A few weeks late to the game but kind of loving the Zach Galafianakis gardening show on Netflix. Equal parts silly and relaxing.

Discussion of liminal spaces at the bar last night (younger folks are very excited about this upcoming Backrooms movie).

Not gonna lie, sorta want see this Sheep Detectives movie. #filmsky

Really liked Hokum. Yes, it's trauma horror to some extent (also guilt!). But Adam Scott is terrific and McCarthy keeps the momentum going until things get honestly scary (especially this f*cking guy!). Recommended. #filmsky

Watching a series that's overly dependent upon texting and really starting to understand the Robert Eggers quote about never wanting to make a contemporary film: "The idea of photographing a cell phone is just death." #filmsky

Local group opposing plans to build an AI data center is using AI slop in their promotional materials. (We're cooked).

Things are so bad Tom Waits' is coming out of musical retirement with an anti-war song? (Hyped to hear it btw).

Possibly the first Final Four with clear Samuel Beckett references from the commentators? "Waiting for Cadeau." #finalfour

Watched some YouTube clips of the Springsteen show in Minneapolis and got so hyped up wanna stomp around the neighborhood with a bullhorn yelling "F*ck ICE!"

Big crowd streaming across the Broadway Bridge in Little Rock. #NoKings

Many horror movies these days are trenchant examinations of generational trauma but occasionally it's nice to slum it for a change and watch...a rabid monkey trapping some kids in a swimming pool. #filmsky

Sad to report that I didn't know Don DeLillo wrote an erotic hockey novel in 1980 under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell...

Enjoyed Project Hail Mary as a well-crafted, well-meaning, crowd-pleasing (early) summer blockbuster but it never fully locked in for me on an emotional level like Close Encounters/Contact/Interstellar/The Arrival. Will try again sometime. Happy it's gonna be a big hit! #filmsky

Happy birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Love this Little Rock mural.

Cool thing about tonight's Best Picture showdown is that One Battle and Sinners are both pretty great! #filmsky

Conway area making an appearance on Jeopardy this week (category is "fun place names").

Big parsley fans up ahead.

If Vladimir had been a week to week series on HBO the discourse would be absolutely unhinged. But on Netflix...crickets. Nice to see John Slattery in a juicy role again although he's essentially playing an academic version of Roger Sterling with tenure.

The Bride was, sadly, not for me. But kinda love this shot of her and Frank at the movies. #filmsky

Can we set the clocks ahead and spring forward into a less insane timeline? Gonna try.

A three hour documentary about the history of video stores in popular culture told entirely through film and TV clips (no talking heads) might not be everyone's cup of tea but I've been enjoying this strange and obsessive flick this week. (Criterion Channel). #filmsky

If anything, a review like this makes me want to see The Bride even more...#filmsky

Sturgill's sounding about one album out from becoming the guru of a hippy disco sex cult (complimentary).

All the news is depressing but it's Twin Peaks Day and I'm out here looking for the perfect slice of cherry pie.

Got 17 minutes to spare? You'll probably like this Oscar-nominated short film. Sad and funny and touching. #filmsky

Lauren Groff in her "Mardi Gras suit" delivering a great public talk at Hendrix in Conway about the importance of literature and storytelling in the face of fascism and book banning.

Revisiting Robert Duvall in Get Low and the date of his "funeral party" in the film is...February 16!! #filmsky

RIP. (The Apostle is a personal fave). #filmsky

Happy Daisy Gatson Bates Day!

I'm just not convinced y'all even remember this scene where Ryan Gosling makes a dog dance to Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark." ("The Place Beyond the Pines", 2013). youtu.be/8FFGwpWPbkU?...

Haven't liked an Emerald Fennell movie yet but some sick part of me kinda wants to see Wuthering Heights. #filmsky

Tracking down some of the Oscar-nominated shorts and this one's really...something. A dystopian society where kissing is punishable by death and retail transactions are conducted through casual violence (a series of slaps). The French are so weird. Recommended. (YouTube). #filmsky

Celebrating Catherine O'Hara tonight with A Mighty Wind. Mitch and Mickey are so adorable! A tad underrated in the Christopher Guest canon. Very funny. #filmsky

Almost forgot to wish all my Kansas pals a happy Kansas Day! Ad Astra Per Aspera!

New Sam Raimi movie this weekend, movie pals! #filmsky

Catching up on some Oscar nominees while iced in by mountains of sleet. Really liked this one! #filmsky

Forecast...

Caught up with Linklater's Blue Moon this weekend. Between this and The Lowdown, Ethan Hawke is out there absolutely killing it. #filmsky

Ralph Fiennes goes full batshit heavy metal in The Bone Temple. Incredible performance. Jack O' Connell is great too, very scary, definitely channelling a bit of Alex and his "droogs" from Clockwork Orange. Hope audiences can dig this. #filmsky

Nic Cage is somewhere nearby in Little Rock filming a movie called "Best Pancakes in the County"?? Won't rest until I meet him...

Went to see "Is This Thing On?" today. Bradley Cooper got so tired of people thinking of him as a self-important Oscar-chaser that he's like, okay, in my new film I'll just play a really goofy dude named "Balls." #filmsky

Kind of in the movie for pure schlock entertainment this weekend. Thinking about seeing the movie where the monkey gets rabies from a mongoose and bites off everyone's face. #filmsky

Was having a virtual therapy appointment while the January 6 insurrection unfolded and the therapist was clearly just as anxious about it all.

Catching up on some Oscar contenders and this one is a helluva flick. A potent political revenge film that partly plays out like a farcical road movie before a long sequence that finally locks in and won't let you look away (literally, with a 13 minute static single take). #filmsky

My NYE tradition of the last few years is watching The Hudsucker Proxy. Happy New Year's, pals! Let's hope 2026 is better. Maybe the Coens will reunite?? #filmsky

Good movies set around New Year's? (Besides When Harry Met Sally, The Apartment, and The Hudsucker Proxy). #filmsky

An already anxious person probably shouldn't see a Safdie movie on Christmas Day but off I go to Marty Supreme. Send thoughts and prayers. #filmsky

Time once again to remind you all that In Bruges is a Christmas movie. (Put the kids to bed first). #filmsky

Really wish I cared about Avatar! But I'm just waiting for Marty Supreme to arrive.

Forget the Ella McCay challenge, have you taken the Hamnet Challenge, which is trying not to cry during Hamnet? I failed it yesterday. (But only at the very end. Actually found parts of this to be quite flat). #filmsky