Doing our annual rewatch of DIE HARD and I have never been more convinced that John McClane sucks, that he’s a fucking idiot, that he doesn’t deserve to win, and yet. Guess that’s what makes DIE HARD an American classic.

this season i’m wishing you and yours a few small holiday cheers

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

get everyone gambling on their phone and then charge them for losing is actually pretty funny

It’s a Christmas edition of #UterusHorror! Be sure to go to @certifiedforgot.bsky.social to read all about THE SACRIFICE GAME and how it finally gives us the UH movie ending we want.

Trump’s 'National Security Strategy' declares the US will focus on 'cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.' That amounts to a declaration the US will promote regime change in countries that remain governed by pro-democracy parties that support the EU and NATO"

“THE SACRIFICE GAME shows two very different girls at different stages of self-discovery.” It wouldn’t be the holidays without a Christmas-themed column from @mollyhenery.bsky.social.

I'm about to kick off my 25th year as a member of this long-running OOTP baseball league, and that is just insane. INSANE. I joined an online forum in 2001 at the behest of a high school friend, and somehow I'm still a member of this community over two decades later. Who woulda thunk.

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

I think Rebecca Hall is one of the best actors in the world right now, but damn... the last Ryan Murphy thing I saw that spoke to me at all was Pose. I have not finished anything else of his I've started since. theplaylist.net/the-beauty-t...

I don't go here and I probably never will but after seeing how everybody's reacting to this guy getting freaky with the evil fire queen lady, this does raise the question of what would have happened if you introduced Javert to a scary goth baddie

I'm becoming dangerously enamored with owning original comic artwork.

We are in the middle of a second Trump administration and yet nobody is reviving BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON and I am starting to get annoyed by this.

OK. I THINK I've finally decided on my next tattoo. I don't put much faith in tarot, but I love the design of the cards, and I've been looking for an unconventional way to do a BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER tattoo forever. So I THINK I'm going to do a tattoo of The Devil but have the picture be The Boiler.

I kinda love that the explicit stoner stuff is absent and instead he’s just a blitzed out weirdo.

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

Hoping to get into the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle next year, but until then, not mad about these selections.

We've gone from journalism falling into the trap of bothsidesism to reporting not being considered "good journalism" UNLESS it's bothsidesism.

Why I love KEEPER: Liz has been in so many fucked up relationships, often of her own making, that when she meets a stable (?) guy, she no longer trusts her instincts. That's the heart of the movie for me - how much we're willing to delude ourselves for love, and how aware we are that we're doing it.

Seeing Lou Wilson's joker car in the wild is a generational equivalent to Angelyne's pink Corvette.

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025): Kind of a rehash of THE WAY OF WATER, which is more compliment than condemnation in my book. Plus, it’s hard not to enjoy Colonel Miles Quaritch as James Cameron’s Inspector Javert fan fiction. 🎵 Lord let me find him / that I may see him / safe behind bars 🎵

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH opening with a trailer for PRIMATE is fun. 9:30 AM crowd didn’t know what to make of that.

Going into AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH this morning with a theory: AVATAR’s lack of cultural presence between movies (so far) is part of the appeal, not an indictment of the franchise. It’s a throwback to sequels of yesteryear — no television shows, no movie spinoffs, no Comic-Con timeline announcements.

Went to @moviemadness.org to visit my shelf! Loved seeing a couple of the films rented out and people perusing the shelf while I was there. Thanks so much to the MM team for inviting me to curate this selection of #UterusHorror films I love. Be sure to visit MM and rent from my shelf while you can!

Just remembered that much of my FSR feature/interview writing that would position me as an expert on specific films — such as SAUNA or THE EMPTY MAN or THE PERFECTION or THE HEAD HUNTER — is gone forever, thereby killing any chance that an editor might see it and ask me to do booklet copy. Womp.

Tonight at dinner, @andreamontoro.bsky.social was describing a book she was reading, and she paused and said, “It’s called a framing device,” and I have NEVER been more offended in our 14 years of dating-slash-marriage.

New episode of @certifiedforgot.bsky.social is live, and we’ve got @hauntedmeg.bsky.social as a special guest! We kept a free-for-all vibe as we talked about our favorite horror movies of 2025, with an emphasis on our lesser talked about darlings. The Certified Forgotten way.

The good folks at The Playlist asked me contribute to this year's Best Horror Films piece, so I wrote up a whole slew of my favorite horror films -- including, of course, THE MONKEY and KEEPER.

Just discovered that two of my favorite board game content creators A) got divorced from their partners and B) are now dating each other and it's rocking my world just a little bit.

The bar is in hell but this one made me literally yell. Wild shit. Wild.

Oh, so the first episode of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is like GOOD-good, huh.

Got this email at 35,000 feet this morning, purchased this record at 35,000 feet this morning. I mean, I loved Fiona Apple BEFORE she invested herself deeply in pretrial nonprofit work, so there was no chance I wasn't buying this.

I'm told that Black Christmas (2019) is on Disney+ if you want to make your parents watch (spoiler) a bunch of Young Republicans get massacred in their frat house.

So COFFIN MOON was a really fun read. Has a lot of NEAR DARK and LET THE RIGHT ONE IN in its DNA, and really has fun with the notion of vampirism as a curse. I like my vampires dirty and self-loathing, thank you very much.

Kind of crazy that every core social media platform from a decade ago is speed-running their demise. Anyways, can’t wait to pay $14.99 a month for Facebook to serve my posts to 10% of my followers while still offering zero non-follower reach.

My flight from Austin to Philadelphia had a stop in Nashville that turned into a stop in Atlanta and now nobody knows if we’re going to stay here. And despite it all, I’m more amused than put out, because I’m at the age where uncertainty is uncommon, but it’s still fun to have adventures.

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I am 41 years old and I’m going to collect an ARCHIE series because it’s drawn by my favorite artist (@mrtylercrook.bsky.social) and written by one of my favorite writers (@patrickhorvath.bsky.social). Who woulda thunk.

I will never pass on a Brad Anderson movie. My favorite director-for-hire.

Embarrassing.

congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...

"Father Jud’s phone call with Louise, by contrast, displays the kind of nonjudgmental care and attention that religious philosopher Simone Weil once called 'the rarest and purest form of generosity.'" Nobody I'd rather read on cinema and faith than @abbyolcese.bsky.social.

I still need to figure out how to frame and/or display these, but the pride and joy of my little film collection is Paul Weston's original shooting script and storyboards from RAVENOUS. He was the stunt coordinator on the film, and his production sketches of various stunts are amazing.

Rian Johnson bringing his own copy of RAVENOUS to put onto the Criterion Collection shelf is probably the best thing that’s going to happen to me this week. youtu.be/U2plMSuOgrI

In a world where you take your wins where you can find them, I’m happy that none of the MST3K guys seem to suck.

Just wrapped my work event at 8:30 after hitting the airport at 6:15 this morning. That’s a long day. Time for some shitty hotel TV.

Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.

Early New Year's resolution for myself: set aside more time for writing. I feel like I've been in survival mode the last half-year what with the move and everything, and I'd like to get back to a place where I'm writing about movies because I'm inspired and excited to do so.