KKR (Finally😇) Wins a Match!

Whew, #KKR (finally😇) wins a match!

Thank goodness (again😇) for the awesome #AndreRussell (80off40 + 2-25!💪) & young #ShubmanGill (76off45!💪) & #ChrisLynn (54off29!💪) &... 

#IPL playoff hopes spring eternal!

#KKRvMI #IPL 

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Game of Thrones: The Long Night

#GameOfThrones 

#TheLongNight 

Bl**dy H*ll(fire)! Lives up to *all* hype! Give #MiguelSapochnik (& DP+music) *all* the #Emmys! WWZ-lib scene, HTTYD-above-cloud bit, the...*all* of it!#HBO!👏#BattleOfWinterfell

PS [redacted]😳💪

PPS [redacted]😩

PPPS JJ's iconic #Sicario theme🙏

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Avengers: Endgame (2/2)

#AvengersEndgame 

Tremendously-satisfying, chapter-closing, clever-self-valedictory-meta-trip-down-greatest-hits-memory-lane valentine-to-the-fans. Kudos to cast, Russo Bros & the great #KevinFeige 

 

for putthing this whole dang universe together! Part of the journey is the end😭

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Avengers: Endgame (1/2)

#AvengersEndgame 

OMBGGREATESTMOVIEVERITBLEWMYBL**DYMINDINTHEHISTORYOFCINEMATHERESNEVERBEENANYTHINGLIKETHISIMNOTCRYINGYOURECRYINGYOURENOTCRYINGEVERYONEISCRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😢😭😫😩😢🥺😕😟😯😦😧😮😲😵😩😫

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RIP Bibi Andersson

RIP #BibiAndersson

Legendary actress & iconic moviestar. First "discovered" her in Babette's Feast never realising the massive career that had come before. What a series of stunning performances, esp the Bergman run. So many wonderful films I look forward to to catching up with

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Superman II (1981)

#SupermanII (1981)

The one that started the superhero movie craze for me *all*(😱😬😲) those years ago! What a fantastic, iconic, ahem, super, flick! Icnonic villain-teamup! Iconic character intro! And of course, the iconic Kidder & Reeve! Nobody did it better than those two!

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Fognini / Keys / Anisimova Win Titles

PS. Congrats to crazy #Fognini on #MonteCarlo title. If the dude keeps his head, he's a fun watch!

PPS. Congrats to #MadisonKeys & #Anisimova (big ups to #AstraSharma👍)on their bounceback/coming-of-age titles. Hopefully, this means bigger things for both!

#ATP #WTA #tennis

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Missing Link

#MissingLink

Delightful, charming #stopmotion gem. Kudos to #LAIKA for another superbly-crafted film (what visuals👀👍!). Voice cast has a blast, esp. #Galifianakis. Hopefully, live-action directors will give us a chance to experience non-antic ZG in the flesh! 😃

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Lady in White (1988)

#LadyInWhite (1988)

Terrifying, creepy, handsomely-mounted horror that also happens to be an character-driven emotionally affecting  film. *Truly* indie under-the-radar gem put together by (Rochester's own!) quadruple(!)-threat LaLoggia. Great cast, esp Rocco(RIP) & young Haas.

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Liverpool Sets up CL Semis vs... Barcelona!

Life's good when you join the Big 3, no?

#Salah//#Mane/#Firmino...& #VanDijk score to send #Liverpool into #UCL semis vs an up-and-comer...#Barca!😱😲

Woah! ⚽️💪👍👊✊🤟🤘

#PORLIV... does that mean for life?! 🤪

#LFC

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Guava Island

#GuavaIsland

Very, ahem, sweet little Island-#Bollywood quasi-musical/#Coachella hype film, proving that young Murai can pretty much do everything. Hipsters resurrected vinyl, film, polaroid, then tapes... & now 4:3 aspect ratio🙌! DP+DI 👍 for digital "film" grain& "dust"!🎥👍

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Shubho Noboborsho / Happy Bengali New Year 2019

#ShubhoNoboborsho / Happy #BengaliNewYear everyone!

To celebrate please enjoy this virtual mishti from Ganguram's!

🧁🥮🎂😋

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🚨🚨🚨 Tiger Woods Wins!!!! 2019 Masters!!!! 🚨🚨🚨

😱😳

The universe has been tilted off its axis & history will always be known as what happened to us before #Tiger won #TheMasters, & every insignificant event that followed!

