A nice touch at the ATP Masters in Toronto, after the winner’s speech the champion awards medals to the ball persons.

And Ben Shelton’s speech did go on a bit, but, hey, he won himself 1000 points and a #6 ranking.

And it wasn’t Brian Aldiss at the 2020 Nebulas long.

And even a contemporary Dolby 7.1 mix can improve upon the six track 70mm state of the art. And the new laser projection like HDR by Barco brings back a lot of the image quality from film. It’s taken twenty years but a good theatre today has the best image ever. Better than a phone for damn sure

Filmgoers today are spoiled rotten by the sound quality. Was nice to see Top Gun in 70mm and pretend it was the same print I saw in 1986, but the blew me away sound of 1986 was blown out of the water by the Atmos on Top Gun: Maverick, so getting a DCP of Top Gun with the Atmos mix is OK too

Not Episode 4 and 5, not Godfather and Part 2, not Happy Gilmore or Superman or anything - no pairing of a movie and a sequel where I would say “if
this is Groundhog Day, I’m good.”

If I am ever doing the Groundhog Day thing let it be reliving the day when I see Top Gun in 70mm and Top Gun: Maverick in Atmos @movingimagenyc.bsky.social

These are the best movie and a sequel pairing in the history of movies. Shoot me down with a MIG or F14 but one great the second better

Superman’s Earthly Birthplace? It’s Cleveland, and It’s Embracing Its Hero.

Superman gets a home in his hometown

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/a...

@ecmyers.com Pretty sure watching you write would
engage my interest longer
than the 45 minutes I lasted
in the new Jurassic Park movie

Saiyaara is for sure going on my ten best list for 2025. It is big scale romantic fun with twists and songs and smoldering emotion. Perfect date movie. Bollywood meets Titanic or
Dr Zhivago so get yourself
to the multiplex.

Only one film distributed by a streamer made the @nytimes.com top 100 list, "Roma." "It's a vivid illustration of the how the movies that stick with us tend to be those we have a theatrical experience with" --Kyle Buchanan, NYTimes

A ★★ review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) It’s good for a recent Marvel movie, which isn’t the same as being good. There were enough good bits that I stuck it out to the ne, but I also found plenty of opportunities for some shut eye. It’s sti...

The not so fantastic Fantastic Four.

Sorry @kurtbusiek.bsky.social but the pizza billboard was a high point since the real world version of having a Sbarro sign…

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The NY Times best 100 movies
of this century has more movies I actively hate than that I would regularly rewatch.

The reader poll has many of the same movies I hate but multiple additional movies like La La Land, Dune 1 and 2, Top Gun: Maverick and The Holdovers which I can watch repeatedly

Sorry, Baby is a very good movie

Maybe Happy Ending

an actual science fiction musical playing on Broadway

won the Tony Award for Best Musical

And is the first new musical in many years that I would unreservedly recommend to anyone within hearing distance

Few better ways of spending two
hours.

The owner of the Chronicle also
owns the Emerald City Post which has outsize influence in the realm’s media capital. I am not sure how easily cowed the owner of this media empire is.

Wait until Oz finds out that the owner is an immigrant.

it’s weird to see the mighty and powerful Oz suing the owner of the Yellow Brick Road Chronicle, when the owner of the Chronicle also owns the powerful Oz’s most important TV channel. It suggests that the mighty and powerful Oz doesn’t feel mighty and powerful at the moment.

A truly Bewitching signing!

Glad to have @silviamg.bsky.social in NYC to launch her enthralling new novel

The founder of Alamo Drafthouse brewing something new, the private jet version of the standard movie theatre.

For a mere $800 you and three of your BFFs can enjoy a four
seat screening room ($400) and a meal ($100 per person)

Or drop thousands for 20 people.

cinematreasures.org/theaters/72691

shameless plugging

I quite enjoyed @silviamg.bsky.social THE BEWITCHING which comes out today. Full on MEXICAN GOTHIC vibes but also fresh, fun, multiple great POV across time and miles.

And Zac Topping is one of my personal finds. Great sf action writer, and GHOST CELL is out today.

so you need to clean the floor with something that’s both a floor wax and a dessert topping, is what I’m hearing.

A ★★★★★ review of Jerry Maguire (1996) No joke, no irony - one of the best movies ever. Everyone in the movie is at or near “career best” level, and seeing it with an audience can confirm that it still plays well thirty years after it came...

Jerry Maguire

One of the best movies of all time.

I know, because I lived it.

And because I lived it, I know exactly the extent to which Cameron Crowe gets it right.

It’s not the same kind of great as a Kubrick movie, but it’s great.

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A ★★★★½ review of The Firm (1993) One of my all time favorite comfort movies and significantly better than the very good  novel on which it is based. It isn’t the best movie Tom Cruise or Gene Hackman acted in, the best screenplay Rob...

The Firm.

One of the last great examples of classic studio filmmaking.

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A ★★★★ review of Superman (2025) Addition by supertraction, you might say, since the movie works in no small part because of what it doesn’t do. I’m not exactly a James Gunn fan, but I was kind of looking forward to his DC Studios re...

Birds

Planes

Superman

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Jerry Maguire should be in best 100 discussions.

Saw with an audience today.

29 years old.

Still plays for keeps.

🙏 #Superman

A ★★★½ review of Sovereign (2025) Lots of good acting talent on display in a bleak view at the looking glass reality of the extreme right, that doesn’t entirely know what to do with itself.  Nick Offerman. Dad. Offers seminars explori...

Thoughts on Sovereign

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A ★★★★ review of 40 Acres (2024) Surprisingly fresh for a movie that’s abuzz with old saws with a lot of commitment up and down, both above the line and below, to selling us on the freshness.  Also, it’s more of a science fiction fil...

40 Acres

4****

my review

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darn it.

I can be such a jerk sometimes.

I doubted. But Superman is a
ton of fun.

Heart, humor, not overblown, bona fide OMG how does he get out of this with brains as much or more as brawn.

‘Sovereign’ Review: In the Rare Thriller That’s Truly Political, Nick Offerman Is Powerful as a Lost Soul of the New Right In the rare thriller that's truly political, Offerman plays a sovereign citizens leader with a radical idea of what the government can and cannot do.

Good call by Owen Gleiberman.

Saw and enjoyed Sovereign on his recommendation

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Something for @kurtbusiek.bsky.social to discuss when he finished with the Bat Auction

A ★★★★★ review of Good Will Hunting (1997) I haven’t seen this movie in on toward twenty years, but I could tell you how it ends, with a car driving west underneath the end credits. I’ve wanted to see it again for a long while now, so my eyes ...

Thoughts on Good Will Hunting. The movie that crept on board the Titanic and spirited away two Academy Awards from one of the biggest Oscar movies ever.

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