Scott Renshaw

That and THE DAY AFTER in the same year definitely fucked with early teenage me.

That’s not *entirely* unfair, but really I apply the same principle to a 90-minute movie: Does the filmmaker seem to grasp what is and isn’t required for the story/experience they’re trying to convey. I just had an experience this week where my response was “there’s not *enough* here.”

In a related story, HOOP DREAMS subjects Arthur Agee and William Gates are now 53 years old, and the grave doth beckon to us all.

I find myself wondering what, for example, HOOP DREAMS would look like if it were being made today. My money is on “6-hour HBO miniseries,” and it would be well-respected, but not one of the greatest documentary achievements of all time.

As is the case for a lot of streaming docu-series, there’s an equating of “longer” with “deeper,” and Loktev just needs to get to the fireworks factory of episodes 4 & 5 much more efficiently.

To greater and lesser degrees. I have loved all of Julia Loktev’s previous features, fiction and non-fiction, and my hottest possible take about MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS is that it’s a good 5-hour movie that could have been a great 2-1/2 or 3-hour movie.

This is another one of those “an adult rediscovers public libraries” articles that pop up now and then… once again, it’s on you if you ever stopped using libraries, it’s not news that they continue to exist

Thou only livest twain.

Sundance Film Festival 2026 Announces features program Final Utah festival kicks off January 22

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival--the final Utah-based installment before the 2027 move to Boulder, Colo.--announces its feature film program. www.cityweekly.net/film/sundanc...

Guess I should end my development of “Helvetica Woke.”

Yeah, I did see MR. NOBODY at Sundance this year, had forgotten there was any Potter stuff there. And yes, it’s partly resistance-related, but it also seems like a lot of these people are just really into Harry Potter (like, a fan-convention photo with Tom Felton).

I went in to MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS knowing that it was nearly as long as the Harry Potter series, but I was not expecting that would be nearly as many references to Harry Potter as there are in the Harry Potter series.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

This is an actual ESPN.com headline:

And I know exactly what you are referring to.

The Chargers don’t have home games, which is exactly what they deserve for ditching San Diego.

ESPN.com story about Indianapolis Colts quarterback problems reading “The Colts’ possible signing of Rivers indicates the desperation of their desperate.”

Things are so desperate they are desperately making up ways to use the word “desperate.”

You will be visited by 3 spirits

I will say that a six-turnover first half feels appropriately cartoonish.

Not since the ‘90s.

All right. A little of that goes a long way.

This game is the perfect kind of drunk for this presentation.

Mike Wazowski in at quarterback.
He’s picked off! And *another* Sully interception! What a legend!

Sully with the interception! He’s everywhere!

The animation is about 5 minutes behind the live action to allow the rendering, so I can’t wait to see how that clustercuss of an interception/fumble/fumble play looks.

At least watching the game in Monstropolis, it isn’t embarrassing hearing that the Chargers are basically the visiting team while playing in L.A.

I don’t know what compelled me to watch the MONSTERS, INC.-themed tie-in broadcast of Monday Night Football, but it is … weird. Apparently Mike Wazowski is playing cornerback for the Eagles, and Sully is a Chargers receiver, and how did the world get to this moment.

If the GG noms are any indication, I'm going to *love* seeing three lead performances (Elordi, Mescal and Skarsgard) in every supporting actor list this year. Such utter bullshit.