It’s not Park Chan-wook's best. But Park is one of our very best.

He did it again.

My Avatar review got quoted in Men's Journal. I guess that's cool?

He did it again.

I just realized that I probably need to drop my K-pop Demon Hunters spamming in the In Review Online Slack channel in the new year.

HBO Max has pushed up the premiere date for the animated blockbuster NE ZHA II, though the exact launch date is still a bit in question. The streamer's website has both 12/19 and 12/20 listed (see screenshots). Either way, it'll premiere earlier than previously announced.

Sean Burns is a creep who targets women young enough to be his daughter and sends weepy, manipulative, long, and emotionally abusive emails to women (me!) after midnight because he’s an aggrieved loser mad I didn’t want to fuck him. I have a folder full of emails that would make your hair curl.

It’s not Park Chan-wook's best. But Park is one of our very best.

I went to a student film showcase today and an entire class of film students presented shorts made with various levels of AI dependency.

Hunting deer, with very enthusiastic dogs, in 1470. A strange forest with carefully receding space that is of course the creation of Paolo Uccello, whose day is today.

We talked about why men are always naked in his movies and whether or not he agrees with the "slow cinema" label.

I interviewed Wang Bing.

We talked about why men are always naked in his movies and whether or not he agrees with the "slow cinema" label.

I did my part.

I interviewed Wang Bing.

Correct! I DM'd you to set things up. Thanks, Ducky.

Mortal Kombat / Paul W.S. Anderson

Complimentary paid subscription to the first person to recognize the film in the header on my website and name it below. www.therewerenogodsleft.com

Check out my interview with Sepideh Farsi from Put My Soul on Your Hand and Walk. Pleased to see her film nominated here. bostonhassle.com/boston-pales...

I didnt vote for any of these.

I want everyone to know Ne Zha 2 being left off the ballot was not my fault.

Fritz on Fridays — Joshua Polanski's (@joshuapolanski.bsky.social) monthly reflection on the works of filmmaker Fritz Lang — continues with a look at how 1947's SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR started the foreplay a few decades early for erotic thrillers to come. midwestfilmjournal.com/2025/12/05/f...

Sent in my first end of the year ballot and I struggled not just giving everything to Magellan.

Year-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

Handing Hegseth over to The Hague is the moderate position.

Tried getting back on the other site and I just can't get followers on my new account. Guess I'm stuck here.

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

All of life is unique and unrepeatable to Aistė Žegulytė, the Lithuanian director of Holy Destructors.

My favorite film so far from this year's Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.

People who post "they don't make good movies anymore" or "movies are better than they have ever been" definitely need to watch more movies. Watch old movies. Watch movies with subtitles. Watch different genres. Otherwise you're missing out. #filmsky

So, what's the latest on the Wong Kar-wai drama?

Estonians wake up filthy rich and imbecilically squander their fortune, in a comedy featuring some of country's finest actors From the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: dmovies.org/2025/11/19/n...

Latvian thriller points to heavenly justice, as a guilt-ridden police officer fails to deliver its earthly version From the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: dmovies.org/2025/11/19/r...

I should really start writing more about movies other people have heard of.

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If i won the lottery, I'd just pay @jonbois.bsky.social to make a Jonathan Cheechoo video.

For the first time in years, American politics doesnt feel *utterly* hopeless.

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

WONG KAR WAI'S "BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI" HAS A US RELEASE DATE LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Pom Klementieff as Paris in the MI franchise.

It’s an impossible task to summarize human life in three hours. And that’s why Yi Yi is often considered one of the greatest films ever made: because Edward Yang tests the impossible.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

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Any viewing of “The Birds” hellbent on making sense of why the animals attack is bound to end in disappointment.

She also informed me about a new targeted bombing of the apartment building where Hassona was killed to destroy the rest of the building just before the “ceasefire” deal.

I was grateful to discuss Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk with Sepideg Farsi. We talked about her bold stylistic choices, her experiences in Iran shaped her impulse to tell this story, and how Fatma Hassona’s memory will live on with the people of Gaza. bostonhassle.com/boston-pales...

The French new wave director who got himself kicked out of new wave, Jean Melville Pierre hated how Nazis were depicted in movies saying that's not how the Nazis he fought looked like and everyone was reproducing Nazi propaganda

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."