I think it’s pretty cool that MINIONS & MONSTERS takes great pride in introducing kids to the silent clowns. Even Muybridge, the Lumières and Méliès couldn’t resist capturing these little troublemakers. A minion uses a film splicer! Illumination’s best movie by a mile.

Summer nights are for insane double features like BREAKDOWN and FLIGHT PLAN on 35mm at the @somervilletheatre.bsky.social.

If you haven’t seen ERASER, the 1996 summer action movie in which Arnold Schwarzenegger duels off with an airplane, then it’s 30th anniversary today would be a great opportunity to do so! www.keenesentinel.com/elf/youve-ju...

Enjoyed spending my 31st at the @somervilletheatre.bsky.social with two cozy Sunday afternoon cable westerns

Very cheeky, Steven.

Real glad this AMC is giving me the BACKROOMS treatment on my way to SCARY MOVIE in the further most part of the theater.

This was me during any given second watching GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES for the first time at the Brattle tonight. Movies are this girl’s best friend, especially ones with the Technicolor luminescence of Marilyn and Jane.

I just want to thank ELLA ENCHANTED for this incredible reaction image.

The deeply underrated HUDSON HAWK turns 35 today! If you’ve never seen Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard as a megalomaniacal supervillain couple obsessed with gold, microwave sushi and tanking the world economy for fun, then you’re missing out. www.keenesentinel.com/elf/1991-did...

Went to Used Book Superstore today and found a real treasure 🐈‍⬛

I just think it’s interesting how the current premiere theatrical sci-fi series with color, groundbreaking visual effects, memorable creature designs, serialized storytelling, expansive worlds and rebels fighting against a fascist regime is AVATAR.

There are back-to-back homages to classic films that made me profoundly embarrassed to be watching this, let alone in a theater.

This is the Causeway.

It’s such a bummer that IS GOD IS probably won’t get its dues until it hits streaming. Go see it in a theater this weekend! It’s weird, tragic, hilarious, and an all-around great revenge road trip odyssey.

One of the more underrated aspects of OBSESSION is that it could so easily stop the movie in order to explain the people/rules behind the One Wish Willow, but Curry Barker wisely gives you just enough to get by. Much funnier to approach its mechanical horrors so nonchalantly.

Love seeing everyone talk about how frighteningly great Inde Navarrette is in OBSESSION. I think we’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s she’s doing here. www.keenesentinel.com/elf/the_bing...

Happy CUTTING CARDS day to all who celebrate! Lance Henriksen, Kevin Tighe and a burning desire to finger one another. It’s still my favorite episode of TALES FROM THE CRYPT.

Saw OBSESSION again last night and believe everything you’ve heard about Inde Navarrette. Talk about some multilayered nightmare fuel.

Today is her day.

Satan is ever ready to seduce us with sensual delights 🦴

First time A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE on 35mm at the Harvard Film Archive. I’m so fucking sad right now.

There’s an important lesson in tonight’s mass appreciation of SPEED RACER that the Wachowskis never fell off. It’s worth losing money in pursuit of a film that looks, sounds, moves and transforms like nothing you’ve ever seen.

It feels like a joke that Warner Bros. has relegated SPEED RACER to a scattering of showtimes rather than a full-on apology release. 2008 had no idea it held a landmark piece of cinema that would later serve as the premiere IMAX trip of 2026. I felt this movie deep in my soul.

Issuing a moratorium on the super scary demon voice. It’s really silly now

There are plenty of reasons to check out BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB (best Hammer MUMMY movie imo), but it’s really worth it for that ending. What a note to go out on.

Met John Kassir at this little horror con in Plymouth, MA. He casually walked up to folks around the venue to say hello and I remember being so starstruck it took me a second. Such a kind, sweet person. I can’t wait for a whole new generation to fall in love with the Cryptkeeper.