🚨#TigerWoods #GOAT🚨

PS. Bad luck for #Molinari/#Finau/#Koepka...but #Spieth redeemed himself a bit👍

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Tiger Woods On His Way to Winning 2019 Masters!!!!!!!!

We are witnessing the greatest moment in History, period!

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Tiger Woods 1 Shot Off the Lead!!! 2019 Masters

Those broadcasters better get their thesaurus apps ready, they've already run out of adjectives 🤣

Is there enough server capacity in the world to handle the media industrial complex meltdown if(when?!😌) #Tiger wins the #Masters?!😳

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NBA Playoffs Wild Start ... Without LeBron 😔

"Real" #NBA season gets off to a rollicking start but sadly #LeBron (ie #Lakers😇) didn't make it. Too bad, with young kids like #Kuzma/#Lonzo/#Ingram/#JoshHart & nice-guy coach #LukeWalton there was so much promise...

PS. Whatever happened to #DAngelo😏

PPS. #Magic/#Nets😱🤩

J.S. Ondara (The Casbah)

#JSOndara (#TheCasbah)

Fantastic folksinger-songwriter with some pretty funny, ahem, #TalesOfAmerica between-song banter. Tremendous backstory matched by that unforgettable voice!

h/t TBH (as always!🤩👍👏)

Coraline (2009)

#Coraline (2009)

Delightfully creepy subversive kids' flick that started it all for #LAIKA 10(😱!) years ago. Just gets better (& stranger/darker) with repeated viewings. Great cast - everyone's fave actors/actresses. All credit to the great, underappreciated, director Selick!

Dwyane Wade Retires

You Know You're Too Old When: #DwyaneWade Retires

Love that guy! Hard to imagine #NBA without him! I *love* #LeBron & #Shaq, but they don't win their titles w/o him. G7 LBJ fadeaway doesn't happen without #DWade firing daggers from the start. One of the *all*-time greats!!😭👏🏀

Dirk Nowitzki Retires

You Know You're Too Old When: #DirkNowitzki Retires

Changed the game, no? Put the stretch in Stretch 4(/5?)! Beneath his endearing, affable Euro goofiness was an #NBA *machine*! 1-leg fadeaway+FTs in 2011 finals was the closest thing to an unstoppable force in years. #Dirk!🏀🦒

RIP Seymour Cassel

RIP #SeymourCassel 

One of my *all*-time favourite *love*-that-guy character actors. Legendary run w/ Cassavetes+Rowlands. 90s resurgence in all my fave mainstream movies. 2000s indie-stretch kickstarted by Rushmore (the film's quiet gutwrenching heart). Incredible career.Legend

Kurt Cobain 25th(!) Death Anniversary

Bl**dy H*ll! Has it really been 25(!) years since #KurtCobain sadly passed. My goodness, where does the time go?! 

I don't have the academic purview to call him the voice of a generation but #Nirvana, at the very least, was an all-time rock band, no?

https://youtu.be/pkcJEvMcnEg

Liverpool Beats Southampton

Yo! Isn't #Southampton the place where all the cruise ships are... when did they get an #EPL team?!

Well, thank G*d for that...& for #MoSalah for putting #Liverpool on top...can the season end now?!😬😱

PS. Very soulful hashtag, no?😀: #SOULIV

Big (1988)

#Big (1988) 

Take this test: say the title & see if you can stop from smiling! So charming/funny/melancholy(🥺!) after(/because of?!) all these (30?!😳)years. So many names behind/front of the camera, led by #TomHanks(best role?) & the dearly departed #PennyMarshall.Great movie!

Dumbo (2019)

#Dumbo (2019)

Wherein a charming, larger than life huckster showman takes whimsical childhood delight and turns it into a corporate behemoth centered around an amusement park replete with merchandised nostalgia… oh #TimBurton, you SOB (Subversive Old Ba*tard), you!😇DeVito😂👍!

Hearts Beat Loud

#HeartsBeatLoud

Lovely li'l feel-good indie-hipster fairy tale (kid gets into college on her *own* merit😇). Huge kudos to composer DeWitt for those earworm indie-pop songs & esp. prod designer Magill...I now want to move to #RedHook & start a band with my theoretical kid🤩🤣!

Federer Wins 101st Title! 2019 Miami Open

Man, #RF101 was just one glimpse of #GOAT-mode after another! 

