Happy Birthday to the great #JohnCarpenter. This was the first live show he and the band ever played, a warm up for friends and family at what was then the Bootleg Theater. #FilmSky #HorrorMovies #Halloween

Read that new slogan from the government. “One of ours. All of yours.” They intend to kill or deport anyone who does not blindly stand with them. The problem? There are WAY more of us who don’t. #abolishICE #destroyMAGA Second 📸 by @acatwithnews.bsky.social

FIOH… 🎨 Daria Hlazatova #DavidBowie

#ICE murdered an American citizen in cold blood. She was not a threat. She was not a criminal. There is no other way to spin this. Zero. #Minneapolis #AbolishICE

#ICE are nothing but psychopathic incel freaks, foot soldiers for a child rapist and his bigot moron regime. Arrest them all. #Minneapolis #AbolishICE

On #January6th five years ago, a worthless, child molesting pile of s**t fraud tried to overthrow #democracy like a butt hurt toddler because he couldn’t handle losing. His whole life has been nothing but ego, hatred & crime. The day he shuffles off this mortal coil will be one of celebration.

The great #BélaTarr has passed on. One of the most distinctive and thoughtful filmmakers of his time. I had the opportunity to hear him discuss his work a few years ago at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social and it was genuinely revelatory, inspiring several projects of my own. #FilmSky

Posting #Caturday content in momentary lieu of venting white hot rage at the illegal idiocy of pedophiles and chest thumping bigot warmongers. In this case, pics before and after the Christmas decorations went back into storage…

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, and must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” #startrek #shakespeare #RoseParade

#MandyPatinkin and the children’s choir of PS22 singing Over The Rainbow (written by blacklisted socialist lyricist Yip Harburg) at the inauguration of #ZohranMamdani is the deeply emotional beginning to 2026 I wasn’t expecting but very much needed. This year we can turn things around.

A wintry night on the west side with #JimJarmusch at the #NuartTheater… #FatherMotherSisterBrother #ET #Cinefile #FilmSky

#RobReiner had a run of films that was genuinely remarkable. The fact that any one of them is a million people’s favorite speaks to the breadth of his imagination, the sharpness of his wit, and the incalculable size of his heart. He was a great gift to all of us. Mine is below. #FilmSky #StandByMe

Holiday magic with #ChrisColumbus and #MacaulayCulkin at the 35th anniversary screening of #HomeAlone at the @academymuseum.bsky.social

This weekend…can’t wait. #TheShining #IMAX #StanleyKubrick #JackNicholson #ShelleyDuvall #StephenKing

You are the needle in my veins… #Spielberg #UFO #FilmSky

Still processing the remarkably nervy and emotional debut of filmmaker #KristenStewart… #TheChronologyofWater #FilmSky

Finally got to see the burnished, beautifully visualized western elegy THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD writ large at @amcinematheque.bsky.social along with a discussion of craft and themes between filmmaker #JohnHillcoat, DP #RogerDeakins, and #JamesEllisDeakins. #Filmsky

RIP to the great British writer #TomStoppard, who gave us Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, The Real Thing, Leopoldstadt and one of my favorite movies, Empire of the Sun. A master with words. #Writersky #Screenwriting

#Thanksgiving2025 #MorroBay #Fantasia #NeverEndingStory #Filmsky

One of the films I treasure most on the world came out 50 years ago today. Still as hilarious and beautiful and heartbreaking as ever. #OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest #FilmSky #Cinema #JackNicholson

Thoughts on NOUVELLE VAGUE… #Godard #NouvelleVague #Truffaut #RichardLinklater #cinema

Caught myself swooning at the joy, romance and smart, dry wit of the French New Wave all over again (Godard and Truffaut were very formative for me back in the day) at a @amcinematheque.bsky.social screening of #NouvelleVague, a wonderfully playful hangout devotional by the great #RichardLinklater.

Annual revisit with my favorite film by Joel and Ethan Coen, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. I love its cold, muted winter landscape, and the sense of always huddling from a hostile atmosphere (I relate). This scene in particular, with a cat and a car on a bleak, snow swept nighttime highway, still haunts me.

