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Jason Bailey
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Keep circulating the tapes.

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Is he trolling the other Safdie's flop by dressing like The Rock?
That one old picture of the Rock in a black turtleneck with a chain, jeans, and a fanny pack
January 12, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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This face is funnier than anything Pratt ever did on PARKS & REC
An email for some shitty-looking January action movie with Chris Pratt doing his very best "I'M AN ACTION HERO AND I'M MAD" face and failing miserably, god, poor Rebecca Ferguson
January 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Most unhinged Friday Stack to date? #multitudes
Today I’m watching PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK, BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, and BABE: PIG IN THE CITY
January 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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When I tell you I laughed louder and longer at this than anything I've read in 2026
“When Amazon acquired MGM, Amazon’s plan was to continue licensing MGM’s iconic library to streaming and television partners around the world. Bringing these iconic films and shows to Netflix is part of that continued strategy,” said Chris Ottinger, Head of Worldwide Distribution, Amazon MGM Studios. “James Bond remains one of the most enduring and influential franchises in cinematic history, and **alongside other beloved titles in our library like Hunters**, among other series, this agreement reflects the continued global appetite for premium storytelling and the strong working relationship we’ve built with Netflix.”
January 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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This, yes, right here. defector.com/ice-agent-ki...
this is not even remotely accurate as a description of the shooting, which, again, any person with access to the internet can see, in full, whenever they want to. Which I suppose raises the question of why DHS is even bothering to tell this obviously fictitious and self-serving story, and of what exactly the department hopes to accomplish by contradicting so flamboyantly what anyone could see with their own eyes. The answer, I think, sits precisely in the wide and irreconcilable disjunction between the incident itself and McLaughlin and Noem's descriptions of it. Now that the Trump administration has shown it will immediately make up a flagrant lie in an attempt to justify the summary execution of a U.S. citizen, on video, in broad daylight—and will outright valorize the ICE agent who drew his pistol and killed a civilian for the crime of moving her vehicle a few feet—the message is clear, to ICE agents and everyone else: Nothing constrains these agents except whatever inhibits any individual one of them, personally, from brutalizing and murdering any person who disobeys them. The agents' individual reasons, whatever they are, and without even the flimsiest of due-process theater—without, indeed, anybody in a position of power apparently even feeling it necessary to ask what those reasons are—are good enough for the highest levels of the federal government. The people and institutions charged with accountability for this will instantly, invariably find a way to justify any action; it all runs backwards from that.
January 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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MOONLIGHTING creator Glenn Gordon Caron talked to me about this specifically, which he got an up-close view in both cases.
And this wasn’t like Eastwood moving from Rawhide to Western movies, either. Moonlighting, despite its hour-long running time and lack of a laugh track, was regarded as a comedy, and Willis as a comic performer. Even the action scenes on the show made him out as a klutz; in the very first episode, after observing Addison defending himself, Maddie Hayes jeeringly calls him a “sissy fighter.” Who the hell could take him seriously as an action hero? Caron had a similar experience with Michael Keaton, with whom he’d spent his summer hiatus making Clean and Sober, in which the light comedian flipped his image by playing a serious dramatic role. While they were promoting the picture, Keaton was cast in the title role of Tim Burton’s Batman. “I remember walking through London, might have been New York, with Michael,” Caron says, “and literally, people were giving him crap on the sidewalk. ‘Batman?!?! The fuck?!?’ Just, you know, a tiny bit of deja vu in it. People, they want the person they love to be the person they love all the time.”
January 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Writing chapter 7 of the book today, on marketing and release, and it will never not be funny that Fox execs got so spooked by audiences reacting badly to Bruce Willis in the DIE HARD trailer that they tried to downplay him in newspaper ads and "make the building the star," look at this goofy shit
A newspaper ad for DIE HARD, featuring giant image of the Fox Plaza building and a tagline describing the movie as “an adventure that will blow you through the back wall of the theater.”
January 7, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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All 1% and 0% on the top two lines 💅
(Turns out I'm a basic bitch on Finney tho)

Vulture Cinematrix No. 648: Jan 3, 2026

I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2684

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January 4, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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Literally using the same language that Mario Savio ripped to shreds 60-plus years ago, but at least you're being a condescending dick about it
And that -- that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Speaking of OCPD
Currently doing my spreadsheet for Sundance
January 3, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Well sure
My 2025 in film, via Letterboxd: 732 films logged, 560 reviewed, 999+ hours watched. Most watched actor: Bruce Willis Most watched director: Chuck Jones
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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They really did the NAKED GUN poster
A poster for THE NAKED GUN (2025) proclaiming "NO AI WAS USED IN THE MAKING OF THIS POSTER," directly above Liam Neeson's hand with 8 fingers wrapped around a gun
January 1, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Radio Raheem in the bodega battery scene from DO THE RIGHT THING
January 1, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Every time I've watched this movie since 1992 I've forgotten that Lawrence Tierney is in it for thirty seconds
The almost-last scene in ARTHUR, with Lawrence Tierney as a diner customer who wants his roll
January 1, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Decided to forgo the go-to NYE movies for my favorite movie about drinking (cameo by Fluffy)
I’m watching ARTHUR
January 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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The lows first: I spent way too much of this year doing weekly op-ed for Bloomberg Opinion, the worst experience of my professional life, holy shit, thank God they're all behind a paywall because by the time they were published they'd been rewritten into absolute goo and to all of that I simply say
A cake with the words "good riddance" on it
December 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Jesus Christ, we dodged a bullet here
From the Wikipedia page for the THIN MAN movies: Future In October 2010, it was announced that Johnny Depp was developing a new adaptation of The Thin Man for Warner Bros. through his Infinitum Nihil production company.[1] Rob Marshall was negotiating to direct when screenwriter Jerry Stahl joined the project in March 2011.[2] However, David Koepp came on board to write the script that August.[3] After creative differences between Koepp and Marshall, Billy Ray was tapped to write the screenplay.[4] But Warner Bros. never green-lit the film, and it was eventually shelved as Marshall entered production on Into the Woods (2014).[5]
December 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Matthew Yglesias's dumb ass really put up a blog post called "let's all practice billionaire positivity" Bugs Bunny saying "no"
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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1941 is a Christmas movie
I’m watching Ned Beatty nail a wreath to his door
December 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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And who do they have in common?
December 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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"Large and In Charge," the novelty rap album by Arsenio Hall's alter ego "Chunky A"
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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All old movie stars, crushed this one

Vulture Cinematrix No. 641: Dec 27, 2025

I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2678

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December 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Omg I have that one (as does @splicedpersonality.bsky.social)
December 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The poster for BLANKMAN (1994)
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM