I’m genuinely reading Playboy for the articles today.

Got a job in the fall TA’ing a class on Anne Frank of all things. Should be interesting and works out well with my upcoming trip to Amsterdam, where I can visit her house for prep.

Editing dissertation chapter, which means I’m back on my random film sample grind. #NowWatching Freshman Love (William C. McGann, 1936)

My baby is kind of like Ms. Pac-Man. Gigantic round head, big flapping mouth, insatiable hunger, and wears a bow on her head so people gender her correctly.

#NowWatching The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh, 2025)

The stars of HOMER’S ELEVEN

This is how you look after directing exactly one movie

#NowWatching Bullet in the Head (John Woo, 1990)

In a season full of misjudged creative choices, Daveed Diggs on THE BOYS deserves special mention for doing the broadest, shallowest, least funny performance in the entire run of the show.

#NowWatching Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965)

The best mom around

Got another article moved past the peer review stage for potential publication. Hell yeah.

The bubble queen on her little throne

#NowWatching The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli, 2026)

So, what's the deal with Warner Brothers Clockwork? Why would they create a new specialty shingle right as they are being sold? What's the rationale there?

CANNES IS SCREENING A NEW 4K RESTORATION OF KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS! WITH THE BLESSING OF WB!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!

Sure it looks great, but what if I told you this was made of the original negative of MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS?

Wife is sick and very hoarse, and between the phlegmy coughs, she kinda sounds like Scarlett Johansson. 😍🤤

*Don thinks back on his life—broken marriages and affairs, emotional breakdowns, the strain on his kids, missteps in his career, his horrific childhood* Pepperidge Farm… Remembers

#NowWatching EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Baz Luhrmann, 2025)

THE BOYS gave Giancarlo Esposito his own version of Ned Beatty’s NETWORK speech this season and it had absolutely no juice.

Has anyone else started getting charged (not a hold) for Amazon pre-orders immediately rather than when it ships? It’s happened to me twice now.

It's called popping a respect boner for a worthy adversary, nothing weird or gay about it, I can assure you.

I appreciate that this looks like a Cregger movie first and foremost. Much in the same way Anderson’s films were, for better or worse, his own thing, I suppose.

Despite only playing a major role in one feature film, MJ had an insanely stacked list of directorial collaborators: Sidney Lumet, Martin Scorsese, John Landis, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, John Singleton, David Fincher, Stan Winston, and Barry Sonnenfeld, among others.

Before social media we basically got a handful of discourse topics that sustained us all year, and back in 2002 this was one of them

A sitting governor with the backing of the Democratic Party dropped out of a race for Senate to save face rather than demolished by a lefty oyster farmer and shitposter who accidentally got a Nazi tattoo. These are indeed wild electoral times.

She's just part of the Rhythm Nation

Very weird that INVINCIBLE and THE BOYS, two different adult-skewing superhero shows on Amazon Prime, have employed an identical plot element within weeks of each other.

I’m okay with reliving a few high points as part of the send-off, but I will be a little disappointed if this ends up leaning too hard on the greatest hits rather than the new material.

Headlines beamed straight from hell

ASMR: Russell Brand leafs through a Bible and quietly apologizes while trying to find a verse.

lol

My goofy ass somehow got published in the same journal that published Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." academic.oup.com/screen/artic...

Your favorite Doofus has a big, hour-long presentation today. Everyone wish me luck!

Just made myself laugh imagining a guy who celebrates his wife’s pregnancy with a veal dinner, so that he can also have a baby inside of him.

Tim Cook had to lead the ship after Jobs died, so it’s probably unsurprising that his tenure was defined by stability, profitability, and a noticeable lack of exciting technological innovations.

I can abide the inherent contradictions between B**ts R*l*y’s work and its mode of production and distribution, much great art has been produced out of similar contradictions. It’s the self-righteous defenses of his own ideological purity that rub me wrong.

Struggling with mental health today, so I called my wife to calm me down. After we talked I told her, “By the way, my 3 month sabbatical begins after you get home from work. I’m getting on my motorcycle and driving to the desert, so you don’t have to worry about me.”

Loved the finale, but this is giving a bit of “this shot will be taught in film schools”

Wife and I finished trudging the rocky road that is the final season of GILMORE GIRLS and rolled right into the miniseries. Admittedly we’ve only seen one episode, but I’m shocked it has a mixed reputation, it immediately feels like a steady hand is back behind the wheel to me.

Started watching RUGRATS with the baby, and I have a few observations. A) holds up, love the intentionally ugly animation style, B) Mark Mothersbaugh’s musical score rules, C) all of the parents are wildly negligent.

The very first episode of BLUEY includes a gag where Bandit gets sprayed by an unkinked hose, a clear homage to 1895’s “L'Arroseur Arrosé”, considered by many to be earliest known example of film comedy. In this essay I will…

There’s a new Hershey biopic from the director of MEAN GIRLS, which means an executive said “I like Waters for chocolate.”

TV viewers might recall the spate of fake Bernies (think Gil Eavis on SUCCESSION) and fake AOCs (such as Victoria Neuman on THE BOYS) on shows a few years back. By my math, we’re less than 12 months away from a buzzy streaming show with a fake Zohran, mark my words.

If I could sum up millennial fatherhood in one image…

Guy on the bus is wearing a T-shirt with a logo for Bryan Singer’s JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, a movie that stopped existing the moment it came out.

If you have good ideas but can’t write, you can always become an academic. Hey-o!!

My baby can only say like 10 words, but she does know it’s funny that I call her a tooter when she farts and proceeds to make a farting sound with her mouth. I think she’s a genius.