Uhhhhh. Between a documentary called Blackfish and what really happened to Keiko, I think we all learned we shouldn’t keep Orcas? Is there a generation who needs to be taught this?

Just tried to zoom in on an editing timeline by leaning forward in meat space and for some reason that makes me feel old.

Wrote about the unlikely bonding of Mel Brooks and David Lynch, who both saw themselves in The Elephant Man. My Criterion column this month: www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

STARLOG on Episode 003. @fitwr.bsky.social on...dear god.

As I have previously stated, I repost Fire Walk With Me content and The Missing Pieces is ABSOLUTELY THAT.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

IT: WELCOME TO DERRY got a motion graphics Emmy nod for those titles, and surprisingly, I was invested in that happening. Good for them. The clown is everywhere.

Dr. Erin Macdonald is a badass. This week on the STARLOG podcast she schools Jordan and I about gravity, tells us about appearing on Star Trek Prodigy and why, scientifically, the Strange New Worlds musical episode happened. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

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A Scanner Darkly is 20 years old today. To mark the occasion, I spoke to Richard Linklater, producer Tommy Pallotta and its lead animators to find out how they made a cult sci-fi classic. Exclusively in Film Stories magazine: store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...

Let's call this the "official" first look at #Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, now premiering this month. I spoke exclusively with Team Avatar about the Aang Gang as adults, the animation style, and their reax to the infamous leak/shift to streaming. ew.com/avatar-aang-...

Doing the Monty Python parrot sketch but with Mitch is darkly, sadly…funny.

This week's big screening is the Live Action MOANA, and - friends - I can't with this one. I'm sure the not-Dwayne Johnson cast is fantastic and I hope everyone made their requested rates on the crew and in post but it's not for me, I'm not even gonna try.

What an album. 20 years ago, I really made my love of “I Was A Lover” my roommates’ problem.

Man, that is a lot of jobs.

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

It’s a beautiful evening, the National Mall is open and people are having a wonderful time.

This weekend is the 30th anniversary of Ain't it Cool News. Say what you will about its founder—and there's a lot to be said—but a lot of talented folks cut their teeth on that site, found their audience there, or just were influenced by the reviews & culture. Much love to all of YOU this weekend.

It’s hot out. Stay cool, listen to THE STARLOG PODCAST. Full video with David Koepp here: youtu.be/56dLA9Nxp6M

Happy Almost 4th of July! @emilystjams.bsky.social and I thought the best way to celebrate America’s 250th Birthday was by talking Southland Tales with @josie.zone! We discuss the wild cast, Venice beach, time travel, America’s last 20 years and everything else about this bonkers movie.

Happy 30th Anniversary to INDEPENDENCE DAY from @starlogmedia.bsky.social ID4 LITERALLY IN THE SKY

TAR MAN FRIDAY

THE FIRST INTERSTATE BANK WORLD CENTER BUILDING IN LOS ANGELES HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY A WEAPON FIRED FROM THE SPACECRAFT PARKED OVER THE CITY! DOWNTOWN L.A. IS ON FIRE!

It’s fine. I really don't think they flew 90 billion light years to come down here and start a fight. Get all rowdy.

The wait is over! Here are the official nominees for the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, celebrating the scream of the crop. Now it's up to YOU to choose the winners. The polls are open through July 15th, so get your votes in asap!

If you want some of the most thoughtful, insightful & most excellent House of the Dragon coverage - then you need to be reading @bertrandallain.bsky.social's HOTD reviews.

A morning alarm on my phone is the title track of this movie. I guess for 10 years?

I wrote ROAR fan fiction. In 1997 when ROAR was on, and in 1998 when the fanlore continued the one season show. Luckily for me, none of it survives, I was 13 and the base IP was ROAR.

Today on The Reveal, I revisited INDEPENDENCE DAY for the first time in 30 years. Eleanor Clift was wrong about this president. thereveal.film/independence...

The Senate is a mess.

This week’s STARLOG features screenwriter David Koepp! It’s also the 30th anniversary of ID4: Independence Day. open.spotify.com/episode/63Md...

She won!

Movies movies movies. Movies for adults. Adult movies about adult things but still with Seth Rogen. Noted Adult Seth Rogen.

I’m ready for my 30th ID4.

If Nina Totenberg accidentally published her pre-write before she was supposed to and blew Alito's retirement announcement, I am going to die laughing at my desk

So…Is Alito leaving or?

The Supreme Court is grossly wrong on trans sports. The moral panic stink is all over the issue. Protecting the trans kids starts with listening to the trans kids and this case did none of that. Gross. I hate it.

I retweet Fire Walk With Me posts.

Patches has turned last week’s most interesting @fitwr.bsky.social segment into a post and I suggest you read it both if you listened and if you didn’t listen.

Happy 78th birthday to Kathy Bates! 🎂 #KathyBates #Misery #Titanic

I can’t believe I once lived in a world without an occasional Robert Eggers makes Willem DaFoe go hard cinematic installment. youtu.be/cmjpadVj-Vk?...

I actually think I haven’t watched enough bad movies this year. Especially older bad movies. I’ve started just randomly starting things that look bad on streaming services and I found 1993’s Striking Distance, so there’s promise.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S3e2- what a series finale. What do you mean there’s more? Isn’t there always more in a history?

Finished a whole season of THE BEAR between House of the Dragon episodes.

THE INVITE: A tense, funny, tightly crafted relationship study that represents a real level up for Olivia Wilde as a director (her sense of rhythm is preternatural). The other headline is Seth Rogen’s performance, which feels nearly miraculous in its wounded, barreling tumult.

If you are like me and loved The STARLOG Podcast and also forgot you need to get your dad a late Father’s Day gift, may I suggest books?

We’re deciding the final elements of the STARLOG Podcast’s first non-pilot episode tomorrow. Excited to embark on this adventure with everyone and share our explorations of sci-fi. LLAP.