books i have read in 2026 and liked enough to recommend - the continuing mission:

The point ladies and gentlemen, is that cringe, for lack of a better word, is good. Cringe is right. Cringe works.

Film Preview: IFFBoston's Fall Focus returns for another installment at Brattle Theatre, so here are 5 films to check out this weekend and beyond. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/30/i... @brattletheatre.bsky.social @enh-jay.bsky.social @iffboston.bsky.social

Film Review: 'Good Boy' is a loving tribute to the bond between dog and human, and it's also an engrossing horror movie. That's a win-win in our book. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/03/g... @enh-jay.bsky.social

it’s awesome that channing tatum is an animotion fan.

Film Review: Ronan Day-Lewis's 'Anemone' is a swell mess: Uneven, frequently gorgeous, and slowly paced, featuring a dynamic performance by his father. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/02/a... @enh-jay.bsky.social #Anemone

Film Review: Kathryn Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite' is let down by an aggressively inert narrative and the unintended effects of the director's style. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/01/a... @enh-jay.bsky.social

Film Review: In light of recent box office drubbings, it’s somewhat poetic that The Smashing Machine is Dwayne Johnson's big return to the multiplex. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/01/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social

I looooooooooved this movie.

New from TIFF: Bob Odenkirk's upper lip isn't the only thing strange in Ben Wheatley's 'Normal.' There's also the Yakuza and Henry Winkler. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/16/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social #TIFF50

gotta say i’ll be really disappointed in modern hip-hop if some rapper doesn’t use “one bad ho after another” as a mixtape title

Just in from TIFF: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal give two of the most accomplished and moving performances of the decade. Grab the tissues. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/15/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social #TIFF50

The latest from TIFF: Go see 'No Other Choice'. Seriously, just f*cking go to it when it comes out on Christmas Day. You won’t be sorry, writes Nick Johnston. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/15/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social #TIFF50

New from TIFF: In light of recent drubbings, it’s somewhat poetic that 'The Smashing Machine' is Dwayne Johnson's big return to the multiplex. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/10/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social #TIFF50

The latest from TIFF: 'Roofman' is a rare pleasure: A big-hearted true crime picture with legitimate depth and soul. Oh, and humor. What a hoot. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/09/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social #TIFF50

New from TIFF: 'The Christophers' is a lovely tribute to the process of creative evolution via how, rightly or wrongly, an audience engages with an artist’s work. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/09/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social #TIFF50

New from #TIFF50: 'The Testament of Ann Lee' is spiritually inert, its passions reserved for aestheticization and accuracy rather than insight. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/08/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social

The latest from #TIFF50: There are a fair number of frustrating things about Potsy Ponciroli’s new film 'Motor City' -- often by design. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/08/t... @enh-jay.bsky.social

i spoke with sean baker about ANORA, japanese pinku flicks, TURKISH DELIGHT, and his first criterion discs. check it out at @vanyaland.bsky.social! vanyaland.com/2025/05/06/i...

mood for today (thanks, @tcmtv.bsky.social)

this movie fucking rips. see it ASAP.

hi friends, I got pull-quoted in the trailer for @mikeflanaganfilm.com ‘s incredible THE LIFE OF CHUCK. honored! youtu.be/dOyXdwXt8d4?...

Oh my goodness, Coolidge invited me back for another seminar! I’ll be talking about one of my all-time faves, Vera Chytilová’s inventive and rebellious feminist comedy Daisies! Local movie fans please come out ❤️ coolidge.org/events/semin...

looking at the ticker

gertrude stein, cow enthusiast.

same, joan

there’s no way this could backfire. right, sam? right?

Dude got Daft Punk'd

‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: Gallop away from this one 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/03/28/d... @enh-jay.bsky.social

breaking: evan stone’s the riddler (THIS AIN’T BATMAN XXX)will be returning in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.

god help us all.

so I guess marvel’s doing hickman’s “time runs out” avengers/new avengers arc for DOOMSDAY, just with the fox-verse standing in for the ultimate universe.

we’ll be right back.

this is specifically an ACC tournament memory for anyone who grew up in the triangle

when your boy tells you his favorite neil young record is “everybody’s rockin’” and you realize he’s serious

post your favorite doctor who.

blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office

The Twin Donuts sign should be preserved as a landmark the same way the Citgo sign was in Kenmore Sq. @boston.gov RT if you agree.

now playing “We Mute Our Friends When They Become Successful” off of “Your Bluesky Arsenal”

Me eyes're not smiling. @theonion.com

worst timeline WAKING LIFE sequel

OPUS is funny. bummer A24 is burying it. my review: vanyaland.com/2025/03/14/o... 📽️ #a24

Novocaine Movie Review: A mostly painless experience -- 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/03/13/n... 'Novocaine' follows a bank manager who can't feel pain as he tries to save the woman he loves from a group of criminals. It's fine. 📸 Paramount @enh-jay.bsky.social @paramountpictures.bsky.social