A ★★★★½ review of The Wolverine (2013) The Wolverine was released during a stretch of my life when I was grinding through the process of getting my Chinese girlfriend's green card so she could move from Shanghai to the U.S. Back then, anything Asian on screen hit a nerve, escalated with Hollywood doing a ton of collaboration with China. While Japan and China are very different countries and cultures, they share enough “DNA” that movies like The Wolverine seemed to almost glitter for me at times, like Edward in Twilight. Watching Logan stomp around Tokyo as a man stranded between worlds, waiting on forces outside his control

Rewatched The Wolverine. Jackman is my #1 comic-book performance in superhero film history. The twist is dumb, the self-surgery is unhinged, and the bullet train fight totally rules. zurl.co/uzftG

Always love me some Stuart Gordon, and these two make a fantastic gooey Elder Gods double feature.

A ★★★½ review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) A funny thing happened during my rewatch of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I went in with very low expectations expecting to hate it, given my patchy memory of previous watches, mostly due to low-rated reviews from mutuals here and the constant trolling Ryan Reynolds gives this across the first two Deadpool movies. I found this to be a very entertaining film, if you can stomach its obvious faults. And there are faults aplenty. The CGI claws look like something that escaped a video game cutscene. The script, credited to David Benioff and Skip Woods, keeps yanking you away from the fun

Turns out X-Men Origins: Wolverine is way more fun than its reputation. Jackman commits hard, the mutant squad rules, and Will.i.am as a teleporting cowboy is unironically great. zurl.co/XParZ

#XMen #Wolverine

A ★★★★ review of Magnolia (1999) After coming off the high of Boogie Nights, my highly anticipated watch of Magnolia was a bit of a letdown. Don’t get me wrong, its clearly a masterclass in filmmaking. I recognize what Paul Thomas Anderson accomplished here, and he clearly poured his heart into the script. It’s obvious how personal this was for him, and it rightfully triggered in my own mind the sudden death of my father 10 years ago. But I found myself struggling to stay engaged until the third act. Boogie Nights gave us Dirk Diggler as a throughline. We ride with him up, watch him

Magnolia is PTA processing his dad’s death for three hours and daring the audience to keep up. I admire it more than I love it. boxd.it/dWhBAv

My Top 10 "Comfort Food" Movies A list of 10 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Hereditary (2018), Evil Dead (2013), The Thing (1982), Alien (1979) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). About this list: There's a certain kind of horror film that works like comfort food. They aren't easy watches for those who aren't jaded horror fans. Most of them are deeply disturbing and relentlessly bleak. But when a horror film is made with total mastery, when the craft is so complete that your brain just surrenders to it, something strange happens. You trust it. You embrace it like a toddler's teddy bear. You can fall peacefully asleep to it. You come back to it the way other people come back to a favorite meal. These ten films are the ones I return to most. High rewatchability and that specific feeling of being in completely capable hands, even when those hands are doing terrible things to the characters on screen.

My horror comfort films -- the ones I fall asleep to, rewatch obsessively, and trust completely. Hereditary. The Thing. Annihilation. The Witch. Ten masterpieces that put my brain at ease by being that good. 🎬 zurl.co/bcKlX

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Live mortar round found in Sacramento yard prompts Air Force response Sacramento sheriff's deputies called in the Air Force over the weekend after an explosive was found buried in someone's yard.KCRA 3 is your home for Californ...

Our military is the best in the world, but how long before it becomes like air safety has become under Trump and Secretary of War Pete Doofseth. zurl.co/QHm07

WOLFIE'S JUST FINE - A NEW BEGINNING Wolfie's Just Fine - A New Beginning Production Company: Anthem Films Director: Jon Lajoie & Brandon Dermer DoP: Wojciech Kielar Editor: Jon Lajoie & Andrew Wilsak Art Director: Justin McClain

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A ★★★★ review of X-Men (2000) It's been a while since I revisited the X-Men movies. Kevin Feige has been taking his sweet time rebooting one of my favorite comics from back in the day, and it’s the first superhero movie series that didn't involve Batman or Superman (not counting Blade, as that’s a different beast altogether). The most surprising thing about this rewatch is that this is kind of an origin story for Kevin Feige, which I had no idea about before. The casting is stupidly good. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, James Marsden, and Rebecca Romijn are

Starting my X-Men rewatch and somehow the most surprising thing about the 2000 film is how much of it exists despite Bryan Singer, not because of him. Baby Kevin Feige saving the day. zurl.co/SqVs9

#X-Men #MCU

My Top 10 Slasher Franchises A list of 10 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Halloween (1978), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood (1988) and Candyman (1992).

