Brilliant idea to cast Ray McKinnon in FORD VS FERRARI as Levon Helm in THE RIGHT STUFF

Now watching FORD VS FERRARI. Jon Bernthal has big shoes to fill in this role.

The 70s were wild. You could have movie shot by Sven Nykvist and scored by Marvin Hamlisch and no one batted an eye.

Watching STARTING OVER and Cliff Clavin’s mom is the early MVP.

My biggest laugh in A NEW LEAF is always Jack Weston‘s “we had a good run“ speech to the angry staff, a moment I imagine wasn’t in the 3-hour murder cut. Sorry, Elaine.

We're eventually going to have a BOSS OF IT ALL situation where a real executive invents an AI CEO who gets pinned with all of a corporation's liabilities.

My dog isn’t scared of fireworks, which sucks because I want my dog to suffer.

When Harry Met Sally is rated R for “flashing lights”

Wife wants to watch When Harry Met Sally and I have a severe enough Bruno Kirby jones that I’m almost ready to agree.

Had a long talk with my psychiatrist today and we’re in agreement that I need to quit my job.

I kind of have a movie-watching hot streak going on. How can I ruin it tonight?

This could have been the opening scene of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER if PTA had gone for the straight adaptation.

I love New Year’s Eve because it involves both of my favorite things: drinking alcohol and forgetting old acquaintance.

Watching NIGHT MOVES (2013). I really think I could live in a yurt.

Finally watched The Delinquents, which is great but also makes me wish this director would do a Short Cuts with like ten Aira novels.

And he’s already outlived two of the three Fat Boys.

Surprised that “a few small beers” became the beloved OBAA line and not “I am a drug and alcohol lover”

Watching CABARET with my daughter. Crazy what movies got a PG back then.

Amazing how Adam Driver was able to give such a great performance in MEGALOPOLIS while also putting an extraordinary amount of effort into avoiding Mike Figgis.

Breaking my decades-old pledge never to watch another Mike Figgis movie.

I don’t understand why people confuse the ability of a machine to impersonate art with the ability of an intelligence to create art. A fraud is a fraud whether or not the victim knows it’s a fraud. These are not deep questions. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

My favorite movies are those with the courage to ask if a thing is on

What Trump has done is a disgrace to the memory of George Kennedy and the performing arts center he built with his bare hands.

I’ve been informed in the replies that this is not something I should want. Feeling humbled and apologetic.

spoiler: the thing was on

Why are Hamilton and Jacott popping up in these latter-day Baumbach movies, but not Eigeman? I want to see the boys back together one last time.

I'm fine with them renaming it the Donald J. Trump Memorial Center for the Performing Arts if he promises to die first.

Not watching CBS news again until they finally let Bill Maher anchor.

“Days” by the Kinks came on during my drive to work and made me realize that the best movie I watched in 2025 was probably the full version of UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD. At least it’s the one i think about the most.

It would be really funny if Trump goes on TV tomorrow night to read a prepared speech about how he actually loves Rob Reiner.

"Hey, mom, sorry I haven't called back in a few weeks. I've been so busy." "Too busy to call your mother?" "I know, I should have at least sent a text. What have you been up to?" "Not posting about our estrangement for clout, that's for sure."

Famed HOW DO YOU KNOW cinematographer Janusz Kaminski has apparently lensed an upcoming sci-fi flick by journeyman director Steve something.

Show Your Age 1 Point for Each One You Did: 1. The Kenosha Kid

I've spent all day obsessing over the fact that my year-end review is calendared for 45 minutes while everyone else's review is calendared for 30. It's also at the very end of the day, which is when people get fired.

At one point, John Magaro must have followed Kelly Reichardt home and she never had the heart to turn him away.

Did anyone else watch GOVERNMENT CHEESE? Best TV show of the year and it’s disappeared without a trace. I assume there will be no second season.

THE MASTERMIND is so good. Not sure if Framingham, Mass has ever before been depicted on film.

Watching AS GOOD AS IT GETS, which features some good director cameos: Shane Black, Harold Ramis, Lawrence Kasdan, Todd Solondz. Am I missing any?

“Reverend Wicks“ (not to mention another priest named Prentice) brings a dose of Pynchon to this KNIVES OUT installment.

Ed Burns made a sequel to THE BROTHERS MCMULLEN? In 2025? I need the phone number of every single person who wanted this.

This review says she's the Lt. Gov. of New York: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ella... Other reviews say "unnamed state." It was filmed in Rhode Island. I need clarity on whether this is, in fact, Rhode Island.

I love vendors-bring-our-office-Porto's season.

It costs $0 but you have to pay later for your copy of Santana Abraxas.

It costs $0 to retweet this photo of Sy Ableman on the cover of Wife Magazine

Maybe ELLA MCCAY is horrible but the reviews read exactly like reviews of SPANGLISH and HOW DO YOU KNOW, both of which I thought were pretty good, mostly for those qualities that reviewers perceived as flaws.

After reading CIGARETTES, my favorite novel I've read all year, I started THE CONVERSIONS, which (in its first 30 pages alone) may be the strangest novel I've ever read. The Year of Harry Mathews is reaching an end. What will 2026 bring?

Weird to think that when my parents were my age they were already dead.

MOBY-DICK only sold 3,215 copies in Melville's lifetime, so she's on the right track!