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Also, those comeback nominations never actually win, right? Ask Mickey Rourke, Eddie Murphy, Burt Reynolds, Sly Stallone, etc? The only one I recall panning out was Brendan Fraser and his whole thing felt more like a weird make-a-wish.

What original attempt are you talking about?

It’s a sign of the online derangement Tarantino causes that anyone could look at the dialogue scenes in his films and think: “Yeah, that guy shouldn’t write plays.”

Counting the days…

The biggest irony is that ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD is a) a pretty perfect final film and b) his actual tenth film.

*the “American Pie” of breakup songs. I can’t type.

As I said in my review of THE ERAS TOUR movie, it’s “American Pie” of breakup songs and just behind ZODIAC and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN as the best thing Jake Gyllenhaal’s ever been involved in.

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What makes the film so embarrassing is also why it rules. It is the cinematic equivalent of a Doors song.

Wonderful piece about a movie that is both sillier than shit and totally fucking awesome.

10 Greater Boston film festivals to check out this spring As the snow retreats, Boston's film scene awakens with more fests and series happening this spring than will fit on WBUR film writer Erin Trahan's calendar.

Here’s my colleague Erin Trahan with ten local film festivals to check out this spring.

Saw it last year so I forget the specifics, but I seem to recall a few instances of “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”

Town Responds to Kraft Group Commitment Letter

Town of Foxborough (yes that’s the proper spelling) to Krafts re: World Cup security money: Quit lying.

I’m loving this. www.foxboroughma.gov/news/what_s_...

“We Wanted to Invite You to Die” A Q&A with “Sirāt” director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol.

For paid subscribers to the Spliced Personality Substack I’ve got some highlights from my Q&A last week with SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol.

Review - Sirāt Starring Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda, Richard ‘Bigui’ Bellamy.

At the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed Oliver Laxe’s SIRĀT, which is currently screening on 35mm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. See it loud.

Love watching news networks blather on about the skill and precision of the world’s most elite “warfighters” while we’re blundering around blowing up schools as our F-15s shoot each other out of the sky.

On the Nature of Daylight Savings

“Dignified.” He’s wearing a fucking baseball cap.

The film itself rejected digital representation.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves. (1989)

Seeing EASY RIDER on an original 35mm release print that’s all pink-shifted and beat to shit might actually be the best way to watch it.

We heard there was a movie called HOPPERS opening today but came to see this instead.

The reviews are in!

With SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol right before I stepped on a landmine.

I should have called on you!

A feminist 'Bride' for Frankenstein Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s gonzo revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 “Bride of Frankenstein” is a "hellzapoppin’ cacophony of silly ideas and mad movie love, overhauling the queer-coded ca...

At WBUR this week I reviewed Maggie Gyllenhaal’s THE BRIDE EXCLAMATION POINT, which I got a big kick out of. Your mileage may vary.

Willow is so good at this.

TONIGHT! I’ll be hosting a Q&A with SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol following the 7pm show at the Coolidge. And our friend @jshawhan.bsky.social is handling the Nashville screening on Sunday, so obviously these people have great taste in moderators.

This is amazing.

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Classic Corner: Baby It's You — Crooked Marquee An appreciation of the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle that was writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film.

Writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film, the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle “Baby It’s You,” was released on this day in 1983: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...