Speaking of Jeff Hiller, I've been listening to the audiobook of Actress of a Certain Age, and it's *fantastic*. It's worth a listen for the Isabelle Huppert anecdote alone.

The Terminator Blue Velvet Ran Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

Jeff! Hiller!

I was indeed the only person at CHRISTY last night. Good movie! Almost as shocking as Sydney Sweeney's physical transformation was Merritt Wever's transformation into an irredeemable bitch.

Just saw trailers for both JAY KELLY and SENTIMENTAL VALUE. Both open in Calgary on Friday… but only at the other theater chain.

Will I be the only person at this final evening screening of CHRISTY in Calgary? Let’s find out!

I demand that competition shows get rid of surprise family reunion episodes, because I don’t need to be bawling through an episode of Top Chef Canada.

Update: I found and surpassed the Free Shipping threshold, so happy slightly belated birthday to me, I guess.

I really want to support the continued existence of physical media, but I'm not sure I'm willing to pay $22 for "standard shipping" of one $40 blu-ray.

Well, I guess I'll be going to Toronto at the end of February.

Good morning.

Just watched the first episode of the new PROJECT RUNWAY CANADA, and I am *very* happy to report that it is a real PROJECT RUNWAY and not the nonsense of the latest season of the US version from this summer.

My Scorsese Top Five (unchanged since the last time): 1. Silence 2. The King of Comedy 3. The Age of Innocence 4. The Last Temptation of Christ 5. Taxi Driver

PREDATOR: BADLANDS: cinema! Though I think they missed a marketing opportunity by not describing it as “the delightful adventures of a twink and his fag hag.”

Look, NO ONE is as surprised as I am at how much I liked BUGONIA. It’s the only Lanthimos other than SACRED DEER that I’ve actually liked.

How much am I, a longtime Lanthimos non-fan, going to hate BUGONIA? Let’s find out!

It amuses me to watch Americans grumble about the elimination of the penny. Canada got rid of its penny over a decade ago, and it was a good thing. One of the better things the Harper government did, imo.

For once, apparently I agree with Kim Kardashian (?!?!).

PLURIBUS: I have pretty much no idea what the show is going to be, but yeah, I’m all in.

We’re about to watch the first episode of Pluribus. Jamie hasn’t watched Better Call Saul, so I reminded him that Rhea Seehorn was the “gash of least resistance” on the finale of Veep.

Best first viewing: Kurosawa’s RAN. On the big screen, simply overwhelming. Also, a shout-out to Cineplex’s David Lynch retrospective in April. Seeing seven of his movies on the big screen in such a short period (even though I had, of course, seen them all before) fundamentally rewired my brain.

Inspired by their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction: ”Seven Nation Army” is obviously the biggest White Stripes song, but what’s the *best* White Stripes song? My vote: either “The Air Near My Fingers” or “Catch Hell Blues”.

Fellas, are women too emotional for motherhood?

Concur 100%.

You should brace yourselves for the shocking revelation that I saw the new Guillermo del Toro movie and I did not like it.

Hey, what time is the last GO Train tonight?

I don’t really have a horse in this race, and I could have seen Woo’s THE KILLER on the big screen tonight. I think I made the right choice to watch Game 7.

Reminder: the proper time to judge the effect of Daylight Saving Time is in June and December when days are longest and shortest, not the weekends of the time change.

Got bored so I decided to see what’s happening on That Other Site, and apparently JD Vance is fighting with Ezra Levant.

Richard Linklater's other great movie of 2025 is in theaters now, before hitting Netflix in a couple of weeks. Some critics dismissed NOUVELLE VAGUE at Cannes, but this great review from @szacharek.bsky.social really gets at why and how the movie is so wonderful.

BLUE MOON holds up VERY well on a second viewing. Probably my favorite movie of the year.

Once more with feeling…

Saw the proshot Groff/Radcliffe/Mendez MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG tonight. I have some minor quibbles with the (movie) direction, but that was outstanding. Daniel Radcliffe’s “Franklin Shepard, Inc.”, my goodness. Also: Jacob Keith Watson, call me.

We've done plenty of scary movie posts leading up to Halloween. How about scary TV episodes? Here's one: the 1986 AMAZING STORIES episode "Mirror, Mirror" starring Sam Waterston, Helen Shaver, and Tim Robbins and directed by Martin Scorsese. I was 12 when it aired and it *messed me up*.

Even though I didn't mean to, I (like many of you) binge-watched MR. SCORSESE in one night. It's really good! And I wanted more! And I can't believe his entire 21st century output (except for HUGO, which wasn't even mentioned, wtf) was all covered in one episode.

Do you think the McDonald's marketing folks tried saying "Peel Like A Winner!" out loud before deciding on it as a slogan?

Do you like spaghetti, but wish it was messier AND harder to eat? Then you’re going to love bucatini.

I'm still mulling this over, but my main reaction to ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is that the movie is much more interested in Bob and Lockjaw and Sensei, but I was much more interested in Perfidia and Deandra and Willa.

I don’t know, Amazon Prime, I don’t think David Hyde Pierce was in The Terminator. (IMDB has that part played by “David Michels.”

Finally caught up with ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER today. It’s good! But my initial reaction is that it’s got a couple of not-insignificant flaws that prevent me from falling for it completely. I’m gonna sleep on this one.

Concur 100%

There’s a Booster Juice ad with Dion Phaneuf and Elisha Cuthbert where Dion keeps pronouncing it “chipolte” and it’s making me crazy. Like, did no one ask him to do a second take?

I expected this, but it's great to have confirmation.

As more people get to see Panahi's brilliant IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, I'm very curious to hear how general audiences respond to it. There was *a lot* of laughter when I saw it in Calgary a few weeks ago.

My lowbrow list: TREMORS (1990) DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004) SAW (2004) PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2007 or 2009, depending on how you count release date)

Quote this with the first four horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. PSYCHO (1960) ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) DRESSED TO KILL (1980) SAFE (1995)

THE SMASHING MACHINE: this movie is not nearly good enough to be able to pull off using “Jungleland”.

Well well well… looks what’s coming back to the corner (almost) of Spring Garden Rd and South Park St in Halifax.

My current sports-related pet peeve: The Grand Slam of Curling website. It should not be this hard or take this much clicking to see the scores for all matches that have been completed.

SUNSET BOULEVARD came out in 1950, and was about an actress who’d been a silent film star… say 25-30 years earlier. A similar movie today would be about an actress who’d been a huge indie star in 90s Sundance movies. And of course it could star no one but Parker Posey.