Let the storm rage on! And also questions!

Have any questions you want answered on our Frozen episode? Drop 'em below!

Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Today's Viewing:
The Color Purple
1985 / Epic Period Drama / USA
D: Steven Spielberg
W: Menno Meyjes (based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker)
Film Collection
Favorite Film of 1985
Director Spotlight

Today's Viewing:
Lee Cronin's the Mummy
2026 / Supernatural Horror / USA
D: Lee Cronin
W: Lee Cronin (Remake of the 1932 film by John L. Balderston, Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer)
AMC GardenWalk 6

The Writer's Desk 04.20.2026: New episode recording later this week, update on The Pedestrian!

Today's Viewing:
Merrily We Roll Along
2025 / Filmed Live Musical Production / USA
D: Maria Friedman
W: George Furth, Stephen Sondheim (based on the 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart).
Netflix

The Rundown (Not to be Confused with the 2003 Action Comedy Starring The Rock and Seann William Scott) 04.19.2026: Faces of Death, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Pizza Movie, and more.

Today's Second Viewing:
Frozen II
2019 / Musical Fantasy / USA
D: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
W: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck, Marc Smith, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez (sequel to the 2013 film "Frozen" by Lee, Buck, and Shane Morris)
Disney+

Today's Viewing:
Frozen
2013 / Musical Fantasy / USA
D: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
W: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck, Shane Morris (based on the 1844 Fairy Tale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen)
Film Collection
Favorite Film of 2013

Today's Viewing:
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
2025 / True Crime Documentary / USA
D: Skye Borgman
Netflix

Today's Second Viewing:
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
2026 / Adventure Comedy / USA, Japan
D: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
W: Matthew Fogel (sequel to his 2023 film "The Super Mario Bros. Movie")
AMC Norwalk 20

Today's Viewing:
The Lords of Salem
2012 / Supernatural Horror / Canada, UK, USA
D: Rob Zombie
W: Rob Zombie
Hoopla

Happy Birthday to the one & only Ellen Barkin, 4/16/1954!

If Hollywood had kept giving Barkin lead roles (THE BIG EASY, SEA OF LOVE), it would have made the world a more interesting place! Sexy, cool, tough & usually smarter than anyone in the room.

Still busy with 📺 & avid activism.

#filmsky 📽

Today's Viewing:
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 / Spy Action / UK, USA
D: Roger Spottiswoode
W: Beuce Feirstein (sequel to the 1962 film "Dr. No" by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather)
Film Collection

Yesterday's Second Viewing:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 / Action Adventure / USA
D: Steven Spielberg
W: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, George Lucas (prequel to the 1981 film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" by Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, and Philip Kaufman)
Film Collection
Director Spotlight

He’s here to save her

My favourite Sirk.

Today's Viewing:
Thrash
2026 / Survival Thriller / USA
D: Tommy Wirkola
W: Tommy Wirkola
Netflix

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

People hate this shit so much. Nobody's having fun. Even the AI people are getting tired of this. They're losing and they know it. Even with the ever-growing revenues of OpenAI and Anthropic, things feel weird and bad. Anthropic's services are also randomly broken or rate limited to hell. Cool!

My Best Friend's Wedding screenshot. Julia Roberts in purple.

MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING is one of the most beautifully *directed* comedies of all time.

I say that with zero hyperbole. Up there with Wilder's Some Like It Hot.

Revisited (on the STUNNING recent 4k transfer) and every shot and cut is so elegant and purposeful. Breathtakingly precise.

"But we're a small business", all the more reason to show us your actual product, like ?????

How about instead of that weird AI ad, you just show us your actual product at work? I hate every movie pre-show casting me into the uncanny valley.

Today's Second Viewing:
Faces of Death
2026 / Horror / USA
D: Daniel Goldhaber
W: Isa Mazzei, Daniel Goldhaber (reimagined from the 1978 film by John Alan Schwartz)
AMC Norwalk 20

The Writer's Desk 04.14.2026: Updates on The Pedestrian, and trying to find a solid recording space for the Podcast.

Today's Viewing:
The Dam Keeper
2014 / Fantasy Drama / USA
D: Robert Kondo, Daisuke Tsutsumi
W: Robert Kondo, Daisuke Tsutsumi

The Rundown (Not to Be Confused with the 2003 Action Comedy Starring The Rock and Seann William Scott) 04.11.2026: Project Hail Mary (again), Primate, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

Today's Viewing:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
1982 / Sci-fi Fantasy / USA
D: Steven Spielberg
W: Melissa Mathison
Film Collection
Director Spotlight

We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer,” she wrote. “Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.”

Let’s be serious: the people in charge of this administration are not interested in merit.

They've overruled the merit process to block the promotion of Black military officers - and lavish favors on people who can pay dues at Trump's private clubs or write big checks to his ballroom project.