At WBUR this week I wrote about the Brattle Theatre’s THE STANTON RULE: A HARRY DEAN STANTON CENTENNIAL retrospective. I’m basically going to move in there next week.

In honor of the Somerville Theatre’s KURT AND JODIE series wrapping up this week, the Spliced Personality Substack’s From the Vault flashes back to when Jodie Foster came to Boston to talk about her beleaguered directorial effort, THE BEAVER. splicedpersonality.substack.com/p/from-the-v...

We watched DIRTY DANCING tonight and when it started my niece said, “This movie is so old it has credits at the beginning.”

This is what my nephew named his boat. I told him it was a bad idea because now he’ll never be able to find it.

Shit My Niece Says: “There should be a podcast where we talk about all the great things I do and celebrities come on and congratulate me.”

This was slapped on a bus station and I’ve been laughing at it all morning

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed ROMERIA, a movie I found a little confounding at first but was very much worth sticking with. It opens tomorrow at the Coolidge.

At WBUR this week I reviewed THE INVITE. There’s about a 40-minute stretch in the middle of this movie that really cooks. Shame about the rest.

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed MINIONS & MONSTERS. You don’t see a lot of children’s cartoons throwing around jokes about Eadweard Muybridge and Georges Méliès these days.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Been having a good time at the movies so far this year…

Dude clearly had strong feelings about THE SHEEP DETECTIVES.

Working on a Harry Dean Stanton piece so I rewatched PRETTY IN PINK for the first time in decades. Yeesh. Good thing Duckie didn’t have a One Wish Willow.

Eatin’ the hash and the hot dogs.

Coming this Summer/Fall on #WatchWithJen S7.

Halftime Top Five: (1.) Blue Heron (2.) Rose of Nevada (3.) Miroirs No. 3 (4.) The Christophers (5.) The Sheep Detectives

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed YOUNG WASHINGTON, yet another semiquincentennial scam. Angel Studios gonna angel.

At Crooked Marquee this week I wrote about THE UNMAKING OF HUDSON HAWK, the departure of Bruno and that hat convention in July.

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed YOUNG WASHINGTON, yet another semiquincentennial scam. Angel Studios gonna angel.

Happy Birthday Mel!

Usually listening to me is only 10% of a good experience so this episode really steps it up.

there’s a “what’s the best movie about men by a woman” prompt going around, and nobody has said this because it was only written by a woman and not directed by one, but it’s Slap Shot

Clint Eastwood’s Western, released on this day in 1976, is one of his first great directorial efforts – and a fascinating fusion of his split filmmaking personalities: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

“Ruthless People” is “a great premise for a movie,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes, “one of those ideas that’s so good, as soon as you hear it you wonder why nobody thought of it before.” crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

Finally gonna see Giamatti finish what he started as The Rhino.

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed JACKASS: BEST AND LAST. It's ironic that a film so anally fixated can feel so half-assed.

Well, I know what they're *not* talking about.

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed writer-director Avalon Fast's haunting, occasionally inscrutable CAMP.

Last week’s WBUR CitySpace WUTHERING HEIGHTS discussion is now up on YouTube. Watch me be the dumb guy onstage with brilliant Emily Brontë biographer Deborah Lutz and HERE & NOW producer Kalyani Saxena.

In the words of the late, great Albert Rosenfeld: “Señor Droolcup has, shall we say, a mind that wanders.”

At WBUR this week I reviewed SUPERGIRL, which works way better when it’s ripping off TRUE GRIT than when it’s trying to be FURY ROAD.

Don’t want to say the Democratic Party has gone full communist, but it’s just been revealed that all three of the candidates Mamdani endorsed anonymously worked on the Roman Holiday screenplay.

“I read everything on Letterboxd. Because I hate myself.” - ROSE OF NEVADA writer-director Mark Jenkin.

Dude must love to get booed.

Craig Gillespie is a remarkably consistent filmmaker.

Happy Birthday to the late, great Kris Kristofferson, born 90 years ago today

A friend told me I was brave to share my early work. I said it felt like sharing nudes, only with fewer laughs.

At the Spliced Personality Substack I’ve started a paid subscriber bonus series unearthing amusing or semi-relevant articles from throughout my career. We’re starting at the beginning with my first review for Philly Weekly: Clint Eastwood’s TRUE CRIME. splicedpersonality.substack.com/p/from-the-v...

JAWS took a bite out of movie theaters 51 years ago today. Here’s something I wrote last year about how it makes today’s blockbusters look embarrassingly bad.

You can tell the Trump cult isn’t what it used to be because if this had happened a few years ago every MAGA dipshit would be dyeing their swimming pool puke green and saying, “See, it looks better that way! Suck it, libtards!”

“Watching classic Hollywood pictures, one can’t help but marvel at how efficiently they used to take care of business,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes. “Raoul Walsh’s ‘The Roaring Twenties’ is a diamond-hard wonder of storytelling compression.”

James Burrows is why Gen X watched way too much television growing up.

Sometimes I watch baseball and think, I'm a left-handed fat guy with weird politics, how come I never had a twenty-year career as a relief pitcher

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed Adrian Chiarella’s conversion therapy horror story LEVITICUS. There’s something hilariously Australian about boys throwing rocks at each other’s chests as a form of foreplay.

“And we put some happy little algae here.”

At WBUR this week I reviewed THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD. This has gotta be the most I’ve ever ended up enjoying a movie I initially wanted to walk out of.