He just died.

Yes, I do as well.

Happy 100th sir, and please celebrate wildly!

I bought this so fast my credit card spontaneously combusted.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Word.

Well maybe. But I got you pegged. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social

Surprisingly effective low budget horror film, close to the best of Universal's 40s efforts.

One Christmas movie to know me by.

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This is exciting news! Assume you're aware of it, @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=37541

A beautifully shot movie, and perfectly calibrated to Roger Moore's strengths (such as they are). The only one of his films I'd rank among the best of the series.

This would fix approximately 95% of all problems, actually.

Basil Rathbone with his wife Ouida. He tried to teach her to play golf, but after some initial failed attempts she declared it a "stupid game" and threw his putter into a water hazard.

I hope there really is a hell.

Currently watching. It's far from the shitshow of legend, but it's not doing John Gilbert any favors either.

Shocked.

Nope. I'd say instead: MYSTERIOUS SKIN I'M NOT THERE 45YEARS CASINO ROYALE BOYHOOD Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN PARASITE NOTES ON A SCANDAL BAD EDUCATION BEFORE SUNSET and I'll concede: MAD MAX FURY ROAD LOST IN TRANSLATION

"Once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind. It won’t go to you and hand over its meanings. You have to go to it." I reviewed The Secret Agent, my favorite film of 2025. Haunting, beautiful, profound. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

All due respect to Sen. Kelly, but THIS is what's wrong with Democratic Party messaging... it always ends in a poll-tested, neutered whimper. Don't say "using the opportunity to divide us," say "he is talking like a bloodthirsty dictator!" He wants you KILLED, man! Grow a pair, or keep losing.

"Defendant, the court finds you... just absolutely adorable."

Strong floor, no ceiling.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 30. Best film noir ending. In the proto-Noir I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, Paul Muni is a veteran who can't escape a brutal, inhumane system (sound familiar?). His final line as he fades into the dark is an unforgettable moment, one of the greatest film endings ever.

Clearly Taiwan is sending its best.

Now you too can look like an archaic cartoon villain!

I❤️NY

Excellent piece that gets to the heart of willful blindness and some of the reasons for it.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 29: Best RKO Noir. BORN TO KILL. Some nicely dressed people speaking calmly to each other... but just under the surface, it's the sickest, most depraved thing imaginable. This movie doesn't get the love and attention it deserves for being one of the craziest of all Noirs.

In my youth I really loved the "Mouse" books, and the two movies made from them were... not bad at all.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

As #Noirvember draws to a close, I feel the need to say once again for those in the back: CASABLANCA is not a f*cking film noir.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 28: Noir you watch over and over. DOUBLE INDEMNITY. This movie is like an old wooden rollercoaster—so expertly constructed that each twist and turn gives you the same little shudder of delight every time. It's straight down the line, baby.

These people were exactly the same 60 years ago. Reactionary racism ages like a white whine.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 27: Favourite film noir featuring food. MILDRED PIERCE, in which Joan Crawford rises from home baker to waitress to restaurant entrepreneur. She gradually loses touch with food itself (we see less of it as the film unfolds), as she does with her other most important values.

In my early 50s I was having drinks at a Manhattan hotel bar with a woman I adored, when there was a sudden fierce rainstorm stranding us there. I managed to procure an umbrella out of nowhere... and suddenly becoming Psmith was one of the highlights of my life.

Disfruté mucho de esto.

THE LONG GOODBYE and CHINATOWN are my other two favorite Neo-noirs. Not the most original choices, but they're both so damn tight.

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

I'm enjoying this Laurel and Hardy series from Flicker Alley so much. Some of these shorts are as great as Chaplin or Keaton, and the restorations are beautiful in spite of the sources often being problematic. Highly recommended. flickeralley.com/products/lau...

The right wing's supposed reverence for the military has always been 100% performative. Same for their attitude toward law-enforcement, the flag, and the Constitution. These things are only cudgels to be wielded in their quest to utterly subjugate the Left. Fuck these people, man.

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 26: Favourite Neo-noir THE GRIFTERS is the only movie that gets Jim Thompson exactly right. His cynicism is so raw, his people so lost, his bleakness so total that usually his books are unfilmable. This movie solves the problem by leaning in hard, with a gleeful brio.

2nd favorite Noir featuring a boat: PURPLE NOON. #NoirvemberChallenge

#NoirvemberChallenge Day 25: Favorite film noir featuring a boat. Maybe the most chilling scene in Noir is in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, when Gene Tierney takes Darryl Hickman out on a lake for swimming practice. The fresh outdoor locations in Technicolor only add to the horror.

Note to self.

He's an evil clown, Charlie Brown.

#NoirvemberChallenge 24. Favorite Film Noir poster.

This week brought sharp drops in Trump’s approval, a clear show of strength for Democrats, a major breakthrough on the Epstein files, and a string of legal setbacks for the Trump administration. Team Big Picture broke it all down.