..,.were to bellow threats while pointing handguns in my direction and telling me to “open the fucking door” and so on, you know what I’d do? I’ll tell you what I’d fucking do. I’d raise my hands, palms open, and say “damn right!” And then I’d throw the keys onto the pavement and say “nooooo, don’t shoot!” in my best little Minnie Mouse voice.
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Trying So Hard To Hide
Much to its chagrin and general discomfort, Greenwich Entertainment will release Michel Franco‘s Dreams on Friday, 2.27.26. Dreams opened nearly a full year ago at the 2025 Berlinale, and since that auspicious debut Greenwich has labored mightily to stifle film festival screenings and generally suppress word-of-mouth. They’re just starting to send links to New York City press.
Actual quote from NYC journo who sees everything: “Does this film even have a release date?”
Cannes VRBO Situation Has Abandoned Rationality, Tipped Over Into Farce
24 hours after receiving a VRBO confirmation, HE’s Boulevard Jean Hibert rental has gone south.
This is the second “oops, the owner wants more money!” situation within the last 72 hours.
Likeliest scenario: A greed virus is apparently flying through the Cannes ecosystem right now. In an exact repeat of the two-day-old rue Etats Unis blowoff, the Jean Hibert owner has upped the rental fee by over 1000 euros — 1200 euros to be precise.
It doesn’t make sense for VRBO to deliberately run a criminal fraud operation. They have at least a semblance of legitimacy so why would they offer these Cannes places for rental without proper authorization? Owner greed spasms are the most likely explanation.
What Would Have Been So Terrible…
…if those ICE agents had simply let Renee Good, a 37 year-old Minneapolis resident and a lesbian mom with a partner, drive off?
Why did that ICE agent have to play it so aggressively by grabbing her door latch and saying “get out of the fucking car?” They had her plates and could have easily come to her home later and settled the issue, whatever it was.
Good was acting foolishly and irrationally, yes, but did that warrant a bullet in the head?
Why did Good panic when the ICE guys tried to open her car door? What’s the worst thing that could’ve happened if she’d submitted? Never, ever run from officers with guns.
Wish I Could Be There!
I’ve visited Paris at least ten or twelve times (probably closer to 15, maybe even 20), but I’ve never been there during a snowfall. If I was there now I’d spend the entire day and most of the night just roaming around. Aaahh, the joy of taking a nice cappuccino break in a warm, amber-lighted cafe you might impulsively drop into. Life is short, y’know?
“Sentimental Value’s” Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgard Blown Off by Low-Rent SAG Members….Shame!
The entire deep-souled, high-rent cast of Joachim Trier‘s Sentimental Value (Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) has been blown off by SAG members in their balloting for the 2026 Actor Awards (previously the SAG Awards).
Reinsve is easily among the top two or three contenders for the Best Actress Oscar; ditto Skarsgard for Best Supporting Actor.
Not a single foreign-language performer was nominated this morning….huge, across-the-board snub.
SAG started to become an increasingly low-rent organization in 2012, when it merged with AFTRA. That’s when the mongrel factor suddenly began to permeate everything.
The bottom line is that the tastes and preferences of SAG-AFTRA members have devolved to the level of the People’s Choice Awards, and they just don’t get it. To paraphrase Hal Holbrook‘s Deep Throat, “The truth is that the typical SAG-AFTRA member these days isn’t all that hip and certainly not very sophisticated, and things have just gotten out of hand.”
Other SAG-AFTRA blow-offs include Wicked: For Good‘s Cynthia Erivo (yes!), The Secret Agent‘s Wagner Moura and Jay Kelly‘s Adam Sandler.
Let Him Rot
If you were in charge of the late Rob Reiner‘s estate (presumably Reiner’s non-wacko kids, Jake and Romy), would you be enthused about paying a hefty fee to attorney Alan Jackson to legally defend the 32 year-old Nick Reiner, who knifed his father and mother to death on 12.14.25?
I wouldn’t be. I would figure “what’s the point?” Nick did it and one way or another he’s going to be confined for the rest of his life, I would say, so the hell with him. He’s not only earned his Satan Incarnate credentials, but deserves every miserable day that awaits him for the rest of his life. Oh, and if Nick wants to hang himself down the road, fine.
Jackson announced earlier today that he’s resigned from defending Nick, probably because the family feels as I do — i.e., money down the drain, not worth the candle. Or whacked-out Nick has convinced Jackson that he’s too much of a loose cannon to be trusted to sit quietly in court and let Jackson handle the insanity defense.
N.Y. Times excerpt: “[Jackson’s] departure was announced during a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, where Mr. Reiner, wearing a brown jumpsuit, was set to be arraigned on two counts of first-degree murder. It may suggest that the Reiner family — Nick has two siblings — has distanced itself from Mr. Reiner and his legal case, at least financially.”
Cannes Recovery!…Another VRBO Apartment Locked In
The latest one–bedroom rental (fairly priced, around $2300 for 12 nights) is on Boulevard Jean Hibert, just around the corner from the marina and a 10-minute walk to the Palais. It’s due south of rue Georges Clemenceau (where I bunked for two years with Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday) and Le Suquet (hilly old town). Now, let’s just see if the VRBO agent cancels because the owner has suddenly gotten greedy and wants $3K instead.
One of Scariest Facebook Selfies Ever?
Haters will sometimes post unflattering photos of this or that nemesis (two or three grotesque pics of yours truly have appeared here and there) but self-posted Facebook profile photos are almost always movie–star glamorous.
Except, obviously, in the case of Nantucket Film Festival honcho Mystelle Brabbee. Exquisite teeth but that’s not a smile — it’s the fiendish cackle of a forest witch. And Brabbee’s name sounds like it was created by Washington Irving for “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
But these things aren’t the stand out factors — the photo is noteworthy because Brabbee (who’s actually rather nice-looking in other photos) posted it herself.
Goldfingered
Sydney Sweeney isn’t the only top-tier actress who’s indicated a certain standoffish skepticism about adhering to woke kneejerk femmebot cancel-culture militancy (Jennifer Lawrence and Cate Blanchett also come to mind), but she’s arguably the leading standard-bearer in this regard.
“Sinners” Mystique + Arkoff Legend Endures…Nay, Thrives
And yet Ryan Coogler’s exploitation film has been effectively dismissed in all major Oscar categories except, quite bizarrely, for Best Original Screenplay. (Unsuspecting vampires melt in the morning sunlight!…what a finale!) HE is overcome with joy and gratitude that the many Oscar noms Sinners is sure to accumulate will be ceremonial…basically for appearance’s sake.
Hear Hear
“Why is Labour giving Trump a free pass to break international law? We know what happens when US Presidents launch illegal wars. It’s why the Liberal Democrats opposed the Iraq War and it’s why we condemn Trump’s law-breaking in Venezuela today.”