The only way men know how to emotionally relate to one another is by walking up to strangers at bars and talking about the NBA playoffs. This is just how it is.

Since everyone’s doing it:

Virginia Madsen mourns her big brother Michael Madsen in an emotional tribute after his death: "He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw. A father, a son, a brother—etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark.

We have entered a new age. Toronto is born anew.

I finally finished TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN; I’m not falling in line with Cahiers du Cinéma’s mandate of calling that a movie, but it’s also better than most movies that have been released this century.

I wrote about SUPERMAN (2025) a film I did not expect to like nearly as much as I did; open.substack.com/pub/youthinkso…

So long, Sundance.

iconic moment in Robert Redford history: when someone at the NYFF press screening of "All Is Lost" raised their hand during the Q&A and asked in complete sincerity: "is all lost?"

Between 1977 and 1982, Diane Keaton starred in ANNIE HALL, LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, INTERIORS, MANHATTAN, REDS, and SHOOT THE MOON. A remarkable run. One of the great film actors ever.

wut

The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via Smokes Lets Go

This game is insane..

I’m never going to sleep tonight; this game will never end. So be it.

The Dodgers are objectively the most evil team in the history of American sports and I think less of anyone who condones them

What’s even the point

TOO LOW!!

THE FABELMANS (2022, Dir. Steven Spielberg)

reminds me of how Zaslav has TCM on all day in his office, watches it constantly, and was still planning to kill it