I wonder how they explained Curse of the Cat People to the returning actors. "Yeah, so you come back but it's not about you. Instead there's a little girl with an overactive imagination who doesn't connect with other children and also she's dealing with generational trauma from her father"

Movies don't get much better than this

Cat People (1942) is an insanely good movie

Roommate texted me “the dryer is broken” but he said it in such a way that made it seem like I already knew about this. Also, it isn’t

My coworker wanted to listen to Olivia Dean. Wonder if she’s related to Bing

Yeah I’m a bit of an art collector

Crazy stuff here. Check out how long it goes on for in the shot where Leo grabs Adams. Plus you can see that Spielberg shot the reverse so he could get out of the moving master, which he does. But he stays in these shots as long as he can so they can build. I'm sure it's better for the actors too

*guy watching a Spielberg movie voice* this guy knows what he's doing

Interesting camera move here. Completely unmotivated. But you get the energy of the character and momentum of what's happening. You could try to get that from editing (which would interrupt the performance), from framing, or just from Hanks's performance but Spielberg chose a big steadicam move

Rewatching Catch Me If You Can in a post-Fabelmans world is so wild. Like, a lot of this already had obvious ties to Spielberg's life but it's so much more blatant now

James Mangold constantly claims his films are influenced by Yasujirō Ozu. Perhaps this is true, but it is impossible to detect

Every time Jared Leto shows up in a movie I'm just like "why is he here"

James Mangold is boring as a filmmaker

“The Halo books are great” - Natty

Eddington With The Kranks

There’s a new Park Chan-Wook out that’s supposed to be nuts

I don't get how Michael Powell was able to get the colors to look like that on all of his movies (Gone to Earth)

I guess the time for listening to my favorite Christmas songs by Bing Dean is over

People are shooting off fireworks. Today is not the day for that

Mary’s wish was obviously for George Bailey to stay in Bedford Falls and immediately afterward his father dies. This means that Mary killed George’s father

When George Bailey goes into the world where he was never born he's horrified to find out that his wife would've worked in a library and worn glasses

Just saw an ad where a guy’s girlfriend dumps him because he buys her a gift card for Christmas. Then he wins her back by asking AI what to buy her. But she still should’ve dumped him

Black Christmas With The Kranks

I'm always doing this

I’m being persecuted for my beliefs (giving Eloise at Christmastime a 1.5/5 8 years ago)

You'd think because it's Christmas Eve – the second most holy day of the year – I would not be posting about Trog (1970). Wrong.

Watching a movie for an hour and then realizing it was shot by the director of Trog

Cape Fear isn't one of Scorsese's better films, but this is exactly how I watch movies

I was in a Christmas play at my church when I was a kid and my character was the Bible

Getting targeted ads for Sissi

This is what it's like sometimes

There's scenes in the first Silent Night Deadly Night which are are so good that the footage gets replayed in the 2nd and 3rd films

Monte Hellman (director of Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out) used to own an Airbnb where you could rent it and basically hear him do a live audio commentary on any movie. Should've done this

I'm imagining people I know watching Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out after hearing me talk about it for years and simply going "what"

People say "oh Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out is too slowly paced, there shouldn't be a scene where a characters sits and waits as nothing happens for 2 full minutes" but that's where they would be wrong

People could be making movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out all the time. But they're not.

Well, it’s 10:30 on December 23rd so I’m sitting down to watch not only one of my favorite Christmas movies, but one of my favorite movies. That’s right, you guessed it. I’m watching Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out

Surviving Christmas is an insane movie

Where’s the picture of John drinking that thing and then looking disgusted

Every time somebody gets a catering pot of coffee and no lids I think about when I did the same and Matt spilled battery acid in his coffee

Old man regular asked me if we “open at 6 tomorrow like you normally do.” We don’t open at 6. We have never opened at 6 the entire time I’ve worked here

*me after seeing a ghost* yeah, but I bet he was wrong about there being 2 more

Oh no! I'm getting boiled in my own Christmas pudding!! Aagh!!!

Why do the people on SNL act Like That. Why don't they act normal instead

People are messaging me to say Avatar 2 is bad. But that isn't true. It's good.

John Wick back in theaters January 1st

My mom says it's too cold to watch a movie. I don't even know what that means

Got onto a random mailing list that is laser focused to me

Most insane lyric in an Elvis Costello song has got to be “A butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand/ Jesus wept when he felt abandoned/“