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Very sad to hear about the passing of Michael Roemer. I finally started catching up with his work last year when it hit Criterion; find myself thinking about the deceptively low-key VENGEANCE IS MINE a lot.

Punisher: War Zone (2008; Lexi Alexander)

I spent the entirety of Q1 rewatching and definitively ranking every Tom Cruise action movie. www.polygon.com/rankings/601...

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

Seijun Suzuki - BOTD in 1923

Top 5 Hitch: Vertigo Marnie The Birds Under Capricorn Wrong Man

but remember it's too much to ask for anyone to not watch the HBO series or not buy her new game. after all the books were important to you when your brain was too underdeveloped to read anything good and now you can never form connections with new literature or media.

icymi, i wrote about a genuinely awesome Star Wars book

This short documentary about a Scottish man cycling his bike over a mountain with lots of stops for refreshments is one of the most entertaining things I have seen recently and entirely wholesome (if whiskey for breakfast is wholesome, and I think it is) youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...

One of my 5-10 fav Fall songs, basically compressing the Citizen section of James Joyce’s Ulysses into 2 minutes of stream-of-consciousness and ambient street noise invective from a man too angry to see what’s really making his life hell. youtu.be/R8yJnIF4nb4?...

thumbing through the TCM schedule for this holiday weekend; lots of amazing war movies collected over the next 3 days but it’s extremely funny they they’re ending the weekend at 2am Tuesday with Dark of the Sun, possibly the grimiest, meanest men-on-a-mission movie I’ve ever seen

One of the things I love about DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE is that no matter how big the stakes get, at its core the story is still about a smart-ass getting himself in & out of the most dangerous situations with a wink & a smile.

@arrowvideo.bsky.social we want @dylancheung.bsky.social and @sogoodreviews.bsky.social commentaries!

Goshogaoka (1998; dir Sharon Lockhart)

Eventide (2022; Sharon Lockhart); an ideal entry point for anyone interested in a-g film but unsure where to start. A very manageable runtime w/ an emphasis on formal qualities like duration, stasis, off-screen space, etc. A lovely piece of work, simple but endlessly evocative.

absolutely huge if true: #actionsky

reposting for #actionsky Vigilante Force is streaming on Prime and there’s a decent copy of American Hunter on Internet Archive (the uploads on YouTube are unwatchable). Both are outrageous, over-the-top brawlers with non-stop stunts. Perfect way to spend a weekend

I started a different feed called ActionSky. Use #actionsky or #ActionSky and maybe #actionbsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

Last 4 Friday, we made it gang 🎥

Green Leaves (2025; Flo Mavy)

Last 4 Friday; have a baller weekend everyone 🫡

'Audrey the Trainwreck' (2010) is now available to stream for free on Frank V. Ross’ website. Learn all about the film and its production in our latest video interview with the filmmaker: www.splittoothmedia.com/audrey-train...

From the publication that helped launder the Iraq War comes Anyone Against Genocide is a Terrorist. Truly reprehensible institution

I would map Deleuze and Guattari's Anglophilism onto the same impetus and process that captured Godard or Demy and their love of American post-war cinema after the occupation. Why their work still feels fresh is that they were grappling with the American empire immediately.

this is HUGE

had a good bad ugly morning

MITCHELL is one of the greatest examples of one of my fav film genres: cops who are incredibly bad at their jobs (see also: Cimino's YEAR OF THE DRAGON, COP with James Woods, and TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.)

I loved Guillaume Pierret's LAST BULLET, now on Netflix. If you're not familiar, this follows LOST BULLET and LOST BULLET 2 in an outstanding action/crime trilogy known for its incredible car chases (though the fist fights also rule).

Goldie (2025; Parker Connell)