Old time movie star suave from someone who knows how it’s done

The world’s richest man developing a machine designed to generate illegal pornography should be headline news but it isn’t

Went to Anaconda this afternoon. It doesn’t make much sense. Jack Black and Paul Rudd’s characters are way too old to have the original Anaconda as a formative experience. It’s okay though if you don’t go in expecting much. It’s hard to be critical of an escapist comedy with everything going on

Thinking again for no particular reason about an early interview with James Cameron where he said with resources available to him there’s no reason to make any mistakes about anything, but he’ll intentionally put mistakes about guns in his films because it makes gun nuts happy when they spot them

We got the AI Coca-Cola Christmas ad ahead of Anaconda this afternoon. I thought it had been buried. Biggest brand on the planet and their AI is as crap looking as it is in Radu Jude’s Dracula

“The killing clowns, the blood money men are shooting those Washington bullets again” youtu.be/mkoWjhZOKWo?...

Watching the Chevy Chase documentary took me back to David Berman’s “Self-Portrait at 28”

Daphne du Maurier's novel Rule Britannia, published in 1972, is often cited as a surprising prediction of Brexit, depicting a near-future Britain that leaves Europe (the Common Market) and faces economic collapse, leading to a political union with the United States, effectively becoming a 51st state

This bar is packed. Everyone's watching the Panthers game like it's the Super Bowl

Gonna cheer myself up by watching that CNN documentary about what a horrible person Chevy Chase is

I know I’m out of the loop these days but wtf there’s a a kidzbop movie???

This is how our school administration looked when a friend of mine got called in for mooning the school on senior skip day

When the Reagan administration tried to appropriate Born in the USA, they were clueless. When the Trump administration appropriates Fortunate Son, they’re trolling. They know what the song’s about

Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.* People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off. Special relationship - alive and kicking.

Watching Radu Jude’s Dracula and thinking it’s a good thing Jess Franco died before AI because ol’ Jess would’ve been using it like crazy

Never ceases to amaze how it’s the right wing that’s had their brains fried by the movies. She’s making it sound like they’ve busted Tony Montana

“One way to think about our show is as a daily conversation about exactly where we are as a country and where we are going.” No, it’s the job of the evening news to give us the news of the day, not to have a conversation about where we are as a country FFS Bari Weiss is very bad at this

In line at the checkout thinking about my old Victorian Lit prof who’d buy copies of the National Enquirer and put them in the office mailboxes of his colleagues so their students would think they were subscribers

It’s crazy but says a lot that politicians and journalists still adore twitter even as it devolves into a cesspool of illicit AI generated pornography and violence inciting hate speech and propaganda

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Started 2026 with a Scorsese film I haven’t seen since its theatrical release. Ended 2025 with my yearly rewatch of The Magnificent Ambersons. And a couple of Groucho Marx comedies including Double Dynamite where he plays Frank Sinatra’s best buddy

Rewatched Wolf of Wall Street last night. First viewing since its release. If everything in it was happening today, once the Feds started moving in, Jordan Belfort would’ve hopped on a plane to Mar-A-Lago, given the President of the United States his 6M payoff and his problems would be over.

Mind blown at the idea of a teen slasher starring David Bowie and Scott Walker

Watching a documentary about the making of Basket Case that was included on my new Arrow Blu-ray. Love this shot of the marquees for Radley Metzger’s Maraschino Cherry and Shaun Costello’s Water Power! Also seeing Hell Up in Harlem in the background.

We must protect Catturd at all costs

It might cost a million dollars a year for a Mar-A-Lago membership but you get top tier entertainment for your money

“Zip-line”

I’ve got the Universal Monsters channel on. They jumped straight from Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy to The Andromeda Strain. Quite a transition

“Ladies and gentlemen, sit back and enjoy this little ditty you all know from Mr. Lou Reed, ‘Metal Machine Music’”

2025 Most Watched actors on Letterboxd Welcome to the club, Tom!

The 1990s saw Hollywood studios make a rush to 3D animation. In the process, it abandoned decades of hand drawn artistry. filmstories.co.uk/news/how-hol...

Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far? 2020: The Assistant 2021: Red Rocket 2022: TAR 2023: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2024: A Different Man 2025: Eephus

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

Jools Holland. Household name in Britain. No one in the US knows who the hell he is

Brings back memories of being in London and visiting bookstores and record shops that don’t exist anymore youtu.be/p3j2NYZ8FKs?...

How I am walking out of 2025

Glad I’m not heavily invested in the MCU because those who are heavily invested are having a hell of a time separating what Avengers Doomsday promo is legit coming from Marvel and what’s fakey AI slop

Thought getting Kirked was a Star Trek reference at first because I’m old

Here’s an MTV golden oldie I’ve always liked. Graham Parker, looking more like Eddie Deezen than a rock n roll star, complaining about the local girls. “So isolated that she thinks that the army is the place where a man oughta be” From the brilliant Squeezing Out Sparks youtu.be/taXvBivGcMo?...

@dsmaycollins.bsky.social have you heard of these? I hadn’t. Sounds like some fun DS adjacent TV horror.

they wouldnt be doing this had the media shamed them for “theyre eating the pets” instead of treating it like a legit campaign issue. they wouldnt be doing it if the democratic leadership had made them pay a political price for gutter racist trash

And right wing young men wonder why they’re washing out with the opposite sex.

Top ten favorite movies of 2025 Eephus All We Imagine As Light (2024 but I saw it this year) One Battle After Another Sorry, Baby Nouvelle Vague Sinners Weapons Cover-Up Friendship Train Dreams close behind - Better Man Pavements One of Them Days Marty Supreme Lurker

This one kinda got me

People complaining about Kevin O’Leary being in Marty Supreme, like you’d rather have Mark Cuban play the part?

Movie trend of the year: Gen Z deciding they like going to the movies and making Ted Sarandos look like an idiot for saying the theatrical experience is dead

The monstrous Stan Laurel terrorizing London with petty practical jokes in DR. PYCKLE AND MR. PRYDE

Linda Yaccarino level cringe