Been watching a lot of "Growing Pains" lately because I do hate myself that much, and the number of times Mike calls the petite Carol fat makes Tracey Gold's eating disorder a lot easier to understand. Another fine reason to hope Kirk Cameron burns in Hell for eternity.

All I want to know is if these movies will reveal what the H stands for.

OUTLAND opened 45 years ago today, and @soulsmithy.bsky.social tackled it for us when it landed on Blu-ray in 2012. filmfreakcentral.net/2012/08/outl...

Hey, it's Toilet Wine Friday with Byron Allen.

For the evening crowd.

The duck eggs in the backyard have multiplied from three to five and the mom duck has pretty much moved in.

Shout it from the rooftops

Wish I could do the 10 bands meme but I've only been to two concerts in my life. Fortunately one was Depeche Mode and the other was Radiohead.

Controversial opinion but everyone who appears on a reality show should be guillotined at the end of their run.

For the morning crowd

FFC review: BLUE HERON, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/05/blue...

The Man DeLorean and Grogu.

Little-known fact: the lyric "Here we are now, entertain us" was written by cats.

Bob with the heavenly voice should record ASMR videos.

Something I wish existed is the fake reality show in the deleted scenes of BLUE VELVET, which involved beauty queens competitively dragging chairs along a track-and-field course.

Jean Renoir's GROGU SAVED FROM DROWNING.

In seventh grade I accidentally set fire to my friend's bedroom carpet and said, "Quick, grab the Dustbuster and deprive it of oxygen!" It worked, and I still don't know where that came from because I was not a smart kid.

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

Was outside taking pictures of the tulips and a bunny rabbit jumped out from the bushes and hopped past me. Feel like I'm turning into Doctor Dolittle.

Back in the news.

Last night I picked up a spider just as it was about to be sucked up by my Roomba. Put it in a cup until Roomba was done, then released it. I hope it gets back to the spider kingdom and they make me a god.

The duck came back with a lady duck and now there is a nest of duck eggs in my backyard.

Siskel's annual Top 10 lists, fwiw, were routinely more interesting than Ebert's.

Looks like something went...haywire.

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have in your phone. (Here's your new Bond and your new M.)

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Have you seen the termite version of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY? It stars Clint Eatswood.

I think it's hilarious this elected official just made his legacy "the gay straw guy."

He took a sightseeing snorkel to an underwater cemetery. And everyone who let it happen should be fired. They betrayed the solemn responsibility entrusted to them to protect and preserve the dignity of the site and the people in laid to rest there.

Watching AGAINST ALL ODDS--which, against all odds, I've never seen--and it occurs to me that Jeff Bridges has made an inordinate number of movies where he's a guy minding his own business when suddenly he has to become a detective.

Any Brood fans out there, she's still available:

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

Can you imagine how great it would be if a single reporter speaking to him ever remembered that in addition to being a reporter they are also a human being and they carry the spark of life within them and can respond any way they please and that's better than having this job

ICYMI.

Has any woman ever been as radioactively uncool as Olivia Reingold?

OBSESSION opens tomorrow. I saw and liked it at last year's TIFF. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/10/tiff...

I'm so mad that Spencer Pratt is a thing again. Who's next out of the tar pit? Buttafuoco? Darva Conger?

For the morning crowd.

FFC reviews: THRASH (2026) + DEEP WATER (2026), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/05/thra...

Fuck do I care? Don't publish this shit.

when bsky doesn't like my posts

I thought Clavicular died? Was I just wishful-thinkingmaxxing?

Good lord, the Dolby Vision colours on the 4K release of SPEED RACER. (Photos are of my TV screen, so not totally accurate.)

Zohran Mamdani inherited a $12 billion budget deficit and brought it down to zero in 6 months without cutting essential services by taxing billionaires. This is why they were in a panic about his candidacy.

Was wondering why my cat put on the bandolier and war paint this morning: duck in the pool.

At Letterboxd, a list of all 205 titles that have received "Must-Own" status from Film Freak Central. (To qualify, a movie must receive four stars and score an A- or higher in at least two of the three home video-specific categories (Image/Sound/Extras).) letterboxd.com/bill_chamber...

30 years ago I made a student film set in the postapocalypse. We borrowed a yellow lab to play the dog in it, and she was such an incredible actor that I still don't understand it. She had zero training, and yet I would say, "Can you walk upstairs when I call action?" and she'd do just that.

According to Google, THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER came out 2025 years ago in the UK. You're right, A.I. is a powerful tool.