What's the worse thing that can happen in a threesome? Both women getting pregnant, of course. inreviewonline.com/2025/09/05/t...

I'm hosting a film criticism workshop for the Grand Rapids Film Society this week. As part of it, I'm printing out advice from respected and insightful critics. If you have advice you'd like to pass to people just getting started writing about movies, you can either DM me or drop it in response.

Empire (1965)

I'm hosting a film criticism workshop for the Grand Rapids Film Society this week. As part of it, I'm printing out advice from respected and insightful critics. If you have advice you'd like to pass to people just getting started writing about movies, you can either DM me or drop it in response.

We will live long enough to see her tried at The Hague.

There is a whole Phd sitting and waiting for some film scholar in this collection.

Fritz on Fridays — Joshua Polanski’s (joshuapolanski.bsky.social) monthly look at the work of Austrian “Master of Darkness” Fritz Lang — continues with a dive into Lang’s “secret” films in the American Heritage Center collection at the University of Wyoming. midwestfilmjournal.com/2025/10/03/f...

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

There is an entire collection of Fritz Lang-helmed moving pictures fully unadulterated by cinephiles, scholars, historians, programmers and critics. The entire collection is available for free on the internet, too.

In addition to the disgusting creep factor, Cowen is an economist. Why would a real publication give a shit who his favorite actor is?

Critics both to the left and right of the Sumud Flotilla are not allowed to say anything if they aren't doing something substantive themselves. 2 years of genocide and Western complicity and at least these brave souls try to break the evil blockade. They are better than all of us.

gonna be honest here, can’t stand the ‘it’s been a bad year so far…’ takes that pop up here & the other place with increasing frequency. So much good stuff out there, so many good movies, just gotta take in the entire scope of the art form and not only the multiplex

I was pretty mixed on One Battle After Another. Ultimately, I think it's a very broken mirror for our current moment. Timely, sure. Insightful or galvanizing? No.

I pray we have men and women like this in our military.

One of the most fucked up movies I've ever watched.

The smelliest movie I've seen this year.

Chief of War was phenomenal. It also unlocked a new celebrity crush for me, Te Ao o Hinepehinga.

I'm always baffled when modern leftists seem unwilling to make alliances with liberals to defeat what they are calling fascism? Fascism has always been defeated by a coalition of leftists and liberals and that's one thing we have evidence of most leftist thinkers being in agreement on.

The reason why gen-AI products will never be actual art has to with the bypassing of choice. In film, music, writing, the visual arts, etc... the artist(s) must make countless artistic choices, including my omission: the background of a set, the kind of paint, the final note in a bridge.

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Seeing the restoration of Sholay in a packed theater at TIFF was one of the greatest theaterical experiences I've ever had.

NEW: 11 Democratic officials were arrested after showing up at 26 Federal Plaza and demanding access to the ICE holding cells on the 10th floor, refusing to leave. Others were arrested outside after blocking the building exit during a sit-in protest. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

It’s kind of like if you could give a culture a concusssion

Fucking Slave Power government up in here

Reviews on Sacrifice, A Useful Ghost, and Project Y.

AI is so helpful.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

"It’s one thing to have the right beliefs, it’s another thing to act on them." My thoughts on Palestine 36 from TIFF.

Final day of TIFF

The most prolific filmmaker in the Baltics has returned.

I've had so many negative comments left on reviews recently. I try not to let that stuff get to me but sometimes it will.

Thankfully, Dog 51 is in French, which means the president and his cadre of hooligans will never watch it and find inspiration from Alma, the AI police state, and her worst ideas.

I just saw a documentary made during the pandemic that credited the COVID testers in the end creits. Has anyone else seen this before?

The most prolific filmmaker in the Baltics has returned.

I am seated for my fifth movie today, Wizard of the Kremlin. So far it's been a good day for East Asian films and a bad one for English language ones.

"It’s one thing to have the right beliefs, it’s another thing to act on them." My thoughts on Palestine 36 from TIFF.

Anyway, I reviewed Magellan if anyone wants to be distracted from the real world for 700 or so words.

In the mid-1800s, French painter Jean-François Millet turned his back on the glitter of kings, potentates, and dignitaries. Instead, he chose to focus on the heroism of laborers enduring long hours of backbreaking work.

Just like fruit, the longer franchises persist, the greater chance they have of spoiling.

"He was a motherfucker." - Lav Diaz on Ferdinand Magellan at TIFF. He also called Putin and Duterte "motherfuckers."

Me regretting selecting the 8:15pm showing of Magellan as my fourth movie of the day. #TIFF

More from TIFF. Aki is like a prayer: beautiful, personal, and uncomfortable all at once.

I've never understood why DC statehood isn't a top issue for Dems. 2 more safe votes in the senate is a game changer.

The future the film imagines is more hopeful than most of contemporary Ukrainian cinema.

Off to Toronto! Stay tuned for coverage of the best and more obscure non-English titles and the weird shit at TIFF.

Any mutuals in DC right now?

Alex Garland's Civil War is almost too familiar to the present for a rewatch. It feels a lot like watching Contagion in March of 2021. The part that is scary is that Garland is able to imagine a resistance. I'm not sure I can.

I know we lose the capacity to be shocked anymore, but can we acknowledge how deeply deranged it is for an American president to be saying this about an American city?