Tomorrow is #Comedon day, and we'll be watching Preston Sturges's 1941 satire Sullivan's Travels.

As previously described in the paper handouts you received at orientation (you did attend orientation, right?) last week's film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, took its title from the Sturges movie.

Sturges was the first Hollywood screenwriter to successfully transition to directing and the first person to get the "written and directed by" credit. His screwball comedies are legendary and every single one of them skewers social and class assumptions of their day.

CW: It's from 1941 so odds of some outdated views or language are good.

The watch party starts Thursday April 3 at 6:00 PM PT.

Some options for viewing:

Free:
https://archive.org/details/sullivans.-travels.-1941.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264.-yify_202401
Links to Unfree:
https://reelgood.com/movie/sullivans-travels-1941

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New UK VOD release – OUT TODAY – Banger - review here - https://wp.me/p2mMDp-8vd

The UK arts, culture and politics website, Culture Matters, interviewed me recently about Serious Feather's latest documentary: 'Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street'

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/autism-and-the-arts-poetry-with-peter-street/
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And thank you #TomCruise for this…
#ValKilmer #TopGun #Maverick #Iceman #Ice #kino #filmsky

#OnThisDay, April 2, 1961, in London, children’s book author PL Travers and her agent Diarmund Russell discussed granting film rights of her Mary Poppins stories to Walt Disney (depicted in Saving Mr. Banks, 2013)

#ICC25: Was 1985 the Greatest Year in #Movies (with Riwo)?

#Podcaster CatBusRuss & #Filmmaker Leah Leach try to answer that question at #IndianaComicCon. Is the love for the year’s #cinema based solely on the #VHS market? Did they misread the 1982 as 1985?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5TD4JJ0VWFuLl4FRHfaWiK

#cinemastodon #FilmMastodon #films #film #movie #horrormovies #horror #jamesgunn #moviereview #podcast #podcasting #podcasts @MovieBob @movieCAT @MovieDivaJacki

Today, April 2, in 2001, Qiao walks through a crowded club before heading to the back to watch her boyfriend, mob boss Bin, play mahjong with other gangsters (Ash is Purest White, 2018).

LA FILLE DE SON PÈRE - Erwan Le Duc (2023) ★
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Décalé et parfois creux au point d'avoir eu un strabisme cinéphilique qui confirme combien je ne sais pas où ce film a voulu me mener. Ennui.

James Gunn's "Slither" - A Cronenbergian Successor to "Gremlins"

Maybe a successor to “Re-Animator”. The film deserves that level of respect & cult following. I’ll always prefer horror that is ready to take the piss out of itself.

http://ninetyforchill.blogspot.com/2025/01/james-gunns-slither-cronenbergian.html

Today, April 2, in 1944, a man with amnesia checks into a hotel under the name “John Brown”. Psychoanalyst Dr. Constance Petersen follows to help recover his memory (Spellbound, 1945, dir. Alfred Hitchcock).

La buena es que #SpiderMan #BeyondTheSpiderverse ya tiene fecha de estreno.
La mala es que es hasta 2027.
#Xarliclub #movie #movies #cine #cinema #film #films #peli #pelis #pelicula #peliculas #tv #cinemastodon #filmsky #MarvelStudios #SonyPictures
https://www.xarli.club/2025/04/spider-man-beyond-spider-verse.html

We had a good run. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM #reviews #YouTube #movies #film #cinema #filmastodon #Cinemastodon

My FOUR favorite roles of Val Kilmer (in no particular order) are:

'Doc Holiday' in 'TOMBSTONE'

'Gay Perry' in 'KISS KISS BANG BANG'

'Madmartigan' in 'WILLOW'

'Nick Rivers' in 'TOP SECRET'

1999 Film Poll - Quarter-Final Round in progress

1999 Film Poll - Quarter-Final Round Group 1 of 4.
Top two films from each advance to the Semi-Final Round.

Galaxy Quest
Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me
The Iron Giant
The Hurricane

1999 Film Poll - Elimination Round Group 4 of 4.

Star Wars - Episode I - The Phantom Menace and Deep Blue Sea took the top two spots.
Both advance to the Quarter-Final Round.

The Saint et Heat, excellents films.

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https://mastodon.quebec/@ledevoir/114267892151635690

RIP Val Kilmer, such an incredibly talented character actor with an impressive range.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5ry5x9xz0o

“From a gentle homage to Abbas Kiarostami to the most violent adaptation of HAMLET ever staged, here are the 10 best movies that have been released in America so far this year….” #movies #cinema #CineMastodon #TopTenLists #BestFilmsOf2025

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-2025/