perceived as a good person. These things are not compatible. You’ve gotta pick one or the other. Paris Hilton understood this.
My gf and her friends have spent years trying to figure out what cartoon (glimpsed in the background of a family photo) is from. Dozens, maybe even hundreds of people have seen this image but nobody knows what it is from. If you recognize this man, please tell me.
We found it. We found where the animated elf man is from. My god in heaven I can't believe it. You have no idea how many people have been driven mad by this. It only took a tweet being seen 11 million+ people. Christ almighty.
Norm Macdonald and Bob Saget weren't in the Oscar death montage. Perhaps it's because they weren't primarily known as "movie people." Or perhaps it's because, despite this, they made the greatest movie of all time, Dirty Work (1998), and Hollywood never forgave them for it.
Oscar Isaac and John Boyega join Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Alec Guinness in the proud lineage of Star Wars actors who can barely hide their contempt for this dumb crap.
Once I saw Norm Macdonald in Toronto and he kept doing jokes about death. Someone yelled "No more morbid stuff!" And Norm said, "Maybe I should do... more morbid stuff!" And then he did maybe 15 minutes about how he would hang himself. "First I'd go to the rickety stool store..."
Basically, Scorsese and Spielberg are the two guys with both the power and the passion to call up studio executives and politely ask them to stop burning 35mm film negatives for a tax write-off, so it's great for the future of cinema that they're 97 and 95 years old, respectively
“The blast.” Man, I hate to be hyperbolic, but I really think that seeing almost the entire American government and media unite to obfuscate the bombing of a hospital may be the most politically clarifying moment of my lifetime. Sorry, gonna get back to movie tweets soon.
The blast killing hundreds at a hospital in Gaza is deeply wrong. I grieve for each person lost. There’s no excuse for the deaths of people seeking care and those who treated them. International law is clear: Innocent civilians must be protected & have access to humanitarian aid.
2004: Jon Stewart is the only truth-teller on TV.
2016: Jon Stewart was cringe. His “Rally to Restore Sanity” was everything wrong with liberalism.
2024: (*exhausted, weary, beaten down*) Jon Stewart is the only truth-teller on TV.
If the new Batman movie is three hours then they definitely have time to actually do something new and interesting with the character, like finally showing us his penis (erect and flaccid), as well as his balls.
“I was tricked into that,” Martin Scorsese said of his most recent movie-ranking TikTok, which saw him choose “Birdman” over “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." “That was a trick. I didn’t know those things go viral."
Always laugh when I remember that bit in Batman Begins where Alfred says that Bruce Wayne's great-great-granddad used the Batcave for the Underground Railroad.
When I was a child, I thought that Christ was being a little harsh when He said, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." But now I'm older and wiser, and I realize: He was right!
Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain on January 1, 2024. At that point you can do whatever you want with him. You can fuck him, you can make him fuck you, you can find something for him to fuck. You can get him to watch you jerk off.
I've been seeing a lot of well-meaning people sharing this copy-pasta, and what I find insidious about it is how it precludes the possibility that anyone might also have Palestinian friends they're worried about.
De Niro is so funny, I mean he’s right that there’s nothing good about Trump but also I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the guy he played in Killers of the Flower Moon was a pretty bad dude
Robert De Niro on Trump: "I'd never play him as an actor, because I can't see any good in him. Nothing."
Watch the two-time Oscar winner get real about his feelings toward
@realDonaldTrump
on Real Time:
Watching Wednesday on Netflix. Tim Burton is so embarrassing, I can’t believe he’s in his 60s and reduced to rubber-stamping his name on a “Riverdale but for The Addams Family” Netflix show. He should be forcibly retired and maybe even imprisoned. Anyway it’s watchable enough.
Ridley Scott’s career is a parade of huge bombs, but he always survives because he keeps his nose to the grindstone and already has his next six bombs lined up. Good for him. We can learn from this. Winner’s mindset.
Just randomly remembered that great scene from Straight Outta Compton (2015) where Ice Cube is typing on his computer and chucking and his wife comes in the room and says "What's up?" and he says "I'm writing Friday - this is some funny shit!"
That photo of an IDF soldier holding up a Pride flag in charred and flattened Gaza City should be one of the defining images of our time. If that image was in a movie like, for example, Starship Troopers or Southland Tales, it would be considered "blunt" and "a bit much."
For over 20 years, Robert De Niro has sleepwalked through six movies a year with titles like “Grandpa’s Diaper Boys” or “Gabagool Daddy” except for when he works with the three filmmakers who he still believes in. Two of them are David O. Russell and Barry Levinson.
It’s funny to watch him get booed off the stage here when you remember that this was the same Oscar ceremony in which Polanski won and got a standing ovation.
Every several years Jimmy Fallon delivers a moment that captures the spirit of the times. The Paris Hilton NFT interview. The Trump hair-tussle. "More cowbell."
Sometimes attacking a hospital saves lives. Watch the Dershow live @ 5:30pm est on Rumble and Youtube. Leave a question or a comment in the live chat. What do you think about whats happening at the Hamas hospital.
I checked my crystal ball. Roger Ebert in heaven has given 3.5 stars to Nope, 3 stars to Bodies Bodies Bodies, a tepid, qualified 3 stars to Bullet Train, and a surprising 4 stars to Elvis (“Luhrmann doesn’t just go over the top - he doesn’t know where the top ends,” he writes)
It's pretty funny that the Academy almost never hands out Oscars to actual first-rate filmmakers, and then the two times they did it they picked Woody Allen and Roman Polanski.
