The two directors pose, one on each side of a cinema box office kiosk.

Tony Scott & Ridley Scott by Dudley Reed
C-type colour print, 5 January 2002

#NationalSiblingsDay

Rewatching The Leftovers S1. Often S1 is regarded as a transitional season where the show was figuring out its tone.

This is an all time great season of TV.

Folks I think we’re making a movie. Anyone who still wants to come in for a point of the sale can still do so, or really join the production in any capacity. We are still open for business.

Hell yeah

Frank Miller’s 1986-1987 run is one of the craziest peak anyone has reached. 4 medium defining master works in 24 months

Johan as Shadow Self in Monster [1 of 3]
One way to read the Tenma/Johan relationship is through Carl Jung’s concept of the “shadow self,” the aspects of the self that are most distant from the person that an individual wants to be. #monster

Reread confirms that this is the best comic book I’ve ever read.

Tried the deluxe edition this time. The colors are amazing. Only drawback is missing the chapter breaks of TPBs. Each arch is structured so perfectly that you do miss putting down the volume physically.

“Kathryn Bigelow should go back to making genre pulp films” is such a boring take

BFI screening for House of Dynamite. Great to see Kathryn Bigelow in person.

Have you seen his movie Fortress?

This movie looks so good

Wait what??

It’s amazing how Fallout improves upon the weaknesses of Westworld. (Lack of narrative momentum, humor, character depth, overly complicated back story/twists)

Fallout just blows away other blockbuster shows like House of the Dragon or The Last of Us in its craft.

It’s so tactile. CGI compositing blends so well with the location shoots and sets. It doesn’t have the weird flat lighting that plagues other shows.

Dope Thief is so good. Incredibly stressful episode

Mickey 17 on Imax was great. No one does chaos like Bong Joon Ho

David Lynch, 1946–2025 “Everything is new.”

Today for @thebulwark.bsky.social I sum up the career, art, and genius of David Lynch. This task being impossible, I did the best I could.

www.thebulwark.com/p/david-lync...

SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #24, script by Alan Moore, my pencils.

Note that I'd so 'nailed' letterer John Costanza's sizing that I not only placed all balloons and captions, but I also roughed in Alan's script text. This guaranteed no lettering issues before John Totleben got the page for inking.

There needs to be more sea monster movies

This guys plays two roles better than everyone on earth:

1. Nazi robot
2. A guy who looks like he is in control unraveling

The Agency is incredible. The best spy show I’ve ever watched? Refreshing to watch a show about spycraft after so many shows with everyone fighting like John Wick.

Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen tv series is great. Feels like a good Garth Ennis comics

I like Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen TV series. Episode 5 is so much more colorful than others.

Hoping that global audience gets more familiar with Lee Byung Hyun with Squid Games 2.

Lee is both the biggest movie star and actor in Korea.

Wrath of Men feels like a volume of Criminal. Looks fantastic. One of the best crime films of the decade

Guy Ritchie has been on a special run. He has been making great genre films after another. Ritchie is making films with craft and personality that people miss.

I can’t emphasize enough how good these films look because colors really pop.

Wish the studios weren’t burying them.

The King of England knighted Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas as Sir and Dame.

Harrison Ford is really underrated as an actor because he is the greatest movie star ever.

His range is really under appreciated. Don’t think Hanks, Denzel, Cruise, or Leo can pull off what Ford did in BR, Frantic, or Presumed Innocent during the peak movie star run.

Gladiator II (2024) Here there be spoilers… Any commentary I make on Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II must be prefaced by an initial confession. As great a fa...

@roderickheath.bsky.social's recent essay on Gladiator 2.
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