I’m weird and don’t make an annual top movies list til a couple of years later, after awards buzz dies down, and I’ve finally caught up on movies. So here are my favorite films from 2023, another great year for films that go beyond these 25.

A legend and a mensch. RIP Rob Reiner

One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.

It Ends is now available to watch on the @letterboxd.social video store! Please watch our movie thanks! boxd.it/SBUi

This is a really great high concept movie. A group of college friends take a wrong turn and end up on a road that doesn't seem to end. Like ever. A really great premise taken to its best possible conclusion. Loved it.

A perfect way finally watch the great “It Ends” and just a breath of fresh air to the indie film landscape. Watch these when the store launches in a couple of days!!

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Today MAN FINDS TAPE is out in the world in theaters and on VOD. So proud of EVERYONE involved, but a fun extra highlight is it is Jess’s first film! We executively produced this together and were both so thrilled with the movie everyone made. Austin filmmakers rule. Hope y’all love it!

MAN FINDS TAPE - out tomorrow. @cinefiedcom.bsky.social said "It feels like we're watching something we shouldn't be" which is accurate Our company Rustic Films was founded to make movies like this. WATCH: manfindstape.com

This rules. Very excited for this.

Nouvelle Vague gets me.

Barbara is absolutely wonderful and to see her taken like this is horrifying in so many ways. Please read Barbara and Tucker’s story and donate in anyway you can so they can bring her home.

Talent isn't rare. Throw an apple & you hit someone with talent. Perseverance? rare. Work ethic? exceedingly rare; the willingness to grind. Being able to endure the scorn, rejection & privation a life in the arts dooms you to in the United States is unicorn-scarce. But talent? Talent is everywhere.

Genuinely couldn’t be more thrilled to see @paulgandersman.bsky.social and @peterhallhuman.bsky.social great film find a great home with the Magnolia team. Congratulations to the entire cast and crew!

Humbled to have Jori Felker and I’s short story TOO CUTE! published in Haunted Reels II, a book of truly great horror stories from filmmakers C. Robert Cargill, Mike Flanagan, Maggie Levin, David Bruckner, Addison Heimann, and more. Take a look here and enjoy! darkmattermagazine.shop/products/hau...

Be sure to check out my new sci-fi horror short EAT THE RICH, as well as stories by Mike Flanagan, Maggie Levin, David Bruckner, April Wolfe, Simon Rumley, Addison Heimann, Jori & Michael Felker, and many more indie horror filmmakers! Very proud of my dark, nasty, new piece of fiction. Get it today!

Today's the release date for HAUNTED REELS II, the second anthology curated by @davidlawsonjr.bsky.social for Dark Matter. Contributors to this collection include @mikeflanaganfilm.com, @crobertcargill.bsky.social, @felker.bsky.social and many more. We're so excited to read it, so get yours today!

Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

Sometimes I'll watch five or 10 minutes of a Scorsese movie just to get a contact high from the images, performances, and music. I think I would like his movies even if they had nothing to say. And they always have something to say. youtu.be/aIPmu6bYZOs

Yes yes yes 👏 👏 👏

James Gunn, man. I haven't seen a frame of the new Superman movie beyond what's in the trailers, but how can you not want to root for this dude. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

nathan fielder (narrating): to understand what it’s like to be in a plane crash, i needed to experience one myself. but i would have to defeat the god of death to return to the world of the living. so in a studio warehouse, i recreated the shadow realm of duat and the twelve gates of the underworld,

Giant news from @giantbomb.bsky.social

Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast. For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join

Hahaha yesss

This episode of The Rehearsal may truly be one of the best episodes of television I’ve ever seen.

#TheEndless is 8 years old. Our 3rd movie remains our most beloved, made by too many amazing artists to tag here, but been thinkin — wait for the 10 year mark for the next chapter?

Credits on Blue Prince. 59 Days. I love video games.

Genuinely can’t wait to see audiences discover this haunting and awesome movie at the Tribeca Film Festival. Congrats to @peterhallhuman.bsky.social and @paulgandersman.bsky.social for on this enormous accomplishment.

Few hours in, Blue Prince is absolutely my jam and now I can’t sleep

Oscars Add Best Stunt Design Category Starting in 2027 variety.com/2025/awards/...

New Haven, CT! #HandsOff

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Appa is ENRAPTURED by Babe: Pig In The City

This is so great it’s giving me an existential panic.

The Studio ruuuuules!

Heading back to SXSW thisssss weekend. If you’re there, hit me up and lfg!!!!

There’s a cool lil sci-fi movie called THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT that I watched at Overlook last year and it’s on Hulu now. Heady and emotional. Treat yourself to something original.

This ruuuules. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who watched or shared our movie on Hulu this weekend.

Staying in this weekend? Check out THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT, a lo-fi brain twisty time travel movie in which a pair of bank robbers take shelter in an alternate dimension/timeline to wait out the heat and get more than they bargained for. The feature debut of director Michael Felker & it's on HULU.

Things Will Be Different is now on HULU. Thank you to everyone who’s supported the film so far and to everyone who’s diving in here for the first time. Spin some clocks, sit back, and enjoy🫡 🕰️

The Gorge is a ton of fun. Really dug the world building. The romantic chemistry was such a breath of fresh air. Enjoyed it so so much. See it in some deep dark cavern with big projection and loud as hell speakers

This was such a blast and @scarystuffpodcast.com are my new favorite people. Dive in and enjoy!

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.

Went to Bob’s Big Boy for lunch out of love for David Lynch. Sat at the counter and met many others doing the same thing. Some were fans getting coffees + shakes. Others were colleagues who shared their favorite Lynch diner stories. A truly magical moment needed during a dark time for this city.

After David Lynch used my apartment to shoot some of INLAND EMPIRE, he stayed in touch via random phone calls. Every one of them was a treasure. His art has been part of my life since I was a child. The world just got a little less weird, and we are all poorer for it. Fix your hearts or die.