Kev

Comic Book Nerd 🤓
self-proclaimed movie critic🎥
aspiring filmmaker

[Savion @Savy2Smooth]

DRose: Like a Ferrari with a bunch of Hyundais. Too big, too strong, too fast too good!
Joakim Noah: HEART HUSTLE & MUSCLE
Jimmy Butler: Jimmy G Buckets, the G stands for Gets
Taj Gibson: Hard hat and lunch pail
Luol Deng: Lt. DENG 🫡
Kyle Korver: Gimme the hot sauce(the OG)

[Dave @davebftv]

The best call Stacey King ever gave.

Derrick Rose's poster on Goran Dragić

"I want to go higher. Do you not know who this kid is. He is from Chicago."

[Tim England @tengland_150]

@PanasonicDX4500 https://t.co/WH332DBQMD

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Javed Sterritt @JavedLSterritt]

Men being closed off to women's stories is some of the weakest shit imaginable.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In God of War (2018), you spend the entire game mourning a woman who never says a word. She's just a body you carry up a mountain. The next game makes her the hero. And in the old stories, she once fought Thor to a standstill.

Her name is Faye. She dies in the opening, and everything after is Kratos, the bald, furious warrior you play as, and his young son Atreus carrying her ashes to the highest peak in the world. You never hear her speak. You only ever see her wrapped in cloth, then burning on a funeral fire.

What the games slowly reveal is who she was. To the giants she was Laufey the Just, a warrior who led uprisings against Odin and his gods and shielded the weak from them, even breaking their prisoners loose. She fought Thor once and neither of them won. He was drunk at the time, fine, but Thor is the hardest hitter the gods have, so holding him off at all says plenty.

That famous axe Kratos throws and magically calls back to his hand was hers first. The dwarf blacksmiths Brok and Sindri forged it for her, built to match Thor's hammer, and she handed it down to Kratos before she died.

She also quietly set the whole story in motion. She could see the future, so she marked the trees around their home, arranged her own funeral, and aimed Kratos and Atreus straight at the journey that eventually topples Odin. The person steering all of it spent the entire time as a corpse.

Sony revealed God of War: Laufey at their June State of Play, with twenty minutes of gameplay. Everyone figured a prequel, since she's dead. Nope. Creative director Cory Barlog says it's "a continuation of the timeline," starting the moment after that funeral. Instead of resting in peace, Faye wakes up somewhere called the Everywhen, the afterlife of the gods. Dead gods from all kinds of myths claw over the last scraps of power there, and the plans she made to protect her family are already coming apart.

The fighting is built around her, not her husband. Kratos is slow and heavy and hits like a truck. Faye is quick and airborne, leaping and juggling enemies in the air with a magic sword. She can hit an enemy hard enough to knock its soul clean out of its body, then start wailing on the soul itself. Deborah Ann Woll, Karen from Daredevil, plays her again, and the character is modeled on her face. Her first sidekick is a talking jelly cube named Phranque, voiced by Jack Quaid from The Boys.

There's no release date yet, and it's PS5 only. The woman whose death powered two of the best action games ever made finally gets to fight her own war.

[kar @bustitopen420]

it’s still fuck ICE btw don’t let the media cycle changing let you forget that people are still being brutalized and disappeared by the federal government

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Mak @mak_aura]

We really don’t hate colonialism enough.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

This you?

[Sam Green Party Member @CounsellingSam]

Israeli soldiers raped flotilla activists

How the fuck is this not on every single news outlet ?

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

Israel tied up children and babies, KILLED them, then buried them in mass graves.

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs

EuroMedHR: Inside the mass graves, they found children & babies with their hands bound with zip ties

This photo is from 2 mass graves discovered at Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza, in April During the genocide, the EuroMedHR documented over 130 mass graves of victims of the Israeli genocide

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Peter Jackson laments the death of physical media:

“You can get Blu-rays and DVDs, but they’re almost a niche product for aficionados now,” Jackson said. “Since they only sell small numbers, no studio wants to put extended features on them or to extend the cuts. We did hours and hours of behind-the-scenes material for The Lord of the Rings DVDs, and so many people have thanked me for doing them. People would watch that stuff over and over again because it inspired them to make films. That’s all gone now, and I think it’s a real shame.”

Do you still get real books and DVDs?

[Johnny AGI @JohnnyAGI]

They loved Marjorie Taylor Greene, now they hate her.

They loved Thomas Massie, now they hate him.

They loved Lauren Boebert, now they hate her.

They made fun of Biden for nodding off ("Sleepy Joe), now they ignore Trump outright falling asleep.

They put "I Did That" Biden stickers on high gas prices, now they ignore gas prices being even higher.

They bragged about Trump being the no wars President, now they support war.

They bashed Biden for sending money to Ukraine, now they ignore Trump sending money to both Ukraine and Israel.

They demanded the Epstein files, now they bash anyone asking for the Epstein files.

To be a MAGA is to be a slave.

Not physically, but mentally.

They stand for nothing.

We're up against people who stand for nothing.

And with the most misplaced confidence you've ever seen, they try to tell us whats-what.

We shouldn't even acknowledge these people.

The Trump supporters that remain are mentally too far gone.

I don't even want to argue with them anymore.

[🔴 KNEON 🔴 @Kneon]

And she was right.

[pöp? @n0t_pop]

This is like giving Schaumburg an NBA team.

[SleeperMLB @SleeperMLB]

The Chicago White Sox are LEGIT.

In the last 30 days - their offense ranks:

1st in OPS (.823)
1st in Home Runs (48)
1st in RBIs (140)
1st in OBP (.350)
1st in SLG (.473)
2nd in Batting Average (.261)

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

To be clear: they’re not protesting against the sexual torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities. They’re protesting against the NYT for reporting it.

[||||| @insurrealist]

This film is one of the greatest formal achievements at the level of craft I've ever seen. It solves the exact problem that its subject is about. Does it so well in fact that the strongest qualities are almost entirely unsung from what I've seen.

It's literary naturalism that follows the logic of the protagonist through and through and has the restraint to not add to it, which follows exactly at the level of narrative structure and formal presentation that Lou himself performs with his nightcrawling.

It's an exceptionally *logical* film that shows the natural unnaturalness of nature. The progression of his activity makes perfect sense and proceeds from encounter to reaction to prediction to causation.

People see it as a thriller with a good performance but miss things like him keeping a plant, a slight glitch in the clinical sociopath read. That reframes his developmental trajectory because it's a conscious deliberate choice to tend the needs of another living being. The mirror rage, the cartoons, the mimicking old films. He wasn't always like that. Somewhat alien, but not necessarily cold. And these are the few moments where Lou is *unedited*, he edits all his presentation and interaction.

These moments perform nightcrawling on Lou himself, and the film achieves exactly the kind of framing that Lou himself talks about, the dissolution between the viewing subject and the surrounding frame.

The critique is that there is no critique, only naturalistic presentation. It *is* a success story. He is a self-made (he barely has any coherent prior self) American businessman and whatever horror emerges comes simply for clear recognition of what that can mean.

Very intelligent and precise film.