We are just in the most braindead era.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

people opposing this are cowards

The cinephile must see Pictures of Ghosts is screening on March 2 @ifccenter.bsky.social The perfect time to revisit my interview for @thefilmstage.com with Kleber Mendonça Filho about his documentary from the 2024 @filmlinc.bsky.social New York Film Festival. thefilmstage.com/kleber-mendo...

A final farewell to Park City this year along with all my 2026 Sundance coverage for @thefilmstage.com

Kid Blue!

In the movie Trespass (1992) Bill Paxton and William Sadler find a treasure map but the map leads to a warehouse in gang territory and Ice T is the gang leader. Tiny Lister is in it as one of Ice T's guys and to make him more menacing he wears baseball cleats. His name is Cletus.

Do you think emerald fennell wanted to make wuthering heights because she heard a poor person was the villain

This 100% happened verbatim. How do I know? I was one of the little girls.

💔 🇨🇦 Rest well Catherine O’Hara (1954-2026), seen below joining us in the Walter Reade Theater for a special advance screening of Christopher Guest’s FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION in 2007.

Too many Beatles on the timeline. Signing off for today.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City said that seven of the 10 people who died during the cold weather showed signs of cold exposure. One man was found dead just steps from a hospital.

This was "made for me" cinema.

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

William and David Greaves’ Once Upon a Time in Harlem is an immersive and masterfully rendered documentary that presents a living, breathing oral history of the Harlem Renaissance. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review from Sundance:

Macon Blair's road trip comedy #TheShitheads is a steady two-hander that never quite soars, but is elevated by an eclectic batch of supporting roles that supply bursts of energy in the right places. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:

Sam Green's The Oldest Person in the World presents a neverending quest that is more personal than you may think. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

New Yorkers, remember that Schumer and Jeffries are cowards. www.salon.com/2026/01/16/d...

Wrote up these two hunks of spunk in Harry Lighton's outstanding Pillion for @thefilmstage.com's Best Performances of 2025.

Wrote about the sumptuous and extremely my shit Reflection in a Dead Diamond for @thefilmstage.com's Best Cinematography of 2025. An impressionistic ode to the EuroSpy films of the 1960s shot on 16mm and streaming on @shudder.com

STRANGE DAYS is playing tomorrow night at 7pm for the last time this year! in gorgeous 35mm!

Calling all Abel Ferrara fans: we're thrilled to screen the ultra-rare director's cut of Cat Chaser this Sunday in NYC. Tickets now on sale!

Josh O'Connor gives an impressively fragile performance in Max Walker-Silverman's achingly poetic second feature Rebuilding. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:

I guess I'll finally check out HBO's Rome (2005). Why not?

Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day, opening Friday, is an intimate encapsulation of a queer artist’s life from a bygone era of creative vibrancy. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/sundance-rev...

With F1TV not only going away as a standalone app but also pushing a price hike I am out on watching @f1tv.bsky.social live. Will catch highlights on YouTube. What a bummer.

I forgot everything that happened in Making a Murderer. Nature is healing.

Weekend VHS haul.

A lot of movies can take a character development lesson from Idle Hands when Devon Sawa talks about being in love with Jessica Alba and how her songs are like poetry. And then she drops her book and he peeks in it and it all looks like this:

Joseph Kosinski's #F1TheMovie is a slick, glossy blockbuster that’s a feast for the senses and easy on the brain. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:

Despite its shameless marketing, F1: The Movie is a pretty solid summer programmer for F1 fans and uninitiated alike. It's fast, it's slick, it's Brad Pitt being a movie star. For the DTS crowd: (almost) all your favorites are back! F1: The Movie: The Review for @thefilmstage.com bit.ly/46fhbWW

Fuck. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Looking for all my Sundance 2025 coverage in one convenient thread? Of course, you are. All reviews for @thefilmstage.bsky.social

Molly Gordon traps Logan Lerman in the unsatisfying Sundance premiere Oh, Hi! Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:

In #MagicFarm, Amalia Ulman takes aim at hipster media and the eccentric characters that gravitate towards it. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:

In Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs forges great cinematic material from Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall having a conversation. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:

Just when you thought this saga couldn't get any stupider.

Josh O'Connor gives an emotionally fragile performance in Max Walker-Silverman's achingly hopeful second feature #Rebuilding. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:

Sentimental without being cloying, The Ballad of Wallis Island strums a charming story of moving on. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:

There is no way this kid has ever actually been this dirty.

Jaques Audiard is not gay. He's just French.

It's especially disingenuous to make this specific argument in defense of EMILIA PÉREZ (lauded at Cannes, powering through awards season amid Netflix marketing blitz) and to openly scold queer, trans, and POC communities for critiquing retrograde representation instead of falling in line around it.

Zuckerberg flawless in finding new ways to restyle himself but still look like a fucking dweeb.

Sick and disgusted of 'Best of 2024' lists? Of course you are. I wrote about new Michel Gondry and Armando Iannucci for @thefilmstage.bsky.social Most Anticipated Films of 2025. thefilmstage.com/the-100-most...