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I’m not an Oscar voter—decided to see TO LESLIE because of the sudden hype and wow, Andrea Riseborough is exceptional in this small indie gem from Michael Morris. It’s now criminal in retrospect this performance hasn’t been talked about all season. Give her an Oscar Nomination.

We ride again this December. #AvatarFireAndAsh

💖 Semi Annual Get-Together with The New Voice of Cinema 💖

Chris Cooper was always an inspired win, but I’d have to go with Paul Newman. Such an amazing performance grounded in the murky grey he operates in as a mob leader and a father. His conversation with Hanks is the highlight of the film, two fathers in conflict of their morality.

Didn’t anticipate Bad Bunny and John Daly being the comedic highlights in HAPPY GILMORE 2.

Doesn’t hit as hard as Margaret Qualley in HAPPY GILMORE 2

when Bourdain said free Palestine and called out the racist vilification of Palestinians by the media class that paved the way for the genocide: "The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity."

You’re cheapening Palestinian suffering for coalition tents. It’s convenient for Liberals to care about the genocide of Palestinians and starving kids for political capital, not because it’s the right thing to do. (Except when Biden oversaw this.) Your tent is drenched in blood.

i actually dont think there should be any space for people changing their tune now that they oppose this current famine. it is too late. i think they should have to live with that stain forever and be totally ostracized tbh. i dont care!

if you're wondering why 'the dam has broken' on Gaza, it's simple. Israel carried out their final solution. It's done. Every town has been flattened, everyone still alive is experiencing a level of famine they can't come back from. Criticizing it now is too late. That's why.

The biggest movie of the summer is out. No, it’s not FANTASTIC FOUR, it’s the found-footage horror film starring Canadian social media influencers in HOUSE ON EDEN. therollingtape.com/review-house-o…

In Ari Aster’s comedically dark western, EDDINGTON, the Wild West has been conquered, and there’s no more land to discover; true Manifest Destiny for the twenty-first century is Big Tech conquering our engagement and attention. My review @therollingtape therollingtape.com/review-big-tec…

I’m hopeful at least 7 of these films will receive a Best Picture nomination. My first official Best Picture predictions for the 2026 Oscars at @therollingtape

You could almost say…

The job market?

Looking forward to PREDATOR: BADLANDS, but these stills are seriously giving me buddy road trip vibes and I love that. Like the Predator has had enough of her shit after pestering him to stop at a roadside diner.

The fact that this is the most famous silhouette in the world.

EDDINGTON: characters weaponizing social/cultural issues dividing the country. Joe weaponizes Louise’s trauma for his campaign: Brain weaponizes BLM to get with Sarah; Sarah weaponizes Michael’s blackness for her protest. Peoples’ identities are tools for each other in EDDINGTON.

Y’all do not understand how monumental this is for Indian cinema

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Look at that elasticity.