My earliest movie memory might be confusion that there are two Death Star Star Wars. Also when I was kid, I thought the Princess Leia gold bikini fantasy on Friends was supposed to be a joke that you'd have to be a nerd to see sex appeal in Star Wars. Then I saw this movie as an adult. #FilmSky📽️

When I was a kid, Star Wars opening crawls made me anxious. Especially on old tvs, the slanted text and some of the language left me feeling confused and insecure about my literacy. The older I get, however, the more I realize that the writing in these is pretty terrible, actually. #FilmSky📽️

Looking forward to seeing Star Wars (1977) unaltered next year. Until then, we have Disney Plus, at least, but it's a hell of a compromise. I really believe all the whiplash inducing Frankensteining has hurt the original trilogy much more than people realize. #FilmSky📽️

Exterior window cleaning day is a twice annual holiday in my home.

Cat Ballou Never seen this one before. Wonderful opening. Cautiously optimistic. #FilmSky📽️

Along with Before Sunset, the reason Linklater is the exceedingly exceptional director who directed the best movie of the year two years in a row. #FilmSky📽️

California Crime + 4/20 = Lebowski #FilmSky📽️

California crime wave continues. It's annoying how there's always a backlash against Best Picture winners. Sometimes they're great!! #FilmSky📽️

LA noir continues with Tarantino's second best (after Pulp Fiction). If it isn't obvious how I'm going to ultimately transition from California crime to 4/20, I've added a clue to the TV stand/dresser. #FilmSky📽️

LA Confidential. It's pretty good. "But nothing too original because, hey, this is Hollywood." #FilmSky📽️

Now watching a perfect movie as LA noir day continues. #FilmSky📽️

So now I have to do a whole California noir night. Under the Silver Lake should come with a warning. "Looking just as she swore she would never look," is an all-time noir blonde enters line. By PTA. #FilmSky📽️

Hooray for Hollywood 🎵 In many ways, The Long Goodbye is Altman's most daring picture and Gould's most difficult and best performance. Also, Schwarzenegger's best movie. #FilmSky📽️

Under the Silver Lake. Never seen this before. After Silence, I am in the mood for more Andrew Garfield. #FilmSky📽️

A little Saturday morning Marilyn Monroe in CinemaScope never hurt anyone. #FilmSky📽️

Silence. Scorsese's most Kurosawa. A gorgeous, contemplative, challenging, terrifying masterpiece. I would love to see this on the big screen again. #FilmSky📽️

This is true. But you should watch Citizen Kane and read 1984 though. At least so long as there's a delta between status quo and truth. And even after that cause it's awesome. Happy Friday, #FilmSky📽️

In some ways, this episode of Columbo is the best script Spielberg ever directed. #FilmSky📽️

In many ways, the precise opposite of the fascistic and ideologically bankrupt Mission:Impossible movies. Also, you know, arguably the funniest movie of all-time. #FilmSky📽️

Final Mission Impossible. Never seen this one before. Hopes aren't high. I don't see how they can land this plane considering they exhausted the story and closed it last movie. But it seems from the promotion that Cruise just climbs on the plane instead, which could be cool. Let's see. #FilmSky📽️

They spent like half a billion to film this nonsense and then they called it Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Seriously, look it up, they actually called it that. I think about that a lot. But, man, can nonsense be fun. #FilmSky📽️

I'm so confused, I've been told (a few million times, in fact) that politicians who go on Joe Rogan's podcast become impossible to defeat.

Mission Impossible 6, Fallout. The best McQuarrie-directed movie I've seen. Which is crazy considering the plot is nonsense and it's 25 minutes too long. #FilmSky📽️

Investigation must still happen. A Congressman allegedly assault a staffer. And no one with power to do anything about it noticed? How? Are there sufficient, anonymous, options to report be taken seriously? Do staffers know about these options and trust them? If not, to get there asap? Etc...

