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New Substack name, new mission, same plea: Sign up to be a FREE subscriber and tell your friends! (Also plz open the emails, even if you don't actually read them!) The more followers, the better I am able to serve you content. lytrules.substack.com

Remind me never to get my hopes up for LA Press Club awards. I'm just throwing money away at this point.

Was hoping it would be set in Australia and actually be a stealth remake of THE WOMEN

If I could get every cinephile friend of mine to watch only one movie this year, this would be it.

Remember that the most likely outcome is still a fair election marred by isolated incidents and Trump whining a lot, Dems taking the House and maybe the Senate, and right wing influencers declaring they're done with Trump while still supporting his worst ideas. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...

Updated the Koenig tribute with an actual reel of the scene I did "with" him - through the magic of voice over: lytrules.substack.com/p/walter-koe...

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

William Shatner and George Takei now that everyone else is dead and they're still feuding

Some of you may know I worked on a movie with Walter Koenig. I've tried to capture the key memories. lytrules.substack.com/p/walter-koe...

only those who know me well will appreciate this juxtaposition of image and caption (click on it to see)

Share a movie that immediately puts you in a good mood!

PragerU is hiring someone to propagandize right-wing slop to children: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

40 years of a classic childhood-ruining cartoon, and now I find out in this article that some of the animators drew naughty pics of the lead characters for fun, which, in context, feels like a very weird fetish. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

Here's me on the Astral Plane Drifter podcast, talking movies and acting: lytrules.substack.com/p/check-me-o...

Wanna see me talk about movies, my critic and acting careers, and more, in the middle of the desert? Here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=49az...

Gonna be insufferably reminding my colleagues from now through December that aside from the skull, this is entirely a practical costume.

the space DUI occupies is low key one of the most insane things about car culture. it's both heavily stigmatized for obvious reasons, while also sort of tacitly generally accepted as common practice to the point of legally requiring BLACKOUT ZONE BAR & GRILL to have a minimum number of parking spots

Is it weird how much I dislike directing duos having a made-up collective name? "Daniels" is just about acceptable. But every time I get a press release that says something like "From visionary directing team BLURPER FART..." I think maybe the DGA should have a rule.

Wildwood is Travis Knight's second great new classic fantasy movie released this year, and they have many themes in common -- but this one is more specifically a Portland allegory. My review: lytrules.substack.com/p/wildwood-r...

My thoughts on some of the recent celebrities saying dumb things lytrules.substack.com/p/speechifying

If we had had dogs when I was a kid my dad absolutely would have done this.

Here's my review of Crystal Lake, not too late for Halloween I hope... lytrules.substack.com/p/crystal-la...

Okay, six hour Charles de Gaulle biopic...hit me

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies for Tax Puproses

In college in the '90s, I saw the upcoming generation of arch-conservative, "debate me" tech nerds. Their favorite thing was Street Fighter, and this review is for them. lytrules.substack.com/p/street-fig...

I'm assuming Trump thought that video of lions was the Narnia trailer, and he was trying to complain about Meryl Streep.

I have to imagine Greta Gerwig was thinking about that time the Beatles wanted to make a Lord of the Rings movie.

Silly ironic use of Stairway to Heaven -- and change of time period -- aside, that actually looked like a pretty solid Narnia adaptation.

With all the dogging on James Hetfield (whose politics ARE bullshit, so he's not entirely wrong), can we at least agree it's good to see the fu manchu stache again?

My VisionQuest review has one of my favorite headlines. lytrules.substack.com/p/visionques...

The goal of the bad stand-up guy was to trend as a topic because you all complain about his bad stand-up. Ignoring him seems better.

I'm not gonna write to embargoes because I don't have to. You'll see my reviews of two major TV shows this week when they are ready

I got to talk about the parallels between Tom Cruise's DIGGER and Scientology's "secret" OT III scripture, aka The Xenu Story, with cults and coercion expert @chrissheltonmsc.bsky.social - check it out! lytrules.substack.com/p/can-you-di...

Yes, please do this. It hurts us significantly if charges are disputed

It's fitting that Ultron in #VisionQuest effectively "cross-dresses" in human form in most of his scenes, because James Spader plays him like the cattiest drag queen in cyberspace. Show itself is a mixed bag, but his casting in the role has finally really paid off.

LETTERMAN: In fact Digger is doing so poorly that Tom Cruise has been using the empty theaters to hide Shelly Miscavige. [big bass sting from the band, scattered laughs, some "ooohs"] Have you seen Shelly Miscavige lately, Paul? SHAFFER [smiling]: Not recently, Dave.

An article for my subscribers, thinking about eye-for-an-eye justice lytrules.substack.com/p/an-eye-for...

When an article defending a Tom Cruise movie includes a humblebrag about conducting a Q&A with Tom Cruise, I tend to side-eye a little bit.

Whalefall looks no fun at all to me. And I even liked the movie that was Ryan Reynolds locked in a coffin for 90 minutes.

It's Jesus, duh.

I want somebody to edit footage from Nolan's The Odyssey into this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c...

The idea that the most sadistic military wins is denied by history and intelligent fiction. From the Nazis to the Commies to the Klingons, cruelty based armies always fall to more diverse ones. So far we don't have more diverse enemies in the US. But give it time.

While we're revisiting stuff like East of Eden, we are LONG overdue for new THE GRAPES OF WRATH (sorry, but the original is Code-compromised as HELL) and THE JUNGLE adaptations

Nothing but respect for MY Digger

Ironically, this describes a lot of actual substitute teachers.

I got to talk about the parallels between Tom Cruise's DIGGER and Scientology's "secret" OT III scripture, aka The Xenu Story, with cults and coercion expert @chrissheltonmsc.bsky.social - check it out! lytrules.substack.com/p/can-you-di...

Coming in the a.m.

AI slop isn't less shit because you made anti-trump stuff with it. Doesn't change the fact there's child porn in the training data and you're evaporating a lake every time you make it. Insane how you can profess to hate trump and then use the tech he loves so much and profits off of anyway.

"there's an awesome Godzilla Minus Zero popcorn bucket!" Yay "It costs even more than Super7's decidedly non-cheap, fully articulated action figure!" okay, fuck off then