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Our first trick-or-treaters included a kid in an MF DOOM mask. My heart is warmed.

magic johnson: if the blue jays play on october 31 it will be halloween which is very scary

HBO dropped the second episode of It: Welcome to Derry for Halloween, so you get my recap a couple days early.

Amending only to include Republican donors, of course. They're even more Mr. Cuomo's constituency.

my scary Halloween costume is “bottle of wine you waited too long to open”

Tonight I can get away with asking folks the one question I’m forced to keep to myself the other 364 days of the year: “And who are YOU supposed to be?”

Stoop report so far: in spite of the alleged shortages, lotta KPop Demon Hunters out here

Scenes from a marriage: Me: Oh you think this is funny? Jess: My 50yr old husband is yelling about a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game he couldn’t beat in the 80s. Yeah, it’s pretty fucking funny. Me: I’m not yelling. But the bomb level is no laughing matter & it’s time we as a culture admit it!

Trunk or Treat- Area 51 edition

Aside from everything else in this abysmal performance, nothing is more surreal than her employ of the phrase: "This is no way to treat a fucking U.S. Representative." At this point, most sentient Americans wouldn't wipe their asses with a member of Congress. www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

Noelle is extraordinary, and this book is essential 🤍

To all who celebrate, enjoy the one day of the year that it is socially permissible to sit on a folding chair in front of your house and eat a giant bowl of candy

It's been hard keeping this quiet, so glad it's finally anounced! CR director Alex Philippe and I share an obsession with how materiality changes a film, and this is our Exhibit A Australian vhs and Slovakian betamax are the MVPs here: the redubbing on the latter is genuinely something to behold!

for the afternoon crowd

Erika Kirk and JD Vance make sense because I think on some level he wishes he could have married a sister. It’s weird how similar they actually look.

"Halloween Kills: Unrated" (2021): after slaughtering a dozen people, Michael Myers slides his finger across a victim's iPhone to answer a phone call. Unfortunately, he does this off screen.

BUGONIA isn’t peak Lanthimos, and hoo boy that final needle-drop is mystifyingly bad. Poisonous. But Stone and Plemons are great. Shame they’ve been cut to seem like they’re not in the same movie. www.npr.org/2025/10/31/n...

my scary Halloween costume is “Lily Allen writing an album about you”

Between believing violent crime is high while it’s as low as it was in the 60’s, the “shoplifting” panic, this, and more, one must understand that the majority of America is living in a completely constructed, terrifying reality untethered from actual world.

today I'm dressing up as "Sexy Michael Myers" which is to say I'm dressing up as Michael Myers

A friend mentioned that her friend had to get off all the dating apps recently because they were flooded with ICE assholes looking to get laid on their big fun trip to LA. As if dating weren’t already hard 🫠

God, I want to get really into this hobby, but the time! The funds! The physical space!

No one is putting drugs in your kids’ Halloween candy, parents. No one can afford to give away free drugs in this economy anyway. They’re lucky they’re getting candy.

His impersonation of the ICE guy is Chris Farley-esque 💓

My weekly newsletter is now live. I wrote about Grantland and Beach Slang, two of my biggest mid-2010s mainstays. Please consider subscribing for direct links to my writing/pods. It's free! Thank you! tinyurl.com/bdesd7fe

With a gruesome new 4K boxset of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise hitting shelves, Brandon Streussnig sits down with Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, to look back on the inimitable horror series. boxd.it/2Ni

Q: What are the most overrated and underrated candy bars? My answers:

This was written with so much love and drive (I haven't read it, I've just been watching Kristen hustle this past year, so you can tell this is going to rock). Can't wait to get this.

celebrating halloween at the baseball party vs. celebrating baseball at the halloween party

Shinhan consistently punches above its weight for quality vs price. Their drawing pencil set has such attention to detail. The cores of the harder, more brittle pencils are skinny and get progressively fatter for the softer grade.

Hearing the crowd react to the twists of this movie was delightful, and it plays just as strongly at home. Pitch black "capitalism is evil" comedy with a final shot that is one for the books.

is there mail on satanic holidays? (I’m expecting special devilry)

I like big bucks and I cannot lie (Dennison Venison the deer chilling in my yard)

the millionaires and billionaires give us tiny candy bars and tell us they’re fun! meanwhile they’re dining on bars sized for kings!

oh man, RIP Peter Watkins. Edvard Munch is the greatest movie about an artist ever made.

