FFC review: THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/05/the-...

Jesus.

Music to write to

Music to write to

Just cry-laughing.

I do appreciate how the default skin color of emojis is yellow.

Rewatching THE JERK for the first time in years and my god it holds up.

I always thought Spielberg and Lucas forgetting about Marion explained a lot about why they were both divorced shortly after.

Gretchen is an extraordinary writer. EXTRAORDINARY. I got hip reading their BLACK FLAME as a voracious consumer of film-related horror and... fuck. MANHUNT goes exactly where all these flicks (SEND HELP) need to just go if they want to be taken seriously... CUCKOO is kind of a masterpiece. Support!

That thing where you're listening to this dude talking about how much he just absolutely loves TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and... based, right? It's an all-time masterpiece. But he keeps describing scenes that are not from it and... and this jackass is talking about the remake, isn't he. ISN'T HE.

Did a 17yr old also write this? I kid [totally not kidding]. [Don't be mad.]

Repost with your first crush

My first thought upon hearing that Marcia Lucas passed away: "Listen you fuckers, you screwheads, here's a man who would not take it anymore, who would not let--" (scene restarts) "Listen you fuckers, you screwheads, here's a man who would not take it anymore..." #RIP

Me and @mangiotto.bsky.social were talking the other day about how disappointing it is that nobody's sacrificed to the incinerator in TOY STORY 3. Cheap pantomime of tragedy.

Those movies you love? The ones I love, too? Thank Marcia.

Name your fav non-DC or Marvel comic book movie. @josholson.bsky.social

This film came across my timeline - a film I actually like & I had an instant hit of revulsion. Couldn't figure it out. Then I remembered the PR person for it was horrible to me. Rude, asked for my credentials multiple times though *they* reached out to me. Ghosted. I may be nobody but I'm a person.

Music to write to.

Guys, I get it. Your kids had a great time watching uglystupid shit w/weird militaristic propaganda & a call-out to George W. Bush's bounty deck. THAT'S GREAT! You done good. Father of the year. So why are you in my mentions? Are you mad I'm not one of your kids? Cuz, I'm not mad you're not my dad.

See... what happens at a certain point is your allies beat you down so severely for saying some pretty innocuous stuff because they're so exhausted from beating their heads against the wall that you just shut up. And then the good guys win, right? RIGHT? MOTHERFUCKING RIGHT?

Happy 55th anniversary to ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, which has a lady ape not only taking a bubble bath but also getting gunned down by the U.S. government while holding her infant son.

Sometimes I think about how all of these amazing medical professionals saved my life so I can wake up everyday, work 14 hours, still not be able to afford my bills, and then go to sleep to have nightmares about waking up to do it all over again. I feel like Marvin from the Hitchhiker's Guide.

Music to write to

watching people get into fights with the discourse bot is incredible

AI is inevitable. When you use it in your art you inevitably fuck up your reputation for the rest of your career.

So many friends laid off yesterday from various legacy publications. It's terrible.

This video is a work of genius. This is the closest that we will get to another Nathan Fielder, but in the realm of YouTube. youtu.be/wscQpkcwgNU?...

HAHAHAHAHA... no. If AI turned out the shit I turn out, it would turn itself off.

Why are some people trying so hard to make it illegal to read... surely there's no historical precedent to that to make it make sense. Surely not. Surely there aren't a few moments in history where it was illegal to read things for specific groups of people. Surely.

"IT WAS JUST FUN SUMMER FUN. IT WAS FUN. WE DON'T DESERVE GOOD THINGS. IT WAS FUN AND IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT YOU'RE POINTING OUT IT'S NOT FUN! IT'S YOUR FAULT, NOT THE FAULT OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS GARBAGE. YOU. IT WAS FUN. IT WAS. IT WAS."

Mandalorian/Grogu was already awful and had been for a long time when suddenly it turned into an hour-long Charles Band flick and it still wasn't good.

Grogu's antecedents, mood book and movement template. Honestly, I made my infant daughter's Pooh doll more convincingly animate than anyone this glob of green shit dressed like Jesus:

Why is Grogu performed like Daniel Striped Tiger? Okay, okay, I get it. I see that it's not CGI. Good boy. But Yoda was never meant to call attention to itself as not real to make a point... in 1980... and Grogu is probably still 90% CGI.

That it's still possible a Patty Jenkins Star War would be worse says a lot.

Is it a style-choice or arrogance or racism not to spend all those sweet, sweet Disney dollars on hiring like a Kenji Tanigaki or Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian to choreograph your Star War so the fight scenes don't look like geriatric cardio rehab? A little of all? How about just hire John Woo?

For the Thursday crowd and probably for the last time:

Sometimes I think of how the Joe Taslim character in THE FURIOUS is named Navin.

Oh yeah, breakfast of champions.

Watched that new Mandalorian movie because it just happened, I don't know what happened, I don't have to explain it to you, and also, since Boba Fett has a jet pack, why was he riding that convertible AT-ST through the AT-AT legs & stuff? and also all that John Woo they rip off looks bad, right?

I get this guy an enrichment thing every once in a while which is this bone stuffed with some kind of treat. He's figured out if he brings it to me, I'll hold it for him and even loosen the filling with a knife or scissors. He does this for hours. I should be irritated but I love it.

I... don't think you should ask a woman why she blocked a man, like ever, but especially with the intent of having them unblock them. I mean, you wouldn't badger a woman about thinking some dude was a creep and insisting she give him another chance. Or maybe you would. Don't do that.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

Jesus. These are beautiful. And happy birthday.

Neither do any of you who are offended have to read my posts or respond with this tripe.

Well just because my city and state are now ruled by saffron nazis doesn't mean I get to stop shilling my work. Still need income. Such is capitalism. Here is a book about my now nazified city, Calcutta, in the 90s/00s, imagined as a host for refugees from a distant reality. Places are memory.

Buy a print directly from an artist. You support art? Prove it. Enhance your home, enhance your life, think of throwing a few bucks at independent artists as a form of protest against [waves hands generally]. I have several of Brianna's prints in my home. They make everything better.

I break this out once or twice a year, just to see if I've disappeared yet like that picture of Marty and his siblings. Soon, I hope. It's PTA drinking my milkshake.

For the morning crowd.