Sean Burns

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves. (1989)

Seeing EASY RIDER on an original 35mm release print that’s all pink-shifted and beat to shit might actually be the best way to watch it.

We heard there was a movie called HOPPERS opening today but came to see this instead.

The reviews are in!

With SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol right before I stepped on a landmine.

I should have called on you!

A feminist 'Bride' for Frankenstein Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s gonzo revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 “Bride of Frankenstein” is a "hellzapoppin’ cacophony of silly ideas and mad movie love, overhauling the queer-coded ca...

At WBUR this week I reviewed Maggie Gyllenhaal’s THE BRIDE EXCLAMATION POINT, which I got a big kick out of. Your mileage may vary.

Willow is so good at this.

TONIGHT! I’ll be hosting a Q&A with SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol following the 7pm show at the Coolidge. And our friend @jshawhan.bsky.social is handling the Nashville screening on Sunday, so obviously these people have great taste in moderators.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Classic Corner: Baby It's You — Crooked Marquee An appreciation of the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle that was writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film.

Writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film, the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle “Baby It’s You,” was released on this day in 1983: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

“Some Have Called This a Documentary”: How ‘Melania’ Bends Documentary to Serve the Rich and Powerful How Melania serves its titular subject, its filmmakers, and its financier by invoking documentary’s authenticity but not its accountability

“The effect is a little like Sissy Spacek’s deadened voiceover in BADLANDS, affectlessly floating over the obviously horrific without ever acknowledging it.” Classic Vadim.

The line about the dyslexic girl who put Tampax in her nose is arguably one of the most perfect jokes ever written.

It’s me, the one who regularly gets made fun of for crying at sappy movies by a fourteen-year-old girl.

Shit My Niece Says: “It’s not that I’m a coldhearted person, it’s just that you’re too emotional.”

Review - Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It A documentary directed by Paris Barclay.

At the Spliced Personality Substsck this week I reviewed BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT.

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It was going to be Robert Duvall

It really is crazy. The whole weekend was an embarrassment of riches.

Lunar New Year is an annual bonanza for Chinese BO. It's easy enough to plan around. The fact that US media still don't though suggests that these blind spots aren't oversights. Major outlets can boast all they like about their commitment to diversity, but their spotty coverage says otherwise.

Agador

Review - Scream 7 Starring Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown.

At the Spliced Personality Substack this week I wrote about SCREAM 7 and the time I almost asked Neve Campbell out on a date.

this is tremendous

Review - Scream 7 Starring Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown.

At the Spliced Personality Substack this week I wrote about SCREAM 7 and the time I almost asked Neve Campbell out on a date.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY

My favorite place to see a movie. (Shh, don’t tell the others.)

Did you eat yet?

Always a great time talking to Justin and Laura.