Max Bever

And the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Award for GOODEST BOY goes to... INDY from GOOD BOY! Who's a good boy? INDY! 🐾 (We had to)

NATHAN FIELDER: So now that you’ve seen it, can you tell me what was funny about that bit? ELIZABETH HOLMES: *smiling like the Smile Demon from the Smile horror movie series* The guy took a really long time to describe what his family’s act was

“You don’t need money to be happy” you sure cuz this tinned fish advent calendar is one hundred and fifty dollars

Instagram feeding me a reel about the five best shuttered Chicago music venues made by a law firm that specializes in estate planning, I think we need to shut this thing down till we can figure out what is going on

Easily in the top 5 scariest television episodes of all time

RIP Tom Skerritt. We were privileged to host him for a Q&A and 40th Anniversary screening of ALIEN with @chicagocritics.bsky.social. Great man with great stories.

but there’s still brigitte calls me baby albums on there

Everyone should have to put their phone in a Yondr pouch when they leave their home. We, humanity, have proven we are incapable of being out in the world and using our phones in a responsible manner.

Whalefall son You Can See Everything daughter

OH NO LOOK OUT OTHER MAX! 🛸 👽

"Final Destination" but it's every streaming platform suggesting a Ryan Murphy project on my dashboard.

and a good 17th day of Apple Fest to you

Heading into a week of 35mm screenings of KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS like

See ya Sunday!

Whalefall, Squidwinter

It’s a real rough life for the kittos 🐱

I love riding my bike, it truly makes me so happy.

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can’t believe the temperature is in the 80s today, the tenth day of Apple Fest

After twenty years and countless viewings, I finally wrote about SPEED RACER and the glorious impossibility of reaching for infinity. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

Gillian Anderson

FYI

Boyfriend put on the Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall album this morning and I immediately thought ‘oh, so there *is* a Gen Z Rufus Wainwright out there.’

Best episode of television there is 👽 🛸

For The New York Times, I wrote about how Rod Serling create The Twilight Zone in part because it was the only way in the 1950 and 60s for him to comment on the subjects he cared about most, and how that's a good blueprint for contemporary media to deal with our surreal current moment:

I like that Nathan Lane seems genuinely shocked that Ina Garten loves "Mouse Hunt."

I, too, love to purchase companies older than most nations, with names that are known to multiple generations of people all over the world, and then get rid of the names and replace them with the name of a thing nobody gives a shit about.

Rest In Peace, Eva Marie Saint. We were honored to host her and Robert Osborne in 2010 for a screening of NORTH BY NORTHWEST. She was warm, funny, and insightful, and it was a true thrill to have her visit the Music Box.

Praise be! Our 35mm print of KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS is here😇 First screenings begin next Thursday October 15th Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

God this shit was cool as fuck

What if I get hotter and smarter what then

Is there anything more disappointing than a bad citrus fruit???

Flashback to that time in 2019 when Uptown's Sheridan Trust and Savings Bank Building temporarily became "Winckle Savings & Loan" — for the filming of a "Fargo" episode set in Kansas City.

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We’re suffering a severe dearth of new Chicago characters lately. We need a quirky animal to take up residence in an unexpected place, like a cockatiel nesting in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Tiffany Dome

Goddamn, Olof Dreijer is the cutest 🫠 @ Sleeping Village

Slowly throwing ass to Elliot smith

We’ve reached Elliot Smith listening morning weather.

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple