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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Had so much fun doing this. Although #1 was never really in doubt…

Carole Lombard's talents were not of the highest, but her spirits were, and in her skin-tight satins she incarnates the giddy, absurd glamour of thirties comedy. (1967)

Excellent programming happening at Inwood Library

"I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists." Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Long overdue first watch; a little NYC election programming.

When your partner doesn't like horror and you need something witchy.

I saw a werewolf with a dang QR code in his hand

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

“By playing with the tropes of horror movies,” @juliasirmons.bsky.social writes, ‘Mr. Death’ expands the documentary form to examine “how odd, flawed people can blunder their way into — well, if not evil itself, then aiding and abetting it.” crookedmarquee.com/the-mad-scie...

I’m back on the Errol Morris beat, suggesting a little Halloween counter programmin.

Oh no @thereforereview.bsky.social www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

Jack Cardiff shot this one, and it looks gorgeous; it ticked me to think of him dealing with making shit look as good/unobtrusive as possible.

Please excuse new parent—sleepiness. First watch for me; I liked it a lot more than I thought I would!

Someone wanted to make a showbiz satire starring Liz Taylor and Rock Hudson, and they tacked Miss Marple onto it. Still pretty fun.

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America. Link below.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

We have a winner for best sign.

The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa

Can I make this episode about a nice but somewhat forgettable movie a discussion about MATEWAN? I sure tried!

Hit me up with all your Christie film takes.

RIP Patricia Routledge. Hard to think of a more fully realized, deftly executed comic character than Hyacinth Bou-quet. Or one that brought me more joy as a child. Very jealous of my parents, who saw her as Lady Bracknell. Also, Snoop Dogg is a big fan of Keeping Up Appearances.

I need you all to know that a "small beer" is what Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple treats herself to after a hard day of sleuthing, and I vehemently insist that is what PTA is referencing.

VistaVision, baby

Also the best on-screen portrayer of Richard Nixon, as discussed on @1999thepodcast.bsky.social

Happy Anniversary to CAPOTE, a film that’s really grown on me. crimereads.com/twenty-years...

The king has come home.

Why are we spending so many of our precious Hollywood resources on overpriced episodes of Celebrity Lip Sync Battle

The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Today’s nice little surprise: seeing a young Andre Royo sitting silently and pensively as part of a courtroom audience in a vintage Law & Order episode.

I cannot click hard enough on an "elite media people fell for a fake memoir" story.

Closest I've ever seen Werner come to a smile

Also unmissable in Visconti’s Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa

Second-best moustaches, imo

Really burying the Monica Bellucci Is Single lede here

Can it beat a movie with an age appropriate, actually sexy romance? I say no.

As the French social study The Taste of Others turns 25, Manuela Lazić revisits Agnès Jaoui’s clear-eyed directorial debut and the decades-long impact of her collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bacri. boxd.it/2IW

Just read a 1969 interview with John Mitchell where he says "Of course, you don't talk about your confidences with the president any more than you do about your confidences with your wife," and man, that's a Chekov's gun of an aside.

this list kicks off with a tribute to BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, a little gift of a movie that everyone should give themselves at least once

I think one thing that makes this scene so good is that it underscores how a completely understandable, sympathetic, and rational impulse like this can lead to horror and destruction youtu.be/5X9XqD_k6TQ?...

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Should Soderbergh have directed this one? Sarah wisely says maybe yes.

TIL that Agatha Christie was once an aspiring opera singer and a lifelong admirer of Wagner.

It would also help if human reporters avoided things like "released by Warner Bros in 1942" — a total howler pretty clearly picked up from Google AI, which says WB was original distributor. It was not. I can't say it enough, that cute Google summary is wrong about old movies 99 times out of 100.

obsessed with this 21 savage/Amadeus edit

Doing homework for something super cool, but it means reckoning with these moustaches...

I recently rewatched The Insider; forgot that the news outlet in it is CBS’s 60 Minutes. In the end, Pacino’s character walks out. He says: “what got broken here doesn’t go back together.”