Micah Rickard

Time for a calm movie night with my good friends Mikey and Nicky

noem's big sin to trump wasn't killing innocents or detaining immigrants. it was looking bad on tv in his name. thats all he cares about.

We Are All Strangers: A Patient Wonder of Belonging — micah rickard Movie review of Anthony Chen's We Are All Strangers, a follow up to The Breaking Ice, starring Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler

Great review by @micahrickard.bsky.social of one of the films I really liked ftom the Berlinale: We Are All Strangers
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PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Is Strangely Derivative — micah rickard Movie review of Gore Verbinski's gonzo sci-fi screed against AI starring Sam Rockwell and Haley Lu Richardson

2026 Berlinale #3. I did not go for Gore Verbinski's latest.

"GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE never bores, but—like a human trapped in an A.I.'s virtual reality—one has a gnawing suspicion that there should be something more real beneath its sheen."

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Trial of Hein Reveals the Incomplete Construction of Society — micah rickard Movie review of Kai Stänicke's Trial of Hein, about a man who returns to his island home only to be met with suspicion of being an imposter. Brecht and Kafka are clear influences on this film as his t...

2026 Berlinale #2. TRIAL OF HEIN is a slippery mystery of identity and communal memory that "characterizes the way a society projects its idea of itself to take the place of the truth."

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The Rom-Com Meets a Harsh Reality in No Good Men — micah rickard Movie review of Shahrbanoo Sadat's No Good Men, starring the director and Anwar Hashimi, a romance drama set in the harsh reality of 2021 Kabul.

I'm getting around to posting my reviews out of this year's Berlinale Film Fest. First up, the festival's opening film, NO GOOD MEN.

"This does not set out to be a straightforward romcom. The real world is always close at hand, always a threat.

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Trump’s Unauthorized War The Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to mobilize the military—and for good reason.

“Democracy allows people the freedom to make stupid decisions, so long as they make them collectively. But a system that allows a country to be dragged into war at the whims of a single person is not much of a democracy at all.”
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Introducing the wife to Twin Peaks (and David Lynch in the process)

The American-Israeli Strikes on Iran are (Again) Manifestly Illegal After weeks of threats, the United States, joined by Israel, has launched military strikes against Iran. It remains to be seen whether these strikes will be fairly limited, or are the opening of an ex...

"Whatever happens, though, one thing is clear – that this use of force by the US and Israel is manifestly illegal. It is as plain a violation of the prohibition on the use of force in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter as one could possibly have."

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folks theyre saying the pale rider doesnt want us to break the seventh seal, theyre saying no one has the strength to handle it. what do you think folks, what do you think of that pale rider. should we do it?

*crowd going absolutely ape shit*

i dont know, i want to but they say I shouldnt

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

The Egyptians had their gods. We have this sick calf thing. Look at it, it's even gold, just the raddest thing

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Always an upvote for my denton guys. Love having a crowded mix for favorite hometown band

Anyone have a recommendation for a good Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge devotional?

Maybe the real friendship was pasta sauce the whole time

I finally caught up with the new movie and I have to say, I love the way they're expanding the Badlands universe. Just a really unpredictable direction to take things

An important rule to keep in mind is that you dont HAVE to speak to Rod Dreher

Rarely have I felt as seen by a movie as watching a writer immediately turn his finished draft over to his wife to review, critique, and revise it

Hello, my newest intrusive thought: has anyone ever made broth...

I apparently can't stop writing about ghosts

I wanted to think more about the curious place of MARTY SUPREME's anachronistic soundtrack, so I dug into it at CAPC

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Heart rate is doing great,thanks for asking

Who doesn't love a good road trip? And what road trip could be more restorative than watching William Friedkin's Sorcerer 4k restoration on one of the biggest screens in town?

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.