I am not at all confident in these rankings beyond that these are the Top 10 and Sinners is Number 1. Numbers 2-10 are fluid.

a perfect winter’s day for a New Year’s walk…

Finally got to watch this. Better late than never, I guess.

Introduce yourself with 4 video games.

The Black Sun by Bill Mayer

This is why I love Hellboy.

Today's Soundtrack. I hadn't listened to those Squirrel Nut Zippers albums in ages. That was sure fun hearing those again. Continuing my exploration of Sting's albums after I lost track of him in around the Millennium turn. So far so great.

Post your First Film / Last Film of 2025

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨ Happy #CaturdayEve art by Marta Ponce

Share an '80s TV show that deserves more love. Tales of Little Women (1987)

"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone." ~Gandalf J.R.R. Tolkien b. #OTD (Jan 3, 1892) An Unexpected Party, The Hobbit

"Who were your most watched actor and director of 2025?" I had a pleasant tie for Most Watched Actor. Love both of these guys. For Director, Fleischer was the numerical winner, but they were all Superman shorts. If we're only counting feature films, it's Fisher.

New episode of Hellbent!!

Still going to bed, The Cure. Please advise.

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead... ~J.R.R. Tolkien ‘A Walking Song’ art by Ulla Thynell

I'm grateful that I got to see this presentation by Dr Treuer live. This particular anecdote and message were a memorable highlight.

Thought you might be interested in this even though I thought it was bad. Apparently, Titan Comics made some comics based on Hammer films. I just finished The Mummy from Peter Milligan. There's a retrospective on the films as well. www.hoopladigital.com/comic/the-mu... @michaelmay.bsky.social

Some horror conversation to get your week started right.

Mountain Ghost by Hwa San-Chiuen #PhantomsFriday

Okay, @paxholley.com and @shawnrobare.com. Ya'll need to come to Minnesota.

There's a typo in my description below. That's clearly Jeff Daniels.

Did not even recognize her.

Here's a weird, fun coincidence. Shea Whigham played the character of George Reeves in the mini-series Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Guess who else's birthday it is today?

"Let's start this year with puppy power! Repost this with a fictional dog that you like." Really I should just pick Snoopy too, but for the sake of variety let's go with Indy from Good Boy.

Happy Shea Whigham Day!

Lawful Good, as God intended.

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This is amazing - a life-sized game of Pac-Man at a Pac-Man festival in Singapore: youtube.com/shorts/3JKrl...

Well look-ee what we have here. Mike and Pax tried to sneak one past us. But I’m too quick for ‘em.

SciFi Saturday

if you could have one absolutely ridiculous thing in your house, money is no issue, what would you add? Batman ‘66 Batcave. Under the house. Get there by elevator behind the ground floor bookcase, opened by Shakespeare bust.

Theda Bara by Ginny Robbins www.instagram.com/gin.robbins/...

Nice.

Happy Sybil Seely Day! She's my favorite of Buster Keaton's co-stars. Mostly for One Week, but she's also great in Convict 13, The Scarecrow, and The Boat.

Hello 2026✨ art by Walter Popp

This week's movie queue

Holmes, hounds, hauntings, and Hawkins in my #LastFourWatched.

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, illustr. Inga Moore, 1945.

New Friday. New Favorites.

Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far? 2020: Emma. 2021: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2022: Catherine Called Birdy 2023: Barbie 2024: Tears for Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film) 2025: Sinners

Saw John Glover in a movie this week and it reminded me of my dream LOTR show

I ended 2025 with a terrible movie, but started 2026 with a great one. And since my first movie of 2025 was Damsel (2024), I'm tempted to make it a tradition to begin every year with Millie Bobby Brown.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025? Sadly, not a good one.

Wordless Wednesday:

Really happy to have seen this in the theater with a community of fans. I cried, everyone around me cried, and one young woman in the row behind us cried loudly and uncontrollably. We were all just feeling it and it was great.

Post your favorite first-watches of December

An order of Catholic nuns breaks new ground for the land-back movement by returning land to the Lac du Flambeau Band in Wisconsin.

There’s no such thing as ‘definitive’ when it comes to book illustrations, of course. But there is inevitably personal taste, and nothing comes close for me to Eric Fraser’s vision of Tolkien’s Middle Earth, as here, from the Folio Society’s edition of The Hobbit.

Happy Taye Diggs Day! (aka The World's Most Handsome Man Day)

Tonight’s Movie