Everyone is saying Heathcliff this and Cathy that... but what of Luann this, and Gunther that?

Gonna need some assurances about Pacino and De Niro

I enjoyed COLD STORAGE way more than I thought I would. The power of Koepp! www.polygon.com/cold-storage...

The SportsAlcohol podcast counting down the 15 best movies of '25 with @martogo.bsky.social @sbmorrison.bsky.social @moviemanifesto.bsky.social @nwharton.bsky.social PLUS our Letterboxd-only pals Sara from Crooked Marquee and Becca ex-AV Club ... it's out now! www.sportsalcohol.com/the-sportsal...

Wound up going six for six on this weekend's new releases. A romance, a sci-fi movie, a kiddie cartoon, a comedy, a horror caper, and a crime drama... pretty much liked 'em all. Is it an extended pre-apology for SCREAM 7?

That last repost... 100%. I will vote for any number of fucking people over a spiritual or literal Trump 3.0 and I don't want any holier-than-thou hectoring over it. But I also don't need to be fucking lectured about getting aboard the NEWSOM TRAIN in spring fucking 2026. Find someone else!!!

look if you want to freak out about people not voting newsom if he's the nominee a week before the 2028 general election, I kinda get it (but don't say you weren't warned). doing it now though is just a weird attempt to strong arm people into supporting him in the primary.

Should I be holding out for some cool vinyl edition of the TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE soundtrack or do I just download it now and loop "Hunger & Thirst" into oblivion?

You know how TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. is a scuzzier and dumber version of a Michael Mann movie? CRIME 101 is sort of a nerdier (and also dumber) version of a Michael Mann movie. I liked it. Wrote about it while quoting HEAT for GQ: www.gq.com/story/is-cri...

I've heard good things about BY DESIGN but I can't really bring myself to get excited, rather than confused, about a movie where a woman turns into a chair that's somehow *not* an adaptation of Aimee Bender's THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE??? How?????

The STRANGERS trilogy has concluded, bringing the total STRANGERS movies to five (!) and lo, I have RUN THE SERIES! www.avclub.com/the-stranger...

I watched this because @feegrowsinbk.bsky.social told me to after she saw France skating to Daft Punk. This is WILD. Of all the songs to plagiarize!

But what if: One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme Bugonia Sentimental Value The Secret Agent F1 I think I have Frankenstein higher than anyone I know and I'm not hardcore about Del Toro at all!

I interviewed John Linnell from They Might Be Giants about five years ago and to my great relief it was really fun. At one point he asked me if I'd seen the Wu Tang biographical series, which he'd been watching and enjoying. Now the new single from their forthcoming record is called "Wu Tang." <3

Not ME the bell is tolling for.

Tonight the 68th St AMC is showing the Super Bowl (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in 70mm IMAX)

Here's me doing some writing

ICYMI, one last time: My thoughts on a bittersweet year for Sundance. Topics grazed in passing include pushy fans, Charli xcx, Burger King value meals, the Egyptian, and that time I slept on a drug dealer's couch for the festival.

Every single time your memes or discussions about who should host Muppet Show episodes or who should be the only human in a movie otherwise recast entirely with Muppets circulate, you got me like this, I'm sorry

My choices for tonight's family video round: Wayne's World sketch; Gonzo singing "Dancing with Myself" on MUPPETS TONIGHT; Siskel & Ebert arguing about COP AND A HALF; Carly Rae Jepsen "Beach House" video; Phoebe Bridgers doing "I Know the End" on SNL

Ella McCay's next term as governor of the state she was born and raised in begins TODAY on Hulu/Disney+ and I finally wrote about a movie I saw twice last year decider.com/2026/02/05/e...

Sex Offender Goes Door to Door Informing Neighborhood This an ICE Raid thehardtimes.net/culture/sex-...

I got lost in a holiday rush in December and never actually promoted this but I had a GREAT time talking HOW DO YOU KNOW and late-period James L. Brooks on Exiting Through the 2010s! With ELLA MCCAY coming to Hulu tomorrow, maybe now's the time! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

I'M CHEVY CHASE AND YOU'RE NOT gives Chevy and Aykroyd a real gift by sticking SPIES LIKE US in with Chase's highlights reel, seemingly entirely because it did pretty well and capped off his 1985, where he did indeed have three (!) box office hits within six months.

