operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: i know a lot of popular songs. a lot of times when i’m out and about and i hear a song, i know exactly which song it is operator: oh wow. were you born in any particular year me: i sure was operator: that’s great. gotta love it

::alert /technopeons:: hail+emulate leader re /flawless assimilation /human concepts *fun* *laugh* *party*

RIP to the magnificent, beautiful and deeply bananas Udo Kier. Everyone I know who has met him, no matter how glancingly, has their Udo Kier Story. May we all live half such enormous, outrageous lives.

Excellent story. I appreciate it ending on a note of generous, sorrowful empathy toward its subject, but also fuck them and their ilk to hell and beyond.

Looper

Some wild nighttime creature after my own inky heart left the big windows of our shared hotel bathroom wide open to the 4am rain of Amsterdam.

Clicked through purely to check how many people replied or QT'd with tim%robinson%hotdog%suit.gif Somewhat surprised to only count 8, but the night is young.

Stumbled upon best bar in Amsterdam feat. Ari the Cat and Tito the Cinephile Barman (not pictured)

Presumably working off an AI summary of the Greek myth that omits some salient details.

As I am too polite to ask the man next to me on the train with the restless leg to stop the jiggling, I sadly have no choice but to beat him to death.

my people

Scorching reminder that there are no two more bullshit words littering today's media landscape than "critics say..." (I say that as an actual critic.) lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A reminder to Berliners: TRAIN DREAMS is playing this Mon, Tue and Wed at 2150 in Hackesche Höfe Kino and is so, so worth seeing in the cinema.

Zohran Mamdani invoking a Mario Cuomo quote in his victory speech is so simultaneously lofty and petty that I want to buy a hat just so I can doff it.

Kinda love the impossible-to-love DIE MY LOVE

It's an ongoing pleasure watching SIRAT play at festivals and open in territories across the world like a series of controlled detonations. If you're within blast radius, you must check it out -- here's my review for afters, when you're picking your jaw up off the floor. variety.com/2025/film/re...

This is how I discover a movie title I'm going to think about and savour twice daily for the rest of my life.

Heartening to see that the audience for this DocLisboa screening of SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM is almost exclusively composed of terrifyingly attractive young Portuguese swells.

That Louvre heist better have included a 28-minute-long wordless sequence or I swear

Not even a quarter way through this dangerously demented moron's second term and this is where we are.

Some superb bracket work from Siddhant here.

​Feel like I was stolen away and inhabited by Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS, ​one of those films that​ crept into my chest in its opening moments and made itself a nest in there.​ Didn't expect to be so moved, to be scooped up, cradled and swept away by it.

This seems like very good info for people in the US.

I turned on actual terrestrial television for the first time in about six months and 4 out of the first 10 channels are covering Taylor Swift's album release.

28% is "more than a quarter," not "nearly a third," but sure, go ahead and inflate the made-up numbers on your completely spurious horseshit story.

Well yes but there's also the generation who will watch a tiktok of someone watching the video while doing their make up as excerpts from the original article appear as text on the screen.

They're really going for the EXIT 8 promotion in Taipei! As well they should. It's fun! My review: variety.com/2025/film/re...

One of these days some septuagenarian Man of Letters is going come down broadly on the side of "wokeism" and I am going to die of shock. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

New Yorkers into delightful things: Go see DRY LEAF, playing NYFF Mon and Tue with a Q&A with director (and, more importantly, my Busan FF co-juror) Alexandre Koberidze. variety.com/2025/film/re...

For the record, I have now seen ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and in case you haven't heard: it is ever so good.

I simply cannot believe that anywhere other than Ximen District in Taipei looks like this at 7.30pm on a Sunday.

I am back in Taipei

Inadvertently hit on the perfect way to finally see WEAPONS: in Busan with a student lunchtime crowd, nursing a somaek hangover, sitting next to a big soft Korean dude who leaps about 3 feet out of his seat with every jump scare.

Well, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a grand old exercise in apocalypse nostalgia, honking urgently about some ancient period when one could plausibly believe that there were minimally competent and ethical humans in the White House.

Say what you like about Trump, every single Aberbaijani-Albanian I know is a huge fan.

Every new story I read about this sort of capitulation reminds me of that old joke restaurant review where "the food's awful but at least there's lots of it." "Your article is riddled with errors and completely worthless, but at least it was up first."

So now that the "he didn't know him that well" line of defense is failing, this is the best they could come up with? Good luck with that!

Me and my invisible companion back in this Toronto joint for what I think might be my favorite cocktail in the world

Many things to love about TIFF but the normalisation of popcorn in press screenings is not one of them.

For the first time I reviewed (and loved) the Golden Lion winner for Variety! Do make some time in your life for the quiet pleasures of FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER. I don't think you'll regret it. variety.com/2025/film/re...

In which I unapologetically objectify Dwayne Johnson* *kidding. (I do apologise.)

I love this movie, and I love Guy's review: variety.com/2025/film/re...

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (Fastvold, 2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q8i...

Very surprised by how much I loved Jim Jarmusch's gorgeously quiet and hospitable FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER variety.com/2025/film/re...

Exhibit A for the establishment of a Pulitzer for jokes.

Whether it's today or not, the importance of today is that it reminds us that one day, it will be today :) Mortality gets a bad rap but it's really cool.

I hate anointing a film my "most anticipated" of any festival because it invariably disappoints except this time when it didn't. variety.com/2025/film/re...

I do not know why this should be true but two boiled egg halves are simply not as nutritionally satisfying as one whole boiled egg.