The Secret Screening (June 26) is live: A coyote in exile, an orphan’s family pilgrimage, and a sun-drenched pop album about anxiety. Plus, the case against chasing trends. Get in there! www.thesecretscreening.com

Seriously, have you? www.thesecretscreening.com

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

I personally like SPARKLE’S TAVERN better than THUNDERCRACK! And SCREAMPLAY is tons of fun too. Haven’t sent he others but have long heard great things about PUMPING IRON II, and OFF THE WALL is an early credit for both Jon Else (DAY AFTER TRINITY) and Judy Irving (WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL)!

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

Happy Father’s Day to the king of Father’s Day posts

Hear me out: THE STUFF and DISCLOSURE DAY double bill.

The Secret Screening (June 19) is live: A very serious cult comedy, a soulful family drama, and a witty rap mixtape. Plus, a short story about why you should always take the meeting. Read + subscribe! www.thesecretscreening.com

having just made the journey I guarantee that the John J. Cafaro internet rabbit hole is one you want to fall down

New York City Mayor Presents Knicks With Key To His Car

Whether a movie is good or bad should be the beginning not the end of any conversation about it. It's also the least interesting question to ask about a movie.

celebrities are so delusional... guns n roses haven't been relevant since the 90s but they still think they get first dibs on ferris wheel sex

Crash (1996, d. David Cronenberg)

what if this starts a rally for the mets

Still my favorite season to date. Listen up:

being a decent person is punk rock

If you like inside baseball, but for film, he’s your guy! 🎥 (He’s also your guy for baseball but that’s a whole other thing #LGM)

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The Drama (2026)

French prog rockers Magma -- who performed 15 concept albums in Kobaïan, an invented language for intergalactic refugees -- have withdrawn from performing at America 250. #sad

Cannes Jury Sneaks Off To Watch ‘Mortal Kombat II’

The beauty of the box score is it sometimes if you read it closely it really tells the story just with numbers. So cool.

RIP legend

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

Here’s your annual reminder that George Lucas stole everything in Star Wars (1977) from the Swedish film Stär Wärs (1976)

LGM

Can’t be mad at that first line because at least my doomscrolling is curated. #mets

Happy birthday to marijuana

It's complicated for me because I want the Mets to win but I set up a bot that places a $15 prop bet on every Mets hitter grounding out to second base and have already made $625,000 this year.

German VHS cover art for Elaine May's A NEW LEAF (1971)

The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.

I’m glad Mad Magazine’s Don Martin has found work in the medical field, naming surgeries. no mean feat having been dead for 26 years

happy holidays

Daniel Clowes, “The Future”

Shout out to the Leatherface cameo in LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Bluesky should allow you to append labels to posts for things like “I’m venting” and “this is about Mets baseball”

Yes to all of this. I'm also quite fond of Mark Rappaport's deeply sympathetic From the Journals of Jean Seberg. Thanks to @aaronhillis.bsky.social, I got to meet her, as it were, when she showed up for his virtual screening of Chilly Scenes of Winter (for which Paul Schrader helped as needed).

Reposting this because I revamped my site and the link changed. Added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I think is more interesting than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! rian-johnson.com/scripts

An underrated Miyazaki classic #LGM

I'm hearing that baseball is back?

a few of my favorite storyboards painted by Akira Kurosawa

In many ways, Chuck Norris was the American Brigitte Bardot: though his legacy was tainted by his far-right political views, you can't deny he was a hot fuckin piece of ass

Extremely funny that he is now stuck with a company named after his greatest, most expensive failure; let the name Meta be a reminder to all that since making collegiate hot-or-not 20 years ago, Zuck has never created a successful original product he didn't buy up from smarter people (and then ruin)