Medical researchers say that cancer is typically caused by a complex combination of factors. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats says it's mostly caused by the radiation from offshore windmill farms. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Clockwork Orange (with my grandmother! Who also hasn’t seen it!)

I would love to write the Antonioni-style script for a Myst movie adaptation. I only regret Monica Vitti isn’t around to star.

La Chimera, The Secret Agent, Power of the Dog, The Eternal Daughter, I’m Your Man, French Dispatch are all up there for sure

Get off social media and get on Fragrantica perfume comments

Get off social media and get on Fragrantica perfume comments

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The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

We are LONG overdue for a new era of movie posters that go this hard

Argh, this casting news… look, he’s a talented actor but I have to agree that he looks more like JD Vance than Aragorn

Nooo!

Bud Cort was BOTD in 1948 & died in 2026 at 77. In 1979 he was involved in a serious car crash on the Hollywood Freeway which substantially interrupted his career. His most famous roles were in Altman's "Brewster McCloud" (1970) & Ashby's geronto-romance "Harold and Maude" (1971)

There’s only one elegant solution to this problem of increasingly stupid audiences, and that’s to mandate that every film ends with a closing rap song that lays out all the moral lessons of the movie. There will be a government office that reviews the songs for aural and pedagogical value.

One word title week while I recover from being sick

Klassy Karrot Holtville, CA

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

Published on @brightwalldarkroom.com five years ago, my ode to the Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin partnership. A classic anxious/avoidant vortex of creativity, love, codependency and misery! Plus beautiful Tony Stella artwork, check it out: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/03/10/m...

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/

Published on @brightwalldarkroom.com five years ago, my ode to the Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin partnership. A classic anxious/avoidant vortex of creativity, love, codependency and misery! Plus beautiful Tony Stella artwork, check it out: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/03/10/m...

Four Best New To Me Watches for Every Month in 2026 ~ A thread. Jan. 1. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) 2. The Secret Agent (2025) 3. Caught by the Tides (2024) 4. It Was Just an Accident (2025)

Look how insanely good Jenna's taste in movies is...

Amazing and truly devastating film, a real must see. I can’t wait for this restoration to come to NYC

THE EVIL DEAD (Raimi, 1981)

Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Bart and I have started an instagram for Cinema60. We’re starting by posting clips of every film that came out 60 years ago this week. Some hidden gems, some stinkers, some classics, it’s the Cinema60 way. Go give us a follow on instagram: @ cinema60podcast

Bart and I have started an instagram for Cinema60. We’re starting by posting clips of every film that came out 60 years ago this week. Some hidden gems, some stinkers, some classics, it’s the Cinema60 way. Go give us a follow on instagram: @ cinema60podcast

Okay, I uploaded the entirety of "The Oddfather" to my website, copyright be damned, because THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE IT: josie.zone/the-oddfather

The William Klein collection was the first Criterion I ever bought! Mr Freedom is a brilliant satire and remains unfortunately ever relevant, definitely check it if you haven’t seen it.

Matt Dillon in "Drugstore Cowboy" - BOTD

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

This is how you live a life

RIP Robert Duvall. Check out Angelo My Love if you can find it, an under seen and highly entertaining Duvall-directed movie. It’s a great slice of New York life, and uses memorable non-actors and scenes of the actual Roma community. Plus my mom did the sound for it😉

Best new to me watches of January: Port of Shadows (1938) Death Race 2000 (1975) Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) Hard Boiled (1992)

trying to remember the lyrics to I Am the Walrus and failing badly

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

Cast him

Elio Petri deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as filmmakers like Rosi, Bertolucci, the Taviani brothers etc (and I'm not just saying that because I have a Regia di Elio Petri t-shirt, and wear it with pride).

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

NEW- Most of the movies last year seemed to be about disillusionment, heartbreak, abandonment and awful people coming out on top – undeniably 2025-specific themes! Read on for my favorites of the past year: www.back-row.com/home/2026/1/...

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

I have never in my life had a boss go to bat for me the way these fuckers defend their ‘officers’ over blatant murder and misconduct.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...