Sam Adams

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Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East

NEON ANNOUNCES MATT JOHNSON AND JAY MCCARROL’S BELOVED COMEDY SERIES ‘NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW’ TO STREAM JULY 24 ON HULU IN THE U.S. AND AUGUST 7 ON DISNEY+ IN CANADA Hulu to Simultaneously Debut Acclaimed Follow-Up Film ‘NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE’
One person a horse costume. I said one.
Quite a large statue of a horse. Looks harmless.
quick13 @quick13.bsky.social • 1d I swear if you put this commentator for #WorldCup reading the same passage as Mary Carillo you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. CASH VALUE PARSA DE MORATACIÓN Cade @cadeland.bsky.social • 1d We're almost a month into the World Cup and I still keep thinking Stu Holden is Mary Carillo. @ 1 ... stim possible @jessespector.com • 2d watching outside a restaurant that's got tv playing to the street and i kept thinking "good for mary carillo doing the world cup" before remembering stu holden just sounds like that 1 ••• menevets.bsky.social @menevets.bs... • 2d If Mary Carillo wants to call in sick, she should just call Stu Holden and script him.
a woman in a bikini who would like to teach you about the history of antifascism
The Ross McElwee Collection, selling for $299.99 (cheap!) on DVD
Metacritic rankings for Remake (94) and Blue Heron (92)
poster for Robert Flaherty's Moana
It is a chaotic scene on the National Mall. Several hundred people have refused to leave despite an order to evacuate because of severe inclement weather that is approaching. Some are even arguing with Secret Service agents. At one point, a crowd of people began running back toward the stage. An officer is sternly repeating the order over a bullhorn and the crowd is booing. Many have begun chanting "U.S.A., U.S.A." A federal law enforcement officer is trying to assure people that the event has not been canceled. Many are not convinced. One man walking by blamed the situation on "liberals in the weather service," adding, "I think this is baloney."
The nonsense-sounding "Minionese" that Coffin has developed over the course of seven movies is actually a hodgepodge of existing languages, delivered in a nasal whine that sounds like a record player set to the wrong speed. In Minions & Monsters, there are complete sentences delivered in Spanish, French, and German, along with a xiexie and a Shinkansen (and, of course, the obligatory banana). It sounds, in other words, much like the kind of polyglot burble you might have heard walking around a movie set in the 1920s, when an industry built by recent immigrants was beginning the process of defining what America was to the rest of the world-and, indeed, to America itself.
the iconic shot from Do the Right Thing of three very sweaty black men sitting under an umbrella against a bright red wall
As they make their way through an increasingly ravaged world, Ray's son Robbie becomes obsessed with the desire to see the aliens up close, even if it means dying in the attempt. (At that point, everyone seems likely to die regardless.) But Spielberg's movies are deeply ambivalent about the search for knowledge. His heroes have a child's boundless curiosity, but they often learn it's not wise to follow that impulse too far. Indiana Jones saves himself, more than once, by averting his eyes, and the entire Jurassic Park series is a parable of scientific inquiry run amok. Spielberg might have been behind Richard Dreyfuss' decision to leave his family and travel the galaxy with Close Encounters' aliens, but he later said he would never have written the script that way if he'd had children at the time. We all think we want to know the truth, but what if that truth, like The Fabelmans' affair, has the power to destroy your whole world? What if it's better not to know?
eilidh @telephonehigh X.com phone-free concerts are classist as fuck and i'll die on that hill devin. @darweeniewaves • 20h She announced that it is phone phone-free in advance. If you cannot be without your phone for 2h, if you see no value in going to a concert if you cannot film it, if you think it's a safety hazard (explain how), then DO NOT GO! Just don't buy...
EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding will be in the middle of Manhattan! Details: tmz.me/43iTaf5
the playbill for Titanique
In lieu of flowers, you can send memories, poems, artwork, photos, videos, and messages to Dito's family at an email address we've set up: lovefordito@pigiron.org. His family will be able to view all of these when they feel ready. In love and grief, Quie pon Jasnine Eua Dan, Quinn, Jasmine, Eva, and Pig Iron
@jpodhoretz X.com THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU met box office disaster this weekend, sinking 70%. Someone could write a great book on how STAR WARS, the most valuable IP the world has ever seen, came under DIsney's ownership and was basically destroyed in less than a decade. Almost as if on purpose
Kerri Kenney-Silver, saying "You know how when you hit your 50s, you just sort of never feel joy again?"
Program for Cats: The Jellicle Ball
In an era of proud stupidity, Colbert was an enthusiastic intellectual who recited poetry from memory and enthused over the finer points of Stephen Sondheim lyrics; he even saluted his final audience with a reference to Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” a poem he once compelled Helen Mirren to tearfully read to him on air. But what came through most powerfully, especially by contrast, was his fundamental decency. No one looked to Johnny Carson or Jay Leno as a model of how to live a righteous life; it was, in fact, widely understood that they were not especially good people. (Even Letterman seemed like someone you’d be wise not to cross.) But Colbert seemed like the most stand-up of stand-up guys, passionately in love with his wife of more than three decades—a literal Sunday school teacher, for god’s sake. At first, he might have just wanted to have fun. But he was a decent man pressed into service by indecent times, living proof that a person can weather the worst life has to dish out without losing their mind, or their soul.
They called her Zoongie. Maybe it was a name; maybe rain took a shape and decided to keep it. She had the kind of walking that made benches become men. Hair tumbling wild, a dress that caught and released light, laughter with iron under it. Eyes that skimmed and did not land, as if what she wanted was elsewhere and she had to pass through men to get there. She wore the island's mixed bloodlines like a crown - African in the hips, Spanish in the cheekbone, East Indian in the hair when the rain kinked it, Carib in the way her gaze could bless and warn at once.
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"Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it's shameful," he said. "I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants. If we're not there, there are going to be less people being paid."
Spelling Bee, rejecting CALLOO