First full day of being a Dad

Can confirm my daughter's first ever music to hear since birth is the Godzilla theme

Holy shit. I'm a Dad.

Update: Wife finally gave up and got an epidural, and meanwhile I just discovered the false vacuum decay theory while scrolling some cosmology stuff, and thus am triying to get my mind to stop freaking out

Oh snap, I'm gonna meet my daughter soon

The International Film Society Critics Association, of which I am a voting member of, announced our winners for this year's film awards. Its a clean sweep of 3 for 3 for SINNERS winning Best Picture among all the groups I am in: 🔗 ifscritics.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/f...

The International Film Society Critics Association, of which I am a voting member of, announced our winners for this year's film awards. Its a clean sweep of 3 for 3 for SINNERS winning Best Picture among all the groups I am in: 🔗 ifscritics.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/f...

You can now read my quick impressions on some of the films from the previous month that I caught up with, including: - #Greenland2Migration - #PeopleWeMeetOnVacation - #TheRip - #MercyMovie - #ReturnToSilentHill - #SendHelp - #TheWreckingCrew 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/january2026

You can now read my quick impressions on some of the films from the previous month that I caught up with, including: - #Greenland2Migration - #PeopleWeMeetOnVacation - #TheRip - #MercyMovie - #ReturnToSilentHill - #SendHelp - #TheWreckingCrew 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/january2026

The nominees for the best in film for 2025 for the International Film Society Critics, of which I am a voting member of, are now out! ifscritics.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/s...

The nominees for the best in film for 2025 for the International Film Society Critics, of which I am a voting member of, are now out! ifscritics.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/s...

Baby Shower Day

What's happening in Minnesota is much bigger than our silly awards season stuff, but its not a coincidence why the Best Picture race is down to the two movies that it is.

Looking forward to all the "patriotic" bullshit we're gonna have shoved down our throats for this America 250 crap. "The greatest country in the world" doesn't do this to its citizens.

ICE killed someone else. This is fucking terrifying. The government is waging a full scale war against its own citizens and excusing murder. We live in scary times and the media is under-reporting how serious this has become. Dem leaders are still resorting to strongly worded letters.

Its going to win Animated & Song...unfortunately

We "gassed up" the fact she wins in a pretty red CD. Her voting record sucks ass and she's still better than the typical R that would be there otherwise.

~78% correct in a year where Oscar noms were announced before other precursors, and there were some shocking snubs. My best performance yet.

Swing voters in basically every poll these days

The President is clearly sundowning in this press conference. Where's all the tweets from those who obsessed with Biden's mental missteps? Where's the media obsession? Like, the dude is clearly going downhill.

the best Oscars analysis out there 👇 Luis' write-ups won me first place at an Oscars watch party's ballot prediction last year

ICYMI, my *final* Oscar nomination projections are out, including my analysis over at 'Ordinary Times'. We are looking locked for the 1st ever Best Picture lineup with 2 horror films, but will we get the 1st ever lineup with 3 international films? 🔗 ordinary-times.com/2026/01/19/9...

ICYMI, my *final* Oscar nomination projections are out, including my analysis over at 'Ordinary Times'. We are looking locked for the 1st ever Best Picture lineup with 2 horror films, but will we get the 1st ever lineup with 3 international films? 🔗 ordinary-times.com/2026/01/19/9...

The President might be hiding that he had a stroke. We’re flirting with regime change abroad without a plan. The health department is rolling back life-saving practices. Innocents are being snatched off the streets by thugs, stripped of their rights, and that’s assuming those thugs don’t murder them

We're all seriously downplaying and not talking enough about what's happening in Minnesota. If you told some centrist pundit this would be happening a year ago, they would've told you to stop smoking crack. Don't listen to those clowns again. Orange man was indeed bad, always has been.

You can now read my written review for arguably the first event film of 2026, #28YearsLater - The Bone Temple: 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/28yearslat...

You can now read my written review for arguably the first event film of 2026, #28YearsLater - The Bone Temple: 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/28yearslat...

Tonight's movie

The Critics Association Of Central Florida, of which I am a voting member for, announced our winners for the best in 2025. Both SINNERS and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER dominated in mentions with us: nextbestpicture.com/the-2025-cri...

The Critics Association Of Central Florida, of which I am a voting member for, announced our winners for the best in 2025. Both SINNERS and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER dominated in mentions with us: nextbestpicture.com/the-2025-cri...

You can now read my written review for the first 2026 film that I've covered, #PrimateMovie: 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/primate

You can now read my written review for the first 2026 film that I've covered, #PrimateMovie: 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/primate

First movie of 2026

My favorite piece of the year to write has arrived; presented for the first time ever as exclusively for my newsletter, my top twenty favorite films from 2025: 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/bestof2025

Your boy is at a Birthing Class this evening

When It Was All Said And Done, These Were The 2025 Films That Ended Up My Absolute Favorites From The Year. Cheers To 2025, And On To 2026...

One Of The Biggest Themes Among My 2025 Favs Was "Screw Fascism"

These Films Came Really Close To Cracking My Top 20

Timothee Chalamet Starring Films Have Now Made 4 Of My Last 5 Years' Favs Lists

4 Sequels Made It Into My 2025 Favs

3 Horror Films Made My Best Of 2025 List, 2 Of Them In The Top 5

4 International Films Made My "Best Of" List For 2025, The Most Since 2021

4 PTA Films Have Now Ended Up My #1 Of Their Year

My Favorite Film From Each Of The Last Four Years

My favorite piece of the year to write has arrived; presented for the first time ever as exclusively for my newsletter, my top twenty favorite films from 2025: 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/bestof2025

The Puerto Rico Critics Association, of which I am a voting member, just announced our winners for the best in film for 2025. SINNERS won Best Picture, and fellow Boricua Benicio del Toro won two awards from us: nextbestpicture.com/the-2025-pue...

The Puerto Rico Critics Association, of which I am a voting member, just announced our winners for the best in film for 2025. SINNERS won Best Picture, and fellow Boricua Benicio del Toro won two awards from us: nextbestpicture.com/the-2025-pue...

Happy New Year! 2026 will offer major life changes for me, and they will in turn affect the way I tackle new content over at my newsletter, going forward: 🔗 www.mendezmoviereport.com/p/personal20...