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Since it is April Fools Day, I like to share these retrospectives I wrote nearly a decade ago celebrating Fred Walton’s brilliant horror comedy of the same name. This movie is an all-timer for me. First up, my deep dive with the APRIL FOOL’S DAY director: dailydead.com/april-fools-...

Best Actor of 1988 should have been Bob Hoskins for Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It would have been a funny and moving performance even in a regular action thriller/mystery, but it’s even more impressive realizing he was often acting against nothing.

Movie journalists around the world right now...

I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.

NEW PODCAST: In Four Films returns w/Tara Giancaspro! She's a writer, pop culture muser, singer & doting cat mother to Simone & Lugosi. Her four films? SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE, NETWORK, ALL THAT JAZZ & BACK TO THE FUTURE. Spotify: tinyurl.com/taragspotify Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/taragapple

One of my all-time favorites. A dour warning and warm hug in equal measure to an often depressed, self-sabotaging me

Can someone help me understand how these budgets work? Like where is the money for this PTA joint likely going? Leo? PTA? The locations he's shooting?

PINK CELLPHONE by Deftones for Annie Hardy leaving an uncircumcised British butt-fucked stain on an otherwise perfect album.

“Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies” — 👏🏼

this sign won the tesla protest in boston today

heater is being the bravest girl at the emergency vet 🥺

AUDREY'S CHILDREN director Ami Canaan Mann shares what struck her most upon meeting the real-life Dr. Audrey Evans (then in her 90s!) for the first time. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3rNi... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Aspiring Chicago critics! Only a few days remaining to submit your name for the @chicagocritics.bsky.social & @rottentomatoes.com Emerging Critics Program! Winners get a $2,500 grant, critic mentoring, and access to this year's Chicago Critics Film Fest. Apply here: chicagofilmcritics.org/grant

legend of zelda movie better have a scene where link walks into a house and smashes all the pots takes the money and leaves and the movie continues as if that was very normal

AUDREY'S CHILDREN director Ami Canaan Mann tells me how much she enjoyed working with director of photography Jon Keng, a man skilled at painting with light. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3rNi... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

AUDREY'S CHILDREN Director Ami Canaan Mann discusses the kind of director she needed to be to help lead actress Natalie Dormer do her best work. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3rNi... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

*spoiler alert* I think Sutherland's still fully human during that last shot at the bottom. I think he just sold her out.

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

I grew up playinG MOUSE TRAP and this just scratches that itch.

@ohh4foxsake.bsky.social is the most gorgeous redhead.

This movie, if released today, would be a bona-fuckin-fide hit.

I don't necessarily consider myself a woman in horror, but I guess others do, so here's a small interview with me via Cinema Crazed ❤️ thank you Emilie! www.cinema-crazed.com/blog/2025/03...

I go feral for this type of scribbled pen art

Share one of your comfort scifi movies 🎥🛸🖤

NEW PODCAST: I review the effervescent, heartwarming AUDREY'S CHILDREN, starring Natalie Dormer as Dr. Audrey Evans, a brilliant beacon of an oncologist who saved the lives of children & their families. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Yzf... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...