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Just a dad who loves 🎥 , fly Eagles fly and go Cubs go! Working for the weekend.
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Some Christmas time movie recs:
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boxd.it/QXDRq
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Some Christmas time movie recs:
boxd.it/QXDRq
boxd.it/QXDRq
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On the extraordinary, bizarre and quite wonderful (in every sense of the term) THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/m...
‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: A Woman Clothed With the Sun
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
On the extraordinary, bizarre and quite wonderful (in every sense of the term) THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/m...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I remember seeing this in Paris at Christmas while studying abroad - a fond memory.
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Arnaud Desplechin's beguiling A CHRISTMAS TALE (2008).
December 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I remember seeing this in Paris at Christmas while studying abroad - a fond memory.
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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Arnaud Desplechin's beguiling A CHRISTMAS TALE (2008).
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Arnaud Desplechin's beguiling A CHRISTMAS TALE (2008).
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Cinema, as an industry, is in crisis, but the movies will endure.
These are the very best of 2025 joysauce.com/the-best-fil...
These are the very best of 2025 joysauce.com/the-best-fil...
The best films of 2025
In a year of many challenges to the art form, the movies came out stronger. These films are the best of 2025.
joysauce.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Cinema, as an industry, is in crisis, but the movies will endure.
These are the very best of 2025 joysauce.com/the-best-fil...
These are the very best of 2025 joysauce.com/the-best-fil...
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Round 2 of Movie Club starts with me working through my resistance to what I call the Safdie school of filmmaking, though it isn't limited to the movies made by those two brothers, together or apart. slate.com/culture/2025...
Timothée Chalamet’s New Movie Is Part of a Trend I Can’t Stand
Marty Supreme is one of the year’s most acclaimed movies. But aren’t there higher goals than just stressing you out?
slate.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Round 2 of Movie Club starts with me working through my resistance to what I call the Safdie school of filmmaking, though it isn't limited to the movies made by those two brothers, together or apart. slate.com/culture/2025...
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Movie Club wouldn't be Movie Club w/o the voice of @bilgeebiri.bsky.social, whose first post this year explores the cyclical nature of film storytelling. What does it mean to say a movie is "of the moment" when, as a remake, it's already been the movie of another moment?
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
Some of This Year’s Most Urgent, Timely Movies Were … Remakes
How much difference do topical movies really make?
slate.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Movie Club wouldn't be Movie Club w/o the voice of @bilgeebiri.bsky.social, whose first post this year explores the cyclical nature of film storytelling. What does it mean to say a movie is "of the moment" when, as a remake, it's already been the movie of another moment?
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
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Pulp fiction: on the murderous paper chase of Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE, starring Lee Byung-hun in one of the year's great performances. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style
In Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s crime novel, Lee Byung-hun plays a newly laid-off executive who launches his own campaign of mass termination.
www.newyorker.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Pulp fiction: on the murderous paper chase of Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE, starring Lee Byung-hun in one of the year's great performances. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This month's Beyond the Algorithm column over at the NYT is an annual tradition: we always devote December to movies that came out this year, are on the streamers right now, and are well worth a look over the holiday break. Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/m...
‘Sorry, Baby,’ ‘Lurker’ and the Year’s Great Under-the-Radar Streaming Films
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This month's Beyond the Algorithm column over at the NYT is an annual tradition: we always devote December to movies that came out this year, are on the streamers right now, and are well worth a look over the holiday break. Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/m...
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My latest essay @vulture.com is a performance review focused on Rose Byrne. Dig it.
www.vulture.com/article/rose...
www.vulture.com/article/rose...
This Is the Most Stressful, Exhausting, Brilliant Performance of the Year
Of all the mad mothers in 2025 movies, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’s Linda is the one that will haunt me.
www.vulture.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My latest essay @vulture.com is a performance review focused on Rose Byrne. Dig it.
www.vulture.com/article/rose...
www.vulture.com/article/rose...
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With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
The 30 best films of 2025
With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
lwlies.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
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In a year filled with onscreen riches, it can be hard to zero in on specific highlights. However, these slivers of cinema represent the height of the art form’s splendor.
Six Movie Scenes We Won't Soon Forget from 2025: filmfreeway.com/articles/bes...
Six Movie Scenes We Won't Soon Forget from 2025: filmfreeway.com/articles/bes...
Six Movie Scenes We Won’t Forget From 2025
These unforgettable scenes showcased the year’s most ambitious and emotionally powerful filmmaking.
filmfreeway.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
In a year filled with onscreen riches, it can be hard to zero in on specific highlights. However, these slivers of cinema represent the height of the art form’s splendor.
Six Movie Scenes We Won't Soon Forget from 2025: filmfreeway.com/articles/bes...
Six Movie Scenes We Won't Soon Forget from 2025: filmfreeway.com/articles/bes...
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Reviewed IS THIS THING ON?
It's mostly really good! A movie about grown-ups for grown-ups!
crookedmarquee.com/review-is-th...
It's mostly really good! A movie about grown-ups for grown-ups!
crookedmarquee.com/review-is-th...
Review: Is This Thing On? — Crooked Marquee
Bradley Cooper’s latest runs aground in the third act, but there’s much to like and recommend in what comes before.
crookedmarquee.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reviewed IS THIS THING ON?
It's mostly really good! A movie about grown-ups for grown-ups!
crookedmarquee.com/review-is-th...
It's mostly really good! A movie about grown-ups for grown-ups!
crookedmarquee.com/review-is-th...
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📽️ Richard Linklater announces the first of a #LetterboxdVideoStore series where friends of Letterboxd take the reins, curating personal favorites and cinematic treasures. With thanks to @austinfilm.bsky.social.
