you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

Macon Blair kills it in the LOWDOWN pilot. A perfect showcase for him. “Probably because your mom’s a piece of shit, too.“

Last night’s sold out North American Premiere of BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL (2025) with filmmaker David Kittredge, producer Jim Fall, composer Eduardo Daniel Victoria, & moderator Jim Hemphill 😈 We have a lot more premieres coming up during Beyond Fest 2025 so grab tickets while you can!

I maintain that Lee Zeldin looks like Jello Biafra's evil pod person clone

Bittersweet. We’ve tentatively decided on a date to say goodbye. She’s struggling to take care of herself and we can only ease her suffering so much. Trying to take it a day at a time still, but it’s still pretty paralyzing.

Time now for another dip into Shudder's current offerings. On my to-see list: -SUGAR MILL (Indonesian horror set on a haunted plantation; watching now and they predictably shot the hell out of it) -PEREWANGAN (more Indonesian horror, same director as SUGAR MILL and also the popular DANCING VILLAGE)

Non-journalists really need to understand how everyone in the industry has been laid off, those who wanted to stay have joined an already massive pool of freelancers, and companies have cut freelance rates to almost nothing. Then they sent all the cash left over to their venture capital CEOs.

We’re unbelievably thrilled to say that we’ve recently acquired North American rights for seven films by German filmmaker Monika Treut — they open at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social on Oct. 11th before expanding to other cities in the coming months! Tickets: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

Now available for North American theatrical bookings from Muscle: gorgeous new 2K restorations of key early works from notorious pink film legend Hisayasu Satô, including RE-WIND (aka CELLULOID NIGHTMARES), LOVE LETTER IN THE SAND, and LUSTMORD (later remade as SPLATTER: NAKED BLOOD).

As if we didn’t have enough problems—Jene and I have food poisoning. The cat has also been activated and is very confused. Why are both humans home? In the daytime?! What…why…what… *frantic milling about intensifies*

I launched a new film journal last month and have not been great about promoting it. This has been a big passion project for me and is intended to release quarterly, with new essays, interviews and cartoons. The first issue is on sale now for $10 and any support would mean a lot!

Just compared these lemurs to the Pancake Kid. Jene indulges me.

“Senile American battles foreign escalator” seems like it should be about Jeff Wells in Toronto, but IN REALITY

I’m still thinking of him.

Maybe it’s the delirium talking, but I’ve had trouble finding a movie to watch today. I did like the concert/slice of life doc ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO though, and am currently enjoying the Industry City/gentrification policy doc EMERGENT CITY (free on YouTube).

IT'S A SOLD OUT SHOW!!! It's gonna be an AMAZING night tonight at the Aero for the North American premiere of BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL at Beyond Fest!! Cannot wait to see everyone there!!

Kash Patel says: “We now have strong reason to believe that the ANTI-ICE shooter is also responsible for other major crimes. This image was just mailed to me moments ago from a very credible source. More information as we get it, but we are confident that we will soon nail this guy.”

Don't have a cow (ohhhAAAoohh) / Just get your COVID jab right now (ohhhaaaaAOWWW)

I’m not saying that the vaccine gave me anything. I am saying I now have “Der Komissar” stuck in my head. Makes ya think.

The cat says it is time for me to wake up, so I’m waking up.

Great, but can we also vote to stuff Mike Johnson head first into a full portajohn, I say we can

I’m about to book tickets for my parents and me for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Do they play that The Fixx song? Lie to me.

I got to see him in May. He steamrolled (compliment) through about 25 songs with barely a breath between. One of the loudest shows I’ve seen in a spell. Perfection.

Just retire already!

I’ve seen Bob Mould do his solo electric thing before, but am still very excited to see him pace and hop around stage tonight at LPR. He’s gonna do “Something I Learned Today” and “Flip Your Wig”, the rest is gravy.

Apple to make it even harder to watch their latest content: “We just don’t like our customers”, says Jon Bon Apple.

