“Is Tom Waits conservative?” discourse has been compromised to a permanent end

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

HE’S BACK

“Kiyoshi Kurosawa samurai murder mystery” is my personal sleeper agent activation phrase

there's obviously a Paranormal Activity comparison to be made with these campaigns ("call your local theaters!"), but the difference is that Paranormal's happened AFTER a studio pickup - with TADC and Iron Lung, those campaigns are the REASON they're getting such big releases

theatrical distribution can not only exist in the US outside of the studio market, but can thrive. that's a pretty big deal as far as I'm concerned

it's obviously weird calling a $4 million video game adaptation and a Fathom Events release of a webseries "indie films" but one of them's box office dynamite and the other's already crashing ticket sales sites - somebody's gotta start talking about this

I cannot be the only one who thinks that this and Iron Lung are an insane sea change in the film industry

maybe the kids will be alright after all

Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Angine de Poitrine is the first time in years where my tastes in music have lined up with the zeitgeist so you better believe I will be riding this trend into the ground

Man, this one hurts. RIP to Shozin Fukui, a shining light of Japanese punk cinema.

seated for Hangover Square at the Egyptian, a bucket list screening if ever there was one

Inferno from ‘53 maybe? 83 minutes with intermission

BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK Commentary - Bad Day at Black Rock - The Criterion Channel The following audio commentary, featuring director John Sturges, was recorded for the 1991 Criterion laserdisc edition of the film.

and the western/noir masterpiece Bad Day at Black Rock - along with John Sturges's incredible commentary track for the film (basically film school in under 2 hours) - have also returned to the Criterion Channel.

I have been in the bag for Goldhaber/Mazzei for years now, cannot wait for Faces of Death

been seeing a lot of How to Blow Up a Pipeline discussion recently, and while I’m not complaining, it’s also a good excuse to recommend Cam, one of the only movies that saw the current AI psychosis grift coming

ZEP - FIGURE IT OUT (Official Music Video) YouTube video by ZEP

major thanks to @2mello.net for turning me onto ZEP - fantastic mix of techno/post-punk/hip-hop that I'm gonna have stuck in my head for weeks

Shinya Tsukamoto Unveils Rodney Hicks, Geoffrey Rush Vietnam War Drama Shinya Tsukamoto Unveils Details & First Images For Vietnam War Drama ‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’ With Rodney Hicks, Geoffrey Rush

I'm sorry WHAT DO YOU MEAN "SHINYA TSUKAMOTO'S ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT"

maybe the best ending of an X-Files episode, at least for me

The Furious (2026) Official Trailer - Xie Miao, Joe Taslim YouTube video by Lionsgate Movies

this is the only trailer we should be talking about this morning

Y’all are gonna want to check this out - Mark’s work rules, and it’s more than worth supporting

the Steel Ball Run is a cross-country horse race whose participants include “a guy in a car“ and “a guy running the whole race on foot”, which makes it the most realistic depiction of late 1800s sporting events in TV history

any parallels to the Ramones cover are, I assure you, fully intended

new headshot dropped for the first time in 6+ years

definitely counts! can’t argue with a Richard Thompson pick

there is an entire playlist to be made of “this person is obviously a psychopath but it’s fiiiiiiiine”

fairly certain that “Excitable Boy” by Warren Zevon, “Sweet and Tender Hooligan” by the Smiths and “Only A Lad” by Oingo Boingo consitute their own weirdo little subgenre of rock

the Kudo Method will return the galaxy to normal

Grace Ashcroft gets an unexpected call from within the FBI

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