The Journal of Stoogeological Studies Vol. 2 drops in June, stay tuned

Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter both giving credible supporting performances in dramas in the last year... could Paul Shaffer be next? What about Kevin Eubanks???

One of the things I've most enjoyed doing across my chequered career is foisting an audio documentary about Fred Allen upon my podcast audience. soundcloud.com/michael-and-...

Gene Siskel runs into Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano in line for Interiors (1978); after the movie, interviews him at a nearby McDonald's about the rapid decline of his career.

Conditions of Will's parole.

I met with Baby Yoda recently and we had a productive exchange.

I am studying the ancient wisdom (a bootleg DVD-R featuring camcorder footage of the 1996 Mystery Science Theater 3000 convention in Minneapolis)

Public Service Announcement If you somehow have not yet purchased my acclaimed book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA, the good folks at @orbooks are for a limited time selling it with Ed's collected short stories! You'll never need to buy another book!

Really moved by the interview with Wallace Shawn, one of about oh I dunno I wanna say four living celebrities I love and admire. www.interviewmagazine.com/film/wallace...

Farewell Stephen Colbert, thanks for all the laughs

Got a big Siskel & Ebert ep cued up as I make breakfast and do chores. The boys are gonna discuss Airplane II: The Sequel, Tootsie, Sophie's Choice and The Verdict. Should be good. I already skipped ahead to see what Rog's "Dog of the Week" is (something called Inseminoid).

Francis Ford Coppola has called himself "a first-rate second-rate director." I'm this but for Letterboxd. I'm a first-rate second-rate Letterboxd user.

When Gotham is in ashes... then you have my permission to die.

In a world full of injustices, this is among the very worst. Despite being one of the acknowledged gods of the platform, and despite my repeated campaigning, I have still never received any free swag from @letterboxd.social

It's every woman's fantasy

INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES and other films of hers are available on UbuWeb if you’re interested in giving them a look. ubu.com/film/export....

RIP Valie Export. Very happy to have discovered her film Invisible Adversaries (1977). Also her short film where self-harms on camera by picking away at her cuticles until she bleeds makes me want to crawl out of my skin every single damn time I think about it!!!!!

Ads for the Star Wars Mandalorian movie really hyping up the "FILMED FOR IMAX" and "ONLY IN THEATERS" angle. Sorry but you're not foolin me, Star Wars is TV now.

You look at Tony Leung Chiu-wai's filmography, it's pretty amazing. Obviously there are the Wong Kar-wai, John Woo, and Hou Hsiao-hsien movies. Then you remember Infernal Affairs. My Heart is That Eternal Rose. I Love Maria. The Eagle Shooting Heroes! I'm not breaking any news here, I'm just saying.

Just learning that Joan Berry, the woman who sued Charlie Chaplin for paternity in 1943, died in 2007! Was she the last living woman who had sex with Charlie Chaplin? Does anyone know? Sound off in the comments!

RIP to the god Rex Reed. My unscientific belief is that he set the template for what a film critic was in the average American's mind in the decade-or-so before Siskel & Ebert became famous. His book "Do You Sleep in the Nude?" is worth reading.

Daily affirmations

Tomorrow night's show goes from 0 to 11 with just one name...

Listening to "Time Out of Mind" by Bob Dylan on this fine morning.

Finger hovering over the "Add to Cart" button for a $50 4K Blu-Ray release of a late-1980s Italian horror film with this Letterboxd curve... trying to stop... can't stop... somebody help me...

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, Stephen

Hasan Piker calls out President Barack Obama for saying he wants a strong Republican Party "I want no Republican Party. I want an ineffective, feckless, weak Republican Party, like the Democratic Party is today...

RIP Ted Turner. Colorization is evil, but if you've seen some of these movies 10,000 times already it's kinda fun to see a fucked-up version of them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gNS...

RIP ted turner. i got a buddy claims to have seen the famous and possibly apocryphal video of jane fonda fucking him with a strap-on. says it’s great stuff. this is the most moving tribute i can muster i barely know anything else about him sorry

Everything I am can be traced back to John Waters' "That's Showmanship" talk from the Cinemania '97 CD-ROM www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fto...

TORONTO: I'm introducing this screening of the Bela Lugosi classic White Zombie on Wednesday, May 13 at 5:30pm at Robarts Library, U of T. Free! But register for a spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/carnival-o...

Good evening from Biscuit and Shemp

Takes a big man to admit.

A little peek at heaven.

One obvious but rarely-discussed reason why Atom Egoyan's films declined in quality after the turn of the millennium is the four years he served in prison for armed robbery and manslaughter. You really think he emerged from that experience unchanged?

(*pushes wheelbarrow full of Chasing Amy DVDs sourced from Value Village into Criterion Closet*) "Thank you, it's an honor to be invited, but it's come to my attention that my one and only pick has gone out of print..."

I've often wondered which specific movies at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival were "like watchin' paint dry" to Clint. I think almost definitely Through the Olive Trees. Maybe Three Colors: Red? Do you think he liked A Confucian Confusion? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nZm...

The posthumous deification of Michael Jackson is annoying, but better than the alternative (still alive + molesting kids)

Before social media we basically got a handful of discourse topics that sustained us all year, and back in 2002 this was one of them

I pray to god that at least a few of my Los Angeles-based followers made it out to last night's 35mm repertory screening of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

Revisiting the classics.

My take? Smooth Criminal is fun, and I'm always happy if Billie Jean is playing at the grocery store, but the "serious" stuff (i.e. You Are Not Alone, or that song from Free Willy) really sucks ass. His pedophilia also, frankly, puts me off. Just one man's opinion.

My first-ever French byline! (We wrote it in English and they translated) bsky.app/profile/decl...

Rolled out for the new Jackie Chan joint Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe. Honoured and proud to share with you this little glimpse of the end-credit music video, in which Big Brother Jackie sings, "No, Skibidi, we won't skip a beat."

Martin Bashir's "Living with Michael Jackson" has gotta be one of the most completely forgotten seismic cultural events of all time. This is ridiculous but I remember my Grade 8 class got derailed for about an hour the next day so we could all have a class discussion about it.

Been a great time at the movies lately. Send Help, Blue Heron, Blades of the Guardians, Revelations of Divine Love, Palestine 36, Mile End Kicks, The Napa Boys. Saw a local (Toronto) movie called Permanent Tourist that I loved. Got a ticket to a new Radu Jude this week. Here's to the movies.

Spike Lee and Joe Piscopo