Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Saved Movies Forever is officially sale NOW! And here is my standing offer: You send me a picture of your copy, I will send you back a S&E clip from my hundreds of pages of notes.
And if you DO get a copy, thank you. Truly.
The AMC in Times Square has 70 different screenings of Doctor Strange today. (This is not all of them, I couldn’t fit them all in a single screengrab.)
Streaming sites with old sitcoms (like Seinfeld) should offer an option where they randomly select an episode for you in order to recreate the experience of watching via the roulette wheel of syndication.
Been watching Nope a lot this week, and I keep finding new things — like this lampshade which is clearly meant to represent Jean Jacket and rolls right in front of Gordy as he looks at the camera, visually linking the two different story threads and the theme of looking.
I like that the entire first paragraph of the Wikipedia page for The Snowman’s Harry Hole is just one explanation after another why it’s not funny that his name is Harry Hole.
Hi, hello. It’s me, the guy who just learned Linda Hamilton has a twin sister, and that the impressive looking shots in T2 of Sarah Connor and the T-1000 impersonating Sarah Connor were just Linda Hamilton and her twin. 🤯
Dude the new
#StarWars
is weird. They definitely undid, like, a lot of stuff from the last movie. It’s all about reincarnation and having multiple lives. Also, the Jedis sing A LOT. And they look like cats now.
I’m telling you man,
#TheRiseOfSkywalker
is bizarre.
How wild is CATS? At one point, the colleague I sat next to literally leaned back in their seat and moaned “Stooooop! Stoooooop!”
CATS had broken their mind, now and forever.
It’s been 27 years since the first Mission: Impossible.
In the 27 years after Dr. No, four actors played James Bond.
27 years after Dr. No, Sean Connery played Indiana Jones’ dad.
27 years after Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise is making ... two more Mission: Impossibles.
Yes, I absolutely needed Paul Rudd to once again prank Conan with the Mac and Me bit but this time on a podcast with Conan just screaming the whole time "you can't do this on a podcast"
With the Disney/Fox deal, the follow characters are now all clear to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
-X-Men
-Fantastic Four
-Deadpool
-Kingsman
-Predator
-Edward Scissorhands
-Alvin and the Chipmunks
-The Beverly Hillbillies
-Mrs. Doubtfire
Roger Ebert wasn’t there to promote Three Amigos. He was there to be a film critic. He was asked a question and he gave his honest answer. That’s his job.
We're really curious what you think.
Roger Ebert did not like THREE AMIGOS, but he said it on the show where Chevy Chase was plugging the film.
Was that ballsy and strong, or totally inappropriate?
Beyond excited to tell you that my book, Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever, comes out this fall — but you can pre-order it right now. Here’s a sneak peak at the cover.
This is funny: Mark Ruffalo basically gave the ending of
#InfinityWar
away in an interview last summer, then recovered and turned it into a joke before anyone noticed.
RIP to Tom Lyle, a signature Spider-Man artist of the 1990s, in addition to all the outstanding comics work he did beyond that. Lyle designed the original Scarlet Spider costume, and I was very glad we were able to include some of his early sketches in our Spider-Man book.
I am obsessed with Netflix’s data website, which lets you see the top films in every country that has the service. They spend billions on original content, then the charts are filled with obscure, random (bad!) older titles. Here are some recent examples:
All weekend there’s been a steady stream of “Oh this confusing part of
#TheRiseOfSkywalker
makes sense if you buy this book” posts. It does not seem like too much to ask for you not to have to buy a book to understand STAR WARS.
Today is a bizarrely momentous day in STAR WARS history.
20 years ago today, the trailer for THE PHANTOM MENACE debuted.
40 years ago today, the infamous STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL premiered.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
#SpiderManFarFromHome
had the difficult task of following two epic Avengers movies AND Spider-Verse and succeeds by telling a smaller, classical story about Peter Parker caught between what he wants and what responsibility demands. Pure cat(spider)nip for Spidey fans like me.
A lonely woman is told by a fortune teller that she will fall in love with a man she meets *that day* named “Steve” — but she meets three men named Steve, and has to figure out which is her Mr. Right.
In Jaws, Steven Spielberg made a movie about a shark. In West Side Story, Steven Spielberg made a movie about many Sharks. In this TED Talk I will explore the
My new favorite genre of internet video is actors discovering they were in Marvel movies they have no memory of making. (See also: Chris O’Dowd being reminded he’s in THOR: THE DARK WORLD)
The five funniest words characters say in a Boston accent in The Departed:
5. DEPAHHTED
4. UHHCAWDINGLY
3. CAWSTELLO
2. CAWNTRAFUCKINBAND
1. MICROPRAWCESSUHHS
The Matrix is glitching so bad right now that Rick Moranis was randomly attacked in New York City a few blocks from the Ghostbusters apartment building and it’s maybe the 6th craziest news story of the last 24 hours.
In the final sequence in the trailer it looks like Vin Diesel is in two different cars, which at first I thought was just weird editing but given that he’s catching cars now he may have found a way to teleport as well.
Finally saw Pig. Nicolas Cage upended all my expectations about a late period Cage performance. What a wonderfully uncategorizable movie this is; funny and tender and deeply moving. You should watch it.
I know Twitter is a hellscape but I am genuinely surprised “I wish there was more than one movie in theaters every four months for little kids” made so many people (including film writers) so angry. As always, never tweet.
Internet fans: Critics are biased. They don’t give objective reviews.
Also internet fans: We must all join together to deliberately give this movie we haven't seen bad reviews.