.@FareedZakaria speaks the truth. I love my home state, but it's a mess, and I watch people continually vote the same leaders in to office who do nothing to change things and then wonder why things are bad. The state, top to bottom, needs new leadership and new ideas.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was released 45 years ago today. The first Indiana Jones movie and one of Steven Spielberg’s most beloved films, the behind the scenes story is an adventure all of its own… 1/36

Kudos to the first person who takes the new Masters of the Universe Skeletor scenes and dubs in the voice from those "Remember..."videos I always see floating around.

‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ has officially launched a YouTube channel featuring full episodes, classic clips, and more for the first time ever.

Masters of the Universe was way more fun than I thought it would be. Took the kids Saturday afternoon, and everyone came home happy.

Why? What's wrong with the original? Come on, @ZackSnyder - I know you must have some great original story to tell.

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As a kid, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing, Poltergeist (which we all know was actually directed by Spielberg), were some of my favorite movies, but my absolute top tier favorites were sci fi/adventure stories like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, Wrath of Khan, ET, Ghostbusters as well as victory parables like Rocky and Karate Kid, and all the John Hughes comedies. These films have down moments but what they end on is hope. That's a very important reason why I got into movies in the first place - those happy endings and the sense that the world is a good place. Indy lost the Ark but got the girl. Luke had his hand cut off but he shared hope with Leia and the droids. Kirk lost Spock but somehow life would flourish. When I look back on the '80s, the lesson wasn't that the world was bleak like horror movies - struggle would happen, but everything would be ok. The greatest gift the movies gave me was optimism. Life is an adventure not a nightmare.

Not sure what this says about the state of things Star Wars, but...I've been a fan since the OT. Have been there for opening day - either midnight or first screening of the day for all that came after. This is the first time I've not felt the need to rush out and see one.

We just as a family watched all 6 films, and the wife loved the Hobbit films more then the LOTR ones - she felt they were more fun, lighter, and not as heavy. Kids liked all of them. I thought LOTR holds up, and the Hobbit films are better then many say.

This belongs to all of us.

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

THE 22 YEAR WAIT IS OVER. ARSENAL ARE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!

Hi, everyone... So many of you have, for so many years, supported "5-25-77"... with not much return beyond the finishing of the film itself! So, I feel genuinely mortified to ask for your help, once again, now... But, we've just been informed that if we don't sell another 55 tickets to the Smodcastle Cinemas screening of our film, it might very well be cancelled. I know that a great many of you don't live within a convenient distance of Atlantic Heights, New Jersey... But... should you be willing to buy tickest and attend as FORCE GHOSTS... I will personally apply your name tags to the theater seats AND will make sure you are added to the end credits of the film when we do the Special Edition Blu-ray for the 50th Anniversary of Star Wars in 2027! Either way, thank you all for your support. smodcastlecinemas.com/movie/…

James Cameron’s advice to filmmakers making their first feature film 🎞️ (via Filmmkrs | IG)

The Best 'Exposition Dump' in Film History. In 5 minutes, Spielberg lays out the characters, mythology, locations, artifacts and the entire narrative engine of the film. The audience discovers everything alongside Indy each detail pays off later. A masterclass in storytelling.

If you read comments, the feedback to most journalism is now "why isn't your reporting helping my party's politicians?" It's a reminder that many Americans - and particularly partisan political junkies - literally have no idea what journalism actually is or supposed to be.

Steven Soderbergh on George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015): "Interviewer: You never storyboard? Soderbergh: No. The ability to stage well is a skill and a talent that I value above almost everything else. And I say that because there are people who do it better than I’ll ever be able to do it after 40 years of active study. I just watched 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) again last week, and I tell you I couldn’t direct 30 seconds of that. I’d put a gun in my mouth. I don’t understand how [George Miller] does that, I really don’t, and it’s my job to understand it. I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead. I could almost see that’s kind of possible until the polecat sequence, and then I give up. We are talking about the ability in three dimensions to break a sequence into a series of shots in which no matter how fast you’re cutting, you know where you are geographically. And each one is a real shot where a lot of things had to go right. I’m going to keep trying; I’m not going to keep trying in the sense that I’m going to volunteer to direct the next Mad Max movie. I’m going to keep trying in the sense that when I have sequences that demand a certain level of sophistication in terms of their visual staging, I’m going to try and watch the people who do it really well and see if I can climb inside their heads enough to think like that. But he’s off the chart. I guarantee that the handful of people who are even in range of that, when they saw Fury Road, had blood squirting out of their eyes. The thing with George Miller, it’s not just that, he does everything really well. The scripts are great, the performances are great, the ideas are great. He’s exceptional. I met him once for about 30 seconds at the Directors Guild Awards in Los Angeles the year of Fury Road. But you don’t want to say that stuff to somebody’s face; it’s embarrassing." (Steven Soderbergh's interview with Gavin J. Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 2017) P.S: On this day, 11 years ago, "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) premiered in Hollywood, California.

"I wish I was there... These are amazing scenes." An emotional Tom Hiddleston reacts to Arsenal reaching the #UCL final 🥺🏆