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SOUTHLAND TALES

post-9/11 genreless political satire written by the donnie darko guy, featuring the rock, sarah michelle gellar, seann william scott and justin timberlake. it actually predicted the future in the way everyone says idiocracy did

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southland tales impromptu killers music video starring a mentally torn iraq vet justin timberlake who deals drugs to shia labeouf in a durag

this is the best movie of all time btw

@glacierbaby

May 18, 2024

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Fool's Paradise (2023)

Written and directed by Charlie Day, his first credit as director. What appears to be just another gang gang romp ends up being a surprisingly sophisticated and watchable film. Charlie Day plays a character called Latte Pronto who says no more than five words the whole film. It's not a silent film, but Charlie Day is largely silent. So the tribute to Charlie Chaplin can't be ignored, nor can the Lynchian critique of Los Angeles and the New Wave-inflected pacing and edit. It's billed as a comedy, but that's almost a Shakespearean category here. Some of the shots are way more beautiful than a movie directed by Charlie Day needed to be. It feels the only authentic Hollywood products these days are the movies about making movies (forgive me, but I thought Babylon was OK until they obviously started running out of ideas...) and in the case of Fool's Paradise, there's a really engrossing postmodern thing happening stylistically: time has collapsed. Ken Jeong plays a desperate never-was; Kate Beckinsale, hotter than ever, sells her character exactly too much. A pretty vicious George Lopez dig turns out to be (according to the credits) a hint to an easter egg.

@howmanygods

Nov 16, 2023

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TJ Byrnes

It’s an Irish pub somehow located in the interior plaza of a FiDi housing complex. The blinds are down; the red vinyl booths are empty. There’s an octagonal painting of the Twin Towers; Tiffany lampshades; a dim back room with stained glass windows; an ancient waiter who wears a suit; a horrific porcelain leprechaun. The wings are pretty good.One of the few bars in the vicinity to predate 9/11, Byrnes is a holdout against the mass extinction of normal places for normal people to get a drink in the city. For every haunt like Forlini’s that closes we’re treated to half a dozen new TikTok-bait establishments called, like, Ghosted & Fried that serve TUNA POKE WONTON TACOS and MEXICAN STREET CORN RAVIOLI (real menu items at Beauty & Essex) to Syracuse marketing majors in Allbirds. And don’t get me started on the neon signs…Even more insidious are the places like Bernie’s that mimic suburban taverns in order to sell homesick creative directors a plate of five mozzarella sticks for $17. Skip all that, go to Byrnes.

@ezra

Jun 28, 2022

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Kid Nation

The year is 2007; reality TV is an unstoppable cultural juggernaut. So they went for it: Survivor with kids. 40 of them, ages 8 to 15, sent to a Nevada ranch (coincidentally the same one where Alec Baldwin would later shoot two people) and left alone to create their own “society.” Split into four teams, they compete in challenges; the losers have to cook and clean for the winners. Each episode the kids vote for one among them to win a $20,000 prize. It went about as well as you’d expect: the show was canceled after a season, one participant was severely injured, and CBS was investigated for child labor law violations. It’s all on Youtube.

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Jun 28, 2022

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3 Cup Challenge

There’s no such thing as a hangover cure, only prevention. So I came up with the Three Cup Challenge: When you get home after a big night out, chug three cups of water before bed. It’s unpleasant but it works, if you commit; my girlfriend sometimes stops at two and it doesn’t hit right. There’s also the minor inconvenience that you will wake up at 5 AM needing to pee in a truly psychedelic way. Worth it, though.

@ezra

Jun 28, 2022