FINALWRECK is not one of the worst blockbusters of the last ten years, but, gee, is that incoherent, ineffectual opening hour dispiriting.

i figured it out. and i hate to say it’s largely an age thing, but it’s true. a lot replies on this site are giving Facebook.

The new White Lotus season feels like a step backward after the more effervescent season two, but I'm enjoying the heck out of what Parker Posey is bringing to the table

So many of you who have well-formed, insightful taste have me second-guessing myself on this, but, outside of its last ten or fifteen minutes, I really didn't like ANORA all that much. It being both a Palme d'Or winner and a Best Picture winner is a real head-scratcher for me!

CONCLAVE is sturdy "airport novel" cinema. That's a film genre we could use more of, not less of, if only because this sort of middlebrow story should be told in a couple of mildly entertaining hours rather than dragged out into twelve-episode streaming fluff.

I like how CITIZEN SLEEPER 2 expands on the gameplay and world of the first, but it loses a bit of the narrative punch of its predecessor. It feels almost incomplete. I don't know if there's a DLC planned, but I could see that pulling things together.

Doechii ate

It turns out that when you get a full night's sleep, you can actually find some motivation and focus Whaddya know

NOSFERATU (2024) Inert. Too pleased with too little. Eggers really likes smash cuts to black.

I don't really "buy" THE BRUTALIST, but it has its moments I'm happy that this kind of big epic folly can still be made today

I don't "get" Harry Potter Who wants to imagine themselves in a dreary fantasy universe that has not one single good outfit in it And what do you get to perform all your acts of magical wonder? Not a sword or staff or anything cool, but a sad little twig that occasionally shoots sparks

TENET (2020, dir. Christopher Nolan)

I revisited I AM LOVE yesterday. Dramatically and narratively speaking, it's a mess, but it turns out that doesn't matter all that much when you have the best cinematography of the 2000s plus a soundtrack assembled from John Adams masterpieces

I'm seeing people be protective of ANDOR in a "It's the only good thing to come out of Disney Wars" way But spending over $600 million on two seasons of a TV show, no matter how good, is emblematic of the cost disease that has to corroded the industry and brought it to the point of total collapse

Nolan applying his austere brand of spectacle to THE ODYSSEY could be pretty satisfying For example, consider applying the INTERSTELLAR "water planet" ticking clock vibes to the Sirens episode

Revisiting RONIN tonight and gee this thing *moves*

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (1/20)

The first chapter of QUEER is the best film Guadagnino has made. I'm less certain about the rest of it.

I have the opportunity to see either QUEER or CONCLAVE this weekend Strongly leaning towards the former, but anyone want to make a case for the latter?

I know not everyone digs COVENANT the way I do, but, come on, Fassbender playing a flute with a clone of himself in a grandly Gothic sci-fi city of the dead is infinitely more interesting than anything in ROMULUS

Follies A Little Night Music Sunday in the Park with George

If you see this, quote with a horror film you love.

I also caught up with ALIEN: ROMULUS, which... eh. Nightmare newborn aside, it doesn't have much going for it.

A more enigmatic film than the original release, but a big part of me misses the final gag of the original cut.

Now watching: B'TWIXT NOW AND SUNRISE (Coppola's re-edit of TWIXT)

Wait, Coppola released a new cut of TWIXT?! How did I miss this?

Here are said artichokes

THE AGENCY has yet to convince me it's really gonna deliver the goods But Harriet Sansom Harris is giving such a delightfully unhinged performance that I'm happy to stick with it

FAVORITE DISCOVERIES OF 2024 A Thread

Making wine-roasted artichokes tonight. I've made this recipe many, many times. It's a banger. web.archive.org/web/20240616...

The big stores are already working hard to move on from Christmas stuff, as though it's over before it ever arrived They rush it on, rush it out

I'm starting a new replay of Bloodborne tonight I don't think any game has created a world/mythos that I've enjoyed more

This is one of the long-foretold signs of the apocalypse

Chappell and Sabrina achieved the impossible: a decent cover of "Last Christmas"

Okay, that Doechii Tiny Desk is pretty incredible

Using egg nog (the good stuff that feels like a legitimate dairy product, ala Homestead Creamery) as a coffee creamer is 👌

Yeah, some days ago I was bemoaning how films end up in the no man's land between celluloid and digital without leaning into the qualities both offer It really bums me out

It wasn't the only factor by any means, but I do believe the most significant reason I stopped writing about movies (circa 2018) is that I just didn't enjoy how new movies were looking/sounding That hasn't really changed

The credit sequence for THE AGENCY is abysmally mediocre A parody of a prestige TV show opening from ten years ago

I'm making this chorizo and Calabrian chile stuffing for Thanksgiving It's in the oven now... fingers crossed www.bonappetit.com/recipe/chori...

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

Today kinda sucks but, on the upside, I have a snazzy new espresso cup and saucer

Hey! I made a cinephile starter pack. go.bsky.app/S7ASV6X

I will laugh if WICKED ONE wins Best Picture and then WICKED TWO comes out and is met with a collective "Huh" (Which is pretty likely given the source musical)

"Here at WB, vanity comic book projects aren't the way forward. We've learned our lesson after JOKER 2." "Yeah, but hear me out - SGT. ROCK with Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig, hot off of QUEER." "You genius!"

Me in my echo chamber

6 authors I love Roberto Bolaño Jorge Luis Borges Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen Umberto Eco Patricia Highsmith Patrick Modiano

Introduce yourself with One book 📚 One movie 🎥 One album 💿 One tv show 📺

I hope the Pope speaks infallibly for the third time ever and uses it to enshrine the anime mascot in doctrine.

HomeGoods has once again brought out their holiday stockpile of good panettone, which is bad news for my waistline