I used Shazam to discover Teen Age Riot by Sonic Youth at the Moynihan Train Hall Food Court at Penn Station

never getting over “The Michael Phenomenon”

avant-garde capitalization in cobble hill cinemas preshow reel

Cutscenes | Against the Cutscene From Donkey Kong to Hideo Kojima, these mini movies often suggest the future of the medium—but do they undercut the pleasures of gaming?

my new notebook "cutscenes" column is an argument against the cutscene itself, proposing - by way of everything from MANIAC MANSION to ELDEN RING - that video game storytelling should be medium-specific and involve more than moving images that suspend the player's control.

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each person is $31.99

Notes from the Peanut Factory: Matt Johnson on “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” Toronto’s most dynamic alt-comedy duo leaps to the silver screen (and travels through time…and scales the CN Tower).

Talked to Matt Johnson about lenticular storytelling, being annoying, and studying Norman McClaren in film class mubi.com/en/notebook/...

this post presented by Jet Blue “FlyFi”……..

Ep. 373: Sundance 2026 – Chloe Lizotte on Night Nurse, Homemade Gatorade and other shorts, Public Access Redux, plus A Rotterdam Surprise Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · 02/04/2026 · 47m

always a pleasure to chat sundance with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social — some fun films on deck this year. listen in here to learn how to make gatorade at home or make long distance calls for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

in @reverseshot.bsky.social two cents on some extremely unusual home cleaning behavior! scroll until you see him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

film criticism is everywhere:

Bridging the Void: On “The Fall of Otrar” and the Historical Epic As Adak Amirkulov excavates the deep past, records are lost and recreated as legends.

The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

a dark day for public radio when brian lehrer is forced to say the word “grokipedia”

DYING to get in on conversation behind me at restaurant about “diegetic” / “non-diegetic” …………..

the neil hamburger to sinatra’s “trilogy: past present future” pipeline

don’t miss laura on the viennale!

man on subway platform with penn and teller ball cap and NIN varsity jacket……..

Conservative Lecturer DESTROYS!!! SJW college student YouTube video by conor m

after the hunt

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All the Predators Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscape�and beyond.

happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...

All the Predators Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscape�and beyond.

happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...

Thank you to all of our beautiful and stylishly opinionated contributors

ballots: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

exactly. thank you

was offered a seat on the subway bc i was cradling a personal pizza box as if it were a child

olympic-level snack wrapper crinkling was ongoing behind me for the final 40 minutes of the “last night i conquered the city of thebes” p&i

Venice 2025 | The Real Thing Under the marble, the brick: on “The Smashing Machine,” “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” and more.

on the venice film festival, for mubi notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

one thing about film festivals in 2025 is that so many people will have their ringer on

way to go grandpa

with the realization that i am recognizing more and more films in a festival preshow reel, my heart surges with Power…………