Literallly the movie that sprang to mind 1 minute in was WHAT’S UP DOC

Maybe we should talk about the impact of FIGHT CLUB the way we talk about the historical impact of PATTON.

It’s really funny that Boots Riley put those super expensive Teenage Engineering speakers in the background of every office in I LOVE BOOSTERS. Just great shade from a musician.

writers are often a weird combination of sensitive and grandiose, which means if you see someone fire off a take like “In Defense Of The Week-Old Stinky Laundry Pile,” it’s pretty safe to assume someone recently made fun of them for having a week-old stinky laundry pile

I hear this one’s good.

Talking about GENEOLOGY, screening at Lincoln Center on Monday, YouTube for the rest of us. It’s a hidden gem of Korean cinema, following a Korean man forced to change his name to Japanese. It’s about how fascism demands a culture of enthusiasm and proactive participation, not just obedience.

the Colbert cancellation is a labor issue, to my mind. Colbert’s show employed hundreds of union employees working nightly. Byron Allen’s non-union show costs CBS nothing (literal zero), and costs Allen very little as well since comics provide their own material for a nominal fee and exposure

Film at Lincoln Center recently kicked off their Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever: The 1970s. EoM Contributor @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social explores Im Kwon-taek’s GENEALOGY saying, “…. interrogates the violence of the unspoken consensus that arises among those who cede political control to fascism.”

It’s besides the point, but I just realized that MONEYBALL is attempting to do ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN visually. The TV’s and Computer Monitors, the first shot of Pitt lit like Deepthroat in the garage, the way the office meetings are framed, Pitt and Hill in the cubicles, the doorstep visits…

Has no one told Menswear Guy what’s happened to John Travolta?

On 4K UHD: Bennett Miller’s sports drama MONEYBALL landed on shelves this week with a brand-new 4K UHD edtion. A big fan of the title, EoM Contributor @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social delves into the feature in a philosophical way, as well as the supplemental materials. #Moneyball #4KUHD

On BLUE HERON, indie debuts, and memory:

On BLUE HERON, indie debuts, and memory:

A lot of talk about BLUE HERON as an astonishing debut, but what struck me in prep for my review is that more than most filmmakers, Sophy Romvari did not arrive overnight. This is a culmination: www.pontificator.org/p/blue-heron...

Rumor is this piece is really good and The Ringer doesn’t have a monopoly on calling Moneyball a masterpiece

no director’s disappearance from the cinephile firmament has been more puzzling to me than John Sayles, who felt absolutely foundational when I was coming up. So a) incredible news, and b) everybody watch Lone Star and Matewan now

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Hey: I think this piece is really good actually, if I can brag.

If they did this it’d be one of the greatest political moves of my lifetime.

Instead of voting for the Orange Felon you should be watching the Canadian movie BLUE HERON!

For the Saturday crowd:

On MONEYBALL, Data Centers, and Capitalism Full review of the new 4k at Elements of Madness elementsofmadness.com/2026/05/08/m...

BIG day for me: I got the chance to pontificate on my beloved MONEYBALL for its new 4k release. It’s a film about labor, internal self-narrative, & divorce. An early major work about PERSONAL DATA and the power it gives capital over our lives. Filmed as optimism curdled, the true 2008 reaction.

Broken clock, etc. Can’t tell you how many people tell me they don’t read my work because they’re afraid of spoilers, even when I dedicate labor to writing spoiler-free. My piece on RESURRECTION was about how know one watched it because they don’t know what it’s about, and this still happened.

kinda don’t understand how wired got no pulitzer for their doge coverage but others did? wtaf

Do I have any film/criticism mutuals or followers who knows someone with a shooting script for Tron:Legacy?

The most recent season of THE PITT got me to finally start ER. I’m two seaons in now, and have concluded: 1.) They’re gonna lose that lawsuit. 2.) The Pilot is now my 2nd favorite after COMMUNITY. 3.) Dr. Benton is a top 10 favorite TV character for me now. 4.) The sewer drain ep is awesome.

Having been to a screening where they sent a reporter, I would really, really like to talk to any ex-Film Critic from The Daily Wire on the basis of anonymity this week. Just saying.

Now that’s what I’m talking about

Hard to get a good photo of my physical copy, but i found a digital version with the text intact

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On Bi Gan’s Resurrection (2025)

This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.

A lot of people posting or speculating about how Secret Service secures rooms and events and leaning into conspiracy theories are rubbing up against the cinematic representation of Secret Service permitters and their real world routines.

BREAKING: room full of journalists waiting to be told what happened

On Bi Gan’s Resurrection (2025)

Home Release: This week, #CriterionCollection welcomed Bi Gan's incredible & esoteric RESURRECTION to the collection via their Criterion Premieres line. EoM Contributor @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social delves into a film that was too widely ignored in 2025. But now that can be rectified.

Reposting for the morning crew

there's genre fantasy in all these films, but all are also deconstructions of men and male toxicity. within that, women are often the only real human beings in these movies. the men do nothing but crime movie poses to sociopathic extremes. The Irishman is literally about this.

RESURRECTION is a film about canon asking to be brought into it. Whether or not it will depends on who picks up a barebones disk with a cover and title that communicate nothing. Time cops! Vampires! Spirits! Cinema! Breathtaking shot after breathtaking shot! Read the full piece at EoM.

Bi Gan’s RESURRECTION (2025) entered @criterion.bsky.social this week. It’s a big, *important* film, or at least, it may be one day. I wrote about the film, the atmosphere around it, marketing, and whether or not a tree fell in the forest. elementsofmadness.com/2026/04/23/r...

SPEED RACER makes me cry at least twice. Every single time. I adore that film. And HOLY SHIT, the new 4K master is amazing. I love seeing Lily and Lana's names in the credits now. Amazing night at the Chinese.

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With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

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There’s a new HAMLET out in theaters today, starring Riz Ahmed. It’s fun and cool and also comes up short of the ambitions Ahmed has for it as a political work. I dive into the changes to the text made in order to tighten it’s focus, and how this changes the nature of our relationship to Hamlet.

In Theaters: Filmmaker Anell Karia makes a strong feature-length debut in his adaptation of Shakespeare's HAMLET. However, EoM Contributor @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social says, "But like a steak cooked without fat, HAMLET is missing the heart of Shakespeare’s greatest work: the shared dream." #Hamlet

Ella McCay was right about everything

Let’s all do this again in two weeks folks, same place, same time? I still have 50 minutes left on my VHS of MIRACLE MILE.

This is real