one big red flag movie for me is WARFARE — if you, as a film critic, are so entranced by the formal skill on display that you totally miss the glaring propaganda it's in service of, we just aren't going to see eye to eye on most other things
brb rebranding The Godfather Part 2 as "Al Pacino's 3-hour prequel and sequel to a modern imagining of Scarface"
Bone Temple review is up now with the Ithaca Times! It's good, just not nearly as good as 28 Years Later
www.ithaca.com/entertainmen...
on BlueSky, it's called Skeeting.
on Mastodon, it's called Masturbating.
make sure you know the difference
My review of NO OTHER CHOICE is online now at the Ithaca Times! www.ithaca.com/entertainmen...
I'm proud to reveal that I played the little gremlin baby in 28 YEARS LATER
Guys, just flunk them. We don't need a whole think piece about this.
Fools according to whom? The rapist elite whose unchecked power depends on our silence? If you want to continue disbelieving alleged victims without any evidence that they're lying or telling the truth and want to wait for some human rights watchdog to sort all this out, you're living in a fantasy.
sowing distrust in the legitimacy of some accounts of the abuse suffered at the hands of Epstein and his rich friends will only serve to devalue ALL of the stories we hear, since it's nearly impossible to verify them all. it's exactly what the abusers want, and it won't help anything.
maybe read or listen to testimony from the victims before dismissing them as trolls. the William Sascha Riley interview is super disturbing, comprehensive, and informative.
so from what I can tell from The Discourse, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Joe Carnahan remade THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE and it gently sucks
had a dream that I met John Krasinski in person and he just vented to me about how bummed he was that IF was a massive failure. I was like "it's okay man let it out"
one of the ways you can tell we're living in the Worst of Times is that the lyrics to "Love It If We Made It" are just as relevant now as they were back in 2018
I reviewed HAMNET for the Ithaca Times! Rare example of a movie I'm just kind of lukewarm on but which, as I write my review, I realize, "Wait, this might be a great movie"
www.ithaca.com/entertainmen...
This is the state of elite journalism in America right now. The country is so so so fucked.
2025 MOVIE TITLES IF THEY WERE ABOUT OTTERS INSTEAD
"No Otter Choice"
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and that's it, that's all I got
blows my mind that some journalists still use Twitter. sure buddy just continue propping up an egomaniacal Nazi's dream
published my top 10 list with Film Inquiry, come see the list that racist people on Reddit called "too much about Gaza"
I reviewed MARTY SUPREME for the Ithaca Times a week or so ago. If Timmy is gonna win an Oscar for one of these, I hope it's this one
www.ithaca.com/entertainmen...
I reviewed the doc MEN OF WAR, which dives into the U.S.'s unsuccessful attempt to stage a coup in Venezuela back in 2020. I hope more people see this one, and I hope literally everyone in the Trump administration goes to jail over this.
www.filminquiry.com/men-of-war-2...
Pro tip: If you drive around with a copy of PATRIOTS DAY with Mark Wahlberg that you rented from the library, ICE officials have a 40% lower chance of detaining you.
It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.
considering *shudders* starting a substack
oh god the capital of Greenland is called Nuuk? let's not give him any more ideas
In 30 years we will get Clint Eastwood's sycophantic and terrible WAR AGAINST GREENLAND about the US invasion of Greenland and the much better companion film, LETTERS FROM KANGERLUSSUAQ, told from the Greenland perspective.
Review I wrote for @filminquiry.bsky.social of WAKE UP DEAD MAN, which really ought to be in the Oscars convo a bit more
www.filminquiry.com/wake-up-dead...
hope he's having fun in hell
JB McCuskey is a monstrous piece of shit, promoting transphobia under the auspices of protecting women and girls. What a disgusting prick.
Wife and I are catching up on THE BEAR. Is there a law that all the cameos in this show have to be played by big-name actors? It's seriously distracting
Oh, Gromit. There's no such thing as an AI bubble!
