I’m in the Guardian today with an article about the passionate campaign to renew Our Flag Means Death and how these fan led campaigns are getting bigger and more elaborate - billboards, plane flyovers… you name it. #OurFlagMeansDeath #RenewAsACrew www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Dunno know why I just thought of this, but one of my fondest memories of the Edinburgh Fringe was when I got drunk on absinthe the night before and then went off on some poor artist who made the mistake of shoving a flyer in my face and shouting. Friends thought I was about to start a brawl.

Hitchcock's SECRET AGENT (1936) is really a wild film. John Gielgud and Peter Lorre as the Abbott and Costello of espionage. Overly elaborate plot involving chocolate. 2/3s of the film playing like a screwball comedy, punctuated suddenly by murder. It deserves to be seen more.

I’m not sure a gay woman has ever been allowed to be as hot in a mainstream movie as Kate MacKinnon was in GHOSTBUSTERS (2016), especially this scene:

Man, I come on here and immediately see people dunking on America Ferrara in Barbie. Y'all need to find some whimsy or something.

Guess I had more to say. citizendamepod.com/our-flag-mea...

Me watching The Lodger: LOOK AT IT! JUST LOOK AT IT! THE...THE EXPRESSIONISM!

Congrats to @karenmpeterson.bsky.social on going to a place that might be colder than NYC this weekend.

Stunning development in scholarly publishing. NYPL will be digitizing "entire out-of-print backlists" of multiple academic presses and making them available. The Scholarly Press Backlist Revival project shows a striking thoughtfulness in overcoming perceived and real IP and contractual barriers.

It's me. I'm the social media manager who has been grumpy.

My fave thing about getting a new tattoo is seeing it and briefly going "OMG, whose tattoo is that?!" Mine. It's my tattoo.

Yeah, I'm fucking gutted by the OFMD cancellation, not least because it seems very pointless since it was an actually popular and critically acclaimed show. But also they can't take it away from me, so fuck you too, HBO. citizendamepod.com/wherever-you...

I had almost forgotten that Twitter still exists and then I see this...

MISSISSIPPI MASALA is a wonderful film about race and culture and belonging and love and I am sorry but I was too distracted by how fucking hot young Denzel Washington was.

OK, but this is very, very funny.

Greatly enjoying not giving a flying fuck about awards this year. I didn't even know there were awards going on.

Hitchcock also called people who nitpicked things for being unrealistic "the plausibles": "Let's be logical. If you're going to analyze everything in terms of plausibility and credibility, then no fiction film can stand up to that approach, and you wind up with a documentary."

I've just now remember that I do have a job.

Finally got around to KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. Man, that Scorsese guy sure does know his stuff.

Ah, now we entertain the existential state of the week between Christmas and New Year's, when there is both nothing and everything.

Pratchett got it, man.

We had a lot of fun with this.

Amazing how I do not give a shit about whatever the contemporary film discourse is anymore. I'd much rather talk about Rita Hayworth's blood lust in BLOOD AND SAND.

Getting out of Brooklyn the weekend before Christmas is a true ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK situation.

WHEN DO WE GET TO CATAPULT THIS MOTHERFUCKER INTO THE SUN?

Well, my mom had to tell me that I'm 37, not 38, so that's how things are going.

Well, apparently coming out does actually change your entire outlook on life. That's...that's pretty neat.

Our final episode of 2023 is here! We discuss holiday rom-coms, including THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE HOLIDAY, and the unfairly maligned LAST CHRISTMAS. Thanks for listening and we'll see you in 2024! citizendame.podbean.com/e/episode-26...

I will not abide Bluesky pulling a fucking Twitter. I will just block you.

Being off of Twitter means that I only barely see moments of the Discourse and then when I do, I realize how incredibly fucking stupid the Discourse is.

I would like to say thank you to Robert Eggers, in advance, for making a movie that is 150% my jam.

Truly making a run for "most hated mayor," isn't he?

I have said this many times, but Dracula emerging from his coffin in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein literally changed my life. I was four. (My poor father has yet to forgive himself, though I point out that I now have a tattoo of Dracula on my arm.)

I posted this on Facebook back in 2015.

The Dames are joined by a very special guest to discuss Christmas horror! Come for the hordes of naked elves, stay for the hordes of naked elves.

NGL, I'm kinda pissed at everyone who put me off seeing LAST CHRISTMAS.

In 1956 Wendy Toye was nominated for a Live Action Short Oscar for ON THE TWELFTH DAY, which takes “The 12 Days of Christmas” to its literal ends. If you're in UK it's worth renting the restored HD version for £1 on BFIPlayer, it's so detailed, but for those of us outside… youtu.be/LvcToNJMjvU?...

When your building complex has Facebook drama and winds up in Curbed

Gene Kelly's colossal ego is what killed the big movie musical. In this essay, I will...

Got my dog a new puzzle toy but I can't go pick it up until I'm not infectious. Life is pain.

My main problem with musicals of the 1950s is the preponderance of Gene Kelly. Can't avoid the sonofabitch.

Someday, I'll be able to breathe through my nose again.

Congrats to me, a person who has finally managed to get a cold again after three years. (Tested for Covid twice, nada, so I do think it's your bog-standard winter cold.)

My dog has fully given up that I'm ever going to bed at a reasonable time ever again.

We should never forget that Twitter was an absolute shit-storm of doxxing and toxicity long before Musk took it over. Let it die.

Still know all the lyrics to "Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?"

I, uh, had something to say. citizendamepod.com/wherever-you...

We, uh...we shoulda started with THE THIN MAN...

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Man, BLAST OF SILENCE on Criterion is fucking fascinating. Heavy-handed in so many ways, but also gorgeous and moving in others?