Today's Film Recommendation: Demian McCarthy's new film HOKUM is hitting theaters in May. You'd do well to catch up with his other work. ODDITY, one of my favorites of '24, is a skincrawling folk horror that features the single creepiest wooden statue I've ever seen. On Hoopla and Kanopy.

Today's Film Recommendation: A batch of early 20th century films popped up on Tubi this week. I would head straight for FEET FIRST, a typically great 1930 comedy from Harold Lloyd that features some truly death-defying stunts and delightful slapstick gags.

Just posted my reviews of new vinyl editions of albums by Tuxedomoon and Six Finger Satellite over at @vinylcut.net www.vinylcut.net/reviews-six-...

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Today's Film Recommendation: BLUE STEEL, a solid thriller about a rookie cop trying to track down a serial killer who is obsessed with her, is on Kanopy, Hoopla, and Tubi. Stars Jamie Lee Curtis but packed with equally great character actors like Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Richard Jenkins, etc.

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2016: Cameraperson 2006: A Cock and Bull Story 1996: Crash 1986: She's Gotta Have It 1976: In The Realm of the Senses 1966: Persona 1956: The Burmese Harp 1946: La Belle et la Bete 1936: Swing Time 1926: The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Today's Film Recommendation: One of my favorite films of 2024 LOVE LIES BLEEDING Is available to stream on Hoopla. A dark and darkly funny film about the strange relationship between a wannabe bodybuilding star and a small town woman who works at a gym. Goes places I never would have imagined.

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We used to be a proper country.

Post your First Film/Last Film of 2025 🍿 #filmsky

The entirety of Powell and Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COL. BLIMP (1943) is available on YouTube for free, so you have no excuse not to watch it One of the gayest antifascist stories ever filmed, as well as just one of the best goddamn movies ever made, period Hit that play button, folks!!

Today's Film Recommendation: The nature/nurture debate gets dark in 1948's MOONRISE. The sins of one man's father are thrown in his face by his neighbors, pushing him to his breaking point. An unsettling noir from Frank Borzage. On Kanopy.

Anyone know what this says?

Pleasantly surprised that Armando Iannucci agreed to do Taskmaster. And with Kumail Nanjiani, that's two Oscar nominees in one season. Impressive.

Today's Film Recommendation: A24 or Neon needs to give Ally Sheedy the meaty, award gobbling role she has long deserved. Until then, get caught up with her brilliance in HIGH ART, a dark drama about a young woman's dysfunctional relationship with a drug-addict photographer (Sheedy). On Kanopy.

Have now watched two films in a row wherein a man extracts his own tooth. Should I watch AFFLICTION next and do the trifecta?

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

Doing some 2025 catch up work. #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

Today's Film Recommendation: COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN — an underrated Robert Altman gem that provided the first indication that Cher had some acting range and also included a career-best turn by the great Karen Black. On Kanopy.

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With the caveat that there are a bunch of 2025 films that haven't played in Portland yet, here are my favorites of the past year. boxd.it/CgNtw

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Not too shabby. #filmsky

Today's Film Recommendation: Start the new year off the right way and dial up VALLEY GIRL on Kanopy today. Nic Cage is at his most charismatic, Deborah Foreman is a dream, and the whole film pulses with energy and lust and humor. Oh, and a killer soundtrack to boot.

Prince never would have agreed to that.

Me, when someone tries to get me into Phish

"Screw you!" "No, screw YOU...

Always and forever youtu.be/fl9KQ1Mub6Q?...

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Being the Teenbeat Records head that I am, I keep wanting to refer to Chalamet's new movie as MARTY SUPREME MY MAN!

Reposting with correct spelling: Have somehow listened to two dozen albums set for release in early 2026. Even more surprising is that the majority of them are good-to-great.

How I'm walking out of 2025.

In lieu of a Best-of-the-Year list, here's an Every-Damn-Thing-We-Reviewed list! In the past four months we've reviewed more than 100 #vinyl reissues over at The Vinyl Cut. Read, and subscribe to get a front-row seat to the next 100.

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Finished this book this morning. Easy but good read. Not a lot I didn't already know although I had no idea about his older sister. Did feel at times like a promotion for ALMOST FAMOUS: THE MUSICAL. Worth borrowing from the library.

Me, reading your Bluesky feed.

Seriously...I'll mail this to you free of charge.

You know...I'll just say out loud what everyone's thinking: That Marty Supreme is a real sunuvabitch. #changemymind

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Spent a glorious day on the couch watching movies, including the loopy-as-fuck Pet Shop Boys flick IT COULDN'T HAPPEN HERE and a rewatch of WITHNAIL & I. Now watching IT FOLLOWS for the first time. #filmsky

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Anybody need a 4k copy of SOUL? Sorting through my movies, I found out I have two of them.

Rewatching WITHNAIL & I and only just noticed that Monty put on makeup before trying to bugger Marwood.

My VERY stoned brother-in-law spent a good long while narrating his eating this evening. "So you take some of the meat, and then the potatoes, and add this sauce to it..."

The wife and I just sussed out that we got each other the same Christmas gift.