Our latest episode is up! Needs no introduction, really. You know it, you love it. We do, too. We talk a lot about the legacy of Candy/Hughes and the scenes that didn't make the cut that actually add context to key moments. Author Ed Daly returns. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

It's a Kino Lorber kind of day. Spent the day catching up with two powerful docs: "Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk" and "Refenstahl," two movies that could be written about together in a variety of ways. I'll be thinking about them a lot. Next up: an out-of-print blu-ray of "Star Slammer."

Don't you love getting bad news just before a screening? A movie I think is probably very good, but I couldn't enjoy a single frame of it. Sometimes you gotta cut your losses, pick up the backpack, leave the theater and circle back to the movie with a clearer head later on. But I didn't. Wish I did.

There are too many movies.

Our latest is up! Patrick Ripoll joins us to talk about a slasher movie that is not part of a series. "Don't Open Till Christmas" is a sleazy genre film from 1984 doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that's what makes it so intriguing. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

Happy to hear the news that Diane Keaton's doc "Heaven" has been fully restored and will hit cinemas in November. I wrote this a couple days ago and mentioned the movie needs rediscovery and a nice home on physical media. Yay! www.collinsouter.com/fbfdiane-kea...

CHAIR COMPANY: ep 2. Whatever...podcast?... they're listening to in the car, I have so many questions. At the same time, for absurdist comedy purposes, I hope it's never, ever explained. I can't stop laughing about it. Is it a podcast? When do they know they're done? Network? Show notes? Brilliant.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if you feel like it).

A trailer for "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" that leaves in all the narration and dialogue about "this is the music he needs to make right now", only the background track throughout the whole thing is Springsteen's version of "Santa Clause Is Coming To Town."

She also directed two great films (and directed a lot more, but these two are stand-outs): HEAVEN (1987) and UNSTRUNG HEROES (1995). Both extraordinary.

Halloween Movies Actually is back! Christine Sellin returns to talk about an animated classic from 2006, "Monster House," which boasts a clever script and a subversive bent. We also get into our own memories of trick-or-treating. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

There is one very satisfying moment on "Tron: Ares" where the designer is describing the titular character as "soulless, emotionless and 100% disposable" all while there's a close-up on Leto.

Oh cool, I'm glad they're releasing the "Kill Bill" cut in early December when there's not much going on with movies or awards voting and us film critics have more time to sit with an extended epic from 20+ years ago and really digest it. (yes, I actually am excited for it. Calm down)

Anemone: I left before the post-film discussion on masculinity, which I can only imagine was along the lines of "Ay, did ya' see those strapping Irish men on the screen-yeh? Real men up there! 'at's what ya' gotta measure up to, laddies. Ya' film critics are all wee... gaunt. Paunchy! On yer feet!"

Our latest episode is up! An obscure movie, but an important one. "Remember The Night" is (very likely) the first Christmas Romance movie. Released in 1940, it stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred McMurray. Very funny, warm and unexpectedly dark in places. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

Trader Joes’s every Sunday morning as we all sit and wait for the jagoff with the perfect parking spot to stop checking all his social feeds, put the damn phone down and BACK OUT already so we can all get on with our f%#*ing lives!

Christmas movie season is starting a little early, with THE BALTIMORONS expanding to many cities this weekend. We had the director, Jay Duplass, and stars Michael Strassner and Liz Larsen on our show to talk about it. Go see this movie! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

If you need a feel-good distraction, this short doc might do the trick. We played it at @chicagocritics.bsky.social this year and it got a strong response. Watch the movie (scroll down about half-way through the article), then read my review and Q&A. Enjoy! www.rogerebert.com/short-films-...

For all my TIFF friends: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDC...

I'm quite proud of this piece I wrote for @ebertvoices.bsky.social. My wife and I visited six drive-in theaters and I got to write about it. Every one of these places is special. Seek out your nearest drive-in, go out there, enjoy a dbl feature and buy some food. www.rogerebert.com/features/how...

I know it's too early for this, but who will be the one to run onto the stage, "Weapons"-style, at the 2026 Academy Awards? Jack Black? Jim Carrey? Sean Penn? Will the entire opening build up to a large group running up there?

