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My #9 of the year, an incredible drama.

I moved to Winston-Salem this past November from elsewear in the state. Not only were most screenings of its weeklong run at Aperture cinemas well attended, but you could hear people talking about the film in coffee shops for weeks. A very quiet sensation.

Lightning in a Bottle: Angus MacLachlan on "A Little Prayer" | Interviews | Roger Ebert The writer-director talks about his latest film, his process, and art’s ability to expand personal horizons.

" I was just trying to work the best I could. And thank God there was some lightning caught in the bottle." --Angus McLachlan, writer-director of A Little Prayer, the family drama starring David Strathairn that was one of my favorite movies of 2025. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...

one of my favs of 2025

This is a beautiful film with lovely work by David Strathairn, Jane Levy and the rest of the cast. I saw it recently at the Museum of the Moving Image with the director and Strathairn doing a Q&A.

Lightning in a Bottle: Angus MacLachlan on "A Little Prayer" | Interviews | Roger Ebert The writer-director talks about his latest film, his process, and art’s ability to expand personal horizons.

" I was just trying to work the best I could. And thank God there was some lightning caught in the bottle." --Angus McLachlan, writer-director of A Little Prayer, the family drama starring David Strathairn that was one of my favorite movies of 2025. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...

Longtime N.J. comedian, pianist ‘Uncle Floyd’ has died, family says Floyd Vivino died Thursday night after a two-and-a half years of health complications. The 'Uncle Floyd' show was a staple on televisions in New Jersey for more than two decades.

This one's for Jersey peeps from my generation. RIP Uncle Floyd.

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Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

I'm on the Green Line towards downtown Minneapolis ICE OUT protest.

The train filled immediately. Even 20 stops away from our destination we reached capacity.

People are cheering at every stop when they see people waiting to board because we are all starting to realize how big this is.

Mother of Flies review: Adams family gets up to gory witchery A labor of love by the Adams Family, a filmmaking collective, quite generous with its gore.

“It’s very much worth seeing for anyone who loves horror—especially the atmospheric and gory, dread-based type, rather than the kind that is single-mindedly obsessed with staging jump-scares,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social about MOTHER OF FLIES.

Until Democratic leadership unifies the party against Trump, his policies, and his nominees, and a few more Republicans come on board, I think we're on our own, unfortunately.

At what point do we collectively realize that we are already at war, within our own country, and only one side is permitted to be armed

My mother had FTD. It made her meaner, more combative, and increasingly less connected to reality.

[Old Jeremy Irons voice]

Yes, that's a great point. I can't think of another instance where, for large sections of his movies, he had no choice but to just point the camera at the performers and let them do their thing. Scott and Sellers, particularly, seemed like they were uncontrollable.

I agree with that, but I also feel like, rather mysteriously, Kirk Douglas pointed the way towards that tendency. He's a very energetic, capable, committed movie star, but not a deep actor. He hands you everything he's got.

It gives me hope that the Trump administration is thinking mainly in terms of tweets, while the opposition is thinking in terms of producing a nonstop flood of iconic images that are damning to the administration, and that anyone with even a shred of decency will see for what they are.

Yes, I think you're right about that – Kubrick did seem to like populating, secondary and tertiary roles with people who were just kind of OK. Which somehow served the aesthetic!

Incredible thread of citizen, journalist coverage

Yes, although, in a way, I would say that he also exemplifies it. The characters played by a terrific actor, but I think McDowell's digging-in is more about adding vivid details to a person who is essentially one dimensional, illustrative of certain ideas.

Seems like a lot of important Kubrick characters have this in common.

I love this choice, it's off the beaten path, but somehow on it.

so many clergy coming to protest ICE that they're overflowing the airport sidewalk

we are going to win

I came very close to saying Speed instead

I love seeing how this movie is resonating with audiences outside not just Brazil, but Pernambuco. And while I'm a homer as everyone from Recife is, I still think It Was Just an Accident may have topped it. Both are better than the also great OBAA.

Ahhhhhh

A lawyer

Ok, prompt withdrawn

Yeah, I think this is the one that does it for me. Everything else mentioned is great but there's a primal simplicity to this one.

This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men

It is great

My late stepfather used to mention it at least once a month. We'd just be doing some ordinary thing and he'd say, "You know what the best car chase in movie history is? The 7-Ups."

I am not even remotely joking when I say that that would be in my top 10

Oh yeah, that three-way fight at the end is as good as anything in a Hong Kong movie from the Golden decades

You can feel the guys getting more and more exhausted as it goes on