Thinking about how I didn’t buy the blus of X, PEARL or MAXXXINE because I was sure they’d drop a trilogy set in 4K. Then they did. And it was $90. A24, you so silly.

Does RRR still not have a 4K release with the Telugu audio track? Either streaming or physical at this point? I’ve only seen it in Hindi but I wanna give it a proper rewatch sometime.

I know that twin films is a fairly common phenomenon in Hollywood but it’s kind of insane the amount of cross over between READY OR NOT 2 and THEY WILL KILL YOU. Not just overall plots but even specific injuries and visual homages to other movies. Both were a very fun time.

The disparity between acclaim by film festivals/industry vs. online reputation for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu is WILD. The closest thing I can think of is JOKER. Anywho, he’s made nothing but bangers and THE REVENANT is an all-timer. Will be there opening day for DIGGER.

An enormous loss. The English translator for countless Asian cinema masterpieces, if you’ve seen a Wong Kar-wai movie with English subtitles you know his work. Will never forget he once drafted a few of us to subversively help rescue Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer from Harvey Weinstein. Rest in peace 🙏.

RIP Tony Rayns, one of the few English-language critics who genuinely knew what they were talking about (most of the time) when it came to East Asian cinema, especially Hong Kong's.

I’ll be boycotting THE ODYSSEY until Christopher Nolan recasts and deepfakes every scene of Matt Damon as Odysseus with Stavros Halkias.

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell and he offered me $3 million dollars if I could capture Hannibal Lecter alive and deliver him to his pig farm.

Yes! Scott and I have one with Timo Tjahjanto co-writing and directing. Watch this space! Plus, there are a handful more I'm noodling around with.

Farewell to the singular Louise Lasser, unforgettable in any role she tackled, but particularly memorable to horror fans for her go-for-broke turn in BLOOD RAGE. Our condolences to her friends, family and many fans.

“Nothing I did in my career, ever, was planned.” Farewell to Louise Lasser (1939-2026) — a singular presence on stage, TV commercials, in films like BANANAS (1971) and, most unforgettably, as the title character on the Emmy-winning, Norman Lear-produced MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN (1976-77).

Now that Mexico is out, my World Cup support is fully behind Norway, as I too walk like a Sasquatch and am awesome.

Those goddamn toys. And their goddamn stories. Get me every time.

Anyone else thinking about Mason Verger getting pushed into the pig pit lately?

Anyway, appreciate how the story of 28 YEARS LATER I & II is "the weirdo who's into heavy metal and skull art is nothing to be afraid of. the man child obsessed with stuff he watched as a kid though..."

Remember when they changed HBOMax into MAX and they made everyone download a new app to their tvs/smart devices but when they changed it back, they just swapped the app name. Implying that could’ve been done in the first place?

LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY is the 4th best Mummy film, the 3rd best Exorcist film, and the 6th best Evil Dead film. I liked it!

I had someone tell me that because they didn’t know what soldaderas or “Indian schools” were, that I didn’t do enough research for my western. I’m still trying to grapple with the logic.

Mexico lost and I sliced my finger open digging through a drawer to look for a lime juicer because my hand cramped and I didn’t want to hurt it more. Rolling the dice and watching LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY on a “can this night get any worse?” bet.

Matter of taste, obviously, but I'd add CRAWL, SWEETHEART, UNDER PARIS, BLACKWATER ABYSS, DEEP BLUE SEA 3, 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED, SEA FEVER, and THE BOAT, as well.

Triple Threat also has a Michael Wong cameo, so is automatically better than The Furious

Remember, if I disagree with your take, that doesn’t mean I think you’re stupid, it just means you’re objectively wrong.

Fans of THE FURIOUS should give TRIPLE THREAT a shot (or another shot). It did the “Expendables of modern martial arts” first and while it doesn’t match the mayhem of that climax, it does build to Scott Adkins vs. Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais and that ain’t nothing.

Did you finish JAWS and now you are craving more 4th of July horror? Are you upset with the current political landscape and want to see a slasher where a Latina goes toe-to-toe with a right-wing slasher? Look no further than: youtu.be/rYZMm0eG-1M?...

In celebration of JAWS day, here’s my video essay on why the ending of the movie works even though it should send plausibles into a tiff. youtu.be/c_WgTKXizy0?...

