“You’ve been in a serious accident, Mr. Klimek. Do you know what day it is? Who’s the current president of the United States?”

Two movies I booked far in advance & no-show’d recently are THE TERMINATOR (I’m off-book) and CALIGULA, which I’ve never seen. The multitudes I contain include Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, & Peter O’Toole, all possibly unaware they’re in a porno with a screenplay by Gore Vidal.

Flattered to be joining theater critics Chris Klimek and André Hereford 🏳️‍🌈 and wonderful moderator LH for a Theatre Week panel on the highlights of the 2024-25 season. Come listen to us! And ask questions too! smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/prog…

washingtonpost.com/entertainment/… On Spooky Action Theater’s CRACKING ZEUS, a shaky marriage of myth and naturalism that likens the thrill of a god-on-mortal tryst to a crack high. washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

New ⁦⁦⁦PopCultureHappyHour⁩: ⁦aishaharris.bsky.social⁩ ⁦Glen Weldon⁩ ⁦Bedatri D Choudhury। বেদত্রী⁩ & I begin the decades-long process of dissecting Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making MEGALOPOLIS. The Megalon is unsafe! npr.org/2024/09/27/120…

The complete A Degree Absolute! archive remains available for all y’all who refuse to be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered.

On MISTER LINCOLN and another show about the president elected four score and seven years after his assassination, EISENHOWER: THIS PIECE OF GROUND. With a link to “We an Are the Mediocre Presidents” from THE SIMPSONS for all y’all who prefer musicals. wapo.st/3NtGSJ7

Today’s incongruous (probably) double feature: JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX in the afternoon, BEING THERE in the evening.

On the Folger's very Woolly Mammoth-looking, AI-assisted, new ROMEO AND JULIET. Love those two crazy kids. washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

Democracy Dies in Diffidence

Seems like there’s nothing in the world to talk about besides HERE, a reunion of FORREST GUMP wherein Bob Zemeckis once again proves he’ll never stop trying to bridge that uncanny goddamn valley. Did he not see DA FIVE BLOODS? washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

Each #yulemix, I reach a point where I realize it’s time to stop. This year it was when I was about to put in the lady yelling “JUDAS!” at Dylan in response to a Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog joke. CHRISTMAS TO CHRISTMAS, the Charlie XIXth installment: soundcloud.com/ctklimek/chris…

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE FRENCH DISPATCH MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — ASTEROID CITY MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME etc.

"You don’t often see this in movies, but most spies have to be boring to be good at their jobs," Chris Klimek writes. wapo.st/4kBU2CN

Me on #FantasticFour FIRST STEPS. When it comes to putting the First Family of Marvel Comics in the movies, the fourth time's the charm. wapo.st/4m7AUN3

Gunn’s SUPERMAN? Doggy. The franchise Donner’s SUPERMAN launched 47 years earlier? Dodgy — but still preferable to the Sturm und Drag of the Snyderverse. Anyway, here’s a history. Didn’t have room for the Donner Cut, sorry. wapo.st/44M1yFx