#Podcasts designed to also function as YouTube shows is quickly resulting in worse and worse podcasts. 2025 was the worst year for the audio medium, by far.

- Should I get some sleep? - No, Highway In The Sky! #FilmSky

Homicide by David Mamet tonight. On Criterion Channel. Always a nice surprise to hit play on a movie and find out from the opening credits that it was lensed by Deakins. #FilmSky

"A memorandum was circulated to all state civil servants demanding blind loyalty to the Hitler government. Anyone who did not feel they could support Hitler and his policies, Göring added, should do the “honorable” thing and resign."

Spinal Tap II tonight. #FilmSky

Strongly recommended that you occasionally throw on a movie you know basically nothing about - genre, plot, audience reception, critical reception, nothing. This one is from the early 90s and has Val Kilmer. Let's see how it goes. #FilmSky

As ever, it's about the oil. Now watching Syriana. #FilmSky

A little Sunday morning western never hurt anyone. Also, more movies should have opening theme songs. #FilmSky

I haven't watched 12 Angry Men in years, since before practicing law. My opinion to date is that it is a very fine film. But it's not in my top 3 for 1957 or Lumet or Fonda. Let's see if a rewatch changes my mind #FilmSky

Rewatching Scorsese's No Direction Home. Rolling Thunder Revue is in some ways more cinematic, as it's a fable about a fabulist. I wouldn't even call it documentary. You have to wrestle it, but the juice is worth the squeeze. NDH is just a truly great, smart doc, with an all-time ending. #FilmSky

A little Saturday morning Hitchcock never hurt anybody. #FilmSky

Happy new Nolan year to all who celebrate. I've only seen this once before, but I guess I'll watch everything of his in 26. Rumour has it the TIFF Lightbox theater here in Toronto is going to run a retrospective series this summer. 🤞 #FilmSky

I know Kane is my favourite Welles. But I have no idea what's second. Chimes at Midnight is in the running, however. A ridiculously clever, challenging, funny, smart, silly masterpiece. #FilmSky

Happy weekend. Continuing my Joanna Hogg run with Archipelago. #FilmSky

Since my free week of Tubi is nearly up, I'm finally watching Mysterious Skin. I'm scared. #FilmSky

Continuing my Joanna Hogg 2026 exploration with Unrelated. The Souvenir movies are so good, y'all. #FilmSky

New-Year-new-you resolve erodes pretty quickly.

Make it viral.

Never properly sat and watched this start to finish. Only ever caught pieces on TCM and such. Excited. #FilmSky

...and me, the blue-haired goon. #FilmSky

On the plus side, there used to be a few dozen people who used "LatinX" online once in a blue moon, and now that number is down to a dozen, tops.

I am once again asking for a Wes Anderson directed Batman movie in the style of Batman (1966). Also, if I think Lee Meriwether in this and Anne Hathaway in Dark Knight Rises are both in discussion for hottest female performance of all-time, that can't be a good sign, can it? #FilmSky

The entirety of my experience with and interest in bull fighting is a single Bugs Bunny cartoon, but I somehow find myself watching this documentary, Afternoons of Solitude, and I don't think I'm going to have a good time. #FilmSky

Common for a generation and on overdrive since 2015. TV, podcasts, and socials require churn and filling as many gaps between ads as possible, which is at odds with plain truth. Even people who recognize this do it, like Stewart last night: Trump is so wrong it can't fill 20 minutes, so onto Dems.

Back at my desk, skimming and deleting 126 unread emails from December.

Theory held. Loved it. Watching the sequel. #FilmSky

The only time I care about critic scores or audience scores for movies is when critics like something and online audiences don't. Pretty much guaranteed banger. Let's test the theory. #FilmSky

Beauty and the Beast (1946) #FilmSky

A little Sunday morning swashbuckling never hurt anybody. #FilmSky

"“No one involved in real military planning has ever thought of this as a place we’d put blood and treasure into—because, quite apart from anything else, there’s no national-security threat,” a U.S. official told me [in 2017]." Regime Change in America’s Back Yard www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This 1995 Richard III movie features lan McKellen and Robert Downey Jr. Presumably they got paid less for this than they're getting for Avengers Doomsday. #FilmSky

Pretty excited to find this on Mubi. Never seen it before. #FilmSky

Mr. President, I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed, but I do say the shock and awe phase will be impressive and the TV ratings will be tops.

Barry Lyndon 🤝 The Wolf of Wall Street

Making the best of this Mubi trial. Play ball. #FilmSky

Mubi is just too expensive, I think. Which is too bad cause it's got some amazing stuff. But they do seem to let you have a seven day free trial once a year, which is awesome. #FilmSky

Barry Lyndon is no less an achievement than 2001. It's shockingly gorgeous. #FilmSky

2025 Letterboxd stats

I watched Kane earlier today, so now I have to watch The Third Man. It pairs even better with Casablanca or The Departed, by the way. #FilmSky

The theater was also showing the #StrangerThings finale. Both Netflix and the audience went all out. Displays, free food and drink, and audience members cosplaying. It was cool to see.

Once again. #FilmSky

I just need to live 247 more years.

Is 2026 the year they kill us all? Maybe. But also this is the best title card of all-time. #FilmSky

"...and a happy new year!" is the best time jump edit in film, and not even in the top five transitions in this. First movie of 2026. #FilmSky

🎵 I can't say, baby, where I'll be in a year. 🎶 We turn the page on another one. They stay the same age. Dazed and Confused should return to theaters this spring, for the 50th anniversary of May 28, 1976. Happy new year! #FilmSky

The way the stage is built around the underway show in Stop Making Sense is so beautiful it's heartbreaking. Second to last movie of 2025 underway. #FilmSky

Tree is still up. I'm watching Die Hard. #FilmSky

Up next. On 70mm. Either this movie is skewing way older than I expected or people of a certain age recognize that going to the movies is a great way to celebrate new year's. #FilmSky

Last day to watch on Criterion Channel. #FilmSky

Last December, I made my most anticipated of 2025 list. The new Jarmusch is the only entry I haven't gotten to see yet. It's not open in Toronto until January. This will have to do until then. #FilmSky