Recent posts by NPR Staffers on Bluesky

found out the 40th anniversary theatrical rerelease of Highlander is UK only

(Dallas City Hall, a real building, served as the base for a matte painting of the OCP corporation in Verhoeven's movie)

RoboCop hive, activate (Dallas, City Hall, a real building, served as the base for a matte painting of the OCP corporation in Verhoeven's movie)

Kudos to Kimmel for not bringing out "Regretful Jimmy" or "Sincere Jimmy" or "On-the-Verge-of-Tears Jimmy" for this one. This is pretty straight-forward, "What the fuck are we even DOING here?" incredulity, which is exactly the level of respect the situation deserves.

Idiocracy was a documentary of the future

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

One thing about sci-fi costume design for men is the serene confidence that neckties will be gone but long pants, which have been around for a shorter time by centuries, will endure.

Today’s watercolor lesson was fit for a French werewolf played by a Dutchman in Italy

"This is all just a fraction of the violence endemic to American life. Just as an example, guns are the single leading cause of death for U.S. kids. I think it's really important to think of Saturday's violence at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in that context."

Saw a line in front of Ray's Pizza in Times Square, and it included a really good looking, fabulously dressed Latino couple, Mom with an empty stroller, Dad cradling a tiny sleeping baby that looked to be maybe a couple of weeks old. It's almost midnight here. Love it.

Melodie is right: It's as great as any of the Godfather films, in my opinion.

She's right. It's as great as any of the Godfather films, in my opinion.

Actress Mariclare Costello passed away on April 17 at the age of 90, we've learned. Costello starred in the 1971 cult classic Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, along with 1983 horror anthology Nightmares, and the Blair Witch Project faux-documentary Shadow of the Blair Witch.

Tomato shortages, you say? 🌱

hometown heroine Hayley Williams slaying at the Ryman

Dying to read this but have no doubt it is worth your notice

Mr. Roper REALLY doesn’t want to have sex with his wife.

Update seems to be the wobbliest bit of SNL UK by far, but “former entertainer and entertainer of sixth formers” is an extremely good Russell Brand burn

" Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price [...] of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains." Adam Smith, WEALTH OF NATIONS

What it's like hanging out with me

Fun new scam: I’ve gotten two fawning, obviously AI emails asking me to be a part of a “reading challenge” or be a virtual speaker to discuss AGE OF CAGE. it’s apparently a new approach preying on author’s egos. Fortunately, I don’t have one.

It's time to build the ballroom It's time to hide the files It's time to cover the crimes of all the pedophiles

Just like to be clear, the meta-joke of JAY KELLY is that — as I say in my review — Clooney is a man of many friends and beloved of his devoted wife, who everyone acknowledges he married leagues above him

"In no other period in my life did I live with such intensity. I never drank more extravagantly, loved more fiercely, hated more passionately, worked more diligently or partied more recklessly than I did in those 15 years." www.equator.org/articles/the...

How bored were people in the 1960s that they would willingly pay money to see something called "Simon & Garfunkel"

"Are you people reposting fake quotes on Bluesky again? What the heck!" -Ernst Lubitsch

Every so often I wonder what DJ Qualls is up to

Either the people who made MICHAEL don’t know who Michael Jackson was or they don’t want us to; their only interest is in the brand, not the man.

William S. Hart burns the place to the ground as the antihero of HELL'S HINGES (1916). There is a notion that westerns started spangly and grew grittier as time passed but that was not the case and Hart's vision of the west was the most biblically violent of the very grim and gritty 1910s.

George Beranger as a film star boasting about his career in ARE PARENTS PEOPLE?

Peace talks with Iran had broken down, but now we’re hearing reports that building the ballroom and firing Kimmel will be just the thing to bring them back to the table.

Multiple people in Taiwan approached by people likely working for security agencies in China but impersonating journalists, after real journalists published an investigation on China www.icij.org/investigatio...

And the best part is, we learned last year that you don’t actually need any kind of Congressional authorization whatsoever to tear down part of the White House 🥰🥰🥰

What are some good non-American TV shows from the past, say, 18 months? Looking for something to recap for the newsletter and can't recap American TV for the obvious reasons*. *-I work for the American television industry.

