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Things are going great for this guy. I'm sure he's feeling super about all of his choices. Buy the ticket, take the ride, motherfucker.

"One year, 1983, they claimed three of the five best-song [Oscar] nominations...(They lost to 'Up Where We Belong' from 'An Officer and a Gentleman.')" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/a...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud hits NYC today. A true joy to watch him reframe eerie discomfort around a tech-obsessed society on the brink of collapse into pure comedy. One of our very best.

When I worked at The Onion in the ’90s and ’00s, we often used photos of family and friends (not to mention ourselves) in stories. Which, thanks to the magic of Internet archives and Instagram feeds, means I *just now* got treated to this photo of my former in-laws:

A story about Stephen Colbert I’ve never shared before. Years ago I was hospitalized for a month. One of toughest things I ever had to do. Confined, monitored, my health a mystery with no solution, cycling through roommates & their families who needed miracles, or would go off to surgery & vanish…

I've shared my love for the Marvel Multiverse Role Playing Game many times, and today is no different - except that they've dropped a free quickstart game guide and One Shot adventure featuring the THUNDERBOLTS* Absolutely free. cdn.marvel.com/u/prod/marve...

“How’s the foot traffic here at Westchester, Donald?” “Incredible, Rupe. Folks lining up outside just to get DOWN!!!”

It's a bummer to stumble upon longtime twitter mutuals dogging you over here. Don't come here as often as I'd like but this has happened a few times and it always makes me wonder where the disconnect happened. Ah well, can't sweat it but it's not fun!

"Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude." ARACHNOPHOBIA turns 35 today!

Saw Superman. Loved it. James Gunn never disappoints. Been a good week for superhero movies because mere days ago I watched this all-time banger.

Those STRANGER THINGS running times are wiiiiiiiiiild. They essentially made eight very long feature films. No wonder it took forever.

Send this to your friend that you know needs this, but you can pretend it is a “joke”. 😬

Can you name an R-rated Emma Stone movie? www.vulture.com/article/dail...

this is an absolutely wild story

This is an evergreen, but it's one for a reason: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the former with the same intensity and ruthlessness as we work to prevent the latter.

Paying Joe Eszterhas $4 million for anything in 2025 is an objectively hilarious waste of money. MGM is fucking clueless, man.

The Fisherman is sinking his hook into theaters this weekend, but I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER isn't the only new horror movie releasing this week:

The Thing spends the entirety of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four buck naked. Imagine your best friend is a giant rock monster AND he likes to stand right next to you with all his rocky parts just flapping in the breeze.

When done right, group trips are worth every cent. But they can also be fraught, cost-wise — no one wants to be the wet blanket who can’t afford the fancier restaurant or will spend the whole time stressing about the Venmo requests afterward.

This framing is good and important. "New York state will pay." We will pay. The taxpayers of New York will pay for this vile sleazebag's inability to keep his hands to himself. And we're supposed to make him the fucking mayor? FOH

Just like bad and good plastic surgery, I can’t tell when writers have a good publicist but I can tell when they have a bad one who overdoes it

@merriam-webster.com please define “bawdy” - thanks!

Dark Star Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for THE A-FRAME, a goopy sci-fi horror movie that experiments with a new dimension poised to unleash unspeakable horror. The sci-fi thriller hits theaters on July 25, followed by a Digital release on August 5.

I sincerely hope Trump decides to not allow the CBS merger to happen anyway, even after they bent over completely. That's what they fucking deserve. You don't appease monsters. They're never going to reward you for capitulation.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/m...

Eddington is a divisive movie: it divides people into people who like Eddington and people who are wrong

It went so wonderfully last night at the Bricktown Comedy Club in Tulsa that the owner wants me tonight as well, as originally planned.

Am torn between enjoying all the posts from people disproving that Trump "never wrote a picture" and wanting to imagine that the claim is technically true because had an employee ghost-draw everything for him."You done with that NY skyline? I need a naked-lady picture, pronto!"

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER: This perky update has a few things going for it, including low expectations. It loves its leads (Madelyn Cline!😍) and never becomes that kind of violent vaudeville where you can’t wait for the hook to drag someone off screaming. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

My daughter is entering the workforce now in the next couple years and my advice to her has been mainly "if they tell you they're a family... run." I mean, seriously, who the fuck wants to work at a business that's run like a family? Like Leatherface's family? Manson's? Addams'? What family?

honestly incredible for coldplay's whole deal to get a sudden rebranding as illicit, dangerous music with a heavily ironic layer of meaning, associated with both tiktok virality and high stakes infidelity

Welp, in for my nose-breaking sinus procedure and my insurance deemed anesthesia to be medically unnecessary, so the backup plan is to just get me really, legally high. I am not responsible for anything I post between now and about 4pm PST

Just saw “Eddington,” and people, as far as right-wing filmmakers go, I’m sticking with S. Craig Zahler.

