Sci-Fi/thriller Companion is my favorite movie of 2025 so far. Best not to know too much ahead of time. I saw it on Max, here's their synopsis:

"When Iris realizes that she is a made-to-order AI companion for her boyfriend, Josh, she must embrace who she is and fight to survive."

27 years ago tonight, Feb. 18th 1998, Robert Smith saved South Park from the terror of Mecha-Streisand.

today is the premiere of another charles burnett masterpiece! “annihilation of fish” (1999), starring james earl jones and lynn redgrave, opens at BAM cinema in NYC before expanding.

here’s a photo of the restoration work i had a pleasure of witnessing last april (!)

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Within the first five minutes of “The Annihilation of Fish,” it’s not only clear that a great wrong has been righted. It’s also obvious this film is the essence of what makes Burnett’s hold on the American mythos peerless and exceptional.” — Rob Daniels www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

"The full-on humanity of the fear and the anger and the worry and the hunger and the speed and the boredom, everything that we live, I would say that’s 'life as it should have been'. And we can miss the point, all of us!"

#KristinHersh on the Return Of #ThrowingMuses

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Speaking of late to the party... The 2017 remaster of Shawn Colvin's 1996 album "A Few Small Repairs" sounds GLORIOUS. From the extra definition of the vocal to the really solid 90s AC production. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...