Blowhard, Esq. writes:
- Nearly every paragraph of this John McWhorter essay on Antiracism, the prevailing American faith, is quotable.
- Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals thinks the criminal justice system is tilted in favor of prosecutors and the government.
- How John McCain has covered up information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.
- Should a disagreement on Twitter constitute criminal harassment? (Answer: No, of course not, what kind of stupid question is that.)
- This dude thinks guns can never be well designed b/c guns kill people and killing people is of course never ever justified and killing is bad bad bad.
- Another designer who’s full of shit.
- The oldest movie theater in Manhattan has been slated for “development,” ie demolition. Here’s its proposed replacement.
- Oh look, another glass and steel box is coming to NYC.
- The BBC lists the 100 greatest American films. Only one by Lubitsch, nothing by Fritz Lang, and nothing by John Huston, but THE DARK KNIGHT, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, and CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS all make it.
- CineFix lists the 10 most beautiful looking movies ever made. Only three of them from before 1970. I guess no one made beautiful looking movies before then.
- The way Internet movie geek culture has become a slave to Hollywood marketing and PR probably deserves its own post.
- How to trick your friends into thinking you have your shit together.
- To brighten your day, here’s a picture of Marlene Dietrich reading the paper.
I was always partial to The Duellists in the beautiful film category. But the list provided is an embarrassment of riches, some over the top even.
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“This is, straight up, the movie that will redefine Ron Howard as a film-maker.”
Aint It Cool News on How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Paraphrased from memory)
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