Malice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

image from the 2025 film IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT against a background of barren hills and an arid landscape, a man stares into a freshly dug pit in the ground. the man is flanked by a dead tree and a white van with an open side door

ended my 2025 Oscars "above-the-line" journey with It Was Just an Accident

for me, pretty easily the best of the lot. not cracking that Top 10...embarrassing behavior, AMPAS!

Give her the Oscar

snapping every cursed twig, evil stick, and haunted branch i can find for icon/legend/SAG winner Amy Madigan 🥰

1. Hamnet
2. OBAA
3. Train Dreams
4. Frankenstein
5. Bugonia

Bonus: I have a few to catch up on among the runners-up, but for now - The History of Sound

1. It Was Just An Accident
2. Sentimental Value
3. Blue Moon
4. Marty Supreme
5. Sinners

Bonus: Twinless

Presenting the #Oscars illustration of the 98th The Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees 2026! And for the first time ever, I feature in one of the illustrations as a bonus extra (quite literally in the film).

#Oscars2026

oh wow

give the bacon ffs

0. The Testament of Ann Lee
1. Marty Supreme
2. The Secret Agent
-Ask me again in an hour, it'll change-
3. Hamnet
4. Sinners
5. Train Dreams
6. OBAA
7. Sentimental Value
-The Emilia Pérez Award for Regret in a Cinematic Experience-
8. F1
9. Bugonia
10. Frankenstein

1. Coogler
2. Safdie
3. Zhao
4. PTA
5. Trier

Actual Bonus: Kleber Mendonça Filho, THE SECRET AGENT
HM Bonus (and I'm good to drop PTA and Trier to make room for both): Mona Fastvold, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE

Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN by Barry Jenkins

“Lone defender of Luise Rainer and A Touch of Class (1973).”

1. Timmy
2. Wagner
3. Michael
4. Leo
5. Ethan

Actual Bonus: Josh O'Connor, Wake Up Dead Man (quietly doing it all, flawlessly, and these awards fools pay him DUST)
HM Bonus: Paul Mescal, The History of Sound (his best??)

ok i finished it and somehow i have even more questions than i did before

need the Dona Sebastiana: A Secret Agent Saga prequel 🚨 ***immediately*** 🚨

🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

he’s a real one 🥰

On @tcmtv.bsky.social now: 'The Best Years of Our Lives' The best movie on war ever IMO. #TCMParty

the images alone really don’t do him justice. saw the promo pics etc and thought sure, a nice looking man, but whatever he’s ok for Brazil, land of a million supermodels.

seeing him move through this film…oh i was so, so wrong. 🥵

around the halfway mark and, at a high level, i don’t fully know what is happening (lol) but i’m kind of living

so much attention paid to the details, the little moments!

my man

in this case, it was her talk show…something about unbridled enthusiasm for jelly on chicken felt particularly dystopian

trapped in the auto repair shop waiting room, tv volume at 11, watching the grandchild of john barrymore mimicking a hungry dog (tongue out, hands held up as if paws) in front of a plate of “PBJ Fried Chicken”

wyd?

finally caught this one before my month of olympics-inspired peacock subscription expires…and the little nod to Maggie Smith UGH 😭

LFG!!!

speaking of personally insufferable people who understood the assignment: lol at sean penn possibly nabbing another one

i know nobody has seen it in like 20 years, but Milk is a scary good performance

fascinating

Yeah, it dropped yesterday along with It Was Just An Accident

yeah…i suspect his off screen antics probably torpedoed him

but happy for michael! and glad they recognized jesse, even though i really did not care for that film!

he heard what i said about F1 😳