Angelica Ross is engaged to someone from Edmonton. So according to my math I’m only like 4 degrees of separation from Ryan Murphy.

2025 was the year of exploring identity in cinema.

IT: WELCOME TO DERRY is like both of the 2010s IT movies if the adult stuff in IT: CHAPTER 2 was good

Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union could do HEAT, but Pacino and De Niro couldn't do BRING IT ON.

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

Parekh really will be Calgary’s Bouchard. I think he’s been on the ice for almost every goal either team has scored.

MJ Staffers share the Best Movies of 2025. #BestOf2025

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Realizing now that Amy Grant was one of my first crushes and I listened to the CCM stuff as part of that probably says a lot about the environment I was raised in.

Me finishing Alan Wake 2

Proof of life

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible. I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.

Watching a @kalaelizabeth.bsky.social trailer/lore breakdown video. We are so back. #exodus.

Not to mention Arcanaut Studios is based here Edmonton and there is a good chance Danielle Smith will have completely turned Alberta into a giant open pit mine by then.

Last night's biggest surprise was Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, led by Casey Hudson, who directed KOTOR (and Anthem). Exciting news for lots of people... but Lucasfilm says the studio was founded this year, which means that 2030 is an *optimistic* guess. Maybe it'll be a PlayStation 7 game

MJ's @mattyhugh.bsky.social says, "THE MOTHER, THE MENACER, AND ME's screenplay is clever and engaging, enhanced by the performances of its company." #TheMotherTheMenacerAndMe is now available to watch digitally

Bond: do you expect me to talked, Bawma? Bawma: No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to go my way.

80s filmmaking is back!

So Jason Kenney is going to run for CPC leader isn’t he?

MJ’s @mattyhugh.bsky.social says, “THE MOTHER, THE MENACER, AND ME is clearly a very personal film to its own creatives behind the lens.” #TheMotherTheMenacerAndMe is available to watch digitally.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Have you preordered our latest zine? The Winter 2025 issue has been sent to the printer and ships next week, order here: www.moviejawn.com/shop/winter-...

I’m (finally) watching CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT and I still think we don’t talk enough about how not only was Malcolm McDowell in a Star Trek movie but also the CBC sitcom based on Mark Critch’s life?!?!

What relationship level is this?

Lee Harker Dale Cooper 🤝 Autistic FBI Agents

Kinda rude for Ricky Martin to go telling everyone that chick bangs. Is this a sultry latin song or a bathroom stall wall?

bumping -- I loved TRAIN DREAMS and its dual depiction of our broad irrelevance and specific responsibilities so so much. would appreciate it if you gave it a read --

Ok Vatican III absolutely rules.

I think we’re living in a world where Robert Reich is the nepo dad and Sam isn’t the nepo baby.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is going to champion Miranda and Andrea teaming up to fire the political staff and union bust right?

Film critic Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social discusses her new book “Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies” with Tessa Swehla @thebiparadox.bsky.social.

I got to meet mother at YIKES!Fest.

Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.

Baseball is bad again

My obliques are sore just watching him

MJ’s @mattyhugh.bsky.social highlights some of the great Canadian cinema he caught at this year’s Edmonton International Film Festival. #EIFF2025 #InColdLight #PortalToHell #LastStopVideoRentals #BulletInfinity #Bloodlines

Exvangelical art remains an intriguing underground movement in American pop culture.

it is fucking wild

This isn’t about students. It’s about UCP trying to break the ATA.

We either have rights or we don’t and in Alberta we don’t. We’re all gonna have to unite to fight this class warfare.

I'm so rattled by the Alberta government

To be clear, I'm also blaming those two homeruns on millennial Hanson

Pope Leo about to do what even Robert Langdon couldn’t.

“Solowoy seeks to capture how masculinity is synthesized, performed, and taught amongst the Siksika Nation.” Matt Campbell @mattyhugh.bsky.social reviews SIKSIKAKOWAN: THE BLACKFOOT from Edmonton International Film Festival.

Remember when Howard Dean’s political career was tanked because he yelled weird

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!