Andy
@benbraddocks
I’m more of a fast-blinking, stoic, removed, uncomfortably self-aware type. A dream too tired to come true. Writer/video editor. Pop Culture Jeopardy! champion.
Superman is very good but it’s very weird to hear the ultra twee indie pop song that was your favorite song in 9th grade set to a superhero action sequence in a major blockbuster in 2025
from john lahr’s 2002 profile of mira nair: newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
Mandatory citywide screenings of Mississippi Masala NOW
Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.
New Yorkers have earned 24 hours of "best city in the world" posting.
Nearly half the Roger Ebert review of Scooby-Doo (2002) is dedicated to opening a dialogue about how the sheer amount of cleavage from Gellar, Cardellini and Fisher is only rivaled by a Russ Meyer production, and honestly he was right to point it out.
They straight up kill Jojo Rabbit in the trailer for the new Stephen King movie
Part of why Cronenberg rocks is because he doesn't really give you any answers, you're not even sure if he's critiquing anything, he's just like "here's some things that I'm thinking about right now haha" and then you just have to deal with that. Pure artist shit
a fitting tribute to her grandmother, RUNNING ON EMPTY scribe Naomi Foner
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s daughter, Ramona Sarsgaard, arrested during Columbia protests trib.al/6nrTAky
Here’s the thing about pigs: they tend to wiggle when they walk.
"Before long, the ideology of Paramount+ Germany had spread to the entire globe"
This ancient youtube skit is still my favorite thing Nathan Fielder has done. If you hear this song coming from my room, it can only mean I have this video playing. I find it extraordinarily transporting and evocative. This is exactly how it felt to fall in love in the mid 2000s.
We really gotta get Delroy Lindo an Oscar for Sinners. It’s exactly the kinda thing we used to give out Oscars for
It’s genuinely hard to convey how huge an impact this 30-second commercial had on 2006 America
for those of us who can’t make it into the criterion closet there is the arrow video basement