Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love is a heartbreaker about watching a loved one disappear before your eyes. It's not perfect yet I won't soon forget Jennifer Lawrence's searing lead performance or Robert Pattinson's hapless husband who thinks home improvement can fix everything.

It doesn't all work, e.g. that on the nose title, yet I dug Sotiris Nikias' Steal- a fun thriller that kept me guessing until the end. It helps having Sophie Turner in the lead role- she ably carries the show making you aware of the stakes at every turn.

Hwang Byeong-gug's Yadang: The Snitch (originally 야당) is a fun crime thriller where everyone snitches and eventually gets stitches. It's fun and fast-paced. I could've used more bloody blade-fu but that may just be me.

Rockumentary Workouts continue with We Were Famous, You Don't Remember: The Embarrassment about Wichita's pride. Breaking up in 1983, had they held out two more years they would've joined the mid-80's college radio explosion alongside Yo La Tengo, Game Theory and the like.

For Classic Thursday we went with Crime Wave from 1954. Sterling Hayden is a ball breaking LA cop with zero compassion for Gene Nelson's ex-con trying to go straight. Impressive for the time, the film's sympathies are clearly with the ex-con turning his life around.

Not as mind-blowing as its predecessor, Nia DaCosta & Alex Garland's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is sick fun. Needle drops galore with Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell turning it up to 11- what's not to like? I'm in for the sequel but the real prize is a Samson spin-off!

Last Classic Thursday it was 1939's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a beautiful film with a superb lead performance from Robert Donat and a heartbreaking one from Greer Garson. God bless all teachers everywhere!

LOVED Bradley Cooper & Will Arnett's Is This Thing On? about a broken marriage with outstanding performances from Arnett & Laura Dern. Marriage isn't easy but damn if it isn't worth fighting for. Like Hamnet & Sentimental Value- it's another great film about art informing life.

A hard read at first, once I chose to skip the source attributions I got into the rhythm of George Saunders' Lincoln In The Bardo and was blown away by this smart, compassionate novel. Vollman, Bevins, and The Reverend are characters I won't soon forget.

Hugo and I are very sorry to hear about the passing of Uncle Floyd and Oogie (was Bones Boy ever "alive?") So many fun nights watching on Channel 38 in Boston. RIP.

Writer/Director/Actor Embeth Davidtz does excellent work in front of and behind the camera in Don't Let's Go To The Dogs with her young lead Lexi Venter ably carrying the film. An outstanding debut for both Director and Star.

The blog post for ALL KINDSA GIRLS Show #186 the 2025 YEAR-END SPECIAL highlights my Top 5 movies, TV shows, books, records, live performances and more from 2025. See if you agree! allkindsagirls.blogspot.com/2026/01/show...

Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value (originally Affeksjonsverdi) is every bit as good as you've heard. A moving story of family dysfunction redeemed by art with breathtaking performances from Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and the great Stellan Skarsgård. Five Damn Stars!

Joshua Zetumer's Say Nothing, based on Patrick Radden Keefe's book, works so well because it focuses on a few people and the decisions they make during The Troubles. It names names but doesn't judge its characters letting us come to our own conclusions. Seó an-chumhachtach.

The ALL KINDSA GIRLS 2025 YEAR-END SPECIAL is ready for streaming/download! Along with my Top 5 records of 2025 it includes tributes to 2025's fallen rock & roll heroes like Joe Ely, Ace Frehley, Clem Burke, Brian James, & David Johansen. RIP Gentlemen! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kjs19...

Brand new ALL KINDSA GIRLS tonight- the 2025 YEAR-END SPECIAL featuring my Top 5 Live Performances and Top 5 Records of 2025. You'll also hear a tribute to many of the great artists we lost last year. It all starts at 11pm (PDT) on @ksvysonoma.bsky.social. Check it out!

Lame title aside, tonight's Classic Thursday pick Wife Versus Secretary from 1936 is a smart comedy with Jean Harlow going deeper than her usual sexpot roles. Along with Gable's affably clueless husband and Myrna Loy's earnest wife given bad advice it's both poignant and funny.

Joanne Woodward 100% deserved her Best Actress Oscar for this week's Classic Thursday pick The Three Faces of Eve from 1957. A performance for the ages!

Enjoyed Michael Strassner and Jay Duplass's The Baltimorons. Funny and warm with a strong sense of place- it will be a solid addition to your Christmas movie list. As a former Masshole in Cali since 1993, I appreciate a good East Coast Christmas movie!

Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin's Splitsville is a good time- smart, well acted, and funny, with another great performance from Dakota Johnson. It's like a modern Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and I am here for it!

Park Chan Wook plays the tragedy/comedy of long term unemployment in No Other Choice (originally 어쩔수가없다). Having been there twice, I don't recall many yuks. Lee Byung-hun kills (get it) in the lead role also cool seeing Toronto New Waver Don McKellar share a writing credit.

I am blown away by Clint Bentley's Train Dreams- a beautiful film about one man's life set in a vanishing American west. Joel Edgerton is phenomenal in the lead role. What a movie! This one is going to stay with me for a while...

Mary Bronstein's If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is a brutal film about a mother in crisis that turned knots in my stomach. Rose Byrne is phenomenal in the lead role. Moms beware- this film is a hard watch because motherhood is a damn hard job.

S.A. Cosby's King of Ashes is another epic Southern Gothic page turner I couldn't put down. Makes sense that Hollywood is beating down his door with offers- the man's writing stands alone!

Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme is a uniquely American story about blind ambition leaving a body count in its wake. An amazing cast with a brilliant Timothée Chalamet as a morally bankrupt narcissist who thinks he's a good guy with bad luck and that success is just around the corner.