Got my flu shot and COVID booster! Eat shit, RFK!

Speaking of the Rapture: I wrote about it & other Christian horror movie tropes in @fangoria.bsky.social Vol. 2 #6 from January 2020. A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IF FOOTMEN TIRE YOU, LEFT BEHIND, the whole schmear. Sold out now, but you can find back issues somewhere... shop.fangoria.com/products/fan...

Very impressed y the Vista’s October programming and also very jealous of LA friends who can make it out to that WATCHER IN THE WOODS screening. Also—that graphic for THE UNCANNY! Evil 🐱 puppet forever.

Love to check the status of my morning train online and see that it is ”not good”

this is true. it is the unlikely-sounding but real answer to why there is so much fundamentalist Christian support in the US for whatever Israel does (and especially good if what it does causes more antisemitism so more Jewish people move to Israel. they need us all there. to die.)

Sad to discover, after enlarging the poster, that this is not about an Ominous Space Dreidel

I'm so confused, didn't they /just/ remake SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT? 12 years ago is not long! On a related note, I am now seeking backers for my proposed Christmas horror remake trilogy of TO ALL GOOD NIGHT, SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT, and CHRISTMAS EVIL. I call it the Easy Money trilogy.

Now is absolutely the time to introduce articles of impeachment for RFK Jr., this is so fucking batshit I can't take it anymore.

I'm dating a beverage goblin and it's finally starting to rub off on me after 32 months or so. On average, Jene needs 2-3 beverages at any time. Today, I find myself preparing 2 drinks so that I don't have to worry about how I'll get to the third drink. Somehow, none of these drinks are alcoholic.

Beyond Fest opens @amcinematheque.bsky.social tomorrow! Notes on 3 highlights, @davidkittredge.bsky.social’s BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL, @radujude.bsky.social’s DRACULA, and Lucile Hadžihalilović’s THE ICE TOWER — www.criterion.com/current/post...

The cat indelicately laid into my chest and belly & let me rub between her shoulders for a few minutes, longer than usual. I remember one of the lab techs said something about how common weight loss in upper torso is w/Clindamycin. The cat then came into the bathroom with me & drank a little water.

The emulator crashed but for one brief, shining moment, I was king of NUMBER MUNCHERS, grade 8 and beyond.

Watching the Canadian family drama WHO BY FIRE, which is so far not Jewish, but rather Canadian enough to establish up front that ha ha, we may play rough with each other, but we are still en famille, ha ha, bien sur, nous sommes canadiens.

What if a Nazi rally was modeled after a KISS show?

Update: Loudmouth Right Again. thenumbers.com/news/2599708...

This October, consider making a holiday playlist comprised of pop songs with weirdly ominous lyrics, like Hall & Oates’ “Kiss on My Lips”.

Recently the cat has made a habit of coming into the bathroom and hovering around the sink. She doesn’t want water from the tap, but she does drink tap water if I put it in a little dish for her on the floor. The sound of her lapping up water makes me very happy.

Wait, I just realized that my parents accepted Jene and me’s invitation to have thanksgiving at our place. And we’re looking forward to it?!

TIL that NIGHT FRIGHT (1967) is aka THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL NASTIE?! Starring John Agar!

Tom Homan sounds like the name of an obscure Steve Gerber character whose whole thing is he’s a Hulk clone but he’s activated by anxiety instead of rage and he’s always on the brink of an existential crisis.

I turn into a Jon Lovitz character every time somebody mentions Sophia Loren. Sophia Loren? Well, I once interviewed herrr! www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/m...

Our friends, the ducks.

Just say when, I’ll be sure to cancel.

Maybe it's because I've always misread THE MISANTHROPE as aspirational,* but every new Moliere production's announcement sets my teeth on edge. "Modern" direction & celeb casting especially. *or prejudice that comes from having read all but 2 short Moliere plays one summer just because I could