Stephen Chow doing epic mugging at Maggie Cheung’s Madonna bra

Al Goldstein reviews Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo + El Topo in issue #145 of Screw Magazine

I went to Graceland a few years ago and it was awesome because they had a huge exhibit about all the artists Elvis influenced and absolutely no mention whatsoever of any artists who influenced Elvis.

(*wakes up in a cold sweat*) The Mask was actually a bit like The Nutty Professor!

Big score

Been having a good time at the movies in Q1 of 2026. Nirvanna the Band + a good new Sam Raimi + a good new Yuen Woo-ping wuxia movie (Blades of the Guardians). Also had fun at the Luc Besson Dracula, a solid “good bad movie.” My friends, the movies are back.

In October 1966, a troubled 25-year-old El Paso resident took his own life. He had been active in the city's theatre community, and just a few short months before his death, he acted in his first and only feature film. Now, against all odds, decades later we know that man as...

Remember Zhang Yimou? He’s got a new joint at the local multiplex.

I wasn’t alive to invest in Apple stock in the ‘70s, but I was a Toronto resident in the 2010s. What’s my excuse here??

I gotta be honest, I don’t like to pass moral judgments on people I don’t know personally, but I’ve been thinking it over and I think Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn showed really poor judgment in having a close friendship with Epstein.

Frederick Wiseman - rare case where a 96-year-old filmmaker’s death feels tragic because they had so much more left to do. Uninterrupted streak of curiosity, empathy, wisdom, and quiet anger, ended only by the reality of living in a human body.

“The Day the Earth Blew Up liberates its octogenarian cartoon stars from several decades of rigorous brand management, searching instead for that original spirit of fun and invention” @willsloanesq.bsky.social reviews Looney Tunes: The Day The Earth Blew Up www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

So many filmmakers are behaving cowardly at Berlinale. Just a few years after saying he wanted to "bring peace to the Arabs and Israelis" through cinema, now Mort Rifkin's archnemesis Philippe won't even take questions at his press conference.

(*walks into the Alpha Video Closet*) (*to camera*) "Wow... geez... ha ha, what a gold mine! How many do I get to take home?" (*spots entire shelf buckling under the weight of Sam Newfield-directed westerns*) "Oh well, c'mon, of course I have to talk about the god..."

RIP Bud Cort

Average lineup on a “Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show” episode in the ‘90s - Old solid-gold Chuck Jones cartoon (Rabbit of Seville, Duck Dodgers, etc) - A couple middling Friz Freleng cartoons - A few fair-to-dogshit Robert McKimson cartoons (Hippety Hopper, etc) - The god damn Goofy Gophers

What if I told you that Woody Allen wrote all those emails and texts to Jeffrey Epstein (*sound of “Rhapsody in Blue” begins to crescendo*) on that famous Olympia SM-3 portable typewriter on which he wrote such classics as Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Zelig?

I am disappointed to hear of Noam Chomsky's "overly trusting nature." I thought the whole point of him is that he's smart!!!!

Joel, Servo and Crow really hate the one Jess Franco movie they’ve been made to watch. Too bad. I like to think the might’ve come onboard with Faceless (1988), or maybe Vampyros Lesbos (1971).

R.I.P. Peggy Stefans Sarno, wife and muse of the great skinflick artiste Joe Sarno. The great @veilletteinto.bsky.social has this post about the Sarnos' exhibition history in Toronto to mark the passing. thedowntowntheatre.substack.com/p/joe-sarno-...

Gods of Cinephilia trading card photos

Splurged on an expensive 180-gram vinyl release of the Porno Holocaust (1981) soundtrack. You only live once.

Cinnamon rolls

MST3K season 6 is definitely one of the peaks of TV. You’ve got The Creeping Terror, The Sinister Urge, Angels Revenge, the Colema Francis trilogy. You’ve got Dr Forrester and TV’s Frank still (no disrespect to Peal, Bobo and Brain Guy, to be clear). Still feels a bit like the Joel era.

Little-known fact: if you host a podcast for 10 years you get a profile in the Canadian newspaper of record. Thanks to @quickreboot.bsky.social for this very kind profile of The Important Cinema Club podcast in the Globe & Mail. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

The Three Stooges (Besser Era) with their gentlemanly haircuts

On the Art of Herschell Gordon Lewis: willsloan.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

I took part in this poll to determine the Greatest Short Films of All Time. This is my ballot. yanco.be/en/greatest-...

Frank Stallone has a great Instagram post about Billie Eilish right now. He says - I swear I’m not making this up - “I think her brother’s the talent and she’s [sic] just happens to be there.”

This really means a lot to me. Sorry but that's just how it is, and always will be. The boys are back, folks.

God dammit, why did i pick up the phone

Three Stooges Multiverse Earth 1 - MGM/Ted Healy Earth 2 - Columbia Pictures Curly Earth 3 - Columbia Pictures Shemp Earth 4 - Columbia Pictures Besser Earth 5 - The Norman Maurer-verse (encompassing the cartoons, comics, Benedict Bogus, the Little Stooges, Robonic Stooges, etc)

Moe Howard Greets His Public, 1969

The Epstein files are causing a lot of drama on r/woodyallen

Every email to Jeffrey Epstein is: "ha ha thank you for a 'relaxing' weekend jeffrey :p i enjoyed 'hors d'oeuvres' and 'the buffet' especially ;) and i particularly enjoyed committing 'sex crimes' XD XD XD Sent From My Blackberry"

Article in the November 29, 1969 issue of the New Jersey Record about 18-year-old movie buff Leonard Maltin

Shemp Howard

Four years ago today we lost Rob Sloan. Today we commemorate a good dad, a good husband, a good teacher, and an all-around good man.

Burying the lede: there’s also a William Beaudine film in here

I admire this man so much

Top 5 Robert McKimson-directed Looney Tunes Cartoons (no particular order) - What’s Up, Doc (1950) - Daffy Doodles (1946) - Hillbilly Hare (1950) - Easter Yeggs (1947) - Rabbit’s Kin (1952)

Traumatic childhood flashback to Tom & Jerry: The Movie (1992). One of the most bullshit movies ever. Within five minutes, Tom and Jerry discover they each can talk (?), and they team up to spend the rest of the movie helping some orphan. There should be a CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THAT MOVIE!!!

A few weeks late to this discourse but is Christmas Vacation the only Chevy Chase thing (besides MAYBE Community) that’s getting passed down to generations younger than me (millennial)? No way the zoomers or Gen Alpha are spinning Fletch or Caddyshack in significant numbers, right? Or am I wrong?

Working on several big, time-consuming projects at once, the common denominator being that they are FUN and will appeal to VERY SMALL AUDIENCES!! For me, 2026 is about YES to the voice inside my head telling me to do RIDICULOUS PROJECTS that are FUN!! Let’s goooooo!!!!!

January blues

adding a gloryhole to the criterion closet

Somehow, Brett Ratner has returned.