Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

he was on too many podcasts to promote this book

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Based on one of multiple versions of a Pushkin poem, the 1910 film RUSALKA tells the tale of a prince who seduces and abandons a miller's daughter. She throws herself into the river and is reborn as a water nymph, then drowns him on his wedding day and uses his corpse as underwater decor.

Having one today for Carol Day

Doing morning things and ROOM FOR ONE MORE is on TCM with Cary Grant and his actual wife Betsy Drake. There's a Christmas morning scene where they and five kids are all wearing full pajama sets and robes and slippers and as a child this is what I thought being rich was.

Watching It: Welcome to Derry, and my suspension of disbelief is already broken. I can cope with killer clowns living in sewers that are really alien spider demons, but the idea that a radio station in 1962 would play "Chicken Walk" by Hasil Adkins? Sorry, just totally implausible.

In 1962 you had to climb a mountain to hear Hasil Adkins. Like climbing a mountain to meet the old man who’s meditated for decades. And once you get up there. He offers you a hot dog. 🌭 she said.

1. hate being around drunk people 2. love these drunk people 3. it's out of frame but they are almost certainly wearing shorts

I left the apartment to buy gifts. sluggish.ghost.io/dont-shop-on...

"Small-town independent theaters are special because they are the antithesis of the movie-theater corporatization that has exacerbated our nagging, national loneliness." @colemanjspilde.bsky.social goes home for a lovely @salon.com feature on North Dakota movie houses. www.salon.com/2025/12/18/n...

it is not the homosexual who is perverse but the society in which he lives

Arthouse audiences gave it side-eye and Christmas movie fans were baffled but this impeccably detailed, atmospheric film deserves your attention on a big screen. Tonight at Alamo downtown and your host will be @aduralde.bsky.social -- and furthermore buy his book when you go. Don't miss this.

Longtime listener, first-time guest: The hosts of We Hate Movies and I dig into the fifth of the OG Silent Night, Deadly Night series. #filmsky 📽 @whmpodcast.bsky.social

i just discovered how sharp and stabby actual holly leaves are from snipping them off our door wreath so the little neighbor cat who comes and sits at our door every morning won't die from eating whatever falls and she better say thank you (she won't)

these gracious people assured me i didn't need to but i really do apologize for making them watch santa and the three bears

DUST BUNNY🐰: A HANNIBAL reunion for Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen that introduces the revelatory newcomer Sophie Sloan, this (largely) family-friendly monster movie is a real treat. Forget FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S, this is what gateway horror should be 📽️ My review: www.inlander.com/screen/dust-...

In Finland everyone has 300 gallons of blood inside them.

The news of one giant company swallowing another giant company reminds me that I never sent back that Alexander Sokurov DVD and I'm glad about it.

I'm over it now. sluggish.ghost.io/i-was-a-perf...

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: i know a lot of popular songs. a lot of times when i’m out and about and i hear a song, i know exactly which song it is operator: oh wow. were you born in any particular year me: i sure was operator: that’s great. gotta love it

HE IS SELLING AND SIGNING

When one is sick, one reaches into the vault for material. PS look at my cool necktie. sluggish.ghost.io/archive-mans...

home sick with generic crud, coughing and whatever, and alonso is watching the insane reality competition show FINDING MR CHRISTMAS and one of these dudes just compared the christian family band he grew up in to the partridge family and OH NO SIR YOU DO NOT SPEAK LIKE THIS YOU BE QUIET AND YOU STOP

INVITATION TO THE DANCE is on TCM now and, while I can't find a video of this, my favorite part is where this dude wants to spin a ballerina around but she's hungry so she eats a sandwich while they dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCoo...

The future will be the last river being vaporized so that your personal Matthew McConaughey can gently urge you to end your life.

Twenty years ago sluggish.ghost.io/archive-nige...

The UFW stands w/ @sbworkersunited.org workers going on strike today. For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support. #NoContractNoCoffee

played to a nearly empty house at Sherman Oaks Galleria except for us and some confused, irritated, loud grandparents sluggish.ghost.io/too-christma...

Indeed. Moving the clock simply means it will be dark later in the morning or dark earlier in the evening. Pick one.

It's been moving around film festivals this year, now available for pre-order on Blu-ray, and I would like to tell you about -- though not review -- my friend Dave Markey's new film, THE SECRET LIVES OF BILL BARTELL sluggish.ghost.io/the-jaw-drop...

We aren't waving hello we are counting to 15 and @graedrake.bsky.social just likes whipped cream in a can. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...

a little late and a little little, here's a quick review of BUGONIA sluggish.ghost.io/bugonia-is-n...

When you are not in any real danger and cannot manufacture suspense, tell your dumb little anecdote anyway. sluggish.ghost.io/i-love-los-a...

standing astride BUGONIA's flat earth

Alonso Duralde quote of the day: "This is no orange, it's a tangelo. I know when I'm being ripped off."

Go in the morning to the Farmer's Market lot, get a donut at Bobs, validate your ticket for free parking, walk over to B&N near the Santa Claus house, they open at 10am, say hey to our friend Dean who works there, buy all the copies they have, clean them out, distribute to cinema-loving friends.

I put one big zucchini, one stalk of broccoli, and one bundle of leeks on the scale at the 3-for-$5 lady's kiosk at the farmer's market and she routinely loads up my bag with double the amount that I've selected, without comment. I'm both grateful and confused and next week we are to be married.

The remarkable filmmaker Peter Watkins—THE WAR GAME (1966), PRIVILEGE (1967), PUNISHMENT PARK (1971), EDVARD MUNCH (1974), LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871 (2000) has died. He’d just turned 90 on Wednesday. @theguardian.com — www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

leather soled cap-toe lace ups and slippery polished dance floors and new hips sluggish.ghost.io/step-up-2-th...

Is it Halloween yet?

It was either this or think about the collapse of everything. sluggish.ghost.io/trying-to-ca...

brownie funeral sluggish.ghost.io/eat-your-own...