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

Terrible news unfolding about Rob Reiner and his wife. Stand By Me is one of my favorite films of all time. I can quote most of it. #RIP #Filmsky

Wake Up Dead Man: always happy to spend more time with our buddy Benoit Blanc and Josh O'Connor is really terrific. Great-looking film too. We hope Rian Johnson tells Netflix to go fuck themselves now that his contract is complete. Wanna see the next one in a room full of humans. #filmsky

Woody Guthrie would be so disappointed that there are still so many fascists around.

Hamnet opening on a singly tiny screen 40 miles away at my least favorite theater this weekend but I plan to be there. #filmsky

The world's greatest actor emerges from seven long years of self-imposed exile and the first thing he does is...deliver a very lengthy, very graphic monologue involving an explosive bowel movement. (Sad to say but I didn't much care for Anemone). #filmsky

Quietly chugging it's way into my top five of the year. #filmsky

Okay, okay, I watched the "dog's POV" horror flick. Does it ever transcend its gimmick? Not really. But there are a few creepy bits and the final scene is strangely touching and that dog's a helluva actor. Hope he gets offered some more great roles! #filmsky

Wondered to myself, "What's Nic Cage doing lately?" Looked it up and turns out he's in a new religious horror film called "The Carpenter's Son" where he plays Joseph alongside FKA Twigs as Mary. Well, that sounds about right. #filmsky

Love this little tribute to the late great Todd Snider from fellow Nashville songwriter Rod Picott:

Reading Cameron Crowe's new memoir about his early rock journalism and I keep thinking "No, it didn't happen like that" because I've seen Almost Famous so many times.

I was pretty close with this prediction. My screening today started with five folks in the room and ended with three. (Good movie btw).

New Lynne Ramsay (horror?) movie about post-partum depression is sure to pack the multiplexes this weekend. (Expecting at least three walkouts per screening). #filmsky

It takes a true villain to attack a laid back "alright guy" like our man Todd Snider. WTF? Hoping he's okay.

Me at 5:00 pm when we're forced to set our clocks back...

Bugonia: it got under my skin but also kinda left a bad taste in my mouth. Was prepared to laugh off its final (not too surprising) "twist" but then there's a long montage that's really affecting. Anyway, really glad that Yorgos can somehow get stuff like this made and on a lot of screens. #filmsky

The Halloween "heist" episodes of Brooklyn 99 are perfect holiday tricks and treats.

House of Dynamite: not really the kind of film I want from Kathryn Bigelow but I still found it tense and effective and maybe not as ambiguous as the angry posts on social media would lead you to believe. #filmsky

Look, Deliver Me From Nowhere is not in the top echelon of music biopics but, being a Springsteen guy, I found plenty to enjoy. #filmsky

A Springsteen biopic but focusing ONLY on the short window of time time he got profoundly depressed, read a bunch of Flannery O'Connor, and wrote a quiet haunted masterpiece? You can bet I'll be there opening day! #filmsky

After the Hunt. NOT a good movie but it's a genre I admittedly kinda enjoy: pretentious academics eating each other alive. #filmsky

Two hours into this and it's clear that five hours isn't going to be enough. #filmsky

Seeing NO evidence so far that GDT's Frankenstein will open in any Arkansas theaters during its brief theatrical run. (Stupid Netflix). #filmsky

Just about the only thing Facebook is good for these days is reminding me of random shit like the 12th anniversary of the time I came across Ed Begley Jr hawking his sodas at some kind of health fair park event in Lawrence.

The "Dirty Work" needle-drop in One Battle After Another radicalized me. Been listening to a bunch of Steely Dan. #filmsky

Okay, it's spooky season, what are some under-the-radar gems with great vibes, any era, creepy but not too gory? Horror comedies also invited. #filmsky

Is anyone tracking whether there's been an uptick in Modelo sales in the last two weeks? #filmsky

Really wish I were a Pynchon guy but I remain a DeLillo man.

Do y'all even remember that Tim Blake Nelson made a version of Othello called "O" (2001) which is set in the world of prep school basketball, stars Josh Hartnett as Iago (Hugo), and was initially deemed too controversial to release in the wake of Columbine?? #filmsky

After only one viewing, I can already tell there are lines in One Battle After Another that will become part of our lexicon forever: "I've had a few small beers." #filmsky