The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
We're thrilled to announce that @honorszombie.bsky.social and Tucker Johnson's #StubbornBeast, starring Paul F. Tompkins, Meredith Salenger, Sam Clifford, Bill Corbett, Lorelai Linklater, and Autumn Noel, is beginning production this month.
The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger - New Restorations
Showing at Metrograph, New York
April 18 to April 25, 2026
Introduced in-person by Ashley West (The Rialto Report) and Rob King (author of ‘Man of Taste - The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger’)
Tickets on sale now!
The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.
Good morning, for @avclub.com in anticipation of THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE’s big weekend, I interviewed a couple of filmmakers (and a couple of video game writers/developers) about the future of video adaptations. Check it out: www.avclub.com/video-game-m...
Heads Up - The Revue gives us its own spin on the Bleak Week concept in June: revuecinema.ca/series/bleak...
I don’t do much film programming anymore, but when duty calls, I will serve. Presenting a 35mm print of Roger Watkins’ incredible CORRUPTION for the Revue’s BLEAK WEEK on June 3. thedowntowntheatre.substack.com/p/bleak-week...
33 years ago today, Bart Simpson executed his most epic April Fool's Day prank on Homer.
#TheSimpsons episode “So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show” first aired April 1, 1993.
I am loath to do this, but I need your help. My 20+ year marriage has unexpectedly imploded. There's a kid involved. Aside from Lupus, Autism and a shitty 2009 Mazda, I have nothing. Things are fairly desperate right now, so if you can help out now in any way at all I'd be really grateful ❤️
If you help me make this movie. You'll become a producer, and at a certain level you can get a portion of the money we net selling the film. It's an actual investment, not just a way to be nice to me.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-scout...
Five-year-old me: Oooh, that Batman cartoon! What adventures will he go on today?
*the villain is left in tears, unable to process their fears and obsessions. And Batman, a looming presence born of the inability to rationalize terror, is the only one there to comfort them*
Me: Oh. Huh.
As his new film, Yes!, opens this week, I sat down with Nadav Lapid to talk about the failings of Israeli artists, the rot at the center of Tel Aviv and the necessity of painting the perpetrators of a genocide exactly as they are. It’s a heavy one.
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a banner showcasing rounded still images from We're All Going to the World's Fair, So Pretty and Lingua Franca with the wrods TRAMPS, TROUBLEMAKERS AND TRAILBLAZERS: TRANS FILMMAKERS to the left
It appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April
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30 years ago tonight:
"I looked up, and up, and up, and up, until I saw Tom Noonan's face, looking down at me with a curious expression. 'What did you say your name was?' he asked." A remembrance of my friend Tom, lost too soon. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...
The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which included remarks in support of Palestine.
Title shot for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961–1969)
Title shot for "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh"
An 18th-century British court trial is in session.
Patrick McGoohan as The Scarecrow.
every day of 2026, I'll post a story from an anthology film or series.
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WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (1961–69)
"The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh"
D: James Neilson
W: Robert Westerby
Adaptation of Russell Thorndike's novel. Aired as 3-part miniseries as well as edited into a feature film.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Rob Reiner would have turned 79 today. He is missed.
This conversation with Rich Eisen — talking about directing Nicholson in “A Few Good Men” — is always a delight.
@richeisenshow.bsky.social
The history of VistaVision — from WHITE CHRISTMAS to STAR WARS to ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER — and why it’s “coming back from the dead”.
A great listen from NPR:
www.npr.org/2026/02/22/n... #FilmSky
Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media.
Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I spent way too much time putting together an oral history of “Scotty Doesn’t Know” from EUROTRIP that had been erased from the internet, but now it’s back, with some added commentary
30 years ago today, the words ‘embiggens’ and ‘cromulent’ were introduced to the world.
“Lisa the Iconoclast” first aired February 18, 1996.
I can confidently say that no movie destroyed me as deftly as ANOMALISA and I’m pretty sure no other movie ever will and that is 100% due to Tom Noonan’s performance and I am scared to death to ever watch it again (for the fourth time, let’s be clear) to explain why. Lord on high a performance.
a composite image featuring Rod Serling, the Cryptkeeper, the host of Creepshow, Slappy the Dummy from Goosebumps, Homer Simpson as a donut, the mummy from Amazing Stories, the opera singer from Magnetic Rose (Memories), Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton from Inside No. 9, and Pooka from Into the Dark.
every day of 2026, I'll post a story from an anthology film or series.
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This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.
Happy Valentine's Day
Japanese poster for SLEUTH (1972)
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - BOTD in 1909