M:I5 We're now in the Christopher McQuarrie era, which means the movies are properly and unapologetically Tom Cruise showcases with absurd budgets, for better and worse. Cohesiveness is barely a consideration and runtimes really start to be padded henceforth. #FilmSky📽️

M:I4 struggles to break free of the marriage box from the last movie, overdoes it with Hunt as superhero (true of the whole series henceforth), and is at least 20 minutes too long (ditto), but it's good and Brad Bird pulled off the second best set piece of the series in the building climb. #FilmSky📽️

Mission Impossible 3 recreated the series and is the second best one (I've seen) based in no small part on having the series's best antagonist and performance thanks to PSH. Considered as a sequel to Magnolia, these two had a hell of a ride. #FilmSky📽️

I've only seen the second Mission Impossible once and didn't like it. It's too bad. This series was on track to have very different, very distinctive directors come in, direct one in a signature style, and bounce. I love that idea. See also: Potter (Cuaron) and Beverly Hills Cop (Scott). #FilmSky📽️

Haven't seen the final Mission: Impossible. Gonna rewatch at least some of the series first. Currently, I think this first one and the Seymour Hoffman third are highs. I love the TV style opening credits that clip the story to follow. #FilmSky📽️

(Spoilers for The Departed and Glass Onion) Because people so often misunderstand The Departed and underrate Glass Onion, we haven't had a fun discourse about the ways these two masterpieces are similar. #FilmSky📽️

Pictured, left: 2028 politics discourse is already all "I'm not racist or sexist but I want to exclude people based on their race and gender because other people are racist or sexist." Right: the biggest names in Dem punditry and podcasting, ready to share with you their 2028 preferences and takes.

Taaaaaaarget practice This movie so stupid. I love it. #FilmSky📽️

Another one for the collection. Go Jays! #MLB

No Country is on TCM at 10 pm, which is so cool, but I can't stay up that late tonight, so I'm watching the other aughts perfect masterpiece that won Best Picture and is an all-time example of both protagonist antagonist mirroring and capturing America via greed, pride, violence. #FilmSky📽️

The best movie with Indiana Jones in the title (that I've seen, haven't seen Dial of Destiny yet). #FilmSky📽️

There's a very good argument Spielberg is the shot selection GOAT and that Raiders is the single best evidence of that. You can actually watch this movie in black and white and silent on Soderbergh's website, to study the movement, cuts, and framing: extension765.com/blogs/soderb... #FilmSky📽️

It's been over 18 months, and I still think about this verse from Lonely Island's "Sushi Glory Hole" at least twice a week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGc...

Americans speak like this but are never truly ashamed. I just watched this great documentary series about Russian journalists, My Undesirable Friends, and they speak of their real, actual, felt "nausea, shame and disgust". Repeatedly. The shame isn't an episode's in American history. It's yours.

Sometimes I worry that I'm a bad lawyer, then I read something like this: variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Leave it to the humans who went further than any human has ever gone to also demonstrate the apotheosis of humanity.

Corporations squeezing interest-free loans from consumers. Odyssey IMAX 70mm tickets sold out a year in advance. It's absurd and anti-consumer. There should be a law against selling tickets more than a month in advance for movies.

Elections 🤝 Consequences

Reminder to have the Artemis stream on today. Crew should be awake in an hour for fly-by day. I believe schedule remains as below: www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Far right people I've never heard of have 10x the reach of someone like President Obama over on Twitter, which has explicitly been manipulated to that end. But pundits argue you're in a bubble *if you leave.* It's sad how many supposedly serious people can't bring themselves to do right and walk.

Mubi's new documentary (series?) My Undesirable Friends, about Russia's media crackdown. #FilmSky📽️

Depluralize a movie: JAW

Switch gears with a documentary. I still have Mubi for a couple more weeks, if you have recommendations let me know. #FilmSky📽️

Really enjoyed Fair Play. Linklater's Hit Man feels like a good companion piece. If you're interested in men in the 21st century, both are much smarter, truer, and certainly more interesting than the 10,000th Joe Rogan podcast editorial. P.S. Nouvelle Vague on Netflix Canada, please!! #FilmSky📽️

Fair Play on Netflix, which I don't know anything about other than Rian Johnson's exec producer involvement. #FilmSky📽️

Hey, someone finally told this dumb lunatic that it's Strait not Straight. That's super.