Now WAFCA has nominated LITTLE AMELIE for Best Animated Film. This is very gratifying to see. nextbestpicture.com/the-2025-was...

Hmmm, final weekend of the Barnes & Noble 50% Off Criterion sale, and I have $10 in member rewards...

“For example, studies find that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death from any cause compared to people who don't drink coffee.”

GAME SET MATCH

Remember when you could get any movie from Netflix sent to you in the mail? That was cool.

So, good week when accounting for the surprisingly strong URCHIN.

Think I’ve heard that TESTAMENT is a Christmas Day release as well, although it screens a bit earlier, on December 21, in 70mm at AFI Silver. Oh, looks like MARTY SUPREME does indeed open at the same theater December 25 - *also* in 70mm. I like this trend.

Yes.

Planning to see this one with my two boys, but not until the oldest returns from college - two days before the run ends (if it’s not extended).

Right. I loved being part of my local critics group for a dozen years, but the “go along with whatever the studios say” mentality during awards season used to drive me up the wall.

Right. “Let’s dump the one guy who worked out from the ‘rebuild.’”

Even the new manager has echoed the prior regime’s belief that good pitching is a key building block. So you get one emerging star pitcher and again, it’s “let’s see what we can get for him in a trade.”