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Elvis in IMAX: How Newly Found Footage Became an Immersive Documentary

Good morning! For @nytimes.com, I had the immense pleasure of talking to Baz Luhrmann and his collaborator Jonathan Redmond about how they combed through boxes of long-forgotten Elvis footage from a salt mine in Kansas to create their marvelous new documentary "EPiC." Gift link:

Let’s walk back to where we started. What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism. You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected. Racism, among other things, is a kind of chauvinism, a belief in one’s inherent superiority, based on nothing other than a meaningless accident of birth. It’s an ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy, that tells you that — no matter what you have or have not accomplished in your life — you’re still better than someone, some group. Let’s suppose you’re the spoiled son of a self-made man. Let’s suppose that, despite your flash and bravado, you’ve failed at virtually everything you’ve tried. You’re the laughingstock of polite society, a punchline for the privileged. You think you’re superior enough to be the president of the United States — the highest honor in your country — but the actual president is a man of humble origins, a minority of the kind your family didn’t even rent to when you were in the landlord business. And he is claiming power that rightfully belongs to you. He’s even mocking you, ridiculing you for all the world to see. For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism.

Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

I strongly disagree with two of these.

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SEND HELP is a little like the Selina Kyle/CATWOMAN spinoff I've been longing for since BATMAN RETURNS... Just sayin.

Mystery Team VESTRON Collector’s Series Blu-ray™ (#36) Number 36 of the Vestron Video Collector’s Series Making its debut on Blu-ray, Mystery Team is from Derrick Comedy, the Internet sensation whose short films have been viewed over 150 million times onl...

*clears throat*

🚨 MYSTERY TEAM is out today on collector’s edition Blu-Ray with a new 30 min making of doc and remastered sound and picture 🚨

Yes but the squid was much worse

There are like 40 perfect examples of this exactly in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, but the one that always gets me is at the very end when Nicholson takes Winger’s eldest son to see his swimming pool as a field trip away from her funeral 😭

Spielberg

Yeah!

Swimmingly

Not enough

Working on it

Everything in the world is fucked BUT I remembered Blue Sky exists AMA

Aw, this is nice. Loved writing this piece on LIFEBOAT for Paste. It was previously a Hitchcock blind spot and I had a blast digging deep with it.

Godzilla: From King of Monsters to King of Collabs What does it mean when one of cinema's greatest symbols of atomic destruction becomes a global brand ambassador?

Here's something for @popheist.com about the evolution of Godzilla from the representation of nuclear trauma to helping sell beers.

When the party invite said “dressy.” Neat trick, Sky Man!

Happy New Year, all!!

Is it the first pop or the Plummer pop

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Tonight, if you start watching SPONTANEOUS at *exactly* 10:58:42pm.... you'll KNOW when midnight hits.

Trust me, you'll know.

I post this every year to horrify @brianduffield.bsky.social

DVD case: Lenny and Mr. Saturday Night

Delightfully bonkers that someone decided these two movies would make a good "comedian double feature."

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Jeeze I forgot about that, I should check up on it haha

My mom, the world-class filmmaker, by Zohran

I think that’s a result of shooting in Vancouver in the winter (do not recommend) and needing it to somehow feel like a full school year passes haha

Will always rt Morton praise.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Candid Cameron One of the greatest directors of all time offers a candid and thoughtful assessment of his career evolution, the craft of the ‘Avatar’ series, Bob Iger’s pact of A.I. on the business, and his friend E...

Instead of peeling potatoes or watching bad football, read these nuggets of wisdom I put together from my chat with James Cameron. Happy Thanksgiving! puck.news/james-camero...

‘Network’: Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gruesome Prophecy Turned Reality—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 49th Anniversary • Cinephilia & Beyond By Koraljka Suton Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I always said, ‘This isn’t satire, it’s sheer reportage.’ We were both brought up in television, s...

🎬 Network turns 49—almost fifty years later, the gruesome prophecy of Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky has become a reality.

Revisit the film’s making, impact, and eerie relevance in our anniversary deep-dive: cinephiliabeyond.org/network/

ahaha this sucks so fucking bad 🥲👎