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Last night, inspired by the idea of visiting the Holy Land, I enjoyed my third viewing of Hany Abu–Assad’s suspenseful, decidedly un-Christian Omar (2013), which began filming in Nazareth Nablus in late 2012. My first viewing was during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival; I caught it a second time at the Palm Springs Film Festival…

Late yesterday afternoon at the Jacob Burns Center in Pleasantville, two successive showings of Marty Supreme were sold out. At the AMC Westport today (Thursday, 12.25) three showings of Marty Supreme are currently sold out, according to the AMC app. And a 6 pm showing at the AMC Sono is nearly sold out. HE to…

HE to Amazon censors who’ve reportedly eliminated the “Pottersville” sequence in It’s A Wonderful Life: Guys, you’re definitely on to something. Now you need to wipe out the Ghost-of-Christmas-Future sequence in Alistair Sim‘s A Christmas Carol (aka Scrooge). Go for it!

…in which I casually, briefly engaged with dozens upon dozens of Average Joes and Janes about this and that chit-chat topic…many times, over and over…and when the subject of the year’s best, most see-worthy films briefly surfaced, Joe and Jane had never even heard of the tip-tops….Sentimental Value, Marty Supreme, Hamnet, et. al. It would…

And in this order. Yes, that’s correct — The President’s Cake is judged to be a better, more nourishing film that One Battle After Another 1. Josh Safdie‘s Marty Supreme (the finest, most adrenalized, most type-A-meets-grade-A film of the year….no politics, just pogo sticks) 2. Joachim Trier‘s Sentimental Value (generates honest current, nails it, gets…

In the context of this highly divisive, incorrectly color-graded Bluray, the names Larry Smith and Criterion’s Lee Kline will live in infamy…talk about burnt bridges! >

Las night I re-watched Matt Tyrnauer‘s seven-year-old Studio 54, and it still delivers a great high for those who were young or youngish and occasionally clubbing and quaaluding back in the late Jimmy Carter era. It feels really soothing and heartwarming to revisit that bacchanalian atmosphere of yore, and it’s also a great Christmas movie…

For the 47th or 48th time, The Shining gives good eerie here and there, but it’s never been scary. Creepy or ominously unnerving is fine, but “scary” is a very precise and deeply unsettling thing…an ansty-cold feeling in your blood and bones. On top of which Jack Nicholson‘s kabuki-like performance as Jack Torrance is a…

Warped notions of what constitutes comedic are over-the-top these days. Leonardo DiCaprio‘s decision to look and sound like a stoner wreck (unshaven, bathrobe, “Viva La Revolucion!”) and behaving in a generally anxious and excitable manner is commendable as far as it goes, but it’s certainly not hah-hah funny or even heh-heh chuckly.

Behaving like the careless twat that I am, I dropped an unopened, totally sealed can of Diet Coke into my computer bag the other night. It had to stay sealed, I figured. Coke cans don’t open themselves, right? Well, this one fucking did and soon after my two-year-old 16-inch Macbook Pro — the newest one…

Season’s thanks & greetings to “HK Phooey” and “Glen Runciter Plays The Hits”…seriously. Fair question: How does being beaten and bruised by an African Silverback woke gorilla goon squad translate into the “burning of bridges” (or vice versa)? Would it be fair to characterize a victim of China’s Great Cultural Revolution in the ‘60s and…

Here‘s the 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” report that Bari Weiss yanked a couple of days ago. Sharyn Alfonsi‘s piece was essentially the same story that was reported by the N.Y. Times several weeks ago. “To run a story on this subject two months later, we need to do more,” Weiss has said. “And this is…