Somehow, it gets worse after this opening paragraph. It's honestly hard to envision how you reform a party this far gone. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

Slightly out of season though the comment may be, SPACED INVADERS is a vastly underrated Halloween film.

Today, I am 50 years old. Who’da thought. A hell of a thing.

Good morning to Peter Gabriel and all of you.

This is the opening of my four star Boston Globe review of ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL. I'm posting it here for no particular reason, of course. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/a...

My dad, at the end of a drive from Kansas to Wisconsin, did the “don’t make me turn this car around” and THEN TURNED THE CAR AROUND AND TOOK US BACK TO KANSAS.

“And that road goes on and on into the sunset, and my destiny is bound to move me on.”

RIP bonnie tyler. lotta folks tonight are gonna learn the extent to which 'total eclipse of the heart' is outside their karaoke range

Opening Annie tomorrow as Bert Healy (smile, darn ya) while my amazing wife Krista plays Miss Agatha Hannigan. This is my ninth play in the last year, along w two short films. After Sunday afternoon my artistic calendar is empty for the rest of my professional life. Swings and roundabouts, always.

This is more or less the entire top tier of the non-profit sector.

Currently playing ultimate capitalist stooge Bert Healy in Eureka, CA. Come see Krista play Miss Hannigan this weekend!

Actual leftists tend to have a zero-tolerance policy for nazis and a zero-tolerance policy for nazis means you're not on twitter.

We will someday record the remaining six episodes of our 176 episode trek. Plus several movies.

Listen it’s not much of a movie overall, but we did get Delroy as Leroy “Satchel” Paige and that’s a delight.

The copy of his autobio I inherited from grandpa is autographed, and I walk by it every day.

I’ve got about 4000 DVDs and blus. I’m getting rid of a few hundred, mostly stuff I’ll never watch again. A lot of old westerns, old and new tv, etc. Donating locally, but it hurts a bit. Keeping all the laserdiscs.

Moon Over Parador (1988)

MAN FINDS TAPE, an indie passion project made by a bunch of friends here in Austin—and funded by me and Jess—has dropped on Tubi. Looking for a good, creepy horror film to watch this weekend? This is Found Footage at its best and weirdest. So proud to have been a part of this. Find it on Tubi!

Regarding SSPX, John Paul II excommunicated the guilty priests and bishops but no one else. Ratzinger - later Benedict - gave SSPX and others like them political cover. Francis spent a lot of time weeding the garden, as it were. Leo has just struck at the entire society.

The lay adherents are to be considered excommunicated too. Nice.

This is such a common problem, I really hope Kay gets what is owed. (Also, saw Letters to Cleo around 1996 and LOVED the show.)

I turn 50 this month. Just staring it down.

The Biden administration put a condition on military assistance to Ukraine: if they struck Russia, we'd stop helping them. Then Trump decided to shit on everything and cut funding anyway. So Ukraine decided, "Fuck it." It's working out pretty well for them!

Cinema is watching a martial arts film and witnessing stunt men fall great lengths while hitting 3 or 4 things on the way down in the worst possible way.

As a younger actor I played Hamlet, Rosalind, Prince Hal, and other broadly charming love interests. In my older life it’s Shrek, Homer Simpson, Buddy the Elf, Andrew Cuomo and Olaf. Clowns.

I’m happy for New York, I really am, but I’m also envious as fuck. Imagine if L.A. had a mayor and city council who cared about L.A. the way Mamdani cares about his city.

Roy Dotrice didn’t painstakingly overdub Harvey Keitel in Saturn 3 so you could tell me that AI is inevitable.

Guys has anyone actually read this article?

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Of all the shit Perot gave us, Carville was among the dumbest. Bye.

This record is fucking beauty. Bought it in Lyon (so many great record shops in that town) last month.

IME “Classical” training is much more about walking and chewing gum at the same time than most American traditions. Lots of advantages of this sort inside that tradition.

“You’d Be Perfect for This!” Inside the Devious Casting Scam Sweeping Hollywood www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

My buddy John plays Frank Butler in this. I love this weird chaotic movie so much.

American artists need to talk about their work like they’re pro wrestlers. It’s how the ecosystem is set up.

This is an appropriately nasty obituary, and the throughline is how Ayn Rand's objectivist bullshit poisoned Greenspan's thinking, maybe the most disastrous outcome of bad/lazy arts criticism in the past century.

Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973) is a quintessential disaster-horror hybrid that attempts to mash up the popular mid-70s obsession with aviation disaster films (like Airport) with supernatural "curse" horror. #horror #horrormovies #thriller #horrorsky #horrorjunkie #TheLastDriveIn

The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978) is a gripping piece of 1970s television history. The film depicts the accounts of crew members and passengers who have seen the ghosts of the flight crew from Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 which crashed in the Everglades in 1972, appearing on subsequent flights. #horror

NO. This is just a set up to make taxpayers bail out this shitty industry when the bubble pops. Also a way to help kill the copyright lawsuits against these terrible companies. Hell no. Make them pay and let them die.

Shot a few scenes with my wife, Krista, this morning, for her short. In the Redwoods. Jeez what a pretty thing.

This is no longer about pond scum. It's about a police state acting like a police state. Outlets like WaPo that "both sides" this and give the WH "theory" credence with ZERO proof are no better than the journalists at Pravada during the Soviet era. It's no longer funny or pathetic. It's scary.

On its 50th birthday, @geniusbastard.bsky.social looks back on the sci-fi classic LOGAN'S RUN as "a reminder of how hedonism and youth culture can be weaponized by a faceless enemy that maintains a murderous status quo." www.rogerebert.com/black-writer...

it's true that AI is wrong and looks like shit, but personally the most repellent part of it is that the people who use it of their own accord are doing it because they believe what rich people say and do what rich people tell them to do

"i'm a committed catholic. also i waited six years to baptize my child"

Gena Rowlands’ birthday. Said it before, but I know a fair bit about acting, I’m pretty good at breaking down what an actor is doing. A Woman Under the Influence is light years beyond me or anybody. I’ll never understand how she did that.

in this story the neighbors notice something is wrong, stop to help, call someone else to come translate, film everything, defend the victim from further attacks from a belligerent armed racist, and call 911 *four times* over several *hours* before the cops roll up and immediately kill someone

carol kane is 74 today so i must confess my serious crush on this creepy queen

I find myself named the union deputy of a show where my wife is the director. System working as intended.

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