2025, your stories entertained and moved me. None more so than these. boxd.it/Rl20W

So how's the vibe over here these days? I've basically abandoned posting on social media as It seems tailor made for polarization and misunderstanding. I think its likely just a fatal flaw of algorithmic public discourse. Finding much good here? Tell me something you've been thinking deeply about.

Missouri.

Get Out, Us, Nope. Columns are just vertical rows, right?

With the release of James Gunn's Superman, Mike took a look at the franchise with every films starring Reeve, Routh, and Cavill! www.siftpop.com/superman-fir...

Department Q is Broadchurch meets House and I want it to go for 1000 seasons.

Don't forget Eurovision starts today for those who celebrate.

Live from a bunker..

Did I drop a teaser episode for a new era SiftPop episode? Could be.

Tyler once again nails it here. I taught my boys growing up that the path to HOPE is through Humility, Optimism, Patience, and Empathy. To see so many treat these things as weaknesses instead of strengths has been one of the clearest signs of the destructive nature inherent in cultural polarization.

In an effort to share these more often, on the latest episode of Also See, we had @dicer.bsky.social on to talk about The Mission, starring Robert De Niro! One of my favorite movies we've talked about on the pod so far. open.spotify.com/episode/7k9U...

I loved Black Bag even more than Presence. Can't wait to see what Soderbergh drops in May.

We are within years, probably months, from generative machine learning being able to take any old movie and immediately make a full new version that looks like it was shot on today's cameras. I do not believe I am properly calibrated for the amount of cognitive dissonance this will cause me.

Final chance! Click "Sposcars" at SiftPop.com to get your Oscar picks in!

Just an absolutely egregious set of previously on scenes before this week's Severance. An all timer of distrusting your audience's recollection at the expense of the natural joy of story reintegration.

Don't forget! Still time to get Sposcars picks in at SiftPop.com. Just click Sposcars on the menu!

An emotional and beautiful day of talking to so many who have invested their own beauty, intelligence, and charisma into @siftpop.bsky.social podcast as we head to a new season. What a privilege to have so many amazing and gifted collaborators. I love them all so much.

Love you Lo!

Severance is hitting so pure right now. I'm loving it. My only hope is that it can stick the landing as well as LOST. (This is not a joke) (Seriously)

Completely unrelated, I need to go check in on the CinemaSins YT comments.

If you liked Wicked, Alice thinks you'll like these things as well! www.siftpop.com/one-stop-pop...

Leo DiCaprio's commitment to not doing big-budget franchise-type movies for his entire career is pretty impressive. An astounding filmography and not a single franchise film amongst them after getting his foot in the door with Critters 3. Especially noteworthy considering this era of film. Hats off.

Thank you so much for the kind words many have shared with me after the pod announcement. You'll never know how much it means to me. ❤️

"Diary of a Simpy Kid"

Change a letter, change the movie. "The Kids Are Alt Right"

Update: My favorite 250 movies, ranked, in order. What did I miss? boxd.it/CbGki

Sonic 3 is so good I had to redo my Fave41 for the year. Was not expecting that.

Hoping to get to it soon!

"Stylistically, thematically, and performance-wise, [Squid Game] is still as good as ever. However, whether it was Netflix, the creative team, or a combination of both, the structure is so distracting it cannot be ignored." - Mike www.siftpop.com/squid-game-s...

If you start Requiem For a Dream at exactly 11:52 it will strike midnight at the precise moment you shut it off in frustration and curse me for suggesting you spend your New Year's watching Requiem For a Dream.

Worth an occasional reminder.

Lots of great options there IMO. Haven’t seen everything I’ve wanted to this year, but of what I have seen so far, these would be some of my favorite sleepers in no particular order. All should be available to be found… somewhere.

Top 10 2024 "Under the mainstream radar sneaky awesome movies you're going to want to seek out." 10. Monster 9. Caddo Lake 8. Daughters 7. I'm Still Here 6. Steve! (martin) 5. I Used To Be Funny 4. Exhibiting Forgiveness 3. Ghostlight 2. Hundreds of Beavers 1. Hard Truths Any you'd add?

Not nearly enough hub has been bubbed about the fact that the BBC cancelled Doctor Who last year and then immediately started a new show also called Doctor Who that continued the continuity of the show they just cancelled.

Merry Christmas! Let's rank some subjective art! boxd.it/ByzTM

Every year I'm more and more proud that the CCA nominates actual comedies in its comedy category. Real Pain and Saturday Night are slight awards flick stretches but the rest are legit comedies that deserve some time in the spotlight.

"I'll be right back."

This is very on-point: Neel is Mikey Wim is Chunk Fern is Mouth KB is Data Jod is Brand The Onyx Cinder is One-eyed Willie’s ship The parents are the parents Still trying to figure out who SM-33 is. He’s not Sloth, but he’s not not Sloth.

In depth movie criticism.

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is Space Goonies and I kind of love it.

Dipping my toes back in. Is the water less social media polarization creating algorithmic death spiral echo chambery over here?

Update.

It's hard to put into words how irritating the phrase "A Knives Out Mystery" is to me. Skin crawls. Rage builds. Dystopia is upon us. All shall wail and lament.

I wonder if Alamo will kick me out for being on my phone when I'm the only one in the theater. Let's find out.

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Back on my BS to say that Eurovision is today, live on Peacock, 2pm CST and you should watch it and revel in the madness and beauty of artistic expression.