i often think about this review

yep, this one... at this point you're basically paying to see a Sisters cover band

I have had Pearl Jam's "State of Love and Trust" stuck in my head for multiple weeks now.

a friend just sent me this and my immediate reaction was “so it’s just bootleg screen slate” lmao

On a returning WILD IN THE STREETS we clutch our pearls (respectfully) while watching Enzo G. Castellari's immensely entertaining - though morally dubious - revenge thriller THE BIG RACKET from 1976.

One does not truly achieve wisdom until they realize that the best parking spaces at the grocery store aren't the ones closest to the store, they're the ones closest to the shopping cart return.

Aw man, RIP to one of genre cinema's great presences.

The categories seemed laser-designed to cut me off from the couple Cruz obscurities I keep handy Vulture Cinematrix No. 785: May 20, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2588 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

this is a masterpiece

Got a most popular and a least popular Vulture Cinematrix No. 784: May 19, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2642 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Don Hertzfeldt is seemingly doing a surprise drop of Paper Trail at midnight and I am simply here to tell you that you should absolutely watch this low key devastating short film when it goes up tonight

I am watching THE DA VINCI CODE and the size of the shit Ian McKellan does not give at all about this material could cripple a polar bear.

Kept meaning to repost this! In today’s newsletter, I announced that @lanna.bsky.social and @nanette.bsky.social are hosting a Best Album of 2001 Karaoke over Zoom! It’s gonna be June 14, more details as they become available. buttondown.com/kentmbeeson/...

“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

Brian is understandably too occupied attending his daughter's graduation to share that the new @boxofficegross.bsky.social, with the great Bilge Ebiri (@bilgeebiri.bsky.social), is here and is about, among other things, Ron Howard's bonanza The Da Vinci Code. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

This is fuckin' MAJOR

"Reject the detective/pervert binary. It’s a spectrum." Me on my first viewing of Blue Velvet.

New at The Overdue Diligence Project: a consideration of H.B. Halicki's third and final "feature" DEADLINE AUTO THEFT. I banged this one out pretty quickly, yet I suspect I put more effort into this than Halicki did into the film. Anyway... join up today! www.patreon.com/posts/116-de...

Vulture Cinematrix No. 783: May 18, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2612 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

I approve of everything: that Einstürzende Neubauten are still around, that Blixa Bargeld looks his age, and that they hired a new band member who uses they/them pronouns and was born in 1989. All good. [not that they need my approval, of course] www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

I am so disappointed that I only saw one FRANKENHOOKER joke here

Possibly LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON? Though I was already reading the L.A. Times Calendar section at that age, so I had an awareness that sometimes films were considered bad. (I was doomed to be a dork, 'tis true.)

On stealing cars and stealing from the audience.

Eight single-digits, pretty good! Vulture Cinematrix No. 782: May 17, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2673 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

New at The Overdue Diligence Project: a consideration of H.B. Halicki's third and final "feature" DEADLINE AUTO THEFT. I banged this one out pretty quickly, yet I suspect I put more effort into this than Halicki did into the film. Anyway... join up today! www.patreon.com/posts/116-de...

CATCH-22 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE PALE FIRE

[You are encumbered and cannot run] [You drop: Greatsword of Frost] [You are encumbered] [Warning! Dropping Prince Tim will abandon his questline!] [You drop: Prince Tim] [Quest failed! "Tiny Kingdom in Need"] [You are encumbered] [You drop: (1) of (14) Cheese Wheels] [You are no longer encumbered]

I know you all been talking about it, but I was still not ready for how hard and effectively THE SHEEP DETECTIVES hit the emotional terrorism button.

Watching CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 for the first time in over two decades and oh wow, this was a masterpiece the whole time and I was a dumb twentysomething and missed it.

Oh yeeeeeeeeah Vulture Cinematrix No. 781: May 16, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2691 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

my boiling hot lava Take as a trans woman is that we should be provided equal access to jobs, given money by organizations when we need it , and that we should not be murdered

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

HELL YEAH

FOLKS I’m excited to report that #TheDreamcastFiles has returned! And befitting my promotional algorithmic brilliance, the big game I return with is the most obscure game on the system, the befuddling, opaque strategy game INDUSTRIAL SPY: OPERATION ESPIONAGE! youtu.be/8noZE93STMs?...

pssst tomorrow morning I want you to put the word out that we back up

Just marveling that many years ago, on a Sunday in March, I saw (in succession) SCRATCH, WENDIGO, TROUBLE EVERY DAY, SUPER TROOPERS and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS.

I was the tailor who made those clothes that don't fit right... my bad

Vulture Cinematrix No. 779: May 14, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2637 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

New ep—MOVING VIOLATIONS! Three films, three iconic Super Vehicles! We got a chopper that sees through walls, a bike that shoots lasers and a jet plane that listens to nu metal! Buckle up! #stealth #bluethunder #cyclone podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Giving this one another kick, because why not.

bro I don't even give a fuck and have like 20 times the followers as that fucking Washington Post podcast I keep having inflicted on my eyes. how bout everyone shares my good podcast instead and spares everyone the frustration

Watched GONE IN 60 SECONDS on the Criterion Channel last night, and it says something about me that that movie probably isn't in the top five most not-Criterion films I've watched on the channel.

🔥 @katewagner.wehwalt.net's new work at @flaminghydra.com left me speechless which is uh rare for me you must read it flaminghydra.com/issue-563/

It's my birthday! Your gift to me would be reading my first report on the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (and the next couple that I'll be sharing soon). fcardamenis.substack.com/p/san-franci...

As promised, I was able to crank out another piece - this one on THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, one of the best films from my favorite of all filmmakers. Been too long since I sat down and watched this one, that's why I buy these, what have I been doing. www.patreon.com/posts/115-di...

I watched Thomas Tokar's Claws last night and, man, so-called "ai filmmakers" are such an embarrassment. If you wanna make a movie bad enough you'll just make one. youtu.be/AuGrTKhW6KA?...

This one's kinda weird? Vulture Cinematrix No. 777: May 12, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2633 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

May be be reunited with his tits in the afterlife.

As promised, I was able to crank out another piece - this one on THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, one of the best films from my favorite of all filmmakers. Been too long since I sat down and watched this one, that's why I buy these, what have I been doing. www.patreon.com/posts/115-di...