Lots of talk about MICHAEL and WALK HARD which just reminds me that I got to see JCR in concert as Dewey Cox for free immediately after screening the film a month in advance in SF. Did a full set including a rock-a-billy version of “Cocaine.” And he touched my finger mid-set ala the Sistine Chapel

When we say movies are magic, it doesn’t always mean a spectacle. Sometimes it’s just a guy with a handheld DV pushing in on a man with a guitar. Magic. youtu.be/JMqKOt7R_K8?...

Agree with these and a few more: Blue Moon, Pablo Larrain’s filmography (specifically El Conde), Motorcycle Diaries

Just watched ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN again. It’s disturbing by how it feels quaint and naive at this point. We basically have a Watergate level scandal once a month at this point.

Wish I could hack every screening of MICHAEL to play "Teddy Perkins" instead.

Didn't realise how soon this was, but I'll be introducing Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues for Cinema Reborn on Friday 8 May at Sydney's Ritz Cinemas. Join me for a bona fide Hong Kong classic that has renewed resonance in these tumultuous times of ours. cinemareborn.com.au/Peking-Opera...

FFC review: TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/04/trau...

FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT DEAD

Per a request: My mentor at SFSU was Joe McBride. He wrote Rock n Roll High School and many of the AFI tribute specials. He was also one of Orson Welles’s first biographers and was so steadfast in his pursuit of Welles that Welles took a begrudging shine to him and cast him in Other Side of the Wind

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Lock the fuck in, Gumshoes. Carmen Sandiego stole a priceless wax pressing of "One of These Nights" by the Eagles. You've got to stop her before she travels back in time to 149 BC Carthage and trades it to Scipio Africanus the Younger for a kilo of the good shit. *Rockapella bops on stage*

Imagine standing by the Catholic Church after centuries of covering up sexual abuse but drawing the line at saying war is bad.

Amen

Kerr, Steph and Dray crying as Kerr thanks them for “everything” in his final game as head coach. I’m pouring vodka and crying. You don’t know what these people mean to me.

Wendell Pierce was only 33 when he did HACKERS?!?!

Does anyone actually buy Krasinski as Jack Ryan?

For my Film II class this week? Ken Russell's THE DEVILS.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

It’s fucking surreal that these losers are bragging about exploiting fake women lol

“Time goes by like ticking clock, Berserker! Would you like suck my c*ck, Berserker?!”

Doom to Reed Richards:

“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.”

Is that other site going crazy over a black actor playing Guile in Street Fighter?

Larry Fessenden is so good in his HABIT (1996) that it makes my heart ache. "I'm committing suicide on the installment plan."

This is like the plot of The Subtle Knife

I’m a critic and the movie I reference is CHEF, in which Jon Favreau’s artist hates food critic Oliver Platt for holding his work to a high standard, but later realizes that the critic was on his side the whole time, and that serious criticism makes art and artists better.

Doug Liman is trying to tell everyone his Bitcoin biopic movie would’ve cost $300m if they didn’t use AI. Which would be $50m more than Project Hail Mary or just shy of what it cost to make Infinity War.

me, after watching season two of PARADISE:

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

What are the top 5 movies that you love to introduce people to? PEKING OPERA BLUES DEMON KNIGHT ATTACK THE BLOCK COLUMBUS F FOR FAKE

I know this isn’t cool at all but when I was growing up all I had for “not broadcast” TV was TBS and TNT (and MTV and Nick, of course). I learned to cook from Dinner and a Movie. I learned that consensus on films is overrated from the movies they showed at 1am.

The last time the US Government and the Vatican had this much beef between them was Hudson Hawk.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

To quote Bill Murray in “Tootsie”: “That is one NUTTY hospital.”

I do hate the narrative that his is all because has dementia. Do you not remember him wanting to kill protestors the first time around? Do you not remember him saying he wanted to use nukes the first time around?

Lee Cronin's The Mummy: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

In a single weekend, JD Vance failed to negotiate an already announced peace deal and failed to have any sway over a landslide defeat of Orban. Dude has the most negative rizz of all time.

Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels

Just got our ass handed to us by $20k Iranian drones and dude here is telling me the military budget isn’t wasteful.

Lot of hubbub around Sody this week and rightfully so, but THE CHRISTOPHERS is fantastic. @edsolomon.bsky.social’s script is bursting with verve, empathy, and a true love of art. My favorite of the year so far.

Circus Peanuts are good.

This is so well done. 👌

might be him being a Nazi

What’s your favorite “misjudged media” tidbits? I love that ICP is branded as these degenerates when really they just do concept albums that are essentially an old fashioned Evangelical morality plays dressed up in sex drugs and violence. ICP would’ve run the midnight show at the born again tents.

When’s the last time you e seen a politician beloved not by people at their rallies, but by people just walking by them?