I knew Val when I was in college. She was a wonderful person and it breaks my heart that she's gone. Please give if you can.

I finally read TWELFTH NIGHT tonight. It's been many years since I just sat down and read a Shakespeare play, and you know what? I like just sitting down and reading Shakespeare plays.

White House is going to invite a gaggle of Times reporters to interview the President while he takes a dump. "See? I'm very good at the dumping. I put it right in the toilet every time. If there was an award for taking a shit I would win it. Is there? There should be. We'll look into it."

I remember fellow film studies majors in my early 2000s program saying they found it hard to watch any pre-Brando movies because of the acting. I definitely gave them a face.

Through all her incredible and wide-ranging work, Catherine O'Hara has been a constant presence in every home I've ever lived in, and that certainly won't change.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

I hate this graphic because when it gets a lot of reposts I'll hope It Happened, and then the headline is just "website down" and everyone's sharing it to make their jokey jokes.

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It's amazing how much this radiates loser energy

When Working Towards the Fuhrer Goes Wrong

Me cleaning after the wife makes Italian

My grandfather passed (at a ripe old age) on J6, which made the day even more surreal. I remember on J7 people mass tweeting something like "There must be consequences today or this will happen again" and following suit, adding a picture of my cat. Well at least the cat's still here.

I hate to be THAT GUY, but as a paralegal who's worked on O-1 petitions for nearly twenty years, the visa has always been like a scoreboard because it's based on meeting X number of criteria, and we have used online follower metrics for a long time now.

Me watching slow cinema

Early in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, Leslie Nielsen as the Captain is in a tense situation but still tells a crew member, "By the way, Happy New Year," and it reads as such a proto-AIRPLANE! moment that I cackled.

I did not hear this but a friend shoplifted a figurine from Hot Topic when the mall had a brief power outage and it was the coolest thing I've ever seen.

My last film of 2025 was ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE because much of it takes place on and after Christmas. Tonight's film: THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972), because New Year's and I always bring it up when we take a cruise.

I have said this one to my wife, much to her confusion, which means it's pantheon status for me.

MARTY SUPREME: Marty's solutions keep getting taken away from him in ways that can feel a bit contrived. This led me to think about the film in terms of a parable or medieval legend. Is its universe trying to teach him something, or is it just a fun ride? Either way, I was very entertained.

[The Clash voice]:

I am being attacked by newest in-law.

Me watching Odessa Steps at 18: This is an important development in the history of filmmaking. Me watching Odessa Steps at 43: This slaps.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Every time I've sliced garlic over the past few weeks, I think, "He used a lightsaber."

When they started them at the then new AMC in town in late 99, people would boo. I remember a digital camera ad that was regularly met with hisses.

Two time Academy Award winning editor Anne V. Coates, who cut LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, OUT OF SIGHT, and FIFTY SHADES OF GREY was born 100 years ago today. She made one of the most iconic edits in film history.

I don't know if it was me or @nickmartorelli.bsky.social who first said it, but we wish we could have a reunion with everyone we saw THE RAID with one winter afternoon at the AMC Lincoln Square.

If I DM your animal photo or joke to my wife, I will give it a fave regardless of my own personal feelings and opinions. That's the Justin Promise!

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That ad came up when we were streaming something and the wife, not knowing about the AI, asked, "Why does this look weird?"

This could be a bit in a Conner O'Malley video.

This is me and @justinmuschong.bsky.social and PTA at the end is very @justinmuschong.bsky.social

GODDAMN

"Yes, your honor, everyone I killed was on a real government target list, up to and including the woman what happened to catch the stray whilst we were vacating the bank. I expect your apology forthwith."

The Tony Scott love & short running time led me to UNSTOPPABLE last night. While no RUNAWAY TRAIN (what is?), I found Scott's style more appealing & effective than I did back then, tho over-the-top at the times the train was going 20-some mph. Plenty of cliches, but sold well. Solid Friday flick.

You know it's a good post when it appears in your feed four times in a row.

Imagine being on a nice hike and passing some jagoff speaking a shitty book into her phone.

My grandmother passed away 30 years before I was born. She was a singer who used to make homemade recordings on 78s of herself and her family members. My father recently found them, cleaned them, and bought a record player. This weekend I heard her voice for the first time.

My wife has named "Jumper Hounds" as her favorite thing in the entire world.

I watched this year's Tree House of Horror and couldn't get over the voicework. The characters don't sound like themselves anymore.

I doubt this subway graffiti is 22 years old, but that still seems more likely than someone today being a big fan of BULLETPROOF MONK.

He got mad at me for prioritizing chores over pets.

The wife is in the middle of directing her high school's annual musical. We watched MR. SCORSESE ("The Scorzaza Show") and she seems to have taken real inspiration from it. Not from his style, but from the WORK required, the dedication and passion and attention to detail. It warms my cold heart.

The rescue organization gave our cat the name Merv the Perv. We changed it, but it still haunts us.

This has moved into "playing it for my puzzled wife" territory for me.

I genuinely gasped at this. One of my favorite actors of all time who was in many of my favorite films of all time. I was very lucky to see him in person at the Museum of the Moving Image when they showed RAN some years ago. It's a treasured memory.

Idly listening to Bernstein's recording of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and I keep hearing bits of the STAR WARS main theme. Is it me or is this a known influence for John Williams?

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TRAIN DREAMS: A bit like "What if the montages in ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES were the whole movie?," so naturally I loved it. A meditation on the beauty of life, common and uncommon. Very glad I saw it on a big screen.

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE - The ending convinced me: ZERO DARK THIRTY is definitely pro-torture.