Am I to understand there are lots of kids in Mississippi trying to get on BlueSky to post their LastFourWatched while decrying the use of AI in everything?

Maybe rethink the green ones.

Our latest episode is up! We talk about TWO John Cusack movies "just for PLEASURE!" Both from 1985, both have Christmas in them, both products of their time, but worth revisiting. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

Yes, I log everything. Not just movies. Can't help it. Pretty cool last 4, though. I enjoyed all of this. #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky

I wrote about a short film called THE VACATION for @ebertvoices.bsky.social this month. The film played at the 2023 The Chicago Critics Film Festival. It's a wonderful little comedy about a vacation that was never meant to be. Watch it, then read about it. Enjoy! www.rogerebert.com/short-films-...

May as well. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched

To all the drive-in theater owners in all those red-state rural areas who decided to program a SUPERMAN and SINNERS double feature... How was the crowd this weekend?

Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada

My message to the birds outside who are waiting for us to fill the bird feeder (substitute "water" for bird seed).

Pretty sure I logged "Fletch" after going to a screening of it on Wednesday, but not showing up here. Oh, well. Not a bad week. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched

My pals at @vidiots.bsky.social created an interactive experience during the film breaking fakeout scene in their screening of Gremlins 2: The New Batch last weekend. It's even better than what I had hoped to do in 1990! 😁

Only three episodes in, but this new season of Always Sunny is already kinda stunning, starting with their Abbott Elementary crossover, the "sweet" conclusion to episode two and their takedown of The Bear in the latest episode that must've felt cathartic to them. 17 seasons? Still one of the best.

We never know where our silly podcast is going to take us. This week, it took us on a cruise. A love cruise. On a love boat. THE Love Boat: THE Christmas Cruise. Did all the passengers find love? Or just the will to live? Find out on our latest ep. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

I revisited “Picnic At Hanging Rock” today, which made me think of other Peter Weir movies, which made me think of “Dead Poets Society,” which made me think, “yeah, they sent the wrong prep-school kids to Hanging Rock.”

I've been going through some blind spots from 1975 for a film discussion. This has been one nutty week. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched

Our president today.

Texter # 1: Can someone let me in plz? Texter # 2 liked "Can someone let me in plz?" Texter # 1: Thanks! Texter # 3 loved "Thanks!" T # 1: "Again plz lol" T # 2 liked "Again plz lol T # 3 loved "Again plz lol" Texter # 4 to self: [Sigh!]... I will never get my writing done. [throws phone into lake]

Can’t wait to bring these two movies back to the library tomorrow.

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Still Friday here in Chicago. All four of these were today. Helluva 4th.

We hope you enjoy our latest episode, dropping a day early, just because. Erik Childress joins us to talk about this incredibly silly film from Cannon Studios, one of the craziest movie studios to have ever existed. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

Kenneth Branagh's 4-hour HAMLET is streaming on Tubi and I'm trying to imagine watching that while being interrupted every ten or fifteen minutes with Walden University and Zebra Insurance ads. "Get thee to a--Domino's Pizza!"

I had the pleasure of participating as a talking head in a youtube doc about "Rocky Horror." It's basically a video essay, a very insightful, well-made one that's worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEsn...

There are others, but in five minutes, I came up with a few movies that have people’s names for titles. Stevie ParaNorman Hugo A.I. Bloody Sunday

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Been catching up with Warmer Archive blu-rays this week. Mixed results, but I loved hearing Oliver Stone on a commentary track talking about how he loves Capraesque endings and feel-good movies, while constantly name-dropping every film he ever made.

That feeling of doing a nearly 2-hour podcast on a film, then writing 2,000+ words on that same film and feeling like you never once came close to nailing it.

New episode! One of Collin's all-time favorite films finally gets the CMA treatment thanks to @criterion.bsky.social's 4K release. A Christmas movie, sure, but also so much more. A dense movie deserves a lengthy discussion. We're all in this together. Enjoy! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/christmasmov...

I happened to watch "Silent Rage" last night, not knowing I was watching it on the anniversary of his death. I'm glad Chuck Norris was nice to him.