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📽️ Inside the New Movie Theater Concept From the Founder of Alamo Drafthouse: Private Rooms, Gourmet Meals and Guest Attendants /// THR

2025-07-12 01:38:00

The experience won’t come cheap: The four-person theater runs a cool $200 for a four-hour booking while the 12-person theater costs $600. Food costs $100 a person. If you want alcoholic beverages, that will be at least $50 more.

I absolutely love this idea, but I wish they had an option for couples. I could see dropping $100 for a movie night on a nice screen with my wife. The food and booze prices are also pretty crazy for a meal that’s probably not as good as a local restaurant. Still, excited to see if this can find success and evolve into new markets.

🦸‍♂️ Dean Cain Says James Gunn’s “Woke” Stance on “Immigrant” Superman is “Going to Hurt” Box-Office /// World of Reel

2025-07-12 01:01:00

Cain criticized what he sees as a politicized reinvention of the iconic character, especially Gunn’s framing of Superman as an immigrant” — a comment that’s ignited backlash among right-leaning pundits and fans alike.

How do you play a character for that many years and not realize you are playing a literal alien?” Superman is someone who immigrated to America from a completely different planet and displays the ideals of being kind and serving others no matter what. It’s not woke, it’s just what the story has always been.

🤡 Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown /// The Verge

2025-07-11 07:28:00

Musk said he hopes to allow Grok to interact with the world via humanoid robots.

Great, so we’re going to have nazi robots running around now… best what the world needs. He also went on to proclaim his nazi AI is the smartest in the world. Maybe it’s just me, but I have a hard time believing him.

☠️ kkkbye /// Instagram

2025-07-10 10:47:00

A delightful little art project of a klan member being violently killed in new ways. Over and over.

📰 The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn’t Get Scooped By A Bigot /// Defector

2025-07-10 03:54:00

The Times opinion department loves the occasional provocation for provocation’s sake, but the reportorial side considers itself at a further remove from culture-war concerns, as if it can only just ask questions. Of course, this is bullshit.

Such a weird non-story for the Times to take that really does make you start to question their decision making. Next thing you know, we are going to learn what Mamdani did for his 13th birthday or what he asked Santa Claus for Christmas when he was seven.

🧺 The Nuggets Are In A Standoff With Jonas Valanciunas And It Somehow Matters /// Defector

2025-07-10 03:50:00

For basically the entirety of the Nikola Jokic era, the Nuggets have not had a backup center who could be described as a functional basketball player capable of setting screens, grabbing rebounds, playing out of the pick-and-roll, and putting the ball in the basket.

The Nuggets have made a ton of great moves this off-season, adding Cam Johnson, Bruce Brown, Hardaway Jr., and of course Valanciunas, who feels like the last piece that turns them into a real title contender again.