Was listening to Big Picture and Fennessey talked about going to a birthday party and chatting with the other dads about BOOGIE NIGHTS and I'm just reminded of how much of an island I'm on where I live, I don't even know if anyone I know in real life has even *heard of* BOOGIE NIGHTS

I never see the same movie multiple times in theaters but I think I might do a Round 2 of OBAA

Saw the clip from DELIVER US FROM NOWHERE of JLW doing "Born To Run" and the audio-mixing sounds like dogshit, like a karaoke backing track.

Watching BURN AFTER READING. I’ve always maintained that the funniest performance in this movie isn’t given by any of the actors but by Carter Burwell. His score takes the piss out of the Hans Zimmer/Harry Gregson-Williams assembly line

I’ve hated a lot of popular modern fantasy but I just finished Christopher Buehlman’s “The Blacktongue Thief” and really enjoyed it. Paced like a rocket and gleefully ribald. About to start the prequel, which is centered on Thief’s best character.

Perfidia had postpartum depression. Amazed how many people haven’t picked up on this.

My wallet wishes Shout would space out the Woo 4K’s just a little bit more

Bills run defense…sub-optimal

“So bad it’s good” is a scourge, especially when it’s tagged to a masterpiece. Once again American critics failing to understand the emotional tenor of John Woo and his ilk.

We’re still doing this huh

You immediately lose me in your argument saying OBAA trivializes real-world atrocities when you praise a fucking superhero movie in the next breath, I don’t make the rules

“I don’t know if an R-rated movie that’s 3 hours long will make money.” OPPENHEIMER was…only 2 years ago!

I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this, but Sean Penn’s walk in OBAA is clearly inspired by Vince McMahon

Also: I never want to hear another critic or filmmaker say it’s hard to make contemporary films because modern tech makes it hard to build suspense. PTA proving it’s a skill issue for now and forever

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: Pynchon is PTA’s fuel this time and not the engine; thrilling pop spectacle married to the director’s obsessions with rising and falling pockets of American power and the need to find family however and wherever you can. A singular achievement in a filmography full of them.

NO RETREAT BABY NO SURRENDER

I’m ready

I'm downright fucking giddy about seeing OBAA in the morning, even people I thought might be skeptical are over the moon about this thing

Why do the Cardinals' jerseys look like they're covered in blood splatter

Time to revisit a masterpiece, comrades

When I’m elected President in 3 years I’m making origin stories illegal. No one ccccaaaaarrreessss

BLOODY NOSE EMPTY POCKETS: A quasi-Kiarostami stunt becomes gorgeous gutter poetry; the Ross’ filling every verite moment with bleary-eyed empathy for a kind of American community that feels like it’s drifting away. Quite an achievement.

Finally watching this

LFG

Think I’m going to watch BATTLE OF ALGIERS after work, per PTA

Since he’s probably about to get another Oscar nomination, I’ll share my Sean Penn thoughts: he’s an actor who drives me up the wall unless he’s in very particular circumstances. I think CARLITO’S WAY is a spectacular performance (also love him in THE GAME). I often find him overbearing.

PATHS OF GLORY ARMY OF SHADOWS SOUTHERN COMFORT THREE KINGS MUNICH

Completely blown away by COMPENSATION, which uses silent-film aesthetics to reverse a century of shunting stories of Black and differently-abled people aside to create something that never feels academic but alive and continuously evolving. One of my favorite discoveries of the year.

For Bruce’s birthday I’m sharing this; making a video featuring a spectrum of queer couples in 1987 at the height of the AIDS crisis is a pretty brave thing to do. youtu.be/_91hNV6vuBY?...

Very excited for this one

Pretty sure if you did one of those sex offender lookups at the Kirk funeral it’d look like that map marking all the pubs in England and Ireland

They can’t both suck either

Just remembered I don’t have to work until the late afternoon on Friday so I can hit the 11:40 am IMAX screening. Everything is coming up Milhouse

The best rapture movie is MIRACLE MILE, glad that’s settled

Also didn’t realize Caleb Landry Jones is one of the kids at the end of

Watching NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. This was the first movie I had ever seen Kelly Macdonald in, and it broke my brain later on when I found out she’s Scottish. Her accent is astonishing.

Why is Viola Davis hosting a podcast in a L’Oréal commercial

Question: is seeing the new PTA in IMAX absolutely essential? Because I want to see it on Thursday night and it’s much easier for me logistically to see a regular screening than IMAX but I’ll do it if it’s necessary

KINDS OF KINDNESS: Lanthimos back on stylistic terra firma; an antiseptic triptych that puts our need for structure and purpose turns us into parasites. 162 minutes of this is a bit of a chore however, despite how great Plemons, Stone and Qualley are in it. It’s better than POOR THINGS anyway.

I’m just glad so many people are celebrating NIN’s best album

Watching KINDS OF KINDNESS today, which I know a lot of people hated but I prefer Lanthimos in that mode

IMAX screenings for OBAA in Rochester are already *packed*, this movie’s going to make money

Bill Simmons keeping Disney Plus as a sponsor on his podcast when he’s tight with Kimmel is fucking hilarious

Russell Wilson is…as the kids say….washed.

Mahomes just sailing passes everywhere it’s pretty rough

I don’t think it’s ideal to not have a kicker in a close, defensive game. Might be tricky.

I always forget just how fucking painful it is watching the Chiefs play football.

Jesus WHY THE FUCK ARE SOME OF YOU ACTUALLY WATCHING THE KIRK MEMORIAL WATCH A MOVIE READ A BOOK GOOD GOD

I mean…I plan on using fireworks when *he* dies so I can’t get too mad about this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This may have been premature