Ep 45 out now! In this first of a two-parter, @realreeltalk.bsky.social joins me for a look at director Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., a film that satirically (and savagely!) casts a critical eye on the seedy underbelly of the Hollywood star-making machine. Just click here: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...

Born #OTD: Golden Globe-nominated actress and animal lover Sharon Tate. From horror (1966’s Eye of the Devil) to parody (1967’s Fearless Vampire Killers) to melodrama (1967’s Valley of the Dolls) to slapstick (1968’s The Wrecking Crew), her filmography reflects the chances of a long acting career.

And with that, my son is on his way back to Scotland for year 3, semester 2. This “letting go” thing really sucks eggs, but hey - no waiting my turn to use the washer and dryer? 🤷‍♂️

If we’re really going to be getting as much snow as they’re saying, on the bright side, families can have quality time together. #theshining #jacktorrance #wendytorrance #dannytorrance

A few of my favorite acting nominees: Aunt Gladys (Amy Madigan, Weapons)! Frankenstein’s Monster (Jacob Elordi)! Smoke & Annie (Wunmi Mosaku, Michael B. Jordan)! Marcelo/Armando/Fernando (Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent)! Linda! (Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)! #oscars #oscar #academyaward

With the incredible Stellan Skarsgård now an Oscar nominee (Best Supporting Actor for 2025’s Sentimental Value), that makes just one of these Mamma Mia! folks still waiting for their first nod. Any guesses? #Oscar #Oscars #AcademyAwards

8 Oscar nods for Hamnet! Best Picture, Director (Chloe Zhao), Leading Actress (Jessie Buckley), Adapted Screenplay, the new category of Casting, Costume Design, Score, and Production Design. But Paul Mescal, who should have made 9, was unfairly snubbed. #oscar #oscars #academyaward #academyawards

This morning, All about Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016) kissed their 3-way tie for the most Oscar nods ever for a single film (14) as Sinners (2025) left them in the dust with 16!!! #oscars #oscar #academyaward #academyawards

@daveya.bsky.social and I show Robert Redford and his 1994 directorial effort Quiz Show the love in our latest episode of Movies across the Pod! Just click here: open.spotify.com/episode/7zRQ...

Many thanks to @stupidhistory.bsky.social for this great opportunity!!

Born #OTD: the one and only Cary Grant! Fun fact: after arriving in the U.S. from the U.K., the struggling young actor got by as best he could by selling neckties out of a suitcase on Broadway and walking on stilts to advertise attractions at Coney Island. #film #classichollywood

Born #OTD: actor-writer-producer Leigh Whannell, probably best known to mainstream horror fans as ‘Specs’ in the Insidious franchise.

Ep 44 out now! Vinny Pacifico, pro wrestler and actor, and I discuss his multi-faceted career journey, his Times Square billboard, his values, his love of Disney, and his roles/appearances in music videos and productions like Crimzon Harvest & Menspeaking! Just click here: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...

Coming soon: @realreeltalk.bsky.social guests for two 1950 takedowns of show business, All about Eve & Sunset Blvd.! Vote/have your comment read on the show: who’s the one not to run into in a dark alley? (more images in comments) A.) Bette Davis B.) George Sanders C.) Norma Desmond D.) butler Max

#OTD in 2009, airline pilot Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III (‘Sully’) safely landed in the Hudson River in NYC after geese collided with the engines. All 150 passengers & 5 crew survived as the jet sank 50 feet to the bottom. Clint Eastwood’s Sully (2016) tells the story with Tom Hanks headlining.

Ep 43 out now! Titanic vets DiCaprio and Winslet shake out their parkas once more for 2015’s The Revenant & 2017’s The Mountain between Us, respectively. Plus, poll results, entertainment news, the cooking segment Cinemunch, and interactive listener trivia! Just click here: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...

Two amazing films that deserve all the flowers they’re getting! Hamnet for Best Motion Picture Drama and One Battle after Another for Best Musical or Comedy!

Best Leading Actress in a Drama - cue the happy dance for Jessie Buckley! And as for Actor, it’s Wagner Moira for The Secret Agent … making him the first Brazilian actor to receive the award!

Paul Thomas Anderson is finally collecting awards after an incredible career with tonight’s wins for Best Screenplay and Best Director for One Battle after Another!

BRAZIL FTW - Best Non-English Language Motion Picture goes to The Secret Agent!!

Best Leading Actor and Leading Actress in a Musical or Comedy recipients: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You) and Timothée Hal Chalamet (Marty Supreme)!

On the music side - tonight’s Best Score and Best Song recipients: Ludwig Göransson (Sinners) for Score and Huntrix for the song “Golden” (K Pop Demon Hunters)!

Tonight’s Best Supporting Actor and Actress recipients: Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value) and Teyana Taylor (One Battle after Another)!

Ok, not a film-related post, but let’s light a candle for Clara Peller today, who had an entire generation asking where the beef was. #OTD in 1984, we were introduced to her as the very first “Where’s the beef?” commercial for Wendy’s aired! youtu.be/u0aKKFybRNM

And it’s off to the airport we go to ship my baby girl off across the Atlantic for semester 2. She got pretty ingenious in front of our disbelieving eyes with how she’s fitting her sweaters, scarves, and coat onto the plane. This isn’t a joke, God help us.

