Some words on THE SMASHING MACHINE, a movie that is basically a beat-by-beat remake of the documentary but strangely lethargic and lacking in the doc's intensity and emotion: vaguevisages.com/2025/09/17/t...

Another one from TIFF: Gianfranco Rosi’s BELOW THE CLOUDS uses its central object, Mt. Vesuvius, like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey - connecting humanity and community in Naples through the ages from violent tragedy to future discovery vaguevisages.com/2025/09/17/b...

You better buy and learn how to use firearms before they make them illegal for everyone who doesn't have the word "Property of Trump" with a heart tatooed on their ass.

Another one from TIFF: Gianfranco Rosi’s BELOW THE CLOUDS uses its central object, Mt. Vesuvius, like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey - connecting humanity and community in Naples through the ages from violent tragedy to future discovery vaguevisages.com/2025/09/17/b...

Apple TV shows either don’t exist to anyone on earth, or they exist too much to too many people. Zero in between

LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, 1979)

My 5 fav performances of the decade so far: Amanda Seyfried - Seven Veils Sidney Flanagan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods Mammooty - Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakam Mike Faist - West Side Story

My TIFF reviews have slowly started coming out. I wrote here about Oliver Laxe's SIRĀT. A death-rattle not for the end of the world, but our collective indifference to the end of the world: vaguevisages.com/2025/09/11/s...

In 2016, CNN asked famously, "what is this 4... chan??" and it took them ten fucking years to get to the question "what is a groyper?" No wonder journalism is dead

My TIFF reviews have slowly started coming out. I wrote here about Oliver Laxe's SIRĀT. A death-rattle not for the end of the world, but our collective indifference to the end of the world: vaguevisages.com/2025/09/11/s...

James Whale is such a simple but incredible name for a film director

I wonder if you're one of those actors who played some bit non-mob part in The Sopranos like a pizza store owner who gets tortured or a garbage man who gets lit on fire and then several years later you get cast as a mob boss in a mafia film it feels like being made

Don't be fooled, he's eating his 12th fish filet McDonalds meal of the week and his heart is working like the CERN hadron collider through it. He is invincible

The fact that "The Rizzler" has handled internet fame this well makes me think there's an ORPHAN (2009) situation going on here

I don't have any particular reason for wanting this but I would really like a Jon Bois style video series about Henry Darger

Kinda fun you can just watch the full 2013 restoration of von Stroheim's FOOLISH WIVES on Wikipedia

The fact that a lot of people seem to agree both Beavis & Butthead Do the Universe and the King of the Hill reboot have successfully navigated social changes from the 90s to today is a huge win for Mike Judge

Yknow I thought after liking Delirious and Living in Oblivion quite a bit that I would find Double Whammy to be an interesting off-kilter misunderstood fun time that shouldn't have gotten relegated to DTV but no, it is embarrassingly bad.

In case you missed it, I wrote up a brief word at Screen Slate on Aki Kaurismäki’s THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE. Perhaps his most urgent film and one of my fav films of the 21st century: www.screenslate.com/articles/oth...

The cool thing about movies that have different versions and scans and transfers and cuts is you can just keep watching the one you like best 🙂

NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer, 1964

Was randomly thinking about The Matrix movies, and I think outside of the highway chase in Reloaded, my favorite scene in the whole series is Neo's first meetings with The Oracle.

For @vaguevisages.bsky.social, wrote some words on the new 4K restoration of NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER, playing right now at IFC @ifccenter.bsky.social and releasing on physical disc later this year via Radiance @filmsradiance.bsky.social and KINO Lorber @kinolorber.com: vaguevisages.com/2025/08/07/n...

For @vaguevisages.bsky.social, wrote some words on the new 4K restoration of NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER, playing right now at IFC @ifccenter.bsky.social and releasing on physical disc later this year via Radiance @filmsradiance.bsky.social and KINO Lorber @kinolorber.com: vaguevisages.com/2025/08/07/n...

FLORENTINA HUBALDO, CTE (Lav Diaz, 2012)

Fighting against “emdash = chapgpt” is my Holy War as a proud emdash user. I will die valiantly for good writing that includes usage of the emdash. They will put the emdash on my gravestone.

I don’t know if people realize the number of politicians who will need to be killed in order to make any sort of progress in this country

Going to TIFF again 👍 if you’ll be there, lmk

Top 10 of the 2020s so far just because

RETURN OF AN ADVENTURER (Moustapha Alassane, 1966)

Lots of consternation about guys who made legendary films in their early 20s. A remedy for this would be to think of Terrence Davies who was a shipping clerk before making Distant Voices, Still Lives at 43. But then also remember you're nowhere near as talented as Terrence Davies.

Once a Woke President finally takes office again, they should create an "ICE Scalpers" paramilitary like the Inglorious Basterds to go around and hunt down and scalp everyone who ever worked as an ICE agent.

We’re in such an awful situation where that thing that should happen happening to Trump would result in maybe a few hours worth of celebration before everyone realizes who the replacement is…………………

Sorry for the cross-platform contamination but LOL

“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and in some cases, ‘gals’” is gonna be in the online lexicon forever

Geraldine Chaplin in NASHVILLE is such an incredible performance and such a perfectly written character. Hilarious without explicitly doing comedy.

That new Clipse album is too good to have fucking KAWS "art" be the cover design 😕

Ok this is how you know w/o a doubt Mossad had a lot to do with the trafficking and protecting of the rape island

Carmelized onion and chili crisp spaghetti

Checking out the 70mm Fest at Music Box schedule and..... scheduling Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra back to back and putting Cleopatra as a night screening is some sick twisted shit im not gonna lie lol

Wrote about some cool Japan Cuts premieres in here including a restoration of Shunji Iwai’s debut LOVE LETTER and a surprisingly charming and funny samurai/time-travel comedy called A SAMURAI IN TIME 👇

Wrote about some cool Japan Cuts premieres in here including a restoration of Shunji Iwai’s debut LOVE LETTER and a surprisingly charming and funny samurai/time-travel comedy called A SAMURAI IN TIME 👇

One man’s “nothing ever happens” could be another man’s “week where decades are happening”

“The America Party” is the perfect name for something that has absolutely no vision or idea behind it and it just some whiny crybaby’s ego trip

THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders, 1977)

Turn Columbia University into a Hezbollah stronghold

One of the biggest hopes out of all this is that their "anti-Israel" and "antisemitism" accusations can just be ignored now. Water off the back. No one cares and no one should care

Manifesting Chris Matthews nightmares 🙏🙏🙏