"When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it until it was all over." This film doesn't just hold up, it stands strong. Less an action movie (which the latter films increasingly became), and more a thriller, it remains the best adaptation of a Clancy novel. Don't get me wrong, the Harrison Ford films are good, but this one maintains the spirit of its source from start to finish, and Alec Baldwin is still the best onscreen iteration of Jack Ryan. The cast is absolutely stacked, with everyone turning in solid work. James Earl Jones, Courtney Vance, Stellan Skarsgard, Tim Curry, Joss Ackland, Fred Thompson... don't even get me started on Sam Neill's endearing, heart rending performance. Then you've got Scott Glenn (in his best role) going toe to toe with the titanic Sean Connery, who sells the deepest emotion and calmest control with only a twist of his mouth or the gleam in his eye. The script is a master class in tension, every scene tightening until the conclusion. John McTiernan (director of 'Die Hard') never loses his way with this film, never calls for more than a scene needs, despite the global crisscrossing and spiraling ensemble, and his editing team never wastes a frame. It's a film of massive scale mostly caught in camera, including submarine miniatures and real life warship and aerial maneuvers (CGI had yet to turn its sparkle on everything in sight). You feel the cold and the wind when Ryan has to jump from a helicopter into the ocean alongside a sub. Basil Poledouris delivers a fittingly grand, yet claustrophobic score, capturing the stakes of a war fought within these steel cans. The rousing Russian pride, the soaring American grit, the subtle loss, the tendentious peace... it all coalesces like something from another time, from a world built on nerves we were already forgetting. 36 years later, and you still want to believe this could have happened in the shadowed halls of power, in the dark depths of the sea... where some good men kept the whole powder keg from blowing. "Welcome to the New World, Sir." The Hunt For Ref October (1990)

Is the Midwest okay???

TOMORROW you can jump into the Order of the Sinking Star demo on Steam during #SteamNextFest 🎮 🥳 The demo will go live tomorrow, June 15 at 10am PT and be available until June 22 at 10am PT ⏰ With over 100 puzzles in the demo alone, there'll be plenty of mind-bending puzzles to solve 🧩

real life check-in: i'm grading AP exams (for extra money) and y'all, the kids are not okay. this literary crisis is really getting out of hand. this is so sad.

I love that Disney changed the name of Boba Fett’s ship bc it’s called “Slave 1” but not the ship named after an orientalist sword slur

I wonder if anything happened to coruscant between the last time we saw it and andor

Pasadena Officer Shot by Fellow Officer During "Horseplay," Chief Says PASADENA, Calif. — The Pasadena Police Department has released a Critical Incident Video concerning an officer-involved shooting that occurred on September 7, 2025, inside the department's parking structure at 240 Ramona Street in Pasadena. The incident resulted in injuries to one Pasadena police officer, who has since recovered. Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris said the incident involved "unsafe, out-of-policy horseplay involving loaded firearms" between department personnel. Chief Harris stated that one officer was wounded as a result of the shooting and emphasized that the conduct depicted in the video did not reflect the department's standards or expectations. The injured officer was transported for medical treatment and has since recovered from the injuries sustained during the incident. Pasadena police have not publicly identified the officers involved, and no members of the public were injured. The case remains under investigation and review by the Pasadena Police Department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Sources: Pasadena Police Department; City of Pasadena; Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. #police #cops #crime #policia #polizei #Police_Incidents #CrimeNews

Training our students to offload their cognition to AI, replacing interpersonal assistance with technology What could possibly go wrong?

If you, as a Catholic, are going into a social event/first date with the intention of plucking out a spouse, you are not open to the relationality & communal reality that is involved in forming a mutual union with another person. This woman is reading the vibe correctly.

Today’s decision from a U.S. District Judge to vacate the policy implementing the Presidential Proclamation mandating a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applicants—a 5,000% increase in some cases—came at a critical time for Alaska’s schools that are in the midst of hiring before next fall. Many school districts in rural and remote parts of the state rely on the H-1B visa program to bring quality teachers to their communities. In Alaska, this isn’t a partisan issue: the state legislature unanimously passed a resolution last month urging the federal government to waive the fee for educators. Last year, I introduced legislation to create an educator exemption, and I’ve been talking to Secretary Mullin about an administrative waiver from the fee to help bring teachers here. Today’s news is welcome relief for Alaska’s schools, but I will continue working to eliminate this fee permanently so that Alaska’s students are receiving the best education possible, regardless of the outcome of future legal challenges. newsfromthestates.com/articl…

Went to my small town library for their used book sale. $25 for as many books as you could fit in a bag. The boomers were out of control! Overfilling bags until they ripped, pushing past people, claiming entire sections of books, scanning prices so they could flip a profit...

I have zero tolerance for dads who show up on vacation, immediately crack and cold one, and then spend hours observing the fun their kids are having from a chair instead of being a part of it. You can choose numbness or you can choose to make memories. You don't get the time back.