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- Yrtree.me - it’s still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me
- Comment on Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK 2 days ago:
The Heartland Institute – one of the organisations involved in the radical Project 2025 agenda for a second Donald Trump term – has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change, and received at least $676,000 between 1998 and 2007 from U.S. oil major ExxonMobil.
Heartland is known “for its persistent questioning of climate science”, according to Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, and it has received tens of thousands in donations from foundations linked to the owners of Koch Industries – a fossil fuel behemoth and a leading sponsor of climate science denial.
A Union of Concerned Scientists report in 2007 alleged that nearly 40 percent of the total funds received by Heartland Institute from ExxonMobil since 1998 were designated for climate change projects.
They seem very intent on selling us oil until the world burns. Not really sure what their plan is after that though.
- Spy cops scandal: ‘creepy’ officer formed sexual relationship with teen in 1990swww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Luke Wilson Is 'Always Pitching' an Idiocracy Sequel to Mike Judge 1 week ago:
It’s the final part of a trilogy - they’re going to turn everything up a notch. More danger, more explosions, more deaths and a shock ending that leaves the door open to a sequel trilogy (or it reveals that this was all a Handmaid’s Tale prequel).
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- Comment on Top 10 Rules to Strictly Come Dancing 1 week ago:
You do know you can go into another room and read a book if your mum wants to watch her dancing show?
- Comment on Kraven the Hunter review – Russell Crowe busts up laborious superhero yarn 1 week ago:
And, don’t forget, utterly pointless.
- Comment on Watching Joker: Folie à Deux, 37 mins in, I'm liking this! 1 week ago:
See you at the end.
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- Comment on 'The Gorge' trailer: Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller are snipers 1 week ago:
Yeah, I reckon I can skip the first ¾ of the film, find out the “mystery” and watch the end. Saved me a lot of time.
- Comment on Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. 1 week ago:
A case of the stupid is not against community or instance rules.
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- Comment on 28 YEARS LATER [Trailer] 1 week ago:
Longer article talking about it here. I’m usually wary of trailers because they tend to give too much away but that’s a work of art - I immediately rewound and watched it again.
- Comment on Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did. 1 week ago:
#ReleaseTheAssGrabCut
- Comment on As ‘Kraven’ Hunts for Audience, Sony's Marvel Universe Takes Final Bow for Now | Analysis 1 week ago:
Which means that they had no obligation to make these movies, but still chose to do so anyway.
That’s what gets me, there was no need for these films other than Sony rooting around in the drawer to see if they had the rights to enough superheroes to create their own movie franchise. They didn’t just a bunch of third tier Spider-Man adjacent characters and a load of supervillains. However, they thought they that’d be good enough despite the supervillains (and most of the superheroes) needing Spider-Man as he’s the main draw.
I’d be interested in a breakdown of the box office for these films. I assume they didn’t loose money, partly because Morbius became a bit of a meme, buy I also doubt they didn’t make much either.
- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
I saw Smile 1 and it was fine - Smile 2 took that basic premise turned it up a notch or two. I went I’m with pretty low.expectations but it really delivered. One of the best horror films of the year.
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- Exceedingly good needle drops: why a 1915 Kipling poem is the cherry on top of the 28 Years Later trailerwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to movies@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on As an American we are taught to believe the the Oscar is the pinnacle of achievement in acting or whatever. What Award is on the level of the Oscar in different countries like the Palm De Or? 1 week ago:
The British Academy Film Awards, usually called the BAFTAs after the group that hands them out at a swanky annual.affair.
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- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
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Borderlands and Madame Web are definitely topinv my list of worst. I’ll give the nod to the latter as the firmer seems to have been almost deliberately sabotaged by the studio, while Madame Web was, apparently, exactly the film Sony wanted to release.
- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
Yeah, if you liked Part 1 then Part 2 takes all the groundwork and builds on it.
- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
Less about movies I missed and more just ones I didn’t see because: a) I have more… “low brow” tastes than some critics and b) they got showings at film festivals but didn’t necessarily trickle down to movie theatres (and/or they are on streaming platforms).
I will likely get around to some of them, I was trying to catch Anora before it left my local multiplex but couldn’t.
- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
Part 2 was the pay-off for all the set-up in Part 1 and it was a thing of beauty (that B&W sequence really stayed with me). Not my favourite film of the year but a definite contender for top 10.
- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
I love a fill that escalates and boy did this do that! A few times I thought that if they ended it here it’d be in my top ten and they kept cranking it up to 11.
- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
Deadpool & Wolverine - a blast from start to finish. Probably going to finish the year in my top.three, likely #1.
- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
I just go by the date of first release on IMDb, which should be pretty much the same.as Letterboxd.
- Comment on Best movies of 2024: poll and discussions! 1 week ago:
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In - went in pretty blind and loved it, definite Kung-fu Hustle vibes. I’m finalising my top ten of the year but this will end up in the top 3.
- Comment on Todd Haynes finally comments on his scrapped film with Joaquin Phoenix 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like Joaquin Phoenix is a liability. If the film gets funding because he’s involved but he could drop out at the last minute (they were building sets) then that is a problem.
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