Robert Joseph

To review:

Sincerely : formal

Best : neutral

All the best : positive

All the very best : can we be friends???

Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee

Hi Sam,

Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca

A perfect sign of how fucked Hollywood is: Warner Bros. has one of its most successful years -- in terms of quality and box office success -- in a while, and that all happens while its owner sells it to the avatar of devaluing the theatrical experience.

Four Christmas movies to know me by

Has QT seen a foreign language film in 25 years? This guy was a champion of Chungking Express and martial arts cinema for American audiences; his regression into normcore is a little disappointing!

Honorable mentions: La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2019); The Last Wave (Peter Weir, 1977); Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger, 1971)

Favorite first-time viewings of films in November:
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)
Destry Rides Again (George Marshall, 1939)
Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

In the eighties, films that aren't immediate box-office successes are instantly branded as losers, flops, bombs. It's almost as if they'd never been born. (1984)

A white metal lunchbox that reads "The Exciting World of Metric!" surrounded by images of: A motorcyclist and 2 race cars A power plant 3 Olympic runners and a shot put athlete A downhill skiier Pharmacy accoutrements

A white metal lunchbox with a red handle that reads "The Exciting World of Metrics: A Decimal Measuring System" It is surrounded by images of: A snail An inchworm A thermometer An old timey circus strongman holding triangular weights An ice cream sundae and milkshake

Day #168: The Exciting World of the Metric System (1976)

The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat

HBD, the late, great Robert Towne ...

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Three masterpieces and an interesting whiff…

I like Network, but when Pauline was right…

Funny how the Coens cleaved their sensibility into identifiable halves, whereas the Safdies split and then each made a biopic about a victory-obsessed American star of an unconventional sport who goes to compete in Japan.

There are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions

YouTube video by Comedy Central Africa We Gettin' The Stripper! | Key & Peele | Comedy Central Africa

Also, great premise, but there’s little chance she tops a previous attempt at that particular story m.youtube.com/watch?v=DXVE...

Stevenson was a photojournalist who saw Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me playing on mute at a bar and then decided that she needed to become a filmmaker.

The First Omen rocks, and is clearly the work of a thoughtful Lynch head. I can’t wait to see what she does next.

you're andrew garfield, you're 42 years old, you were spiderman 13 years ago, you've been nominated for the academy award for best actor twice, and vanity fair in 2025 is saying you're part of a "new class of leading men"

Wishing a joyous 83rd birthday to the legendary Martin Scorsese!

Clearly the players who play the sports we love to watch hate gambling; think it's ruining the game. The only people who want it are networks and the league. I think it's important to remember that. Whenever you fire up the gambling app, you're fucking with the people you love to watch every week

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

I don't trust anyone who doesn't admit having at some time in his life enjoyed trashy American movies; I don't trust any of the tastes of people who were born with such good taste that they didn't need to find their way through trash. (1969)

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Mamdani is going to implement Sussudio law. Just say the word!

Dystopias! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched