Had to apologize to my fellow patrons in the store, got a little carried away with the "NO RECEEEEEESSSS!" open.spotify.com/track/1vEgrH...

Very initially captivated by what Bardem is doing with Cady in Cape Fear. Right on the very edge of explosion, quivering behind the skin. Soooo much quieter than his predecessors, in spirit and physically, but just as disquieting as they were.

Feature Debuts rarely come better and harder than this boxd.it/eEwcQf

!!!!!!!! I was trying to remember what else he was in in the 90s and yeah...how could.I forget, (Showgirls as well!) because exactly what you said here

Oof..been awhile since Ive had a movie I formerly loved as much as this drop this far down. Very watchable from a technical standpoint but hideous spiritually. boxd.it/eEjy5z

Revisit

And people swear they didnt eat slaves….

Two Tourneurs for the FirstTime...damn thst was some good eating I'm full!!!

It is an absolutely beautiful day in Chicago and I have no money.. very typical.

“The next step is predictable: studios will start approaching YouTube creators with large subscriber counts and offering them projects, without distinguishing between someone who has a genuine cinematic vision & someone who has learned to perform for an algorithm” www.jeffrauseo.com/p/obsession-...

“The ‘young people don’t go to movies anymore’ narrative is demonstrably false. What’s true is that young audiences don’t go to every movie anymore. They are not going to see the fifth iteration of a franchise they have no attachment to” Also: “Horror has been the most reliably profitable genre”

Celebrities do hypocritical things all the time. We can/should acknowledge that. It’s not even a major thing in this particular. Honestly, this kind of reporting (the first story and then the response) is boring, who really cares? But yeah, celebrity image-making is about words and actions so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Im sorry but I love Gossip Ima lean forward and lean in everytime lol

I really liked Backrooms a fine psychological play that I wished would've landed the plane at the end rather than making an unnecessary stop at a movie it never really set up for the set up of another movie. Rensive and especially CHIWETEL are EXCELLENT.. boxd.it/eBgKyv

Watched a film Id neve heard of before called "Harry in your Pocket" off the strength of James Coburn (whom I love unconditionally) and got the basics, its not particularly good or bad, lots of Coburn and some pretty cool pick pocket stuff like this...

They used to give everybody a Sprite commercial in the 90s. Wow. youtu.be/RLnbMD1zy9Q?...

Been quite some time since I had revisited Do the Right Thing and what struck me is the quality of the relationships -the community and the interpersonal. How strikingly well articulated they are, how natural they sound ..whether on the street or in a room w/ his sister (I LOVE their chemistry)

The Drama (2026)

honestly this is very rude to remmick

Spider Noir is good, but it is only Noir by facade. It is caricature of genre, those aspects of the term most readily identified by even the uninitiated. This becomes most apparent when watching it in B&W where its artifice/superficiality in this regard become a klaxon to its lack of education.

Abdul Carter on Jaxson Dart: "If he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it's my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on to not only show my teammates that I'm against that, but to show the world."

Fucking DOA 😭😭😭

Well skittles have 5 different flavors so that brings me down to 27

"Do it Gordon" An entity that preys upon the "weak and the wounded", the weak and wounded in this case not the mentally ill, but the everyday American working man whose entire existence rest on a fragile fiction, pushed but just a fraction into the darkness from which it was conceived...

I wrote about IS GOD IS for @thr.com. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

In a horror mood. Revisit to a fave

Still thinking about this shot. Always thinking about this shot.

Hating Nicholas Cage is a character flaw I cannot abide.

I dont remember who it was I saw online talking about doing a paper on strip club wings and how they are consistently so good, but I juts tried some for the first time (I think Ive been to 3 strip clubs in my life) JESUS KRIST

Also, thank you so much to the people who helped me clear this goal finally 🩷🩷🩷 i got the cats some special treats and they are extremely happy at the moment🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Trying to fight my imposter syndrome long enough to write about how fucking crystal clear this show makes it with no cowardly tepid qualifiers that the police and criminals are one in the same.

"the character suffers from the now all too common blockbuster philosophy that banter is a proper stand in for characterization"

How starved the audience must be for original entertainment that this passes for a pinnacle achievement in blockbuster filmmaking. A firm "Boooooo" for me boxd.it/evKSGD

BL Panther is not only a great friend but a great writer and its beyond great to see her back in the game, writing again, and on one of cinemas finest ...Ken Russell... www.avclub.com/primer-ken-r...

I'm about 20 mins into Project Hail Mary and its beats and dialogue, the humor, the MUSIC is very put together, very right on time in a way that grates. The word "cloying" is maybe a bit too strong for how I feel, but its certainly in that ball park.

“Bodhi's half baked revolution is mostly just a rebranding of American individualism, but it's the sincerity (besides the whiteness of it) and the fact that its critiques are genuine that enraptures and allures those who follow”

Oscar Isaac deserves credit for being, as far as I know, the first major actor to capture the tech bro CEO, in Ex Machina. Those guys were all over the news by then, but movies were still doing the "babbling nerd with a pocket protector" thing. Also accurate: what he really wants is slavery.

Plenty of great writing out there about Point Break, Ive already written abt it myself, but aI found more this revisit. My latest on Bigelows classic and its unique portrayal of disaffection masculinity isolation in a place where suposedly dreams come true... open.substack.com/pub/blacknfo...

A @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social rec almost never misses and Nemesis is yet another case. Also Charlie ...exactly my kind of morally all over the place fave.

There have always been war films, it’s a genre Hollywood returns to frequently. But it’s worth keeping an eye on just how *many* of these projects get greenlit right now … and who are considered the “good guys” and who are considered the “bad guys” (this one from H&M is still just in development)

If i say what i want to say………..them ppl are gonna be at my door within hours 🙂

Also if you use the word far left regularly you can block me right now

Goofy shit like this is exactly the kinda of attitudes that had folks hating Malcolm X.

Not abt this take (I agree!) but something I think abt..I low key hate the way we talk abt this place (America ) as if even in doctrine its Forgiveness central. It is very unforgiving, and preaches it, its abt identity and class as to who we are taught to forgive and who to completely discard.

My North Stars

And here go Fayard and Harold... youtube.com/shorts/DIBdd...

Im sorry but Don Tolliver is a bop master as far as Im concerned. The way I haven't stopped repeating this track since I first heard and its not even the best track in this album. open.spotify.com/track/0KRMp8...

Roasts live in a weird intersection because the point is being mean spirited in the house of friendship/ kinship. The lines are precarious and intangible save for by consent and that mostly within a confined realm, (peers may consent but does the audience?) I find them fascinating when they work..

Who wants to give these lonely stragglers good homes?