Read more about this shelf on Journal: boxd.it/dZG
Read more about this shelf on Journal: boxd.it/dZG
December 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
📽️ Richard Linklater announces the first of a #LetterboxdVideoStore series where friends of Letterboxd take the reins, curating personal favorites and cinematic treasures. With thanks to @austinfilm.bsky.social.
Read more about this shelf on Journal: boxd.it/dZG
Read more about this shelf on Journal: boxd.it/dZG
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Before @thefilmstage.com's 100 most-anticipated films of 2026 feature drops, here are the films coming next year we can heartily recommend:
Our 2026 movie preview kicks off with the 35 best films coming to theaters next year that we've already seen, including the latest from Christian Petzold, Nadav Lapid, Sophy Romvari, Gore Verbinski, Hong Sangsoo, Radu Jude, Werner Herzog, Mark Jenkin, and more.
The Best 2026 Films We’ve Already Seen
We don't want to overwhelm you, but while you're catching up with our top 50 films of 2025, more cinematic greatness awaits in 2026. Ahead of our 100 most-anticipated titles (all of which have yet to ...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Before @thefilmstage.com's 100 most-anticipated films of 2026 feature drops, here are the films coming next year we can heartily recommend:
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💃 Hold everything!!! 💃
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
December 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
💃 Hold everything!!! 💃
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
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making my print debut (!) in @lwlies.com with a dream commission – talking to one of my fav musicians daniel blumberg about THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE! we spoke about adapting shaker hymns, his process of gathering voices to make up the cacophony we hear in the film, and so much more
💃 Hold everything!!! 💃
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
making my print debut (!) in @lwlies.com with a dream commission – talking to one of my fav musicians daniel blumberg about THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE! we spoke about adapting shaker hymns, his process of gathering voices to make up the cacophony we hear in the film, and so much more
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THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB "exists not just as a clarion call to say never again, it also asks you to sit with this violence. Not with the bloodshed, not with the abstraction of a number in a news article. But with this violence."
Read my four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
Read my four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
The Voice of Hind Rajab movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
“The Voice of Hind Rajab” exists not just as a clarion call to say never again, it also asks you to truly sit with this violence.
www.rogerebert.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB "exists not just as a clarion call to say never again, it also asks you to sit with this violence. Not with the bloodshed, not with the abstraction of a number in a news article. But with this violence."
Read my four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
Read my four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
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First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day 👀
In theaters on June 12, 2026.
In theaters on June 12, 2026.
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day 👀
In theaters on June 12, 2026.
In theaters on June 12, 2026.
Absolutely love this list of the best Christmas short cartoons from The Reveal. This makes me so nostalgic.
Worst to Best: 17 Christmas Cartoons from Animation’s Golden Age
Looking for some holiday viewing filled with cute animals, snowmen, and eccentric grandpa inventors? All that and more can be found in this list of classic Christmas shorts.
thereveal.film
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Absolutely love this list of the best Christmas short cartoons from The Reveal. This makes me so nostalgic.
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On The Big Picture:
*Honoring Rob Reiner, and the way in which his work shaped our love for movies.
*A mailbag addressing the anxiety coursing through Hollywood right now.
*Digging into WAKE UP DEAD MAN and the mystery of faith, with Rian Johnson.
open.spotify.com/episode/3zz1...
*Honoring Rob Reiner, and the way in which his work shaped our love for movies.
*A mailbag addressing the anxiety coursing through Hollywood right now.
*Digging into WAKE UP DEAD MAN and the mystery of faith, with Rian Johnson.
open.spotify.com/episode/3zz1...
The Movie Business Freak-Out Mailbag and ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,’ With Rian Johnson!
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
On The Big Picture:
*Honoring Rob Reiner, and the way in which his work shaped our love for movies.
*A mailbag addressing the anxiety coursing through Hollywood right now.
*Digging into WAKE UP DEAD MAN and the mystery of faith, with Rian Johnson.
open.spotify.com/episode/3zz1...
*Honoring Rob Reiner, and the way in which his work shaped our love for movies.
*A mailbag addressing the anxiety coursing through Hollywood right now.
*Digging into WAKE UP DEAD MAN and the mystery of faith, with Rian Johnson.
open.spotify.com/episode/3zz1...
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Amanda Seyfried gives the performance of a lifetime in THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE. She's also great in THE HOUSEMAID. She has 2 movies coming out over 2 weeks this month. She talks to me all about this -- and her love of taxidermy: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Amanda Seyfried Loves Musicals, But Will Never Star in One on Broadway
The 'Testament of Ann Lee' actor on having an epiphany while making her ambitious Shaker musical, the harmful spotlight of overnight success, and her obsession with taxidermy (no, really).
www.vanityfair.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Amanda Seyfried gives the performance of a lifetime in THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE. She's also great in THE HOUSEMAID. She has 2 movies coming out over 2 weeks this month. She talks to me all about this -- and her love of taxidermy: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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James Cameron does it again. "Avatar: Fire and Ash" is bigger, longer, more unwieldy—and the most enthralling Hollywood blockbuster in years. Stirring spectacle. Wrenching melodrama. Overwhelming beauty. No one’s making old-school religious epics like this www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
'Avatar: Fire And Ash' Review: James Cameron's Sci-Fi Trilogy Reaches An Explosive Conclusion
James Cameron’s biggest and most unwieldy movie yet is also his most open-hearted. Read our 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' review.
www.inverse.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
James Cameron does it again. "Avatar: Fire and Ash" is bigger, longer, more unwieldy—and the most enthralling Hollywood blockbuster in years. Stirring spectacle. Wrenching melodrama. Overwhelming beauty. No one’s making old-school religious epics like this www.inverse.com/entertainmen...