@valeriek109
Film/culture writer & screenwriter. Member, Alliance of Women Film Journalists & RT-approved. Words at Script, RogerEbert, The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian, In Their Own League. Tell better stories. Tell stories better.
Exclusive: HSI, a branch of DHS that usually investigates drug cartels and human-trafficking networks, is probing the 2020 election results in Arizona, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Sarah Fitzpatrick, and Nick Miroff report: theatln.tc/HJwh0Oqs
There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...
The SAVE Act combines voter suppression measures with reactionary culture-war provisions to consolidate right-wing political power.
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
Olives 🫒 #oilpainting #art
www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour... kavanaugh says none of us enjoy this, bull shit why it that 98% of the time these 6 republicans give trump what he wants, it’s all about defend serve and protect trump at any cost
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Colman Domingo Almost Quit Acting. Now His 50s Are the Best Years of His Career
Remember that most critics write without benefit of hindsight. The Tomatometer has not yet run up its totals when they review a new film, and they may be astonished to find themelves in a minority of one. They ‘re not running against the herd because the herd has not yet formed. They are offering an opinion that, it turns out, will be the exception to the rule. When you find a review like that, think about it. Few of us have a desire to see the same damned thing over and again, but Hollywood is never happier than when supplying it. A minority opinion (better still, a majority of critics “surprised,” or, one of my favorite words, “blindsided” by a film) are urgently trying to tell you something. And for you, they may be right.
Great words from my mentor and former boss, Roger Ebert. Readers think critics get together to conspire against a movie. We have no idea what anyone else is thinking when we write our reviews. Reviews tend to sound alike or have consensus because there's so little diversity in film criticism.
#graffiti #chalk #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc
There isn't any worrisome voter fraud anywhere, so for Trump to make his 'Save America Act' his top priority can only mean he's trying to fix the upcoming election b/c he knows he will lose, be impeached, & eventually face prison. Ironically, his imprisonment is the only way to save America.
Trump doesn’t have the ability to dictate when the war is over.
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Trump: "No other president could do some of this shit I'm doing. The things I'm doing, nobody else is going to do it."
(he was talking about drug prices, but...)
Are we still looking for waste, fraud, and abuse? I think I found some.
It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
We are no longer living in a democracy in the US. We are governed by a criminal who rules like a dictator. Congress chopped off at the knees.
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Mars rover Opportunity returned this postcard-perfect shot of her own shadow extending into Endeavour crater exactly 14 years ago Today [📷 NASA/JPL-Caltech]
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Page One: “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” (1984), written by Harve Bennett, based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
Read the screenplay here.
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Breaking NYT:
Two teenage brothers and mariachi stars who visited the White House last summer were just released with their family from ICE detention centers in South Texas — immediately following the visit of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who pressed for them to be freed.
I think many early-stage screenwriters would write VERY differently if they had a chance to see how film, even on the tiniest production, are actually made from start to finish.
#scriptsky
I’m hollering at my screen… yaaas!
Actress Sheryl Underwood, an Air Force Reserve veteran, is asking the questions we all want answers to.
“Why is this not impeachable? And where are the politicians that say, ‘this dude don’t have it all the way together, he cannot be the commander in chief?’” 🔥
Wrote up a thing about Alt-Text over on Patreon.
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“...Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives ... on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam...”
- Carl Sagan, ‘Pale Blue Dot’
More ICE human rights violations.
People, including children and the elderly, were held for weeks in Colorado ICE hold rooms, without beds, in clear violation of ICE regulations.
And it gets worse…
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Another lie to justify his stupid and illegal war.
The response is….comprehensive.
A large-scale outdoor mural on a building wall in Longmont, Colorado, depicting four women of different ages in a sequence where each is braiding the next person's hair, painted in realistic tones of brown and gold. Artist: Gamma Acosta.
Mural by Gamma Acosta in Longmont — four women braiding each other's hair across generations. Scale and meaning that stops you cold.
Thanks for taking a moment to look.
#Photography #ScottKissPhoto #MuralArt
One Battle After Another took the top prize at the 2026 ASC Awards for Cinematography, while Andor and Task tied for Drama Series. The Studio won Comedy Series, and Rodrigo Prieto won his first ASC after 7 tries for Taylor Swift's The Fate of Ophelia. Complete List:
I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.