Building out my slasher franchise rankings for a top 10 ranking: 1. Halloween, 2. Texas Chainsaw, 3. Elm Street, 4. Friday the 13th to start from the top ... zurl.co/bYElt

A ★★★★½ review of Saw X (2023) Binging 10 of these Saw movies over two weeks is something else. I seriously got Saw fatigue about three movies in. I already watched and logged Saw X when it was released and had a blast with it. But watching this close out the whole run made me realize it’s my favorite of the bunch, even beating out the original. My original review still holds. What changes when you watch it back-to-back with the rest of the series is how obvious it becomes that most of this franchise is an absolute mess. The sequels turned into homework assignments as you

Just closed out a 10-movie Saw binge. The one from 2023 is still the best one. Tobin Bell, blood on his face, grinning. That's the whole franchise right there. 4.5 stars. #Saw #horror #SawX zurl.co/9TkB3

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I was never a big kung fu movie fan, even though I grew up with some of the Bruce Lee greats, but this fight scene is one for the books. RIP Chuck Norris

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A ★★★★ review of Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) Before I put on Beverly Hills Cop III, Ledley asked me to be nice in my review because it's a big nostalgia burger for him. That ended up completely rejiggering my expectations. Given its low rating, conventional wisdom would say I’d have a similar take. Measured against the first two films, it’s a big letdown. John Landis was directing his first Axel Foley movie with a star with whom he'd publicly torched his relationship. The script went through multiple darker drafts before landing on "Die Hard at a theme park." The studio clipped the wings off anything that might've made

Beverly Hills Cop III is not the disaster everyone says it is. 90s Murphy is relaxed, not muted. And if you grew up at California's Great America, Wonder World hits different. 4 stars.

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A ★★★½ review of Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) For some reason, I thought I liked Beverly Hills Cop II better than the original, but that is not the case at all. I can see where the false memory came from. Tony Scott took over directing duties from Martin Brest, and you feel the upgrade immediately. The opening heist, “Shakedown” by Bob Seger blasting over helicopters and long lenses, is pure Top Gun energy redirected for a cop movie. Scott came into this off The Hunger and Top Gun, and years of shooting UK commercials before that, and every frame of Beverly Hills Cop II has his iconic fingerprints

Beverly Hills Cop II looks like a million bucks thanks to Tony Scott, but the original had Murphy's improv anchored to an actual story. This one's all shine, less grip. zurl.co/2Y8VM

A ★★★★½ review of Beverly Hills Cop (1984) When Beverly Hills Cop dropped in 1984, it was my junior year in high school. I worked at the local theater, and when a blockbuster movie like this dropped, work became a life event. The movie and soundtrack were so popular that we sold out for weeks, and multiple songs were constantly on the radio. As a movie usher, there was a lot of downtime between movie start times, and I rewatched most of the best scenes over and over again. Rewatching this for the first time in decades, when those scenes played, I felt like I was visiting my

Just rewatched Beverly Hills Cop for the first time in decades. I was a movie usher when this was released, and every needle drop brought me straight back. Still an absolute banger. ★★★★½ zurl.co/FoS1d

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

Duh. Anyone that is paying attention to what's happening figured this out ages ago.

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He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

A ★★★★½ review of Sentimental Value (2025) Every year around February and March, I make myself watch Oscar Bait. I put down the slashers, zombies, and creature features, and I watch the films I'd otherwise skip. That's the only reason I've seen Die My Love, Hamnet, The Secret Agent, and now Sentimental Value. Sheer will. And every year, I'm so glad I make the plunge. Joachim Trier directs with the kind of quiet confidence that never calls attention to itself. He opens on Renate Reinsve's Nora Borg frozen backstage, gripped by stage fright so acute it's almost physical to watch. No setup, no explanation. You're just in

Oscar season made me watch Sentimental Value. Skarsgård, Reinsve, and Fanning are all incredible. A gutting story of generational trauma. zurl.co/L0aW6

#SentimentalValue #Letterboxd

My Oscar 2026 ballot.

