ugh, getting the West Anderson set in Canada costs a full $100 more, after tax and the "box set shipping" fee our local Criterion distributor charges, than buying it in the US. being Canadian sucks.

also very funny that it’s about a literal woke mind virus

this is so cool. i love The Dears!

sometimes i'll read a piece that tells me the writer is not a child of divorce

embarrassing

okay Bluesky lmaooooooooo

hearing Sentimental Value is out in a couple cities today, and as i've sat with the film, it's really grown in my mind in a way Joachim Trier's other films haven't. it's got more of a patient, Bergman-y quality. loved it, as i wrote back at TIFF. go see it!

Shelley's Frankenstein is an extraordinarily mature novel written by a teenager; del Toro's Frankenstein is an incredibly juvenile movie directed by a guy in his '60s

oh ryan grim is STUPID stupid

increasingly annoyed by the praise for it hewing closer to the book, presumably because it includes the arctic stuff and is structured to give the Creature's side of the story except that almost everything else in the plot is totally different, and the Creature is an immortal superhero????

also very funny that it’s about a literal woke mind virus

i’m a bit of a Pluribus dissenter, in that i had a good time with it, but its premise and central drama are served poorly by its ultra-extravagant production Apple didn’t send the last two episodes, and i’m not even *that* compelled to watch them

god i’m loving Death by Lightning, and i’m hoping they see fit to follow it up with another season about McKinley and Czolgosz

it's wild that Gregg Araki's Nowhere is just there, hanging out in pristine quality on Criterion Channel, one of the best movies ever made

Netflix has gotta break at some point, right?

Die My Love has a lot going for it, but its fatal flaw is that doing psychedelic A Woman Under the Influence just has me thinking about A Woman Under the Infuence

one of the best experiences i’ve ever had was flying to New York for 24 hours to see both parts of Angels in America on the last weekend of its recent Broadway revival

I don't love Babylon but that ending is the closest anyone has come to visualizing why I became an archivist

just got like the best news of my life

just learned from @willa.bsky.social’s amazing Decoder Ring podcast that the woman responsible for ruining the taste of the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte is now part of the MAHA movement

best ending of all time, let's be real

did a deep dive on post-MeToo cinema for Truthdig, from The Assistant to After the Hunt, and everything in between

It’s this

Lot of options (TV Glow, Sinners, Zone of Interest) but a small-scale one I really enjoy is the anti-climax of Eephus; it's just so perfectly awkward and lonely and human. Perfectly captures the feeling of getting important words caught in your throat right up until there's no more time to say them.

shooting from the hip here but

watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did it

what’s the best movie ending of the decade so far?

she’s literally me

this video really is one of the best of all time

But he WAS found guilty of apepper FOLKS

Vince Gilligan's new show, Pluribus, premieres tonight. will have a review out tomorrow, curious where the consensus will go on this one.

in what universe is this a fireable offence?

condo building added a hot water mixer to the system to limit scalding temperatures, and hey! wonderful! just had to take a shower in cold water!

on some days, i'm pretty sure my favourite book is Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation, and this show is scratching that itch in the most perfect ways

starting Death by Lightning over lunch, and i’m five minutes in and it already fucking ROCKS!

you ask me, Amanda Seyfried should be winning Best Actress this year

you got people out here with taste so bad

okay wait a second that Netflix show Death by Lightning, about the assassination of President Garfield, was directed by Matt Ross?? dude's a fucking legend!

I'm very excited for this one. Also, how cool is it that a movie by a female director is getting the 70mm treatment? ("Very cool" is the answer you're looking for)

In my brief time as an op-ed editor (<year), Brettbug Stephens argued Ashkenazis might be genetically superior, & Tom Cotton called for violence against George Floyd protestors. Some of us were constantly pushing back. I met with Sulzberger multiple times. Lip service was given, nothing changed.

I wrote about one lens of understanding Mamdani's victory, which is as a campaign that corrected many of the mistakes Democrats made in 2024 newrepublic.com/article/2027...

first teaser for The Testament of Ann Lee great movie

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is that bad? sounds bad

I wrote a little book, pals. 'SOFIA COPPOLA: The Complete Unofficial Guide' is out today from @quercusbooks.bsky.social/ Greenfinch and in all good bookstores. I loved delving into Sofia's prettified & melancholy worlds. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/sofia-c...

all i want in the world is like a Criterion release, the scale of their extraordinary Olympics box set, of every Frederick Wiseman movie, the greatest living American filmmaker

dooooooooo it