Because some have asked, here is my MELANIA review where I fixate on how every music cue feels like a grotesque insult decider.com/2026/01/30/m...

Tried my best to write about Catherine O'Hara on the fly. What a talent that woman was! Feels genuinely universally beloved. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

It's my birthday, and all I want is a fair contract! 👇

All this sympathy is just a www.avclub.com/the-moment-r...

Now that WONDER MAN has been out for a bit, I think I can say how fucking weird it is that it namechecks THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK as a classic example of an indie coming-of-age movie. Legit couldn't tell if that's the show making a sly joke or just someone with Screenwriter Brain.

MELANIA BOX OFFICE PREVIEW!!!! (Just kidding.) (Sort of.) Sort of the ultimate streaming movie, despite the theatrical release: expensive name recognition that cannot turn a profit (except for its star). www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Marisa is in this union. Help them in their fight for a new contract! The effects of a fair & just union contract spiral out to workers' family, partners, and more!

you have pleased Looney Tunes Peter Lorre

A glimpse behind the scenes: I went into my Friday thinking it was a light workday with only one review to write, and then spent my entire morning and beyond working on my review of SEND HELP, trying to do its fun (and limitations) proper justice. www.avclub.com/send-help-re...

I haven't "been to Sundance" been to Sundance, but I know that thing... that American indie, coming-of-age, "now I know how bad so many studio movies are" thing... How bad so many studio movies are thing... www.gq.com/story/the-42...

Snowed-in day project complete

for years, I’ve seen conservatives handwringing about “how to explain gay marriage/drag brunch to their kids.” it’s easy! my kid has never batted an eye. this… i don’t know how to explain this.

For Oscar season, I got you a brand-new Together Again on Emma Stone and her Yorgos Lanthimos fixa-- er, collaboration www.avclub.com/together-aga...

WONDER MAN really surprised me with its quiet, sincere focus (and lack of cheesy jokes). ... I'm still not sure if it's really enough for a TV series. Sort of an interesting experiment, though! www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Here's my first piece on an Oscar SNUB!!!!!! decider.com/2026/01/22/a...

So pleased to be entirely wrong about Delroy Lindo's Oscar chances, which I had left for dead after they overlooked his work in DA FIVE BLOODS. www.avclub.com/together-aga...

Pratt actually showed up to the AMC Screen Unseen (tm) showing I saw in IMAX 3D (tm) and he violated the ethos of the movie by like, briefly walking around. But yes we got some smarm in 4DX!

Feels like response to the A.V. Club subscription thing has been warm-ish which is nice but it's still wild to me that you have people talking like "ugh another subscription"... guys magazines were on that model first, they didn't ask you to convert your music to a monthly perpetual subscription

We're watching PONIES and enjoying it but I'm a little distracted by how Haley Lu Richardson is doing a thing that, when her voice goes up, sounds like Jennifer Aniston.

Do you want to help support independent media in a way that will absolutely not allow random users to dole out ratings OR involve paywalling all the things we've already been publishing www.avclub.com/av-club-subs...

Can I interest you in some vampires? Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, a teenage fave of mine, though not the pal I saw it with, who said its portrayal of vampires was "inaccurate" decider.com/2026/01/20/f...

Aw fuck it's the Mystery Team www.polygon.com/mystery-team...

I feel like ENCANTO, one of the best Disney song scores with a terrific emotional hook, should be able to beat a difficult adaptation job (that Walt himself wasn't all that fond of, IIRC!) pretty handily! And I'm not just saying that because I know Lin from college!!

I catch juuuuust enough terrible YouTube stuff from my kid (who thankfully talks like a person) that I can attest to its accuracy and find it funny but sometimes it does cross the line into just doing a thing that a lot of people do that is annoying.

BOB'S BURGERS S1: Hey this new Fox cartoon is pretty funny. BOB'S BURGERS S8: Jesus, that show has been going this whole time??!? BOB'S BURGERS S16: I find the relationship between Zeke and Jimmy Jr strangely touching. Tina is a good role model in many ways. I would die for Teddy.

Yes yes, The Strokes and what have you...the band that evokes early 2000s NYC most vividly for me is Bishop Allen.