Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:

To sleep, perchance to make movies: ending the year with a review of a truly wondrous film, Bi Gan's Resurrection. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...

I cannot stress enough how, if you like fantasy, epics, action, good movies in general, Indian cinema, and/or RRR, you REALLY need to catch BAAHUBALI: THE EPIC on the big screen this week. Don't worry a bit about the run time, we hard-coded a ten minute intermission into the DCP and the film ZIPS.

At the intermission for BAAHUBALI: THE EPIC and my short review so far is this shit rocks.

This is not our movie, but if you enjoy things like smiling you REALLY should go see this movie with strangers!

No guilty pleasures- only pleasures!

Every conservative on Twitter today: “I brought my Nordic wife and our cherubic triplets to Washington DC for January 6th and as soon as we stepped off the plane we were bullied by a group of reefer-smoking greasers who made my wife a porn star and turned my triplets into non-binary baristas #MAGA”

This is a "do not miss" situation!

Did you like RRR? Come thru, let's go even bigger.

This is so fantastic! @thegrandcinema.bsky.social is the theater I mention in the opening of my @metroweekly.bsky.social cover story about first seeing Brokeback Mountain two decades ago. I’m so happy to see an independent cinema like the Grand flourishing. There’s no better place to see a movie.

The Frida Cinema has it right...

Oh no if they close Gristedes where are we going to get $17 4-packs of Charmin

PSA for everyone going to protests

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

There's a lot bad in the world but let's make sure to celebrate the victories too @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

Top five post-apocalypse 3-day wknds at the box office: 7/21/23: $307m (Barbenheimer) 7/26/24: $283m (Deadpool) 12/17/21: $281m (Spider-man: No Way Home) 11/29/24: $275m (Moana 2/Wicked/Gladiator 2) 5/26/25: $264m (Lilo/M:I-8/Caught by the Tides) Be nice to the theater staff, take out your trash!

The speed with which I typed in my zip code

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UK folks:

Hell yeah

The one venue I'll sort of miss at Sundance is the Holiday, a creaky four-plex with generally good vibes in the tent and decent picture and sound, only dinged because each theater had about 24 seats.

We are now 50% of the way to our goal. We're so grateful to everyone who's given or shared.

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s new film, “Misericordia,” “is an exceptional experience,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. “The story is logical yet wide-ranging, and it pings and sparks with nuances of behavior and character.”

There are still surprises to be had at the movies and this is one of them. Don’t pass on seeing MISERICORDIA. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

From Amanda:

This is wild, how are we supposed to tell the difference between black bloc vandalism and the truly insane number of Teslas that burst into flames for absolutely no reason

Do I have to type Se7en or can I just say SEVEN and you'll know what I'm talking about? Did we style guide that?

Boston film fans: I’ll be moderating the Q&A with Alain Guiraudie tomorrow night at the Kendall. We’re gonna have a lot to talk about.

being the richest person in the world and the president of the united states can’t even stop this guy from continuing to crash out

That's two Soderbergh bangers in forty-nine days for those keeping score

Seven Veils: Thrilling in its unraveling of impropriety across art in all its forms - stage, screen, even clay - all inextricable from pain. Bemused and slightly irritable, Egoyan seeks to understand a world profiting from harm. Amanda Seyfried is tremendous. Wildly great stuff.

I recently watched the same movie twice in one week; once at home and once in a packed theater. The film was exactly the same, but the different venues elicited very different responses. That led to this piece. I suppose the headline speaks for itself.

1. It's working 2. I suddenly really REALLY want to see a video of Tr*mp trying to drive a car

This is what you do after winning an Oscar

Every now and then you get lucky and tonight I get to have dinner with one of my favorite filmmakers (Atom Egoyan). You can’t come BUT there are a handful of tickets just released to the previously sold-out Q&A show of SEVEN VEILS at the Quad tonight (and tmrw) and you can sneak in wine!

Movie night with Bagel. Trying not to interrupt whatever’s going on here. #Flow

There is no finer showtime than 9:40pm.

When car shopping I asked the Tesla folks "if there's a wreck and no power, how does my kid open the door to get out?" The answer was "oh easy they fold down some carpet under the seat to reveal a cable that has to be pulled a certain direction," which is goddamn insane, so I did not buy a Tesla.

I look forward to robustly debating my weekend estimates with the master!

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Squeezing $40m in payola out of independent documentary film (plus $10m for what would be the $500 tier on a kickstarter) is honestly incredible. True galaxy brain grifting.

It’s hard to say which of Trump’s lackeys will be responsible for the most suffering, but when it comes to the most death my money is firmly on RFK.

Holy shit.

NYC: Spike Lee's DA 5 BLOODS is a big screen movie through and through and is playing next Saturday at the Paris, for free. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/da-5-bl...

I hate hate HATE to give the worst people in the world a point but I do feel like we have to admit that, aside from carrying around a metal one in your pocket, we have not come up with a viable replacement for the plastic straw.

The most frequent question I get asked is about this scene. To me it's a lot more important to create an emotional experience rather than sending a message. It's something I can't explain with words. If I could, I wouldn't need to make this film.

The "ah see, NOW they'll regret voting for him" thing assumes that all the pain will be applied equally- but it won't. Blue states/constituents will get hosed, red states will get "bailouts". Remember what happened when all the states ordered PPE at once? FL got their full order, MA got 17%.

Why does the left not use some of the insane fundraising capacity to run Super Bowl spots saying "hey y'all this is messed up and gonna cost you $" to the country. Just letting the crazies eat our lunch is, in fact, a shitty strategy...