Mike D’Angelo
@gemko.bsky.social
Scheduled a court date for a correctable traffic citation and got to see a bunch of other cases adjudicated prior to my own. Unless avoiding court is worth like $100-200 to you, go for anything. Every single fine got substantially reduced, irrespective of disposition. Literally all of them.
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Scheduled a court date for a correctable traffic citation and got to see a bunch of other cases adjudicated prior to my own. Unless avoiding court is worth like $100-200 to you, go for anything. Every single fine got substantially reduced, irrespective of disposition. Literally all of them.
I really miss the five years I spent not getting colds.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I really miss the five years I spent not getting colds.
Don’t suppose there’s any way to move IMDB’s mobile search bar back to the top? (I’ll get used to it but right now it’s driving me nuts.)
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Don’t suppose there’s any way to move IMDB’s mobile search bar back to the top? (I’ll get used to it but right now it’s driving me nuts.)
Want to know how my thoughts on movies come across when I can’t devote a ludicrous amount of time and energy to carefully crafting every word? Here’s your chance!
Was especially happy to talk about SICK, one of the greatest documentaries ever made, which rarely gets mentioned nowadays.
Was especially happy to talk about SICK, one of the greatest documentaries ever made, which rarely gets mentioned nowadays.
We celebrate our 100th episode with film critic Mike D'Angelo (@gemko.bsky.social), who joins us to discuss Kirby Dick's heart-rending documentary SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPERMASOCHIST, and Marina de Van's 2002 body-horror drama IN MY SKIN.
open.spotify.com/episode/2pjX...
open.spotify.com/episode/2pjX...
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Want to know how my thoughts on movies come across when I can’t devote a ludicrous amount of time and energy to carefully crafting every word? Here’s your chance!
Was especially happy to talk about SICK, one of the greatest documentaries ever made, which rarely gets mentioned nowadays.
Was especially happy to talk about SICK, one of the greatest documentaries ever made, which rarely gets mentioned nowadays.
Let’s just list the Nakadai films I own:
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Harakiri
High and Low
Kwaidan
The Sword of Doom
Samurai Rebellion
Ran
Gotta think that’s a sizable % of my favorite Japanese films period. What a career. (And RAN was the first Japanese movie I ever saw, so he was iconic for me.)
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Harakiri
High and Low
Kwaidan
The Sword of Doom
Samurai Rebellion
Ran
Gotta think that’s a sizable % of my favorite Japanese films period. What a career. (And RAN was the first Japanese movie I ever saw, so he was iconic for me.)
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Let’s just list the Nakadai films I own:
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Harakiri
High and Low
Kwaidan
The Sword of Doom
Samurai Rebellion
Ran
Gotta think that’s a sizable % of my favorite Japanese films period. What a career. (And RAN was the first Japanese movie I ever saw, so he was iconic for me.)
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Harakiri
High and Low
Kwaidan
The Sword of Doom
Samurai Rebellion
Ran
Gotta think that’s a sizable % of my favorite Japanese films period. What a career. (And RAN was the first Japanese movie I ever saw, so he was iconic for me.)
SCHUMER: America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it. I am voting NO.
ALL OF BLUESKY: Die you fucking surrender monkey!
ALL OF BLUESKY: Die you fucking surrender monkey!
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
SCHUMER: America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it. I am voting NO.
ALL OF BLUESKY: Die you fucking surrender monkey!
ALL OF BLUESKY: Die you fucking surrender monkey!
CULTURAL CRITICS EVERYWHERE: Going to the movies will soon be like going to the opera or the theater—a pastime reserved for select aficionados.
MOVIE THEATERS IN NYC: Come see any of the 32 new films that opened theatrically today!
MOVIE THEATERS IN NYC: Come see any of the 32 new films that opened theatrically today!
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
CULTURAL CRITICS EVERYWHERE: Going to the movies will soon be like going to the opera or the theater—a pastime reserved for select aficionados.
MOVIE THEATERS IN NYC: Come see any of the 32 new films that opened theatrically today!
MOVIE THEATERS IN NYC: Come see any of the 32 new films that opened theatrically today!
TIL that the state of national emergency declared in 1979 re: Iran has been continuously extended to the present day, by Reagan and Bush and Clinton and Shrub and Obama and Trump and Biden and Trump again.