Tough reaching movie consensus but Land Ho! from 2014 did the trick. A warm, funny story about two ex-brothers-in-law touring Iceland that avoids the cliches often seen in movies about older people. RIP leads Paul Eenhoorn (d. 2022) and Earl Lynn Nelson (d. 2018).

The blog post for 2013's ALL KINDSA GIRLS SNOW DAY talks about the magical Snow Days of my youth! My California kids never knew the rapturous joy of hearing their school on the radio and "all classes cancelled!" allkindsagirls.blogspot.com/2014/01/show...

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Everybody! Here's a (literally) cool re-up in the spirit of the Season: Show #113 The ALL KINDSA GIRLS SNOW DAY from 2013! Enjoy! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lk5h5...

Thoroughly enjoyed Vince Gilligan's Pluribus which again proves that the best science fiction offers insights into flawed, messy humanity and no one is more "human" than Rhea Seehorn's Carol Sturka. Can't wait to see what she and Manousos get up to next. Five Damn Stars!

Everyone grieves in their own way- if you're the great David Cronenberg you make The Shrouds and show us something we've never seen before. Hard to watch perhaps yet thought-provoking and wholly original.

My initial response watching Kleber Mendonça Filho's masterwork The Secret Agent (originally O Agente Secreto) was rage yet seeing those in the present diligently working to uncover the sins of the past left me feeling hopeful. Now if we could just stop electing bullies...

Enjoyed Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer's Jay Kelly. Sandler & Clooney are fantastic. As a fellow middle-aged white guy, I appreciate them showing how the choices we make in our youth play out down the road. Happy to say at this point in my life I'm not asking "can I go again?"

Luis Ortega's Kill the Jockey (originally El jockey) is a wild ride. It doesn't all work but Nahuel Pérez Biscayart's Keatonesque lead performance had me hooked.

So sad to hear about the great Joe Ely’s passing. A brilliant songwriter and one of my all-time favorite live performers. His shows with Bobby Keys and David Grissom back in the day were mind-blowing. RIP Joe, you wil be missed…

Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet is a stunning portrayal of loss redeemed through art. The last 20 minutes nearly killed me- I haven't felt that gutted by a movie in a long time- yet I left the theater feeling positive and inspired. Amazing film!

Classic Thursday returns! Robert Young is a spineless heel who does not know best in 1947's They Won't Believe Me. Still, you can't help rooting for him at least a little- it's that good a performance. Now about that lame title I kept forgetting and had to check about 10 times...

While the Benoit Blanc mystery in Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man is fun, what I'll remember most is his respectful portrayal of true faith and lambasting of cynical, for-profit faith. Nicely done!

LOVED Griffin In Summer- a coming of age story about a young playwright trying to process his feeling through art. The cast is excellent- especially Everett Blunck in the lead role. What an assured debut from writer/director Nicholas Colia- can't wait to see what he does next!

Stuart Ortiz's fictional take on the true crime genre Strange Harvest dials up the bloody mayhem but looks "real" doing it. The dude clearly did his homework and it pays off.

The blog post for Show #185 the Detroit Power Pop Special is about my long term relationship with the famed city that I finally got to visit in 2021. Enjoy! allkindsagirls.blogspot.com/2025/12/show...

On my list for years, finally saw Joan Micklin Silver's 1988 romantic comedy Crossing Delancey tonight. With a smart script and winsome cast it's a quintessential 1980's New York movie that I'm happy to say holds up nicely.

Aussie Sean Byrne is on a roll- his latest film Dangerous Animals is a lean, nasty horror/thriller with a mile-wide mean streak. Leads Hassie Harrison and Jai Courtney are all-in and Byrne makes them work for it.

Jorma Tommila is back as Aatami Korpi in Sisu: Road to Revenge and he is still pissed! Your mileage may vary depending on how you feel about exploding heads. For me, Jalmari Helander's blood soaked mayhem is just what I needed after a crappy week- Mennään!

Kang Yoon-sung's The Outlaws (originally 범죄도시) is a fun ride! Vicious bad guys are up to all kinds of blade-fu while Ma Dong-seok's crooked but not bent cop tries to stop the streets of Seoul from becoming a river of blood. Now I'm on to The Roundup movies- can't wait!

Nobody 2 is a fun watch thanks to Bob Odenkirk's chops, comedic and literal, along with Terrifier-level inventive killing gags. What more do you need on a Friday night? A fan of director Timo Tjahjanto's The Night Comes for Us, it's great seeing him start strong in Hollywood.

As a HUGE fan of film noir and Jim Thompson I dug Sterlin Harjo's The Lowdown. The story of duplicity and greed, clear sense of place (Tulsa), and excellent cast lead by Ethan Hawke make for a fun show. Along with Reservation Dogs, Harjo is on a roll!

Breaking Classic Thursday's black & white "rule," this week we went with Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death from 1946. A great film- very cool to see the original source material that has been referenced in so many movies and TV shows over the years...

ALL KINDSA GIRLS #185, our Tribute to Detroit Rock City Power Pop, is ready for streaming/download! Hear Motor City greats like The Singles, Nick Piunti, The Look and more! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0km89...

Enjoyed R.T. Thorne's 40 Acres- a dystopian thriller/family drama, which seems like a stretch though not when you've got a scorching lead performance from Danielle Deadwyler holding it all together. Cool movie!

Brand-new ALL KINDSA GIRLS tonight at 11pm PACIFIC on KSVY 91.3 and streaming at KSVY.org celebrating music from DTown, The 313, The Motor City- that’s Detroit, Michigan! We're talking The Romantics, Nikki & The Corvettes, The Look & more! Check it out!