Incredible win for #Federer over hobbled #Isner. Not quite the #SunshineDouble; I doubt Fed minds. 2019 may be fun after all!

PS. Great win by (ex-cricketer!) #AshBarty over always-aggressive #Pliskova

#MiamiOpen

🚨 Woods Beats McIlroy!! 🚨

Speaking of you-have-much-to-learn-young-Padawan:

🚨He's back!🚨

Unless #Duke loses tomorrow #Tiger beating #Rory is going to be 1A in the Sports hot-take media industrial complex!

We'll pretend we don't know what happened to #TigerWoods next...😇

#WGCMatchPlay #Golf

Federer Beats Shapo to Reach Finals 2019 Miami Open

Man, I'm always down for some #GOAT-you've-got-much-to-learn-young-Padawan tennis 🙃

#Federer gets past so-much-fun #Shapo, but faces a, ahem, tall order in #Isner on a 7-6 tear😳

#Shapovalov & #AugerAliassime's Fire and Ice act is gonna be fun for *years* to come!

#MiamiOpen

https://twitter.com/tennistv/status/1111777855292231681?s=12

RIP Agnès Varda

RIP #AgnesVarda

Still creating at 90! Discovered her when TBH got me to watch #CleoFrom5To7(!). Quirky, passionately, fiercely original, formally daring & always curious. One of the true all-time greats. Couldn't have been nicer in person. Cinema lost a truly great today. Sigh.

Federer Gets Big Win Over Anderson 2019 Miami Open

😳 Bl**dy h*ll! That first-set #GOAT-mode was wondrous indeed! #Federer sure was out for revenge vs. #KevinAnderson!

He'll need a combination of both, and quick, against the lightning-in-bottle that is #Shapo (poor #Tiafoe🙁)! 37 v 19! #NextGenATP is NowGen, huh?!

#MiamiOpen

https://twitter.com/tennistv/status/1111424076780732421?s=12

Dodgers Hit EIGHT HRs on Opening Day!

Sooo...#Seager's back?! & so are #Pederson, #Bellinger, #Muncy, #AustinBarnes, #KikeHernandez!!!⚾️💪😱

#Dodgers *thrash* the DBags (sorry, couldn't resist, they're all kinda irritating except for #AdamJones & Quirky #Greinke)! 

What an #OpeningDay!

#WorldSeries #ITFDB

Dumbo (1941)

#Dumbo (1941)

I know #Bambi's cornered the market on #Disney childhood trauma but this comes pretty darn close! That sequence where...😬😲😢! Early WD still holds up as poignant look at parent-child bond. PS #TimBurton's gotta take a crack at #PinkElephants sequence, right?!🤪🤤

Federer Gets Great Win Over Tricky Medvedev 2019 Miami Open

Good Lord, #Federer! Brought his #GOAT-mode to bear against extremely dangerous #DaniilMedvedev. But... up next, another, ahem, tall order next: #KevinAnderson😱

Speaking of #NextGenATP who's down for #AugerAliassime v #Coric... & #Shapo v #Tiafoe🎾😳💪🙌!!!!

#MiamiOpen

Us

#UsMovie

As the kid so helpfully called out: "Aw h*ll naw!" *Exquisitely*-crafted, genuinely unnerving horror-thriller. So much social-commentary/allegory(or is that metaphor?)-ing & plant/payoff/easteregg-ing! Music(!),kids, Duke, Moss(😳), & esp #Lupita & #JordanPeele😱👏✂️!!

Gronk Retires

You Know You're #TooOld When: #RobGronkowski Retires(?)

One of the very *few* #Patriots we couldn't hate, no?

An absolute beast, & so much fun too! Beneath all that #Gronk-iness he was a lot more essential to those recent #SuperBowl's than (insufferable)#Pats fans care to admit

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO)

#TheInventor

Engaging doc that exposes a charismatic media-feted Silicon Valley business titan who tried to fake it till she made it & then (up)sold a gussied-up overpriced version of existing tech under the brand sparkling new imprimatur of a start-up (soooo...#SiliconValley😂)

Federer Wins Rd. 3 2019 Miami Open

Who needs a worryingly-rusty 1HBH & all-too-familiar low-BP-conversion when you've got that machine-like silky-smooth thing-of-beauty #GOAT service-motion?!👍

#Federer faces, ahem, tall order next: #DaniilMedvedev😬

PS. #Tiafoe vs never-say-die #DavidFerrer!🎾💪🙌 

#MiamiOpen