I interviewed trombone god @jacobgarchik.bsky.social about his prog-jazz-sci-fi opus "Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time", Ancient Aliens, Scientology, and life on the road. It's up at my Old New substack: oldnew.substack.com/p/ye-olde-is...

If you don't pick up a copy you will get stranded on a foggy moor

I compared the Dodsworths of Sinclair Lewis and William Wyler (1929/1936) over at my substack, Old New. (Coincidentally @tcmtv.bsky.social aired it last night!): oldnew.substack.com/p/americans-...

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The Buffalo Bills will soon kick off their season, so for my Old New substack I wrote about endless loss, HBO's Hard Knocks, + the results of my fan survey! Respondents include a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, an SNL writer, Downbeat's 2025 jazz artist of the year, and more!

On the eve of the theatrical rollout of its new 20th anniversary restoration, I wrote about Linda Linda Linda. Which is impossible because it's a perfect movie, and you can't write about perfect movies, but I tried anyway. Don't miss it when @gkids.com brings it to your town.

I wrote about Linda Linda Linda (2005) for @screenslate.bsky.social, one of my favorite musicals that is back in theaters tomorrow! www.screenslate.com/articles/lin...

An honor to be working on this historic release with the passionate maniacs at the George Lucas Talk Show - go get it! kinolorber.com/product/i-m-...

Nobuhiro Yamashita gets the Hoberman bump

Anthology Film Archives is screening the works of Tomonari Nishikawa 9/13 and 9/14 - this is essential cinema: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

Romy Schneider and Eric Rohmer @ Metrograph Journal, A24 and 1925 @newyorker.com, Philip Seymour Hoffman @ The Ringer, Chan Hau Chun @nybooks.com, @robert-emmet.bsky.social and Joseph McBride on John Ford … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

It's real

A great interview about a great movie

The Warner Archive Blu-ray of 7 Women (1965) comes out today, so I interviewed John Ford biographer Joseph McBride about his personal history with this much maligned masterpiece + the 6 minutes of missing footage he is seeking to restore: oldnew.substack.com/p/ford-focus...

Editing an explosive interview with John Ford biographer Joseph McBride about 7 Women and the new WB Blu-ray. The streets are already buzzing. Will go up on Old New this week. Subscribe today before you get left behind: oldnew.substack.com

The Big Bad Film Fest opens today in L.A. - and I previewed it for my Old New substack. They are presenting the latest and greatest from Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Koichi Sakamoto, and more: oldnew.substack.com/p/dtv-action...

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Richard Pepin, the "P" in PM Entertainment. Produced some of the most inventive independent action movies ever made.

The Art Wander intro that parodies Dion's "The Wanderer" is the sweetest sound known to mankind

RIP ART WANDER, THE TINY TOT OF THE KILOWATT

At my Old New substack I wrote about the deeply moving Memorial Concert for polymath pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn: oldnew.substack.com/p/deep-liste...

Trouble Man (2025): a lower key Black Dynamite as director-star Michael Jai White spoofs DTV crime flick clichés. Method Man is the MVP as a jacked up fur-coat wearing wife guy. The horrible vfx is just part of its goofy charm.

Linda Linda Linda (2005)

Watching Michael Jai White's Trouble Man (2025)

I was doing a movie with Tsui Hark (and Oliver Stone's producer, A. Kitman Ho), back in 1997. A live action adaption of "Lupin III", that we would have done with Jim Carrey. Alex Ho (lovely, lovely man) ended up losing the rights, so it never happened. Craziest screenplay I ever wrote! #scriptsky

Susan Alcorn remembers some guys in her 2005 essay, "Texas: Three Days and Two Nights," about her time gigging for country bands around Houston: www.counterpunch.org/2005/12/17/t...

And FYI Ken Jacobs put STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH up on Vimeo: vimeopro.com/kenjacobs/st...

In response to the NYT lists, I called for contributors to submit 15 titles for Best Experimental Cinema of the 21st Century. 109 ballots, 940 films, and 550 artists later, these are the results. Huge thanks to @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy for stepping up to publish. tinyurl.com/484u9f2z

Filmmaker Magazine's poll of the Best Experimental Films of the 21st Century: filmmakermagazine.com/131469-list-... My submission:

Guess what movie we are seeing

Michael Jai White directed and stars in the action comedy Trouble Man - out now! - and it has the tagline of the year.

Upon the release of nu-Naked Gun, I genuflect to the 1988 original at my Old New substack: oldnew.substack.com/p/the-naked-...

The Golden Age of Jason Statham ran from 2002-2015, or from The Transporter through Wild Card. Thanks for reading.

At the Susan Alcorn memorial concert at Zürcher Gallery

Meena Mohan, the star of Ghatashraaddha (The Ritual, 1977) introducing the film at Asia Society

Considering a career change to gentleman thief.

Saw Adam O'Farrill's Elephant (Russell Holzman / Walter Stinson / Yvonne Rogers) play a gorgeous tune from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

In an unprecedented maneuver, I compiled a list of my ten favorite movies seen in 2025 (so far) - five old, five new - and posted it on my Substack fortuitously titled Old New: oldnew.substack.com/p/old-news-o...

Got smoked by some teens at the Sunset Park basketball court while wearing this shirt

Playing it as loud as my puny speakers can handle. RIP Ozzy.

Pyaasa (1957)

I wrote this during my Sunday shift yesterday, and it is very much A Sunday Blog, but it can be read any day of the week by those who want to remember some baseball louts and learn about an '80s "butt hut" called Cooter's Executive Games And Burgers. defector.com/39-years-ago...

Humiliated that I was the only person at the bar to identify the movie on TV as Valentine's Day (2010)

I own a Bacarri Rambo long-sleeve shirsey

Bought tickets to see an IMAX playthrough of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

My year in new music (so far)

New acquisitions from Read It Again New & Used Books in Collingwood, Ontario

My horrifying wife @andreajanes.bsky.social has a new book coming out 9/30! Publisher's Weekly calls it "a satisfying combination of well-sourced fact-checking, thoughtful literary analysis, and creepy chills" Pre-order: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781356...

Please consider supporting this ambitious new label spotlighting South Asian cinema! I interviewed the founders if you'd like more info: open.substack.com/pub/oldnew/p...

Latest newsletter just landed in your inbox… please keep spreading the word about our new label and this first amazing film release… and keep making those pledges! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...

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