No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.

If you're curious, here's my top 10 of 2025 courtesy of a TFCA Instagram story. Alt text provided.

So, same old same old.

Swimming with morays just to eel something.

END OF DAYS rules. Schwarzenegger makes a coffee/Pepto Bismol/Chinese takeout/pizza smoothie for breakfast and gets his ass kicked in hand-to-hand combat with Miriam Margolyes, and Gabriel Byrne punches a hole through Udo Kier's head, and Mark Margolis plays the Pope.

Welp, Google sent me AI-animated photos of my cat. Nope. N'uh-uh. Line crossed.

Submitted a top 10 to a poll to be a good sport but I doubt I'll agree with it a year from now, which I guess is the fun of making one, like taking a picture of your new haircut.

"You see this, this is Hi-Fi. Okay? High Fidelity. You know what that means? That means this is the highest quality fidelity. Hi-Fi. Those are two very important things to have in a stereo system."

I’m facilitating the rehoming of two sweet cats who belonged to a friend who recently passed unexpectedly. They deserve a stable place to land. 2-3 year old bonded pair, one male one female. Please send me a DM if you have the interest and ability to care for these sweet voids. Located in Oakland.

Here's that comic I did with @lanedraws.bsky.social for @maconblair.bsky.social's TOXIC AVENGER. What an honor.

Going to watch this as God and Joe Dante intended: alone with my cat.

⏰️⏰️⏰️ One day left to apply for the Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award! torontofilmcritics.com/features/app...

It is accomplished! My latest SHINY THINGS column is up, running down the best discs I saw this year. If I didn't include your favorite, it's probably because I didn't get my hands on it. But, uh, that's a good thing! Physical media is experiencing a renaissance, you know!

I have broken my silence on the best Blu-Rays of 2025. willsloan.substack.com/p/the-year-i...

"Saved by the Bell: The College Years" is on and Screech is wearing a Dracula cape and Kelly's high heels to a professor's funeral.

Have had this idea for a dark romcom rolling around in my head for a couple of years that I might finally put on paper in '26. The drawer of unmade scripts needs a new friend.

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

Everyone mocks the guy with a thousand cables until he has exactly the weird one you need.

For the Saturday crowd.

If you start watching THUNDERBALL now the underwater climax will end at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.

Is Trump gonna drown this baby in Lake Michigan too?

FFC review: SONG SUNG BLUE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/song...

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE opens today. It's wild! @amuredda.bsky.social reviewed it at TIFF. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...

Don't forget, if you want to hear Siskel & Ebert duet this Christmas:

My eyes welling up like Mark Anthony in FEED THE KITTY while I'm feeding my cat a tube of salmon paste and she's like, "Man, I'm just trying to eat my damn tubee, weirdo."

If you aren’t familiar with this guy, he’s been buying up domains with the names of various right wing figures and orgs and making his own websites for them and it is making them crazy. Here’s his insta www.instagram.com/wordclown?ig...

This is just beautiful. Sincere but understated. You can feel the ache of loss. Scorsese is as good a writer as he is a director and actor. My house is full of books that he contributed essays, forewords, and introductions to, and every one is a gem.

♫ Oh there’s no place like home for the holidays,

I got a new 4K player for Christmas and, wow, what a difference 8 years of technological progress makes. Didn't think 4K could look appreciably better than it already did.

And Tiny Tim, hit again and again with the live wire viciously until his eyes poached,

How did I miss this last night? Joy to the world. Joy to the goddamn world.

Propagandist for the greatest explosion of Nazism in American history doubles down on insisting Nazis be given air time on "60 Minutes" to spread lies about the people they kidnapped, tortured, and sent to concentration camps.

Holy shit, what are you doing to me "Pluribus"?

Got some interesting and probably fair feedback that I should make this point w/out mentioning how Cameron wouldn't do this to Black people. Heard that. I want to say I'm pointing out general hypocrisy & not a belief Black culture has it "better." I try to get at it w/the All Lives jab, but.. heard.

Hey is this enough? Is enough in sight now?

I picked up volume 2 of the Larry Fessenden 4Ks (with WENDIGO and THE LAST WINTER), and I have to say they're among my favourite releases of the year. Pure pleasure revisiting these films, in transfers that have an unfathomable vibrancy. (Two of them--HABIT and NO TELLING--I had only seen on VHS.)

Could someone ask India-born, Stanford-educated Google CEO Sundar Pichai why he's doing this to immigrants?

For the morning crowd.

Last time with this one

FFC 4K Ultra HD disc review: THE LONG WALK, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) and Bill Chambers. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/the-...

Will note: this is probably the direct result of workshy Bari Weiss waiting until Friday before a Sunday air date to spike the story. International rebroadcasters probably get the recordings early to vet locally and run through local standards and practices. She forgot and no one told her :)

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

"Well look, no one will go on the record so we're killing it."

James Ransone was immensely talented, immediately likeable, a husband and a father. His loss is a profound one and I'm thinking of his friends and young family.

For the Sunday evening crowd.

Sometimes, as I'm tucking my cat in for her mid-afternoon nap and telling her she's the specialest kitty in the world, I think about how I used to mock my friend Dianne for doting on her pets.

This is a side issue, but the Republican budget for these sparkly fireworks must be enormous because I've never seen one of these Nazi show ponys walk out onto a stage without them going off.