If you wanna check out my Substack, I belated put up an annotated top 20 list of my favorite movies of 2023, with links to where I wrote about them, if applicable. (It is applicable to most of the top 10, at least!)

How the fuck did I miss that Caroline Rose has a new album out right now, anyway Caroline Rose has a new out right now, here's a good review of it by @theclaremartin

I am watching an episode of THE FLOOR... is part of the idea that you're calling people out for not knowing much of anything about categories where they claim to be an expert? Can we trick Elon into going on?

ScarJo assembling her team to look at dinos in the new JURASSIC WORLD

@brian7301kyle @GQMagazine Well, it was a made-for-TV movie. I should have clarified in the intro: I don't count those.

Not that I give a fuck, about football or your superstitions, but if it's *me* reading the signs, I don't send the Eagles guy whose personal motto is "excelsior" to a fucking Super Bowl, especially when he's already in a legal situation.

OK, precursors done, awards still a few weeks out, let's do this: ANORA > THE BRUTALIST > NICKEL BOYS > THE SUBSTANCE >> DUNE 2 > A COMPLETE UNKNOWN >>> WICKED > CONCLAVE > EMILIA PEREZ > I'M STILL HERE

@chefjasonsmith I do discuss it in the Knute Rockne section.... I have some affection for it but ehhhhh

PADDINGTON IN PERU: Very cute and funny kids' movie! I felt the same about the other two but possible I had a better time with this than the last one because I wasn't told that it was an all-time masterpiece beforehand!

I hearted HEART EYES.

I guess THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS came out in France, but not here! And I'm not sure his 60-minute animated movie really counts.

Can't wait to see next year's romantic martial-arts epic starring Ariana Grande and Troy Kotsur.

When Ariana DeBose was framed with her shirt slightly open, a patron somewhere in the Dolby auditorium of the Empire 25 let out a vaguely Beavis-esque "oooh." (Fair. She's very pretty.)

@LexG_III Hahahaha I vote on those and I don't pay them as much mind as some pundits!!

ME: Ooh, I hope they do real press screenings of THE GORGE -- whatever misgivings I may have, I'd like to see Anya Taylor-Joy's face on a screen, huge. VOICE FROM BEYOND: Yes, you *do* have to come see BRIDGET JONES 4 in person. ME: But I -- VOICE: See you there!

In researching this, I watched a movie called ALL-AMERICAN from 1953 that was casually described as noirish and was not at all. Not a big LAST BOY SCOUT fan, either, so now I really need someone to make a proper Football Noir.

@Honors_Zombie There's a John Wayne/Michael Curtiz one too that just didn't sound good enough after getting burned on one from around that time that was described as having "noirish" elements but was a total stiff (ALL-AMERICAN)

@Honors_Zombie DELIVERANCE is actually a big blind spot for me, maybe that'll unlock it??

@Honors_Zombie I'm honestly more ashamed for not doing a deep dive into the truly daunting number of nonfamous college football movies from pre-1950. (I've never really gotten Burt Reynolds but that's clearly a me problem.)