Freeze Frame: “All my life, I’ve always wanted to be an ICE Agent.”

I feel like every NFL head coach has kind of a “signature look.” Jim Harbaugh’s is “trying to understand while my grandkid explains ‘6-7’ to me.”

If you’re professionally required to watch that awards show tonight and treat it seriously, I’m sorry.

Preparing a short list of my Sundance Film Festival memories, and I’m pleased to announce that upon beginning to type “ABRA,” my phone still knew to auto-fill it as “ABRACADEBORAH.”

If you don’t have a rooting interest in a particular team in these NFL playoff games so far, it’s been a pretty great group of games.

Not everything is fucking RASHOMON.

“He knows he’s got to score points to win” yeah baby those are the piercing insights for which you are paying Tom Brady millions.

“Missed Connections” hitting different these days.

“Yakkety Sacroiliac”

please be sure to use the correct terminology for government troops: when they go after heavily armed white men in compounds they’re jack-booted thugs when they go after people of color or women on the streets they’re smol beans

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that’s all I need to know about you.”

I need to be better about not reposting “check out this asshole” posts. It helps nothing, and contributes to the illusion that there are more of these losers than there actually are. Denying them oxygen still feels like the better play.

I know athletes are creatures of habit, but if you need to wear the extra-padded “protect my brain” football helmet cover, maybe don’t go around head-butting all your teammates after making a play.

lol anyone who took the Rams and the 10-1/2 points

Also, per my current focus on the movies of 1976, was that the most “name this movie by one iconic line” year in cinema history? “I’m mad as hell …” “Yo, Adrian!” “You talkin’ to me?” “Is it safe?” “Follow the money.” And I’m probably forgetting something else obvious.

If NETWORK were released today, Peter Finch would have been put up by MGM as Supporting (where he actually belongs) rather than Lead to avoid competing with Holden. Does that mean DeNiro wins for TAXI DRIVER?

Very worried that at the screening of the new 28 YEARS LATER movie, when security gives the speech about keeping cell phones turned off, I won’t be able to avoid making a comment about BONE TEMPLE pirates.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Smarf will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.

New @cityweekly.bsky.social reviews of this week's theatrical and streaming releases: GREENLAND: MIGRATION; IS THIS THING ON?; PRIMATE; FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER; PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION. www.cityweekly.net/film/film-re...

What was your #childhoodcinema Not the one where I worked in 1984-1985 (already out of “childhood” by that time), but the one where I saw STAR WARS in summer 1977: Stockdale Six Theatres, Bakersfield, Calif.

I’ll comment: No you’re not “curious” about those stickers. Someone who was curious wouldn’t just speculate randomly and end up looking like a fucking moron.

Look, Jesus just should have followed the legitimate orders of the Romans. The guy was a domestic terrorist.

One of my goals for the year—not calling it a “New Year’s resolution”—is learning Japanese. We’ll see how the old synapses work at picking up a language as an elder X’er.

New @cityweekly.bsky.social reviews of this week's theatrical and streaming releases: GREENLAND: MIGRATION; IS THIS THING ON?; PRIMATE; FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER; PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION. www.cityweekly.net/film/film-re...

Fuck this day.

Looking back over Letterboxd reactions to the first GREENLAND (including my own) ahead of the sequel tonight, and boy there are a lot of different ways to say “I really thought this was going to suck, but it doesn’t!”

It’s a start.

Kristi Noem is the leader of a criminal syndicate.

One of the pivot points in evil shit happening in this country is how we normalized and codified the idea that people (not exclusively, but certainly most dangerously, law enforcement) could justify deadly force simply by asserting that they “felt threatened.”

I guess my alarm grows at the realization that the more lawless an entity in power becomes, the more incentive they have to never let it be possible for themselves *not* to be in power, and thereby face consequences.

Lionsgate marketing right now: "Okay, how can we phrase it so that 'everybody is talking about GREENLAND' is technically true?"

The Cherokee nation will return, will return, will return, will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.

The marketing plans for THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU vs. AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY provide quite a study in contrasts. TM&G poster: Throwback fun! Old-timey vibes! Exclamation points! A:D teasers: Come watch a bunch of your favorite characters be sad.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

The AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY teasers will continue until morale improves.

Trump administration on Venezuelan oil is the THERE WILL BE BLOOD “I drink your milkshake” scene if the straw was an illegal military action, and the milkshake was undrinkable.

I've been kind of haphazzard about it over the past few years, but I'm planning to be more deliberate about "The 1976 Project," looking back at movies from 50 years ago with at least one entry per week. And where better to start than ... ROCKY. www.patreon.com/posts/1976-p...

Look, I’ve had a lot on my mind preparing for my final Sundance, and somehow I didn’t register until yesterday that there’s a John Wilson documentary in the program, so time to upend my schedule.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

having trouble sleeping? ask your doctor if a coup is right for you

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Man, what a good night’s sleep. Now to take a big drink of a water and see what happened overnight …

I don’t know which I find more annoying: a) that there is a non-playoff college football game taking place after Jan. 1; b) that one of the participating teams has a losing record; or c) that it is called the Duke’s Mayo Bowl.

First piece of 2026! For @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, I talked to a bunch of terrific critics—including @anniezaleski.bsky.social, @sepinwall.bsky.social, and @jasondashbailey.com—about the pains and pleasures of creating top 10 and EOY lists. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Very disappointed with myself that I didn’t think to watch ROCKY yesterday—the exact 50-year anniversary of the movie’s central Jan. 1, 1976 fight—instead of today.

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

I keep reading people who have a wildly different interpretation of the final scene of MARTY SUPREME than I do, so I guess I need to watch again to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating [spoiler].

In the Roller Coaster poster, there's a character that looks like a mashup of Floyd (a pink bass guitar player) and Zoot (a blue saxophone player), but the result is...not a Muppet. And whatever this character is, they've seen some shit.