Another Thin Man?! In this economy?!

As the year winds down and everyone is playing year-end catch up, please don't overlook Carson Lund's EEPHUS, a meditation on mortality and the transience of time played out during a small town baseball game that is quietly one of the most remarkable films of the year.

Watched Train Dreams

Up to 450 movie watches this year.

Wildest thing happened at my screening of Branded to Kill (1967) turns out the digital file the Alamo drafthouse I went to see it didn’t come prepackaged with subtitles. So the audience spent 20 minutes trying to figure out what the characters were saying. Got a movie pass and snack coupon though.

I wrote about DOG DAY AFTERNOON and its complicated legacy among trans viewers for my reader's choice series. My co-writer Caden Mark Gardner will be discussing many of these same topics tonight on TCM before this film is shown. Please tune in! www.patreon.com/posts/144308...

Hilariously I've reported that my twitter account has been hacked and twitter doesn't think so. Even though someone posted this on my account. I don't have a cousin nor do I endorse Bitcoin/NFTs

My answer if you ask me if I want to see a Barbara Stanwyck film noir.

They Live by Night (1948) was the first film to have a tracking shot from a helicopter. Insane that Ray requested to do a chase sequence to open the film and then state it needs to be a tracking shot from a helicopter. Glad the producer had faith in Ray's vision cause its so cool.

Wicked spoilers: It is terrifying to contemplate that Glinda’s song “Popular” actually provides the whole thesis of the political landscape of Wicked.You don’t need brains/knowledge, all you need is popularity and you can become a dictator of Oz cause the citizens are stupid and easily manipulated.

So great to see college radio in all its glory featured in today's NYT. I interviewed for the piece (WFUV is at Fordham, WFMU is independent, formerly of Uppsala--such is the way with radio, which has more acronyms than the New Deal): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

My sister has still never finished this film cause of this scene. It’s been 3 decades since she first attempted to watch it.

Felt compelled to write about Pope Leo and his remarkable recent speech about cinema: www.vulture.com/article/the-...

So I really did not care for Wicked: For Good, and I ended up writing one of my longest pieces of film criticism in years (1,200+ words) expressing my criticisms. mollywoodwrites.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/w...

Watched Wicked: For Good

What do you know about Jekyll and Hyde? Probably not as much as this week's special guest, @mrasberry.bsky.social so come learn about Pre-Code movies with us, will ya? youtu.be/1hNmtJmq2TU

I got way more Wages of Fear vibes from Sirat (2025) than Mad Mad Fury Road and I think it’s because so many people have never seen The Wages of Fear(it’s at 82k watched on Letterboxd compared to 2.2 million for Fury Road) people see trucks and explosives in the desert= Fury Road.

Found out the video limit on this app is 3 minutes instead of 60 seconds. Hell yeah! Time to post some more clips

The U.S. trailer for Lav Diaz's epic #Magellan has arrived ahead of a January release. Watch: thefilmstage.com/magellan-tra...

Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

Watched Nouvelle Vague (2025) last night after watching Blue Moon (2025) and if you told me the better biopic of an artist that Linklater made in one year was not the film director one I would’ve scoffed. You can tell Linklater probably does not care for Godard’s Marxist ideology he cultivated.

Live stream today talking movie news, Pre-code movies, and DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE (1931) with special guest @mrasberry.bsky.social 1:00pm PST / 4:00pm EST youtube.com/live/WFDcRgA...

If I Had Legs I Would Kick You (2025) has given me the most uncomfortable and claustrophobic experiences I've had this year. A bold film that encourages the viewer to sympathize with the person society often ostracizes, the self-loathing mother. I was transfixed. 4/5 🌟 An extraordinary film.

Wrote a review for a film I found to shockingly mediocre. letterboxd.com/mbrasberry/f...

Still struggling to find a job that has me working 12 months instead of just 10, but at least I got up to 400 films watched this year so that’s something

Got rejected from another job and didn’t get an interview. How do people get jobs in this economy?

Favorite first watches of September

Barbara Stanwyck: Hello! Her co-stars/director: oh my god you’re so tiny I need to pick you up!

Just applied for a job that I’m way overqualified for but it pays more than my current job now. Can’t wait to be rejected for it cause I’m too overqualified cause I have a masters and the minimum requirement is an associates degree.

Martin Scorsese outmogging everyone in his first scene in Robert Redford's Quiz Show (1994)

Me at my job on Monday morning

Applied for two more jobs. Submitted about 10 applications for library jobs in about 3 weeks

If you’re still on a Redford kick I can’t recommend THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR enough. It’s Redford’s best directing work imo, and a very timely story about choosing not to be complicit in your own demise.

Candid snapshot of Ida Lupino, ca. 1942

Just happened upon this old interview with Peter Weller, full of interesting stuff I’d never heard before. “Sounds like a fascinating guy,” I thought. Then I saw the byline. www.vulture.com/2013/05/pete...

Quiz Show Jeremiah Johnson All the Presidents Men

that endless feeling (for too long now)

Love the mileage Prince got out of singing about the amazing buttocks of his love interests.

Watched The Sting (1973) in full for the first time last night. I get it now.

"To take a position against genocide is certainly not an antisemitic thing to do," says feminist scholar Judith Butler, who faces possible investigation by the Trump administration as part of its crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

Got the best poster ever, but it’s so big it’s gonna take up a whole wall.

Gonna attempt to post more here. We’ll see how it goes

Ever think about how sexy Mae West was

I'm still shocked Preston Sturgess got away with character discussing trading sexual favors for money with a man dubbed "The Wienie King" in The Palm Beach Story (1942) during the peak of the Hays Code. They even say sex during a time people in films/tv couldn't say pregnant.

I have watched 3 Randolph Scott westerns and I am officially Randolph Scott pilled.

Monday. Tired and aching but surviving

These viral interview moments that completely ignore the work being promoted reminds me of this Simpsons joke with Robert Frost