Someone’s blasting Bjork at 8 am in Queens. If this is you let’s hang.

All of our effects were practical and in-camera. Like it or not, hordes of creatively bankrupt people are going to run with AI. Most won’t use it in a genuinely creative way. But there will always be films made by humans.

The video that Hamas just released of Hersh Goldberg-Polin is the kind of propaganda video that is released to move things along in a negotiation. “I love you,” he said to his family, “hopefully I’ll be home soon.” It’s cruel on its own, but to release it after he’s been shot

Break on the set of “Tinsman Road”.

Monday is for movies I’m excited to see

My 1999 remake of Gus Van Sant's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" is coming to Patreon...tonight. It may be the last time you check into the Bates Motel, but it'll be the first time you've ever seen the plot interrupted by choreographed dances to Britney Spears and Shaggy.

"Psycho" (1999) is available now on Patreon 🔪

Always fun watching movies you barely remember from before the glossy-gray Netflix-sheen era of whatever because they’re often much better in comparison. Anyway, this was my official first watch of Autumn-time and it did not disappoint.

Donald Trump won’t say he wants Ukraine to win the war? I thought he would at least pretend….

She’s doing gooooood.

Loved fantastical adventure films growing up. Wonderful to have a brand new old movie. “The Primevals”

Yesterday, I tried for the fourth time in two years and thanks to two folks from the historical society (who met me in the middle of the forest) I found the ancestral burial ground of part of my mother’s family. Deep deep in the Massachusetts woods. #becket #chester

A lesser-known favorite.

Criterion Edition

I thought it in the moment, but with some reflection I’d definitely have to say that an earthquake warning in the middle of an earthquake only adds to the confusion and dampers the ability to think/use one’s survival instinct.

“Salem’s Lot” Cinematography 1979 vs. 2024

Still time to see “Strange Darling” in a theater…

city of angels