I was worried because it’s been like fifteen minutes since the last time this guy was publicly fellated. By all means, bring on another tribute!

Over at the new Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed CRIME 101. I have no way of knowing if this movie was written by ChatGPT, but I certainly have my suspicions.

THERE GOES THAT HONKYTONK KID

At WBUR this week I talked to Coolidge Breakthrough Artist Harry Lighton about his delightful new “dom-com” PILLION.

Never been a big Baz Luhrmann fan but I am very much enjoying his late-career project of trying to make Elvis even gaudier.

RIP Bud Cort.

I vividly remember Bud Cort in M*A*S*H as the nurse Frank Burns blames for someone dying, Cort had one of those expressions of innocence shocked and then corrupted by that whole situation that helped emphasise the ethos of that picture so well.

At WBUR this week I reviewed Emerald Fennell’s thrillingly adolescent WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

My commute this morning.

New Tyler and the Names video by Brett and Ren. Love the GOODFELLAS title cards.

See Cliff Booth the way you’ve never seen him before… in GlaucomaVision!

I don’t follow football but I’m happy to hear that Robert Kraft is having a terrible day.

The Somerville Theatre has had this 70mm print of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER since September and there’s not a scratch or a speck of dirt on it. Flawless presentation.

Football-free SAFE space.

Every ad with a celebrity is actually an ad for Tom Cruise because I think about how he wouldn’t do that

Over at the new Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed Luc Besson's DRACULA.

Just watched this and I agree with everything Gene and Lily say in their wonderful write-up. An astounding film about America and all its broken promises. Do yourself a favor.

At the new Spliced Personality Substack this week I also reviewed Charli xcx’s brat mockumentary THE MOMENT.

The first movie I reviewed for the new Spliced Personality Substack is A POET, a bruisingly funny Colombian film that opens today at the AMC Boston Common, of all places.

So I'm hanging out a shingle in newsletter land. Two reviews a week. Seven bucks a month. As Alfred E. Neuman would say, "Cheap!" Details below.

“A decade of SPOTLIGHT” means it’s been ten years since I was roasted by the guys at the barbershop: “The Boston Globe says the movie about how awesome they are is the best movie of the year. Gee, I wonder how that happened? Are all you fuckin’ critics on the take or what?”

An old friend from high school sent me this amazing illustration of my MELANIA review.

The Wild Bunch Rio Bravo Unforgiven McCabe & Mrs. Miller My Darling Clementine Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Once Upon a Time in the West The Searchers The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Love this girl.

That new MUPPET SHOW special on Disney Plus is just delightful. Someone should do a COLOR OF MONEY remake with Sabrina Carpenter and Miss Piggy.

I’d never been to a late show at the Alamo Drafthouse before and I gotta tell you that having a guy walk in front of you holding a sign at eye-level that says “LAST CALL” when they’re closing the kitchen really preserves the sanctity of the moviegoing experience.

Just what I needed, another credit card in my wallet that doesn’t work.

YEESH. Brutal. But very well-written.

At Crooked Marquee this week I wrote about the SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND movie, which is on Netflix for some reason.

At WBUR this week I wrote about Black History Month salutes to Sidney Poitier at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Somerville Theatre and the Somerville Cine-Club.

At North Shore Movies this week I reviewed MELANIA, which shouldn’t even be called a documentary. It’s just footage.

My buddy Tyler’s new album dropped today on all the evil streaming services if you feel like rocking out.

SEND HELP could have been such a fun 88-minute movie if it wasn’t two hours long.

At least Leni Riefenstahl could direct.

Incredible lineup of films being advertised as coming soon to the AMC Assembly Row. This was taken today.

Hi, I'm Jen. I talk w/ my hands, play w/ my hair, & am nerdily expressive, lol, but luckily it makes my friends laugh! (Though I'm not about to start a video podcast, lol.) Scenes from this wk's Delroy Lindo chat w/ Sean Burns & S.A. Cosby, coming in March to Watch With Jen pod. Sean wore my logo!

At Crooked Marquee's Classic Corner this week I wrote about one of the great 1970s revisionist Westerns, BLAZING SADDLES.

At WBUR this week I reviewed A PRIVATE LIFE, in which Jodie Foster speaks French but swears in English.

RIP Dan McQuade, a kind and hilarious colleague from my Philly Weekly days who left us far too young. His boots-on-the-ground coverage of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle still makes me laugh whenever I think of it.

Had a blast talking end times cinema last night with the great @hamrahrama.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who came out in the cold!

Nice write-up in the @cambridgeday.com newspaper this morning in advance of my appearance tonight with @splicedpersonality.bsky.social at @portersqbooks.bsky.social www.cambridgeday.com/2026/01/27/h...

TONIGHT IN END TIMES CINEMA

Ian always crushed these things but the last section of this is especially spectacular.

Here in Boston Ella McCay is still governor of the state she was born and raised in.

Sorry, but you folks tried to convince me an Olivia Wilde comedy was worth watching in 2019 and we all saw how that turned out. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, won’t get fooled again.

I’ve never watched this at home because I always thought you were supposed to go see it on a date.