All the news involving a certain former DHS secretary and her “close advisor” is as good a hook as any to look at the most notable films about extramarital activity. My selections for the best 10 movies about infidelity:
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Audition polaroids taken by Casting Director Mali Finn in the 1980's.
Anyone daydreaming about time travel these days? Let’s talk movie time-travel.
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Before the month of Valentine’s Day comes to end, I’m sliding in with my thoroughly unimpeachable, albeit fully subjective, selections of the 25 best love stories in the movies…
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Recent layoffs at The Washington Post are just the latest casualty in what have been some very bad years for the 4th Estate. Makes me all the more nostalgic for the great journalism flicks. My picks for the 10 best… cutting-2-the-chase.com/2026/01/26/t...
Been thinking about dystopian futures lately? If so, you’re not alone. So let’s look at post-apocalyptic cinema (link in comments below)
School. We’ve all gone through it. Movies. We’ve all gone to them. So without further ado, here is a list that involves both
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More words and phrases I hope can be retired in 2026:
“at the end of the day”
“I see what you did there”
“AF”
“sit with that”
“a nothing burger”
“hold my beer”
“I was today years old when…”
“am I right?”
“FAFO”
Valentine’s Day is only weeks away, which is as good an excuse as any to talk movie love stories. Here’s my latest in @okgazette.bsky.social:
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If this is actually from a news conference. why isn’t there audio or video ?
My refrigerator is covered in magnets of the far off places my neighbors visit while I watch their dogs.
In case you wondered, I have another movie-related list: 10 most memorable marriages in film. Link in comments…
Not that you asked, but here is my take on the 10 all-time best male buddy pictures…
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words and phrases I’m hoping can be retired in 2026:
“take a listen”
“let that sink in”
“I didn’t have (fill in the blank) on my bingo card”
“old-timer’s disease”
“(fill in the blank) adjacent”
“anyways” (unless you’re a Chicago gangster circa 1925)
using “drug” as the past tense of drag
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”—Virginia Woolf
surely, gorgeous cinematography isn’t antithetical to an elegiac rumination on life.
what else were you thinking?
certainly best film about an alt-weekly
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.” —Hunter S. Thompson
if you’ve been hungering for another 2025 “best in film” list, well, friend, it’s time to belly up to this post in yer eatin’ pants…
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If you want to celebrate the life of Rob Reiner tonight and you haven't seen it, the documentary about his best friend, ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE, is as much about Brooks as it is Reiner's love for his lifelong best friend. As fall down hilarious as it is sweet & touching. It's a must see.
“We can’t solve today’s problems with the mentality that created them.”—Albert Einstein
After seeing BRYAN CRANSTON in ‘Breaking Bad’ - ANTHONY HOPKINS sent this wonderful email to the show’s star full of admiration for Cranston's performance, claiming it to be the best acting he'd ever seen.
It really annoys me that “restive” means, essentially, “restless.” Until “festive” is redefined as “unfestive,” this inconsistency bugs
“The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.” —H.L. Mencken
For two days running, I’ve heard “Dark Side of the Moon” coming from my 18-year-old son’s room. Although I’ve never played Pink Floyd for my kids, I’ll take it as a parenting win. Bonus point: I’m 99% sure he’s listening to it sober.
"We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it." —William Faulkner
