Letterboxd Friday

This is an excerpt something I wrote abt the film:

Victor Erice’s CLOSE YOUR EYES

Victor Erice’s CLOSE YOUR EYES

We should all be allowed to form a giant queue and take turns pissing on Dick Cheney’s corpse

I don't really get the "Sunday Scaries" anymore because I've attained Ron Livingston in Office Space level of I don't care about my job. I get the "Sunday Fuck Everythings" now

Apparently Drake was at the game tonight. Well......

Have no fear Toronto, the Raptors annual 10th seed Play-In Tournament victory will heal you

The drunkest I've ever been was probably at a bar with 200 other Cubs fans watching that 10-inning rain delay Game 7. I can't imagine being on the losing end of something like that so apologies in advance to whoever loses tonight.

THE FOG (John Carpenter, 1980) 35mm scan

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is kinda mid Carpenter but that one line Kurt Russell (who plays some nobody delivery guy) says where he's like "If I don't come back.... call the President" had me on the floor.

The Chicago Bulls summer projection was that Buzelis is the only bright spot, Giddey *maybe* could be good and everyone else is a total wild card or flat out bad who the fuck knows. Instead, this team has 8 legitimate NBA players who are all playing in lock-step. This is crazy.

How many actors are there today who could make a Transatlantic accent sound natural? Last time I ever heard a good one in 21st century cinema is Cate Blanchette in The Aviator.

The Chicago Bulls are Undefeated and on Top of the Leastern Conference

The Sixers and the Bulls are the only undefeated teams in the East, just as we all predicted a week ago

TWO YEARS AT SEA (Ben Rivers, 2011)

WOLF'S HOLE (Věra Chytilová, 1986)

Letterboxd Friday - playing 2025 catchup

Watching Victor Wembanyama play basketball: RIP to everyone not on the Spurs for the next decade

Exactly what you want to see from Matas Buzelis in game 1 of the season. Just explosive as hell.

Smart so far winning the Marcus Smart/Draymond clown-off

Double Overtime in game 1 of the season. Load Management is going to drop MVP numbers this year

NBA Predictions: MVP: Luka Doncic (Lakers) DPOY: Victor Wembanyama (Spurs) ROY: Cooper Flagg (Mavs) 6thMan: Onyeka Okongwu (Hawks) Most Improved: Aaron Gordon (Nuggets) COY: Rick Carlisle (Pacers) NBA Finals: Nuggets vs Knicks (Nuggets in 6)

Silver's League is back

Nikola Topic receiving an NBA ring at the opening night ceremony without playing a single minute of NBA basketball yet in his career has gotta be the funniest feeling ever lol

After watching the passion of Mariners fans and seeing them get so close to triumph and knowing of their unfortunate past luck I can't help but think someone should do a movie or video series or something about their history to put it all into perspective

Congrats to the Jays YOU have just won the privilege of getting bludgeoned by Shohei GOATani

Brief thoughts on Kleber Mendonça Filho's THE SECRET AGENT for Chicago Reader. This was a cool and also sobering movie chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...

Brief thoughts on Kleber Mendonça Filho's THE SECRET AGENT for Chicago Reader. This was a cool and also sobering movie chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...

Ohhhh I thought “Bugonia” was a flower but no that’s “Begonia”.

Acting in sci-fi and fantasy movies is heavily underrated because I imagine it takes a lot for actors to believably deliver dialogue like "the brain pods zorped her whole family. They're in the Blob Dimension now" without laughing or wanting to die

You know it's all setting you guys up for maximum heartbreak when the Evil Dodgers just sweep through the World Series. Manfred's League 👁️

Idk what possessed me to do this but I reactivated by facebook after 7 years just to see what I used to post like and I was such a fucking Obama guy in the 2010s. I guess a lot of us were, he really did have a stranglehold and hypnotic spell or whatever on the population.

Some words on Rebecca Zlotowski's A PRIVATE LIFE which features some predictably great work from Jodie Foster and Mathieu Amalric and an amusing mystery-conspiracy plot that loses all its steam in the last half hour. But still fun/worth a watch: vaguevisages.com/2025/10/16/a...

RABID (David Cronenberg, 1977)

Of all the crazy body horror things Cronenberg has concocted I think venomous armpit penis from RABID is still the craziest. Few have their craziest visions so fully realized that early in their career.

RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks, 1959)

THE SEARCHERS (John Ford, 1956)

Some thoughts on Stillz's BARRIO TRISTE. Meandering and scatterbrained like a lot of Korine/EDGLRD produced output, but something beautifully strange is lurking in the shadows of this. vaguevisages.com/2025/10/13/b...

BURIAL GROUND (Andrea Bianchi, 1981) 35mm scan

The NFL is maybe the most difficult league to be consistently bad in for a long time and the Jets have been absolute garbage for 15 years straight. No other miserable team can say this, not the White Sox, not the Sacramento Kings, not the Buffalo Sabers. The Jets are unique.

I wrote this a few years ago, but I still feel like a bunch of these (namely #2,4,5,&6) are pretty underseen horror films, so posting this list as a recommendation for October again! i-d.co/article/clas...

Apologies to all the wonderful soup and rice dishes from Vietnam but there’s nothing that will top Bún chả for me

I hate to do this to my Mariners mutuals, but the most Mariners thing in the world would be losing to the Detroit Tigers

The Woke Agenda when their favorite TV liberal is under threat

I am obviously rooting for the Cubs to win the WS but I would be very happy to see the Mariners do it too. But it'll prob be someone stupid like the Phillies or the Yankees.

LAJWANTI (Pushpendra Singh, 2014) eng: The Honour Keeper

I'm sure the movie is devastating and will move millions to tears but I cannot for the life of me say the word "Hamnet" with a straight face.

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...