Okay: my coverage for @bosunderground.bsky.social fell through. If you know anyone out there that's up for words on one of the fests that makes Boston such a great city for movies, hit me up; you won't regret, and most of all, neither will I.

If you don‘t work out in jeans then maybe you shouldn’t be jabbering about it

Thought I was too to watch THE SERPENT'S SKIN before bed last night; turns out I picked up my 3-year old's stomach bug and spent 8 hours doing gross stuff, cleaning up, repeat. Just watched THE SERPENT'S SKIN. My strength is returning. My gut microbiome is now sheathed in iron and determination.

*sigh* Alright. I have indeed done some writing lately. Here's a little bit of it! Starting with contributions to @popheist.com, and my ode slash final farewell to slash appreciation of the great Udo Kier on the occasions of two of his final film roles: popheist.com/udo-kier-pos...

I think you can worry about American Islamophobia without minimizing American antisemitism. People literally shoot up synagogues in this country, it’s not an imaginary problem or a matter of microaggressions against bourgeois knowledge workers, which is how I see fellow leftists describing it

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

I appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. (Captions added, video 1 of 2):

I am unreasonably* excited for this year’s BUFF *it is always reasonable to be excited about BUFF

Truly a monumental accomplishment to revive Fango, keep it going for 8 years, and infuse it with the same vitality than it had in its heyday. Love this mag, love these people.

If COLD STORAGE had committed to practical effects over floods of digital goo, I'd have absolutely given it a higher grade. Even so, it's a gem, as you might deduce by reading my review for @avclub.com, where I go all-in on my fondness for Joe Keery.

When I overhear someone talking about horror movies

Reading this interview calls to mind the FAMILY GUY episode where Peter Griffin box traps James Woods using a trail of candy for bait, Jesus Christ.

Stepping out of my film critic lane for a moment for a lecture on your rights and how to act if you have an encounter with ICE; my sage wisdom, drawing on my southern Italian roots, is "ubbidite la omertà."

As a break in between 2026's persistent horrors: BUGONIA got some Oscar nods, most notably for Adapted Screenplay. So I took it upon myself as someone who has owned a DVD of SAVE THE GREEN PLANET! since 2004 to dig into Jang Joon-hwan's gonzo genre masterpiece, for @popheist.com.

inventing a drink called The Susan Collins. to make it, you say "I'm very concerned about this" and then you serve gin and bleach to an 11th grader

The best part is that she's insisting they need to communicate clearly and transparently while sounding like Teddy Ruxpin doll trained in corporate buzzwords

many of you are coming off the top rope for greg bovino, but you really don't need to do that. bottom rope is high enough

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?

I do not believe we should end the “abolish ICE” sloganeering; if the people stop saying it now, then it’s infinitely less likely to happen for a variety of reasons. I also hope people realize that when ICE *is* eventually abolished, it won’t be until after the rotting orange cadaver leaves office.

what a bunch of little bitch snowflakes

As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets." 1/

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”. A 🧵 of ICE abuse

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

The outcry against and critiques made of the sentiment that "this is not who we are" represent pedantry at its least constructive and most damaging, though I guess I take comfort knowing that Bluesky hasn't changed much since I returned to the platform.

Salute, salutary, and salutations, fuck ICE!

THE EAR, THE EYE, AND THE ARM. The reasons I leap at the chance to cover any contemporary African cinema, especially gene cinema, are many, but the impact this book had on me in terms of fundamentally altering my worldview can’t be put into a single post.

House Party With Big Naturals

Hey, hi folks, I know Oscar noms just dropped but this seems a good deal more consequential

Renee Good was shot 3 times by ICE The first two shots were non lethal. One to her left forearm & another to right breast The final shot entered the left side of her head & exited the right side He didn’t have to keep shooting. He was out of the vehicle’s path before the kill shot That’s murder

AIR FORCE ONE JUST TURNED AROUND ! 𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾𝕃𝔼𝕊 𝔻𝕆𝔼𝕊ℕ'𝕋 ℂ𝔸ℝ𝔼

SINNERS: **1/2. This movie has no balls; it's also exactly what I expect even from original studio horror today, when horror is broadly curated by journalists who, a decade ago, didn't have any use for the genre or pay it any mind. Good as Coogler is, he spurns his premise with a weak payoff.

Hello, 911? He’s back. Yeah, on his pony. Sticking feathers in his hat, calling it macaroni

What little I've seen of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON is absolute dogwater, so imagine my surprise at finding A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS delightful. I'm well past done with this franchise's political vantage, and thus relieved at the shifts in perspective and tone. For @theplaylist.bsky.social:

I speak from experience: often all that it takes to send a guy like the braying train jackass packing is a few well-aimed curses. They're not used to being confronted by the public *in public*.

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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Please, PLEASE. Read this thread.

Ralph Fiennes, from this day until his expiration, should be contractually required to put on an outre and joyful dance number in every *and any* film he appears in, regardless of either genre or the scope of his role. Anyway, I liked 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE.

The number of people on my “dead to me for swiping away green-lit assignments from me” list is growing, and honestly, I really don’t like it! You’ll know you’re on the list if you randomly feel a burdensome chill flow from your heart through your veins.

Well I’ll be doggoned

Boy do I regret knowing how to read

Yes, the U.S. government is fascist.

What a nest of monsters we live in.

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

I didn't bring up her son once in our conversation, though I was tempted simply to say "congratulations"; even that felt tacky. Besides: she's working on a new film on the other side of the world and we had SALAAM BOMBAY! to talk about. So enjoy my interview with Mira Nair, for JoySauce!