If you didn't catch the names in PTA's speech, the 1975 Best Picture nominees are Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There are no skips; there is no wrong place to start. They will make you love American movies anew, and demand the best from them.
Is everybody OK? Did you all make it through the night without Congress passing a law to stop the incredibly minor thing we do to make summer days feel normal?
The thing about old movies is sometimes you’ll be watching a comedy about some showgirls tricking old men out of their money and then in the middle of it they drop one of the most breathtaking musical sequences ever committed to film.
On today’s episode of Big Screen Sports, @cruzkontrol.bsky.social & @mattscalici.bsky.social joined to talk anxiety, getting your ass slapped with a paddle by Mr. Wonderful, and what feels like the best sports movie of the decade in “Marty Supreme”
I know they’re both probably run by algorithms but explain to me why my hometown FM classic rock station can play 10 straight absolute bangers and Spotify, which already knows which songs and artists I like, can’t do it.
When you live between Selma and Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, it is fairly impossible to fall into the "this is the worst it has ever been and it can't get better" pit.
It was way worse for people here, in living memory, and they didn't shrug & give up. So I can't either.
I forget if we are the backbone of auburn twitter, woke auburn twitter, or the backbone of woke auburn twitter, but idk how @mattscalici.bsky.social didn’t get in this photo regardless