BILL RYAN

but this further suggests that CRANBERRY ROAD was not that kind of movie, it was "serious," but the scene he auditions with is trash!

but this also suggests he's had a career at least similar to Cruise's, complete with the side trips with Kubrick and Mann and Anderson, etc.

Jesus Christ
This goddamn rain
Won't someone put me
On the train

Very surprised when this popped up, repeatedly, in FIRST NAME: CARMEN.

I thought that was just Keach boasting in general. Anyway, even if you're right, I don't think that little exchange gets it across, when it's up against all the other "you are why movies are an important artforms" horseshit from every other character

I really didn't get that vibe. The way this career is talked about suggests a more elite filmography than that.

Another thing about JAY KELLY is that movie CRANBERRY ROAD sounds like absolute dogshit.

YouTube video by Tom Waits Tom Waits - "Back in the Good Old World"

Happy 76th birthday to Tom Waits, the first musician who was "mine," in that I didn't inherit a taste or interest in him from someone else. This was the song that made me a fan (of both Waits and Jim Jarmusch, really).

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Adam Sandler over here trying to make "I disagree" his new catch phrase.

Thank you, Alan.

A ★★ review of Jay Kelly (2025) I consider myself a Noah Baumbach fan. I don't think I'm unreasonable about it, but I think I'm enough of a genuine fan that when he has a new film out, I expect to like it. And with this one, I was o...

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Among the films named in the replies are critical whipping boys IN BRUGES, THEY LIVE, and LOCAL HERO.

Well no, because the thing is his books are long, and I have no idea how that will factor in when I get there.

In fairness, I would look that way at an adult who said his favorite movie is MADAGASCAR.

100%. I was listening to a horror movie podcast and the hosts were talking about NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or something like that, and they were saying critics don't like these movies because they don't approach them with a sense of fun. And I'm like what critics are you talking to?

this is exactly true. the type of film snob the OP refers to, i think there might have been two of them in history.

It's impossible to say!

If I'm lucky. But I might find a way to squeeze it in somewhere. I don't want to wait that long.

we know it's you dolly

I do.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where

Kathryn wants to rearrange things, which means moving physical media around. Yes, I am sometimes late to upgrade my DVDs, and don't always feel the need to.

he looks like he's about to spend 2026 in a biosphere

I just got a notification from Substack that Sherman Alexie posted a note about how he doesn't get why people complain when Netflix raises their prices. It's cheaper than the theater! Anyway, he sure has changed.

Sounds like it's time to get to work on my satirical novel JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS AND MR. HYDE.

Eternally underrated and taken for granted, largely because of The Penguin, but he was sensational. I never saw him give a weak performance.

Watching THE CARDINAL, which isn't a great movie, but Burgess Meredith is in it, which means it is *kind of* great.

I am, I just haven't gotten around to him.