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  1. Comment on Australian athlete apologizes after winning race despite involuntary bowel movement in ~news

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    She also didn’t show any remorse or regret, and only apologized after Puma pulled out as a sponsor for Hydrox.

    She also didn’t show any remorse or regret, and only apologized after Puma pulled out as a sponsor for Hydrox.

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  2. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I read three books: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Stranger by Albert Camus, and Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad. I know The Stranger is often assigned in high schools, but it wasn’t assigned to me....

    I read three books: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Stranger by Albert Camus, and Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad.

    I know The Stranger is often assigned in high schools, but it wasn’t assigned to me. I liked it a lot. Reminded me of Notes from the Underground a little bit. Also really easy to read, I finished the whole thing in like two hours.

    Lolita is brilliant. It’s probably one of the best written books I’ve ever read and it makes me want to read more by Nabokov. I was not expecting it to have such a sense of humor considering the subject manner.

    Bunny: A Novel was fine. I feel disappointed by it overall, but there’s stuff that I like about it. Such as the fourth wall breaks and it’s intended satire on rich artists types. But the prose often read like a YA novel. Reading it showed me that the film that came out earlier this year Forbidden Fruits was heavily inspired by it though. Wonder why there hasn’t been an adaptation of this book yet.

    I’m also in the middle of reading All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (I’ve only read The Road from him) and plan on reading Vineland by Thomas Pynchon right after. As they’re both seen as entry level novels for them.

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  4. Comment on Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore in ~music

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    This was such a bad move from Sheeran and his team. Why would he shoot himself in the foot like this?

    This was such a bad move from Sheeran and his team. Why would he shoot himself in the foot like this?

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  5. Comment on Zack Snyder's ‘The Last Photograph’ is getting destroyed at TIFF: “Unabashedly sh*t on every level” in ~movies

  6. Comment on What are the genuinely worst films of all time? in ~movies

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    I mostly agree with you, I have some affinity for the spoof movies cause I was a kid as they were coming out. But I think Not Another Teen Movie is really funny. I have a trashy sense of humor...

    I mostly agree with you, I have some affinity for the spoof movies cause I was a kid as they were coming out.

    But I think Not Another Teen Movie is really funny. I have a trashy sense of humor though, so the incest jokes and gags like these kill me

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  8. Comment on “Widow’s Bay” wins Comedy, “The Pitt” wins Drama, and “DTF: St. Louis” wins Limited Series at the 2026 Emmy’s in ~tv

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    I feel like I just heard about Widow’s Bay like a month ago with the FYC material I get from TikTok. All of this makes me want to watch it, Hiro Murai is a director I really like. I love Atlanta,...

    I feel like I just heard about Widow’s Bay like a month ago with the FYC material I get from TikTok. All of this makes me want to watch it, Hiro Murai is a director I really like. I love Atlanta, I loved his music video for This Is America. I love his visual style.

    Matthew Rhys made history since he won Lead Actor for both Limited Series and Comedy. The first person to ever do that. So he’s clearly having a moment. And he’s been doing the press tour thing with his hot wife. So I’m sure he’s enjoying life at the moment.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Zack Snyder's ‘The Last Photograph’ is getting destroyed at TIFF: “Unabashedly sh*t on every level” in ~movies

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    There wasn’t actually a lot of demand. When it premiered on HBOMAX its numbers weren’t good. To compare, both James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad and Mortal Kombat outperformed it. Walter Hamada made a...

    There wasn’t actually a lot of demand. When it premiered on HBOMAX its numbers weren’t good. To compare, both James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad and Mortal Kombat outperformed it.

    Walter Hamada made a lot of bad decisions, and giving Snyder 70 million dollars to re-work it was a big one.

    I agree that there are people that are trying to group Snyder with people like Michael Bay and Tony Scott. But both those guys had better visuals and focused on the entertainment value of their films. Snyder’s films are always slow in a way that Bay and Scott’s films are kinetic.

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  12. Comment on Zack Snyder's ‘The Last Photograph’ is getting destroyed at TIFF: “Unabashedly sh*t on every level” in ~movies

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    Not anymore. Netflix gave him two Rebel Moon movies which flopped all around for them, and they canned the planned two other films. No studio wanted to make Photograph and no studio wants to...

    studios for some reason I can't fathom, keep taking him seriously.

    Not anymore.

    Netflix gave him two Rebel Moon movies which flopped all around for them, and they canned the planned two other films.

    No studio wanted to make Photograph and no studio wants to distribute it now that it’s screened.

