Revisited JAWS, and that amount of actual daylight photography without much post fiddling is just something we don’t get much of any more.

Also resentful of any long screeds that features “they wouldn’t like it if you share this!” while also resentful of “please like and subscribe.”

Love trying to read an article and have ads block the text randomly while reading. Almost feel like the internet should start over until it figures out advertising.

Though it can be gross to talk about how women age, it’s hard to not to think about it when many films are sequels to 20+ year old films. Looking at Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in their respective returns to characters creates a compare/contrast just by revisiting the originals.

In TOP GUN, Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards sing slightly off key, likely because in 1986 being too good a singer would be seen as fey, because that was the culture (men couldn’t cook in movies either, a shorthand for their manliness). Wonder if that ate at Cruise, if it’s why he did ROCK OF AGES.

I would also add: stagnant wages making people less experimental and Blu-ray not being a revolutionary upgrade with demonstrable reasons to switch like DVD over VHS. It was the part of the move to “new tech you don’t really need that costs more” that’s a lot of modern stuff.

The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary Leaving Neverland into a ghost haunting the Michael Jackson biopic.

I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.

“You have to go to a theater to watch five minutes of additional material in a three hour long film to understand our next blockbuster” not the winning argument.

As Trump basically only knows how to make things worse and promises solutions two weeks away, and is usually thwarted by getting distracted, the likelihood of the Iran situation resolving itself under his watch is close to zero. A reality that will likely sink in slowly.

what I find interesting about the film is the modern (or more modern) versions have a comedian or improv person in the Fox role, which may be why it’s better directed than most modern versions.

I think one of the reasons I don’t like seeing social media concert footage is because what people do in their private time don’t concern me. I don’t want to see it in the same way I don’t want to know if you’ve licked your partner’s asshole. Ain’t nothing wrong with it, it’s just not my business.

SHUTTER ISLAND: I’ve grown to like this film, but there’s a lot of Sam Fuller in it, which makes me wish it were 100 minutes long, or 40 minutes tighter.

So your Arrow copy of BLUE THUNDER showed up early. We get it.

Watching I’M NOT THERE, which makes A COMPLETE UNKNOWN look like tic tac toe.

It’s weird to see people try to make hay with Joe Rogan being a conservative POS because he said critical things about Trump but went to the White House today. Look, there’s people who passed the POS trial, but if you want to defend Louis CK, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Michael Jackson, you obvs.

There is no filmmakers who are more Dylan-esque than the Coens.

One of the things about Bob Dylan is that he was 22 in 1963, so most of the people who are writing and analyzing him are older than he was when he did that.

One aspect of modern culture is there is a difference between making a cover and making karaoke. Monica Barbaro isn’t perfect as Joan Baez, but there are reasons to understand why she’s Baez in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Renée Rapp in MEAN GIRLS is bad casting because she isn’t a good Rachel McAdams.

One of the things that may fell or may have felled both STAR WARS and the MCU - and this is entirely on Disney - is that television and movies are separate and have class distinctions and that audiences actively want that distinction, because they don’t want to view them as the same thing.

MAN ON THE RUN: Most people would say of Paul he’s the light one, the nice Beatle. Weird then to make a movie about your petty grievances that contradicts the legend. Seems like a lot of modern docs are felled by their subject being too powerful, yet they’re oblivious to how bad they come off.

One of the things about my 4K obsession is OrbitDVD.com just listed THE CRUSH, PIRATES and THE BROTHERHOOD OF JUSTICE as available in 4K and I’m tempted by all of them for being weird 4K choices that probably won’t get released in America.

Seeing Mamdani with kids, you can tell this shit makes Republicans jealous, the problem is the solution is simple: You have to actually like people.

RISING SUN: if this movie weren’t horribly racist, it would actually be required viewing about how digital images could/can be manipulated. It’s just so horribly racist. But also on to something. But also the Tia Carrere of it all…

Someone was like “love KO doesn’t work, add a syllable.”

Record store day - like so much modern culture - turns pleasure into torture. Like spending three grand to take your kids to see a concert, we have been “1% worse”d our way into everything being terrible. WARGAMES was right, only way to win is to not play, but most people can’t think big picture.

Domestic Box Office For 2025

Looking at last year, how many of the big films gave roles for actors to sink their teeth into? I’d say SINNERS and WEAPONS for sure. SUPERMAN, AVATAR 3? sorta. Everything else? Not so much ( for reference: www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2025/?r...)

History doesn’t always reveal itself immediately, but Pete Hegseth quoting PULP FICTION will be a footnote about PULP FICTION, not a footnote about Pete Hegseth, even though he’s a war criminal.

David Corenswet looks like Tom Welling in this photo to me. Feels like all Supermen have to look a little like Christopher Reeve, like “them’s the rules.”