This decades-old Bowie song cuts more deeply today than ever before. “A little piece of you And the little peace in me Will die (this is not a miracle) For this is not America… …Falcon spirals to the ground (this could be the biggest sky) So bloody red, tomorrow’s clouds” youtu.be/ubc3o2KZA4w?si

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Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

Calling all Indie film CHAMPIONS! My horror documentary "Haunted Lake Lanier" is LIVE on Amazon Prime!! Rent it on Amazon to help keep indiefilm alive! www.amazon.com/gp/video/det... If not Amazon watch on Opprime! bit.ly/3VMjXMP Watch it today and please share! #Filmsky 🎥

Born #OTD: Butterfly McQueen (Gone with the Wind's ‘Prissy’). Born Thelma McQueen, she got the nickname Butterfly early on after dancing the Butterfly Ballet in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Later left acting and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at 64 from NYC College in the 70s.

Born #OTD: Oscar-winning legend Diane Keaton (1972’s The Godfather, 1977’s Annie Hall, 1996’s The First Wives Club) and 12-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (2012’s Silver Linings Playbook, 2013’s American Hustle, 2018’s A Star Is Born)!

Born #OTD: Oscar winner Robert Duvall (1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird , 1972’s The Godfather and its sequel, 1983’s Tender Mercies, 1984’s The Natural, 1996’s Sling Blade, 1997’s The Apostle, 2014’s The Judge) - an actor with an impressive filmography!

Coming in ep 43: Leo & Kate already knew about ice when they made 2015’s The Revenant and 2017’s The Mountain between Us. Vote/have your comment read on the show: who shares your hot cocoa after being stranded in the freezing wilderness together? A.) Leo B.) Tom Hardy C.) Idris Elba D.) Kate

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, the OGs of celebrating the stroke of 12am on January 1. Happy 2026!!

Day 1 of the 3-2-1 countdown to New Year’s has Jayne Mansfield making merry with a little bubbly as she leads the countdown in this New Year's Eve promo from the 1950s. #NYE

Ep 42 out now! A re-edited 2023 episode (with a new intro!) of my former podcast Silver Screeners on Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, & her Hershey’s Kiss hat in Holiday (1938), & the leads of 2006’s The Holiday who bring the sizzle to the bacon! Just click here: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...

Day 2 of the 3-2-1 countdown to New Year’s has child star sensation Shirley Temple getting to stay up past her bedtime for this New Year’s Eve 1935 publicity photo. #NYE

Day 3 of the 3-2-1 countdown til New Year’s Day has Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart on NYE in 1957 at the Crown Room inside Romanoff's restaurant in Beverly Hills. #NYE

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Story - A worthy third entry with Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc. Darker, less humorous than the first two. But solid with an impressive cast and satisfying payoff. The cast of the original is still the best, but Glenn Close is always the G.O.A.T. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5

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Born #OTD: a pair of two-time Oscar-winners, Dame Maggie Smith and Denzel Washington, as well as Charmian Carr (The Sound of Music) and Marvel Comics pioneer Stan Lee! #oscar

#OTD in 1895 in a cafe basement in France, Auguste & Louis Lumiere had paying customers sit in the dark to watch larger-than-life moving images projected in front of them in the first global instance of ‘going to the movies.’ In 1896, ‘Snowball Fight’ would (presumably) have screened in a ‘cinema.’

Please give a warm round of applause to @silverscreeners.bsky.social I have enjoyed every opportunity I’ve had to talk film with him. Make sure to support all his work in the movie space. #movies #filmsky

#OTD in 1932: #radiocitymusichall opened in Manhattan and became the go-to venue for hundreds of films over the decades to have star-studded gala premieres, including 1941’s The Little Foxes, starring Bette Davis, and 1964’s Mary Poppins (both pictured)

Ep 41 out now! A reedited 2024 episode (with a new intro!) from my former podcast Silver Screeners on 1989’s When Harry Met Sally, with @themovieloot.bsky.social ! A Nora Ephron-written, Rob Reiner-directed Oscar nominee partly set on two New Year’s Eves! Just click here: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...

A fierce, vulnerable Kate Hudson is the best part of the film. Until the dramatic twist, the story feels aimless and zig-zagging, almost like the first draft of a screenplay. But top-notch singing and Hugh Jackman’s different hairpieces keep it engaging. ⭐️⭐️⭐️out of 5

“Madame is the greatest star of them all.” — Max the butler (Erich von Stroheim) speaking of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) to Joe Gillis (William Holden) in 1950’s Sunset Blvd … Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

Born #OTD: two Oscar winners, Humphrey Bogart (1941’s The Maltese Falcon, 1943’s Casablanca, 1951’s The African Queen) and Sissy Spacek (1976’s Carrie, 1980’s Coal Miner’s Daughter, 2001’s In the Bedroom, 2011’s The Help) #Oscars #oscarwinner #academyawards #humphreybogart #sissyspacek