I've seen this movie a few times. Spoiler alert: it turns out bad.

What you take into your hands, you take into your heart.

For my film students tonight? WITNESS (1985) on 4K.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

ETERNITY also opens today. I wasn't real keen on it at TIFF. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/10/tiff...

JAY KELLY begins breaking box-office records today on its way to healing the world via Netflix. Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) reviewed it at Telluride. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

I don't know if I can keep going you guys. If I was a car, I'm making that noise where you start saving for a new car.

Showing my Film Hist I kids IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and ROMAN HOLIDAY. Can I just say, Gable and Colbert had serious heat.

Things Megyn Kelly approves of: 1. Jeffrey Epstein Things Megyn Kelly disapproves of: 2. Black men dressed as Santa Claus

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Wait... what's this about Sidney Sweeney being MAGA? Is that a real thing or an online thing?

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Showing my TV fundamentals class an episode of Sanford & Son today and then John Mackenzie 's APACHES (1977).

This review from the incomparable @mangiotto.bsky.social nourishes my soul. Please treat yourself to it, and if you haven't, read his other reviews. And if you conclude he is a cynic after reading this particular review, read his piece on STARMAN. We are so lucky to have Walter Chaw.

I have harbored a terrible crush on Susan Hayward since I was a young kid. If I could ever SOMEWHERE IN TIME a proper romance with someone, a shy courtship, poems on postcards, afternoons near water and flowers with tea, it would be her.

Just got my contributor copy for this amazing collection. I'm so proud to be asked to write for its booklet.

For the Tuesday crowd.

For the evening crowd.

There are a couple of films I've seen upwards of 100+ times. The first films I pirated on VHS that I wore through every day after school while I was doing homework. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ark definitely. BACK TO THE FUTURE, THE KARATE KID... anyway, watching BACK TO THE FUTURE again and still fresh.

FFC review: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/11/pred...

I appreciate that the NY Giants' new head coach is named "Kafka."

Bill is the preeminent John Hughes expert. I learn something every single time he writes about him.

There is no opposition party in the United States. Any official resistance is performative.

What a beautiful day.

MIKE'S MURDER. Didn't expect something so deeply compromised by the studio to still be a devastatingly bleak neo-noir about men vanishing in the early AIDS era.

Late to the table but SENTIMENTAL VALUE opened this weekend; Walter reviewed it at Telluride, ICYMI.

My head is full of bees as it tends to be and so I'm watching František Vláčil's Marketa Lazarová (1967) for the fifth time in as many days. I want to disappear into it. It's a headwaters for On a Silver Globe and Hard to be a God, both - an image of depravation and filth so sublimely beautiful.

Upon the publication of my friend @danielkraus.com's definitive work on George Romero's zombie series, here's that time he asked me to moderate a conversation between him and the master Tom Savini: youtu.be/lgOa0E4x5lE

Finally caught up with FRIENDSHIP and it's not weird I'm crying is it? Maybe I'm just a hamster.

Yes.

Caturday with my girl.

PREDATOR: BADLANDS has pretty much every single thing I want in a movie.

For the evening crowd

At @projectionbooth.bsky.social , friends of the Gutter @cinebeth.bsky.social and @mangiotto.bsky.social join friend of the Gutter Mike White to talk about The Driver (1978)! culturalgutter.com/2025/11/07/t...

Very proud to have written for the booklet for this release.

This film is extraordinary. Revelatory.

The blacklist is back, HUAC will probably be next to return

I'd like to thank @barnesandnoble.com. The 50% @criterion.bsky.social sale calls, but the Barnes shopping cart keeps kicking me out because my phone number has weird characters in it? I can almost never resist spending money I don't have but this has made it super-easy today.

Couple of things to share today! First- our next subscription period is opening on November 17th! This subscription period covers January-June 2026 You will receive 10 releases - Literally our biggest lineup ever! The cost will be $425 (shipping included). So what can you expect?

Now playing on Netflix.

For the morning crowd.

i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read

Messing is publicly losing it, but do you know how many people in Hollywood are saying/thinking the same, just in the privacy of their home? A LOT. Then we end up with another 24/Homeland/Bodyguard show that most of you watch, thus participating in our dehumanization igsh=emg2NTJ1ZTkyZmEw

FFC review: SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/11/spri...

Grateful to be asked to speak about Walter Hill's THE DRIVER for @projectionbooth.bsky.social.

Great having Walter Chaw and Beth Accomando on to talk about Walter Hill's THE DRIVER - open.spotify.com/episode/6eQN...