I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
I love my top 4 movies here, but Iron Claw truly surprised me emotionally. I was deep in the weeds on multiple jobs and finishing post on a film. And when that movie hit me with that ending, I just couldn't stop crying. Favorite Durkin film. Favorite Efron film. A true stunner all these years later.
I’m weird and don’t make an annual top movies list til a couple of years later, after awards buzz dies down, and I’ve finally caught up on movies. So here are my favorite films from 2023, another great year for films that go beyond these 25.
A legend and a mensch. RIP Rob Reiner
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
It Ends is now available to watch on the @letterboxd.social video store! Please watch our movie thanks! boxd.it/SBUi
This is a really great high concept movie. A group of college friends take a wrong turn and end up on a road that doesn't seem to end. Like ever. A really great premise taken to its best possible conclusion. Loved it.
A perfect way finally watch the great “It Ends” and just a breath of fresh air to the indie film landscape. Watch these when the store launches in a couple of days!!
The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
Poster for Man Finds Tape, a woman, looking into the camera, face distorted beyond recognition
Today MAN FINDS TAPE is out in the world in theaters and on VOD. So proud of EVERYONE involved, but a fun extra highlight is it is Jess’s first film! We executively produced this together and were both so thrilled with the movie everyone made. Austin filmmakers rule. Hope y’all love it!
MAN FINDS TAPE - out tomorrow.
@cinefiedcom.bsky.social said "It feels like we're watching something we shouldn't be"
which is accurate
Our company Rustic Films was founded to make movies like this.
WATCH:
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This rules. Very excited for this.
Nouvelle Vague gets me.
So pumped for this, man. Genuinely looking forward to it.
Barbara is absolutely wonderful and to see her taken like this is horrifying in so many ways. Please read Barbara and Tucker’s story and donate in anyway you can so they can bring her home.
Thank you Cargill 🙏
Talent isn't rare. Throw an apple & you hit someone with talent. Perseverance? rare. Work ethic? exceedingly rare; the willingness to grind. Being able to endure the scorn, rejection & privation a life in the arts dooms you to in the United States is unicorn-scarce. But talent? Talent is everywhere.
Genuinely couldn’t be more thrilled to see @paulgandersman.bsky.social and @peterhallhuman.bsky.social great film find a great home with the Magnolia team. Congratulations to the entire cast and crew!
I’m 👏 so 👏 happy. Congratulations y’all!
Humbled to have Jori Felker and I’s short story TOO CUTE! published in Haunted Reels II, a book of truly great horror stories from filmmakers C. Robert Cargill, Mike Flanagan, Maggie Levin, David Bruckner, Addison Heimann, and more. Take a look here and enjoy!
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Be sure to check out my new sci-fi horror short EAT THE RICH, as well as stories by Mike Flanagan, Maggie Levin, David Bruckner, April Wolfe, Simon Rumley, Addison Heimann, Jori & Michael Felker, and many more indie horror filmmakers! Very proud of my dark, nasty, new piece of fiction. Get it today!
The cover for the collection HAUNTED REELS II from Dark Matter Ink, depicting a prone human figure with ethereal energy emanating from their eyes. An antiquated television in the background displays eerie static. Above the cover is the following text: "Now Available! In paperback, ebook, and on Kindle Unlimited!"
Today's the release date for HAUNTED REELS II, the second anthology curated by @davidlawsonjr.bsky.social for Dark Matter. Contributors to this collection include @mikeflanaganfilm.com, @crobertcargill.bsky.social, @felker.bsky.social and many more. We're so excited to read it, so get yours today!
Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones
Yes yes yes 👏 👏 👏
Sometimes I'll watch five or 10 minutes of a Scorsese movie just to get a contact high from the images, performances, and music. I think I would like his movies even if they had nothing to say. And they always have something to say.
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Suuuch a good episode.
Yes yes yes 👏 👏 👏
![Q: How do you want to be remembered? Have you thought about this?
James Gunn: I don’t give a shit. I want to be remembered that I was nice to my family, that my family and friends love me, but I don’t believe in any of that shit. First of all, everything’s a sand castle. Somebody wrote me that the other day. “We have these problems, but that doesn’t last. What will be remembered forever is the movies.” I’m like, “No, it won’t. It’s just fucking disintegrating with everything else.” What I really do care [about is] that I’m good to my wife, and I really do care that I’m good to my friends and my brothers and my sister and my mom. I went to the funeral of one friend a few years ago, and he was split up from his wife, but he hadn’t treated her well, hadn’t treated his friends well. He had stood me up three times, supposed to meet me for lunch or something, and didn’t show up. Funerals are always sad, but I think there’s a kind of fulfilling sad where people are crying because they love somebody so much. And then there’s this sort of depressing sad, where it’s like he just disappointed everybody, and it’s really hard for people to say nice things. We loved him, but it was hard, and that really affected me. I’m like, “I don’t want my funeral to be that.” So I guess I really do think about it sometimes, but in terms of that: I want people to cry because I was good to them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreibiw5iug3diviwegs4q6dtplhu5vb4nehhkrqwzvnfbkrgksatj2e)
Q: How do you want to be remembered? Have you thought about this? James Gunn: I don’t give a shit. I want to be remembered that I was nice to my family, that my family and friends love me, but I don’t believe in any of that shit. First of all, everything’s a sand castle. Somebody wrote me that the other day. “We have these problems, but that doesn’t last. What will be remembered forever is the movies.” I’m like, “No, it won’t. It’s just fucking disintegrating with everything else.” What I really do care [about is] that I’m good to my wife, and I really do care that I’m good to my friends and my brothers and my sister and my mom. I went to the funeral of one friend a few years ago, and he was split up from his wife, but he hadn’t treated her well, hadn’t treated his friends well. He had stood me up three times, supposed to meet me for lunch or something, and didn’t show up. Funerals are always sad, but I think there’s a kind of fulfilling sad where people are crying because they love somebody so much. And then there’s this sort of depressing sad, where it’s like he just disappointed everybody, and it’s really hard for people to say nice things. We loved him, but it was hard, and that really affected me. I’m like, “I don’t want my funeral to be that.” So I guess I really do think about it sometimes, but in terms of that: I want people to cry because I was good to them.
James Gunn, man. I haven't seen a frame of the new Superman movie beyond what's in the trailers, but how can you not want to root for this dude. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
nathan fielder (narrating): to understand what it’s like to be in a plane crash, i needed to experience one myself. but i would have to defeat the god of death to return to the world of the living. so in a studio warehouse, i recreated the shadow realm of duat and the twelve gates of the underworld,
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