Husband, father, classic movie lover tweets about movies & culture. Trying to see the humor in things. Latter-day Saint. Co-host of The Movie Shelf podcast.
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Tonight’s movie: The Innocents (1961).
I read the Henry James novella it’s based on earlier this year.
All the ambiguities of the book are there but adapted in clever and cinematic ways. James’s lush prose is also adapted as the decadence of the visuals. It’s haunting.
Incredible. Check this out.
Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
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The definitive edition of F.W. Murnau's SUNRISE, restored by San Francisco Film Preserve, is coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray Disc in early 2027!
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Elon Musk has reportedly invested around $1 billion into Skydance (the merged Warner Bros/Paramount company).
(Source: semafor.com/article/10/22/20…)
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A wonderful reflection on Hawks's care in orchestrating the various physicalities of his actors, both in casting and direction.
Reminder that Red River plays a central role in Howard Hawks's work because the casting of Montgomery Clift opposite John Wayne unleashed new visions of violence (and how to stylize them); on @tcm at 3am (ET):
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The problem with modern horror isn't that it's making you 'scared'...it's that it's teaching you to be scared of the wrong things: a girlfriend (Obsession), old people (X), disabled children (Lee Cronin's The Mummy), your family, the sick, etc...also that murder is fine if trauma
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Legalistic, puritanical, Evangelical nonsense. Van Helsing would like a word.
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"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."
-Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
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Being a zoomer is having only grown up with deconstructing stories having never known the original story
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They need each other
Joel and Ethan Coen confirm they will be reuniting on a new film “soon”
"We're getting old. It better be the near future”
Their last film was “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” released over eight years ago.
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I typically watch a decent amount of sports commentary and coverage during the football season. It is really striking the degree to which nearly all of these shows have become nothing but infomercials for sports betting. No one in the sports media space is even pretending to grapple with the ethics of shilling for sports betting companies every day all day. I guess it’s not surprising but you might think that there would be at least a little bit of internal debate about whether they should be relentlessly hawking a product that is guaranteed to lose collectively millions of dollars for their audience, and which obviously jeopardizes their own ability to be remotely objective, and which is having such a clearly deleterious effect on the sports they’re paid to cover. But apparently not. They all just decided to become full time salesmen for Fan Duel with no further deliberation on the matter. Okay then.
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On this day in 1893, Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, OH. I asked her if actors in silent films had a script with dialogue to memorize or if they were just given a general idea of what was being said in the scene and they ad-libbed the words. This was her remarkable reply:
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Details Revealed About Under-The-Radar Daily Wire Project 'Confession' Starring Rob Lowe, James Franco, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Nolte & More deadline.com/2026/10/daily-w…
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If you’re looking for some fun Halloweenery to watch, might I suggest a movie where Bela Lugosi hangs out on a tropical island with Temu Martin & Lewis?
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