My Fourth of July tradition is ranting about how Will Smith clearly said “Welcome to Earth,” in ID4 but meme culture spreading it as “Welcome to Earf” is indicative of the acceptance of casual racism online. Seems benign and silly but hides something nefarious. A harbinger of things to come.

As far back as I can remember, I’ve seen JAWS. I can’t remember the first time I saw it because I’ve always seen it. I know it didn’t scare me because I have memories of excitedly showing it to a fellow kindergartner and not understanding why she was scared. Because I was OBSESSED. Still am.

THE PATRIOT is a fascinating portrayal of the American Revolution as a revenge fantasy, directed by a gay German, starring a bigoted Australian, where stabbing a British officer’s horse with the American flag in slow-mo is the ultimate expression of bad-ass.

Between RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, the B-17 sequence from HEAVY METAL, and the movie DEAD & BURIED, Dan O'Bannon is responsible for the other half of movie zombie-dom. We talk about Romero a lot, but when you think of indestructible zombies hungry specifically for brains, you're thinking O'Bannon.

Atomic Blonde is a solid action movie with a great hardboiled performance by Charlize Theron. She's never seemed more of a movie star than when she's smoking pensively, wearing knockout 80s clothes, stabbing and punching huge men and kicking them down stairs. John LeCarre spiritual rot grounds it.

Astaire's tailoring is so good in Daddy Long Legs (1955). It's said that he used to dance, jump, and twirl in his tailor's fitting room to make sure the his jacket's collar never lifted off his neck. To me, he embodied American elegance.

KILL is among the best action movies of the last decade and I feel like it completely disappeared from the action movie zeitgeist. Rewatched it last night and showed it to my brothers-in law and it was fascinating watching their moods completely change from reluctant to stoked as hell. Cinema, baby!

The UFC fight on the South Lawn was the equivalent to the subsequent gladiator circus scene. Coppola showed us 2026 America in 2024 and everyone laughed.

SUPERGIRL was fine. “What if Supergirl is Rooster Cogburn” is an inspired angle. Easily better than the vast majority of MCU phase 4-5 and the DCCU. Adequate summer afternoon entertainment. But that’s hard to process in the “best or worst ever” dichotomy that modern discourse takes on every film.

So the two new episodes of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON s3 were clearly supposed to be eps 9 and 10 of s2, right? Because s2 just sorta ends and these have been the climax and resolution of those plots. Was it a scheduling or budgeting thing? S1 was 10 eps…

Goddamn it… I really love THE BEAR.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

I found a place. You go in and at first it just looks like a fairgrounds. Then you keep going and you realize none of it makes any sense. Imagine describing a dog to someone who’s never seen one before and asking them to draw it.

Gonna avoid the WERWULF trailer for as long as possible because I know I’ll get too torqued. And I’m already a dangerous amount of torqued.

Unpopular opinion: EYES WITHOUT A FACE is a good movie, but the Billy Idol song is even better.

PRIMATE was a good time because sometimes you just wanna see a chimp go ape.

The discourse is discoursing again. Everything is more expensive, including running a movie theater. Sorry, tickets aren’t a nickel anymore but neither is the subway. It’s still one of the more affordable forms of entertainment, and we would be poorer without them.

Drama film about two people trying to find their birth parents. Eventually revealed that they got mixed up do to an all out war breaking out at the hospital after they were born and it's actually a sequel to HARD BOILED.

Cory Booker during WWII: “Look guys, I’ve got a plan that will solidify our alliances and help us crush the Third Reich once and for all. I call it… The Last Solution.”

I knew that Roy Schneider only did Jaws 2 to satisfy a contractual obligation to Universal. I didn't know the dispute was over him quitting the role of Michael in the Deer Hunter two weeks before filming over "creative differences."

i have hated Uwe Boll for half my life at this point and it's so satisfying to see him getting shit from all corners of the internet. dig into the lore and you will find he is one of the worst human beings to be allowed around a camera

When you try to do impressions, sometimes you realize that some voices are far closer to each other than you would have guessed. For instance: Jiminy Glick is almost Mark Hamill’s Joker.

Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks! Here’s some great advice he gave me back he was a wee lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Mel Brooks is a greater piece of American heritage than the Confederacy.