Jeff Wells

Contending with None-Too-Bright Black Dudes

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Yesterday Barack Obama chided young black males for saying they might vote for Trump. The reason black Zoomer dudes feel alienated from Harris-Walz is partly due to garden-variety misogyny, and partly because they feel dissed and dismissed by wokesters and well-educated progressive women in particular. They’ve heard over and over that “men are the problem” and so they’re basically saying “fuck it.” As are many young white men. They don’t like or respect us, they’re saying, so we’re standing with The Beast.

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Imagine Writing About 10.8 Beyond Fest “Speed” Screening

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…and not even parenthetically or anecdotally mentioning the catastrophic Speed 2: Cruise Control (’97)?

The Hollywood Reporter‘s Chris Gardner reports that during the q&a aftermath of Tuesday night’s (10.8) screening someone asked about the possibility of a Speed 3 film. And nobody says zip about Speed effing 2?

And nobody mentions the hugely annoying, physically impossible freeway-gap bus jump sequence? If the authorites had somehow assembled a makeshift ramp that would have elevated the bus leap arc and thereby allowed it to land on the other side…okay.

Reviews of Underwhelming “Blitz” Will Pop Around Dinner Hour

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HE: “Have you received any more reports about Blitz being a problem movie?”

Ruimy: “I keep hearing it’s a major disappointment. With that said, don’t be surprised if the woke London crowd tries to be as polite as possible in their reactions.”

The press saw Blitz this morning. The London Film Festival swells will attend a screening that starts at 7 pm and lets out around 9:15 or 9:30 pm.

Posted by Jordan Ruimy on 10.6.24:

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Chalamet Has The Surly Twang Down

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James Mangold‘s A Complete Unknown (Searchlight, 12.25) is obviously going to deliver…well, a certain kind of authenticity…the portentous, casual kind like a slider or a long putt, certainly by way of Timothee Chalamet‘s performance, and also like a “movie” with the right kind of pacing, the right kind of emphasis here and there…some kind of steady, pro-level thing.

Stern Played Softball Game With Harris

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I’ve just listened to the Howard Stern-Kamala Harris interview on SiriusXM, and it wasn’t the least bit challenging or invasive or confrontational…about as substantive and friendly as a high-profile interview of this sort can get. I wasn’t disappointed but I wasn’t riveted either. Harris didn’t overdo the word salad thing. She sounded cool, frank and straight as far as it went, and said “to your point” several times.

I was inwardly begging Stern to bring up the woke psychology thing…the cult of wokeism…white men are the problem (which they are to a significant extent) and all that and how the progressives have basically jettisoned young white dudes because of this exclusionary attitude. And of course he didn’t touch it.

It wasn’t especially important to note that Kamala works out every morning between 30 and 45 minutes, and that cereal-wise she likes Raisin Bran and Kellogg’s Special K. But she said this.

Harris: “I’ve literally lost sleep over this election…this is an election that’s about strength vs. weakness…[Donald Trump] admires dictators…I believe that Trump has this desire to be a dictator…he admires strong men, and he gets played by them…they are manipulating him…this is about do we want a president who will abide by the oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, or someone who is constantly flattered by Vladimir Putin of Russia?”

“At the height of the pandemic, this guy who was President of the United States, secretly sent Covid test kits for Putin’s personal use…he doesn’t support Ukraine and the importance of sovereign integrity of a democracy…these are principles that we all agree on. It’s a sign of weakness in a leader…he is dangerous and unfit…there were a couple of moments during the debate that were surreal…viewers wanted to know where we stood on the issues, and [Trump] was talking about things that were factually untrue.”