I’m a sucker for a movie that hates its audience. 🤷

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Primal Fear (1996) -The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) -The Housemaid (2025) -Je Tu Il Elle (1974) -Dracula (2025) [the Radu Jude one] -Wuthering Heights (2026) #filmsky

These were my 4 favorite first-time watches in March: -High School (1968) -Hospital (1970) -When the Cat Comes (1963) -Bright Star (2009) #filmsky

A rather temporally varied weekend.

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Hi, Nellie! (1934) -Bright Star (2009) -Hooper (1978) -The Fan (1949) -Project Hail Mary (2026) #filmsky

My favorite films over the last decade: 2025: BLKNWS 2024: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2023: Asteroid City 2022: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2021: Petite Maman 2020: Shiva Baby 2019: Little Women 2018: Chez Jolie Coiffure 2017: Phantom Thread 2016: Everybody Wants Some!!

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)* -All the President's Men (1976)* -When the Cat Comes (1963) -One Battle After Another (2025)* -Griffin in Summer (2024) -The Reader (2008) (*rewatch) #filmsky

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -The American President (1995)* -Stress Positions (2024)* -The Pledge (2001) -Predator: Badlands (2025) -Lee (2023) -Ford v Ferrari (2019) -Sicario (2015)* (*rewatch) #filmsky

Where I’m at on 2025 right now. #filmsky

He looks like if The Matrix was about being cis.

Tentative beyond the top 3.

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -A Perfect Murder (1998) -Cruel Intentions (1999)* -The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) -High School (1968) -No Other Choice (2025) (*rewatch) #filmsky

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -A League of Their Own (1992)* -Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)* -Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) -Hospital (1970) -The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) (*rewatch) #filmsky

These were my 5 favorite first-time watches in February: -Taxi (2015) -How to Divorce During the War (2026) -Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) -My Own Private Idaho (1991) -The Secret Agent (2025)

Movies watched last weekend* (in order of watching): -The Conjuring 2 (2016) -The Conjuring 3 (2021) -The Conjuring 4 (2025) -Stagecoach (1939) -Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017) -The Philadelphia Story (1940)** -Babel (2006) (*more like week…I was sick. **rewatch) #filmsky

Call your senators. Call your house reps. 5calls can make it extra easy and you can look up “Iran” as the keyword and find a script that will augment Celeste’s nicely. Look, if I can call my California dem senators and leave shaky voicemails at 1 AM you can too. (Hopefully less shakily.) Love you.

Sick, sick country.

Love to be misgendered by a (nonconsensual) AI summary in gmail. Excellent world we live in. No notes.

Flea double feature

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Little Caesar (1931) -My Own Private Idaho (1991) -The Big Lebowski (1998)* -Taxi (2015) -Lilting (2014) -The Cider House Rules (1999)* -The Conjuring 2 (2016) (*rewatch) #filmsky

I've finally seen all the Best Picture nominees, so here's my current ranking: -One Battle After Another -Bugonia -Sentimental Value -The Secret Agent -Sinners -Marty Supreme -Hamnet -Train Dreams -Frankenstein -F1

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -The Hunted (2003) -The Company (2003) -If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) -When Harry Met Sally... (1989)* -Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) -The Secret Agent (2025) (*rewatch) #filmsky

Very strong recommendation for HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR, JOYBUBBLES, THE INCOMER, AND THE FRIEND'S HOUSE IS HERE! Far and away my favorites from #Sundance2026.

Movies watched via virtual #Sundance2026 (in order of watching): The Musical Nuisance Bear The Friend's House is Here Josephine Lady Joybubbles Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] The Incomer Burn Shame & Money Public Access How to Divorce During the War zi #filmsky

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Our Kind of Traitor (2016) -Citizen X (1995) -Twinless (2025) -The English Patient (1996)* (*rewatch) #filmsky

As we all look for ways to support the Minneapolis communities impacted by the federal siege, I will match your donations to one of the organizations/funds listed at www.standwithminnesota.com, with a preference for rent aid or mutual aid funds. Donate then reply or message me!

