Now seated for: Wake Up Dead Man

To be fair, most people think of cinema as heartfelt entertainment instead of the weird, inherently sexual, and psychologically complex art form full of crimes large and small that it really is.

A good day to let everyone know we have submitted Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile for Best Live Action Short at the Oscars. If you know anybody in the Academy who is part of the process, it's in the portal. Get us shortlisted and nominated. An easy way to prove you, too, are not an elite pedophile!

Littlefeat is retiring so get them on the ballot

There are very real things to worry about in the released Epstein files, but it is also crazy that the Santa Cult’s discussion of “was it a black girl” in One Battle After Another is mirrored very closely when investigators asked one of the victims what the rules for recruiting girls were.

Desperately need him to cast Scorsese in a single scene of the upcoming alien invasion film.

Oh Trump did something in 2008

JAY KELLY: God I love george Clooney. This is going to be overshadowed by it’s overlap with SENTIMENTAL VALUE and BABYLON, but the inciting incident and what it reveals makes Jay Kelly one of my favorite protagonists of the year.

READ: Member Andrew J. Eisenman (@andrewjeisenman.bsky.social) reviews #christy for Elements of Madness (@elmntsofmadness.bsky.social): elementsofmadness.com/2025/11/06/c...

Bumping for the morning crew

Now Seated for Jelly Kelly

Softlaunching my own newsletter on @beehiiv.com — PONTIFICATOR! with my review of Edgar Wright’s THE RUNNING MAN, a film that’s really fun but not quite great. Subscribe and such. www.pontificator.org/p/the-runnin...

"What's the point of standards?" is the question our era is destined to answer. Thoroughly. From Dear Leader all the way down to beat cops and schoolteachers; from internet-poisoned billionaires' Very Online pet hack journos, down to rando shitpoasters.

Obvious solution to the But Bond Died problem: what if Bond is now also Tron from the computer and now he's played by beloved beloved character actor Jared Leto

READ: Member Andrew J. Eisenman (@andrewjeisenman.bsky.social) reviews #31candles for Elements of Madness (@elmntsofmadness.bsky.social) elementsofmadness.com/2025/11/05/3...

If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover! bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

I would like Dek from PREDATOR: BADLANDS to meet Jake Sully please and thank you. I know that this film was all about Alien and Predator stuff, but I would prefer he met Jake Sully. I think they’d be friends.

Plugging for the Saturday readers, CHRISTY is a frustrating failure of a film, and Katy O’Brien and Merritt Wever are the only performances that really work. In theaters now. My full review: elementsofmadness.com/2025/11/06/c...

Look, it will be a tough pill for many to swallow, but for the good of the country Democrats must work in a spirit of bipartisanship to advance the president’s policy priorities of making private insurance illegal and eliminating the filibuster.

CHRISTY is an unfortunate huge miss for me. Boxing films are my weakness but it’s clear that Sweeney was the only person who had an angle on the material.

BAGONIA: Yorgos made his TARGETS and I am aaaaallll about that.

Ok when’s the John Denver movie and will it include his appearance on The Muppet Show

This Friday, a new Jonah Feingold project releases in select NYC theaters: 31 CANDLES. EoM Contributor @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social says, "In an era where dating is commodified by corporations, 31 Candles is a rom-com for our time, breaking down the men who expect love to arrive customized."

Wake up New York City, something actually important is happening: Jonah Feingold’s very good rom-com 31 CANDLES arrives this weekend! Read the full review 👇🗽🕎🎄❤️

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did it

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

I am moving right now, and my TV is in my bathroom, so @thethomasmanning.bsky.social is being a real one giving me the play by play over the phone.

Seeing her recent concert in Charlotte, her opening presentation talking about the need for public transportation funding on the local level was rad.

Burying the leade: in her bullying she seems to hint that Trump plans on nationalize local approval of AI Data Centers, a pretty substantial thing. Sinema is a serial liar ofc, but if I’m a betting man that’s a talking point she heard.

this is what happens when you make the Looney Tunes free for all. access to the Looney Tunes is a human right. Tubi should be a public utility.

That’ll get them the $7.7 bil back

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

Last 20 minutes are transcendent

David Zazlov is getting a break from being the most common target of my ire it seems

THE LOWDOWN (2025)

America is facing too many crisis to count, but above all, who has an answer for the “Deluxe Album” crisis in the music industry? That’s what my vote is riding on.

This is really just step 1 in the war on Title IX, which they see as a great evil against male power, which is central to their definition of “decency.”

THE LOWDOWN gets better every week

For my newsletter today, I wrote 1300 words on Maine, Graham Platner, and what it will take to beat Susan Collins next year. www.burnsnotice.com/you-cant-run...

Mensware Guy once replied to me on The Other Place and it was the scariest notification I have ever gotten.

oh my god he found a new avenue