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i've got style, miles and miles | researcher for the show ‘blank check’ | writer for 'check book,' the ‘blank check’ newsletter | phd in movies from the university of wisconsin-madison

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They got all my letters.

05.03.2026 22:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mister policeman snowman

Mister policeman snowman

05.03.2026 16:04 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just a one stop trip!

05.03.2026 16:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2026 Wisconsin Film Festival

And here's a direct link to buy tix on Saturday:

05.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tickets will go on sale this Saturday, March 7th, at 12:00 PM Central, and they are just $12—a nice Midwestern price for a nice Midwestern show.

Tickets will go on sale this Saturday, March 7th, at 12:00 PM Central, and they are just $12—a nice Midwestern price for a nice Midwestern show.

Wow

05.03.2026 15:24 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Blank Check Is Coming to Madison, Wisconsin! On April 11th! As part of this year's Wisconsin Film Festival!

Full event details in the newsletter here:

05.03.2026 15:04 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0
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Wisconsin Film Festival 2026: What to watch From a documentary about the “Exorcist” sequel to an action flick set in Minnesota, the Madison-based festival shows off a range of cinema.

Blank Check presents Babe: Pig in the City is a Cap Times Wisconsin Film Festival pick for 2026.

05.03.2026 14:09 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Yes! Full details coming out tomorrow. Tickets on sale on Saturday at Noon CST

05.03.2026 06:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s so crazy this is real lol

05.03.2026 05:58 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

::Ryen Russillo voice:: Wait, what

05.03.2026 01:49 👍 79 🔁 2 💬 12 📌 3

Is everyone else's Peacock feed of the Arsenal game doing the same thing mine is

04.03.2026 20:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

So happy they have table again

04.03.2026 15:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bill is like Sinbad, in this one very particular way

04.03.2026 15:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is it too late to give William H. Macy an Oscar nom for his Hollywood Handbook appearance

04.03.2026 15:32 👍 34 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1

🤐

04.03.2026 15:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TONIGHT.

04.03.2026 15:25 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Top 3 are the only ones that really matter tbh

03.03.2026 19:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😮‍💨

03.03.2026 18:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Buried deep into this week's long ass issue of Check Book, I wrote just about 2,500 words—many of them embarrassing—about my favorite movies of 2025.

02.03.2026 17:03 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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A High-Risk Film on the High Seas (Published 2003)
03.03.2026 16:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2003 NY Times article about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

"At the end of their meeting Mr. Rothman reached behind his chair. ''What I really think you should do,'' he said, pulling out a mock captain's sword and presenting it to the director, ''is take command of the Surprise.'' Mr. Weir asked if he could keep the sword."

2003 NY Times article about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World "At the end of their meeting Mr. Rothman reached behind his chair. ''What I really think you should do,'' he said, pulling out a mock captain's sword and presenting it to the director, ''is take command of the Surprise.'' Mr. Weir asked if he could keep the sword."

This is how all film executives should be.

03.03.2026 16:46 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

If only

03.03.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It would be so funny if I were hyping up losing my job for like weeks/months. Maybe that's how I'll do it when it finally happens.

03.03.2026 14:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tomorrow.

03.03.2026 14:45 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

I am rewatching this now, and I cannot believe how much more a second watch unlocks in what was already such a transcendent experience the first time through. A miracle of a movie.

03.03.2026 03:11 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Check Book: OOPS ALL BLANKIES BALLOTS 2026 The long walk to the Oscars continues

For the evening crowd: right on time, I wrote about my favorite movies of 2025, a year we all still love to think about and discuss.

03.03.2026 00:35 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Check Book: OOPS ALL BLANKIES BALLOTS 2026 The long walk to the Oscars continues

It really is so funny that this post is just:

- a list of things Griffin liked
- a list of things David liked
- a list of things Joe liked
- a list of things Ben liked
- a list of things the listeners liked
- a list of things Marie liked
- a swelling and sweating mass of my fixations of the year

02.03.2026 19:43 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Writing film criticism for more than one of the 365 days each year? Couldn’t be me. Or could it…

02.03.2026 19:02 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not against the rules they were just being broadly xenophobic for fun

02.03.2026 18:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you, Rob. I hope that is the same word my therapist uses on Thursday.

02.03.2026 18:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0