On this rapturous day, I come to you with an appreciation of MegaDoc which is itself an appreciation of Megalopolis www.avclub.com/megadoc-rose...

I am posting this mostly because Jacob says some nice things about my small part in this film, but honestly the first couple of grafs is the best State of the Nation style assessment of contemporary film crit as a whole that I've read in years

Criticism is under attack, but Chain Reactions fights right back. Five great cases for film criticism, woven into a single movie! www.avclub.com/chain-reacti...

Sir Gawain: Well, I'd been kissing her every morning and her husband every afternoon. We had an arrangement. It was all very above board. Isaac Chotiner: But you kept her magic sash, correct? Sir Gawain: That was different, because— Isaac Chotiner: Because you'd cut that man's head off

Dudes rock

I've been terrible at promoting this, but last year I launched a brand new A.V. Club column called Women of Action, all about the history of women-led action movies. And it just celebrated its one-year anniversary with a piece about Ripley and her seismic place in the canon!

Criticism is under attack, but Chain Reactions fights right back. Five great cases for film criticism, woven into a single movie! www.avclub.com/chain-reacti...

On this rapturous day, I come to you with an appreciation of MegaDoc which is itself an appreciation of Megalopolis www.avclub.com/megadoc-rose...

parts of skate are magnificent

Happy birthday to Women Of Action! Here's the latest installment of @carolinesiede.bsky.social's excellent series @avclub.com

The Rehearsal (2025)

ah so .1% of the views of a Ninja Gaiden 2 speedrun video titled "The Quest to Beat jimmypoopins"

congrats to me and my depressed emo peers that the new Motion City Soundtrack album whips

Walt Disney Studios has delayed The Mandalorian and Grogu indefinitely for expressing anti-Empire sentiments

apropos of nothing but uh a pretty interesting documentary just came out www.avclub.com/riefenstahl-...

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

DJ Paul Armand-Delille of Polo & Pan has been on a posting spree defending Charlie Kirk and the current admin…which I believe makes him a techno-fascist

Fun find on the wiki page for “what Sunday afternoons are for”

and yet

RETVRN

my man was Space Jam dunking this morning

please enjoy my very local Chicago comedy recommendation

you can now stream 28 Years Later and you should because it rules www.avclub.com/28-years-lat...

An HR dept handing out dozens of Gumps at an all-hands because they heard meetings suck without them is basically how businesses are pushing AI on folks

dunno how many weekly website roundups include pieces on: - Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song - Rilo Kiley - Vile: Exhumed - Guerilla Toss - suing anti-vax parents

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Remember when I was doing deep dives on soundtracks for @avclub.com? Well, now I'm doing deep dives on Blaxploitation soundtracks. Needless to say, the first one up is... www.avclub.com/sounds-of-bl...

wrote a decent amount this week, but of all the films I covered, the radical Born In Flames is the most urgent and definitely the one to watch asap www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

got to see one of the best movies of the year and one of the worst like 24 hours apart

Today’s ICE activity thread

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

have all these film critics who keep getting laid off just tried sleeping with Zachary Levi

we're starting a new @unclecrizzle.bsky.social series about Blaxploitation and music, which could only start one place: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song giving Earth, Wind & Fire an absolutely bonkers platform www.avclub.com/sounds-of-bl...

Made sure our Robert Redford tribute was mostly focused on his incredible face (@chlopinions.bsky.social actually did all the work) www.avclub.com/robert-redfo...

Had high hopes for Him but phew

For this month's Criterion column, I wrote about the radical punk electricity of Born In Flames and its understanding of "constant struggle and change" in the face of a complacent/corrupt establishment www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

loved One Battle After Another, loved reading @rockmarooned.bsky.social on it www.avclub.com/one-battle-a...

BORN IN FLAMES is a great movie, nice to see some love for it www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

For this month's Criterion column, I wrote about the radical punk electricity of Born In Flames and its understanding of "constant struggle and change" in the face of a complacent/corrupt establishment www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

maintaining a website listing the home addresses of social media users who fail to mention how hot Robert Redford was when considering his legacy

(as compared to previous recipe) implies someone from legal being like "we gotta protect our asses if someone disputes how chextra these herbs are"

when the celebs are at it again

RIP Robert Redford, a man who never settled for "just" being a drop-dead handsome movie star www.avclub.com/robert-redfo...

Madness

the president trying to remember the title of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. God's Not Dead 2: God's Not Dead 2: He's Surely Alive 3: God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness 4: God's Not Dead: We the People 5: God's Not Dead: In God We Trust