TODAY: @jdconnor.bsky.social on the dads of cinema, present and past. “You can learn a lot about dads in films by the way they spend their time in the bathroom” flaminghydra.com/taking-it-ly...

thanks julie glad you liked it

feeding One trader joe's horseradish & chive potato chip to my Corner Spider because he's a pretty cool dude

(DJ Khaled voice) Another one

straight up frankin' it

Honestly I think this guy in 1966 or whatever had the right idea, but he truly couldn't fathom how much worse it was gonna get. I tried to watch MOBY DICK (1956) on Pluto yesterday and every ad break was for Brendan Schaub's podcast.

Alfred Hitchcock's SUBOTEUR (1942)

For my first feature for @latimes.com, I talked to director Clint Bentley, his writing partner Greg Kwedar, and Joel Edgerton about TRAIN DREAMS, an intimate epic I'd encourage you to see in theaters before it hits Netflix later this month: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Enjoying some organic Audio Narrative Content as the two girls at the table behind me—who have skipped class to study together for an upcoming quiz—realize that the quiz is, in fact, happening right now in the class they skipped.

Little Murders was a flop on Broadway and a flop as a movie and it is amazing. (Streaming on Prime) I saw it for the first time in June. In Q&A Elliott Gould said that Jean Renoir(!) had written a letter to Alan Arkin praising the film. Here's the letter, as read by EG on the bluray commentary track

1. Several million people are about to learn the term "transference." 2. I always thought that what Daniel Paul Schreber really needed was a front-facing camera.

*Forgetting how gay slang works* Sooooooo, which one of you is the Master and which one is the Commander?

Alright, who wants to go see all three screenings with me?

Had dinner outside at the sidewalk rotisserie chicken joint before an evening screening of TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN and they played the entire Meat is Murder album. No amount of cops, cybertrucks, or poorly done dermal fillers will change the fact that L.A. is the greatest city on earth.

Methinks part of the LA Times homepage didn't update. Otherwise, uh,

Beginning an expedition to find the worst-received Frederick Wiseman doc

My job is so cool

gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort

Channel surfing through various dogshit B-movies while I wait for PAIN & GAIN to come on at 10:15pm like I'm a goddamn civil war re-enactor

Watching linear television in 2025 feels like going to a ren faire. Like I'm "watching" a "program" on a "channel." Wait never mind now Pluto is showing me a commercial for Brendan Schaub's podcast what the fuck

writing a 33 1/3 for one of those fake bands they put on Brandy Melville tees

Sinners in 70mm IMAX was superb, but I couldn’t bring myself to get a Smoke or Stack popcorn bucket once I saw the Accountant 2 swag

No offense to Mr. Pizzaballa, but it's extremely weird to imagine the possibility of a Gen X pope. The pope is supposed to be guided by voices, not out here having opinions about Guided by Voices.

Earth Day in Los Angeles!!! The L.A. Dash buses are free, but this time it's on purpose!

Frederick Wiseman's Conclave

Trying to decide what the best part of MEN OF WAR was. The full suit of samurai armor? The revelation that the failed Venezuelan coup scheme was launched in a Miami WeWork? The Spanish-language cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World? Impossible to say.

creating a plugin that nukes any reddit comment that starts with "Ehhh,"

"The cat iss obscene, a creature of pure decadence, in an existence didicated only to leisure and consumption. There is a purity to it that iss horrifying, a singular hunger for [in the most fucked up way imaginable] lasagna that obliterates everysing it touches."

I won't pretend I know what's good or cool or appealing but I am 100% bullish on Hermann Hesse's NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND—monks, homoeroticism, artistic philosophy, all the stuff that people who like the idea of liking books would like to have in their books. I read it before it was popular etc etc

Norman Rockwell understood exactly what the Optimal Content Consumption Experience looked like

This Hamdan Ballal news is so sickening. NO OTHER LAND is such a special collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers who are united for a just and peaceful future. To understand that as a threat worthy of violent retaliation is straight-up evil.

It’s grotesquely poetic that a municipal government is *terminating a theater’s lease agreement* to punish it for showing a movie about discriminatory forced displacement

plotting horse movies in a grid along the two axes of NATIONAL VELVET—MY FRIEND FLICKA and EQUUS—DEATH OF DICK LONG

Demi Moore losing to Mikey Madison should be a post-credits scene to The Substance.

im still prob not gonna watch it

🚨🚨🚨 DOGS IN THE CLUB!!! 🚨🚨🚨

blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all (wet) blocked. none of you are free of sin but you will be free of wrinkles & curling

it is SO over for u hoes

Caught a truly flaming/flammable double feature at the Egyptian: MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS and ROPE on nitrate film

why dont they make the whole snl out of the really funny people

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS is a gloriously dumb movie that via its focus on catholicism, twins, homoeroticism/homophobia, good-evil doubling, revenge, unreliable narration, etc blossoms into a unique kind of Meathead Gothic.

Every newspaper from the 1950s is half laxative advertisements and half this shit

Sowing: Hell yeah, I'm in control of the damn R train baby! Reaping: [10 minutes later, exhausted] "Let 'em off, people, let 'em off. Please do not hold the doors, there is another train just behind this one. Step in and stand clear, 28th Street, 28th Street is next." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Working out a scenario where Pornhub has to launch a prestigious monthly print magazine in order to stay online in Tennessee. This is how we bring the business back: ransoming access to stepsister-stuck-in-washing-machine content with long-form literary criticism and Malcolm Harris book excerpts.

gearing up to take the longest lunch break this town has ever seen

Gerard Butler's character has gotten so Divorced that he starts to become Harry Du Bois about 10 minutes in

I neeeeed to know what Eve Sedgwick (would have) thought of THE SERVANT (1963)

First four movies of the new year. 2025 is shaping up to be a mixed bag.

Why does the Kringle mascot look like the IP-violating mpreg son of Asterix and Obelix

cheese boureka and a guava monster zero...good morning Los Angeles 😎