Second time watching the Oscars with my nephew and we had a great time again. We saw all ten Best Picture nominees together and he loved all of them. I think he was pretty sad to see Timmy miss. That kid went back and saw Marty Supreme again without me!

My Amazon pre-order of Resident Evil 9 still hasn’t shipped. I wanted a physical copy but honestly I’m pretty close to just cancelling the order and buying it as a download.

The King of Pigs is the only time I’ve stormed out of a theatre at the end literally shouting about how mad it had made me. Walked past the director heading up front to do a Q+A while I was ranting about it. I have liked some of his other films.

We are, as the kids like to say, so back.

Long shot: is anyone I know seeing No Other Choice at the Golden Age Cinema tonight?

Is anyone aware of a session of Bi Gan’s Resurrection playing anywhere in Sydney on Saturday the 14th of Feb? I’m in town for a day and I’d love to see it.

Is the MIFF member subscription still a thing? Haven’t been since 2019 but this year I think we may be back in business.

Made a plan for this weekend and somehow ended up with a plan to see four movies in four different cinemas.

The last movie they’re ever getting is going to sell zero tickets.

(Very) sad to see It Was Just an Accident miss in Picture, but one of my favourites was always going to. Otherwise pretty happy. Congrats to Sinners for the all-time record of 16 nominations. Honestly, fair.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

My short film AUDIO GUIDE now has an official physical media release Included in the special features of the Umbrella release of CASHBACK which includes my video essay on the film & commentary from @bjcolangelo.bsky.social & @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social shop.umbrellaent.com.au/products/cas...

Welcome to the collection! Congrats on your physical release @chriselena.bsky.social. It arrived in the mail today. The whole package looks great.

Data dump from my year watching movies. I (re)started learning Japanese this year and that’s heavily reflected in my most watched actors and directors. My Is-That-Even-Possible? goal for 2026 is to watch more films in Japanese than English.

2020: Ammonite, Promising Young Woman 2021: Licorice Pizza, Spencer 2022: Bones and All, Top Gun: Maverick 2023: Poor Things, Suzume 2024: Civil War, Red Rooms 2025: One Battle After Another, It Was Just An Accident

My 6yo niece, who skipped Zootopia 2 because the snake was too scary, wants to come see Anaconda.

Why didn’t anyone warn me that Jimmy C’s multi-framerate bullshit was on the 2D version, too? The whole movie looks like a video game running badly.

8 minutes before this Avatar session on opening weekend and uh…. We are the only people here.

Wait. The Housemaid is 131 minutes long?

What a great surprise this was! I’ve been talking all year about what a great year it’s been for horror and this falls beautifully into that conversation. I had no idea what I getting into and I loved it. Don’t sleep on this one!

I just don’t understand how New Outlook keeps getting worse. It seems like every day a new feature stops working. I haven’t been able to save emails for weeks. Worked around it by drag-dropping to desktop and now THAT doesn’t work most of the time either! BASIC FEATURES ARE BROKEN.

Playing Doom Eternal and Doom: The Dark Ages back to back shows a pretty stark difference. Eternal seems to be constantly finding the most annoying thing for an enemy to do. Dark Ages just always wants the player to be doing the coolest possible thing. One of these games is great.

How’s that for a double-feature?

This is ~98% complete. There’s one cupboard left to check. I’ve seen 43% of these movies which is honestly better than I expected. Won’t be buying any more duplicates, and now I have a good idea what’s on the shelf that I still need to check out. boxd.it/Pe5wa

So this is why I’ve spent most of my weekend starting to put together a list of every single movie I own. This wasn’t even the only duplicate in last week’s order!

Delivered a few minutes ago. Looks like it went under a lawnmower on the way here.

Two of my last three parcels have, separately, by different companies, on different days, been delivered to the wrong house. How does this happen twice in a week? Weirdly it was two volumes of the same comic book.

Rarest feature film i've seen by decade: 20s: B/B 10s: Final Whistle 00s: Bondi Tsunami 90s: Return Home 80s: Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train 70s: Once Upon a Time in the East 60s: Capricious Summer 50s: Diplomatic Courier 40s: The Stolen Border 30s: Adventure in Sahara 20s: The Beloved Rogue

I hadn’t realised I was coming up to 4,000 logged on Letterboxd. It doesn’t make sense to me that around two thirds of the films I’ve ever seen have been since I graduated from university. That honestly still feels pretty recent. But that’s about when I started logging them, so I guess it’s right.

Doctor I trust more than RFK Junior

HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (2025) Streaming Now Apple TV+ #Highest2Lowest

Drove 5+ hours each way this weekend to see this year’s Palme winner It Was Just an Accident in Tamworth and, honestly? Worth it. Best thing I’ve seen all year. My nephew came along to his first ever festival session and also enjoyed it.

Delivered today. Backed on Kickstarter, but I hadn’t realised it was done and ready to ship! I really loved Trust, and really need to dig deeper into his films.

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

This one hurts. After loving his shows for many years, I met David Stratton through his classes in Sydney. The very first night I nervously spoke to him. He realised we lived near each other and immediately offered me a ride home. This grew into a cherished friendship. 1/x

The time between me learning about Radiance’s upcoming Nagisa Oshima boxset and me ordering it was about 40 seconds.

There are too many movies I want to see opening here this weekend and I decided the only sensible thing to do was to see all of them at once. For some reason my 18yo nephew has agreed to come along. Wish him luck!

Estimated delivery on my Switch 2 stuff looks like tomorrow. I knew when ordering I wasn’t likely to get it launch day. Pro controller shipped later so might be Tuesday with the public holiday coming. Close enough!

There’s a moment in Richard Ayoade’s film The Double where an alarm goes off unexpectedly and I literally laughed so hard I blacked out. I woke up and it took about a minute to realise I was still in the cinema.

First VHS: Return of the Jedi First VCD: Tomb Raider First DVD: Battle Royale First HDDVD: King Kong First Bluray: Casino Royale First 4K: Life of Pi

Pretty stoked about there being a new Oliver Laxe film in the Cannes Competition! Loved Mimosas and Fire Will Come. Kelly Reichardt, too!

Well, I bought the new thing. Seems like I had absolutely no problem getting a Switch 2 for launch. That new Mario Kart game looks great, and I actively dislike Mario Kart. Donkey Kong shortly after launch looks good too.

I’M STILL HERE (2024) Streaming Now PVOD (Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, etc.) #ImStillHere

Five favourite genres: 1: George Clooney is very good at his job. 2: Someone is lonely in space. 3: A lovingly-crafted skillset is no longer useful. 4: Disproportionate sacrifice. 5: Matt Damon has purchased a zoo.

Heading out to see Mickey 17 while I can. I suspect flooding will block roads later in the week.

A Complete Unknown is my favourite of the BP nominees, with Anora and The Substance very close behind. I’m predicting Anora, though I can imagine Conclave getting in and making everyone mad.

I guess I talked about the Oscar nominations enough to pique my nephew’s interest. At his request we’re watching the ceremony today which I may otherwise have just skipped again. I think he’s mostly excited by the possibility of Timmy winning? I wouldn’t be mad.