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Dean Ween carrying a pumpkin with Boognish engraved on it

happy hollow ween day kayla!

I feel sorry for Benny Safdie because his brother got to keep Ronald Bronstein, Darius Khondji AND Daniel Lopatin in the divorce. The Smashing Machine never stood a chance.

the scope aspect ratio often gets overused by directors who think it automatically makes their shots look """cinematic""" but when it's properly filled up with meticulous compositions like this there's nothing else like it

Frame from Marty Supreme (2025) where Tyler the Creator points accusingly at Timothée Chalamet

salivating over this gorgeously composed frame from Marty Supreme... this movie cannot come soon enough

you know a meme's bad when it has you reevaluating the comedic value of Hawk Tuah

people in the quotes are saying “pour one out for the Gaylors” but if anything this just gives them ammo, cause this very much reads like lyrics a lesbian trying to pretend they’re straight would write

Beware

cheers michael open.spotify.com/track/01CklB...

there’s no way Charlie Kirk would be in any future history books if he was never killed, which you certainly couldn’t say about MLK (who I mention cause Kirk was a major critic of his), another prominent political activist who was assassinated but actually had charisma and decency

just had a dream so transcendently incredible that i felt heartbroken to wake up and continue on with waking life

once you start consuming music criticism outside of Fantano you also start to realise that he’s not a particularly insightful or eloquent critic

Production still from Paul Thomas Anderson's MAGNOLIA (1999) showing Anderson with his back to the camera directing Tom Cruise.

i was watching a video essay about Tom Cruise's performance in Magnolia where this production still is shown, and i gotta say it would go hard as an album cover

Billy Joel’s an unfortunate case cause he’s an all-time pop songwriter genius yet his most popular songs are some of the worst shit ever. I remember first listening to The Stranger after only knowing tracks like Uptown Girl and We Didn’t Start the Fire and thinking “WOW I misjudged this guy”

i think it's possibly the only space on the internet left where people are mostly earnest and unperformatively sharing their thoughts and feelings

whenever i see that ad i always feel like it's gonna lead into some kind of David Lynch homage, the vibes are so off

it’s also relieving how even as Letterboxd becomes more popular it’s not turned into Goodreads where the overall ratings are absolutely useless because the users have zero standards

reminds me of how Robert Altman included several instances of the word “fuck” in Gosford Park because otherwise it would’ve been accessible to kids who he knew would’ve been bored to tears by it

turns out blocking someone annoying on Twitter is like cutting off one of the heads of Hydra

I’m probably not gonna post on Bluesky super frequently because it’s still kinda dry and boring imo, but yes, this site is infinitely preferable to Twitter so I will be residing here now that I’ve given up on that shithole.

As a site for keeping a diary of films as well as discovering new films it’s pretty good, as social media it’s fucking horrendous. No reason to read any reviews from people you don’t already follow.

can't believe this post is how i found out

forgot how ridiculous the aspect ratio is for this music video, shit's wider than The Hateful Eight!

hbd kayla!

A good piece of writing advice more people should follow is to look at their work and ask themselves, "If I were a complete stranger reading this, would I be bored?" If the answer is yes, either start over or scrap it.

Blorg McNulty

Martin Scorsese saying "every other person is like Travis Bickle now."

browsing Twitter makes me feel like this

glad to see a post that reflects my feelings about A Minecraft Movie, i hate to be a doomer of a cinephile but if movies like that are the only things that'll keep multiplex theaters afloat then i'd rather we just put them all out of their misery

should be noted that Joel Cohen (note the “h” in his surname) is a different person from the Joel of the Coen brothers

I've always found this joke fairly corny and dishonest. Yes, "videogames cause violence" is a dumb argument, but answering it with "I play Animal Crossing, do you think THAT makes me violent?" is also dumb. Like obviously those aren't the specific games parents are complaining about.

If there’s any time of the year I wanna be taking refuge here instead of Twitter, it’s the Oscars. I haven’t seen the response to this ceremony on there but I know there’ll be people complaining about anything and everything

Didn’t get what was happening until later either but I’m also a huge dummy who’s bad at following movies so…

That guy is very interesting because he’s incredibly good at making informational videos on history and culture but then you check out his Twitter page and find out about his boneheaded political opinions