The submarine sequence is great because one day when I watch it with my kids I’ll be able to say, “This is why we close doors.”

“Take care of my suit.” is a great joke, in part, because it is Tom Cruise acknowledging on camera, subtly, his physical stature.

My daughter is in her Frozen phase so you're gonna get Frozen observations from time to time. Kristen Bell sings circles around everyone in this movie. Everyone.

My pitch for a Predator movie is Predator+Galaxy Quest/The Three Amigos/Tropic Thunder. A trio of shitty Yautja watches Earth movies and thinks they're real so they abduct action movie stars to help them kill their way into the Yautja elite.

I'm watching M:I - DEAD RECKONING today in anticipation of my blu-ray of M:I - THE FINAL RECKONING arriving tomorrow. I bet Buster Keaton would love knowing that more than a hundred years later filmmakers are still chasing his genius.

Any time you need to feel joy just hit play on Huey Lewis and the News' "The Power of Love" the moment INTERSTELLAR cuts to its end credits.

I like how in his next movie Christopher Nolan is like, "You can get yourself home, Mr. Man."

The only proper way to watch TRON: ARES is for the audience to queue up in the theater rows and slowly take a step or two forward every couple of minutes for the duration of the film. Time it perfectly and you'll reach the exit right as the credits end two hours later.

I wish I could erase my memory of ALIEN and watch it again as if for the first time.

I used to live where ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER was filmed, and my life as a single person devoted solely to my sense of calling climaxed along the road where the film climaxes. Great film; strange movie-watching experience. elijahdavidson.com/one-battle-a...

BLUEY, season 2, episode 41, "Bin Night" - it contains everything.

I don't think I've ever felt more powerful than when I plugged Super Mario Bros. 3 into my Game Genie and put in the codes for "Start and Stay as Hammer Mario" and "Skywalker."

Someone should make a BOTW kind of game that lets you journey through Dante’s Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, chatting with NPCs along the way.

I showed the five year old THE WIZARD OF OZ tonight. He loved it. I’ve showed him MARY POPPINS and WILLY WONKA in the past couple of months too. I’m building up to STAR WARS. I want him to see it as unspoiled as possible. That’s tough these days.

One of the hazards of film reviewing is when a movie is filmed in a place that is important to you. Here's ONE BATTLER AFTER ANOTHER and my thoughts on mission, marriage, and the place of the marginalized in the kingdom of God. elijahdavidson.com/one-battle-a...

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen is Andrew McCarthy trying to convince Rob Lowe it was bad to be called the “Brat Pack” in the 1980s.

I love all the endings in Jackson's LOTR. Rescue - Reunion - Coronation - Confirmation - Return - Disembarking. Tolkien is wise enough to include Restoration after Return, but I love that Jackson et al. know to include many endings. They communicate the "wholeness" that Tolkien is so interested in.

It makes sense our generation would get a lot out of something written by a guy who lived through WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII.

I love the ghost army in ROTK because it looks like it would have looked if they did it in the 1920s.

We’re watching LOTR—first time in 4K!!!—and it’s nuts how much the Millennial experience it is. Our bad guys even appropriate the names of the LOTR evil shit for God’s sake.

Has anyone else read The Power Broker?

At least we can all agree that this is the correct ranking of hobbits who play a key role in the War of the Ring. 1. Samwise Gamgee 2. Meriadoc Brandybuck 3. Bilbo Baggins 4. Frodo Baggins 5. Peregrin Took

It's fun to research a James Cameron film because every story about him is insane. But my new favorite is a Lance Henriksen quote that refers to Cameron as "the bride in every wedding and the corpse at every funeral."

They should have made a Brooklyn 99 movie that was just a remake of Mann's MIAMI VICE (2006) but with the 99.

If anyone from THE STUDIO wins an Emmy and doesn't thank Sal Saperstein what are we even doing?

Every time I start to think the AVATAR movies are simplistic in their storytelling and themes, I see a take that misses the point so badly I realize I give general audiences way too much credit.

We should have known things were going to hell when they didn't even nominate HEAT for a single Oscar.

After I die I want to come back as this ketchup bottle.

Find someone who looks at you like Vincent looks at them “looking at us.“

Cheritto is the weak link.

It's amazing how small five-year-old kids seem in movies and TV shows and how big they are when you have one in real life.

Seeing TENET in a theater with a packed house feels like righting a pandemic wrong.

We live in a twilight world.

If I ever make a movie I'm going to put the names of like 500 fake babies in the credits as Production Babies.

This is one of the greatest things you've never heard. It's not what you think. Trust me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJP...

Little known fact: "Seasons of Love" from Rent was originally about the number of throw pillows my wife thinks we need.

I would like to know that for which you will not be taking questions. Please enlighten me.

I spent 3500 miles in the car with my wife and kids over the past two and a half weeks, and the most shocking revelation was that my wife has no memory of ever seeing POPSTAR so that's what we'll be remedying as soon as humanly possible.

My best piece of life advice is, if you’re an aesthete, embrace it as soon as possible. Life is too short and too full of too much beauty to deny yourself the full-bodied appreciation of it.

My picks are objectively correct.

NEW EPISODE: Cold War Movie Draft (w/ @elijahdavidson.bsky.social) Cold War movies have been releasing since the end of WWII, and in this movie draft, we explore the plethora of options. There are spy movies, political thrillers, sci-fi metaphors, satire… www.establishingshotpod.com/cold-war-mov...

The new Guadagnino is either going to be Tár-level good or Tár-level bad.

To be honest I have to think for a minute before I remember what I did last summer.

You know THE SMASHING MACHINE is going to be the greatest thing we’ve ever seen.

We watched 13 Days in France last night. A bunch of French New Wave filmmakers played with cameras and microphones all during the ‘68 winter games. It’s the Olympics but like you’ve never seen or heard them. It’s incredibly fun. Poetic. Jokey. A little too long. Unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

Many months ago I felt an inexplicable need to watch Bridge of Spies. While watching, I texted Eli to say if he ever did one of his deep dives on it I wanted to do it with him. Lincoln is probably my favorite of Papa Steve's conscience trilogy, but Spies is the one I keep uncovering. Great movie!

Big day for people who like sea odysseys.

Great episode with @elijahdavidson.bsky.social on Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies coming this Friday! Check out this preview:

A Summer Movie Review Round-Up, or, What Vampires, Billionaires, Predators, Dragons, Pedro Pascal, Aliens, Race Car Drivers, Dinosaurs, Demons, Metahumans, and Zombies* Taught Me About Being More Human elijahdavidson.com/a-summer-mov... In which I say, "I'm sorry, Superman. I know how you feel."

Seeing Supes tonight. I've been thinking about this quote all week. It's like if I visited a church and they said, "Does it really matter how we do the Eucharist?" At this point in my ecclesiology, I think it's probably all that really matters. If you don't do it at all, that also means something.