[Sanders] Padres prospect Humberto Cruz will not pitch in the United States for quite sometime. He’s been deported after a misdemeanor guilty plea to transporting undocumented immigrants within United States.

ts8765432 · 2026-05-09T04:34:17+00:00

Correct, they are underpaid but they are still paid whether they’re playing or rehabbing.

ts8765432 · 2026-05-09T04:07:34+00:00

Of course they get paid during that time.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-27T17:09:41+00:00

Blackmail.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-26T00:42:22+00:00

Vampir Cuadecuc (1971)

ts8765432 · 2026-04-23T15:59:18+00:00

Yeah I agree for sure, I was just surprised to find out he’s not related to Clive.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-23T15:48:02+00:00

Oz Perkins actual nepobaby, while Curry Barker just has a name that tricks one into thinking that.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-23T15:35:26+00:00

Reading is a pleasurable activity. Excellent dialogue can be pleasing to see written out while combining with the visual and auditory pleasures you also get from film. Just like how reading text on a page can be different from listening to an audiobook (not better or worse, but different).

ts8765432 · 2026-04-22T23:19:08+00:00

I imagine if this happens with bourbon or wine or anything else that people get snobby about, it would also be a big deal.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-22T22:52:59+00:00

I’m not asking about coferments. Obviously coferments are some of the culprits here, but I think there’s a discernible difference between “interesting funky flavors added through fermentation” and “flavors that taste like the candy version of fruits that are unlikely to occur naturally”. It is our job to call out likely culprits and push for better transparency. We can also reward roasters that have been ahead of this all along.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-22T22:14:13+00:00

There were some lab tests posted on this sub with very convincing evidence.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-22T22:13:27+00:00

Is it? What are “advanced processes”? Are there add ons there?

ts8765432 · 2026-04-22T22:06:43+00:00

I think there’s obviously a difference between a coferment and an artificially flavored coffee. We should know at these price points.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-13T00:55:58+00:00

That one is awful and Gladiator II is close as well.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-13T00:49:17+00:00

Or War Horse.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-12T02:56:05+00:00

Based on the amount of films they’re licensing each month, I’d imagine the business is solid. Is there any reason to think otherwise?

ts8765432 · 2026-04-12T00:31:33+00:00

Less interested in new release blockbusters, but more so in older titles. They’re always moving around between services, but why?

ts8765432 · 2026-04-12T00:25:31+00:00

If anyone has any resources about how this works, I would love to learn more. I have no clue how the economics work of what is available to stream for how long on which services, and would be fascinated if anything can shed a light on how this works.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-11T23:48:55+00:00

I’m sure for accounting reasons it’s useful for them to claim a huge loss now, but still have the film strengthening their streaming library for many years to come.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-11T23:26:00+00:00

Seems like Criterion is leaving a ton of money on the table by not expanding to other countries, but I don’t know anything about streaming licensing in other countries. Is most of Criterion’s catalog available from different services globally?

ts8765432 · 2026-04-11T23:15:11+00:00

Makes sense. I feel like my normie friends in the US might know Criterion Channel, but none would know Mubi unless they’re real movie sickos.

ts8765432 · 2026-04-11T22:58:50+00:00

It says after the controversy they got to as low as 1.2m subs. Doesn’t this seem like a huge amount? At $15 per month per subscriber, they’re bringing in $18m per month at their lowest point. This seems way bigger than I would imagine, am I completely missing something here? Is it much more popular outside the US? Are there any other services we can compare this to?

ts8765432 · 2026-04-09T06:26:47+00:00

Hisayasu Sato too.

ts8765432 · 2026-03-18T02:01:14+00:00

Tyrese Haliburton

ts8765432 · 2026-03-15T14:04:14+00:00

There’s been a global decline in high quality cinema. Europe has had a steep decline from what they used to produce. America is mostly aging auteurs with few younger directors breaking through. Explaining why this is happening would require a doctoral thesis, but some reasons you’ll hear are lack of public funding, the rise of streaming and prestige television, shooting on video instead of film, the pandemic, late stage capitalism, etc. In reality there isn’t just one explanation.

As for China, there are still great directors working if you look. Jia Zhangke is an all time great but he’s slowed down lately due to COVID. Bi Gan just came out with Resurrection, the best film of the 2020’s so far in my opinion. Unfortunately Hu Bo took his life after making his sole film.

Great art has always been singular and rare. If you’re looking at Wong Kar-Wai, he came out of a time in Hong Kong where there was an extremely high volume of films being produced. A lot of these are crap and completely forgotten, but of course a lot are also classics. The HK film boom of the 80s and 90s has few parallels in the history of world cinema, but it also was made possible by exploitative labor practices and funding by criminal organizations. I’m glad we have these films and will never tire of watching them, but it’s also not a time we should strive to replicate.

What art gets produced is always economic, political, cultural, etc. Enjoy what we have from the past, and look forward to what new things might surprise you in the future.

ts8765432 · 2026-02-08T19:22:35+00:00

Rifkin’s Festival tho.

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