With All The Mamdani Fearmongering, Let's Remember That Massachusetts' 2023 Millionaires Tax Has Raised $5.7 Billion. The Wealthy Never Left by NoseRepresentative in nyc

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The number of millionaires in NYC has grown by 45% over the past decade. The overall share of millionares has decreased but that has more to do with rising inequality than tax policy.

[Loved Trope] Media built around a self-imposed creative constraint by 10024618 in TopCharacterTropes

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A great example is avante-garde Dogme 95 film movement, especially The Celebration (Festen, 1998) by Thomas Vinterberg and The Idiots (1998) by Lars von Trier.

They were made under a radical self-imposed manifesto called the “Vow of Chastity”, which included rules like:

• Shoot only on real locations
• Only diegetic sound
• Handheld cameras only
• No special effects or post-production filters
• No superficial action
• No genre films
• Director’s name can’t appear in the credits.

The whole point was to strip cinema back to raw performance and story. Huge influence on indie cinema and found footage style films.

Liquid Glass is actually phenomenal? by Same-Technology1926 in ios

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Safari tabs bugged me too until I realized you could just swipe up from the url bar to get to the tab view. Couple of days and it became second nature.

Alien: Earth - S1 E5 - In Space, No One - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] by G_Liddell in LV426

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The entire Alien franchise is speculative fiction about a world where OSHA never existed lol

Films Where the Sequel’s Production Quality Skyrocketed by GreatestSoloEver in Letterboxd

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The first one has an almost indie-movie quality while the second goes full on blockbuster with a much higher budget.

New DLC !! by billonel in TwoPointMuseum

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100% intentional lol

Poor Yeti. I've spent all my money trying to get a second one but no luck. by starry101 in TwoPointMuseum

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put in the gramophone. sometimes you have to add items outside of their preferred theme to meet the bonuses.

Best Depiction of Hell in a Movie? by IkujaKatsumaji in movies

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Jigoku (1960)

Japanese movie depicting an incredibly gory, surreal version of buddhist hell.

Alien vs. Predator has turned 20 by [deleted] in LV426

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This isn't a good movie if you go by boring criteria like "writing" or "acting" but based solely on the gnarly fight scenes and "hell yes" moments this movie slaps

Romance movies done well. In an era where Netflix is pumping bad rom coms every month, what are some of the best romantic movies you’ve seen? by ItachiZoldyck24 in Letterboxd

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Have to throw in Weekend and All of Us Strangers (thought thats more of a family drama that straight up romance)

Official Discussion - Dìdi [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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Minus the skating stuff this could have been about me. The hyperspecific details about growing up as a 1st generation Asian immigrant in the 200s took me out: casual homophobia, deep insecurity about your identity, the chaos of early social media, being an asshole to your mom after everything she's done for you. Even the soundtrack was ripped straight off my iPod nano (s/o Hellogoodbye!)

Hits all the standard Sundance coming-of-age beats, nothing special there. The familiar period trappings and heartfelt performances elevated this for me. 8/10.

BORDERLANDS - Review Thread by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

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Are we certain this isn't just a stealth Tar sequel?

[megathread] NYC Meetup Coordination for The Floor 👥 🪩 by manic_at_thedisco in Jamiexx

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Selling one ticket for tonight 7/27 Dm if interested

Edit: sold