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[vicky @chicky_ven]

i’m confused about all these people critiquing rachel cusk for her failure to obliterate selfhood, when i thought that failure was the whole point of the outline trilogy. in describing everything but the self, you necessarily describe the self. what am i missing here

[vicky @chicky_ven]

tapping this sign again

[Cristian @papierlilies]

I saw a tweet about this saying "we're back," and dude, we're back every six months or so. Hong Sang-soo's oeuvre, especially his collaborations with Kim Min-hee, is keeping the flame of cinema alive and well.

[vicky @chicky_ven]

the concept of out indefinitely mononucleosis

[vicky @chicky_ven]

the drama is in a way about tasteslop

[vicky @chicky_ven]

literally cheered out loud at the japril wedding scene just perfect

[eli @loveforcaptnswn]

stupid song!

[vicky @chicky_ven]

i think what a lot of the “nolan doesn’t write female characters well” and “nolan doesn’t write poc characters well” critiques are really getting at is that nolan doesn’t write characters well. really that nolan doesn’t write well

[vicky @chicky_ven]

i am afraid of jimothy

[vicky @chicky_ven]

there has to be an amazing reason they play titanium before every world cup game

[vicky @chicky_ven]

i think spice bag is my favorite food i’ve ever had

[vicky @chicky_ven]

why’s everyone playing in the world cup a rapist

[vicky @chicky_ven]

ben lerner looks like will poulter is this obvious

[vicky @chicky_ven]

i am deeply distrustful of anyone that isn’t delighted by the world cup right now and i also find the “omg scottish fans in boston are crazyyyyyyy” and “can we ask to have a sleepover with other countries” jokes tacky and distasteful. we exist!

[vicky @chicky_ven]

i’m dropping my new single single soon soon

[vicky @chicky_ven]

i thought lorde’s last album was really good

[vicky @chicky_ven]

jon caramanica you messy messy diva

[vicky @chicky_ven]

in love life starring anna kendrick there is a relationship that unfolds alongside the rise and fall of linsanity

[vicky @chicky_ven]

yes

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Renate Reinsve to star in Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘IF LOVE SHOULD DIE’

A biopic exploring the life of the 18th-Century English writer, philosopher, and women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

(https://t.co/k7xuDYShOT)

[vicky @chicky_ven]

….what the fuck

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

The first time Blake Lively met Justin Baldoni was in December 2022 at her Tribeca apartment, when he asked her to star in his adaptation of ‘It Ends With Us,’ the best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover. The early days of their collaboration were largely supportive. The conversations between Baldoni and Lively seemed to show a pair of creatives figuring each other out and navigating the complex power dynamics between them — co-stars in a romance; actor and director; A-list celebrity and relative Hollywood nobody.

But two years later, in a deposition taken as part of Lively’s blockbuster lawsuit against Baldoni and his team, alleging that he harassed her on set and then retaliated when she spoke up about it, Lively would say that she only slowly came to realize her discomfort with Baldoni. As Lively’s nearly $300 million lawsuit heads to trial later this month, her attempt to define Baldoni as a predatory harasser who later waged a smear campaign against her has run up against his countercampaign to define her as a bully who schemed to take control of the movie from him over little more than microaggressions.

Now, after many months of bitter fighting, both sides head into the trial wounded. Ryan Reynolds has suggested Lively might never act again; Baldoni moved from California to Nashville. (The parties involved in the litigation declined to comment on the record.)

Plenty of movies have been marred by disastrous experiences on set, but rarely have those experiences been so vehemently litigated and relitigated — culminating in what may end up being the greatest Hollywood shitshow of all time.

@reeveswiedeman dug through thousands of emails, text messages, and documents — which air embarrassing dirty laundry and form a revelatory picture of who actually wields power in modern Hollywood and how. At the link in our bio, read his definitive report inside the depraved, no-holds-barred, mutually destructive battle between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively: https://t.co/roV3YzWrO9

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

“Last March, a fog took hold in my head and never left. It settled there somewhere between the moment a DHS agent asked me, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ and the moment I realized that I would miss the birth of my first child,” writes Khalil.

A year ago, the Trump administration unlawfully arrested Khalil at his home and detained him for 104 days. “I walk free now, only after an army of lawyers sued the administration for targeting me because of my pro-Palestine speech. But the government is relentless in targeting me,” he writes. “So when I walk, I watch my back.”

“When strangers approach me and ask, ‘Are you Mahmoud Khalil?’ — the same words in the same expectant tone the DHS agent used before the handcuffs — I do not know if they want to shake my hand or spit in my face. I do not know whether they will say, ‘Thank you for what you're doing,’ or follow me through midtown aggressively shouting, ‘Am Yisrael Chai.’ Both have happened. At first glance, I can never tell them apart.”

In a new essay, Khalil writes about grappling with these two truths: “That I walk through the city afraid and that the city, in small and persistent ways, tells me I am welcome. That I am watched and that I am seen.” Read it in full: https://t.co/wQyxkGZoyk

[vicky @chicky_ven]

i don’t really understand keeping track of how many people “walked out” of a movie. 1) what if they’re peeing 2) just watch the movie