Happy Halloween! I went long with Freddy himself, Robert Englund, for Letterboxd. Surreal to have him do the voice at you. You can read it below. Yes, I ask him about killing Burt Reynolds onscreen, don’t worry. letterboxd.com/journal/nigh...

Happy Halloween! I went long with Freddy himself, Robert Englund, for Letterboxd. Surreal to have him do the voice at you. You can read it below. Yes, I ask him about killing Burt Reynolds onscreen, don’t worry.https://letterboxd.com/journal/nightmare-elm-street-robert-englund-interview/

Meanwhile, Mr. Cuomo was on the phone to every Democratic donor he could reach in Nassau and Westchester counties wailing about impending communism just over the city line. He couldn't find Grand Street without a motorcade or give a shit what happens to anyone actually living there.

If you missed it, WELCOME TO FUN CITY is back up for pre-order.

Vincent Price (Yacht Rock 2005)

There's no legality to blowing them up in New York harbor.

ALAN WATTS: “Zen and the Art of Trick or Treat” (1971)

you know what, tear down the rest of it, too

Wishing everyone exactly this Halloween vibe: Memento mori, but keep it chill (the Greek ευφρόσυνος means something like "cheerful, merry").

The five films that influenced Edward Berger’s #BalladOfASmallPlayer 🃏 boxd.it/PNPsI @netflix.com

Anyone else notice a lot more road rage-y drivers right now?

I’m the guy who tells Mamdani to remember to rest here & there in the lead up to voting day & I’ve just been fired

Momming a toddler is so great they will weep for an hour because you’re dressed as a hot dog.

What a brilliant cover

elementary school of approximately 400 kids, I counted 65 kpop demon hunters (not counting saja boys because I was pretty sure I saw some but they could just be regular demons)

Why the fuck is this on a LinkNYC?

"In Ballad of a Small Player, we are given the gift of Colin Farrell overdoing it. Nobody overdoes it like Colin Farrell, and to take this for granted is a disservice." -- very enjoyable piece by @djmecca.bsky.social

Has no one written a compare-and-contrast on Bob Ferguson and Lee Raybon?

Happy Halloween from @lankumdublin.bsky.social youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...

And by "off-balance-sheet debt," they mean accounting fraud

He won't stop until he turns every iconic piece of American government architecture into the kind of apartment his Russian & Saudi patrons buy through shell companies for their American side-pieces.

Happy Halloween! Nancy Carroll and Clara Bow remind you they have films screening at the AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend, 11/6 – 11/9 — four restored silents, many pre-codes and two programs of rare classic cartoons. I'll be there with David Stenn and many others! silver.afi.com/classic-film...

So far I've gotten some pretty good responses to this piece. Thanks to everyone who's read.

I’m not a v kinky guy but I’m thinking of installing a mirror over me and my gf’s bed to prove she’s taking more than half

Ryan Murphy’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY is coming back to life for Season 13, and the main cast featuring several returning favorites has been officially announced for Halloween:

There are MANY TV newsletters out there, but I guarantee that only my free, Friday "Now See This" newsletter will feature a reference to the very quaint, very Canadian 1960s animated series "Rocket Robin Hood." For further context, you must subscribe: cloud.email.hollywoodreporter.com/signup/

David Foster Wallace said, correctly, to never trust anyone who uses “classy” when they mean “refined.”

Just noting that the Astoria Food Pantry does amazing work and could always use your money givebutter.com/afp2025

Say what you want about Peggy Noonan, she certainly has her finger on the pulse of 2025. Looking forward to hearing what she has to say on this week's edition of The McLaughlin Group.

The most important thing to understand about early cinema is that edited closeups were pioneered to get a better look at the kitties, as is right and proper youtu.be/sWD7mKd_6Ck

There's still good seats left for the acoustic Kid Rock one man show.

The whole title is “The Scariest Thing This Halloween is Donald Trump’s Hatred for Children: At Least Freddy Kreuger, Jason, Pennywise, and Michael Myers Didn’t Take Food Away From Kids” Enjoy.

