I remember Mitchum being pretty awesome (as always) in 5 Card Stud. The other movie I remember being kinda… rough.

[Breathes heavily]

Medical researchers say that cancer is typically caused by a complex combination of factors. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats says it's mostly caused by the radiation from offshore windmill farms. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Clockwork Orange (with my grandmother! Who also hasn’t seen it!)

SO excited for this, got my ticket✨

They had to make it racist so that’s how you know it’s racist.

I would love to write the Antonioni-style script for a Myst movie adaptation. I only regret Monica Vitti isn’t around to star.

La Chimera, The Secret Agent, Power of the Dog, The Eternal Daughter, I’m Your Man, French Dispatch are all up there for sure

Get off social media and get on Fragrantica perfume comments

Get off social media and get on Fragrantica perfume comments

NEW PODCAST ALERT

I thank you for your service in bringing back the (super awesome) illustrated poster 🫡

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

We are LONG overdue for a new era of movie posters that go this hard

I had to stop watching because I couldn’t handle the mismatch! 😭

Argh, this casting news… look, he’s a talented actor but I have to agree that he looks more like JD Vance than Aragorn

Best new to me watches of March:
You Only Live Once (1937)
Kill! (1968)
Local Hero (1983)
EPIC: Elvis in Concert (2026)

Nooo!

Bud Cort was BOTD in 1948 & died in 2026 at 77. In 1979 he was involved in a serious car crash on the Hollywood Freeway which substantially interrupted his career. His most famous roles were in Altman's "Brewster McCloud" (1970) & Ashby's geronto-romance "Harold and Maude" (1971)

wtf

There’s only one elegant solution to this problem of increasingly stupid audiences, and that’s to mandate that every film ends with a closing rap song that lays out all the moral lessons of the movie. There will be a government office that reviews the songs for aural and pedagogical value.

One word title week while I recover from being sick

Klassy Karrot
Holtville, CA

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained

Concentration camps.

Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague.

This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

This comic is so great!!!! It really resonated when I first read it during the pandemic lockdown. Now unfortunately it’s even more relevant as we experience our own fascist takeover. Theres a Netflix tv adaptation that came out last year that’s not bad either.

“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

Martin & Lewis: The Straight Man, The Monkey, and The Unspoken martin

Published on @brightwalldarkroom.com five years ago, my ode to the Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin partnership. A classic anxious/avoidant vortex of creativity, love, codependency and misery! Plus beautiful Tony Stella artwork, check it out:
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Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends

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Martin & Lewis: The Straight Man, The Monkey, and The Unspoken martin

Published on @brightwalldarkroom.com five years ago, my ode to the Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin partnership. A classic anxious/avoidant vortex of creativity, love, codependency and misery! Plus beautiful Tony Stella artwork, check it out:
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/03/10/m...

Four Best New To Me Watches for Every Month in 2026 ~ A thread.

Jan.

1. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
2. The Secret Agent (2025)
3. Caught by the Tides (2024)
4. It Was Just an Accident (2025)