Jesse Hassenger

Hoppers is a reminder of how good, and weird, Pixar can be when it aims small Hoppers isn't as emotionally powerful as the best Pixar movies, but its depictions of the animal world are delightfully weird.

HOPPERS is out this week! Cute stuff, not as Silicon Valley-brained as Andrew Stanton's live-action movie (but a little Silicon Valley-brained). Maybe the best Pixar since TURNING RED? (It's not as great as TURNING RED.) www.avclub.com/hoppers-revew

People seem excited by a new SCARY MOVIE and I'm sorry, I know there are tons of horror movies that can be richly parodied but the basic framework of "let's do a SPOOF of SCREAM!!!" will never not be stupid to me!

The fair assessment of "not enough songs in the second half" from the daughter. Man Chazelle really knows how to end a movie, though.

Another day of sun

I think that's one of those cases where having the whole mess o' Pixar staffers around might make sure it's not a problem. I hope!

haha I have no real beef with JOHN CARTER but you know if it was even GODS OF EGYPT level I wouldn't shut up about it

Stanton reaching new levels of failing to direct his actors here

A Pixar director turns a self-important TED Talk into sci-fi with In The Blink Of An Eye In The Blink Of An Eye is smaller-scale and more grown-up than other live-action features from Pixar alumni. It's still bad.

Hoooo boy, Andrew Stanton! I was not transported by the TED Talk (and honestly kinda Musk-coded) millennia-spanning sci-fi of IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. www.avclub.com/in-the-blink...

Netflix or Paramount: who would be the best new owner of Warner Bros? The ongoing battle over for the iconic film studio is set to have a major impact on what we, the viewers, get to watch

I know it's reductive to say "Team Netflix!" but when the other option is rapacious consolidation by a studio cozying up to Trump and excited about their upcoming Rush Hour and Angry Birds sequels...... yeah sorry Team Netflix. Team nobody buys WB, really, but... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Scream 7 is a humorless lowpoint for the iconic franchise Neve Campbell returns for a movie that's entertaining enough but doesn't seem to know why it exists

After a decent opening stretch, SCREAM 7 lands somewhere between a yikes and a sigh. Didn't this series used to be about horror movies? www.polygon.com/scream-7-nev...

We admit that David Hyde Pierce is the only actually famous one I guess!!

Assuming there's a NO MOVIE CRITICS sign on my alma mater's HALL OF DISTINCTION www.saratogaschools.org/about-us/hal...

But do you have a HALL OF DISTINCTION??

They should make some more operations fortune, some more ruses de guerre if you will

If you're the type of person who gets upset when a period piece takes place during a certain year and it features a song that wasn't released until the following year, you know what I'm talking about.

My answer is complicated three way tie. I’ve been ejected from the cinema twice with @rockmarooned.bsky.social. Once we went to watch the rest of the movie the next day and were disappointed. A long time ago we talked about it in a group chat with our wives and transcribed into a blog post.

Movies don't usually make me too angry but listening to Harmony Korine do a Q&A after SPRING BREAKERS did the trick. Feel like history has since vindicated me a bit there.

Playing Friday night in beautiful Manhattan New York

”Dad play BTS and NOT Built to Spill”

I guess I only get to do that the one time.

I usually leave as much stupid stuff in as possible for color, but Ben's vile anti-Kunis propaganda could not stand!!!! (Without at least also dragging her husband.)

Ha, ah, well, honestly that conversation came out a little oblique because Ben doesn't mention her name upfront so I cut most of it. But you've defended her in spirit.

R.I.P. Robert Duvall: Great in the movies you already know, and great in some you may not have seen Here we present five Duvall deep cuts — pictures that didn’t get cited in detail in the mainstream obits.

In which I recommend some Robert Duvall deep cuts: decider.com/2026/02/17/r...

His virility is never in question

Because of 9/11

Everyone is saying Heathcliff this and Cathy that... but what of Luann this, and Gunther that?

Gonna need some assurances about Pacino and De Niro

The Liam Neeson horror-comedy Cold Storage has a secret weapon with a particular set of skills Jurassic Park and Spider-Man screenwriter David Koepp gives Neeson, Stranger Things' Joe Keery, and Barbarian's Georgia Campbell) worthy material.

I enjoyed COLD STORAGE way more than I thought I would. The power of Koepp! www.polygon.com/cold-storage...

Best Movies of 2025: A SportsAlcohol.com Podcast SportsAlcohol.com's long-awaited staff list of the best movies of 2025 is here! In podcast countdown form!

The SportsAlcohol podcast counting down the 15 best movies of '25 with @martogo.bsky.social @sbmorrison.bsky.social @moviemanifesto.bsky.social @nwharton.bsky.social PLUS our Letterboxd-only pals Sara from Crooked Marquee and Becca ex-AV Club ... it's out now! www.sportsalcohol.com/the-sportsal...

I truly do hope it's good but I'm still flabbergasted that the pitch for SCREAM 7 actually seems to be "this time it's personal." It's literally always personal. It's a series of whodunits where the killer is always someone the main girl knows.

I've heard it speculated that it's like a shirt half off?? But it reads SO strange visually, how did they not do another take without it (or use another take without it)???