This is a First Amendment violation. This is very illegal! A politician using the power of his office to silence criticism is EXACTLY what the First Amendment was designed to prevent. I hope Kimmel sues the hell out of Trump and wins a ton of money. Yes, it’s a real tweet: x.com/whitehouse/s...

Fuck JK Rowling Pass it on

Favorite first-time viewings of April 2026: -Russian Ark (2002) -She-Devil (1989) -The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) -28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)

I have a PhD in a scientific discipline. You will never ever catch me walking under a ladder or blithely discussing the name of The Scottish Play.

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Still frustrated that I have to type "-ai" with every search when it can't figure out the context of famous actor and whether he's in a prestigious film or is a horny dog. Listen, I know what you're about to say, and before you do, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. And AI doesn't. And that's the whole point.

Can you maybe NOT explore the sale of controlling stake in the company?

Today's Viewing: Michael 2026 / Biographical Music Drama / UK, USA D: Antoine Fuqua W: John Logan AMC Norwalk 20

New episode announcement!

The Rundown (Not to Be Confused with the 2003 Action Comedy Starring The Rock and Seann William Scott) 04.25.2026: Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Merrily We Roll Along, The Color Purple, and more!

New episode dropped! Frozen: We Will Never Let It Go now streaming wherever you get your podcasts!

Latest FITOR newsletter listens to The Shout, the astonishing 1978 film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It's a short essay I wrote for the sleevenotes of the soundtrack, released last year on Buried Treasure records.

It is worse for democracy to allow Republicans to win elections.

Let the storm rage on! And also questions! Have any questions you want answered on our Frozen episode? Drop 'em below!

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

The Writer's Desk 04.20.2026: New episode recording later this week, update on The Pedestrian!

The Rundown (Not to be Confused with the 2003 Action Comedy Starring The Rock and Seann William Scott) 04.19.2026: Faces of Death, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Pizza Movie, and more.

Today's Viewing: Frozen 2013 / Musical Fantasy / USA D: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee W: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck, Shane Morris (based on the 1844 Fairy Tale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen) Film Collection Favorite Film of 2013

Happy Birthday to the one & only Ellen Barkin, 4/16/1954! If Hollywood had kept giving Barkin lead roles (THE BIG EASY, SEA OF LOVE), it would have made the world a more interesting place! Sexy, cool, tough & usually smarter than anyone in the room. Still busy with 📺 & avid activism. #filmsky 📽

He’s here to save her

My favourite Sirk.

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

People hate this shit so much. Nobody's having fun. Even the AI people are getting tired of this. They're losing and they know it. Even with the ever-growing revenues of OpenAI and Anthropic, things feel weird and bad. Anthropic's services are also randomly broken or rate limited to hell. Cool!

MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING is one of the most beautifully *directed* comedies of all time. I say that with zero hyperbole. Up there with Wilder's Some Like It Hot. Revisited (on the STUNNING recent 4k transfer) and every shot and cut is so elegant and purposeful. Breathtakingly precise.

How about instead of that weird AI ad, you just show us your actual product at work? I hate every movie pre-show casting me into the uncanny valley.

The Writer's Desk 04.14.2026: Updates on The Pedestrian, and trying to find a solid recording space for the Podcast.

Today's Viewing: The Dam Keeper 2014 / Fantasy Drama / USA D: Robert Kondo, Daisuke Tsutsumi W: Robert Kondo, Daisuke Tsutsumi

The Rundown (Not to Be Confused with the 2003 Action Comedy Starring The Rock and Seann William Scott) 04.11.2026: Project Hail Mary (again), Primate, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer,” she wrote. “Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.”

Let’s be serious: the people in charge of this administration are not interested in merit. They've overruled the merit process to block the promotion of Black military officers - and lavish favors on people who can pay dues at Trump's private clubs or write big checks to his ballroom project.

I think we should all be a lot meaner to fascists, actually.

The Hope Scroll 04.08.2026: I see our humanity, and that is our greatest strength right now.

Nobody's getting raptured you disphits, that was never in the Bible.

Call Congress and tell them to do their job: 202-224-3121

Gordon Parks was the first person to photograph the Jim Crow south in color because he felt that black and white allowed for a remove while color photography gave an immediacy to the problem, showing that it was happening concurrently, not in some distant past.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

Read "‘Pray for America’: Petrified MAGA now fleeing their ‘madman’" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-7uwrSCXe/R... I will have to think for awhile b4 I can come up with any nice comment to any of them. I have a mouth full of brass tacs at the moment.

The Writer's Desk 04.07.2026: Introducing The Pedestrian, my brand new digital newsletter! As well as the next episode of the podcast!

Today's Viewing: Project Hail Mary 2026 / Sci-fi Adventure / USA D: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller W: Drew Goddard (based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir) AMC Burbank 16

Trump’s budget, empty and wasteful, is a costly joke: it swells the deficit, bleeds the economy, and leaves most Americans stuck with the bill while his party cheers the ruin as a brilliant strategy. #ProudBlue #DV1

It's wild that he has so many loyal followers surrounding him considering he wouldn't think twice about throwing ANY of them under a bus on a whim. He's so obsessed with finding people loyal to him, but he is loyal to absolutely no one other than himself.

Everything about this film sounds awful and nobody should be supporting it. The "held accountable for their actions"-to-hyper-Conservative pipeline in full swing, here.

"You call hamburgers 'steamed hams'?" "Yes, it's a regional dialect." "Uh-huh. What region?" "Uh, upstate New York." "Really? Well, I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams'." "Oh, not in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression." "I see."

A couple notes on reviews, in light of SMB2: Some of the reviews are, in fact, to be disregarded. Not because they didn't "get it" (all of them DO, don't get that twisted), but because their hyperbolic language ("worse than AI", "the death of cinema") betrays a fundamental disrespect for art.

The Rundown (Not to Be Confused with the 2003 Action Comedy Starring The Rock and Seann William Scott) 04.03.2026: Undertone, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and more! #therundown #undertone #28yearslaterthebonetemple #reviews

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

The Final Moments of a Stellar Giant What you’re looking at is AG Carinae, one of the Milky Way’s most brilliant stars, locked in a dramatic struggle between the pull of gravity and the intense force of its own radiation (Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Nota, C. Britt)

Driving Mel Gibson further insane by telling him what a submissive and breedable Twink body he used to have

Well, I slept on KING FU HUSTLE for far too long. What an absolute blast. The Shining bit had me screaming with laughter.