Bobby might be my favorite of the returning characters in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. Ashbrook does such a great job at communicating his journey from the troubled kid we knew to a good and decent man via relatively few lines.

Confirmed: Hackman’s scene in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN still absolutely kills in a theater.

A major artifact of my childhood.

I’m building a team:

Every movie/TV character named Loomis is part of the same family tree, tying together not only PSYCHO, HALLOWEEN, and SCREAM, but also DARK SHADOWS.

“Martian Hop” by the Ran-Dells has absolutely no reason to go as hard as it does.

I wanted to dig IN THE HAND OF DANTE, but the end result is muddled, self-serious, and never as fun as it should be. That said, it does feature Martin Scorsese in a Dumbledore beard, so it’s not all bad. Review in @bostonhassle.bsky.social! bostonhassle.com/review-in-th...

My hot Stallone take is that ROCKY is best enjoyed as a story of two kinda dumb people finding love and happiness together, and if he spent his career chasing the first half of that movie rather than the second half he’d have really been something.

New in @cambridgeday.com! This week: the Mel Brooks Centennial at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, o.g. DJANGO at @somerville-theatre.bsky.social, the TWIN PEAKS Europilot at the library, and more!

As someone who has personally witnessed the trend of studios screening films for influencers and *specifically not* for critics:

SUPERGIRL doesn’t reinvent the cape flick, but Alcock’s performance and the fact that it’s under two hours with minimal shared universe place-setting push it into two-and-a-half-stars-positive territory. Review in @cambridgeday.com!

One of my dreams is to travel the country with a tape recorder like Alan Lomax and record the songs different people make up for their cats.

“Martian Hop” by the Ran-Dells has absolutely no reason to go as hard as it does.

As someone who has personally witnessed the trend of studios screening films for influencers and *specifically not* for critics:

How much of a skinflint do you have to be to remove the famously public domain NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD from your streaming service?

SUPERGIRL doesn’t reinvent the cape flick, but Alcock’s performance and the fact that it’s under two hours with minimal shared universe place-setting push it into two-and-a-half-stars-positive territory. Review in @cambridgeday.com!

David Lynch didn’t do whatever the hell he did to make the baby in ERASERHEAD so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable.”

Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

Post your song The first time I heard this on a mix disc I immediately said, “This is my ‘My Way.’”

Fun fact: I once mailed a vinyl copy of this record to Vanessa Carlton.

We don’t talk enough about the time Jackie O judo-flipped a paparazzi photographer after watching I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW).

I got this for Christmas when I was 14 and played through the entire thing without having seen a single X-Files episode. Will be curious to revisit it now that I’ve actually watched the show!

Delighted to report that I am able to install and run the 1998 X-Files CD-ROM game from the original discs onto my current laptop!

We don’t talk enough about the time Jackie O judo-flipped a paparazzi photographer after watching I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW).

Shot-in-the-dark question for the hivemind: what kind of bag is Rick Dalton carrying here?

The secret to SY’s longevity is that they could plausibly be grouped into any major alt-rock subgenre: shoegaze, post punk, noise, grunge, lo-fi, indie. If Kim and Thurston had stuck together they’d have found a way to assimilate into vaporwave.

I recently learned that Tommy Chong is 88 years old. That’s very strange to me.

This feels like a slap in the face to Steve Coogan specifically.

“You have Simba. You have Pumbaa. You have Timon. You have the hyena who talks like Whoopi Goldberg. You have the hyena who talks like Cheech Marin. You have all these characters.”

It was really weird being born at a moment when this was one of the most popular pieces of children’s entertainment.

Fuuuuuuuck.

Finally transferring files from my old laptop before it shits the bed for good, and I’m 90% sure some of my old iTunes playlists are missing songs? Has anyone else experienced this?

The correct answer is MUPPET AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.

It’s not the most memorable scene, but I really like Mike’s cameo in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. Like that is 100% who that character grows up to be.

I am not being even a little bit ironic when I rank this among the most important horror movies ever made.

This week in @bostonhassle.bsky.social, a quick look at Haifaa al-Mansour’s oddly pulpy UNIDENTIFIED, and the perils of writing about twist endings.

Laying eyes on this set was an important step in my cinematic education. I was at least aware of most of these films at the time, but I could not wrap my head around the fact that they were all made by the same person.

OH MY GOD?!?!

I’d take this one step further: everyone should have to work one year of service *in their 30s*, to disabuse them of the notion that food/retail work is less serious than “grown-up” jobs.

New in @cambridgeday.com! This week: MALCOLM X, BITTER RICE, and a Pride repertory slate (courtesy of @wickedqueer.boston) at @brattletheatre.bsky.social, and BOTTLE ROCKET and SHAUN OF THE DEAD at @somerville-theatre.bsky.social!

I’m not sure any single statement from a director has pulled their work into focus as fully for me as Ari Aster describing EDDINGTON as “a film about a data center being built in a small southwestern town.”

Do we have enough for a full “Adapted from the Internet” rep series yet? BACKROOMS, ZOLA, JOHN DIES AT THE END… what else?

This is how other people see my record collection.

TBH I think a lot of people could do to question more harshly these days.

MST3K’s Caption This, c. 1997-99. You got a random screengrab of whatever was on the SciFi Channel (even the ads!) and entered a funny caption. If you liked you could compliment another user’s caption, but they all disappeared in a few minutes. I’ve never been happier on the internet.

Did Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton have a prior engagement?

My headcanon is that a) one of Jupe Park’s breakout roles as a child actor was in an adventure film by Sammy Fabelman, and b) Sammy was invited to the Starlasso Experience preview night, but escaped doom because he was busy shooting his semi-autobiographical film THE SPIELBERGS.

Superhero fatigue.

Once again: Pauline tried to warn us.