The Consensus for Showdown № 216 is in! 🗳️ Here are the twenty best mockumentary films, as voted by the Letterboxd community. View the list: boxd.it/Lh0si

Me when Kim Phillips-Fein is writing about NYC history

I feel like the number of fast food restaurants now offering fried pickle items instead of meat might be a recession indicator? I dunno. Or everyone has finally caught on that fried pickles are fucking good.

more tickets released for the Mekons' sold-out Philly show tomorrow www.etix.com/ticket/p/381...

very cool that there will be never be any laws to do jack shit about this

Dem Threedom boys ate

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Next month's theme is Now a Major Motion Picture! I will be looking at silent films that were NOT adapted from novels, short stories or plays. Instead, we will be diving into silents based on comic strips, poetry, fine art, postcards, popular music and more!

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

I appreciate Film Forum including Irma Vep in their Women in Action series. Does it make sense? No. But am I grateful to finally see it on the Big Beautiful Screen? Yes.

NBC, if you touch one hair on Seth Meyers' head ...

Review: The internet and its discontents run wild in a new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolifically offbeat Japanese filmmaker who's spent the last four decades putting subversive spins on traditional genres.

Me on @npr.org with all-stars @aishaharris.bsky.social & @ghweldon.bsky.social talking the confounding, frustrating, I think not entirely without value, EDDINGTON: www.npr.org/2025/07/18/1...

Honey what’s wrong you’ve barely touched your Malort sno-cone

Scream Factory is celebrating the 40th anniversary of George A. Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD with the news that the long-lost original film elements have been found:

We love our monthly mailbag, don’t we folks??

There’s this thing when you’re raised Catholic where you spend your adult life uncoupling your identity from Catholicism and then you watch something like this and it’s like goddamnit fine I guess I’m Catholic.

When the delivery time on your Doordash order keeps getting pushed back.

A24 and Peacock's Friday the 13th prequel series CRYSTAL LAKE has just found its Jason Voorhees, played by Chucky actor Callum Vinson!

When you def know lots and lots of women

I'm sorry but "Y’Allternative" is a terrible and dumb term. Just use alt-country! At the very least it's better than "Y’Allternative."

Please watch the first 37 seconds of this video, to hear the theme song of the new Mountain Monsters spinoff. If you don't know what that is, this will be even better for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbW_...

I wrote a fun essay about superman and pop-punk for this week's NPR Music newsletter. It will be sent out this weekend, sign up if you wanna read it thanks!https://www.npr.org/newsletter/music

Competitive geoguessing. Surprisingly engaging! Uncut competence porn. I’m sure online betting will be on this as soon as it breaks on the Ocho.

EDDINGTON is my least favorite film of 2025 so far. Its ethos is the same as Jon Stewart’s RALLY TO RESTORE SANITY: “Our lives would be soooo much better if the media for BOTH sides, who are equally guilty, were not as extreme, amirite??” No Ari Aster. That’s not how any of this works. Hated this.

Is late night in financial trouble? Sure. Should you take Paramount’s word that that’s the reason Colbert is going? Give me a break. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/a...

In case there’s any doubt in the wake of Superman, James Gunn confirms that the DC Universe’s take on Clayface is a horror film. “Although it’s in the same universe, it’s a complete horror film” Gunn told CBS Mornings: www.tiktok.com/@cbsmornings...

Soothing a stroppy engineer is an underestimated work skill

My hometown NPR and PBS station in rural Pennsylvania, WVIA, gets 20% of its budget from federal funding. It's a former coal mining region, where public media fills a big gap for many. Cuts mean immediately reducing or eliminating local news & educational programs www.wvia.org/pressroom/20...

“I wanted to be famous so I could find a way that people would love me. Over the years, I’ve learned it doesn’t make you feel that — it just makes you feel worse.” I interviewed James Gunn: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/m...

As You Can Count on Me arrives on 4K from @criterion.bsky.social, director Kenneth Lonergan reflects on his debut with Mitchell Beaupre, shares his self-doubts after the success of Manchester by the Sea, and teases a 4K disc release for the Margaret extended cut. boxd.it/2DC

This is the fourth physical format I’ve owned this movie on. The only version I don’t have is the 1983 laserdisc. No regrets. Saw it on the big screen when I was 5 and been in love ever since. Truly a deep fried favorite.

