God DAMN does TEQUILA SUNRISE look INCREDIBLE on @ArrowFilmsVideo’s new 4K disc. This film originally came out in the first six months I lived in LA back in 1988, and I dearly loved it. Still do. Great to see the film get the love it deserves. Shout out to @duranduran’s management getting “Do You Believe in Shame” off of BIG THING slipped onto the soundtrack!

Watched David Ayer’s “Heart of the Beast.” A story about a veteran and a former military reconnaissance dog, both suffering from PTSD, trying to survive and make their way home. The beautiful but unforgiving Alaskan wilderness stands in their way. There’s very little dialogue, but you can really feel the strong bond between the two of them (Brad Pitt and the dog). I have to admit, it made me cry. And in the end, the dog’s name, “Odin,” hits you like a body blow. It’s a shame they didn’t make a program for the film. 🐕‍🦺

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Overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and affection for THE SIXTY-YEAR MISSION and the chance to evangelize for what always captured my imagination about #StarTrek. So grateful to the creative team, Peter Diamandis, Rod Roddenberry & the man, the myth, the legend, @WilliamShatner

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I am happy to join 6,000 prominent scholars, legal experts to sign a letter rejecting Gaza genocide charge. jpost.com/israel-news/articl… include historian Niall Ferguson, Israeli historian Benny Morris, Holocaust historian and former US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, Tel Aviv University professor emerita and former Yad Vashem chief historian Dina Porat, historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, UCLA professor Judea Pearl, and Brandeis University professor emeritus Jonathan Sarna.

Heart of the Beast (🌟🌟🌟🌟) is a spiritual journey. A survival thriller in which Brad Pitt is lost in the wilderness with his dog Odin, anyone who has a special place in their heart for animals - especially dogs - is going to connect with this story. But Pitt’s charisma mixed with director David Ayer’s creative vision elevate a relatable story into a quality film. I’m really surprised by how emotional this film made me, not just because of Pitt’s quest to survive and overcome the odds, but because of his relationship with his dog. That 1-2 combination hit me right in the gut. Heart of the Beast is two hours well spent at the theater.  Survival thrillers are always hard to pull off because it asks a lot of a film’s main actor. Think of a film like 127 Hours, Cast Away, or the 2013 Robert Redford film All is Lost. These movies all live & die on the lead actor’s performance because the lead actor 1) doesn’t have any scene partners and 2) doesn’t have any dialogue. It’s a lot of responsibility to put on one actor & if the actor isn’t able to meet the moment, the film usually fails. That’s largely the case here because Heart of the Beast only has three actors: Pitt, J.K. Simmons for about 5 minutes and Anna Lambe. All of which is to say this film hangs on Brad Pitt’s performance - and Pitt delivers.  Even at 62, Pitt is capable of pulling off James Belmont, a retired veteran who’s exploring the quiet, beautiful seclusion of the wilderness with his combat dog Odin. The idea here is that while on vacation & trying to detach from his multiple tours, Belmont suffers a heart attack while operating his plane and both Odin & Belmont are stranded 59 miles from reality. Thus begins a quest for survival that embraces the elements, wild animals, and unforeseen danger.  I’ll be totally honest, the first 20 minutes of the film is quite weak. I was concerned as the film unfolded that I would be…gulp…bored. But the tension within the film & the friction starts the moment Belmont’s plane crashes & hell breaks lose. Once you reach that point in the story, everything changes & things pick up. Part of that is because of Ayer’s direction. I noted in my review of Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars that I thought the sweeping, vast cinematography took my breath away, especially when shot from a plane. The same can be said here: Ayer shoots the hell out of the wilderness. Whether it’s water, fire, or mountainside, Ayer gives us (mostly) real filmmaking, save a few CGI wild animals that I didn’t really love.  But back to my primary thesis: Pitt. This film is all about Pitt’s charisma and his ability to hold serve. Even in his 60s, I found Pitt to be magnificent. I’ve always - always - felt that Pitt is an incredibly underrated actor. The man’s filmography is littered with countless great films but I never feel like he’s the one credited for making the film great. What’s more is that I think Pitt’s intelligence as an actor is underestimated. I think he’s emotionally aware of himself and chose this film for a specific reason, which is that he probably feels can connect to Belmont. The power of Belmont’s quest to survive here isn’t just that he’s looking after himself, he’s looking after Odin. And Pitt embraces that focal point beautifully.  As I mentioned in my opener, Odin is the differentiator between Heart of the Beast and other survival films. Maybe you could compare Odin to Wilson from Cast Away but even that comparison fails because Odin is so much more important to this story & Belmont’s life. I connected deeply with Odin. I don’t know if there’s ever been a dog in a film that I felt so united with. The final 20 minutes had me torn to shreds & you could hear people in the theater crying. The entire movie here reaffirmed my belief that we as humans probably don’t deserve dogs. They’re God’s gift to mankind. For multiple reasons, I really enjoyed Heart of the Beast. Whoever you are and wherever you are, I think you’ll enjoy it too.

