Hallmark friends: If you buy a month or two of the streaming app Hallmark+, you can get your entire holiday fix even if you’re a cord-cutter. This year I highly recommend MERRY CHRISTMAS, TED COOPER! which is very sweet and quite funny.

My monthly film discussion group is doing Nora Ephron this time, so I figured I'd read one of her essay collections before we meet, and folks... that was a terrific idea, she's a delightfully witty and acerbic writer.

Kicked off with a quick run of 1-1-1-2, then took the easy way out for the rest of it. Vulture Cinematrix No. 597: Nov 13, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2575 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

My new short film is here...built from footage of an Austin, TX parking garage I shot two years ago on my JVC Camcorder, I built a kind of mise-en-abyme/perpetual canon indebted to the video work of teacher and filmmaker Peter Rose. Complemented by my reading of a story about perception. Enjoy!

New ep—RELENTLESSE$! Yes we’re finally talking about the well-known and well-loved film Relentless from 1989 as well as 2 of its 3 direct to video sequels! We’ve got at least one Judd, 3 Rossis and MILES O’Keefe! #relentless #deadonrelentless2 #relentless3 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Nora Ephron responding to political doomers (from the intro to WALLFLOWER AT THE ORGY)

Gentle reminder that I am going to be on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (!!!!) on Monday for an evening of programming that we put together. I hope you'll be able to tune in. Love y'all.

LOL at two of the three current rarest Hudson titles being movies I've seen and forgotten she was in... real star quality there Vulture Cinematrix No. 596: Nov 12, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2646 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

DIE MY LOVE: First 100 minutes 🤩 Last 20 minutes: 🤬

Want to know how my thoughts on movies come across when I can’t devote a ludicrous amount of time and energy to carefully crafting every word? Here’s your chance! Was especially happy to talk about SICK, one of the greatest documentaries ever made, which rarely gets mentioned nowadays.

This movie is a great time, catch it if it pops up near you

My style icon: Tatsuya Nakadai in the terrific 1975 Natsume Soseki adaptation I AM A CAT.

Not my greatest performance, but solid enough.

A huge thank you to @lcosgrove.bsky.social for locating my old Listology page. I’m gonna have to do a deep dive into it, because just glancing at it I’ve seen some unhinged stuff from my young self. If you want to browse, this link should work: web.archive.org/web/20090526...

Big changes at Stereogum today. A message from our founder: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...

Watching DANCE OF DEATH and, as @declouxj.bsky.social points out in his intro, it's mighty disorienting to see Angela Mao doing japes and pratfalls.

FOLKS, @boxofficegross.bsky.social #36 calls in our high-powered special council @capybaroness.bsky.social to legislate THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, a deeply tedious court drama disguised as horror, that postures as philosophical without a single though in its head podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Has anyone written a good book on the history and shifting political dimensions of the Women In Prison film? Because I bet a really good book could be made from that.

anyway... fuck it, I'm gonna do something nice for myself (so this day won't be entirely shit) and watch THE BIG DOLL HOUSE for the first time

When someone as full up on dogshit instincts as Hochul is can read the situation better than you, there aren't words in English for how fuckin' cooked you are. The sort of situation that calls for a ten-syllable German compound insult that sounds like you're deservedly spitting on the recipient.

Look at this dumb dildo, thinking he can convince us what he's doing is fighting Retire tomorrow or shut the fuck up

Schumer had to end all this so he could get back to Long Island and watch the Baileys fuck.

The truest statement ever made. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”

My low key conspiracy is that every billionaire democratic donor who saw a flight or a friend's flight out of Tetoboro cancelled on Friday forced this result on Schumer. This was not about helping people it was about helping the donor class not have any minor disruption of their life.

I was stunned to discover KISS THE GIRLS only made $60 mil.

Turns out one of Judd's signature films was nowhere near as big as I thought it was. Vulture Cinematrix No. 593: Nov 9, 2025 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2365 🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Looks like I've given five stars to exactly one new-to-me film this year: Kevin Clarke's marvelous no-budget conceptual goof HAMBURGER DAD. It's about a guy who turns into a hamburger and is also a dad. Put it on the wall with HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS re: budget doesn't have to hamper creativity.

Just saw the delightful Chinese animated feature NOBODY. Between this and PREDATOR: BADLANDS, I'm having a great weekend at Da Moviez.

One of the running gags in Wilder's (great!) AVANTI! is about Juliet Mills being overweight.

I liked IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU. In this piece, I wrote about how the film uses the aesthetic legacy of ERASERHEAD to say something new. Go see it in the cinema if you can. www.patreon.com/posts/143134...

Working on the Cinematrix today, and apparently my brain is stuck in Google Mode, because I'm trying to dig up Kate Winslet titles and my brain keeps going, "Did you mean: Cate Blanchett?"

If you see this, post and album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

🕵️‍♂️ 406 - OUT OF THE PAST (1947) + FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973) 🕵️‍♂️ This week we discussed Robert Mitchum's long face and sad, weary eyes in Tourneur's classic, tragic prototypical 40s film noir and Yates' blunt, unglamourous Boston bank-robbing 70s neo-noir. Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/406-ou...

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

i am low in funds so please consider buying one of my zines or a zine bundle! these are idiosyncratic & a sublime treat for film lovers!! any boost greatly appreciated ❤️❤️❤️ 1949 will finally be out at the start of 2026

IT'S CAL WORTHINGTON AND HIS DOG SPOT!

PREDATOR: BADLANDS: ...boy, that's an unusually violent episode of FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC.

fantastic article

FOLKS, in all the podcast hubbub, I might have let y’all forget I’m STILL COVERING DREAMCAST GAMES, we’re up to game #91! My triumphant return to the Files covers an entry considered the dirt worst game on the *entire system*: SPIRIT OF SPEED 1937! youtu.be/tsFrNh9DO10?...

Today in @thenation.com: thrilled to have @gbbranstetter.bsky.social on how this week's elections should bury once and for all the toxic myth that trans people are to blame for the Democratic Party's political failures www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Anyway, here’s Maggot Brain

Recently switched my routine so I tackle the Cinematrix after my shower, because a shower tends to loosen my brain up. Did today's before showering and... welp. Vulture Cinematrix No. 591: Nov 7, 2025 I got 7/9 Correct Score: 2017 🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

With 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving being 3 weeks away and SNAP being a shit show—but with some retailers and nonprofits offering turkeys for low or no cost—I'd love to get my free cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many folks as possible. Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

it's my birthday month, and since this has been by far the worst year of my life, and my financial situation has now made buying anything for myself a rarity, i made a birthday list for friends and family that feel inclined to use it www.thingstogetme.com/1873312a3b47f

A cool Interesting Times topic would be "We Put Ross Douthat Into One of Those Drive-Thru Tubes at the Bank, and this is the Sound it Made When We Pushed the Button"

BUGONIA: a pleasant surprise!

I'm drinking to an end to billionaires, an end to oligarchy and, for poor and marginalised people everywhere, the right to feel hope for the future and hope for their children's future. It's the very least we can ask for.

It's the CINEMA SMORGASBORD HALLOWEEN HORROR SPECIAL and this year we're looking at a couple of underseen recent spooOOOOoooky films: The 2023 Serbian horror satire WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL and Scooter McCrae's long-awaited return BLACK EYED SUSAN from 2024!