Would love to know what the historical armor accuracy folk think about the costuming for BEOWULF ‘99 starting Christopher Lambert.

Reminder that if your family is looking to stream IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE this week on Amazon, or other apps, there are three versions that pop up: the black and white OG, the horrid looking colorized version and an abridged cut that chops 20+ minutes out. You know which is the right one!

Here’s the thing: this release all around looks great and I’m beyond stoked to have PERFECT BLUE in 4K as it has been one of my most wanted upgrades for years. However, at a $70+ price point (which I’m happy to pay for quality), I think it’s fair for collectors to expect a black 4K UHD case inside.

I celebrated my 40th birthday yesterday by inviting a bunch of my favorite people to watch two secret 16mm prints with me in Queens. I would do this every day, if I could. Share movies with your friends and family and support your local art house and microcinema by renting a theater if you can.

A child that was maybe ten years old stood up after our Avatar: Fire and Ash screening and said to their parent “that was the best three hours of my life” — same, kid, same Can’t wait to see it again, never doubt James Cameron

Latest batch of new discs, including a couple that I’ve been waiting for years to get a good upgrade. This might be the last big stack before the new year.

“That flexibility does more than keep the lights on. It lowers the stakes enough to allow for programming risk: forgotten archival selections, arthouse programming, and films with no clear commercial upside can thrive at this level.” Support your local microcinema!

Scorsese will get all the hype but for my money, this is the real highlight in the new Criterion announcements. One of the great action films, from any country, now available on 4K UHD. What a time to be alive.

Even in a recent interview, Rob Reiner was very clearly one of the funniest people to ever live.

Saw this book in a bookstore today and the title feels… prescient.

Feels like Green Book is the obvious, and correct, answer here.

Gonna make this short and sweet because I’m fed up: fuck AI

These AI people are straight up trying to liken Sora IP slop with the advent of sync sound in cinema. Just an all around despairing time to work in this industry and care about movies.

I get it, watching Nuzzi fail is exciting. But, on the flip side, equating a sale of 1200 books as an outright failure is a shitty rubric when many small presses could only dream of selling that many units in a week. I’d rather see pubs trashing her book than claiming 1200 books sold is bad in 2025.

Christmas came early from @limitedrungames.com some of the best physical media purveyors out there

AI has gone from being a tool for the lazy to a de facto means of production for creative direction that a cast and crew of humans would turn their backs on. All of these ads seem to mistake cynicism and surreality for good humor, but it’s relentlessly ugly both aesthetically and spiritually.

All of this money spent on this study and not a single mention of things that might keep people away: disruptive audience behavior, increasingly poor technical presentation, every shrinking theatrical windows (or day and date indies). I love theaters, and go multiple times a week, but it’s grim.

Probably a surprise to no one but @secondsightfilms.bsky.social killed it on this POSSESSION release

I’m not sold on a lot of HAMNET but the climax made me long for true democratic art, the very idea of a shared communal experience with your neighbors; an idea and ideal that seems to be all but lost in an age where everything is increasingly owned by billionaires or trillionaires. We doth protest.

The prophecy was real

That WB themselves has the highest amount of disc representation in my collection out of any of the major studios is a testament to how they have handled physical media over the years, particularly with the Warner Archive collection. I can’t fathom how many wouldn’t make it to disc under Netflix.

If anyone needs me, I’m writing National Treasure 3

When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.

Looney Tunes: Back In Action really was ahead of its time.

Silver lining of cancelling Netflix months ago is that I didn’t get that bullshit email they’re sending everyone to hype up the tens of billions of debt they’re incurring in a quest to ruin cinema. And I can safely say that not a single day has gone by where I have missed the service.

What exactly is in the Casablanca cinematic universe? Play it Again, Sam? Barb Wire?

Big thanks to @letterboxd.social and @mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social for letting me go long about two of my favorite things: Christmas movies and erotica. Tis the season!

“Consumer friendly” is just Ted’s way of saying that he wants people to subscribe to his services and avoid giving theaters a significant piece of the pie. Absolute garbage that he’s trying to spin as a positive for anyone but Netflix.

Do yourself a favor and watch this asap

It’s hard to not see the Netflix/WB news as a sort of doomsday scenario. The constant mergers and large scale absorptions of brands might be good for business, in theory, but they are bad for art; they are bad for creators; they are bad for preservation. Which makes it bad for us.

It's not every day that a holy grail makes its way to physical media and that's what happened today thanks to AGFA and us at OCN. I first saw Joe Dante's THE MOVIE ORGY at MoMA in 2013 with Dante in person and it absolutely blew my mind. I wrote about it back then and that essay is included here.

A reminder that PUNISHMENT PARK will always be relevant.

I feel like the physical media narrative is lost. So many who champion analog in regards to movies, that advocate for Blu-ray and 4K discs over streaming of those films, have seemingly zero issue with using services like Spotify while not also buying records. Physical media is all of it.

I won’t be sharing my Wrapped because I stopped using Spotify years ago when they stood by Joe Rogan. If that wasn’t enough of a reason to leave, they’ve made plenty more since. Stop giving them money and start buying records again.

Incredible past couple of weeks of new arrivals, ready for the final month of incoming physical media for 2025.

Censorship, in all iterations, is bad. It’s the enemy of art. The scariest part of this whole saga is how easy it is for any store to turn off sale for digital content, which doesn’t happen with physical media. I know that gamers embrace digital now, largely, but this is the trade off.

One of the world’s greatest living artists and documentarians and he’s perpetually a target for the most heinous censorship. Protect him, and his work, at all costs.

Back with more Abel Ferrara for Cinématographe, with his William Gibson adaptation NEW ROSE HOTEL that has long been an under celebrated title in his filmography. I managed to secure new interviews with both Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento for this alongside a slew of other extras, grab one!

Please use recipes from humans today!

Happy Thanksgiving! A reminder that AMERICAN MOVIE is the best movie for the holiday. RIP, Mike Schank

Maybe it’s me, but it really feels like Arrow’s art for THIEF is getting ripped off for the NOW YOU SEE ME, NOW YOU DON’T steelbook.

It’s weird that numerous filmmakers lately are touting their films as being “X-rated” when the rating hasn’t been used in over thirty years. Where is this coming from and why can’t anyone just accept and commit to the NC-17?

RIP, Udo www.slantmagazine.com/film/udo-kie...

In 1997, I saw ALIEN: RESURRECTION over Thanksgiving break when I was in 7th grade and had to complete an assignment about it for school. My mom saved it and sent it to me a couple of years ago. I fully stand by these words.

We often measure success in what we do by sales figures, but I had numerous people approach me at the VS popup yesterday that just thanked me for introducing them to a new favorite film and that means more to me than any other metric. That’s the whole point of this. For me, anyway.

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is everything I want in a sequel, just doubling down on everything that made the first one work. Support insane genre movies like this in a theater, if you can. I’m crossing my fingers for a couple more of these.

Yes, it should be. Call this behavior out and don’t support it. I was all in on this one until I learned this and now I won’t buy it.

Most recent batch of new discs, including a number of my most anticipated releases for the remainder of 2025.

This might be the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen

“The haters on the Internet are the loudest, he says. “A lot of the people complaining last year were from the creative industry who were just afraid — afraid for their jobs, afraid for what it did.” Imagine being such a wealthy piece of shit that you call people who need work “haters”