Rewatching RULES OF ATTRACTION in Van Der Beek's honor + god, I really forgot what a stone-cold dorm room staple this was. We used to let Bret Easton Ellis adaptations have massive soundtrack budgets!

Carmen Electra, baby.

Sorry to be an old lady but: Bad Bunny has a Pokemon Go tattoo?? God bless you, Benito.

SO INTERESTING to watch musicians say FUCK OFF to folks like Wasserman + FUCK ICE at the Grammys while Hollywood is mostly just like :) I pretend I do not see it :) (Not that the music business has a better historical track record on these issues; they just seem be meeting this moment better.)

It's certainly not an obscure title, but during the last day of finals week in early 2008, my friend Josh asked me if I wanted to sneak out + go see the new PTA movie, which I wasn't even aware of at the time. That's how we ended up at an 11AM screening of THERE WILL BE BLOOD on opening day.

Well, I just got to introduce a co-worker to this absolute BOP, so there's one good thing about today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVJY...

That Bob Saget bit about how you spend the first forty years of your life collecting people + the next forty losing them has been so present in my mind lately. It's really amazing that all of us are hanging tough through this much grief, personal + global, every single day.

And Bud Cort died!? What the fuck, man.

RIP James Van Der Beek, who is SO GREAT in RULES OF ATTRACTION especially - that's a damn near impossible part to pull off + he is so fantastic in it.

Really love this list from my dude @rifewithkatie.bsky.social! letterboxd.com/journal/roma...

In the ongoing "can audiences handle movies for ADULTS anymore??" conversation, I must mention that this played really well last night. There were a few errant giggles early on, but then people really locked in.

Seeing one of my very favorite movies in my very favorite movie theater 📼

Magazines of my childhood/young adulthood: Entertainment Weekly (my parents started subscribing in 1997 + it CHANGED MY LIFE) Rolling Stone SPIN Premiere In Style Teen People Seventeen YM Vanity Fair Electronic Gaming Monthly Redbook (which always had REALLY spicy stuff for a women's mag!)

Why in the ever-loving fuck is noted serial domestic abuser Marilyn Manson getting BRAND DEALS with major players like Dodge who would've absolutely condemned him in the 90s?? Who is asking for that?!

Kate Bush smoking thousands of doobs + being one of the first musicians to really figure out what to do with the Fairlight...that's möther.

...are they just never going to release another AFI 100 Years, 100 Movies list? I thought we were coming up on a ten-year update in 2027 + didn't realize there hasn't actually been a new list since 2007.

TIL: "Anyone can start a surrogacy agency; unlike opening a hair salon, or a day care, no qualifications are needed for the intimate, unpredictable work of bringing strangers together to create a new life." GREAT COUNTRY THAT VALUES WOMEN + THEIR BODIES, NO NOTES. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Really starting to FEEL just how broke everyone is as all these luxury businesses, from nail polish brands to small clothing lines to fancy donuts, are just closing up shop at a moment's notice.

Now that my FABULOUS STAINS 4K finally shipped, I think this might be my most coveted disc upgrade.

But babe, we already have Ken Russell's WUTHERING HEIGHTS at home... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPx1...

IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN

Saw the latest Catherine O'Hara update + let me just say, once again, with every cell in my body: FUCK CANCER.

Me watching cinematic masterpieces such as COCAINE: ONE MAN'S SEDUCTION.

So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

Nicole Kidman really took a look at this dire landscape for erotic cinema + said don't worry, I got this guys. deadline.com/2026/02/a24-...

Sam Raimi really snuck an Evil Dead on a tropical island sequence involving a woman named LINDA into this movie, god bless him.

Mostly out of the luxury makeup game these days, but I missed a release of maybe my most coveted makeup item ever - Chanel's Rouge Noir lipstick, that perfect burgundy you remember from the 90s - and I am DESPONDENT.

Very into the way Spike Lee plays with score, soundtrack + in-movie tracks in HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, I can't believe we've been blessed with a music business movie from him. "The score is so corny in the first half, then almost disappears in the second half." ALMOST LIKE HE DID THAT ON PURPOSE, HUH.

I'm literally always saying this.

Me spotting *my* Astro Burger in the ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH trailer.

Green Day closing their set with “American Idiot” at the Super Mega America Sportsball Event of the the year rules, actually - especially when you consider that they’re supposed to be the “real rock n’ roll” programming to balance out Bad Bunny 🤭

Here’s my review of SEND HELP, which is an instant entry into the January theatrical releases hall of fame.

“Who will make the first movie about Epstein” is a completely cursed question…but my brothers in Christ, where were you NINE YEARS AGO.

Good morning: here is a picture of James Spader from last year with an unspeakably powerful aura.

Just a tiny lil Saturday nite earthquake, for fun!

Unsurprisingly, I can be added to the list of ELLA MCKAY apologists. Brooks might be my favorite living screenwriter so I'm an easy mark, but what a TRULY beguiling motion picture - it's like Brooks doing his own drag. Emma Mackey screaming about Tooth Tutors while stoned...that's REAL CINEMA, baby.

Happy 66th to this total dreamboat 💘

Lucinda Williams is a goddamn national treasure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Qj...

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

I'm really still out here talking about the new 35mm print of FRESH HORSES Universal struck for us to play at LACMA in 2k18 here in the year of our lord 2k26, thanks to @meheuck.bsky.social. unframed.lacma.org/2018/07/16/c...

What if I double feature ELLA MCKAY + HIGHEST 2 LOWEST tonight...you cannot STOP ME.

I kinda lost interest in Jack White for a while but between his righteous recent political posting + that LOVELY Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame speech that mostly focused on Meg, I have been reminded why I loved The White Stripes so much.

I am not supposed to be buying any more black t-shirts and yet...

For the first volume of a series of erotic thriller starter packs, Justin LaLiberty whips up a list of twenty entry-level recommendations for those looking to dip their toes in the pool of this steamy, sticky, sweaty subgenre. boxd.it/2Xs

The Black List Interview returns to Establishing Shot! @thathagengrrl.bsky.social chats with acclaimed filmmaker Harry Lighton about his debut feature PILLION, which zooms into theaters today. Read the full interview on our Substack: blcklst.substack.com/p/the-black-...

This got a TON of new traction overnight for some reason?? Just doing what I can for the cause 🫡

What a treat to be back on the interview beat with Harry Lighton to talk about PILLION, the ONLY BDSM-tinged biker rom-com you need this Valentine's Day 💘 blcklst.substack.com/p/the-black-...

I've watched the clip of Trent Reznor singing a snippet of "Stripped" in Dave Gahan cosplay a Very Normal amount of times this morning.

...Al Franken co-wrote 90s alcoholism drama WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN?? Did we already know this??