Xavier Dolan is quitting filmmaking.
"I don't feel like committing two years to a project that barely anyone sees. I put too much passion into it to have these disappointments. It makes me wonder if my filmmaking is bad, and I know it's not."
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We will not rest until we know what every legendary auteur thinks of Marvel movies
☑ Scorsese
☑ Coppola
☐ Herzog
☐ Malick
☐ Elaine May
☐ Béla Tarr
☐ Polanski
☐ Toback
☐ Beth B.
☐ Nick Zedd
☐ Fred Olen Ray
☐ Jim Wynorski
☐ Tom Six
☐ John Stagliano
☐ Max Hardcore
Alex Garland: “Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state. That’s all. They’re not right or wrong, but we’ve made it into ‘good and bad,’ a moral issue, and that’s f—king idiotic”
#CivilWarMovie
The "It's called capitalism!" line in the Indiana Jones trailer was such a clunker that it tanked one of the most lucrative franchises of all time. Like it or not, this is what effective anti-capitalist art looks like.
What has changed since I was a teen: access to all the cinema classics has increased vastly, but mid-budget normie/“indie” cinema has collapsed. So people who are really interested in movies know more than ever, but normal people who go to film school want to make Marvel movies.
2016: We’re in big trouble, but maybe the Trump administration will lead to a punk revival
2018: Half my Twitter feed is unironically calling for Oprah to be president
Top Gun is military propaganda. The Whale is fatphobia. Spielberg wants to fuck his mom. Andrea Riseborough's nomination is white supremacy. The ending of Tár is racist. Only a few more hours until these and other popular discussion topics expire, this is your last chance!
2008: "I hope George W. Bush lives long enough to fully understand his legacy. I hope he feels the blood on his hands."
2018: "VIDEO: George W. Bush snuck Michelle Obama a candy at John McCain's funeral, we can't even deal!"
Fun part of Batman (1989) is how two journalists spend the whole movie trying to dig up information about ultra-famous billionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne, discovering that his parents were murdered only late in the film. This would be the most famous thing about him!!!
Why do people not want to go to the movies anymore? There are many factors. I believe one has been the switch from 35mm to digital projection. The impact has been subconscious, but we all know that movies now look exactly the same in a multiplex as on Netflix (i.e. like dogshit)
We lost Donald Trump's tweets about the Oscars. We lost his tweets about Robert Pattinson. We lost his tweet about how everybody needs to calm down because Ben Affleck will be a great Batman. Laugh and cheer all you want, but this is like the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
The enemy in Top Gun 2 is only ever referred to as “the enemy.” The naval fleet is positioned in the Pacific, but all the test flights are done in what looks like the Middle East, and the mission itself looks to be in Siberia. Movie rocks btw.
So the last time I posted this, back in 2019, it took the internet by storm. I’m now learning that a Tumblr post compiled everything that this image is definitely NOT from. I cannot vouch for its complete accuracy. Keep the hunt going!!!
I hope you're all satisfied. You bankrupted a bunch of naive movie folks. Folks from a Hollywood where values are different. They weren't thinking about the money. They just wanted to tell a story about a hedgehog. A hedgehog named Sonic.
Elvis is such a tired/ossified icon that I actually respect how hard Baz Luhrmann went communicating how big a deal that hip-shaking stuff was in the '50s. Just pulverizing filmmaking, the camera fixed on Austin Butler's crotch, the soundtrack at 11, women orgasming in the aisles
Back when I was a child there was Jim Carrey and there was Adam Sandler and they were in a fierce competition for the hearts and minds of young boys like me. Carrey won many battles in those early years but it seems safe to conclude that Sandler has won the long game.
Disappointing to see Olivia Chow, Jagmeet Singh, etc. lying about the nature of the Gaza protest in Toronto yesterday. I wouldn't vote for them again imho.
The Schwarzenegger Netflix documentary is really interesting. You've got this psychotic man with the most Republican worldview ever talking about how he devoted his life to attaining fame, riches, and success for their own sake, and you like him because, fuck, he really earned it
The Big Short had a scene where the movie flat-out said, “You rubes are too dumb to get this, so here’s Margot Robbie in a bathtub to explain it to you, you morons.” I’m having trouble comprehending why critics have only now decided that Adam McKay is too smug.
It’s not my country, but I think they should make Tom Cruise the President of the United States. He makes people happy and he believes in excellence and he has the right energy for the job. They should just install him. Yes, he’s insanely evil, but no more than any of them.
In TÁR, Lydia Tár is obviously working with a lot more intellectual firepower than that well-meaning but shallow student is, but she's also blinkered in a different way, is pointlessly cruel, and is insulated by power. There, I've explained the movie, no further debate needed.
I was asked to write about the mysterious cartoon elf man for The New Yorker. I said yes. This will be my last word on the matter. Before you ask: yes, I realize how ridiculous this is.
Tom Cruise is one of the last celebrities who still feels like a celebrity. He’s not chatting with the fans on Twitter. That time he saw Tenet was probably the first time he was out in public in 25 years. He just trains for his big stunts and tends to his Scientology slave army.
@responsiblerob
Tom was right to lay down the law here. Also I cannot imagine having this man talk to me this way. I would start crying. He's so scary.