“Kamala Harris would be the first woman president, the first black woman president and the first Asian president. But I don’t vote for who will be the first. I vote for who will win, and for whatever reason Harrishasneverbeenpopular.
“You can count the number of delegates she won in the 2020 primaries on one hand. As long as that hand has no fingers.
“In three years as vice-president she’s been quieter than an electric car. And like an electric car, your MAGA uncle can’t explain why she fills him with homicidal rage. Sometimes life isn’t fair, and it’s not fair that she isn’t popular.” Alas…
I’ll tell you two reasons why Harris isn’t popular. One, that cackle. And two, those word–saladstatements that she’s shared in interviews.
I can’t quite decide who I hate more — DonaldTrump or JoeBiden. It’s just that I’ve despised Trump for so many years. My Biden hate, on the other hand, is fresh and vivid and visceral.
“Part of the dynamic here ie that the Obama-Biden relationship is much more complicated than people often understand it to be. They are friendly [but] they are are not friends.
“One person close to the situation said to me a couple of years ago, ‘Neither one of these [men] really has friends, and they’re really not friends with each other.’ They have not been in contact over the last couple of years as people might think. They’ve talked a couple of times.
“Barack Obama has forever been skeptical about Joe Biden‘s chances as a presidential candidate. [Biden has written in his book that] Obama was not encouraging. Obama is not prone to getting involved here. And every time people have reached out to him and said ‘save us, Barack Obama,’ his response has basically been ‘I’m going to stay right here…I’m not saying anything.'”
Not trying to personally persuade Biden to drop out is one thing, but Obama staying silent while pally George Clooney says, with Obama’s consent, what Obama believes to be true is another.
The looming existential threat of Donald Trump‘s likely victory hasn’t gone away. Every sensible person on the planet realizes that Joe’s cognitive diminishment, which is in and out depending on the moment, has only one way to go and that’s downhill.
Every American voter knows this also, and yet Obama would rather let Trump win than stand up and plead for a more hopeful outcome. That’s cowardly. That’s smug. That’s shameful.
I don’t understand the sudden, mystifying enthusiasm for JeanNegulesco’s DaddyLongLegs, a 1955 FredAstaire–LeslieCaron musical. I’ve always respected and half-admired this romantic fantasy flick…oh, wait.
It is my unfortunate duty to report that the horror factor in OzPerkinsLonglegs is highly effective for the first…oh, 50 or 55 minutes. Very chilling stuff, in no small part due to MaikaMonroe’s riveting performance as a psychic, ClariceStarling-like FBI agent.
But once a certain satanic MarcBolan fan is arrested and the “trance-inducing doll meets crazy mama” plotting kicks in, it all falls apart. The fucking thing doesn’t add up, makes no sense, isn’t crazy enough, and has nothing going on underneath.
I saw Longlegs with a large crowd at the AMC Lincoln Square, and when the lights came up after the closing credits you could feel the flat vibes. The crowd seemed disgruntled, murmuring “huh?” and “the fuck was that?”
ScreenAnarchy ‘s J. Hurtado, BloodyDisgusting’s MeaganNavarro and /Film’s BillBria are all apparently delusional or at the very least dishonest.
GregKwedar and ClintBentley’s SingSing is an honest, explorational, open-hearted acting exercise film.
It’s intimate and earnest and straight-dealing and “affecting” if you’re inclined to go there, but for me it felt very, very boring. After an hour’s worth, I mean. I sat there and waited and waited and waited…
Because it’s just about a prison situation. Sing Sing’s Rehabilitation Through The Arts program, which is absolutely a good idea and a good thing, Lord knows. But there’s no story, no story tension, nothing to hold you, nothing that pulls you in. It’s just about watchingguysact or try to act. Very good, straight-from-the-heart acting and hats off to ColmanDomingo, but all you can do is sit there and be patient as you watch it and go “uh-huh.”
I made it to the end, and all I can say is “thank God I’m not doing time in Sing Sing prison.” Because this film certainly makes you feel as if you’re locked up, I can tell you. Thank God I have a certain amount of discipline and energy and a willingness to work hard and not give in to the usual vices and pitfalls, or else I might have become a criminal of some kind…who knows?
This is a very respectable MINOR FILM. I felt respect and a certain limited affection for the incarcerated characters, but thank God it ended when it did because I was starting to moan and groan a little bit.
The word around the campfire is that LeeIsaacChung‘s Twisters (which I haven’t seen) is CG jizz whizz, and certainly isn’t as good as JanDeBontTwister (’96).
All these years I’ve had moderately positive recollections of De Bont’s 28-year-old film but they’ve faded somewhat, so I re-watched it last night. Bing-bang, bop-bop-a-loo-bop….bonnng!!…I clapped, I laughed, I chuckled, I whoo-whoo’ed, I hoo-hahed…yes!
Twister is just a goofball popcorn thrill ride, sure, but it’s much, much better than I’d come to recall. Excellent cinematography (tracking shots!), clever-ass dialogue (MichaelCrichton and Anne–MarieMartin wrote it), primitive but thrilling CGI, first-rate performances (HeLen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jamie Gertz, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Elwes), etc.
I’m sorry but on its own shameless, fuck-all terms Twister really works. Escapist movies were so much better in the ’90s than they are today. Watching it made me feel like a pig in shit. It made me go “maaaahhhh!”
But her peak period boiled down to just three films — 3 Women (’77), The Shining (’80) and Popeye (ditto). Which meant that the impetus behind her career peak boiled down to her partnerships with two brilliant fellows — Robert Altman (Thieves Like Us, Nashville, 3 Women, Popeye) and Stanley Kubrick (The Shining).
I think her Shining baseball bat scene with Jack Nicholson was her best.
This FreePress article about Oakland is horrifying. It’s all about far-left Democrats having totally bought into the GeorgeFloyd myth that too much police power is a pox on society and that POCs need to be kid-gloved.