The second in my four part series covering the great dramatic performances of Diane Keaton is live. In this one I look at her work in Gillian Armstrong's illicit romance MRS. SOFFEL. www.patreon.com/posts/144104...

With Park’s version coming out, a look at Costa-Gavras’ adaptation of Westlake’s The Ax www.patreon.com/posts/ax-cos...

Hey, friends, does anyone have B. kite’s contact info? Asking for a friend but also to get him back on everyone’s mind. Hell of a writer. Miss seeing his byline

Vanity Fair is now such a bringdown from its glory years of glamorizing the Reagans, publishing heroic portfolio of Bush and his Iraq War mongers, deleting Epstein crimes from Epstein profile, and of course the classic Hitchens women aren't funny column.

Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.

Willow and Caden on TCM tomorrow, event of the year imo

Always fun to drop by and talk with this crew

Season finale episode is now here: reanimatethis.podbean.com/e/dogville-2... Jay, Meredith, @honorszombie.bsky.social, and Jay's professor at CUNY @emmettmoon.bsky.social will be talking about Dogville, Lars von Trier's retelling of Pirate Jenny, and the possibility of doing V-effekt in animation.

Passionate, unique take on John Ford by @honorszombie.bsky.social that looks at the films through modern eyes without condescension or moral posturing. Excellent craft analysis. We carry it signed by the author. A steal at $20. mzs.press/SIGNED-But-G...

Having champions like Matt is a huge privilege.

Megyn Kelly busting out the “Barely Legal” defense on her own show to defend the President and Epstein… I keep thinking about how she discovered blackface was offensive at the age of 47

Susann Tafoya 10/25/37-11/2/25

Bloody rebirth, a celebration of life and a fantasy achieved. It’s the Unloved.

Forgot to mention: the episode for this month with @meredithnudo.blacksky.app, @honorszombie.bsky.social, and @emmettmoon.bsky.social was recorded last night. For this episode, we talked about Dogville, Pirate Jenny, and "Brechtian animation." We're planning to release it in the 2nd half of Nov.

“RED SONJA (2025) is smarter and more openhearted than its cinematic inspirations, and it is a film of personal reflection and reinvention. It’s this director’s best work, for all it shows of the joy of becoming oneself,” says @honorszombie.bsky.social for this month’s Unloved installment.

Didn’t McNulty get fired for this?

Immigration agents detained a schizophrenic man — then dropped him miles from home. blockclubchi.co/4qAtK75

He made dozens of movies I haven't seen so a full obit from me would be incomplete and America-centric, but I loved Tchéky Karyo. He was one of the first actors by whom I was mesmerized. That peculiar stillness in Goldeneye, the slick villain in Bad Boys, the tough but warm mentor in La Femme Nikita

He should legally have to disclose how much they paid for this. It’s not at all because any answer would be super embarrassing it’s just good politics to let us know how much you spent on this desperate and laughless farrago

WTF. Everyone, cameras out. Get it all on video.

NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.

re-upping this piece i wrote last year on The Journey, even though everytime i reread something i wrote on Peter Watkins’ greatest work i immediately want to update it again because, more than any film, it can only be considered in an ever-evolving present inreviewonline.com/2024/08/12/a...

I saw a werewolf with a dang QR code in his hand

And, of course, you can watch all six hours of his glorious La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000), if you want to be hardcore. I think it's worth it! youtu.be/N3a_7oskju8?...

Oh goddamn Peter Watkins. There is no other filmmaker like him, no one who saw the world the way he did, no one who saw film the way he did. He tried to keep us honest and he wasn’t afraid to scare us. We needed to be scared of what we were tacitly agreeing to. It didn’t work.

A chat between two greats!

Pre-order the Steve Jobs Monograph below! read me on a transitional figure in digital cinema

Read @honorszombie.bsky.social in STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH, coming soon. bit.ly/stevejobsmonograph

Dream interview: I went to Braddock and Tony Buba gave me a guided tour of his life in cinema and politics bruisermag.com/tafoya_buba

“I had just won a Guggenheim fellowship and went down to the post office. I run into Sal, he says ‘Hey Buba, you think you’re ever gonna make it?’ It brings you back to reality.” @honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba

A Nightmare on My Street is so fun. Freddie should’ve shown up on Fresh Prince sometimes

Come on man.

My first thought scrolling past this was, since when is Kane Williamson starring in sexy sci-fi mysteries.

Couple of my movies now free to watch: Epigenesis: sexy sci-fi mystery youtu.be/7oWvVubWams

Best shows I've seen since 2000 20. Sappyfest in Sackville NB, 7/09; lineup included Timbre Timber, Julie Doiron, Ladyhawk, Destroyer, Clues, Eric Chenaux, & Wintersleep, whole town shut down and turned up. Dan Bejar bought me my first shot of whiskey. True family vibe.

I answered the cries of a nation and created an audio documentary about the great forgotten radio comedian Fred Allen soundcloud.com/michael-and-...

If my math is correct we're coming up on the 15th Anniversary of a classic of psychoanalytic cinema, Dane Schubert's Love. Bacardi. Boston. Enjoy my Loved on a film that gets better with every watch. A film whose cult grows more every year. vimeo.com/694583109

My guy!!! There's no one like him, perfect actor, perfect director, hell of a nice guy who treats you like an old friend.

“highly unusual” “potential violation of federal law”

Why is it every single person's desire to make the democratic party indistinguishable from the fascist right?

hahahahaha

Have you watched my found footage doc about the W Bush presidency yet? t.co/wQRdWpNq0E

We’ve come full circle. Stranger things pitcher after they lost the It pitch, It tailored to the stranger things audience and this now fully indistinguishable from Stranger Things

Asked the hard questions. Namely: what is Danny Boyle’e whole deal?

When I lived in Lechmere at my poorest I would, most days, go into a local Days Inn and steal their coffee. No one ever asked me a thing. It was just beautiful.

Honestly shocked it took him a full term to start an endless construction project for which he won’t be paying anyone fairly