Jack Eason

At the bar and the US appears to be trouncing Britain in, uh, baseball?

Ariana Grande saw the devil one time, so I bet she's down for a spooky movie and then.

This Pitt is a medical show. It's very hectic and all the people are sick and the doctors are maybe sick too but in the mind and did I mention it's very hectic?

Fuck it, starting The Pitt. If this isn't great then how can I ever trust you all again?

Seated for The Odd One Dies on 35mm. I think a HD version of this exists but I've only ever seen it via VCD. This will probably look nicer.

It could be found, if the political will is there. Sadly that requires an opposition party.

Money printer goes "Brrrr, uh, hold on a minute, are you fucking serious?"

(to be clear, Arthur Crabtree's Fiend Without a Fave fucking rocks, but I'm guessing it's not shifting a lot of units these days)

Sabrina Carpenter arrives in the Criterion Closet: "Oh wow, yes, in a lot of ways Arthur Crabtree's Fiend Without a Face has been an inspiration to my music."

Want to get it down to some poor sap having to make a case for their "favorite" Criterions, Fishing With John and shiny DVD of Chasing Amy.

The Criterion Closet should have rules like the Cricket variant of darts, so after three visitors choose the same movie it's "closed out" and subsequent visitors have to choose something else.

At least Trump waited until the weather got a little warmer before spiking oil prices with a pointless, illegal war.

Israeli numbers a real, "all the little devils are proud of Hell," moment.

Big win at trivia this week because the lyrics question was a song I listened to while walking to the bar.

Pour one out for RADICAL JAPAN: CINEMA AND STATE, our 9-film box set of Nagisa Oshima, which has just sold out fully on our site after being released only last November. Copies might still be available from other retailers, but it will no longer be restocked by us directly.

YouTube rife with ads for down the ticket candidates but Tubi hit me straight off with "Weight Loss Pritzker" content.

The People's Joker is on Tubi and has been stuck in the Recommended queue next to a 2016 Steven Seagal joint and some other DTV action fare. Very funny new audience possibilities here.

Perhaps Goatse has always existed in some form or another.

The Porpoise Song is very much The Monkees leaning into being a Beatles knock-off but I like the song more than most Beatles songs. Also had no idea Carole King co-wrote it.

When I was a teenager I thought this was the greatest album ever recorded. I don't think that anymore, but it still fucking rips.

A funny thing you could do to piss off a bunch of people is make a follow-up Mad Men series but it's a flouncy, Emily in Paris-style comedy about Sally Draper's adventures on Madison Avenue in the 1980s.

I have only played Bloodborne on PS5 and it totally won me over, I'd easily hail it the greatest game I've ever played, so I've not really cared about optimizing it further, but I must admit the video embedded here of the Father Gascoigne battle in 4K/60FPS, that does look sweet.

Honestly this one has to be up/down there with Shape Cast (where we talked about Triangle, Sphere, and Cube) as one of our dumbest themes yet.

Boys On Film - Optimism Vaccine THIS WEEK: It Couldn't Happen Here (1987), Disorderlies (1987) and The Jerky Boys (1995)

New episode! We dig deep into Boys on Film with a rigorously academic slate including all three types of boys: Fat, Jerky, and Pet Shop.

Stella Dallas is a perfect classic movie. Great performances and effortless production telling a story of social eugenics as a mother suffering from a terminal case of being a galoot, sacrifices herself to save her daughter from some mild embarrassment.

They say home ownership is key to the American Dream but if that's the case then why did the HOA meeting clash with a screening of Young Mr. Lincoln.

Defeated this boss using summons. Not really sure how the heck you'd do it otherwise without a lot of luck (mostly in separating them). I did manage to kill the spear dude once on my own but it was nightmarish. Horrible approach to the fight too but now I can warp between bonfires, yay!

Sobering up by grinding a farming route. Only way to go because I've got to the boss and they're way too hard (a duo at Aldor Lando). Gained at least five levels while gradually returning to Earth. Not too shabby.

Got way too drunk/intoxicated at a friend's party and now I'm back home and trying to play Dark Souls and the timing is not working but I am having a good time.

Just passed by my first Waymo today. Noisy, ugly things. What a great addition to the city. And I believe, under IL law they currently have to have a driver. If only there was some other way to have a human in a car drive you around.