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Deadline at Dawn (1946) -Little Women (2019)* -Alien: Romulus (2024) -Peter Hujar's Day (2025) -The King's Speech (2010)* -Framed (1947) -Happyend (2024) -The Baltimorons (2025) -The Rip (2026) (*rewatch) #filmsky

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -The Conjuring (2013) -Chloe (2009) -The Boys from Brazil (1978) -Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021) -Oldboy (2003) -The Hours (2002)* -Starting Over (1979) (*rewatch) #filmsky

it’s a wicked world in all meridians

there is no reason for ICE to exist. immigrants aren’t doing anything wrong by trying to live and work and provide for their loved ones. I don’t care how people got here. if they want to be here that’s good. leave them alone.

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

Movies watched the last couple days (in order of watching): -Sleepless in Seattle (1993)* -First Wives Club (1996)* -The Zone of Interest (2023)* -Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) -The Virgin Suicides (1999) (*rewatch) #filmsky

My favorite first-time watches of 2025: -The Act of Killing (2012) -Deja Vu (2006) -Syndromes & a Century (2006) -A Special Day (1977) -Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020) -Nightshift (1981) -BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025) -The Mirror (1997) -Funny Games (1997) -Eraserhead (1977) #filmsky

Movies watched the last couple days (in order of watching): -Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) -Official Secrets (2019) -A Star is Born (1954) -The Recruit (2003) -A Star is Born (2018) -To Have and Have Not (1944) -The Long Day Closes (1992)* (*rewatch) #filmsky

Movies watched the last couple of days (in order of watching): -The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) -Whiplash (2014) -Annie Hall (1977) -Sentimental Value (2025) -Blue Moon (2025) -The Running Man (2025) #filmsky

Movies watched the last few days (in order of watching): -Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) -Die Hard (1988)* -The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)* -Marty Supreme (2025) -Eyes Wide Shut (1999)* -This Is Not A a Film (2011) -Cairo Station (1958) -Cold Mountain (2003) (*rewatch) #filmsky

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -It Was Just an Accident (2025) -Law of Tehran/Just 6.5 (2019)* -First Reformed (2017)* -West Side Story (2021)* -The Terminator (1984)* -Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)* (*rewatch) #filmsky

Rewatching West Side Story (2021) for the first time since it came out. The secondary performances are so lively and dynamic, but the movie is like a black hole whenever it cuts to the central couple. Oof.

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Wake Up Dead Man (2025) -Challengers (2024)* -I Know Where I'm Going (1945) -The Mastermind (2025) -Die My Love (2025) (*rewatch) #filmsky

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -It (2017) -True Lies (1994)* -Grand Hotel (1932) -Jay Kelly (2025) -Stage Door (1937) -Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) -Train Dreams (2025) -It Chapter Two (2019) (*rewatch) #filmsky

Movies watched last weekend (in order of watching): -Sorry Wrong Number (1948) -Home for the Holidays (1995)* -Hustlers (2019)* -Now You See Me 3 (2025) -Barbary Coast (1935) -Wag the Dog (1997)* -Uncle Buck (1989)* -The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) (*rewatch) #filmsky

I am not feeling great about 2025, tbh.

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Roofman (2025) -Scarface (1932) -Plainclothes (2025) -Sorry Baby (2025) -The Smashing Machine (2025) -Ball of Fire (1941) -Cemetery of Splendor (2015) -Spy (2015)* -Nightshift (1981) -Hell or High Water (2016) (*rewatch) #filmsky

Movies watched last weekend (in order of watching): -The Dead (1987) -Shame (2011) -The Lost Bus (2025) #filmsky

Movies watched this weekend (in order of watching): -Charade (1963) -Household Saints (1993) -Good Fortune (2025) -The Mirror (1997) -Frankenstein (2025) #filmsky