HEART OF THE BEAST is outstanding.

Comparing the Holocaust with the Nakba. What a fraud. The Nakba, the flight of roughly half a million Arabs so Arab armies could invade Israel and clean it from Jews, was a self-inflicted trauma. And if you insist on making comparisons, then compare the Nakba to the 850,000 Jews who were displaced from Muslim countries across the Middle East and North Africa. Or perhaps talk about the trauma of how Palestinians were treated by Arab states for the next 80 years, while Israel absorbed its Jewish refugees. Shut up!

The Russo Brothers confirm that the version of Thor in ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ will be similar to ‘INFINITY WAR’ “He has a wide array of directors with different tastes and different tones that have interpreted the character. We have a specific point of view on that character. That’s what we’re going to carry forward, the Infinity War Thor.” (via @CBR)

Spot on.

Former Democrat gives a FLAWLESS answer on how the left became a cult. They had Trump. They had RFK. They had Tulsi. They had Elon. They ran them all out. This is why they no longer debate. Cults don’t debate. They purge and attack.

The fact that Harris Yulin is *blatantly* reading off cue cards here in no way detracts from the fact that this is the single best one-shot guest performance in the entire history of Star Trek.

Honored to have my research mentioned by @netanyahu in his address to the UNGA. Israel has in fact implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures (many that no nation has ever even imagined/attemped) than any military in history. The other facts in his speech were also spot on. Israel has not only implemented extraordinary precautions in urban warfare to prevent civilian harm while Hamas has done everything it can to increase civilian harm, there is no genocide, actually the opposite of genocide in Gaza, Israel provided tons of food, water, medical supplies, facilitated immunizations for the entire populations, field hospitals, built new water lines, electricity, got patients to hospitals outside of Gaza, and much more.

Universal Pictures has officially crossed $5B at the global office, making it the first studio to reach the milestone in 2026: • The studio had three $1B hits in “The Odyssey,” “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Michael,” plus a surprise theatrical hit in “Obsession” • The remaining films on Universal’s 2026 slate are “Forgotten Island” (now in theaters), “Other Mommy” (Oct. 9), “Sense & Sensibility” (Oct. 16), “Elsinore” (limited release starting Nov. 20), “Focker-In-Law” (Nov. 27), “Violent Night 2” (Dec. 4) and “Werwulf” (Dec. 25) wp.me/pc8uak-1lHNSI

Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it

1. Large group of Arab men assault and rob a Black woman in Detroit, repeatedly threatening and calling her and others watching n*ggers. 2. Black men led by @neweradetroit confront the men and demand accountability, with no violence or racial slurs. 3. Members of the Arab community, unaccustomed to abeds talking back, scream nakba…I mean accuse the Black men of fomenting racism against Arabs. It’s all so very tired.

In an era when facts lose out to narratives, can a hugely popular Netflix drama change people’s minds about the Jewish state? @petersavodnik on why the world loves Fauda. thefp.com/p/fauda-tells-worl…

UN was founded in 1945 with 51 states Israel was founded in 1948 and is the 59th state Bet many people do not even know this. Know how many and who came AFTER Israel Today 193 states Majority of the muslim/Arab states CAME WELL AFTER ISRAEL so enough of the lies

The UAE is like a child born into a family of criminals. He grows up, breaks away, and builds a decent future for himself. The family hates that, because his very existence exposes what they are.