Movies and TV Shows

As for why I was listening to conservative talk radio (🤢) in the first place, that's all the play at my job. I usually tune it out but can't use earbuds for safety reasons and I'm not high enough on the totem pole to change the station. I won't specifiy the exact program because I believe it's regional.

I've been excited for Alex Garland's Civil War for months now. A24's been killing their drama films recently and it's been refreshing having what I thought was an unapologetically left-leaning major media studio who's found success through authentic, grassroots support. After hearing what felt like four ad reads for the movie in an hour and knowing that means A24 paid money - gave direct financial support - to a show that, amongst other things, spends hours a day promoting bigotry, Russian propaganda, and J6 apologetism, has ruined it for me.

Am I just overreacting here?

The film stars Martin Freeman, Simone Landers, Anthony Hayes, David Gulpilil, Susie Porter, and Caren Pistorius.[3] It follows a couple and their baby travelling in remote Australia amid a deadly disease outbreak.

A decent film, I enjoyed it, emotionally i felt connected to the characters, but the scenario and logic was fairly low. 4/10, worth watching on a slow afternoon.

The atmosphere was good, the cinematography looked nice.

How does David Mandel remember the reaction to the Seinfeld series finale? He’s not even sure his parents liked it.

America was angry that day, my friends, and the show’s supervising producer knew why. The last episode, Mandel says, “distilled the characters to their most basic form. Much of the audience did not want to be confronted by that.”

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If we’ve learned anything about David over the past quarter century, it’s that he’s deeply, hilariously committed to his shtick. Which isn’t really shtick at all. At its shriveled heart, Curb Your Enthusiasm is a look into the mind of the kind of guy who’d make a show about nothing. The kind of guy who’ll always double down on what he would laugh at, no matter what anyone else thinks. The kind of guy who would, in a Season 7 episode of Curb, push back on, say, Jason Alexander framing a Seinfeld cast reunion as a chance to make up for the sins of the finale. “What does that mean, make up for the finale?” Larry asks. “There’s nothing to make up for.”

David has sprinkled that particular defiance throughout Curb Your Enthusiasm, but this final season is his coup de grâce. Everything, it seems, has been building toward one ultimate rebuke of the reaction to the most infamous moment in David’s career. As the HBO series comes to a close on Sunday, there once again will be courtroom drama. And though the main character will be the one sitting in the defendant’s chair, that series finale from 26 years ago is the thing that’ll truly be on trial. None of this should surprise anyone who’s actually seen the Seinfeld finale. The main characters may have learned absolutely nothing in it, but the episode taught us a lot about Larry David.

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Though the last Matrix movie was basically a warning about corporations sucking the life out of iconic pieces of subversive IP, Warner Bros. Discovery is already going back to the well.

Deadline reports that The Martian writer Drew Goddard has been tapped to pen and direct another Matrix movie executive produced by Lana Wachowski. Currently, the new film has no title or projected premiere date, and there’s been no announcement as to whether franchise stars like Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, or Jessica Henwick will return.

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