    Snyder lost all his relevancy.

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  13. Comment on Zack Snyder's ‘The Last Photograph’ is getting destroyed at TIFF: “Unabashedly sh*t on every level” in ~movies

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    I’ve been paying attention to all the festivals for about five years now. And I’m aware of a lot of the discussions people had during festivals throughout the 2010s. This is probably the worst...

    I’ve been paying attention to all the festivals for about five years now. And I’m aware of a lot of the discussions people had during festivals throughout the 2010s.

    This is probably the worst reception I’ve ever seen from a premiere at any festival, at the very least at TIFF.

    Snyder really bet on himself as an artist and it didn’t work out. He’s never gonna be a prestige director, no one’s gonna take him seriously. These populists guys never make anything good when they try to go prestige, like when Roland Emmerich made Anonymous.

    But he can make cool movies if he worked off of someone else’s script and hired the DP from either Man of Steel or Batman v Superman again (both gorgeous films) instead of insisting on doing everything himself. He might be able to make something like Ambulance which Michael Bay made. Although Bay just has a better sense of storytelling.

    I don’t know, Snyder’s career trajectory after getting booted off Justice League has been sad to watch.

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  15. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Hope I think this is the first major Cannes release of the year. Anyway, I heard that it was a straight forward action film. And that it was kind of weird that it was at Cannes and all that. It...

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    I think this is the first major Cannes release of the year.

    Anyway, I heard that it was a straight forward action film. And that it was kind of weird that it was at Cannes and all that. It also got mixed reception at the festival. It reminded me of Jupiter's Moon which premiered at Cannes ten years ago and which was heavily criticized as a "Hollywood audition" from the director.

    But all that seemed good to me, since I don't usually love these slow festival darlings like Drive My Car or EO.

    I was really loving this. It looks incredible (minus the CGI which had budgetary constraints). It was tense, it has this really twisted sense of humor. Jung Ho-yeon is great, she has this action movie star entrance where she looks like a VS angel up on screen. The film is basically if Spielberg and Iñarritu had a baby. The action scenes were maybe repetitive, but I think you'd have a hard time not admitting that they're cool as fuck.

    And then it ends in a very unfortunate way. I wish it didn't, but it took away from my enjoyment of the film.

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  16. Comment on ‘Practical Magic 2’ fizzles with $30 million debut in ~movies

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    Warner Bros had a great 2025. And they’ve been suffering this year. Wuthering Heights remains their highest grossing film at only 240M. Their bet on director driven films didn’t work out this year...

    Warner Bros had a great 2025. And they’ve been suffering this year. Wuthering Heights remains their highest grossing film at only 240M.

    Their bet on director driven films didn’t work out this year with The Bride and The End of Oak Street flopping. And their IP films have also been missing with Supergirl and now Practical Magic 2.

    The original was also a box office flop, but one would assume the decades it spent building a following would have translated to higher ticket sales. It also doesn’t help that audiences were muted on the film itself. This was positioning itself as a Beetlejuice Beetlejuice type of film but clearly that franchise has a bigger fanbase.

    WB has Digger, Clayface and Dune: Part Three left for the rest of the year. Dune is at least a guaranteed hit. But, Digger is sporting a near 150M dollar budget and from what I know about it is going to be weird and alienate a lot of audiences as the marketing materials are being extremely misleading as to what the film is. Clayface might do all right and it at least has a lower budget.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on ‘Woman Unknown’ wins Golden Lion in Venice in ~movies

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    Silver is the Directing prize and Jury Prize was like a consolation thing they added fifteen years ago. I’m not entirely sure how this stuff works, especially since the jury for every festival is...

    Silver is the Directing prize and Jury Prize was like a consolation thing they added fifteen years ago.

    I’m not entirely sure how this stuff works, especially since the jury for every festival is different every year and they operate differently. And not a lot of their decisions don’t make sense. For example, it’s been widely rumored that in Cannes 2015 most of the Jury wanted to award Carol the Palme D’Or, but they had a lone juror (Xavier Dolan) prevent that from happening. Carol ended up only winning the Actress award. Similar thing in Cannes 2021 where Spike Lee didn’t want to give Drive My Car the Palme so they gave it the Screenplay prize as consolation.

    None of these are official. It’s just rumors, but these are the narratives that form.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on ‘Woman Unknown’ wins Golden Lion in Venice in ~movies

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    From Ruimy:

    From Ruimy:

    The short version circulating online: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3

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