I always tell new writers if they don’t like a movie because it reminds them of their ex, don’t come up with some bullshit rationale— tell me about your ex, and I guarantee I’ll walk away with a much better understanding of the movie.

This is incredible advice. As always: there is no such thing as an objective movie review.

Wong Kar Wai’s SUPER MARIO 64.

Genuinely the funniest possible time for Disney to drop the Baby Yoda trailer.

I’m now one degree of separation away from GDT!

EQUINOX.

Pye wants you to know it’s almost dinnertime.

Real heads know.

I really hope Don Hertzfeldt sees this and takes it as the compliment it’s intended as.

For @cambridgeday.com I reviewed Kogonada’s A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY, a film which irritated me more than any in recent memory.

Reminds me of a TV interview I saw with Neil Young from the mid-‘00s in which I swear to god the first question was “You have a song on your new album called ‘Let’s Impeach the President.’ What is this song about?”

Since I'm between jobs right now, this is as good a time as any to note that I am always available for commissions! In addition to my character art and trans babes, I also draw pets, cartoon portraits, and assorted gremlins. Hit me up for details!

It’s so weird when people post an update about what people are discoursing about on X. It’s like learning there’s a hot new topic of conversation on Usenet.

This was the jury winner for Salem Horror Fest 2024.

For @bostonhassle.bsky.social I interviewed Nick Toti, co-director and star of the theatrical-only found footage creepfest IT DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS, which screens this week at @brattletheatre.bsky.social as part of their Found Footage Freakout! bostonhassle.com/interview-co...

For @cambridgeday.com I reviewed Kogonada’s A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY, a film which irritated me more than any in recent memory.

One thing about being a film critic married to a teacher is you have a lot of very confusing conversations about “the new PTA.”

This week in @cambridgeday.com I took a look at the week-long Found Footage Freakout at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, which proves the shaky-cam catalog goes far deeper than the Blair Witch.

Batman’s finally going to fight Holden Caulfield.

Sexual politics aside, there’s a good argument to be made that Pepe LePew is Mel Blanc’s funniest vocal characterization.

For @bostonhassle.bsky.social I interviewed Nick Toti, co-director and star of the theatrical-only found footage creepfest IT DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS, which screens this week at @brattletheatre.bsky.social as part of their Found Footage Freakout! bostonhassle.com/interview-co...

Check out Oscar's piece below, then head over to The Brattle website for the full lineup, showtimes & tickets. brattlefilm.org/film-series/found-footage-freakout/

Whoa— in addition to the boatload of primo Hong Kong action flicks coming to @criterionchannl.bsky.social next month, they’re also hauling out the special features from their looooong out of print editions of HARD BOILED and THE KILLER!

One thing about being a film critic married to a teacher is you have a lot of very confusing conversations about “the new PTA.”

Batman’s finally going to fight Holden Caulfield.

This week in @cambridgeday.com I took a look at the week-long Found Footage Freakout at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, which proves the shaky-cam catalog goes far deeper than the Blair Witch.

In the ENO documentary he says that Joni Mitchell once approached him about collaborating on an ambient album but he turned her down, then apologizes through the camera and tells Joni “I’m ready,” and I desperately hope they reconnect and make that album while there’s still time.

Proud that democracy is still alive in my city, if nowhere else. All hail Mayor Minerva!

For @bostonhassle.bsky.social I looked at the (predictably excellent) new Criterion re-release of THIS IS SPINAL TAP, a disc I have been training to review for at least 25 years. bostonhassle.com/blu-ray-revi...

For @bostonhassle.bsky.social I looked at the (predictably excellent) new Criterion re-release of THIS IS SPINAL TAP, a disc I have been training to review for at least 25 years. bostonhassle.com/blu-ray-revi...

There’s a claw machine in AMC Boston Common which plays a jaunty little jingle on loop, and every time I walk past it on my way to a press screening I like to pretend I’m in the original Siskel & Ebert intro.

The chocolate chip cookie recipe from the 1946 edition of THE AMERICAN WOMAN’S COOKBOOK is god-tier. I make them without nuts, but you do you.

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN is currently on @criterionchannl.bsky.social as part of the ‘70s Thrillers collection, in case you need some particularly on-the-nose memorial viewing. #RIP

Washington Post, 1972 / Washington Post, today

Not sure if I’ve seen this reported anywhere else, but PISTOL, the Sex Pistols biopic-miniseries which was scrubbed from Hulu less than a year after its premiere, seems to have been quietly added to Tubi and Kanopy.

Reluctantly unfollowing the Far Side bot account after realizing, for reasons I’m not sure I can articulate, that the original font is fundamentally funnier.

Wild that starring in at least a dozen of the most beloved American studio films of the past 60 years is not Robert Redford’s greatest contribution to movie history.

Conspicuously timed for Oscar consideration.

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN is currently on @criterionchannl.bsky.social as part of the ‘70s Thrillers collection, in case you need some particularly on-the-nose memorial viewing. #RIP

Not sure if I’ve seen this reported anywhere else, but PISTOL, the Sex Pistols biopic-miniseries which was scrubbed from Hulu less than a year after its premiere, seems to have been quietly added to Tubi and Kanopy.

Honestly a little surprising this is the first Burton in the Criterion Collection. For all the goodwill he’s burned off over the past quarter century, his ‘80s-‘90s run of bangers remains unbeatable.

Thanks to Criterion you can now assemble the Teenage Oscar Starter Pack. All we need now is some early Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi.

OH MY GOD.

Tired: TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE origin series Wired: Fawlty Towers-style sitcom about the hotel from EATEN ALIVE

I’ve seen just about enough of that dead guy’s face, thanks.

Worth noting in the current “debate” debate: is this the only debate show in history in which viewers were not expected to know going in who they were supposed to agree with?

I never post these things, but I’m pretty pleased to be in the top 0% of this one. Vulture Cinematrix No. 537: Sep 14, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2635 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Hi I’m Johnny Knoxville, and today we’re watching Episode 8 of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN on the big screen immediately after getting a COVID shot. (At @brattletheatre.bsky.social— where else?)

A few weeks out from my second viewing (and particularly after the past couple of days) I find myself increasingly convinced that EDDINGTON is a major work.

You would all be obsessed with TWITCH CITY if there was an easy way to watch it.