I love Boston because it’s the kind of place where you can go see BARRY LYNDON in 35mm on a Monday night. Feel so spoiled getting to revisit a bunch of Kubrick at the Harvard Film Archive.

I always feel like I'm on the verge of losing my mind every time I write about the SAW movies and wouldn't have it any other way. I love my gloriously convoluted horror soap operas. Desperately need a 35mm marathon of the first 7 movies 🤞

It kills me that I was mostly bored and annoyed watching READY OR NOT 2, which doesn't seem to understand what made the original so memorable. www.keenesentinel.com/elf/ready-or...

It’s kind of difficult to enjoy going out into the world when the country’s top brass have just decided they’re gonna deploy their inbred Nazi goons all over the place. They can smear you, they can kidnap you, they can murder you and there’s nothing you can do about it.

OBSESSION - You will never forget Inde Navarrette after seeing her in this. She conjures such an uncanny and ferociously upsetting presence that actually made me want to look away in fright. All-timer horror performance and I don’t say that lightly.

I’ll have more to say next week but READY OR NOT: HERE I COME is a wash. Diminishing returns in a forgettable and strangely unpleasant sequel that misunderstands what made the original so memorable. The antithesis of JW: CHAPTER 2 where the convoluted mythology bogs it down.

well

I knew I shouldn’t have signed Mr. LeBail’s book. Really hoping READY OR NOT 2 delivers.

It appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April www.criterion.com/current/post...

There's so much to love about THE BRIDE! and how much Maggie Gyllenhaal revels in letting her ungovernable "monster" loose on the world. www.keenesentinel.com/elf/maggie-g...

Auditory horror is right in my wheelhouse and although there’s some eerie use of negative space, UNDERTONE is a frustratingly derivative echo that isn’t confident in itself. How else will audiences know these recordings are creepy without an overbearing score to illustrate that?

I kind of need this double feature.

And what if I said that THE BRIDE! is a way more interesting Frankenstein movie than the one up for Best Picture?

THE BRIDE! - Maggie Gyllenhaal’s rom-crime-monster flick is such an exuberant mess in all the ways that has the makings of a cult movie in the wings. It’s a gorgeous fever dream fueled by dance, cinema and femme rage. I had a total blast with Jessie Buckley just vamping it up.

I'm still buzzing over the @brattletheatre.bsky.social's Ultimate Double Feature this past weekend where we started DONNIE DARKO, stopped the film when Donnie and Gretchen go to see THE EVIL DEAD, played that film in its entirety (in 35mm!), and finished the last 40 minutes of DONNIE DARKO.

I haven’t stopped thinking about IRON LUNG since I saw it last month and think its legacy is going to extend beyond showing up the studio system. www.keenesentinel.com/elf/markipli...

I had an amazing time seeing a 35mm double bill of THE WIZARD OF OZ and THE BAD SEED at the @somervilletheatre.bsky.social. Only dawned on me afterward that it was the cinematic parallel of that episode of THE GRIM ADVENTURES OF BILLY AND MANDY where Mandy does ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’

Manifesting an essay request for the inevitable blu-ray set of THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT 🔪🪓🔪

Highly recommend the TALES FROM THE CRYPT episode ("Yellow") where Kirk Douglas performs a PATHS OF GLORY riff opposite his son Eric. It's real mean and the ending culminates on the perfect note - youtu.be/IhLbwMHKLnE

PATHS OF GLORY (35MM) - It pains me how much Kubrick's anti-war masterpiece has aged like wine. There's a palpable rage cemented on Kirk Douglas' face toward the evil incompetence of the higher ups that feels so upsettingly familiar. George Macready is so detestable, my god.

Talk about a credit that hits so hard when it comes up in HANG 'EM HIGH.

CRIME 101 - Bart Layton’s 140 minute Michael Mann pastiche is the sleepiest crime thriller I’ve seen in a minute. The suffocating melancholy these characters endure by way of the broken systems they’re trapped in has no surprise, nor bite. Easily forgettable, sadly.