Been a lot of PTA rewatching going on around here of late. Rewatched Boogie Nights and god damn if it isn’t one of the best edited movies I’ve ever seen.

It’s Mark Patton’s birthday and it would be wonderful if you could donate to the GoFundMe coordinated by his niece, Ida, for his living expenses. Mark’s been going through it with long COVID, HIV related issues and Ménière’s Disease. www.gofundme.com/f/unite-for-...

Three Days of the Condor still the front runner for bleakest fucking Christmas movie.

Sure, why not? ngl.link/brianmcartwr...

Kinda wish BlueSky would just reveal its product development roadmap and monetization plans because this shit is for the birds.

Television is television because we walk with the characters a while and they with us. Between Lost’s insistence that tv be a solvable puzzle box and Game of Thrones’ shame at not being cinema television got reshaped in the last 20 years. The Pitt is television healing.

Hey Brian, do you enjoy the 2021 motion picture Pleasure directed by Ninja Thyberg?

I try not to care too much about awards shows but The Pitt’s win feels like an embrace of the things that make television different than cinema and that makes me happy.

I love the very online kind of post which says shit like, “Boy Yarbus hasn’t been the same since Glont changed monetization rules for feral pottery. He’s gonna pivot.” I have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about but I’d rather they do that then BOY YARBUS A 🧵.

Getting Spiegler’s t-shirt from Pleasure tomorrow. Guaranteed that no one will see it and say, “hey, that’s Spiegler’s T-shirt from Pleasure.”

Where’s Oliver Stone when you need him?

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New reaction JPG just dropped.

Highest 2 Lowest is an incredible rush. It seems to start asking “can I still hang?” Lee’s seemingly shook by AI, TikTok and the reaction to his two previous remakes. By the end though the question being asked is “did you ever doubt me?” HOT DAMN, THAT PARADE SEQUENCE! 🩷

Me: Disney, between Joachim Rønning and Jared Leto I don’t know what you could do to make me less interested in Tron Ares. Disney: What if we promoted it with Mr. Beast riding a Lightcycle? Me:…

About to have an opportunity to write about five of these and I’m very excited.

Grimm Love (2006) is remarkably forward looking, like Red Rooms (2023) it recognizes the twin powers of the internet to foster communities that should not exist and reward isolated obsession. Recommended; it hasn’t aged a day.

Chat, can you get the Sunday Scaries on Saturday during a three day weekend?

Quarantine The Home.

My issue with Strange New Worlds is how so much of its theme is “conform.” Ortegas shouldn’t join away missions - she “flies the ship”. The musical l says “we know our purpose is to protect the mission” -just fit your role for Starfleet. Today’s episode says Spock should seek to be more human.

Counterpoint, when’s the last time Amy Adams turned in a performance worth caring about?

I’d appreciate it if you took a few minutes to read my review of Americana. dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/amer...

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Marked safe from whatever incited the current round of Ari Aster discourse.

I’m putting all of you that thought Eenie Meanie was acceptable on a watchlist.

I just remembered that there are The Electric State truthers who think that movie doesn’t drink shit.

Tuesday niiiiight ngl.link/brianmcartwr...

The responses to the Aubrey Plaza piece are predictably awful ranging from “didn’t she cheat on him? She’s not entitled to grief” to “she should find meaning in a better movie.” To the first, life is complicated and to the second, art hits us all differently. Offer more kindness.

The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

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Remember that big article I mentioned! She’s live over on @dailydead.bsky.social!! Really freakin proud of this one! Enjoy! #GastroHorror #HorrorSky #FilmSky

Is Tori Welles an outlaw biker or Mary Poppins? We may never know.

After watching a raft of Neon24 slop that uses grief as the pretext for the average exploitative spooks imagine my surprise and delight to watch Crossword, a film interested in the heavy burden of grief and grief’s marriage to guilt. Like getting hit with a mace. Recommended.

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The biggest favor people can do for themselves if they love film is to decouple from the need to be “part of the conversation.” It will lead to watching movies you aren’t interested in just to have a take. That time can be reinvested in foundational films and pursuing your particular interests.

Considering that the vast majority of UFC fighters are so underpaid that they sleep in their cars hoping to break through it makes sense that this White House would host a UFC PPV. Would anyone care for some bread with their fucking circuses?

Going to watch Eddington tonight and I am excited.

Anne Hathaway is my favorite theater kid.

Hey longstanding mutuals! I generally run movies pretty frequently in the evening this time of year on my Discord server. It’s lowkey, mellow way to hang out and watch summer fade into autumn. If you’d like a server invite shoot me a DM.