Us and @emilystjams.bsky.social heading into 2026 like... (FRIDAY)

🎄🎁 Now is the perfect time to say, as I bundle up and head to the post office, that this is the last week to place your holiday orders! See what's in stock and start referring to yourself as "a patron of the arts" at every holiday cocktail party! 🎁🎄 www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

Should we cover God’s Not Dead?

Listen as I attempt to embarrass every professor I ever had at RISD by trying to put my color theory knowledge into actual words! But listen mostly because Justin and Laura know how to have a great conversation about a great movie.

New episode! We discuss AMELIE with @briannaduggan.bsky.social! Loneliness, color, mediation, Paris... all that jazz! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

Warning, this movie is about a lot of sad stuff, especially if you’re a parent!

The new Criterion 4K restoration of EYES WIDE SHUT looks a bit different than what hit theaters back in 1999. I talked with cinematographer Larry Smith about the changes. www.slashfilm.com/2031916/stan...

We sit down with @liao.shen-yi.org to discuss our first animated film, a classic for the whole family to enjoy over the holidays: GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

I recently had the pleasure of recording an episode of @cowspod.com on Amélie, which occasioned a search for this ancient photo, in which I look the most French I have ever looked in my life. (I am not even slightly French.)

New episode: PARASITE with Rachel Fraser (Philosophy, MIT)! What do Freud, Jane Eyre, and Marx have to do with a movie about three families in South Korea? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

This is still accidentally the most prescient thing I ever wrote. www.vox.com/2015/8/14/91...

We should 100% be getting movie posters like this 🤩 youtu.be/KpPBQvjesQ8?...

Which horrors are you watching this week? Here are some scary classics we've covered on COWS: IT FOLLOWS (w/ @alisonwillmore.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/3v5jnkkw BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (w/ @bilgeebiri.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/2b2avnxj THE BABADOOK (w/ @libbyhill.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/2f6x5j42

🔴RECommend Cows in the Field on REC?! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

IT HATH ARRIVED... REC! w/ found footage expert Dr. Pete Turner. Don't... whatever you do... don't go in the attic!! pca.st/o2rx2a81

This Friday on Cows...

Hanging with our buds @emilystjams.bsky.social and Kelly-Anne discussing RED ROOMS! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

more embarrassing behavior from netflix, showing that they're a repository of background music, not anything worth spending time engaging with

My favorite comfort watch of recent years

RED ROOMS discussed with @emilystjams.bsky.social!! This was a lot of fun, we hope you enjoy our conversation about this top notch murderino-thriller: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

FALL LINEUP has no English language films and plenty of awesome guests!! www.cowspod.com for more!

FALL LINEUP has no English language films and plenty of awesome guests!! www.cowspod.com for more!

This one was a ton of fun! Always wanted to speak of my love for this weird ass movie…

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE w/ @maxevry.bsky.social! Exploration, practical effects, V'GER!, mystery, AI, leaping beyond logic!! Listen below: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

Please listen to @jamellebouie.net perfectly sum up the use of AI in Hollywood.

The Crook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (2025)

The cows are entering the @vulture.com Movie Draft again this year, hopefully doing better than last year. It's free to draft your team and compete for PRIZES and GLORY! moviegame.vulture.com

This was a BLAST. @hsblechman.bsky.social and Overbye talk the philosophy underlying Hannah's #1 movie. It's a good day to listen.

We’re joined by Andrew Overbye and Hannah Blechman from the Authorized Novelizations Podcast (@authorizedpod.bsky.social) to explore near-death experiences, spirituality, brat packs, and more during our discussion of Joel Schumacher’s 1990 film FLATLINERS! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

special ops-movie-heads don't pull punches

Huge honor and pleasure to be invited on to one of my absolute favorite podcasts, Cows in the Field! We discuss Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza's provocative, fascinating WARFARE. Please enjoy and spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

WARFARE (2025) w/ @jimpenola.bsky.social! Garland, heroic sacrifice, music(!), decontextualizing violence, the film's commitment to realism, and much more! pocketcasts.com/podcasts/c9f...

This is really cool; social aesthetic value in action!!

Who here reads Sutter Cane? IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS w/ Carly Severn (KQED). Listen below: pod.link/1505648062/e...

39. This is a nice essay by @justinkhoo.com on where Tenet fits into Nolan's occupation with characters struggling against the constraints that bind us all, particularly time. It doesn't mention le Guin's wonderful essay about the purpose of sci-fi, but it locates Nolan's sci-fi in that tradition:

*ahem* Moo.

RE-ANIMATOR w/ Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social! We discuss the film, its impact and legacy, men's desire to procreate without women, practical effects, consent, horror, and of course, H.P. Lovecraft! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

7. This is a nice episode on Tenet from @cowspod.com. I particularly liked the observation that Kat is a victim of years of abuse, and that her singular focus on losing her son when faced with the possible end of the world (widely & smugly mocked at the time) makes more sense in light of that.

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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY! We sit down with @abemathew.bsky.social to discuss spying, espionage, betrayal, and lots more! Listen below podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

just listened to the delightful @cowspod.com ep on Tinker Tailor and was reminded of this @letterboxd.social list I made after my latest Tinker Tailor rewatch. boxd.it/plR7C

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it’s so, so good. i gave it a spot on that ny times best of the century list & spent awhile talking about it recently on @cowspod.com

Dune 3: It’s Actually Part 2

This is such a wonderful list of movies: at least one masterpiece, several flawed but tremendous movies, and then two movies that straight-up do not exist. Oh, and Road to Perdition.

Great ep (great ep!). Listened during the second half of my ride around Toronto yesterday. From what I gather, Mann would consider it a flawed appreciation of his films, but I'd love to read a work on Mann and Marx. Time for my (at least) twice annual Miami Vice watch. Off to find a mojito...

HEAT!! w/ Zed Adams (The New School) Time, light, passing, entrapment, stylized realism, stoicism, individualism, institutionalism, and why people be thieving. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

THE LAST CASTLE is a movie that complicates our relationship to patriotism. Feels like the right movie for right now. Listen to our episode this week featuring friend of the show @jasondashbailey.com! diehardonablank.com

Well worth the read: @johndevore.bsky.social on FIGHT CLUB at 25 150wordreviews.substack.com/p/essay-i-am...