Matt Prigge

An excellent frame from Naked Gun 2 1/2

Finally some good news: I wrote an essay about Neil Jordan for his once-hated, actually interesting escaped con priest movie We’re No Angels for its new blu-ray release by Cinématographe

Good movie

Do you mean the dolly around Valli as Jourdan enters the courtroom behind her?

I’ve never seen Andy Tennant’s Hitch!

Crossing off my biggest unseen Hitch. Hitch and most everyone had a miserable time making it, Gregory Peck said it was the only picture he made that he’d like to have seen burned, its rep has long been that it’s the rare boring Hitchcock. How bad could it be?

After my spinal surgery I was given a bland hospital cane, and I need to upgrade. Suggestions are welcome, but for now here is my fancy cane mood board

Thanks, Michael! WHERE’S MY CANE?!

Me with my post-emergency spinal surgery cane

Thank you!!

“Got emergency surgery the first day of paid vacation at the full-time job I’m happy I got a few months ago” is a pretty tidy summation of what a surreally mixed bag/even stevens year this has been for me

Beyond relieved someone who wasn’t me in the post-surgery recovery room* asked one of the hospital staff if they enjoyed The Pitt. (They did)

* I’m fine, mostly

Listen to me from a few years back revealing my horrible secret that I know way too much about Michael Winner (and some about Charles Bronson)

This is almost certainly wrong

I’ve been to a neurologist!

YouTube video by Mark Baker Wiggle Your Big Toe

If anyone has tips on how to deal with foot drop, lemme know because I have it partially and I am not a fan. This is me now m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNg6...

What the hell is happening

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic Here Comes The Night (Remastered 2001)

One of the best lesser-knowns from Brian Wilson’s CV. RIP m.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6Z...

The most mind-blowing thing I learned this week is that William F. Buckley Jr. did not have a Mid-Atlantic accent. His upbringing was less patrician than peripatetic, producing the multi-ethnic blob that is one of the 20th century’s most euphonious sounds

Revisited Hunt for Red October for the first time since either the Clinton or maybe even the Bush I era, and imagining an alternate timeline in which Jan de Bont never became a director, never even did Speed, and just kept making movies look rad. Goddamn this movie is a beaut

Tom Cruise shows off his aging but ripped bod so frequently in Mission: Impossible 8 that it’s his version of Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer

Fans of Alan Partridge and ‘90s British comedy shows know this image from the original Mission: Impossible is very funny

When I was a sheltered kid of 10 and 11 and 12, my favorite TV show was, randomly, about people sitting in a bar. George Wendt was a major fixture of that period of my life. RIP, and though I haven’t myself read it, I have it on good authority that this book is very enjoyable

A 60-something David Niven may or may not have been randomly present at Damo Suzuki’s eardrum-shattering maiden show with Can, and he was profoundly unimpressed

This reminds me of the time a robocaller called me with my own phone number. Very surreal!

I get voicemail. (Note: I have no idea who this is and these arrived within the same minute)

Yes (and Crimson) sounded so good in movie theater speakers

This was very before my time, and also it’s worth noting that both Ricci’s wins here came out summer ‘98, whereas one summer earlier she was still doing stuff like That Darn Cat ‘97

Was mildly afraid to revisit Buffalo ‘66, but nope, it’s a banger. One of the most singularly beautiful looking films of the ‘90s or ever. Was curious what Gen Z would make of this monstrosity, but they howled during “spanning time” and applauded at the end. Life is good

Sven Nykvist had quite the run here