Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ

Writer on STAR TREK: PICARD S2 & 3, THE EQUALIZER S3; award-winning filmmaker. Podcast co-host | Comics Rot Your Brain

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

The red and blue lights [of police sirens] are the boxing bell that signal “the fight is about to start,” where continued life is the prize for lasting 12 rounds.

https://t.co/990Z1cqDqh #BLM #PoliceReform #PoliceBrutality .@GuernicaMag .@rgay .@juliaioffe

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@MuseZack Apparently, Zendaya gave some BTL crew points on Malcolm & Marie. But that is rare if not unique.

[Catsuka @catsuka]

First look at "Ray Gunn", the new animated feature film by Brad Bird.
Coming this year on Netflix.
https://t.co/CYQJ9fsErc

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

One of the bigger crimes

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Deal Lethargy Forces Hollywood Writers to Leave Money on the Table. That Needs to Change https://t.co/xY2CWDckau

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@Seymour_from_GP @Gibboanxious There is no Unforgiven with GBU! Morricone’s score alone elevates to the heavens.

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@DBach218 @RAtheRuggedMan Scarface is too over the top, but it’s oddly loved. Cruising is better, more nuanced but how many people - who love Heat - have seen it?

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@Idontcare987123 @RAtheRuggedMan Rand sycophants

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@DBach218 @RAtheRuggedMan Pacino… GF 1 & 2, Dog Day, serpico, Scarface? Heat, Panic in Needle Park, Carlito’s Way

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@Cornelius1911 @RAtheRuggedMan Godfather 2? 1900? Midnight Run?

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@HwoodScrptReadr IN TIME is a great 30 minute Twilight Zone. It falls apart after Act 1, then becomes a different movie in Act 3. Great poster.

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@eswarpr @roryisconfused Pitt and Denzel had material that gave them something to do; those films stopped being made. Where’s Hamm’s Crimson Tide? Man on Fire? Legends of the Fall? Se7en? Those aren’t 4Quadrant films.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Quentin Tarantino on why he feels Sergio Leone is the greatest Italian Filmmaker & the influence of Leone on modern Filmmakers:

"To me when it comes to the filmmakers of the 1960s that mean the most to— less in the 1970s and 1980s—but to filmmakers of the 1990s and into the 2000s, I do believe that Leone is pointing the way towards modern filmmaking. The way that we've been making movies from the 1990s onwards. One, there is the comic book panache, him realising it, and Corbucci’s right with him on that, and in both their cases there is the excitement and the action scenes that you would see develop later in filmmaking, like in 'The Terminator' (1984) or something. There is a sizzle to the action scenes.

And Elvis Mitchell [the critic, scholar and broadcaster, who introduced the live reading of the first draft of 'The Hateful Eight' in April 2014] will do film classes, and he says that he'll show a film to them, these young students, this movie from the 1950s, this movie from the 1960s, this movie from the 1940s. But when he shows them a Sergio Leone, if they haven't seen it before, that's when they pick up. That's when they start recognising the elements. That’s when they're not just ‘I’m looking at an older movie now’. Again, it’s the use of music, the use of the set piece, the ironic sense of humour that is played through the whole thing. They appreciate the surrealism, the craziness, and again, they appreciate the music and the cutting to music, that is what they recognise. So it is the true beginning of what filmmaking had evolved to by the 1990s... You don't go past Leone, you start with Leone..

For my money I think he is the greatest of all Italy's filmmakers. I would go even as far as to say that he is the greatest combination of complete film stylist where he creates his own world—but with the storyteller part of him as well. Those two are almost never married. To be as great a stylist as he is and create this operatic world, but he does it inside of a genre and he does actually pay attention to the rules of the genre: even though he is breaking the rules all the time—he is delivering you a wonderful Western."

(Quentin Tarantino's foreword in "Once Upon a time in the West: Shooting a masterpiece", Christopher Frayling, 2018)

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@effthealgorithm Once thread smart phone was introduced, all consumer-facing tech has been, arguably, detrimental to life experience

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@jpalmiotti @bleedingcool It does say a creator-owned comic, so maybe it s not a substack published strip but will be floppies.

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@TheBigWeenis @mountainnegro @ATRightMovies When did “Those same critics” recant? It’s new critics that venerate him.

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@SteveJo11640412 @mountainnegro @ATRightMovies Isn’t thar, the knocks he took is why he doesn’t care? For self preservation?

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@mountainnegro @G_ManRETURNS @DoombladeStan @ATRightMovies The Thing wasn’t a financial hit. That summer was cutthroat. His career was derailed.

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

Lots of talk about moving out of LA b/c it’s obscenely expensive. Artist’s want to live in SoCal b/c of culture and diversity, which feeds their work. If you live in Red State sticks that’s crippling you’re output.

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

@BrianMcWilliams @Variety @nickwaye Ha ha ha / “stripping government waste” like what DOGE?
Taxing corps properly won’t get passed to consumer, if excess C-Suite salaries are targeted. Like luxury tax in sports.

[Cʜʀɪsᴛᴏᴘʜᴇʀ Dᴇʀʀɪᴄᴋ @UnauthorizedCBD]

Loved his as Alvarez in OZ on @HBO, he was even in my episode of Star Trek as a corrupt Vulcan.

[Variety @Variety]

Marvel, DC and 'Planet of the Apes' Actor Kirk Acevedo Had to Sell His Home Because 'Middle Class' Actors Are Getting 'Squeezed Out' of Hollywood https://t.co/ytTzqGbIDJ