It's not just seniors anymore: now Florida is also a great place for children to live out their final years.

All of this is true enough as far as it goes. But even more problematic is the fact that when the U.S. Coast Guard interdicts suspect vessels, boarding and searching for drugs, a quarter of the time they find no contraband. We're not just murdering drug smugglers. We are murdering innocent people.

love spotting a Vonnegut fan in the wild

Native American artifacts you say!

Thief of Joy (Live in San Francisco), my new comedy album, is now available on all streaming platforms, including BONUS jokes and crowd work not included in my special!

email from YouTube TV: Boy, Disney sucks, huh? email from Disney: Boy, YouTube TV sucks, huh?

far and away, Seagal's best movie. directed by pre-"Fugitive" Andrew Davis.

Plenty of movies made by YouTubers lately, do they have anything in common, let’s see!!

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne are separating after 22 years as both creative and life partners. The pair announced their split on Instagram, adding that they “look forward to seeing you on tour,” even though the band has no scheduled concert dates. variety.com/2025/music/n...

for "Halloween" movie superfans fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/10/hall...

Wait, what? Isn't that like... all of MTV?

MTV has cancelled "Ridiculousness" after 14 years and 46 seasons. Read more here: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

With the Criterion Mobile Closet visiting Chicago International Film Festival, I spoke to those standing in line about what it felt like being there while ICE and the No Kings protests swirled around the city. Their thoughts via @ebertvoices.bsky.social

I have a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland for the same degree of achievement.

Was so excited to pop into St Denis. Plus It was great to talk to another Olympic athlete about life after the gold.

If the amount of waste in the program by which we feed our poor and working people approached even a hyperbolic 50 percent of the total spent, neither the Pentagon, nor the burgeoning ICE brownshirt brigades would deign to wipe their asses with that pocket change. That's a conversation to have.

For Slate's Biopic Week I wrote on two new films from Richard Linklater that reimagine the artist biopic as act of criticism: Blue Moon, with Ethan Hawke as the mid-20th-century lyricist Lorenz Hart, & Nouvelle Vague, which re-enacts the 1959 filming of Godard's Breathless. slate.com/culture/2025...

With the Criterion Mobile Closet visiting Chicago International Film Festival, I went to talk to those standing in line about their picks, their journeys, and what it felt like being there while ICE and the No Kings protests swirled around the city. Their thoughts via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

today is the one day a year I wear my oldest piece of clothing - a 36-year-old "Halloween 5" t-shirt. it's kinda amazing that it's still in such great shape.

Last minute costume idea

I have reached a level of firm acceptance that at least three to four of my fellow countrymen and women are too fucking stupid to be citizens of a republic. And another three of ten are too stupid to care.

Wouldn't that be Bill las Blasios?

"None of the stuff that has to be protected for the sake of the audience’s viewing pleasure is actually worth protecting." I'm still shocked at the significant amount praise HALLOW ROAD has generated.

Next week! Showed a lot of restraint in this episode by not doing the full butter monologue.

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

Annual reminder that the fake spider webs you stretch across your front porch look nothing like spider webs and instead just look like you murdered a sweater and have hung up its flayed corpse as a grim warning to all other knitwear.

The other night I had to ask friends if his name isn’t pronounced phonetically cuz I didn’t understand why a lot of powerful people had trouble with it but nope it sounds exactly like it looks.

Even with a very good Billy Magnussen, I’m quite tepid on the rote revenge thriller VIOLENT ENDS. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social

I reviewed the thriller Hallow Road, which "...feels like a scarcely remembered work of 1960s art cinema that you might watch because a critic described it as unjustly forgotten, only to realize that it was forgotten quite justly." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hall...

Sinn Féin confirms Catherine Connolly's keepy-uppies video is not Al

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Our favorite spooky oddball Longlegs (Taran Killam) is HACK once again to (g)host his Halloween variety show! Join Jason Voorhees (Paul Brittain), Ed & Lorraine Warren (Ryan Gaul & Patty Guggenheim) and Armie Hammer (Scott Aukerman) in the second annual Scaretacular -- if you SCARE!

look .... who knows how it will continue, but right now, this season of law and order SVU is cooking with some classic, old school SVU gas and i'm NOT mad about it