Live by these fucking words in 2026. Be SPICY and lend a hand.

Locked in

I’m really proud of the work I was able to put out over what was truly an unpredictable year–so here's a mini-roundup of my favorites! My fest year began with a film that hit deeper than anything else in 2025, as my parents’ stories came to life in DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! cinapse.co/2025/02/sund...

Still the undisputed champion.

49) SEA LONGING by Lilith Lorraine

A New Year's Toast from Patricia Highsmith (and me) 🥂🥂

How I am walking out of 2025

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

reminding you that you’re a movie lover whether you logged 1 film ten times or 500+ films this year. it doesn’t matter the genre or the length of the film. or whether you watched them in a theater, at home or on a plane. you’re a movie lover and we love you 🧡 💚 💙

This is the energy I’m bringing into 2026

Episode 3 of BOTS teaching important lessons

With this story told a few years ago, I can say that one of the best projects I worked on at my old job was about how a shipwreck search became evidence in a murder case that put tons of the Austrian government on trial. It's still incredibly fascinating to me–so here goes a bit of a deep dive.

Thought I would share some of my favorite pieces I wrote in 2025. I am a freelance film critic/journalist for hire in 2026 FYI! I got to review the 4K restorations of one of my favorite films of all time, AMADEUS (1984) , and it still rocks at 40. #filmsky elementsofmadness.com/2025/02/25/a...

With this story told a few years ago, I can say that one of the best projects I worked on at my old job was about how a shipwreck search became evidence in a murder case that put tons of the Austrian government on trial. It's still incredibly fascinating to me–so here goes a bit of a deep dive.

This is still so good.

(And Kip forever)

Part of editing tonight is finding dailies for Texas Chain Saw, Evil Dead, and Night of the Living Dead and I just love what I do

Still my favorite: I was late for class and running down Broadway. Suddenly, in the opposite direction comes Paul Giamatti looking absolutely tired/despondent carrying nothing but a pair of beaten up white sneakers. We just exchanged looks of “you and me both, huh?” and kept going.

This is about elections.

We’re long overdue for a stacked 4K of this.

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

Back of the Shelf Episode 3 continues! Did a new pass at the script and re-recorded today. Excited to see this season on modern Japanese horror through to completion, with some great new beats to talk about some favorite recent titles.

This is from Bardot's memoir "Un cri dans le silence" btw. I've seen a lot of people mentioning her "right wing politics" with a hand wave, so they can talk about her beauty or animal activism, but not actually sitting with the ugliness of her legacy.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Taking further stock of this year... ✨ Covered titles @ 5 film fests ✨ Finally got RottenTomatoes accredited 🍅 ✨ First trailer pull-quotes ✨ Contributed archival and tech QA for Umbrella's NOROI release ✨ Started YouTube video essays! ✨ Wrote for a new outlet ✨ Got out of full-time reality TV

Amid the studded belts at Hot Topic… Skoth

I’m really proud of the work I was able to put out over what was truly an unpredictable year–so here's a mini-roundup of my favorites! My fest year began with a film that hit deeper than anything else in 2025, as my parents’ stories came to life in DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! cinapse.co/2025/02/sund...

Eywa has heard us.

Remember in Texas Chainsaw Massacre when the family is trying to get the barely conscious, half-dead elderly patriarch to hit the girl over the head with the mallet but he no longer has the strength to hold it? That’s Trump.

It should be noted that after every queer writer in the industry has been told that queer stories are too risky for mainstream media rn, the two biggest shows at the end of 2025 have queer protagonist

This and the US Cure trailer are my two favorite trailers of all time (Cloud Atlas has the edge) youtu.be/JL3FSimRztM

This movie is SO good. Written by Steven Volk of Ghostwatch fame!

Remember the reason for the season

And now finally starting Heated Rivalry to keep up with the Qulture

Sometimes a very merry Christmas is tamales, chocolate pecan pie, and double featuring Wake Up Dead Man and Sisu 2 with Becca and the folks ❤️🎄

Blueskyに新しく参加したみなさん、ようこそ！ 映画が好きな方、映画について書く人を読むのが好きな方へ。 素敵な映画ライターたちをまとめたリストがあるので、ぜひフォローしてみてください。 ありがとうございます。2026年が素晴らしい一年になりますように。 #映画 #映画好き #青空映画部

This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).

Look what someone did to the new Avengers trailer dyyyyying www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr3hr2A6/

For the Monday crowd, Koji Shiraishi’s KINKI is another jaw-dropping mixed-media odyssey from Japan’s found-footage poet laureate, whose deft use of narrative and faux-documentary gives striking emotional weight to what its characters choose not to capture on camera. Review via @cinapse.bsky.social:

This was nicely done. A good chunk of JTC1 lost in the adaptation process, but understandably so. Really loved when they’d overlap concurrent scenes as the stage rotated, it created such a suffocating atmosphere. Interesting how they positioned this as a “happy” ending for some. Worth the wait.

This was nicely done. A good chunk of JTC1 lost in the adaptation process, but understandably so. Really loved when they’d overlap concurrent scenes as the stage rotated, it created such a suffocating atmosphere. Interesting how they positioned this as a “happy” ending for some. Worth the wait.

Holy moly, it's a good discovery day. Never thought I'd see the day when I'd get to see Ju-on: THE LIVE – a stage adaptation of Ju-on: the Curse 1 & 2 – much less with English subtitles.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

please imagine its christmas so this meme pops off PLEASE