Movie Trivia returns tonight (Tues) at the Prospect Park @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social! Free to play, starts at 8 (arrive early for good tables!) 1-6 players per team, 5 rounds of trivia spanning the spectrum of cinema.

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

We should all cancel Paramount+ like we cancelled Disney+. Fuck. That only would work if anyone was actually subscribed to Paramount+ to begin with.

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility

We're gonna need an active communist party if only to restore context to our political discourse, I can't listen to republicans calling chuck schumer radical left anymore

Megan Ellison’s been really quiet lately, huh?

The late Scott Spiegel’s Intruder is a sort of missing piece in American indie cinema, tying together a joke in Raising Arizona, the gore in Evil Dead 2, the cereal box in Pulp Fiction, and the director of Igby Goes Down…

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

“Several board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air” Via THR

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Funniest part of the Superchunk show: Mac, the lead singer, intro’s a song saying “this is one from our second most neglected album.” Someone shouts “What’s the most neglected?” Mac goes: “Really? We’re in New York City on 9/11 and you need to ask?”

Best I’ve ever done on this… Vulture Cinematrix No. 532: Sep 9, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2696 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Hey, take it as an opportunity to remember that the insufferable racist dipshit is dead.

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Told you so. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

Watched Clear and Present Danger last night. In the movie a President cites drugs as an excuse to claim he has the power to extrajudicially slaughter Latin Americans in large part to distract from his friendship with an elite criminal who died under mysterious circumstances.

Here is a screenshot from an early scene in “Snoop Dogg’s Husltlaz: Diary of a Pimp” (Dogg, 2002)

Looking forward to Newsom losing the democratic primary and then declaring himself a Republican. He’s just the Tulsi Gabbard of California. No real values, beyond personal ambition.

Tonight! Free to play, teams of 1-6 players, no need to sign up but you may want to come a little early to grab a good table!

Tues at 8pm, join me and Shay Filmore for Movie Trivia Nite at the prospect park @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social! Tough but fair questions, drink token/movie pass prizes, and a great crowd that always brings good vibes.

A few months ago I recorded my first podcast where I tried to convince the other panelists that Hellzapoppin’ was the most influential film of the 1940s. You’ll never guess what beat it. (Just kidding. It’s obvious.) But we also talk Thief of Bagdad, Meshes of the Afternoon, Cat People and more!

The only time I feel scared on the subway is when I walk by one of those terrifying AI Sketchers posters.

AMC Lincoln Square has my favorite multiplex ticket takers.

One of the added bonuses of Hong Sang-soo being so prolific is it means we also get 2 or 3 great posters by Brian Hung each year.

Yesterday he was attacking Zohran for being a nepo baby; now he’s bragging about being one himself.

A good day to cancel that Paramount+ subscription. (Torrenting really isn’t all that hard!)

A few years ago I explored the history of Hogan, the entangled origins of WWF & MTV, and No Holds Barred:

headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights." the article:

The Dunning-KKKruger Effect

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

With F1 Brad Pitt has officially entered his Tom Cruise era. (Broadening his appeal to conservatives and having "age appropriate" but neutered on-screen romances with women 20 years younger than him.)

I wrote about Epstein’s suicide and how the disbelief about it shows a lack of familiarity with how inhuman America’s prison’s are. It remains one of the things that made people maddest (not saying jail is bad, disbelieving he was murdered). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I’ll never trust any outlet that claims to be “free of tribal prejudices,” because that just means they view their prejudices/biases as natural and neutral. (But admitting that you’re Center Right and support most GOP policies won’t get those anti-Trump subscribers.)

The bar is high, but I think this is the dumbest anti-Zohran argument I've read so far www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/is-z...

That feeling of rewatching a movie about which you remember so little, in fact nothing, you find yourself mentally arguing "the fuck you say I've seen this before!" with your own Letterboxd until you see you logged it in early April 2020 & go ahhhh, that explains how it got lost in the fog.

Looks like Benny Safdie doing a Sacha Baron Cohen bit

A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

General election idea!

I wish all New York Times Editorial Boards a very happy Eat Shit this evening

this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes! free enrique

Just reminding all the democrats that attend Jeff Bezos’s wedding to make sure you get your pics with Ivanka and Jared! Line forms to the right! ❤️🤡

BIG NEWS: This morning, @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I have moved The Reveal from Substack to Ghost. You can get the details in the link below. It was a scary decision for us, but we're excited about it and expect to keep this newsletter going long into the future. thereveal.film/the-reveal-h...

10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo *at all*

Musk is mad at his robot progeny again and has now taken to scolding it over something it wrote in response to Catturd. “Shame on you, @Grok”

Everyone is throwing out examples of Iraq War-era mass derangement so I might as well throw in Amanda Bynes doing a peace sign on a movie poster being photoshopped out for fear of being seen as an antiwar statement

lmao get her

Straight from a Chaplin film from 1918.