Chad Perman

Please help support this on Kickstarter and help it become a reality! 🙏 👊 “A breathtaking tome featuring the extraordinary work of Tony Stella (1980 - 2026) one of the most gifted and prolific movie poster artists of his generation.”

This is like a perfect half of football, the Seahawks need ten days off more often. Mahomes looks like a JV quarterback and JSN already has over 100 yards and nobody’s turned the ball over and we look like a Super Bowl team again

Seahawks have held the number one offense in the league to 67 yards in a half. Unreal how good this defense is.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

watching the best halloween movie for family movie night (& upcoming podcast with @bilgeebiri.bsky.social)

an absolutely incredible, moving, funny, vulnerable conversation, the kind of thing i can only imagine happening with Sam/Talk Easy

Ann was a fantastic critic, and a warm, lovely person. This is just terribly sad news. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.” ― W. Somerset Maugham

That's a disastrous first half for the Seahawks offense. Defense held SF's offense to 4.1 yds/play and it didn't matter.

Seahawks defense is unreal, truly a joy to watch

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

“ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND is a Rubik’s Cube of memory, love, loss, and regret that collapses in on itself only to become stronger in the end. It’s clever yet tender—a near impossible line to walk—jumping off endless narrative cliffs & finding its wings on the way down.”

was the joy of my life to write about my queen diane lane in UNFAITHFUL and UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN for @brightwalldarkroom.com. two movies about what it’s like to be a woman in your late 30s, the impulse to tear it all down, and the joy of building it back up instead 🖤

now watching

holy shit this movie

definitely the best way to stop doomscrolling is to listen to Brahms' Intermezzo in A major for a few minutes

September pod is here! @eccantwell.bsky.social & @chadperman.bsky.social sit down with author @wolfandfox.bsky.social to work their way through midlife crisis and ANOTHER ROUND

“Coat of Many Colors” (Dolly Parton) - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

More BURBS mania! An interesting take from @brightwalldarkroom.com! www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/09/10/t...

let’s go seahawks, what a day for a game

A lovely little piece on the emotional core of MIAMI VICE … @aheartofgould.bsky.social never misses

Thought there’d be a bit more STRAIGHT TALK love going on this week, but I haven’t seen much, so consider this my attempt to move the needle. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s a lot of fun, and Dolly is fantastically Dolly in it (plus: Spalding Gray & John Sayles!)

A wonderful & amazing thing to do, keeping this theater going—thank you @ricksteves.bsky.social! “The theater will survive whether it makes money or not…I will measure the profit of The Edmonds Theater based on how many people in our community get together & have a good time. That’s a profit.”

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

Absolutely can’t wait to read this new Elliott Smith biography from @jamie-fisher.bsky.social, it feels like exactly the book about Elliott i’ve always wanted to exist in the world, capturing his wonderful humor and warmth, along with everything else, from those who knew him the best

Been quite obsessed with the perfection of this song lately, three simple chords and words wise beyond their years that make the one inevitable thing seem somehow ok

"JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO is all kinds of things at once, but at its heart, it’s a fairy tale—filled with travels and travails, adventure and romance, symbolism and archetypes. It’s a deeply searching and existential film that doubles as both a satire and a romantic comedy." - @chadperman.bsky.social

I went long on THE ODYSSEY for @brightwalldarkroom.com, writing how Nolan's genocidal epic makes us complicit in an apocalypse of eternal return. Very proud of this one: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/08/14/s...

"Regardless of my transient joys, I am never free of a feeling of melancholy which somehow forms the base of my heart." - Frédéric Chopin

An absolute BLAST talking with @eccantwell.bsky.social and @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social about THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, a movie I had somehow never seen before now

So: @eccantwell.bsky.social & I watched Hunt for Red October and talked about it on the Bright Wall podcast… just know that 20 min into the film Elizabeth said “Wait so Sean Connery is NOT on the Red October…” and we had to pause the movie and deal with that

I love this. One of my favorite writers (and humans), Robert Wilton, has a new piece at @brightwalldarkroom.com about the films of Powell & Pressburger: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/08/05/b...

Elliott Smith would have been 57 this week.

New today on the site! “Blimps and Pimpernels: Powell & Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness” - Robert Wilton

i floated this once during the pandemic but am finally ready to do it: a podcast where i have guests on to talk about their favorite movie—or the one that means the most to their life—& then we talk about why & what that means therapeutically. is this a good or awful idea? would you be a guest?