Eldest child and I are doing a full Muppet Show rewatch. I can’t help but feel I did *one* thing right in my parenting.

Happy to report that Macgruber is currently listed as the #8 ranked movie on hbomax!

Watching lots of sixties tv and movies and I can confidently state that it looks like Shatner’s Captain Kirk would beat up Connery’s Bond in a fight.

This Miss Piggy sticker sheet from 1982 is giving me cuteness aggression. Little terrified of her shushing me as she slides into Kermits locker, tho. Hope the Nixon finger gesture isn't related.

This was my favorite line from the Muppet Show and makes me laugh every time I think about it

I feel this deeply!

Hello, I'm Lloyd Bridges If you see your reflection in 'snow-covered' hills, remember 'snow-covered' gets a hyphen. If 'the hills are snow covered', then no hyphen is used. No hyphen for 'mirror in the sky' or 'child within my heart' as those are noun phrases. #hyphenwar

🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇩🇰 Born on this day in 1926, Leslie Nielsen was a Canadian actor and comedian whose career spanned six decades. Over the course of 60 years, he appeared in more than 100 films. His mother, Mabel Elizabeth Davies, was a Welsh immigrant, and his father emigrated from Denmark. #LeslieNielsen

2026 in a nutshell, really

The worlds most hopeful dog (Yes it’s closed)

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Reality Check by Dave Whamond | GoComics

Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial Leaves Man Hankering For Clydesdale Meat

Study: Majority Of Humans Happiest When Rest Of Family Still Asleep https://theonion.com/study-majority-of-humans-happiest-when-rest-of-family-1819579602/

Marathon training cont. this morning is my first 20 mile run. Wish me luck!

Hitchcock’s greatest work.

Midway into my IT rereading. I totally forgot that Dick Halloran is originally in King’s book. I thought they had invented that for Welcome to Derry.

Dr Caligari’s extended furniture-verse

Today’s cataloging randomness: writing about Star Trek alien prosthetics, Milton Berle’s magicians guild membership and John Wayne’s Masonic bible.

I wrote about The Cinema Bookshop and Blue Robin Collectables, featuring treasures from every era of cinema! intelligentcollector.com/the-cinema-b...

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Happy 45th birthday today to @durandurancom.bsky.social’s “Planet Earth.” ♥️ My @salon.com piece when the song turned 40! www.salon.com/2021/01/30/d...

After binge watching the series with my kids, I’m seriously considering doing a long-form web series on every aspect of Stranger Things (references, nostalgia, streaming, etc) through a media studies lens. Tentative title: “Dr. Tait’s Stranger Things Syllabus and Singalong.” Good idea or GREAT idea?

Jackpot

Dirty Dancing would be a better movie if they had a mid-credits scene where Baby's dad is checking out of the resort and they hand him a bill for his daughter's 100 hours of private mambo lessons.

The Matrix (1999) Dirs: Lana and Lilly Wachowski #oneperfectshot 📽️

When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.

SEND HELP was super fun!

The emotional whiplash that happens after watching Hamnet and moving on to watch your kids rehearse their production of Something Rotten.

RIP legend!

“Computers?” youtu.be/YIKWAgFsIYk

Of all the early 2000s movies, the one that I keep returning to is Soderbergh’s SOLARIS. Such a beautiful meditation on love and loss with incredible performances by all! (And an all-timer score by Cliff Martinez)

#SelfCare Too

This is kind of blowing my mind?

Thoughts on Eddington? So many parallels to One Battle Another in good ways and bad. Neither feels like a complete movie to me. Perhaps that’s characteristic of this moment as well - a necessary fragmentation?

I bet if I got a new notebook that would fix me.

The Pitt just became our family's appointment viewing. Every week, my kids demand more episodes. Is it time to introduce them to E.R.? Re-presenting a piece I wrote in 2014 arguing for the series importance. www.flowjournal.org/2014/11/mara...

As a counterpoint to everything going on out there the kids and I watched Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure together.

Asked my colleagues what the coolest thing they saw last year. From Rosebud to Adam West’s Batman costume to Cecil B De Mille’s own pair of 10 Commandments tablets, to *the* ROSEBUD sled from Citizen Kane, there were lots to highlight. Read about our faves here: view.emails.ha.com?vawpToken=2A...

I feel like del Toro’s Frankenstein would have had more impact this year if a) it had an *actual* theatrical release and b) it hadn’t been preceded by two other incredibly visually striking horror films in the form of Nosferatu and Poor Things.

If you press that button Francis Coppola drives to your home to watch with you.

Rite of passage unlocked - took firstborn child to see the extended edition of Fellowship of the Ring on the big screen.

Disappointed that at no point in MARTY SUPREME did the title character turn into his alt form: the autobot defense base

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

My absolute favorite Best of list. @davidehrlich.bsky.social passion for film is evident in every frame of this piece and I always wait with bated breath for his annual summary. I don’t always agree with every choice, but I’m in awe of his talent, deep understanding of film and masterful editing!

The Running Man remake is…not good.

In the wake of Kathleen Kennedy’s stepping down from Lucasfilm, I have to say I’ve enjoyed having a new wave of Star Wars in the past 10 years. Kennedy had the impossible task of marshaling new content in an era of the utterly toxic internet, and, as a woman was the target of vitriol. 1/