The first movie I ever saw at the Zeigfeld.

Yup, pretty much sums it up

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

Primary all of these useless cunts.

It's embarrassing how so many film critics need every film to be a MESSAGE that rectifies some injustice or brings awareness to some plight, especially movies by women filmmakers. Just incapable of analyzing a movie any deeper than the surface.

Fucking ghouls.

Watching Soundgarden get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside Chubby Checker and Bad Company makes me feel older than all the AARP shit I've started getting in the mail.

My buddy @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social talked to Jennifer Lawrence and Lynne Ramsay. This is awesome.

At Crooked Marquee’s Classic Corner this week I rang in Noirvember with OUT OF THE PAST.

At North Shore Movies this week I reviewed PREDATOR: BADLANDS, which unfortunately has nothing to do with the Terrence Malick movie or my favorite Springsteen song.

Just watched NUREMBERG. It would have been stiff competition for SPOTLIGHT in the 1996 CableACE Awards.

Lee Tamahori’s career might never have fulfilled the promise of ONCE WERE WARRIORS, but his 1997 Mamet in the wilderness romp THE EDGE remains a personal fave. RIP.

Predator: Badlands Predator: Adam Raised a Cain Predator: Something in the Night Predator: Candy’s Room Predator: Racing in the Street Predator: The Promised Land Predator: Factory Predator: Streets of Fire Predator: Prove It All Night Predator: Darkness on the Edge of Town

At WBUR this week I reviewed Lynne Ramsay’s DIE MY LOVE, which features a feral, ferocious performance from Jennifer Lawrence. Can’t believe this is opening at mall multiplexes.

28 films later that’s a wrap on IFFBoston’s Fall Focus, which closed out tonight with a 35mm screening of Mona Fastvold’s THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE. Huge thanks to Nancy, Brian, the festival staff and everybody at the Brattle for always taking such good care of me.

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025, Fastvold, ***1/2) Condolences to THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES for no longer being the coolest movie that takes place in Niskayuna. #IFFBoston

Celebrate Zohran Mamdani’s historic win by watching his mom Mira Nair’s MISSISSIPPI MASALA. Here’s something I wrote when it played the Coolidge in 2022.

Great honor for a great dude.

In case you were wondering which political party has a "toxic" brand, the Boston Globe is here to help. Hint: it's apparently the one that won pretty much everything last night.

Hear ye, hear ye! We just released a handful of extra tickets for Mona Fastvold's THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, playing tonight at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social on 35mm film! Get tickets: ow.ly/2AEt50XneT2

I once interviewed the Mayor of New York City’s mom about a Kate Hudson movie she directed.

So fucking proud of my hometown for a) doing something great while b) telling some of the worst people alive to go fuck themselves. Real New York shit.

IS THIS THING ON? (2025, Cooper, **1/2) I have so many questions. Not a confusing film per se, but one full of creative choices I found completely perplexing. For starters, Peyton Manning? #IFFBoston

At North Shore Movies this week I reviewed Nia DaCosta’s terrific Ibsen adaptation HEDDA, which deserves to be in movie theaters but Bezos and company stupidly sent it straight to streaming.

Some days I really wish I believed in Hell. It must be a great comfort to know certain fuckers are roasting.

RIP Lula’s mom.

NO OTHER CHOICE (2025, Park, **1/2) Probably goes without saying that this is gorgeously shot and cut together but I also found it boringly glib and the wacky slapstick pratfalls strenuously unfunny. #IFFBoston

RENTAL FAMILY (2025, Hikari, *1/2) Haven’t we already seen a wet-eyed Brendan Fraser blubbering enough for one lifetime? #IFFBoston

Reading @hamrahrama.bsky.social reminds me of Richard Price’s cameo in Scorsese’s LIFE LESSONS, when he says to the painter played by Nick Nolte: “I’m an artist myself, but when I look at your work I wanna go home and divorce my wife.”

At Crooked Marquee this week I reviewed SCENE, which is partially a chronicle, something of an amends and it reads like a late night rant. What else would you expect from a memoir by Abel Ferrara?

LEFT-HANDED GIRL (2025, Tsou, ***1/2) “Fish have no wisdom. So dumb.” #IFFBoston

LA GRAZIA (2025, Sorrentino, ***1/2) Toni Servillo smoking cigarettes = cinema. #IFFBoston

More than 50 years late to the party but this book is fantastic. Psyched I found a copy with Voight and Burt on the cover.

TCM published an article about @cadenmgardner.bsky.social and I's upcoming program on their website. www.tcm.com/articles/Pro...

KONTINENTAL ‘25 (2025, Jude, ***) The least vulgar and most conventional film I’ve seen from him yet. I liked it fine, but prefer a little more outrageousness with my outrage. Great PERFECT DAYS joke, though. #IFFBoston

I was a few blocks away watching old Westerns at the Brattle, hoping every short girl I saw in Harvard Square would turn out to be Natalie Portman.

Watched HEDDA on Prime Video and they dropped a commercial break right when Løvborg pulls the trigger. Ibsen would have loved that.

At WBUR this week I wrote about how Richard Linklater’s new biopics NOUVELLE VAGUE and BLUE MOON seem to complete each other, chroniciling opposite ends of creative careers.

It’s funny how in response from some extremely gentle pushback from area readers for covering the New York Film Festival instead of IFFBoston, my local paper has apparently decided to keep bringing up NYFF as often as possible. (They did it again today.) That oughta show ‘em!

FOR CHRIST’S SAKE PEOPLE I BEG OF YOU IT’S STILL FUCKING OCTOBER

Was into TRAIN DREAMS whenever it wasn’t shamelessly aping Malick, which is only about half the running time. The rest is movie karaoke.

I want a DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE style biopic about Lou Reed insisting that Arista put out the TAKE NO PRISONERS album.

Went to upload my BUGONIA review to Letterboxd and got this. Very funny.

At North Shore Movies this week I reviewed BUGONIA, in which Emma Stone is so great you can almost tune out how annoying the rest of the movie is.

At North Shore Movies this week I reviewed Kelly Reichardt’s THE MASTERMIND, which is exactly the kind of heist movie that would take place in Framingham.

I think Florida is a good move for Cuomo. There are still of lot of elderly people he hasn't killed yet.

“The greatness of 'Annie Hall' is almost too imposing for a column like this,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes. “The ‘Citizen Kane’ of romantic comedies, it’s a swaggering feat of innovation that busted open the parameters of what movies like this could do.” crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

Emma Stone is legit great in BUGONIA, maybe the most I’ve ever liked her. But boy can you tell it’s a movie from the writer of THE MENU.

This sounds hilarible. (From @splicedpersonality.bsky.social's review of DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE.) Scott Cooper should've been placed in a Magneto-strong movie jail years ago. www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...