Realizing this is a legitimately mind blowing moment for me.

Superman (1978)

GOATed. Despite the dated effects I still found myself getting really invested in scenes like the falling helicopter. The Superman/Lois sexual tension is sizzling, the comedy hits just right.

Ann Dvorak in "Three on a Match"

It's Ann Dvorak's birthday. Wrote a little bit about this fascinating actress - and her performances in Scarface and Heat Lightning - but especially her chilling ahead-of-its-time performance as the race-to-the-bottom Vivian. www.sheilaomalley.com?p=167205

Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.

"I’ve always felt a vague kinship with the chilly, flinty Bert" Oh, I bet you HAVE, buddy.

This is one of my favorite Far Sides

Let's distract ourselves from the impending apocalypse by posting our favorite inadvertently inappropriate comics panels

To Be or Not to Be

Our series: Nazis . . . We Hate These Guys! continues on Sunday with Ernst Lubitsch's hilarious To Be or Not To Be. www.trylon.org/film/to-be-o...

still bugs me that Criterion made cuts to Miller's Crossing when they released it.

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Not every day you meet the iconic comedian behind the world's most famous joke

Our RAIDERS 35mm print just showed up, and it's the 2012 restoration, with a digital Dolby SR-D soundtrack. Starts tomorrow!

Behind the scenes as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man towers over a miniature New York set in Ghostbusters (1984). 🎬👻

The Big Sleep | Trailers From Hell The famous example of the whodunit where none of the prestigious writers, including Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner and Howard Hawks, could ever really account for who did what to whom. A year afte...

Bogie & Bacall Week resumes with TFH Guru Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary for the classic Philip Marlowe adventure The Big Sleep!

trailersfromhell.com/big-sleep/

Michael Madsen Was More Than a Tough Guy He was a great villain, but he shone when showing his softer side

"I still feel a chill when Mr. Blonde shows up in the warehouse in his Ray-Bans, sipping a soda as a man lies dying on the floor. That face is the one you see when you’re at your absolute lowest and realize it’s all over but the bleeding."—about Michael Madsen

www.vulture.com/article/mich...

Michael Madsen, our favorite torturer, leaves us too soon Madsen was an actor first, and a tough guy second.

A few words on Michael Madsen, for @deciderdotcom.bsky.social

decider.com/2025/07/04/m...

RIP to a character actor with panache

Michael Madsen has passed away at the age of 67

A classic Penguin Book entitled Please Don't Touch My Arm with Your Arm - How I Died on a Public Bus complete unabridged

Bullitt | Trailers From Hell Hot on the heels of his theme for Mission Impossible, Lalo Schifrin turned to more high-powered rhythms for Peter Yates' supercharged detective thriller—even though its most famous scene, the car chas...

Lalo Schifrin Week heads to San Francisco with a Bullitt! Buckle up for Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary for the Steve McQueen action classic.

trailersfromhell.com/bullitt/

Our series, NAZIS… WE HATE THESE GUYS! begins Sunday with Chaplin’s THE GREAT DICTATOR on 35mm. Grab your tickets now at Trylon.org

Michael Madsen leaves behind plenty of indelible work. Dude was bigger than life onscreen. For my money, his best performance is in KILL BILL VOL. 2. Bud is haunted, and it felt like Madsen at his most vulnerable, especially considering how little vulnerability he ever showed on camera.

The Plot Thickens: Cleopatra tells the story of one of Hollywood’s most notorious productions and how it forever changed the life of its director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Our new, six-episode limited series podcast, hosted by
Ben Mankiewicz begins July 17: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Liz and Monty

Liz and Monty in A PLACE IN THE SUN... it's kind of hard to look at them directly.

Tell me you don't understand why people make or consume art a little louder, please.

Every writer ever

Nooooooooo. Not Lalo Schifrin.

One of the coolest motherfuckers to ever do it. Wrote the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE theme. Could have retired on how iconic that was, but went on to beast mode so many other things. COOL HAND LUKE. ENTER THE DRAGON. DIRTY HARRY. BULLITT.

93. Still gone too soon.

Starts Friday. Yub nub. www.trylon.org/film/return-...

Sinead O'Connor and Kris Kristofferson

Yesterday was Kris Kristofferson's birthday. Here's the piece I wrote when he died. sheilaomalley.substack.com/p/rip-kris-k...