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
TIL that the state of national emergency declared in 1979 re: Iran has been continuously extended to the present day, by Reagan and Bush and Clinton and Shrub and Obama and Trump and Biden and Trump again.
For fuck’s sake dude that’s why everyone calls him President Trump!
(Sorry, what’s that? His actual *name*? You’re joking.)
(Sorry, what’s that? His actual *name*? You’re joking.)
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
For fuck’s sake dude that’s why everyone calls him President Trump!
(Sorry, what’s that? His actual *name*? You’re joking.)
(Sorry, what’s that? His actual *name*? You’re joking.)
Happy about all the winning but also still angry that the folks who flipped or sat 2024 out somehow did not understand last year that this is where we’d be right now. So much misery could have been avoided, including plenty of misery still to come.
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Happy about all the winning but also still angry that the folks who flipped or sat 2024 out somehow did not understand last year that this is where we’d be right now. So much misery could have been avoided, including plenty of misery still to come.
Like, oh, say, Lanthimos'. (Did not remember this at all, stumbled upon it just now while sticking a few ancient tweet-reviews on Lbox.)
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Like, oh, say, Lanthimos'. (Did not remember this at all, stumbled upon it just now while sticking a few ancient tweet-reviews on Lbox.)
Received both of these notices in today’s mail, well done bureaucracy.
November 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Received both of these notices in today’s mail, well done bureaucracy.
Hearing some fireworks despite living a good 60 miles north of L.A., nostalgically remembering paying no attention to Super Bowl XLII (2008) but learning the Giants had won when my entire Brooklyn neighborhood exploded in cheers.
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Hearing some fireworks despite living a good 60 miles north of L.A., nostalgically remembering paying no attention to Super Bowl XLII (2008) but learning the Giants had won when my entire Brooklyn neighborhood exploded in cheers.
Love to see ancient invented terminology from the movie-nerd chat group infect proper journalism. (Courtesy @bilgeebiri.bsky.social who was a member of said group.)
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Love to see ancient invented terminology from the movie-nerd chat group infect proper journalism. (Courtesy @bilgeebiri.bsky.social who was a member of said group.)
Fondly reminiscing about the year—think I was 11 or 12, on the cusp of considering myself too old for trick or treat—when I was too lazy to find a costume and instead put ~30 white tube socks on one foot so it looked like a cast and went on my mom’s crutches from a car accident. Got so much candy.
November 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Fondly reminiscing about the year—think I was 11 or 12, on the cusp of considering myself too old for trick or treat—when I was too lazy to find a costume and instead put ~30 white tube socks on one foot so it looked like a cast and went on my mom’s crutches from a car accident. Got so much candy.
Three of the four Peter Watkins films I’ve seen were “programmed” for me by my Patreon subscribers, who have wonderfully eclectic collective taste. Did not anticipate that my weekly request poll would produce winners like EDVARD MUNCH and LA COMMUNE. And I’m very happy that it did. R.I.P.
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Three of the four Peter Watkins films I’ve seen were “programmed” for me by my Patreon subscribers, who have wonderfully eclectic collective taste. Did not anticipate that my weekly request poll would produce winners like EDVARD MUNCH and LA COMMUNE. And I’m very happy that it did. R.I.P.
Switched my home Internet provider (an option I only recently discovered that I even had; when I moved into this house in 2009, it was Time Warner Cable or nothing) and it appears that I erred gravely by not initiating a bidding war for my business. They *really* don’t want you to cancel.
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Switched my home Internet provider (an option I only recently discovered that I even had; when I moved into this house in 2009, it was Time Warner Cable or nothing) and it appears that I erred gravely by not initiating a bidding war for my business. They *really* don’t want you to cancel.
Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.
Someone suggested it may have been something like this. Would think I’d remember that, but then I don’t remember it whatever it was.
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Someone suggested it may have been something like this. Would think I’d remember that, but then I don’t remember it whatever it was.
Came upon an email I sent in 2006 that includes the words “I’m typing this from a kiosk in Times Square” and have literally no recollection of what that deal was. Anyone?
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Came upon an email I sent in 2006 that includes the words “I’m typing this from a kiosk in Times Square” and have literally no recollection of what that deal was. Anyone?
Ah, the wiseacres. Such a joy to have them among us.
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Ah, the wiseacres. Such a joy to have them among us.
