one of the worst things to happen to film culture is when people started treating liking or disliking a filmmaker or a movie like sports rivalries and bitterly attacks anyone who disagrees. and this is double annoying for films that have not yet even come out yet
Why does the UN exist?
The official answer: peace and development.
The game theory answer: to prevent the next Genghis Khan from emerging.
Every empire in history was conquered by a poor, hungry, unified people led by one visionary.
The Mongols had Genghis Khan. The Macedonians had Alexander. The Arabs had Muhammad.
The UN's job is to make sure that never happens again.
Schools. NGOs. Development aid. Not to lift people up. To keep them just developed enough to never unite.
That is the iron law of empire maintenance.
Americans have never been carpet bombed and have no idea what is the mass loss of life inflicted by warmongers. Any American who wonders why any part of the world shouts "Death to America" is seriously deluded about their own history, crimes, and practices. Your taxes kill babies
I don’t know how many times I can say this but my god. I have *never* seen something like this. These are gutters and streams that run the sides of streets on almost every street and alley in Tehran. They are destroying a city in ways we haven’t witnessed before.
Tehran today.
Toxic rain — which burns skin and destroys lungs — falls in a city of 10 people million after US‑Israeli strikes on fuel depots.
Trump and Israel are poisoning the skies of Iran and murdering civilians.
In what universe does any of this constitute “liberation”?
This is a picture of Tehran now. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, girls in schools, pets, regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.
Tehran woke up today under a black rain. Think about that sentence for a moment. Oil falling from the sky because storage facilities were bombed by Israel and America. Families waking up to toxic air and Children looking out windows at black rain. War crimes by pedophiles.
Images that should haunt the world. Funeral graves of 165 young school girls killed in Israeli/US bombing that hit a school in Mina in Iran. Far away from Trumpian comfort in Mar-a-Lago. SAY NO TO WAR!. #StopTheWar
We survived the whole “Greig Fraser might shoot DUNE 3 instead of THE BATMAN 2” debacle to now arrive at “Greig Fraser will shoot 4 BEATLES movies instead of THE BATMAN 2.”
The World of Our Film, 'As Time Echoes' (Awiating Distribution)
All about how we made an independent film with 7 filmmakers and 10 days in a new city to spare.
Denis Villeneuve is directing JAMES BOND & DUNE: MESSIAH is about to start filming
Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN - PART II is finally on the way after its script completion
Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY teaser poster surprise drop tonight
God, what a lovely day.