This is the fifth bonus film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of ...

Over the past few weeks, I have taken part in a, what do you call them, not memes I don't think ... on Bluesky: "Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 ...

I've started posting a video of a song a day on Bluesky, and today I am up to 1959. Rarely has a popular song been so perfectly troublesome to a certain group of people, because "Shout" has ...

The first entry in the Denis Villeneuve's Dune series won six Oscars, and I'm not here to say they were undeserved: Best Sound, Visual Effects, Production Design, Original Score, Film Editing, and ...

As I sat down to write this, David Fear at Rolling Stone dropped his list of the 20 Best Movies of 2024, and His Three Daughters was #1. That's not happening with me, but I admit the film has grown on ...

This is the fourteenth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of ...

Johan von Sydow takes a stylistic kitchen-sink approach to his documentary on the singer Tiny Tim. He blends old performance footage with animated recreations, interviews with relevant people in ...

Not a bad year for music.

After a long break due, among other things, to my broken ankle, Phil Dellio and I attack a couple of recent films we didn't like.

The other day, I was driving in Berkeley, and at a stop sign, the car in front of me had a Trump/Vance bumper sticker. I felt like Buggin Out in this scene from Do the Right Thing: If Trump wins ...