This just popped up when my camera decided to show me my 2025 retrospective, and I thought of this thread. Here's Spaceman being Spaceman while @splicedpersonality.bsky.social white-knuckles the whole "moderating a panel interview" experience.

According to a film review in my local paper, Michael Imperioli is famous for playing a character named “Christopher Soprano.”

12/25/75: Robert Aldrich's Hustle w/Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Eddie Albert, Eileen Brennan, Ben Johnson ++ @splicedpersonality.bsky.social: "Ruthlessly downbeat in the way major studio pictures were only allowed to be back in the ’70s": medium.com/boston-reel/...

Watched THE FAMILY MCMULLEN. It’s almost inspirational how this guy has managed to work consistently for 30 years without developing any new ideas, interests or anything to say. We should all be so blessed.

Merry Christmas! Don’t buy anything!

Merry Christmas from Auggie and Granny Ethel.

At WBUR this week I wrote about SONG SUNG BLUE and MARTY SUPREME, two terrific underdog stories coming to theaters this Christmas.

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

(nods approvingly)

Huge congrats to @sheilakathleen.bsky.social on this big, beautiful behemoth. A pleasure to read. Not so much fun to lift.

This trailer may have been my introduction to body horror. youtu.be/gdM43CN5aIk?...

I’m not seeing Eephus on enough ‘25 top 10 lists wtf

Make movie posters great again.

Bob Dylan on Willie Nelson:

WHITE CHRISTMAS is playing at the Coolidge tonight as part of their Big Screen Classics series. Here’s something I wrote about it last year.

He really is the King of the World.

Jane Fonda turns 88 today. Ten years ago, I saw her leaving a screening at Sundance and as she got into her car an older woman standing in front of me said to a friend, “Did you see her ass? Aerobics work!”

Sergio Leone’s 1968 Western epic ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ (released on this day in 1968) is less an exploration of genre tropes than an expansion and explosion of them. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

Amused to see that my friends and I made it into Whit Stillman’s photo of the other night’s Brattle screening. As it happens, we were discussing how titled aristocracy are the scum of the Earth.

There is no doubt in my mind this was 100% intentional.

Okay, now it feels like Christmas.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

I think it’s funny that the Springsteen movie was so bad it didn’t even make his buddy Barack’s list.

At WBUR this week I reviewed AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, the first half of which had me asking myself, “Do I finally like an AVATAR movie?” and perhaps more pressingly, “Am I getting turned on by a giant turquoise lady?”

Terrific @chrisvognar.bsky.social piece on the only Christmas song featuring the lyric: “You’re an old slut on junk.”

There’s our man Gerry Peary hosting a delightfully cantankerous Q&A with Whit Stillman at tonight’s 35th anniversary screening of METROPOLITAN.

Bill on Abel. This is so good.

Our Robert Redford tribute at @brattletheatre.bsky.social starts Thursday with a screening of All the President’s Men on 35mm, a very good movie about talking on the phone!

“I don’t know if anyone really knew what they expected to see when the lights went down," @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes of 'Eyes Wide Shut,' "but I know they weren’t expecting what they got.” buff.ly/Gf9MbBz

At WBUR this week I wrote about the Brattle Theatre’s tribute to my old boss, Robert Redford and about the time I sat behind him at the movies.

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

Great movie. Wish you could watch it.

Doesn’t matter if they’re talking about Denzel, Edward Woodward or Queen Latifah, whenever anyone mentions THE EQUALIZER I can only think of Rob Reiner. RIP.

“Merry Christmas, movie house!”

The only way this pic could be any more New England is if there was an Affleck in it.

This is the time of year when I vote for stuff. Here is the ballot I’ve been working from.

Just discovered that LA GRAZIA opened yesterday in Boston and is playing two shows a day at the Common. MUBI continues to kill it on the release front. Their next step will be to only show their movies in unmarked broom closets.

At North Shore Movies this week I reviewed ELLA MCCAY, which is like a Preston Sturges movie made by aliens.

Perhaps not the ideal format for looking at Keith Richards.

At Crooked Marquee this week I wrote about the welcome critical rehabilitation of EYES WIDE SHUT. Basically me saying “I told you so” for a thousand words.

All the kids are out for ELLA MCCAY!

At WBUR this week I wrote about the best films of 2025.

Someone has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

A huge honor to be talking with the great @hamrahrama.bsky.social about his new books ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT and LAST WEEK IN END TIMES CINEMA at Porter Square Books on Wednesday, 01/28/2026 at 7pm. This is gonna be a blast. RSVP here:

Best credit.

The translight photographer on EYES WIDE SHUT was named Gerry Maguire.

Kind of a no-brainer.