My freshman college roommate listened to three albums on an endless loop the entire year: Third Eye Blind by Third Eye Blind, Don’t Tell Me You Do by Rockapella, and Dizzy Up the Girl by Goo Goo Dolls.
This is like a horrible flashback for me.
This MAR10 Day, make sure you smell great with Super Mario Bros. cologne! It’s the only cologne guaranteed to make you smell as good as a plummer who spends all his time climbing through pipes and jumping on turtles.
I am amused by every photo I find of Tim Burton promoting Dumbo.
Johnny Canuck hates subtlety.
That’s me, good old Johnny Canuck
You can read @mattsinger.bsky.social’s essay on “KPop Demon Hunters” at the NYFCC website: www.nyfcc.com/2026/01/matt...
I’m gonna JET up the most popular members list.
WATCH YOUR BACK MCCARTNEY I’M COMING FOR YOU
My new book on 2000s Hollywood comedies, Funny Business, will be available on October 6 and is officially up for pre-order right now. In my wholly objective opinion, you and every person in your family should do that. You can order your copy at the link below.
The opening credits of The Big Hit include Mark Wahlberg’s character, a hit man, training in gymkata.
Buddy Joe Hooker has a stuntman for over 70 years. He recently curated the Criterion Channel’s “Stunts!” collection, so I talked to him about his career and why it took so damn long to convince the Academy to create a Best Stunt Design Oscar.
Plus: The piece has great stunt clips galore.
do what now
I will always be more impressed by a mediocre stunt than a VFX extravaganza because someone actually physically *did* it. You can't fake a body moving through space; the weight and heft and physics of it, the innate humanness of the body in motion; it always hits harder than "big blue CG laser."
Stunts!
This is a great piece.
Buddy Joe Hooker has a stuntman for over 70 years. He recently curated the Criterion Channel’s “Stunts!” collection, so I talked to him about his career and why it took so damn long to convince the Academy to create a Best Stunt Design Oscar.
Plus: The piece has great stunt clips galore.
Exactly.
We used to be a proper country.
I recently found myself thinking about the AFI Top 100, and what a huge impact it made on me, and wishing it had continued. Bring it back!
I also rewatched the original broadcast of the list and let me tell you: THAT is a DOCUMENT. You will not believe some of the faces that pop up in that thing.
Also, 2028 will not just be the 30th anniversary of the original AFI Top 100 special, but the year of the 100th Oscars ceremony - even more cause to revive this thing, I say!
Two I watched because of the list too. I feel like if they redid the list today ... neither makes the cut? Maybe Best Years...
Good piece by @mattsinger.bsky.social
I, too, worked my way through the AFI list, watching films like The Best Years of Our Lives and The Bridge on the River Kwai because of it
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Yeah this clip is v out of date
The whole series of specials they did was magic. I probably watched their 100 YEARS, 100 THRILLS show about 50 times.
deleting the post right now
AFI should do this every decade the same as Sight and Sound
AFI has got to do another round if only to include Fury Road
One of many reasons why it would be fun to see how it turned out!
I recently found myself thinking about the AFI Top 100, and what a huge impact it made on me, and wishing it had continued. Bring it back!
I also rewatched the original broadcast of the list and let me tell you: THAT is a DOCUMENT. You will not believe some of the faces that pop up in that thing.
Gotta see ALL of that chair Chris Pratt is strapped into for 90 minutes.