Wrote about how restaurants are redoing their menus to get around tariffs, and how for some cuisines that's basically impossible www.eater.com/restaurant-n...

No🪒Beard grooming in a psychiatric facility! so you feel like you are woman enough to handle your new med side-effects. 🎬From my comedy special, "Old Baby" available to watch on @netflix.com

Talked about one of the greatest albums of all time. www.patreon.com/posts/dlb-01...

Same reason I quit musical theater

Scanning to find the secret button to read the rest of an online news article like Gandalf and the dwarves searching for the hidden entrance to the Lonely Mountain

Finally found the subject for my 33 1/3 book

It DOESNT sound like something Trump would say today, now that his brain pan if filled with toxic lukewarm porridge. But in 2003, while he still had some faculties and was just default smarmy, absolutely.

Media outlets, I am fucking BEGGING you to stop calling the Epstein birthday book "bawdy." Benny Hill is bawdy. Dirty limerick books are bawdy. This is a bound tribute to a pedophile rapist trafficker; please don't frame it as something frisky and fun?

Well it finally happened- my wife LEFT me because she’s tired of being married to a pathetic loser who spends his day being cyber bullied by teens (not to mention hanging out in the garage meticulously arranging his matryoshka dolls into Jan. 6 poses). She wants a REAL MAN, and who can blame her??

“We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey” is the title of a Sparks song I think

Four Action/Thriller Favorites with Kiyoshi Kurosawa 💥 Cloud, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new thriller, is in US theaters now via Sideshow and Janus Films.

Congress just clawed back funding for public media—hurting communities nationwide. We’re more committed than ever to keeping you informed and connected. Join our community of supporters. Every dollar helps. Donate here: n.pr/4lZlgDA

Masked and QAnonymous: EDDINGTON, reviewed. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ahead of the release of her excellent debut feature, No Sleep Till, I went to Metrograph the other day and sat down for a great conversation with director Alexandra Simpson and producer Tyler Taormina. On liminal spaces, the miracle of sound and so much more: bit.ly/3ITyPG4

What if this is an Adolph situation

We know that Godzilla Minus One writer-director Takashi Yamazaki is developing a follow-up for as soon as next year, but that’s not the only Godzilla film on the table in Japan. A sequel to SHIN GODZILLA might also be on the table:

Willy’s Wonderland director Kevin Lewis is back with a new movie based on an urban legend, PIG HILL, and the new trailer gives birth to supernatural horror that wants to make you squeal:

Ok but will we even be able to tell techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/n...

I don't think there should be any question that Colbert is the most brilliant man ever to sit behind a desk at a late night talk show. Seriously, watch this clip. As an extemporaneous speaker, he can't be beat. And the depth of his intellect is undeniable.

We must support comedy that is produced independent of corporate media, which of course has nothing to do with the new audio version of my book, 25 MST3K FILMS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER, being available here: dumb-industries.com/25mst3kfilms

"Lately, I keep thinking about how we’re everywhere, we women who have been preyed upon, violated and used by older men when we were teens. You pass us on the street every day, in your community, in your supermarket, at the dog park or in your place of worship."

"The guy can’t win. Except for the part where he’s rich, I guess." Hilarious review by Glenn Kenny (@glennkenny.bsky.social) of a documentary about estate taxes that focuses on the filmmaker's wealthy father www.rogerebert.com/reviews/deat...

"Cher and her father Mel are both kooks who think they’re the baseline for determining normalcy—like everyone else in the movie, really. All great comedies have this in common, and Clueless is one of them."— I got to write about a movie that I absolutely adore www.rogerebert.com/features/eve...

Fascinating Lupe Velez was #BornThisDay in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, in 1908. I have never seen the 1931 Universal version of RESURRECTION (which was also filmed in Spanish), but I'm tickled by this Photoplay PR piece alleging that Lupe was now simply mad for cooking borscht and shashlik.

There are few greater joys than talking about Spielberg with @adambvary.bsky.social.

How well do you know the FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards? @horrorgirlprobs.bsky.social breaks down the history of The FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, from where they started to how they became so iconic. Which original nominees would have gotten your vote? Read the full article: fangoria.visitlink.me/wxXCEs

Brandon Routh is dodging a field full of ICK in our exclusive clip from director Joseph Kahn's pop punk creature feature. The film releases in limited theaters on July 24 before expanding nationwide on July 27.

Disabled people say they love riding trains. Does Amtrak love them back? (My NPR story on a new federal report.) www.npr.org/2025/07/17/n...