i don’t have kids, but when i watch Master and Commander, i feel like a dad

let’s make this a Christmas tradition

the fact that Dickens wrote like a thousand pages about a guy called Martin Chuzzlewit

fuck yeah

only gonna do the first half of My Undesirable Friends today, but so far, it’s quite an incredible portrait of the day-to-day mundanity that accompanies rapidly accelerating repression

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there's one of these in every family

this film is only making me more angry about Bari Weiss

Safdie, the nephew of a famous architect, saying in this interview that he his dream is to design a public-facing building and the narrative experience of entering, exploring, and leaving a building is incredible

okay, now to figure out if i can watch this Frame.io link on my Apple TV

key here is Weiss putting on record that she thought the original report was not fair to the Trump administration

So funny seeing the pacifika indigenous text of the Avatar films completely being missed by American critics. Grateful for James Cameron blessing us with upholding pride in our diaspora. Can't wait to watch Fire and Ash 5 more times in 3D lol

tonight’s plan: eggnog and My Undesirable Friends

went for another round of Avatar: Fire and Ash late last night

after checking out some writing on Marty Supreme, i do not think that it can be understood critically without engaging it also as a Jewish movie

one of the year’s very best films right here

MARTY SUPREME CHRISTMAS DAY

"At 34 years old, Ella McCay becomes the governor of the state she was born and raised in."

hot take: he’s easier to take than Furlong in T2 saw the movie again last night and the girl next to me was crying and very distraught during a pivotal scene with Spider i think his poor kid acting lends him an innocence

finale of Pluribus kinda drove me nuts

damn have not seen this in ages, maybe tonight!

one of the year’s very best films right here

eating some food and listening to Ezra Klein interviewing a couple of economists trying to make sense of why most economic metrics seem to ”fine,” but the feeling in the economy is so bad. obviously curious to hear what the have to say, but the answer honestly seems so basic:

"It’s cinema and art as dialogue with the past, and with the people who occupied it." wrote a little about Peter Hujar's Day

on this day 20 years ago, Steven Spielberg's Munich opened in theatres. more soon.

i maintain that the decline of the MCU has less to do with the substandard quality of recent entries—they were always substandard!—than the fact that the core audience were kids, and they’re all adults now

i do think it’s a problem that so many people—including apparently intelligent people!—can’t hold more than one thought in their heads at the same time

"It’s cinema and art as dialogue with the past, and with the people who occupied it." wrote a little about Peter Hujar's Day

it's honestly very good segment

see, you *know* Bari Weiss is a colossal fucking moron, because if she wasn't, she'd have let the story play, but then forced 60 Minutes to do a big feature interview with Miller

Bari Weiss is just a really mediocre person

i do love James Cameron casting really bad kid actors, and kind of using how bad they are to actually make you care about them

why do i still have to see people sharing the world's hackiest avatar review from the world's hackiest film critic when i already blocked him

we're so back

“What is she thinking?“ For @moviejawn.com, I wrote about the 2025 movies that denied us easy answers to recreate in us the child's yearning for a parent stolen by state violence. www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/12...

lmao, this is the most entertaining marketing campaign in an age

All I see when I see Bari Weiss is Refaat Alareer’s murderer. In a better world she would be on trial instead of serving as a well-paid censor for a billionaire family.

my opinion of Nolan is he's one of the great modern artists

nice

the bad people are all successful AND stupid, the most maddening combination

tallying up my favourite movies of 2025 and there are like 35 or 40 plausible titles

Celebrate Bugs Bunny energy every Christmas with the heartwarming classic Hundreds of Beavers.

a good thing would be notable media and entertainment players declaring they will not work with Paramount going forward

hours later, still wrapped up in Peter Hujar’s Day, such a wonderful, wonderful piece of work

everything going well at Bari’s CBS, i see

fyi, Marty Supreme Christmas Day

oh what an incredible film, like if My Dinner with Andre had shades of Certified Copy, but in a totally different register

it’s Peter Hujar’s Day Day!

Pound/dollar for pound/dollar, the good people can do in buying and wiping out debt (especially medical debt!) is astonishing, and it baffles me that more people with very medium amounts of wealth don’t do it when it would mean so much to people who are drowning