I would say happy birthday, America, but unfortunately I love abortions and immigrants and public education and universal healthcare and Black people and the environment and not bombing children with my tax dollars.
Having a wedding during a major holiday weekend, in one of the countries largest cities, impacting millions of people, during a heat wave where the mayor is asking people to turn their AC up, is Marie Antoinette levels of disconnect. Coming to Disney+ Fall 2026.
Since the 'Werwulf' trailer has released earlier today, I've seen a lot of debate over Robert Eggers, and his dark films about evil and madness, & it feels that no one really sees what he is really doing.
Robert Eggers is giving visual form to ancient Slavic and Germanic fairy tales. He is more of a folklorist than a filmmaker.
But he doesn't use folklore as decoration. Rather, he treats it like a buried language still muttering beneath modern life. He understands the shadow symbolism to it's very core.
In "The Witch," the forest is not just a forest, but the old fairy tale border where God, hunger, sex, fear & the Devil all start wearing the same face. The forest is the soul lost in the physical realm, a soul who has forgotten its divine essence.
In "The Lighthouse," two men become trapped inside a sailor’s curse, part Proteus, part Prometheus, part drunken nursery rhyme dragged through saltwater madness. Both men are a reflection of one another, while simultaneousy realizing they are simply characters in a divine yet mad play.
In "The Northman," revenge is not a plot device, but an ancient spell, the kind sung around fire before men learned to pretend they were civilized. Christianity itself is so misunderstood to that primeval man that he thinks it's perceived 'cannibalism' of the sacraments is barbaric.
And "Nosferatu" turns the vampire back into what he always was: not a sexy monster, but plague, lust, aristocratic rot, & death knocking politely at the bedroom door, waiting to consume you the moment you let lust overwhelm you.
Eggers understands that fairy tales were never cute. They were warnings, rituals, maps of terror, & little knives passed from one generation to the next. Frankly, we need more filmmakers like him who do not fear to take a deep dive into the abyss of the human soul. In that sense, he is a less surreal David Lynch, yet has all the dream-logic of a fire-lite-told story of old.
I just found out that water is considered a human right in Ireland, and households don’t pay water bills.
Every country should be like that.
Water is a human right and always should be.
Hasan Piker: “Donald Trump literally made it illegal to be trans and an athlete in the NCAA. Did you experience any fucking material improvements in your life? No, of course you didn’t. Is that fixing the fucking gas prices? Giving Israel more money, is that going to fix your gas prices? We’ve been giving Israel $10B a fucking year. Have things gotten better in that process? Has ICE improved your lives? Elon Musk is a fucking trillionaire. Did it do anything for you that’s positive? No, of course not”
The first straight-to-VHS movie in 20 years has been released, despite the last VCR being made a decade ago
The film ‘This Is How the World Ends’ wants to push back against the digitization of media and heavily criticizes AI
On this day in 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer who knelt on his neck for 9 & a 1/2 mins in a video that shocked many, even moving people to act to end racism. That pursuit still matters.
Rest in peace George Floyd🙏🏾
Yes that’s why i never wanna hear that shit about “my grandma and grandad were together forever/marriages used to last” YEAH GRANNY WASNT ALLOWED TO HAVE A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR GET AN APARTMENT ON HER OWN. SHE WAS A PRISNA!
We would know who it was, and we would know who it was who tried to force her into bed with him, if y’all hadn’t stamped out the #MeToo movement because of your worship for predatory men who you insist on putting on pedestals.
Women are punished for speaking up and that allows predators to go unpunished.
I’m sure she’s used the whisper network. But society fails to protect women.