It’s pretty normal for artists to hate critics, so I don’t know why it’s always treated like aberrant behaviour. Waititi’s quite annoying but I also increasingly don’t relate to schadenfreude at artists going off the boil. I would really prefer it if his films were good!
Taika Waititi has called critics “sad lost souls” after ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’ became his lowest rated film ever on Rotten Tomatoes.
“I haven't read a review of anything aimed at me or my peers in almost 15 years. But I do listen to the people.
So this Halloween, let's spare a thought for those sad lost souls who couldn't achieve their dreams of becoming artists, and thus became critics. The same people who also hated Jojo Rabbit!
Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete. In the bin.”
Sounds a lot like how National Trust properties work in the UK.
Obv it’s not good if people play with strangulation so often during sex it affects their long term health but many former footballers have CTE from heading the ball repeatedly, and I don’t think the UK gov are looking at banning football from TV?
Did you know that on the 6th of November 2026 the UK Government is banning the publication and possession of pornography depicting breath play, age-play, and incest?
The maximum sentence for publication offences is five years imprisonment.
This will affect publishers and consumers globally.
The offences are, in simple terms:
1. Strangulation or suffocation.
(2 years for possession, 5 years for publication)
2. Penetrative sexual activity between people pretending to be related.
(2 years for possession, 5 years for publication)
3. Sexual activity between two people where (a reasonable person would think) at least one person is, or is pretending to be, under sixteen.
(3 years for possession, 5 years for publication)
I have provided criminal and obscenity law advice to UK and global creators, producers, platforms, and consumers on pornography publication and possession offences since 2006.
Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] for formal legal advice.
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Okay let’s not get back on suggesting gender nonconformity is inherently predatory, believe it or not most horrible men come across as stereotypically normal blokes.
People are obsessed with the idea that anyone with a degenerative illness who is in public & working must be being exploited. Both misunderstands what lacking capacity means and assumes that anyone visibly disabled would be too ashamed to venture outside of it was up to them.
I remember that supposedly investigative piece about Bruce Willis that seemed to largely amount to crew who didn’t know him personally saying looking at him made them sad and they, complete strangers, didn’t think he’d want to be seen like that.
So many people I know have expressed confusion that this is being treated like new information as they had no idea it hadn’t already been formally reported on. Common knowledge for years and years.
I seem to remember drivers with ADHD are significantly more likely to cause an accident than someone who’s drunk at the wheel so this seems a pretty reasonable measure!
Thing with chronic pain is sometimes you're having a really rough sesh and think, pretty crazy it can hurt this badly and I can't go to hospital, or freak out about it, or treat it as an emergency that requires other people to pause for me, because it's just my life!
Zac Goldsmith levels of backfiring, bigoted hubris at play on this one
The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements.
"A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party. We are better than this. We have a responsibility to show it. Today we endorse Democrat Amy Acton for governor." cleveland.com/open/2026/10/w…
One of the best things about letterboxd is it's very easy to choose your own level of engagement with it. Despite what people complain, nothing is really shoved in your face, lots of different ways to use it, curating your feed is straightforward etc.
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people who are too young to remember a world before letterboxd really don't understand. it's been the most significant positive force for cinephilia of the century. for all its faults, it has completely changed film culture for the better
