OpenAI has generously given Disney the opportunity to lose a billion dollars while selling out every artist that's ever lived

At long last a new Stephen Cone film, thank God www.instagram.com/p/DQw7E-LDnl...

I cancelled earlier this year when they caved to Trump. If you need one, here's another reason to cancel.

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

As always, my position on emdashes is use them they are wonderful. I even made a tool to get em. emdash.fan

SANTA 🎅 I know him!

The doc had a sweet hi-fi and fishtank.

I recently spent some time in the hospital, which caused me to reflect on how we watch the type of retro garbage in hospitals and hotel rooms and on planes that we'd never watch at home: www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

Love it.

Good morning Chicago! Interesting how the snow cover changes the pre-dawn ambient light.

3 things about Roy Rowland’s THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T. [1953] 1. Parachute shirttail. 2. Lock-me-tight. 3. "I want my cutie chamois booties with the leopard skin bows/I want my pink-brocaded bodice with the fluffy, fuzzy ruffs” #3things #movies #drsuess #filmsky 📽️

this has become a very important video to me

Halls: decked.

Rewatched THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T and it's such a mind-blowing delight. That's how you make a fantasy musical, folks.

If you see this repost with your positive model of masculinity.

Made it all the way through. Blech. My friend Logan really nails how I feel: boxd.it/7VebN1

A lot of Peter Falk on my timeline this morning, and I'm 100% here for it.

Columbo is representation for disheveled bleary eyed Italians muttering and looking for coffee

Doing interviews today for my Frank Gehry's obituary, one of his friends told me the architect was good friends with actor Peter Falk. I ran out of time before I could include that. But imagine the conversations those two must've had.

Giving WICKED a chance. Halfway through. What a profoundly artificial, depressing experience.

Heck yes!

3 things about Preston Sturges’ HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO [1944] 1. Burning the mortgage at the pulpit. 2. “I never felt better in my life, except I never felt worse.” 3. Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith. #3things #movies #prestonsturges #war #cinema #filmsky 📽️

It's Bandcamp Friday! If you like gnarly 80s synths, shimmery gongs, and disquieting horror movie vibes, might I suggest Soft Focus? softfive.bandcamp.com/album/domest...

Corporations are not going to save cinema. We, all of us who care about movies, have to save cinema.

For @letterboxd.social Journal’s list of Underseen Winter Holiday Favorites, I wrote about THE SILENT PARTNER, a nasty, horny little Hitch-shocker of Canadian arthouse-grindhouse and icy unpredictability.

So I started making a new documentary today. Do you like Chicago tavern-style pizza?

Hannah reminds us why we have a cabinet with "talents" like Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, RFKJr and Pam Bondi...

okay this sounds dumb but if you only have shredded cheese and want to make mac and cheese, can you WASH the added starch off the the cheese to get less graininess? i need a cheese scientist

MELLOW XMAS GROOVES Sorta lounge, sorta soul, sorta cool, sorta chill. Culled from the catalog of Chess, Cadet, Blue Note, and others. tidal.com/playlist/fe4... #tidal #playlists

🎞️35MM Frames from REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE🎞️ James Dean, Natalie Wood & Sal Mineo star in Nicholas Ray's still powerful coming-of-age melodrama. Playing Tuesday December 9th at 7pm Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)"

people getting their spotify wrapped today: it's a great time to switch to another service. spotify is doubling and tripling down on taking ICE's business and running ads. switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.

This is just straight up bonkers. ANGEL DOWN is a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2025.

What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party:

Great news for film lovers in Chicago. 🎥

Why am I tempted to down an edible and check this out?

This review from @danielkraus.com means so much to me. Like, wow, he gets it! letterboxd.com/danielkraus/...

"Vinnie Deserio once said that the reason Dave & I worked so well together is that he takes the ordinary and makes it seem extraordinary, and I take the extraordinary and make it seem ordinary. Maybe so; it sounds good, anyway." Barry Gifford remembers David Lynch: www.artforum.com/columns/davi...

Support libraries whilst procuring some sweet merch!

Time for my annual appeal for bakeries to sell holiday cookie blanks — cookie-cutter sugar cookies with NO decoration, nothing else, not bundled with any decorating elements or anything — so lazy ppl like me can buy them and decorate them at home

Share this one around the holiday table

Nathan needs our help.

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

Don’t know if you heard, but it snowed in Chicago. 8.4 inches at O’Hare, the snowiest November day on in Chicago ever. And of course I had to go out into it, because I’m an idiot.

We plowed through all 6 episodes of THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION this weekend. Really engrossing. How many millions did likewise? Couldn't be more urgent or timely.

How have I never seen this? Just added it to my queue.

Hmmm, needs more snow maybe 🤔?

It's snowing! #Chicago

This snow is deceptively heavy. Be careful as you try to stay ahead of it today. And make sure you log your shoveling sessions on Apple Fitness and Strava under “snow sports.”

Happy Birthday to @thejoedante.bsky.social ! Here's a snapshot of the amazing time I got to share a Schlitz with Joe. He was in town for a rare screening of THE MOVIE ORGY.