I already had a strong top 10 for this year, even before playing catchup with The Mastermind, One Battle After Another, and The Secret Agent, which all lived up to the hype. Yay movies?

Although I’ve seen it several times over however many years, I can never remember anything but the basic plot outline of The Mysteries of Lisbon, so it’s always like watching it for the first time. Total masterpiece.

The number of times I’ve watch Jake Paul take that punch

Anyone else play the game where you turn on @criterionchannl.bsky.social Watch Live just to see how long it takes you to identify the movie? Tonight I got Lost Highway in a split-second because nothing else looks like a David Lynch living room.

The first titles have been announced for Berlin. I'm going to assume this is a kind of sequel to Museum Hours and, therefore, will be my favorite film of 2026. www.berlinale.de/en/2026/prog...

(I've only finished two Spielberg movies since AI, and the trailer for the new one looks terrible. I'm a bad cinephile.)

I get to spend time alone with my kids every morning. We talk about stuff and make fart jokes and listen to music together. It's a perfect way to start the day. I miss drop-off during the summer, when the girls are sleeping in while I make my coffee in an empty kitchen. This guy sucks.

A classic social media prompt inspired by my listening to Sting's The Soul Cage for the billionth time: What's the most embarrassing album you love?

The news is messing with me because 20 years ago two people I loved were murdered in a similar way by their adult addict son, so now all I can think about is the years and years of pain and violence in that house, and the effort it took for everyone to get up each day and pretend everything was fine

Important life update: we have two new fosters, and they're of the "can I get in your lap and purr?" variety. My children have named them Scoobert and Rudy. We hope to eventually get sibling three, also an all-black ball of fluff, who is recovering from surgery.

I've been watching Reichardt movies for 20 years, yet I still spent the first half of The Mastermind frustrated because it wasn't the movie I thought it was. Once JB hits the road & I realized what the film *actually* is, I had a stupid grin on my face for the next hour & immediately started it over

New movies are too damn long

I'm upgrading my home theater for the first time in more than a decade, which means I'm getting back into the physical media game. What are the must-have 4K releases? (My 80yo mother wants my Amazon wish list pronto.) So far it includes Rear Window, Blue Velvet, and Zombie/7th Victim.

If anyone could help me see Henry Fonda for President, that would be great.

I've told this story often, but after I interviewed Zhao Tao in 2016, I asked if I could take a photo for the piece. When I picked up my camera, she straightened her back, tilted her head slightly, looked down the lens, and became a movie star. It was the damnedest thing.

Over the weekend I read (and can highly recommend) Robert P. Jones's White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. It was comforting in way to read a rigorous statistical analysis of survey data that confirmed the anecdotal evidence of institutional racism around me.

I wish a piano would fall from a great height onto Jimmy Fallon.

Why do I see videos of these men failing to do a pull up like once a week

I just roasted a $6 chicken in my air fryer, and it was ten times better than my thanksgiving turkey.

Best Music Score, Winner: Kangding Ray, SIRĀT

Rereading To the Lighthouse for the first time in 30 years makes me want to start a middle-aged book club in which we read great novels that we could not possibly have understood when we first encountered them in college.

Does every know NO OTHER CHOICE is getting a one-day-only IMAX release on Monday? I'm happy to see Knoxville's screening is already more than half sold.

A line of peace might appear if we restructured the sentence our lives are making, revoked its reaffirmation of profit and power, questioned our needs, allowed long pauses . . .

What are four Christmas movies to know you by? #filmsky

The FIFA prize is perfect because Trumps's a big dumb baby who gets to feel like a real boy and literally everyone else gets to point at him and laugh.

One of the best venues in Knoxville only books the very worst music. Like, I assume it's their business model. "There is a huge audience in Knoxville for shitty music; we will meet that need."

I don't know if the world will get any better when all of the Boomer politicians finally go away, but I'm really looking forward to that day.

Last night, as the middle school choir was quietly preparing to sing their second carol, a kid in the audience loudly barfed. The choir soldiered on. Meanwhile the kid stood up, walked past them, and continued barfing into his own shirt. I should be better than this, but that shit was *hilarious*.

Our generation was born in the final years of that anomalous five-decade period between the New Deal and Reaganomics when America made *some* effort to manage the ravages of capitalism. Some of us (myself included) believed for a while that's what America would always be. Nope!

The timing of this comment is a bit tacky, but It Was Just an Accident reminded me why I never much cared for Panahi in traditional narrative mode. It's just not a well-made movie, and the last 20 minutes are especially bad.

Michel Picolli! www.imdb.com/name/nm06815...

Thought I’d found one this morning but when I submitted the order it was immediately cancelled.

Always fun to look up random pre-Code actors.

Watching To Have and Have Not, which if remade today would star Ryan Gosling and a really hot 19yo, I guess. Maybe Bill Murray in the Walter Brennan role?

We need more perfect 80-minute movies.

I overcooked the goddamn turkey

Found the discussion I needed after listening to "Trinidad" for the fifth time.

For the last month, my algorithm has been screaming "Listen to Geese!" I finally gave in, and ... the algorithm was right. The first great Gen Z rock band? www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIol...

A hilariously terrible idea

Tbh I was hoping Trump would do something about grocery prices because thanksgiving is crazy expensive this year

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love. (I Can't Sleep is top-3 Denis.)

Appalachia

I almost made it five minutes into GDT's Frankenstein

I woke up this morning thinking about the time in 2008 when I saw The Duke Spirit open for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and they rocked so hard they made BRMC look like a bunch of posers (I left early).

It says something about Trump's health that he's passing up a chance to be taller than Mamdani in the press.

First four that come to mind ... Blue Velvet Emergency Kisses Where is the Friend's House? (or Homework) Do the Right Thing

I started my top-10-is-due-next-week film binge last night with Familiar Touch, which I loved for many reasons, the most important being Kathleen Chalfrant, who gives the best performance I've seen in years. In the character's brief moments of lucidity, she brings a full, fascinating person to life.

Big takeaway from conversations about film marketing and distribution at Film Fest Knox: Before you do the algorithmic breakdown of your targeted micro-audiences, you have to begin with the larger subset "People who watch movies." I'm not sure Hot Ones, Track Star, and Subway Takes fit the criteria?

Still committed to this. I also now block basically all podcasters, and my experience of social media is dramatically improved. Highly recommended.