Back over at Chrisicisms, starting a Lent series about movies that have helped me grow spiritually. This 3-hour, nearly dialogue-free documentary about monks is one of the most profound films I've ever seen. chrisicisms.substack.com/p/review-int...

The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins

I also think six feet is a safe and reasonable distance to maintain from the edge.

To BROKEN ARROW on its 30th anniversary. collider.com/broken-arrow...

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

That’s okay, I don’t see his movies either. (I did see SPRING BREAKERS, a movie so gloriously dumb that I’m not sure it was intentional.)

Few people are better at adapting Stephen King than Mike Flanagan...except maybe Frank Darabont. I'm all for keeping Flanagan in the King business, but good luck topping the original, particularly its stomach kick of an ending. deadline.com/2026/02/step...

kinda both funny and deeply sad that some people’s whole deal is just being super mad about something all the time

Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.

I don't know much (anything) about football - but Lift Every Voice and Sing, Green Day and Bad Bunny is making a lot of racist sports maga mad.

I have no interest in football, yet I regularly watch the Super Bowl out of FOMO. I spend four hours pummeled with ads, celebrity, flash, and noise. Each year, I feel exhausted and empty at the end. So I think this year, aside from the musical acts, I might just sit it out and enjoy some quiet.

The Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny is expected to take place between 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. ET. The alternate halftime show by Turning Point USA featuring Kid Rock is expected to take place between 1930 and 1932.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

He doesn't even need to have watched the video, as the racist content was in the damn screenshot.

"Mike Johnson thinks he knows Christianity better than the POPE?!?🤣🤣🤣" yeah man, pretty much all protestants are like that. baptists especially. not really the issue here

Real question: Anyone excited for SCREAM 7? I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but the marketing has an obligatory feel to it, and it seems they lost a lot of fan goodwill from the way they treated Barrera and Ortega.

astute muppet take alert

going to the prayer breakfast to complain about people who pray while eating

#TheMuppetShow feels like The Muppet Show. It's funny, the music is great, the jokes are just the right side of bad, and the host is fantastic. My only complaint is it was too short...I really hope we get more of this.

I cannot express how excited I am for this and how happy I am that reviews seem overwhelmingly positive. Hoping it gets big numbers to justify doing it on the regular (doesn't even need to be a 13-episode series; just do quarterly specials or brief 5-episode seasons with big guest stars).

1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

An EGOT for the GOAT. For Collider. collider.com/music-by-joh...

I get that things are awful right now, but there is a new MUPPET SHOW airing tomorrow night that is getting phenomenal reviews, which is making me tremendously happy.

One of the great joys of being a Michigan-based movie writer is when local boy Sam Raimi directs a new horror movie. And not only is SEND HELP great, he has a new partner willing to endure whatever he throws at her. For Collider. collider.com/send-help-ra...

Happy Groundhog Day! Here's a piece I wrote a few years back about one of my favorite comedies. chrisicisms.substack.com/p/groundhog-...

This was a fun list to write. And yes, I'll stand by FACE/OFF. collider.com/best-action-...

the billy wilder fandom is dying. reskeet if you are one of the wild ones

This isn't the behavior I'd expect from a secondhand Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Sunday is a good day for my latest for Collider to go live. collider.com/dogma-best-m...

Vance: I'm crying right now because you stupids won't let me have your green island. I could literally just - don't you know I'm smarter than you? I'm your better - don't leave, don't get the army Trump: McDonald's needs to sell milk again. Nobody likes the Grimace. They get the milk from him

Imagine Biden had flipped off and cursed at an auto worker who yelled "Let's Go Brandon" or something about abortion or COVID There would be 100 think pieces up right now about how Dems hate the working class and how Biden had no impulse control, linking it to his age. Trump does it? Media yawns.

my god

He's right; it's really, really good. I'm really confused why they're giving it a release in January no-man's land, but I really hope it finds an audience.

There are a lot of great movies turning 25 this year. My latest for Collider. collider.com/best-movies-...

Looks like the X-MEN could be facing their final battle in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY. For Collider, I discussed why that's probably for the best. #filmsky collider.com/x-men-origin...

Drax petting Rocket at the end of GOTG

Pieces of Candy

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

Audiences watching PRIMATE

Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

This year comes with a major question mark for Disney's biggest franchises. For Collider. collider.com/disney-2026-...

It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.

If you’re not willing to draw the line on your participation in a platform at “it helps create sexualized images of minors against their will” then I’m not sure you have a line or that it’s particularly meaningful. Many such cases but might as well acknowledge it.

This guy and this performance are the perfect embodiment of today’s CBS News, which is both its name and now its mission statement.

Love having no confidence whatsoever in my elected officials to actually represent me and everybody else they’re supposed to represent. Bang-up job everyone, real great work all around, this feeling of powerlessness is just the tops

Wallet Inspector: “Senator Schumer, it’s the wallet inspector” Schumer: “Oh yes, one moment” (pulls wallet out of pocket, hands it to wallet inspector) “I think you’ll find everything in order today”