The only middlebrow worth talking about

Los Angeles! Performing at the iconic Troubador as a part of the Netflix Is a Joke fest! Grab tickets please! Linktree.com/ihatejoelkim

Getting Italian food tonight in Austin. Then we head home tomorrow. I want to thank our Austin friends for hanging out with us this weekend. I know you all have a lot going on, but it was incredibly appreciated and we love you all.

tomorrow! Tuesday 9 am in 90042! Donut show! Free donuts and no one turned away for lack of $!http://outsideintheatre.vbotickets.com/event/free_donut_tuesdays_w_maria_bamford/183150

www.emophilips.com/events

Donald Trump has earned every vile adjective I have ever invoked against the man. This is empirical. Each and every characterization, each maledictive phrase results from his overt actions and statements and is in no way hyperbolic. I know many of us feel this precisely.

Attending a George Clooney tribute does not feel entirely unlike going to JAY KELLY in 4DX

My pinned post is a 1990s Korean tv commercial with robocop selling fried chicken yes I do know how to find stuff on the internet my point is all of it is broken now

Ok but what's the greatest example of "browbeat" cinema, huh?????? Huhhhh????

I didn’t even know there was a show.

This one is straight from the heart. I hope you'll read it! www.rogerebert.com/ebertfest/lo...

My friend Luke Boyce of Shatterglass Studios, who does the behind the scenes elements for EbertFest, asked me to sit for one last interview, after the festival was over, and talk about what it all meant. It's kind of a manifesto for me as a critic as well. vimeo.com/1184990165/4...

The greatest STAR TREK/FAST AND FURIOUS/STAR WARS crossover ever.

True story, years ago when Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams first came out went to an early screening & afterwards asked him ‘what are we making now that will endure like cave paintings’ and he said ‘nothing’. Then he said ‘but you’re a very silly boy to be worried about 20k years from now’

Will Stancil famously does NOT drive a Subaru!

ok this has been fun but I gotta make myself go outside and get a run in before the run clubs descend

One of the all-time great bootleg recordings youtu.be/ndUk6yX3PBo?...

Didn't we collectively decide to stop using the "brow" classifications when someone pointed out they're rooted in eugenics? Did I hallucinate that?

Here’s our vinyl haul from @waterloorecords.bsky.social and @endofanear.com! Try to guess which ones are mine and which ones are @scorpiogeekgoddess.bsky.social’s! (Some will be obvious, but some aren’t.)

Some shrimp news out of the Rules committee just now.

Internet so fucking broken, should be greatest library in human history & it’s desecrated. Reminded I was at a musician’s first ever show in NYC only 15 years ago & can’t find any way to search it. Music sites covered it, all dead links. Can’t search google by year anymore. AI has rotted results.

Rich people love their bunkers, man.

The vast majority of Oscar Best Picture winners are pretty solidly middlebrow, often to great effect. Indeed, strictly speaking, most great populist art is middlebrow. Some is low- or highbrow, but the middlebrow is where the stuff that aimed for profundity AND a mass audience lived.

If i dood it I get a whipping I dood it

I always associate the term with movies who are juuuust shy of Oscar nominations but not really blockbusters (which are their own thing). In silent film terms, the movies that weren't programmers but also weren't given the keys to the treasury as a budget. Greta Garbo territory.

Dee Snider has been trying to make STRANGELAND 2 for years, and now he says he may bring the tale to life as a novel. Snider tweets, "I have a sequel written since 1998. It has been on and off for production for 30 years. Very frustrating. I may release the sequel as a novel.”

Some of the best education you get as a young person is following a sports team full of scrappy, inspirational underdogs who play the game the right way until they get utterly obliterated in the playoffs by a team that is simply bigger, stronger and faster

“Stephen Miller puts the ‘cyst’ in ‘white supremacist’”. Hahaha youtu.be/GRjKhsJc95o?...

Billionaires say they’re building bunkers because the apocalypse is coming but really it’s because people fucking hate them

I will not tolerate Slate, which already slandered Martin Short, slandering Gardener's World as being all posh and aspirational (derogatory). They literally have whole segments in allotments and show off films from home gardeners.

