Jack Eason

Remember when everyone was bae? Seems like things were better when everyone was bae.

Void Man assures voters that nebulous absence of substance is a slightly different shape than previously assumed.

Chicago Film Society screening Allen Fong's Ah Ying the same weekend.

John Woo on 35mm alert, at Siskel. Very funny this is part of a Science on Screen series so there's a talk from a surgeon or something afterward. Also thank you Siskel for letting us know about the film's Latin content.

Bluesky told me The Artist was trending and I figured, "Well there's no way it can be that "The Artist"" but no, apparently that's what this site is about now.

A cool thing about the Peacock Roku app is, if you don't watch something completely, it sits in your "Continue Watching" queue forever. I watched a rugby game but skipped the post-game stuff. It's there forever now. I checked something in Highlander months ago, it's immortal now.

Donald Trump, the guy who murdered 160+ Iranian schoolgirls last week?

Awaiting the "Brian Kilmeade Tanker Report" where he provides daily reports live from the decks of various tankers as they pass through.

I guess, statistically speaking, the USA probably has a cricket team somewhere too.

Dammit, just learned I missed out on a really cool sounding Dex dagger because I pummeled a boss too quick. Damn Dark Souls, always a bloody twist, even when I'm chuffed with myself.

At the bar and the US appears to be trouncing Britain in, uh, baseball?

Ariana Grande saw the devil one time, so I bet she's down for a spooky movie and then.

This Pitt is a medical show. It's very hectic and all the people are sick and the doctors are maybe sick too but in the mind and did I mention it's very hectic?

Fuck it, starting The Pitt. If this isn't great then how can I ever trust you all again?

Seated for The Odd One Dies on 35mm. I think a HD version of this exists but I've only ever seen it via VCD. This will probably look nicer.

It could be found, if the political will is there. Sadly that requires an opposition party.

Money printer goes "Brrrr, uh, hold on a minute, are you fucking serious?"

(to be clear, Arthur Crabtree's Fiend Without a Fave fucking rocks, but I'm guessing it's not shifting a lot of units these days)

Sabrina Carpenter arrives in the Criterion Closet: "Oh wow, yes, in a lot of ways Arthur Crabtree's Fiend Without a Face has been an inspiration to my music."

Want to get it down to some poor sap having to make a case for their "favorite" Criterions, Fishing With John and shiny DVD of Chasing Amy.

The Criterion Closet should have rules like the Cricket variant of darts, so after three visitors choose the same movie it's "closed out" and subsequent visitors have to choose something else.

At least Trump waited until the weather got a little warmer before spiking oil prices with a pointless, illegal war.

Israeli numbers a real, "all the little devils are proud of Hell," moment.

Big win at trivia this week because the lyrics question was a song I listened to while walking to the bar.

Pour one out for RADICAL JAPAN: CINEMA AND STATE, our 9-film box set of Nagisa Oshima, which has just sold out fully on our site after being released only last November. Copies might still be available from other retailers, but it will no longer be restocked by us directly.

YouTube rife with ads for down the ticket candidates but Tubi hit me straight off with "Weight Loss Pritzker" content.

The People's Joker is on Tubi and has been stuck in the Recommended queue next to a 2016 Steven Seagal joint and some other DTV action fare. Very funny new audience possibilities here.

Perhaps Goatse has always existed in some form or another.

The Porpoise Song is very much The Monkees leaning into being a Beatles knock-off but I like the song more than most Beatles songs. Also had no idea Carole King co-wrote it.

When I was a teenager I thought this was the greatest album ever recorded. I don't think that anymore, but it still fucking rips.