Some wild nighttime creature after my own inky heart left the big windows of our shared hotel bathroom wide open to the 4am rain of Amsterdam.
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Some wild nighttime creature after my own inky heart left the big windows of our shared hotel bathroom wide open to the 4am rain of Amsterdam.
Stumbled upon best bar in Amsterdam feat. Ari the Cat and Tito the Cinephile Barman (not pictured)
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Stumbled upon best bar in Amsterdam feat. Ari the Cat and Tito the Cinephile Barman (not pictured)
Anyway, I love TRAIN DREAMS. Please see TRAIN DREAMS. And for the love of all that's holy (for example: TRAIN DREAMS), see it big.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Anyway, I love TRAIN DREAMS. Please see TRAIN DREAMS. And for the love of all that's holy (for example: TRAIN DREAMS), see it big.
I would eavesdrop the hell out of a conversation between Bob and Robert. They probably wouldn't say much. Robert because he's taciturn and Bob because he's stoned, but their silences would speak volumes. And would likely also cure that pesky Male Loneliness EpidemicTM.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I would eavesdrop the hell out of a conversation between Bob and Robert. They probably wouldn't say much. Robert because he's taciturn and Bob because he's stoned, but their silences would speak volumes. And would likely also cure that pesky Male Loneliness EpidemicTM.
Di Caprio's OBAA character might be a figure of absurdity, while Edgerton in TD is all quiet, ordinary tragedy, but still I see them as peculiarly similar in crucial ways, like they'd recognise each other if their eyes met across the intervening decades.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Di Caprio's OBAA character might be a figure of absurdity, while Edgerton in TD is all quiet, ordinary tragedy, but still I see them as peculiarly similar in crucial ways, like they'd recognise each other if their eyes met across the intervening decades.
Also, I'm clearly ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER-pilled, but I couldn't help but see it and TD, despite vast differences in tone, as thematic bookends to... the promise of America, I guess? A promise TD imagines being born in violence, hope and grief and OBAA imagines ending in much the same manner.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Also, I'm clearly ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER-pilled, but I couldn't help but see it and TD, despite vast differences in tone, as thematic bookends to... the promise of America, I guess? A promise TD imagines being born in violence, hope and grief and OBAA imagines ending in much the same manner.
Edgerton is wonderful and deserves the earth, but how great is William H. Macy in a role that must total like 10m of screentime yet is somehow present throughout? Didn't realise how much I've missed him. And I will never again hear Denis Johnson's prose in anything but Will Patton's voice.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Edgerton is wonderful and deserves the earth, but how great is William H. Macy in a role that must total like 10m of screentime yet is somehow present throughout? Didn't realise how much I've missed him. And I will never again hear Denis Johnson's prose in anything but Will Patton's voice.
Feel like I was stolen away and inhabited by Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS, one of those films that crept into my chest in its opening moments and made itself a nest in there. Didn't expect to be so moved, to be scooped up, cradled and swept away by it.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Feel like I was stolen away and inhabited by Clint Bentley's TRAIN DREAMS, one of those films that crept into my chest in its opening moments and made itself a nest in there. Didn't expect to be so moved, to be scooped up, cradled and swept away by it.
Also, grinning dude showed up with the director at Busan FF opening ceremony and did the sudden-mirthless-smile thing all down the red carpet. Superb.
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Also, grinning dude showed up with the director at Busan FF opening ceremony and did the sudden-mirthless-smile thing all down the red carpet. Superb.
They're really going for the EXIT 8 promotion in Taipei! As well they should. It's fun! My review: variety.com/2025/film/re...
September 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
They're really going for the EXIT 8 promotion in Taipei! As well they should. It's fun! My review: variety.com/2025/film/re...
I simply cannot believe that anywhere other than Ximen District in Taipei looks like this at 7.30pm on a Sunday.
September 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I simply cannot believe that anywhere other than Ximen District in Taipei looks like this at 7.30pm on a Sunday.
I am back in Taipei
September 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I am back in Taipei
And now I'm eating this. A perfect day so far.
September 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
And now I'm eating this. A perfect day so far.
Inadvertently hit on the perfect way to finally see WEAPONS: in Busan with a student lunchtime crowd, nursing a somaek hangover, sitting next to a big soft Korean dude who leaps about 3 feet out of his seat with every jump scare.
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Inadvertently hit on the perfect way to finally see WEAPONS: in Busan with a student lunchtime crowd, nursing a somaek hangover, sitting next to a big soft Korean dude who leaps about 3 feet out of his seat with every jump scare.
Me and my invisible companion back in this Toronto joint for what I think might be my favorite cocktail in the world
September 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Me and my invisible companion back in this Toronto joint for what I think might be my favorite cocktail in the world
It's a decent film and will likely win but imo Int'l Oscar pick SENTIMENTAL VALUE isn't a patch on Haugerud's DREAMS (SEX LOVE) in re this year's Norwegian titles. And yes, there may be some Berlinale bias here, but I'm convinced Haugerud's is the better, richer movie. Enjoy these Asian posters!
August 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It's a decent film and will likely win but imo Int'l Oscar pick SENTIMENTAL VALUE isn't a patch on Haugerud's DREAMS (SEX LOVE) in re this year's Norwegian titles. And yes, there may be some Berlinale bias here, but I'm convinced Haugerud's is the better, richer movie. Enjoy these Asian posters!
When interesting things happen on the old tl
August 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
When interesting things happen on the old tl
Just look at the fabulous typeface used in this 1932 complete Goethe set in my grandmother's house.
August 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Just look at the fabulous typeface used in this 1932 complete Goethe set in my grandmother's house.
Doing the //DiCaprio_pointing_meme every time either Basil Radford or Naunton Wayne shows up during the barnstorming GREAT EXPECTATIONS Postwar British Cinema retrospective in Locarno. Love these guys, separately and together.
August 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Doing the //DiCaprio_pointing_meme every time either Basil Radford or Naunton Wayne shows up during the barnstorming GREAT EXPECTATIONS Postwar British Cinema retrospective in Locarno. Love these guys, separately and together.
I have encountered many wonders on my travels through the world's mid-budget hotels but never any object more cursed than this chair bedecked in Michael Bublé lyrics. This is the last thing I'll see before I die.
August 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I have encountered many wonders on my travels through the world's mid-budget hotels but never any object more cursed than this chair bedecked in Michael Bublé lyrics. This is the last thing I'll see before I die.
Home after quite the multiplex quadruple bill, and can now state for the record that SUPERMAN < FANTASTIC 4 << F1 = 28 YEARS LATER (also happened to be the order I watched them in). And I quite enjoyed SUPERMAN!
Movies: back.
Movies: back.
July 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Home after quite the multiplex quadruple bill, and can now state for the record that SUPERMAN < FANTASTIC 4 << F1 = 28 YEARS LATER (also happened to be the order I watched them in). And I quite enjoyed SUPERMAN!
Movies: back.
Movies: back.
F1 is a popcorn masterpiece. Loved every second. System now flooded with adrenaline and a powerful urge to file my expenses.
July 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
F1 is a popcorn masterpiece. Loved every second. System now flooded with adrenaline and a powerful urge to file my expenses.