I don’t like much country, but I’ve been listening to The Mavericks (who are really more alt-country or Tex-Mex country) pretty religiously since the ‘90s. We lost their tremendously talented lead singer, Raul Malo, yesterday at the not-fair age of 60, and I’m finding myself devastated about it.

Nothing but bangers lately. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Me on Letterboxd: rbtaylor

I don’t buy Lucas calling Mike’s plan “Mission: Impossible-y” in Stranger Things 5.4. The season is set 14 years after the original M:I series ended and one year before the revival series dropped. Ethan Hunt is nearly a decade away. I don’t think many high-schoolers were referencing M:I in ‘87.

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Me on Letterboxd: rbtaylor

I’ve never in my life placed a pre-order so fast.

From yesterday, here's my review of the first four episodes of the new season of #StrangerThings (all of which dropped on Netflix last night).

From yesterday, here's my review of the first four episodes of the new season of #StrangerThings (all of which dropped on Netflix last night).

Much like the show itself, my review of Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 1 is now live! Read before you watch ... or, you know, afterward, if you're binging all four episodes tonight. But definitely sometime before you go to bed! No big spoilers contained within.

Much like the show itself, my review of Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 1 is now live! Read before you watch ... or, you know, afterward, if you're binging all four episodes tonight. But definitely sometime before you go to bed! No big spoilers contained within.

ScarJo really trying to monopolize the “late-stage franchise sequels we don’t really need” sector. First Jurassic World and now this!

I’ve got a new profile on Miles Teller up at Collider! He was surprisingly open about everything he’s gone through this year — good and bad — and I greatly enjoyed talking to him about his new movie, Eternity, and much, much more.

Latest Pluribus is by far the best ep yet.

Just did a quick search of the first draft of my [REDACTED] review (hint: it's coming Wednesday), and I used the words "feel" or "feels" a suboptimal 11 times. I really feel like this is my most annoying writing crutch, and I need to break it. (See what I mean?! I used it in that last sentence!!)

I’ve got a new profile on Miles Teller up at Collider! He was surprisingly open about everything he’s gone through this year — good and bad — and I greatly enjoyed talking to him about his new movie, Eternity, and much, much more.

Sisu 2 goes full Looney Tunes, while also somehow being even more violent than the first movie, and I cackled the whole way through. This is a sequel that’s better than the original.

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are off their asses in Bugonia. It’s fun watching two of our best actors get to square off like this.

This picture literally gives me goosebumps.

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

I will not rest until Daniel Craig has played Benoit Blanc more times than he's played James Bond.

Wake Up Dead Man is fantastic, and I am now firmly onboard the “Josh O’Connor needs to be in everything” train. Glass Onion was fine, but this is the Knives Out sequel you’ve been waiting for.

I profiled the phenomenal Rosamund Pike about playing the #NowYouSeeMe franchise's newest villain, why she's still grieving the end of #TheWheelOfTime, and the roles she's gravitating towards next — although she'll always be interested in more provocative characters:

Wasn't able to get fully onboard with Edgar Wright's The Running Man, a movie that feels edited into oblivion.

THIS.

Was able to resume watching, but then it crashed again 10 minutes later. Apple folks are probably both panicked AND delighted right now.

Forty minutes into the first episode of Pluribus and AppleTV just shit the bed.

Folks, Vince Gilligan’s done it again with #Pluribus. An absolute sci-fi masterpiece featuring a tremendous lead performance from Rhea Seehorn. It may sound counterintuitive in a review, but go into this one knowing as little as possible:

Can we not start this bullshit until after Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 comes out?

What an incredible speech from Mamdani. It’s nice to feel inspired instead of hopeless.

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

Not my desired outcome, but a great baseball game nonetheless.

Suddenly, buying tickets to an early Sunday morning screening of Back to the Future seems like it might not have been the best idea.

Two outs from winning. Two inches from winning. And now watching Pages make that catch. How are any Blue Jays fans still alive?

Might be time for Mazeroski to get some company.

I really hope that Scream 7 trailer is a result of them wanting to preserve the surprises, because, otherwise, that was pretty uninspiring.

Wow, we’re really trying not to offend, aren’t we, New York Times?

Okay, apparently Google has lied to me, and The Running Man actually opens Nov. 14, a week after Predator. That spaces them out a little bit, at least.

I wish Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere was more of a process movie. Its most interesting parts are when it’s showing how Bruce wrote and recorded Nebraska, how hard it was to transfer it to a master, etc. But those things keep getting pushed to the side for traditional biopic stuff.

Just watched Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday for the second and last time in my life. BY FAR the worst movie to spring from any of the major slasher series.

Why are Predator: Badlands and The Running Man opening on the same day? The Venn diagram of people interested in these movies is practically a single circle.

Great series. Was rooting for the Mariners. But it’s “Go Jays” from here on out.

The corporate dumbthink that happened when Adam Driver who wants to return to STAR WARS handing you one of the legit great American directors of all time to direct it, and they say no? Fucking moronic.

Apparently, the dead only speak when Bob Iger says they can.

Why did nobody tell me that Ghost of Yotei has in-game puzzle boxes to solve?! I love videogame puzzle boxes! Might have to buy this sooner than I thought.

Hmmm, Danny Ocean or Thomas Crown?

Black Phone 2 isn’t nearly as tightly constructed as the original (and, as a result, I don’t think it’ll prove to be as rewatchable), but it is a moody, scary, and emotionally satisfying follow-up all the same. Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw, once again, are both excellent.

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Shohei Ohtani is not of this planet, universe, or dimension.

The Mariners are such a fun baseball team.

Dug this. @realgdt.bsky.social doing Frankenstein makes too much sense, and Jacob Elordi was, dare I say, a revelation. A gruesome, gothic winner.