Never expected good news to come this early on Election Day

I did not care for After the Hunt

Voted early for Zohran

Wife wanted in on the trend, so here are 5 movies each to get to know us:

Faves of 2025 so far

Nosferatu: Always in the bag for Eggers, but this is the first time I felt his slavish devotion to detail obstruct imagination, and ironically, blood in the veins. My wife literally turned to me afterwards and said: “We should’ve just watched Coppola’s Dracula instead.” I agree.

Happy holidays everyone

Saw Gladiator 2

Gladiator 2:

Wicked: Quite infectious and I liked this much more than I thought I would, mostly because Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo break their backs carrying it, but if you watched this back-to-back with Spielberg’s WSS you would go catatonic. John M. Chu just doesn’t have it.

Extra thoughts on Juror #2

Extra thoughts on Juror #2

A Different Man: I loved The Substance, but this is the essential self-hatred text of 2024. Effortlessly smart, a movie with a million layers underneath a cruel, nasty joke of getting exactly what you want. Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are unbelievable.

NEW HIT FACTORY// Filmmaker Pascal Plante (Red Rooms) joins us to discuss mediated violence, spectatorship, and the visceral thrills of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's debut THESIS. Links below.

On Red Rooms and our moral stasis

Juror #2 duty

Seeing all my old friends on here again

You can actually feel the computing power sweat bullets as it tries to imitate something real for 15 measly seconds

Turning over a new leaf on Bluesky by not asking why it looks like that

Won’t jump to conclusions, but Conan seems to like movies a hell of a lot more than Jimmy.

Inaugural Bluesky 2024 faves post

On Red Rooms and our moral stasis

I reviewed The Killer, now on Netflix: I get why some are calling it minor, but this is a David Fincher heater. Minimalist veneer but deceptively sharp about capitalist miasma, hustle culture nonsense, and our deteriorating gig economy. Favorite of the year.

I wrote some words on Killers of the Flower Moon and late style Martin Scorsese: