Reading up on how to watch World Cup games and maybe I can watch all games in Spanish on Peacock, a service I already have and use. That's very simple, but I'm not sure if maybe they're not live and I have to have Fubo or Fox for those. Love overly complicated corporate bullshit.

It's great subtitles are pretty much standard on discs now, but it's ridiculous seeing obvious machine generated tracks not being reviewed at all. Have a Severin disc on and the dialogue's quite clear, "I more or less said," which the subs render as, "I (unintelligible) said."

Seated for Magnificent Ambersons. It's on 35mm so it shouldn't be that dumb home video cut and presumably will fully represent Orson Welles' vision.

Catching up with Music Box's programing through June and Bleak Week is bringing some heaters (and also Dick Tracy). I've seen Bullet in the Head on 35mm before, but I wonder will it be the same US distro print. I was just thinking recently I owe Van Sant's Death Trilogy a revisit

Help, the horse at Medieval Times loves his job TOO much!

About to have an incredible silly evening.

Just ran 4 1/2 miles in this swamp air so I'm gonna pass on Strangers on a Train at Music Box and instead down a gallon of water while sinking into my sofa.

Found a 1080p upscaled version of Daria and it seems a solid improvement over the DVD version, which was very scraggly in places. It also has the original sound, which is integral. Only issue is they still include the neutered DVD audio as the default so I have to switch every ep

The funniest response to this would be Chicago courting an entirely new NFL team.

Who's catching The Odyssey in all six aspect ratios?

Tickets for The Magnificent Ambersons on 35mm this weekend secured. Also, did Music Box raise their prices? Looks like a member ticket went up about $1.04. Not that that's gonna stop me. Might mosey over to Strangers on a Train on Saturday too.

I'm not saying AIPAC could buy me out but they could at least try.

Feeling a diabolical urge to rewatch several Powell & Pressburger films.

Lost this in some crevice of a closet for several years but found it again just in time for summer.

Owning an electric Humvee probably already counts as a mental illness but owning one on Chicago and parking in front of a fire hydrant really ties up the package.

Let's just make War Criminal Row.

I am watching this totally sober but it plays like I'm drunk. All the scenes kind've have a purpose but how one follows the other mysterious and unclear. Also the lead is a German woman in her late 40s playing a sexpot super-spy.

For a moment I was wondering if Argento had a movie I'd somehow overlooked but it's Michele Soavi's The Sect. Probably her biggest role too.

The minute John Waters' Desperate Living ended I heard my cat yowl as he had diarrhea all over my bed. Classic Friday antics.

The mail...

Holly put this on last night and I listened along while playing Brotato. Awful stuff. It's supposed to be kind & quirky & life-affirming but is so canned it carries precisely the opposite qualities. Also weird how Alfred Molina voices the octopus as Alec Baldwin.

Back watching movies, which makes this metric useful again. Petri and Waters bringing the heat as always. Through the Fire I enjoyed, it doesn't fully work but it's an independent, Fulci-esque regional horror so I'm down. Vice Academy 3 is bad but you knew that instinctively.

Why is this stuff never in those fancy BritBox period dramas?

An incredible situation to ponder. You're tasked with assembling the musical lineup for a major public event in 2026. You decide to just lie and put down whatever musical acts strike your fancy. Milli Vanilli make the cut.

Sad to see Melt-Banana down in the tiny text. Lots of cool acts here but also I would never do this to myself.

The real problem with YouTubers moving into feature filmmaking is it raises my risk of seeing posts by the kinds of people who contribute to YouTube's comments section.

Wrigleyville was super quiet this evening so we went and grabbed nice drinks there. This place should consider ditching the baseball bullshit.

Seriously looking at a Mac Mini as my next computer but then hesitating because I'd probably have to backup and reformat all my external hard drives and that just seems torturous.

Decided on a long-needed revisit. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. Total masterpiece. Even better than I remembered. Comically on point watching it in the midst of term 2 Trump. Wild that this and The Conformist both hit audiences the same year (and Z a year before)

Has Letterboxd just been glitchy the entire weekend? Maybe ask a few less celebs to name four movies and buy a new server lads.

Bumping for the church crowd.

Didn't make it out to the screening of Nitrate Kisses this morning but on the plus side I am now full of pancakes and simply have to choose one of several hundred unwatched movies I am currently in possession of.

"If looks could kill, they wouldn't need to kick" Maybe call it Angel Foot then? Otherwise, no notes on this poster, it's flawless.

Popeyes should figure out a way to make their wings good.

And one of them is Ruben Östlund.

Hadn't exactly planned to cap the night off with such a whiplash double-bill but there we go. Vice Academy a disappointment by its own standards, Hookers on Davie like staring into the sun.

Holy shit, this movie is fantastic. Real stunts movie, with some madcap shit Jackie Chan would make a lot more waves with a few years later. I've not heard of Toy Robot Video before but they are coming out with a bunch of heaters.

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There's something alluring about Geena Davis. Probably that she's smoking hot but we can't rule out other things too. Maybe her skill at archery is alluring? Who could possibly say?

As bad a day as I had yesterday, today's been a very fun affair full of Andy Milligan, Taiwanese madcap fantasy, and Hungarian animation. Not sure if you guys knew this but, watching movies can be kinda fun.

Vinegar Syndrome releasing an even more lavish version of Human Lanterns than the 88 Films version I already own. I'm not complaining. Great movie.

Not the whiners world. For one thing, Nyong'o has friends.

Very much not feeling it today. Need some kind of enormous meat and cheese sandwich and to sit on the couch watching a movie but apparently "that's not my job."

Watched this movie yesterday and it was fun. Feels a lot like a Tales From the Crypt or some other anthology TV horror series, but in a good way. Very thin script but they manage an unexpected element and otherwise it's Christopher McDonald and Vincent Schiavelli going ham.

Man Luigi Montefiore (aka. George Eastman) passed. A legend. He was THE face of a certain budget tier of Italian genre cinema but he also wrote a lot too.

Christopher Nolan occupies an unusual position in cinema as a populist filmmaker whose films I'll make the effort to go out and see on the big screen so long as the cinema ten mins walk from me is playing them.

I hope Ricky Gervais spends his screentime explaining to everyone that he knows the muppets are actually being controlled by human puppeteers.

It's probably just my self-selected social media bubble but it's very funny Drake released three albums a week ago and I've seen basically no chatter about them aside from legacy media outlets posting reviews.

I turned off all the AI stuff and despite that nuking basic organizational features that have nothing to do with AI, I've found it quite manageable so I'm not sure Gmail is going to start talking to me.

Going for a walk and begrudgingly acknowledging it's shorts weather. Not a shorts guy but sometimes I bow to practicality.