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

16mm scan of the TV version of Duel, hello!

if you can't appreciate the sick as fuck shit in Fire and Ash, that's a skill issue, sorry to say

this is so important

facts

made myself a caesar and watching the Clifford Odets-scripted noir Deadline at Dawn, starring Susan Hayward

do it to me, Tony

to have never seen The Hunt for Red October, and for this opportunity to come along wow, i’m jealous

just remembered i’ve got a ticket to see Top Gun in 70mm tonight. life is good sometimes.

so you’re telling me Eric from Are You Afraid of the Dark?, the director of The Trotsky, the co-writer and director of Letterkenny, and the creator of Heated Rivalry are all the same guy???

i know Josh O’Connor is a movie star to me, because i just went and saw this tiny movie Rebuilding, knowing absolutely nothing about it—including the director, or the plot, nothing—just to see him act. and he’s real good at it! even in a nice, slight movie like this.

lmao no way! honestly, amazing

off to see the new Josh O’Connor movie. no, not that one. no, not that one either. the other one.

for @gqmagazine.bsky.social, i talked to No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook(!!!!!) about his side-passion: photography

ICYMI, i talked to THE Director Park Chan-wook about how he balances his incredible filmmaking with personal still photography

hell yeah

honestly shocked that Sirāt is in the awards conversation

call me a conservative, but i think building our entire society around the idea of paying a premium for having zero friction in anything in our lives is literally why the world around us is falling apart

for @gqmagazine.bsky.social, i talked to No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook(!!!!!) about his side-passion: photography

so that was bad, but Charles Bronson was in it a bit think i'll follow it up with the 1953 I, the Jury, my second Mike Hammer potboiler in as many weeks, though i doubt it holds a candle to Kiss Me Deadly

tonight’s episode of Pluribus was where i came to the conclusion that i just don’t like the show

despite never being wrong, i do actually think i was wrong to say the Netflix deal was no better than Paramount getting WB not because it’s *good*, but because the more i see from Netflix, the more it looks like they do actually intend to expand their business into new areas like theatrical

put on my last pair of contacts to watch Avatar in 3D, and now gonna take advantage by watching some 3D movies at home first up: Rita Hayworth in 1953’s Miss Sadie Thompson

despite America's many, many crimes, the experience of those crimes is so detached for so many Americans that even most well-meaning leftists cannot really comprehend what complicity means they somehow imagine themselves as separate i can tell you, having Israeli background, that looks like luxury

belated thoughts on the pre-Avatar trailers situation - ad for the Inarritu annoyed me, because i'll have to see it, because of Cruise - Odyssey prologue again; still goes hard; has Tenet energy; cannot wait - the Avengers teaser thing felt more CG than Avatar despite being live-action: hideous

took some shrooms before Avatar 3, and the movie felt about a decade long in the most incredible way, 10/10 experience, highly recommended

Cameron is out here charting cinema’s technological future while casting Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter the mind on that man

James Cameron was like, “Remember Oona Chaplin from Game of Thrones? Well now she’s an evil blue alien and the hottest person you’ve ever seen in your life.”

the best scene of the year

Payakan time!