MODERN MORES is out on all major streamers. Musically speaking, it is my favorite thing I've ever been a part of. linktr.ee/friendsoftheov
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Michael Idov 
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Film: Leto, The Humorist. TV: Deutschland 89, Londongrad. Books: Dressed Up for a Riot, Ground Up. Can’t find my harborcoat. Work Qs: Rob Kenneally at CAA
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Judging from my feed, Twitter’s main advertisers are now Babylon Bee and whatever the hell this is
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My entire personality is square 48 in today’s #NYTXW — “capital on the Daugava river” across and “‘Shiny Happy People’ band” down
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The "Next On Mad Men" previews that told you nothing about the plot and that felt like 10 second abstract tone poems were some of the funniest TV the '00s had to offer.
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i love how vague the mad men episode descriptors on prime are. they’re all like ‘peggy has a problem. roger meets a client. don gets a reminder of his past’ yes babe that’s all of them
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Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least that’s an ethos
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Fucking hippies, man
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Oy gevalt
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Thread: free Russians are modern Jew.
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arresting donald trump is a slippery slope. a slippery slope to more hilarious shit that rules
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That’s insane
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With 3 acting wins, plus Best Director and Best Picture, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE has won more above-the-line Oscars than any movie ever in the 95 years they’ve thrown this show.
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Tár getting shut out so far feels like an extremely meta inside joke
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I don’t entirely hate this new strategy of “giving the Oscar to whomever it would feel the best to see get an Oscar”
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EEAAO winning every Oscar would be ideal for me, because I liked it just enough not to care either way. TÁR, on the other hand, I love so much I perversely want it to lose everything (so I can start unselfconsciously putting it in my all-time top 10 lists)
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In honor of Anton Yelchin, who was born on this date in 1989, we recommend watching 'Green Room' (currently streaming on HBO Max) and following along with this list of things we learned from Jeremy Saulnier’s director's commentary: bit.ly/3mInsWy
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“You grew up on our movies. NOW, see them at 5x the length and starring actors you didn’t even realize have aged into the type”
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Some lines can never be uncrossed. Witness a fresh take on #FatalAttraction when the new series premieres April 30, only on @ParamountPlus.
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The split 7" FC32 with Bernard Grancher & Friends of the Oval has sold out - but the digital is available for Friday!
& Allison Brice
'To Lead Tenderly'
'Like Lidia Klement'
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#BandcampFriday
#NewMusicFriday
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When a character on The Mandalorian casually refers to “belters” mining asteroids #screamingfirehawks
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There are people in Russia who oppose Putin as an agent of international Jewry standing in the way of a white utopia. Should Ukraine accept their help? Why the hell not! It’s Russia’s job to marginalize these idiots later, not theirs. (This, I dare add, was once Navalny’s MO too)
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The only real metric is how many Nazis sit in government and how closely does the country’s policy hew to their cause. In Russia’s case, quite. In Ukraine’s, not at all. But clutching one’s pearls at a fighter’s tattoos (“See?!! They’re all like that!”) is naive or disingenuous.
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The thing about Nazis is that they like killing people; ideology is secondary to that. That’s why there will be Nazis fighting on every side of every conflict. It’s time to accept it and stop acting confused about Azov, Wagner, the weirdo Russian guerillas in Bryansk, et al.
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Never expected #TheMandalorian to send me into a philosophical spiral about the difference between a dead robot and a *statue* of a dead robot
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My own path would be Surkov (or any other Kremlin asshole I met in Moscow) — Vyacheslav Nikonov (Molotov’s grandson) — Molotov — Ribbentrop (duh) — Hitler
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I see everyone’s going through the British royals
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How many handshakes does it take for you to get to Hitler? I think my shortest path is:
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3. Queen Elizabeth II
4. King George VI
5. Neville Chamberlain
6. Adolf Hitler
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I really don’t get the insistence on viewing #TheLastOfUs strictly as an adaptation. So its has a source in another medium — what doesn’t these days? I always thought that once a story jumps media, it becomes its own thing. Snowpiercer was a comic; no one checked it for fidelity
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If the Eurovision Song Contest is real then why is there absolutely no footage of it? Where is all the money going? I’m just asking questions.
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In all seriousness, not a bad moment to donate (once power comes back!) to the people for whom this is not an adventure but daily reality since Feb 24, 2022 help.rescue.org/donate/ukraine
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Power cut out in the entire neighborhood as I was half-watching M3GAN, so for the next few hours we had to eat apples, read books and sing songs by candlelight, LIKE ANIMALS #LABlizzard
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I have a weird feeling that this Russian Duolingo phrase has applied to quite a few individuals over the course of the past rather awful year
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fact: living anywhere on Earth in 1998-2003 involved hearing the “Bitter Sweet Symphony” string sample seven times a day, none of them voluntarily
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Jordan Peterson DESTROYS a toilet
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Up yours, woke moralists. Tyranny is always petty--and petty tyranny will not save the planet.
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Went to it last night. Damn. The scene in the bamboo forest is still one of my favorite in all of film history. Just every single aspect of the art firing on all cylinders
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Time for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Hyped as hell
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There’s no big mystery. The part of the LA diaspora that’s siding with Putin now is the exact same part that organized a Facebook drive to bake *pies for cops* during 2020 BLM protests
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Putin’s war in Ukraine has splintered the Soviet diaspora - my op-ed in today’s @latimes: latimes.com/opinion/story/ #UkraineWar
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The main Russian trade publication, Exhibitor’s Bulletin, decided not to participate in this charade and started straight up listing grosses from 7 of these titles as Avatar box office
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How Russian movie theaters skirt sanctions: they show pirated DCP copies intended for Kazakhstan (which have Russian dubbing), listed as “bonus features” with random local titles. Below, a film student rejoices that her shorts are showing as a cover for Avatar: The Way of Water
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