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Did not really like WAKE UP DEAD MAN!

Last minute extra shout out that I will be at TIFF starting next week if any editors need some spare coverage on a film or two 🙂 Here's my portfolio:

Priorities while in LA

I interviewed the winner of WINGS OF VOICE on Nathan Fielder's THE REHEARSAL. We talked about what contestants were really told about WINGS, whether people knew what the deal was, and how winning the "competition" changed her life. www.decodingtv.com/p/an-intervi...

About a hundred pages into PROJECT HAIL MARY and I need someone to convince me this thing is actually worth finishing because right now all I’m getting is a pretty meager sci-fi adventure with a main character who can’t stop doing nerd-tastic quippy Joss Whedon remarks

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

through the miracle of modern technology we have made one of the most beautiful and influential movies of all time look like microwaved shit

Favorite new watches July 2025 THE OX-BOW INCIDENT FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES SUPERMAN (2025) HOUR OF THE WOLF KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (DIRECTOR'S CUT) CLOUD BARRY LYNDON THE SEARCHERS EDDINGTON VIY THE NAKED GUN (2025)

I’m mad at how funny Diston simply doing a Yoda impression is to me

EDITORS: Starting to think about TIFF as I was approved for the Rotten Tomatoes/CFCA Emerging Critics grant to attend! I’ve got a couple of home outlets but would love to do a little extra work if anyone out there is looking for some coverage!

Toronto: I will be in you

AFCC member Trace Sauveur (@tracesauveur.bsky.social‬) reviews #FantasticFour which he says "is an entertaining vision of a world where superhero movies clearing the thresholds for making engaging blockbusters is something of a rule, rather than an exception" awardswatch.com/the-fantasti... #AFCC

I thought FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS wasn’t half bad, which on the current MCU curve makes it like an A+. Review for Awards Watch:

I have seen the AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH trailer in 3D. I love Cameron’s devotion to this world so much, and really value him pulling together all the resources in the world to tell dorky sci-fi fables that look legitimately technologically advanced. Looks sick, can’t wait. I’m AVATAR-pilled for life.

The only thing to understand about the pronoun thing is that just because something is outside of your lived experience doesn’t mean it’s not real or the person telling you is mistaken or you are being inconvenienced

It has been found. 4K restoration coming soon.

What I been rockin with

This is honestly what's so astounding about the deranged silos these people have funneled themselves into - I thought this was just common knowledge at this point that QAnoners were either choosing to ignore or had some inane justification for

I met my wife on Twitter 🫡

"Barry Lyndon is a slow period piece! It's boring! It's just a bunch of paintings!" Barry Lyndon opens with him blowing up his life over his horny cousin and then getting into fights with basically everyone he meets

My Criterion column this month is on my beloved dirtbag Barry Lyndon www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

Breaking in my new OLED tv with the new Criterion BARRY LYNDON 4K disc and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen God

I understand wanting to indulge in the idea that Trump is somehow implicated in the Epstein files, but Trump just doesn’t strike me as someone who would ever be unfaithful to his wife

everything else aside, man there is just no one who articulates their insane thoughts like Trump. Literally like some unearthly being trying to replicate human speech via autocrat speeches

What if I bought an OLED. What then

EDITORS: Starting to think about TIFF as I was approved for the Rotten Tomatoes/CFCA Emerging Critics grant to attend! I’ve got a couple of home outlets but would love to do a little extra work if anyone out there is looking for some coverage!

AFCC member Trace Sauveur (@tracesauveur.bsky.social‬) reviews #Superman which he says "True to its simplified title, Superman is back to square one." awardswatch.com/superman-rev... #AFCC #MovieReview #Lookup #SupermanMovie

Really liked the new Superman, which splits the difference between the old and the new by embracing the classically optimistic ideals of the character while sticking him in an exceedingly modern superhero blockbuster of inter-dimensional adventure and universe-building. More than anything: it’s fun!

Yeah but those new tracks include songs from Turnstile, Jeff Rosenstock, Fontaines D.C., 100 Gecs, Fireworks, King Gizzard, Idles, Danny Brown, and a whole bunch of other cool artists so who cares

Media literacy of right-wingers is so nonexistent I'm convinced their freaking out over the pro-immigrant themes of SUPERMAN, like, as a character and concept, is genuinely a new relevation for them. Also funny for a director to be like "my movie is about human decency" to be met with BOOOOO

Bout to see the Gunn cut

I can never tell if thy actually believe in this lazy freeloading boogeyman archetype they always fall back on or if it's a knowing bluff

As the saying goes: show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. And the United States now values xenophobia, mass deportation, and white supremacy more than anything else.

The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

honestly mostly what these fox graphics that clearly take completely for granted that the good things will be understood by the audience to be bad make me feel is that the gulf between me and the people who watch this is fundamentally insurmountable

Best first time watches of June 2025 THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME TRAINSPOTTING THE APARTMENT DRAGON INN F1 THE MOVIE DEEP BLUE SEA SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE SARABAND GOODBYE, DRAGON INN SUPERMAN (1978)

MAGA, for the people at the top, ultimately means creating a social structure wherein the working class helps enrich the wealthiest people alive, and doing so means propagating lies about how our problems are because of immigrants and “socialist” welfare programs. Absolutely sadistic ideology.

If I had to transport mounds of nitroglycerin across the rocky terrain of a dangerous jungle I would simply do it carefully and successfully

👍👍👍 (also had Bringing Up Baby and the Chantal Akerman box shipped)

‘F1 The Movie’ Review: Joseph Kosinski’s Racing Drama Hits the Apex of Expertly Designed Summer Crowd-Pleasers [A-] by @tracesauveur.bsky.social awardswatch.com/f1-the-movie...

Weird!

Tar is funnier than many of y’all’s favorite comedies

Fine fine FINE I did it

TWY forever

What were they actually gonna do here? Ask every brown-enough person for their papers to go to the fucking baseball game? This is the most slam-dunk, anti-American thing I can think of. You need a passport to go to a Major League Baseball game now? Malpractice not to make a huge deal out of this.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

DeKalb County, Georgia, voted for Kamala Harris by 67 points, and now its officials are openly collaborating with ICE to deport a member of the Spanish-speaking press. This is a despicable new low for Atlanta-area Dems and The Atlanta Way machine.

I was left equally blown away and frustrated by 28 YEARS LATER, a movie with images and sequences I will be thinking back on all the rest of this year and a sputtering back-half that, as ever from an Alex Garland script, squanders a lot of early goodwill. But man...Boyle is going crazy. Review:

Today I am eating a Fantastic Four pizza with four different flavors on one pie. You can follow along here. I can tell you right off the bat: Things have gone poorly from the moment I picked this up in the store.