Joe Bendel

Covers film, television, comics, and a smidge of theater in multiple places (including J.B. Spins, Cinema Daily US, and The Epoch Times). NYFCO member.

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

My very first morning filming Detention in LA, which was supposed to be an $800k shoot, Iatse showed up with a ballot box and said the crew was going to "vote" to turn it union or I get shut down. I had no choice but to flip it and spent the rest of the shoot scrambling to find money every three days. After it was done, my own DGA union kept sending me bills to pay for fines on a movie I spent my own money on. Of course all this expanded my budget which then put me in another tier of SAG which then increased the budget again. It was an endless union squeeze that kept pushing the budget up, with me holding the bill. As they say in Goodfellas, Fuck You Pay Me.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

Voting for Darializa Avila Chevalier today is equivalent to voting for KKK Grand Wizard David Duke 30+ years ago.

A vote for Chevalier is a vote for bigotry, intolerance, and hatred of America.

By her own admission, Darializa Avila Chevalier stands with the terrorists.

In contrast, Adriano Espaillat stands with the people of New York and for the best values of our nation.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

Just hours after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Darializa Chevalier blamed the US for "bullying Russia" and accused Washington of stoking the war for profit. Copy-and-paste Russian talking points.

She's the Mamdani-backed challenger to Rep. Adriano Espaillat.

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

@FrancescaHongWI @packers @Brewers @Bucks It is so like a socialist to take credit for someone else's hard work.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

DSA candidates are running on Democratic Party ballot lines. Just like we would expect the Republican Party to not allow KKK candidates to run on the Republican line, Democrats should not allow DSA candidates to run on the Democratic line.

If we let skunks into our big tent, we will ruin the party for all.

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

@ShahanaFromBK I didn't see him on the court. If the Knicks adopted socialism and paid their players accordingly, they would have finished dead last.

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

@DreadCentral And then disappears for multiple episodes. This series is such a massive disappointment.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

I am a lifelong Democrat, but let me be clear: Darializa Avila Chevalier is a racist, anti-American saboteur who should have has no place in the Democratic Party or American government.

She has called the United States “a f-ing disgrace,” said she wanted to wipe her hands on the American flag, advocated abolishing the police, described police as “haram,” and has supported US-designated terrorist organizations.

Democrats should not excuse, accommodate, or normalize this abhorrent behavior. We must instead condemn it aggressively, repeatedly, and unequivocally.

If the Democratic Party promotes candidates who so clearly hate our country, how could we possibly ask patriotic Americans to support us?

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

O HORIZON features some questionable casting and its scientific speculation has already been done considerable better in previous films. However fatherhood still matters in its very-near-future world, which counts for something. @EpochTimes review here: https://t.co/mWH1YpkZdy

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

@DemzDeliver If the Knicks had paid all their employes equally, as good socialists like Mamdani, from starting players on down to support and janitorial staff, they would have finished dead last.

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

@DianaforQueens @JabariBrisport Don't you dare speak for me as a New Yorker. I absolutely do not stand with a Hamas suporter, who particpated in hateful demonstrations designed to intimdiate Jews on campus. As a real New Yorker, I stand against everything Khalil stands for.

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria *DELIVERS BRUTAL TAKEDOWN* of California’s “FAILING MODEL OF GOVERNANCE”💥

“The frustration is real and JUSTIFIED… it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more — while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need.”

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

THE FURIOUS is the real action deal, featuring dozens of notable international martial artists is a massively gritty, pain-defying throw-down. It delivers, hard. CINEMA DAILY US review up here: https://t.co/jBuXLtU8HR

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

THIS ORDINARY THING is a concise and classy documentary collecting the testimony of dozens of Righteous Rescuers who saved their Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust, celebrating individuals who willingly chose to do the right thing. @EpochTimes review: https://t.co/YHuHEMfAxL

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

IX XI interviews witnesses (in a very broad sense) instead of 9/11 survivors or family members. Unfortunately, too much of the resulting oral history is extremely tangential--and at least one participant trivializes the tragedy. @epochtimes review: https://t.co/wA14SqRAmt

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

If Platner's tattoo had been a Confederate flag, Democrats would have remembered what they claim to believe in. But it was just the symbol of a Nazi concentration camp guard, and it was mostly Jews who were upset, so he still gets to be the progressive hero this moment needs.

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

@bethanyshondark Remember the 2000s. The Neoconservatism is widely recognized as the most prominent Jewish American conservative tradition. The Left demonized "neocons" as warmongers more loyal to Israel than the US (classic antisemitic trope), with no pushback from mainstream Dems.

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

@SonnyBunch Wow, bizarre take. HAIL MARY is probably the most satisfying big budget tentpole since TOP GUN MAVERICK. DISCLOSURE DAY has a few nicely turned scenes, but it feels surprisingly small & lacks the Spielbergian sense of wonder. I'll take Rocky over it any day.

[Joe Bendel @JoeBendel1]

@FilmLadd @SamanthaPfaff I admit Fraser makes a poor likeness for Eisenhower, which is a serious shortcoming. However, I thought he did a nice job of conveying the heavy burden of command, for which I give him a lot of credit.

[Rebeccah Heinrichs @RLHeinrichs]

Right-coded podcasters went to Russia to lie to Americans, and especially to Christians-- to confuse them and try to convince them that our ally Israel is the bad actor and Russia is the "Christian nation."
Russia has:
- little to no real due process
- recording breaking abortions
- very weak protections and safeguards for women and children