In line an hour early to see Leonard Maltin introduce Casablanca. I’m a Swifty for Leonard Maltin.

RIP Béla Tarr. Bleakest Valentine’s Day of my life was going to see The Turin Horse alone and I thought I recognized one of the people from the documentary Cinemania at the screening (but maybe I was wrong). Very great filmmaker, despite all that. Sátántangó 🫡 🫡 🫡

I got the mother of all birthday gifts: a proclamation, signed by the mayor, of The Ritz Brothers Day in Palm Springs in 1996

Major score

Frank Sinatra and Duke Mitchell (star of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, Massacre Mafia Style, Sex in the Comics, et al)

On A.S. Hamrah’s new book Last Week in End Times Cinema willsloan.substack.com/p/a-year-in-...

I am delighted to have written a booklet essay for this new Blu-Ray release of the disgusting and evil films of Joe Christ vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

The reason people outside of France didn't know Brigitte Bardot was a huge racist is because America already dominates the market in elderly racist celebrities - as they do every cultural product.

MARTY SUPREME: real heads know that Safdie is still wearing his James Toback influence loud and proud when Timmy refers to something as “a biological impossibility”

I have broken my silence on the best Blu-Rays of 2025. willsloan.substack.com/p/the-year-i...

A million things to hate about the media landscape but for now I'm not worried about "the Letterboxd-ification of film criticism," as I saw one older critic put it. I think it's neat that the kids have an app where they're talking about, for example, The Piano Teacher (2001)

Animal Crackers (1930) is just days away from entering public domain. I’m just standing here, rock hard and ready, waiting to fuck Captain Spaulding.

Chevy Chase’s huge popularity in the 1970s is easily explained. Widely considered “a strong 7,” he was the handsomest man to ever do comedy up to that point. Also, he was in his mid 30s, making him, at the time, the youngest man ever allowed on TV.

Popcorn munching Pres-elect Bush, (C), attending DC opening of My Stepmother is an Alien, w. film's stars, Kim Basinger, (L), & Dan Aykroyd. (Photo by Cynthia Johnson/Getty Images)

RIP Brigitte Bardot. You were in one movie I liked. Apparently you were also racist. And undeniably, you were famous. And so, like all humans, you contained multitudes.

Another day at the office for Rog and Rich

Playing old Ebert & Roeper episodes while I do chores. It’s awesome how much Ebert liked movies. He’s just throwing his thumb up recklessly. Roeper just called The Fighting Temptations “sitcom stuff” and Ebert, who of course gives it thumbs-up, counters, “But this IS a sitcom!”

Yeah I’m a bit of an art collector

2025 was a good year for me both professionally and personally. I hope to build on this momentum in 2026. The haters and losers are trembling.

Bruce Le returns to action with THE FIST, a new action project shooting in Macau

Such a great guy. I get emotional just thinking about him.

Happy Boxing Day from Jinx and Shemp

Notes From My Most Recent Viewing of Eyes Wide Shut willsloan.substack.com/p/notes-from...

Ella McCay is one of the largest recipients of AIPAC donations

Merry Christmas from Jinx

“That afternoon Helena went to the movies and you and I made love. And we made plans about our future and we talked about Helena. And yet at no time was he ever out of my mind. And I thought if he wanted me even if it was only for one night I was ready to give up everything.”

I read @willsloanesq.bsky.social’s excellent Ed Wood: Made In Hollywood yesterday. Biggest revelation for me is that there’s a semi-direct line from Wood to Corman.

Merry Christmas from Hugo and Jinx

All I see when I see Bari Weiss is Refaat Alareer’s murderer. In a better world she would be on trial instead of serving as a well-paid censor for a billionaire family.

Good morning from Shemp

Been watching a lot of Laurel & Hardy lately and just feeling good. I feel my skin getting clearer and my sleep getting better and my chakras becoming balanced. These beautiful boys can be your guardian angels if you open your heart to them.

Me when I’m posting

Not my country not my business but I have to admit that I’m a little tired of the President’s antics.

RIP to the god Bob Burns. One of Hollywood’s greatest gorilla-suit guys. Surely the last living person who was close friends with Glenn Strange. One of the last guys to know Ed Wood during his ‘50s heyday. The god of Monster Kids everywhere.

Within you there are two wolves: Tony Kushner and David Koepp

Gotta give Rob Reiner credit, he really did get under the president’s skin

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

God damn. RIP Rob Reiner. Director of a couple of the most perfect movies of all time. Always a very welcome presence as an actor. Nauseating news.

If you are having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit, may I recommend watching the greatest Christmas special ever created: youtu.be/NRvtOGLzpvE

Was trying to think if there are any movies I feel this way about, and I think there are at least two: Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You! (2012) and The Bellboy (1960)

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Now let's see how well you handle it.

Should be an international holiday.

Is Dick Van Dyke (100 years old today) the last living person who was a close friend of Stan Laurel?

Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke. When they wheel me into the Soylent Green death chamber, this is what I want them to play as I slowly drift away. youtu.be/5DfCS08FsRw?...

Forgive me for helping prolong this discourse. On Tarantino: willsloan.substack.com/p/on-tarantino

Been doing a little research into the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes franchise and I've discovered that George Clooney often brings up his appearance in Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988) in interviews as a joke. And I frankly think he needs to learn to have some respect.

Martin Scorsese once called The Bellboy (1960) "a virtual dictionary of visual thought." Most professional film critics have never said anything that I’ve thought about it that much.