maybe it's my station in life or the state of the world or maybe it was always this way but man... MAN, am I happy to see some Muppets.

in important news of the day: Amanda Seyfried dominated the graham norton couch this week. all star 2019 kawhi game 7 ecsf type performance, inspiring

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

not every weekend I get to break up an episode of INDUSTRY with a Bad Bunny halftime show. but it oughta be

I don't even like GREEN KNIGHT like that, but everytime I see a trailer for this I get gassed up. One might say millennial cultural imperialism is like, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON getting a live action remake for no reason but this my shit right here.

THE MOMENT: v weird to make a 2hr movie with much less drama than a 41 minute album. the more one knows about charli's career the less the movie works. An uncanny zone between 'not funny enough' (tall order) & 'not sincere enough' (charli's wheelhouse). bless the effort tho

I, for one, am enjoying the Detroit Pistons' swift transition from being 'so bad at basketball it's not fun to watch' to 'so good at basketball it's not fun to watch'

was all for giving TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE the benefit of the doubt (Seyfried, honourary canadian, can sell feverish belief like few can) but Fastvold / Corbet should have learned how to write a movie with a single moment of levity in it before they figured out how to balance a budget

"The format didn't die, they’ve just found a way to shed its labor costs. This strategy seems to replace union-protected talk shows with non-union "video podcasts" that serve the exact same corporate PR playbook."

very fun Sabrina Carpenter performance. Olivia Dean is rewarded for having one of the best songs of the decade. Bad Bunny is crazy hot. good award show so far, time for the country album award heat check

one could be a dog. one could be a mutt. but both?

award show season. weirdest time of the year where the most common refrain you'll hear is "I don't know any of the movies/musicians/shows nominated" wielded as an immediate small talk killer instead of a rich conversation starter

Let us not forget that Catherine O'Hara was hired for "Saturday Night Live," spent a week there, decided it sucked, quit, and went back to Canada to make more shows with her friends.

Reporters! Every time a politician talks about Heated Rivalry, please follow-up with a question about declining arts and media funding in Canada.

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (Da Costa, 2026): I'm gonna have to check the logbooks, but I don't think I've ever been in a movie screening before where someone cackled at a crucifixion. That takes a lot of skill to pull that off.

having just completed catching up in a dozen mikio naruse movies over the last two months, I'm really gonna miss this dope

guys, i think it snowed

watching 28 WEEKS LATER for the first time. Rose Byrne's American accent... they could have chosen anyone for this role. what in the hell happened in that audition

starting an entirely original new personality as a guy who wasn't convinced about wanting to see F1 until it got the best pic nom

Never has a bad performance. No one is ever disappointed when Delroy Lindo pops up on screen. Long overdue. Baller time

hans zimmer? more like hans bummer

have got to stop trying to pitch THE PITT to people with stuff like "they carve a guy in half and flip his lung around in this new season. he's completely unrecognizable as a human"

THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER (Stewart, 2025): someone walked out in the first 5 minutes. silently said "fuck the $16 ,keep it" even after sitting through like 15 different production company pre-rolls. that's some strong, distinctive filmmaking

I can make it through the rest of my life thinking "sure hope they didn't put any of the important information behind that paywall. yea... I'm probably good" 600 times a day. i'm strong willed enough, this can work

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jarmusch): letting real directors run around with Saint Laurent money is wild. characters will be broke as shit and still be having that shit ON

INDUSTRY writers when they set their sights on a niche financial kobayashi maru scenario and/or closed door fetish

An incredibly evocative piece of writing from @jeremygordon.bsky.social about a terrible, ecstatic moment

sometimes people will be like "Joe you know a lot about movies, don't you have cinephile friends" but those are the guys who roll out for the 89 minute killer chimp movie opening weekend. that's real shit, I don't live in that world, my blood is too weak, I fold & crawl back to tv/music

THE PITT S1E01: ah i'm a bit squeamish with medical gore, hopefully this show isn't too rough THE PITT S02E01: they're carving this guy up so much he's no longer recognizably human, one of the doctors said he's already dead but i don't buy it, let's keep fuckin goin

inviting a bunch of friends over to watch the hit new hourly medical drama as it debuts a new season (airing weekly) during the prime must see tv timeslot....streaming as a concept is largely a bust, get bent

setting aside the typical netflix bloat, I really do look forward to Culinary Class War as much as anything on TV right now. just a diabolicallly well-produced show

in official music critic parlance, this is what's commonly referred to in the biz as a "*monster* riff". great band/album arewenothomefront.bandcamp.com/track/d-w-a

God has forsaken us

BOOGIE NIGHTS: a really fitting new year's day movie

there are *so many* kidnappings in these AVATAR movies. in this new one, Jake is getting kidnapped by Quaritch (classic) and then his negotiating tactic is "actually our kid is getting kidnapped", so Jake & Quaritch go to stop the kidnapping and then, surprise, they all get kidnapped together

at the theater today, desperately wanted to poll all ~30 people who went to see IS THIS THING ON? with us about how they even heard about the movie

very good, seemingly not super well known norwegian electro for all my detroit house-heads out there, with a touch of moroder at times helenerickhard.bandcamp.com/album/unpred...

watching JAY KELLY. gotta say, I don't remember train rides in france being this wistful.

spending Boxing Day, how else, with Henry Kissinger (watching APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS and COVER UP back to back), feeling incredible

Marty Mauser needing his ticket punched by Kevin O'Leary of all guys...the american century of humiliation is real

sorry to inform you that Drake is incredible in his THE OFFICE MOVERS season 2 cameos. his only right move in the last 2 to 7 years.

merry christmas to the Jack Fisk - Production Designer credit in MARTY SUPREME

for a week straight now, everytime I've walked out of the room, I hear Melody fire up her IG reel page and blast somehow another "I'll Believe in Anything" edit. Merry Heated Rivalrymas to all those who celebrate

I never feel less like I'm in a free country than when I'm in a fast food place that is rationing ketchup packets. that's a leading economic indicator, for me. when a place has the freeflowing unlimited ketchup pump? that's stars, stripes and fireworks on the fourth of july right there

trailer for a new spielberg scifi hits like an ice bath after a drought. blocking! staging! warms the cockles

do you think "this sounds like twitter" is something non-twitter people think about when watching KNIVES OUT or is it a "this reminds me of boss baby" type thing only twitter people say to bond with other twitter people

This meme expresses my feelings every 4am on this app.

Wolf Parade needle drop in HEATED RIVALRY...you gotta rise from the couch and salute the 🍁 for the duration of the scene

American Doctor Who, but it's just Don Draper saying things like "I want you to be my partner in this, not my servant" to another middle aged man before they go out and get drunk in the middle of the day together.