By god, he’s at least thinking about it.

People with this attitude, who so often (and in my opinion extremely unjustifiably) praise Eggers for supposedly doing this (emphatically false imo) basically relate to the classics not as literature expressing something transhistorically true, but as a literary zoo or circus

…yikes

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18

"Yeah, Christopher Nolan made a billion dollars with a film about a scientist being sad, but I really think I can get people to skip his movie where Matt Damon fights monsters with a sword," - the finest minds on the internet.

Just a word of advice, if you’re thinking about reading The Odyssey, wait a couple of weeks. Your local used bookstore is going to be overflowing with them soon.

Something strange in the air: France getting creamed by England Then we watched The French Connection Then we watched Better Off Dead with the French love interest And now Carmella Soprano is about to go to Paris. 🥖🚬

Watched The French Connection for the first time. Breaking news: great movie!

lol RIP France

Something like this (Nolan edition)

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Speaking of comics, I’m selling a bunch of stuff. Trying to clear space, move on with my life, etc A number of cool omnibuses and collections. Adding more things shortly ebay.io/m/mG0dOP

Dumping Akira Yoshida for Stephen Wacker has got to be the first smart decision Marvel has made in...well...a very long time.

#Kindle deal! Whoa! @stephengrahamjones.com's THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is just $2.99! #booksky #ad #horror #amreading amzn.to/3Kj4Uoq

Three way tie: One Upon A Time In Hollywood, Miracle Mile, To Live and Die in LA

A long review about a long movie based on a long book from a long time ago: on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for @portlandmercury.com

I said it. I meant it.

Looking at Nolan's RT scores, just for a second of brain-relief, it's one of the rare times where I think they're all basically correct...except: The Prestige - way too low, in the 70's? What were 2006-era critics thinking? Tenet - way too high. If there's one that deserves a rotten...

Adapt another Christopher Priest novel.

The Odyssey rules. The Best Picture race is over. The end. screenrex.com/the-odyssey/

Not reviewing The Odyssey, but Nolan's adaptation is pretty dang tremendous. It knows when to embrace cacophony (partly thanks to an overwhelming score from Ludwig Göransson) and when to bask in quieter emotion. It's convenient to dub it an Oppenheimer sequel, but it does feel spiritually linked.

The Odyssey rules. The Best Picture race is over. The end. screenrex.com/the-odyssey/

lfg!!!

Never saw Blue Beetle, unlikely to ever do so, but as a Cobra Kai lifer I'm happy that Xolo has another plum gig in this new Superman as the character again.

🤘

Entertaining myself.

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

I won an award at Sundance years ago and Sam Neill, whom I did not know, tweeted to me “we’re all so proud of you, sweetheart”. I can’t even express what that meant to me. That our most beloved national treasure, a man I worshipped, would take the time to write to me!

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

Now watching:

It’ll always be this one for me. 💔

Another mid House of the Dragon, I should have known last week was too good to be true.

I actually think it’s important for society that we start telling people to their faces that they are illiterate

I just can’t imagine seeing a movie at 3 am but this thing is almost sold out at our IMAX even at that time.

Of course they’d sing Oasis.

can't he just go away

The only good social media is about to get enshittified. Sadly, used to the pattern by now. variety.com/2026/digital...

Five living writers you’ve read five books by each Stephen King Stephen Graham Jones Michael Moorcock Joe R. Lansdale Haruki Murakami (George RR Martin too, and almost there with Guy Gavriel Kay)

ends Monday:

Okay, but at least we're in the Golden Age of Zero Sugar soda.

Listen, I read almost nothing for pleasure but comics for the first 38 years of my life. It certainly instilled some kind of love of reading and gave me a big leg up on the culture, to be sure. But god, do I ever regret reading so narrowly for so long.

I love comics with all my heart but given the ongoing death of literacy I do think at some point we have to have a conversation about whether “reading comics is the same as reading prose” is a valuable stance to take re: teaching literacy, reading comprehension, and critical thinking to young people

Alright, I’m Odyssey-pilled now. Let’s go.

At @comicsjournal.bsky.social I reconsidered the life, the legend, and the largeness of Marvel Comics' Jim Shooter. I'm proud of this one, and I hope you like it. www.tcj.com/rr-jim-shoot...

Well, I’m excited to not have to hear about that fuckin guy anymore. Let it be the first of a few.

THE FURIOUS hits theaters this weekend. For the occasion, I wrote about action director Kensuke Sonomura, one of the most innovative fight choreographers working today. mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Sometimes I sit back and think how absolutely wild it is that a hundred years ago a magician was one of the most famous people in the world.

breaking the news to Hannah that John Leguizamo is in The Odyssey was a very fun moment last night.

It's all about the new Fessenden for me, my dudes. Though Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma looks rad too.