When I wrote my Spider-Man book, I just emailed Gerry Conway out of the blue and asked if he'd talk to me. He gave me a ton of time and was so gracious and insightful. He was also a darn good writer, of Spider-Man and many other comics and TV shows. (His Conan movie is underrated too!) RIP.

Please stop saying mean things to us and let us kill american citizens and ignore due process and funnel money to ourselves and our friends in peace.

Just get a big ass portable, paint it gold, roll that shit next to the White House and tell that senile wockaflocka the ballroom's done.

Yup, I’m down for this.

The first two are delightful. I will watch the shit out of the third one.

the 35 year old disgraced ex MLer manically celebrating his 7 inning no hitter for the independent Long Island minor league team is the final scene of the most melancholy biopic of all time

i collected a bunch of explosions for specific reference so I made a little video of them some cool movie explosions youtu.be/qwl9azNeup4?...

We saw you across the Renaissance Faire and really dug your vibe...

I gotta say, the post-operative care at this facility is off the charts

Spun that '80s Roulette wheel... www.drewmcweeny.com/80s-roulette...

get IN casemiroooooooo

STOP SPREADING TOPICAL NEWS THAT I AM INTERESTED IN, I AM TRYING TO POST ABOUT SILENT MOVIES

Don’t want to say the White House Correspondents Dinner incident was staged, but it qualified the shooter for SAG health insurance.

…The Hands Of… Jeez, when am I going to stop pandering to my base? I hear this is a good film.

New from me at @crooked-marquee.bsky.social: a few words about the delightful but not widely seen Grant/Lombard vehicle IN NAME ONLY: crookedmarquee.com/the-delightf...

Four years after being cancelled, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER - THE COMPLETE SERIES is finally coming to Blu-ray on June 23. Madison Iseman stars in the Prime Video series, which told an all-new story with brand new characters. The series ran for just one season.

I did *get* a bunch of emails about That Movie over the weekend, but the ones that disagreed with me all said, to a one, "Why can't we just enjoy a movie and not think about what's wrong with it?" Which, you know, nobody's telling you you can't. That choice is entirely on you.

Why now is the perfect time for sequel BEHIND THE MASK 2: THE RETURN OF LESLIE VERNON: bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3...

OK wait the SECOND PLACE guy broke 2 hours as well? And it was his FIRST MARATHON good Lord.

Incredible reporting and a scene here - and an inside look at the risks the journalists took to report this story. "One miner threatened the colonel with a stick. Then he doused the soldiers and me with gas and shouted, “We’re all going to burn!”" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...

“no one’s the main character” WRONG the gigantic red-tailed hawk who just flew in a bunch of slow circles around a water tower right in front of my window is the main character

Still on my physical media bullshit (Austin edition). We also bought a ton of records.

I got a 0 today on one of my MapTapp guesses, which I didn't know was possible. www.maptap.gg April 27 96🔥 96🔥 90👑 30🙈 0😭 Final score: 462

Oh no my posts are back to hitting the Discover tab What to do, what to do Look! Charlie Chaplin! (Runs away)

Good news: the government has no authority over comedy! Apollo stay in your lane bitch, Dionysus runs this temple.

“never been in a room like this before” bitch isn’t your wife’s great grandfather basically Daniel Plainview

In order for me to trust any cute pet pix anymore, I need them to be your personal pets. To keep the volume consistent, everyone with a pet needs to post much more often. Let's see those pups, folks!

The mash-up comic book DJANGO/ZORRO is getting a movie adaptation at Sony, @deadline.com reports. Oscar winner Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, LA Confidential) will write the screenplay. In the tale, Django continues to track prey as a bounty hunter & develops a kinship with Zorro.

KANSAS CITY! Put some laughter in your life this weekend at the Funny Bone and whatnot. Four showtimes to choose from!

It’s the Citizen Kane of hate watches.

And it's live! Thanks so much for having me on, @maryharris.bsky.social! slate.com/podcasts/wha...

The ballroom will be a safe and secure place to order bombing raids that kill innocent school children.

I hate the fake Einstein quote "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result" because it isn't even true, but also because the real definition of insanity is believing, "If they're mad at you, that means you must be doing something right!!"

But if all of Fox News is at the White House correspondents’ dinner, who’s gonna tell us this is Biden’s fault?