…Glenn Powell, youngish but no spring chicken, is going to have to star in a movie that isn’t prefabricated, power-pumped, big-studio bullshit, No, I still haven’t seen Richard Linklater‘s Hit Man (Netflix, 6.7), which began screening eight months ago and still hasn’t opened. You can’t just spew jizz-whizz all the time. Every now and then it’s really necessary to put some nutrition into the cereal bowl.
It was reported this morning by Iranian cinema journalist Mansour Jahani that Mohammad Rasoulof, director of the forthcoming Cannes competition selection The Seed of the Sacred Fig, has been sentenced by the 29th branch of the Islamic Revolution Court of Iran to eight years in the slam.
Rasoulof (Manuscripts Don’t Burn, A Man of Integrity, There Is No Evil) will also be whipped, fined and have his property confiscated.
Sacred Fig summary: “Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears.”
HE to Rasoulof: Blow this pop stand, move to Paris, live in glorious exile. Don’t give those fuckers eight years of your life.
...who won't stop saying, "Okay, so Trump cheated on his Eastern European trophy wife by fucking Stormy Daniels...that's who Trump is, what he does, total animal...so what?
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I’ve been saying this for years, but Zoomers are such a drag. Many of us revel in our loathing for them. The world has become a grimmer, more intimidating, far less beautiful and enjoyable place since Generation Z came of age. Not all of them, just the ayeholes.
I’m not saying all Zoomers are “bad” people, but a huge percentage seem like joyless mutants…a generation of fanatical Strelnikovs and DEI obsessives…identity politics, non-binary, ghastly clothing, trans obsesssions, they/them, cisgender, out of shape or obese, puberty blockers, gender dysphoria, hating on J. K. Rowling, identity music, sexual abstinence….if we were living in ancient Roman times and I was a king-shit emperor, I would feed these jokers to the lions in the Colisseum.
That said, Greta Scacchi (now 64) was (ahem) a formidable erotic presence when she costarred in Presumed Innocent...smokin'! And Harrison Ford was a decent, principled man with an erection, decades away from becoming Uncle Festus (white beard, avuncular vibe).
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And you can’t trust the fanboys, of course. And that includes the sometimes too friendly or obliging JeffSneider. And I wouldn’t trust DavidEhrlich either. None of them are really and truly straight-from-the-shoulder, let-the-chips-fall types.
You can, however, trust sourpusses like myself. If HE really and truly tumbles for George Miller’s latest wasteland saga, fine. But wait until Cannes for that to happen or not.