"I looked up, and up, and up, and up, until I saw Tom Noonan's face, looking down at me with a curious expression. 'What did you say your name was?' he asked." A remembrance of my friend Tom, lost too soon. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...
The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which included remarks in support of Palestine.
Title shot for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961–1969)
Title shot for "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh"
An 18th-century British court trial is in session.
Patrick McGoohan as The Scarecrow.
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WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (1961–69)
"The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh"
D: James Neilson
W: Robert Westerby
Adaptation of Russell Thorndike's novel. Aired as 3-part miniseries as well as edited into a feature film.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Rob Reiner would have turned 79 today. He is missed.
This conversation with Rich Eisen — talking about directing Nicholson in “A Few Good Men” — is always a delight.
@richeisenshow.bsky.social
The history of VistaVision — from WHITE CHRISTMAS to STAR WARS to ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER — and why it’s “coming back from the dead”.
A great listen from NPR:
www.npr.org/2026/02/22/n... #FilmSky
Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media.
Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I spent way too much time putting together an oral history of “Scotty Doesn’t Know” from EUROTRIP that had been erased from the internet, but now it’s back, with some added commentary
30 years ago today, the words ‘embiggens’ and ‘cromulent’ were introduced to the world.
“Lisa the Iconoclast” first aired February 18, 1996.
I can confidently say that no movie destroyed me as deftly as ANOMALISA and I’m pretty sure no other movie ever will and that is 100% due to Tom Noonan’s performance and I am scared to death to ever watch it again (for the fourth time, let’s be clear) to explain why. Lord on high a performance.
a composite image featuring Rod Serling, the Cryptkeeper, the host of Creepshow, Slappy the Dummy from Goosebumps, Homer Simpson as a donut, the mummy from Amazing Stories, the opera singer from Magnetic Rose (Memories), Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton from Inside No. 9, and Pooka from Into the Dark.
every day of 2026, I'll post a story from an anthology film or series.
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This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.
Happy Valentine's Day
Japanese poster for SLEUTH (1972)
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - BOTD in 1909
Look, I am on the "fuck Aronofsky and his bullshit AI project" train as much as the next girl, but it is completely ridiculous to still be spreading around accusations of him robbing Kon's work wholesale when it's no different to any other filmmaker recreating shots from their favorite classics.
TCM will become the “ongoing home” of the LOONEY TUNES library.
A six-year licensing deal for more than 750 shorts starts in Feb.
"We’re able to present these cartoons with the care they deserve alongside the classic films they helped influence."
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t... #FilmSky
Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.
THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025
A Video Countdown
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All rewatches, too.
Josh O'Connor's 2025 feels like something special.
Been thinking a lot lately about Anton Walbrook's monologue in the refugee office from THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COL. BLIMP (1943)
Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!
The All-Day Holiday Movie Mind Melter is tomorrow! 10+ Holiday Movies will be streamed, many of them super rare, and if you miss your chance to see them now... You may miss them forrrrreeeeeevvvvvvver!
Mark your calendars. The Holiday Movie Mind Melter is happening on December 20th.
The likes of Rob Reiner is what we urgently need a lot more of in American cinema today if we want to save moviegoing. A filmmaker who made undeniable crowd-pleasers for the masses. Movies that are smart, accessible, human, enormously stylish & cinematic, & never simple-minded.
This reminded us of David Lynch rescuing five Woody Woodpecker dolls from a gas station in 1981. He named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob, and Dan.
We miss you, David.