This exchange from Kubrick’s #EyesWideShut suddenly has a newfound resonance. I don’t think we’re ready for how deep and wide this is all going to go. #EpsteinFiles

On #VeteransDay, I pay respect to those who serve for how they risk their lives for freedoms the cowards currently in power want to take away, including benefits they've earned & not having the sacrifices of women & minorities erased by preening white nationalists to cover for their own mediocrity.

Pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class. A good step toward beating back fascism. #ZohranMamdani #destroyfascism

Few people in the history of the world deserved to be gone from it more. Good riddance, you evil motherf**ker. #DickCheney

#YesonProp50 #destroyfascism

Some wonderfully propulsive and appropriately unnerving live music on #Halloween night with @thehorrormaster.bsky.social at the #BelascoTheater…

I love many things about living in a big city, but I do really miss #Halloween in a small town… #AllHallowsEve #Samhain #fall

Leaning hard into #spookyseason with a fun, immersive #StreetFoodCinema screening of THE MENU and READY OR NOT at @heritagesquaremus.bsky.social

“I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams…” #halloween2025 #spookyseason #horrormovies #filmmaking

#NoKings, not now, not ever… #destroyfascism #resist #obliterateoligarchy

Some thoughts on #divorce, #DianeKeaton, and #ShootTheMoon…

The late #DrewStruzan was the most gifted film poster artist in the business. Especially now, when everything is a thoughtless Photoshop/AI cacophony of faces, his beautiful, sweeping paintings didn’t just sell you the movies, they conjured up your dreams.

💔 one of the greatest actresses and comediennes there ever was. #dianekeaton

A clear and chilly #October day in #Haddonfield (South Pasadena). #Halloween #HorrorMovies #JohnCarpenter

A wonderful Sunday #BeyondFest triple feature of early films by the ebullient and magical @realgdt.bsky.social, including one of my absolute favorites, THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE, following by a rollicking talk with the man himself at @amcinematheque.bsky.social

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #BadBunny #SuperBowl #SNL

Saturday night PTA… #OneBattleAfterAnother #VistaTheater #Vistavision #PaulThomasAnderson #LeonardoDiCaprio

The hilarious and uniquely brilliant legend #TimCurry talked about 50 years of #RockyHorrorPictureShow, his inspirations and a life in acting before a beautifully restored, full audience participation 4K screening with #sinsotheflesh at #AcademyMuseumofMotionPictures

I went nuts for #ClaudiaCardinale the moment she came on screen in Federico Fellini’s “8 1/2” and Luchino Visconti’s “The Leopard.” Her fierce, beautiful heroine in Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon A Time in The West” only made it worse. One of film’s great beauties. RIP.

✨Anika✨ #Anika #AnnikaHenderson #Echoplex #LosAngeles #Music #Postpunk #Abyss @sacredbones.bsky.social

I don’t mourn Kirk, because you can’t mourn a brand. He was less a man than a marketing funnel for hate, a walking QR code for bigotry.

They can’t win fairly with policy or eloquence or fairness or intelligence so they’ll just silence everyone who disagrees with them. It’s fascism but in its most cowardly and pathetic form.

There are gifted actors, there are great directors, and there are icons. #RobertRedford was all three. A true legend, and a massive loss.

“…if this has been anything but a nightmare, and if we don’t wake up to find ourselves safe in our beds, it could come again.” A wonderfully spooky & immersive 45th anniversary screening of THE FOG, by the great @thehorrormaster.bsky.social @amcinematheque.bsky.social @egyptianla.bsky.social

#CharlieKirk was a bigot, racist, misogynist, Christofascist, & condoned criminal behavior if it benefited his end of the political spectrum. No whitewash by the media or both-siders will change that. I’m sorry for his kids but there are countless families broken by gun violence that he dismissed.

The fireworks finale of #Oasis at the #RoseBowl this past weekend. A brief moment’s reprieve from the chaos and horror that is the world in 2025.