let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

And just like that I LOVE BOOSTERS has one showing per day. This is why we can’t have nice things anymore.

Maybe it’s just me — but BACKROOMS looks like the equivalent of that kid that wore a Zappa t-shirt but listened primarily to the Counting Crows. That’s just my vibe from the trailer.

I spoke to Harpo Marx's son Bill about his father – and a newly unearthed recording of his dad talking, at what would be his final public appearance www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Ummm do I need a gold controller for my 007 First Light experience? I don’t…. but do I?

Coffee and a Double Feature. Just finished The Grandmaster (2013) and now I’ve moved on to Killer Nun (1979) dir. Giulio Berruti on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. As you do. Listen, I can’t control the them when I’m running out of time on the movies on my watchlist. #NowWatching

#NowWatching Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster (2013) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social — and no movie ever felt like it lost 22 minutes like this one. It’s a gorgeous fucking movie, but the editing makes it feel like a gorgeous fucking Mortal Kombat movie. I said it. Now where’s the 130-minute cut?

I LOVE BOOSTERS did not disappoint.

Listen — I don’t hate the names being floated for “new Bond” in the rumor blurbs. At least they’re age-appropriate, relatively unknown, and fill the checkboxes for the role. I just don’t like that they suggest a continuation of the same fucking tone.

Churning through some of the movies leaving @criterionchannl.bsky.social at the end of the month. And the little serial killer movie my 14yo demanded to watch. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

The NEXT JAMES BOND! articles are flying fast and furious lately and as someone who spent years thinking and writing about James Bond, I have one thing I’d like to say

introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live Kris Kross Rage Against the Machine MC Lyte Interpol Guster Nas The Twilight Sad Radiohead CHVRCHES Flight of the Conchords

New additions to the book shelf. The Art of Robert McGinnis should be self-explanatory. Black Rain adds to my “Novelizations of 1989” collection, which is most likely my niche-est literary microgenre. #booksky

Didn’t have this little gem on my @criterion.bsky.social bingo card.

#NowSeated for Guy Ritchie’s IN THE GREY because I will always show up for Guy Ritchie.

Now up in the shop- one new new print and one old new print! (There are only 10 Xenomorphs left for pre-order!) www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

I made you a very important sticker. eatf.art/sticker

What the hell is happening with my 2026 most-watched actors list in @letterboxd.social?

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RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

When bsky doesn’t like my posts

"Jarmusch imbues GHOST DOG with a drifty, dreamy beauty that does not obscure, or even collide with, the fact that it is a violent portrait of poverty and precarity."

Boo.

I set aside a Wednesday afternoon to rewatch a James Bond movie. What year is it again? 2013? Is it the return of #Bond_age_? How many out there on Bsky even know I’m not talking about kink? There used to be a lot of hop-ons, after all. You never know.

We’re drinking tonight, right?

The ‘Ferris Bueller Sucks Actually’ crowd is feeling emboldened lately and I will not abide their prattle. If you think he sucks that badly consider him a smug anti-hero and move on with your wayward criticisms.

😂 ahhh yes Sidney Lumet, the great Eurotrash auteur.

Digging into the January 1989 issue of Premiere and I’m immediately met with a Short Circuit 2/The Blob VHS ad. “Oozing & ahhhing your way on videocassette.” Two thumbs up for Short Circuit 2! #JusticeforJohnny5

My 1989 research arrived while I was at #TCMFF. The entire 1989 run of Premiere Magazine. This would have been the first year I subscribed to a movie magazine — which means it’s time to relive that experience for writing material.

I think about this comic all the time.

Support B&N, kids.

2026 #TCMFF Totals 19 movies - 11 new to me 6 movies on 35mm 1 Club TCM with Paul Williams 3 Ramen bowls 2 bags/buckets of popcorn 1 COBRA WOMAN execution dance seared into my brain

All that’s left is the @letterboxd.social logging. Safe travels home, everybody. #TCMFF

I hope everyone had a great #TCMFF. Like I always tell people when I explain the festival to anyone who hasn’t come — you first show up for the movies, but you keep coming back for the people. See you next year… I hope.

And speaking of plans changing, I’m at LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN (1925) because omens? Fate? The centripetal forces of WTF Sunday? #TCMFF So it goes.

I’ve surrendered to the winds of #TCMFF fate. Donald Bogle’s wonderful CABIN IN THE SKY intro ran long, which limited subsequent options. Is this the moment I admit I haven’t seen STAND BY ME (1986)? So, I’ll talk about it on an episode of @cinemashame.bsky.social — because that’s now my next stop.

Scenes from Ben Mank’s conversation with Paul Williams at Club TCM. Out of context quote of the day: “I felt like Montgomery Clift but I looked like Hayley Mills.” #TCMFF

Outcome should be better for CABIN IN THE SKY (1943). Hustled out of the tail end of Paul Williams at Club TCM to queue up for another #Theater4Thunderdome #TCMFF If all else fails I know ISHTAR will welcome me with open arms.

Plans change. I hung with 9 Bad News Bears for too long to see TROUBLE IN PARADISE — NOBODY gets between a #TCMFF attendee and their Lubitsch. So, I’m queued for PHANTOM LADY (1944). Backup plans aren’t second rate. Maybe I’ll even get into Theater 4.

Back in the saddle. Is it a Sunday Fiver?? Açaí bowl in hand. In queue for THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976), my first at the Chinese Theatre for 2026 #TCMFF.

We did it. #TCMFF hustled into Multiplex 6. That’s #7. WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? I dunno. I’ll prob be asleep.

For those keeping score — I’m queued for movie #6 of the day: ROBOCOP (1987). The Perfect Run ^TM winds down at The Egyptian. I’d like to thank the Academy and caffeine. #TCMFF

Queued for Fellini’s NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957). I’d like to call attention to the fact that I just watched THE MUPPET MOVIE and I’m about to follow it up with NIGHTS OF CABIRIA. I’m sure it’s the best double feature that nobody could have ever consciously programmed. #TCMFF

No queue card for THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979). No photo at all. No time. I was secreted into the auditorium with the last of the Stand-By viewers. Packed house. Thank you to the staff for helping keep the Perfect Run ^TM dream alive. #TCMFF

The perfect run lives. Movie 3 of 7. Blurry #50 queue card, as seen running into THE BAMBOO BLONDE (1946) with four minutes to spare. #TCMFF

COBRA WOMAN (1944) queue ticket acquired. I’m not going to say it’s a make/break movie for the festival, but collectively, secretly @guypriley.bsky.social @joelrwilliams1.bsky.social and I have anointed it the best movie at #TCMFF 2026 and none of us have seen it. 6 more movies for the perfect run

Today I’m going for the #TCMFF perfect run. 7 movies. I’ll need some luck with movie start/end times. But I got a slow start because I had to help my 14yo rescue some files this morning and I hit the queue late for THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951). Godspeed, traveler, on your #TCMFF Saturday.

I dunno. Some queue card number. Now seated for the midnight VANISHING POINT (1971). Finally found @dorvid4.bsky.social in multiplex lobby and she shared tales of a new archetype #TCMFF festival attendee that we dubbed the “serial intro hopper.” These are the inside stories you can’t get elsewhere