A.A. Dowd

I'm pretty mixed on it, but that scene is great (in large part, I'm convinced, because they didn't go the digital de-aging route).

The Raccoon City stuff reminded me of the last act of DOCTOR SLEEP: blatant fan service that's still somehow rather affecting. A survivor returns to the dark place that shaped him and that he escaped years earlier.

Beat this tonight. Very good game, but it peaks with Grace in the care center. Getting both modes in one game confirmed that I slightly prefer classic survival horror RE to Leon kicking ass RE.

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.

Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.

It was, indeed, in Desktop view. Phew!

US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report

US military spent $9M on crab legs and lobster in run up before launching attack on Iran: report

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

So many average citizens have stood up to Trump.

Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting.

And sorry, but—these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?

Huh, yeah, maybe.

Is @letterboxd.social just permanently tiny on mobile now? Is this an Android thing? Just a my phone thing? Browser or app, it's effectively unreadable without zooming.

Justice Department publishes some missing Epstein files related to Trump The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.

4 days ago, NPR reported that the Trump administration is still withholding, in violation of the Epstein files statutes, 37 pages of documents that implicate him in the rape of a child. This should end his presidency. www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

incredible stuff, these are the guys who genuinely think that they’re the ones who will benefit from “meritocracy”

The people who cry about not being able to teach the Bible in public schools are claiming there's a demand to impose Sharia Law and it is a serious problem.

I think you're right about that.

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

This a great piece, and quite well-timed, too, given Docter's cowardly comments.

I mean, so clearly! It's a whole new Academy.

This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society.

And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.

Like, Sight & Sound's top two picks for 2025 are duking it out for Best Picture!

Whether you personally preferred another movie is not really the point. The point is that ANORA is not a traditionally safe or middlebrow pick. Compared to what used to routinely win, it's downright radical.

Couple years ago, a mutual was singing that old tune until I reminded him that his five favorite movies of the year were all up for Best Picture, lol

And that's not even taking into account the also-rans. Can an organization that's recently nominated THE ZONE OF INTEREST and DRIVE MY CAR, for example, really be said to have exclusively tony tastes?

MOONLIGHT. PARASITE. OPPENHEIMER. ANORA. Probably either SINNERS or ONE BATTLE. You don't need to love these movies to recognize that they're a very far cry from what used to get deemed "Oscar bait."

The Oscars Have, Against All Odds, Acquired Good Taste Whatever you think of ‘Anora,’ it’s not the traditional middlebrow drama that has dominated in years past. A hipper, more adventurous Academy is redefining what “Oscars bait” really means.

Helpful reminder that "the Academy has terrible/middlebrow/safe taste in movies" is a pretty outdated insight. www.theringer.com/2025/03/03/o...

THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953) dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:

Indirectly, they've definitely played with the influence of that series, i.e. the fast Crimson Heads in the RE remake. But I'd love a bone temple!