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Def Leppard was my favorite band from the 1980s. This is pretty effing cool. zurl.co/Ayy1H #DefLeppard

The best Lucifers in film A list of 11 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Constantine (2005), The Prophecy (1995), Angel Heart (1987), The Devil's Advocate (1997) and The Witch (2015). About this list: A ranked list of my favorite movie performances of Satan. Let me know if I missed a movie with a memorable Devilish performance. Must be Lucifer, not a demon. Also knows as Prince of Darkness, The Deceiver, Day Star, Morning Star, Shining One, Helel, the Evil One, the Tempter, the Accuser, Accuser of the brethren, the Enemy, Your Adversary, Prince of this World, god of this Age, Prince of the Power of the Air, Prince of Lies, Father of Lies, Murderer from the beginning, the Serpent, Ancient Serpent, the Dragon, Great Dragon, Red Dragon, the Thief, the Wicked One, Roaring Lion, Beelzebub, Beelzebul, Belial, Abaddon, Apollyon, King of Tyre, Anointed Cherub, Anointed Guardian Cherub, Old Scratch, Old Nick, Dark Lord, Lord of Hell, Lord of the Flies, the Seducer, the Destroyer, the Wolf, Mephistopheles, Mephisto, Baphomet, Baal, Moloch, Asmodeus, Leviathan, Azazel)

My ranked list of favorite cinematic Satan performances. Constantine tops it. Who did I miss? boxd.it/T5spk/detail

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A ★★★★½ review of Frailty (2001) Last night I put on What Josiah Saw, and the moment the premise revealed itself — a whacked-out father, visited by an angel, told to do things — I immediately thought of Frailty and realized I hadn't seen it in a long while. So I shut Josiah down and decided to revisit it. For the second night in a row, I got a freebie: my owned copy on Prime had been upgraded to 4K in 2025. Sometimes the algorithm works in your favor. I remember being blown away by Frailty when it came out in the early 2000s. Bill Paxton

Rewatched Frailty (2002) in 4K last night. Paxton's masterpiece holds up. Dad was right. 🪓

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A ★★★★½ review of The Devil's Advocate (1997) Thank the Lord (or Satan) for gifting the horror genre with this star-studded Faustian banger. It took serious star wrangling to get made and a settled lawsuit to reach home video, which honestly just adds to its legend. Some kind of spiritual intervention had to be at work last night. I'm between clients and feeling mighty poor. My pre-order of the 4K Blu-ray arrived in the afternoon, months after I placed the order. My youngest son, 23, and the fiercest critic I know, came over for chicken wings and a movie. He'd heard about Al Pacino as Lou Cipher, er...

My son came over for wings and watch Al Pacino eat souls. Best Wednesday night in a long while. 🔥 #TheDevilsAdvocate #Horror zurl.co/biu1k

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The "Calvin and Hobbes" Noodle Incident, Explained (As Best As We Can) What was the Noodle Incident? Calvin and Hobbes fans may never know for sure—but here’s what we do know, plus the best theories behind the chaos.

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🚨 WHISTLEBLOWER BLOWS the ROOF off Trump’s ICE in Congress Popok is joined by Senator RIchard Blumenthal, the Senior Senator from Connecticut, about staggering revelations at yesterday's spotlight hearing in which a ...

Why isn't this getting any mainstream media coverage? zurl.co/QKGx6

My 2025 YouTube Music Recap YouTube video by Repo Jack

My 2025 YouTube Music Recap. A whole lotta Linkin Park with their reunion tour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFo...

Hitler’s Greenland Obsession After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.

I've got this theory that Trump is following the Mein Kampf playbook. This proves it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A ★★★★½ review of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Wow. Just wow. I need to rewatch this before I can process it properly. But after reading David James' wonderful write-up, I'm not sure anything else can be said. It's insane just how much is going on...

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