"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Wanda Sykes is incredible in this

SS Rajamouli's Vāranāsi will be released in theaters on April 7, 2027 🌟

Starring Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra and Prithviraj Sukumaran

This sprawling, surrealist movie is a tribute to cinema itself Director Bi Gan, known for his films Kaili Blues and Long Day's Journey Into Night, sets his latest film in a world where people can live forever, unless they dream.

Director Bi Gan, known for his films Kaili Blues and Long Day's Journey Into Night, sets his latest film in a world where people can live forever, unless they dream. n.pr/4bA9P3l

Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:

Resurrection Review: To Sleep, Perchance to Make Movies • The Austin Chronicle It’s been said that a film is merely a dream captured in celluloid, and if so then the nighttime visions that dance through the head of Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan must be too vibrant to contain within o...

To sleep, perchance to make movies: ending the year with a review of a truly wondrous film, Bi Gan's Resurrection. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...

Have no fear, it'll be back

I cannot stress enough how, if you like fantasy, epics, action, good movies in general, Indian cinema, and/or RRR, you REALLY need to catch BAAHUBALI: THE EPIC on the big screen this week.

Don't worry a bit about the run time, we hard-coded a ten minute intermission into the DCP and the film ZIPS.

At the intermission for BAAHUBALI: THE EPIC and my short review so far is this shit rocks.

This is not our movie, but if you enjoy things like smiling you REALLY should go see this movie with strangers!

No guilty pleasures- only pleasures!

Every conservative on Twitter today:

“I brought my Nordic wife and our cherubic triplets to Washington DC for January 6th and as soon as we stepped off the plane we were bullied by a group of reefer-smoking greasers who made my wife a porn star and turned my triplets into non-binary baristas #MAGA”

This is a "do not miss" situation!

New York Times headline: "Is it Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?" Above the headline a photo of the vampires from Sinners, asking to be let in. The photo has been modified with a downward-facing word balloon to create the effect that the vampires are speaking the headline.

Did you like RRR? Come thru, let's go even bigger.

This is so fantastic!

@thegrandcinema.bsky.social is the theater I mention in the opening of my @metroweekly.bsky.social cover story about first seeing Brokeback Mountain two decades ago.

I’m so happy to see an independent cinema like the Grand flourishing. There’s no better place to see a movie.

The Frida Cinema has it right...

Oh no if they close Gristedes where are we going to get $17 4-packs of Charmin

PSA for everyone going to protests

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

The marquee of the glorious Music Box Theatre in Chicago, which says "Coming Soon! Theatre 3 Summer 2026" with the words "theatre 3 loading" and the eye emojis in a small box under it.

There's a lot bad in the world but let's make sure to celebrate the victories too @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

Top five post-apocalypse 3-day wknds at the box office:

7/21/23: $307m (Barbenheimer)
7/26/24: $283m (Deadpool)
12/17/21: $281m (Spider-man: No Way Home)
11/29/24: $275m (Moana 2/Wicked/Gladiator 2)
5/26/25: $264m (Lilo/M:I-8/Caught by the Tides)

Be nice to the theater staff, take out your trash!

Of everything I saw at CinemaCon the extended trailer for this was by far the most "oh that's gonna be GOOOD" of the bunch

The speed with which I typed in my zip code

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UK folks:

Hell yeah

Yes, and don’t cheap out- icy cold NYC tap water ain’t it!

The one venue I'll sort of miss at Sundance is the Holiday, a creaky four-plex with generally good vibes in the tent and decent picture and sound, only dinged because each theater had about 24 seats.