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Impeach, convict, remove.

The spirit of William Walker never died.

As it should be.

Goodbye to 2025. It’s been a big year… and next year gets bigger. See you all in the dark.

One last list to close off the year: my favorite first watches.

Best movies I watched in 2025 (best year for movies watched in some time, have probably a dozen 4.5 star runner-ups)

Obviously an upper limit on "nice things you can say about 2025", but I'll give it this - damn good year for punk and post-punk! Just a couple of my favorite albums from this year:

this has horrifyingly inserted the phrase “Avatar is dad rock Megalopolis” into my brain

my hometown Illinois movie theater is more packed than I’ve seen it in years, holy shit

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Thinking about the unmade action-horror film SHADOW COMPANY, that was to be directed by John Carpenter from a script by Shane Black / Fred Dekker, about the re-animated corpses of American soldiers destroying their small American hometown over Christmas. Kurt Russell would have starred.

Screenwriting teachers, I’m so sorry but… three-act structure is not the end-all-be-all of storytelling. (Do NOT get me started on the monomyth either.)

Thinking about how tricky and complex it is to make any aspect of art feel invisible to the audience (read: “finally getting around to The Pitt”)

Suppose it's year end list time. Here are my favorite films of 2025, represented by frustratingly vague clues.

Doesn't need to be restated, but just for the cheap seats: I cannot, will not, and will never condone the use of generative AI. If your so-called tool's only products are theft, misinformation, and ugliness, then it's a shit tool and deserves to be taken out of commission.

Important note upon One Battle After Another rewatch with family: “a few small beers” got a genuine laugh out of my dad

Koji Shiraishi's ABOUT A PLACE IN THE KINKI REGION is staggering horror cinema–putting traditional narrative and found footage through the digital meat grinder to unearth disturbing existential and emotional truths. Naturally, I went long on this wild-as-hell movie on @cinapse.bsky.social:

Koji Shiraishi's newest, run don't walk...

Please trust Trevor on this one - my sides genuinely hurt from laughing by the end of it

HERE WE GO

I've been sitting on some big Knifeman news for a while - the biggest yet. About time we get to share it. See you all in New York. deadline.com/2025/12/2026...

I SEE A VISION RISING DREARYYYYYY FADING IN AS CHILDREN PLAY TWILIGHT GAMES IN THE TOWN CALLED ORDINARYYYYYYYYY AN EYE OF LIGHT REVEALS A GATEWAY TO DOOMSDAY

spoken with the caveat that I know next to nothing about Markiplier beyond memes: I'm getting the weird feeling that Iron Lung is going to be a lot more important than people are making it out to be, even just from a box office POV

"Spielberg doing X-Files paranoid sci-fi-" please stop talking, if I get more hyped I will explode

Desperately praying for a US distributor to pick up Koji Shiraishi's KINKI before it gets buried in the WB deal - easily one of my new favorite horror movies of the last few years, and possibly the closest Shiraishi's ever come to making a true-blue NOROI successor.

MAN FINDS TAPE immediately goes high on the list of my favorite 2025 discoveries. Wonderfully sinister in a way that echoes some of my favorite horror novels; definite shades of McCammon's Stinger and Barker's Great and Secret Show at points. Highly recommend this one.

weirdly enough, the shadow of the Netflix deal looming over everything makes Kill Bill land a lot harder for me upon theatrical rewatch

This sale is a disaster for the city of Los Angeles. I stand with the WGA, the DGA, and every other worker that powers Hollywood. Theatrical releases are what make movies both magical and profitable. Without them, the industry, and in turn, Los Angeles, will suffer.

very much taking solace in the fact that the only people in Hollywood who are even remotely enthused about the Netflix deal are Sarandos and Zaslav

I got this theory that a lot of the anti auteur stuff gets boosted as a way to weaken creative labor organizing. So much of an artist’s value is dependent on their voice and you started to see this come up when the studio centric push for big film franchises was happening.

Now more than ever, we need a new United Artists

Netflix buying Warner Brothers is the day that Netflix officially becomes the establishment. It is both the day of their ascendancy and also the day that Netflix admits that they are now the incumbent power yearning to be disrupted by whatever comes next.

where have you gone, Yakko Warner, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Harry Dean Stanton and it isn't even a contest

one of the lesser fundamental problems with AI art is that, even if you lean into its aesthetics, you will never be able to accomplish anything that Chris Cunningham didn't already do 30 years ago with way less advanced tech

noir/horror heads: holy shit you all NEED to watch this one ASAP

defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs

the funniest thing about the Rush Hour 4 greenlight is that, while it's absolutely going to be bad and will flop, people are not prepared for HOW bad it will be

Everyone is ignoring the funniest option here, which is "force them to let you make movies yourself"

an entirely correct thread

A movie that takes place where you're from (the train Gyllenhaal's trying to save is the Metra line I took to and from high school)

BASEBALL SEASON'S UNDERWAY SO YOU BETTER GET READY FOR A BRAND NEW DAY HEY CHICAGO, WHADDAYA SAY THE CUBS ARE GONNA WIN TODAY

Hey @reptedlieu.bsky.social, how does attacking another fairly elected Democrat help us fight Trump? Not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work there

Being cool is the one thing that power will never buy for the right; can’t be punk rock and counterculture when you’re on top of everything

American Cinematheque getting the Westwood Village, Arclight Hollywood inching towards reopening… if the Landmark comes back I’m officially losing it

YOOOOOOOOO

Five best film genres: -the inherent horror of the American experience -musicals that can and will scare the shit out of you -a stopmotion monster terrorizes real people -"this filmmaker has definitely seen Alfred Hitchcock" -film noir