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As it went last year, HE’s 2026 GoFundMe is a double-header. I’m trying to raise enough scratch to attend both the 2026 Cannes Film Festival (Monday, 5.11 thru Saturday, 5.23) and 2026 Venice Film Festival (Wednesday, 9.2 to Sunday, 9.12), and now HE’s 2026 GoFundMe page is up and rolling. Tuesday, 1.13, 2:15 pm: Between…

Last night and for the third or fourth time I re-watched Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Teorema, and I swear to God it’s an even bigger wallop now. Expanded, deepened…a flotation experience. HE hereby pledges to visit the white Teorema mansion (Via Palatino, 16, 20148 Milano) when I return to Italy seven months hence. Pasolini and the…

Tuesday, 1.13, 2:15 pm: Between public GoFundMe and private Venmo, the Cannes/Venice campaign has raised $2500 after four days…certainly a good start. But that’s only about 30% of the target goal ($8K), and the pace of accumulation feels a wee bit sluggish compared to last year and the year before. True, there’s plenty of time…

In my Venice Film Festival review of Mona Fastvold‘s The Testament of Ann Lee, I noted that Shaker founder Ann Lee, who lived until age 48, “was flat-faced and rather ugly, and Seyfried (who turned 40 in December) is, of course, beautiful, so the film’s realism is lacking in this regard. “And as long as…

Why would actor-director-producer Timothy Busfield, a 68 year-old, well-established, name-brand player, behave in a way that might blow up his career and possibly envelop him in ruin? Busfield hasn’t been accused by a couple of young actors (twins) of blatant sexual molestation — they’ve basically said he just touched them or, in Busfield’s version, possibly…

The ICE agent who slipped and fell on his ass the other day? Big deal. It happens to intemperate guys in a big hurry. But the bros who laughed and whooped like hyenas and called the ICE agent a pussy for falling and so on? Those guys were behaving like cheap little weenies. Sadistic bullies.…

The record seems fairly clear when it comes Barack Obama’s deportations of illegal immigrants. During his eight-year administration Obama ejected 3,066,457, averaging 383,307 per year, which is significantly higher than Trump’s tally so far. Obama’s nickname in this regard — “deporter in chief” — speaks for itself. It follows that illegal immigration is not an…

Two days ago (1.10.26), Iran International reported that at least 2,000 protesters — a conservative estimate — had been killed nationwide over the previous 48 hours. Amidst an internet and power blackout, Iranian security forces have been blowing away demonstrators en masse with no-holds-barred brutality. That’s a little bit different from what’s been happening in…

I’m a person who walks around with a generally dispassionate view of the cosmic scheme of things (intelligent design over moralistic whatever), and yet my Golden Globe reactions last night were punctuated with several emotional “thank God!” exclamations. Largely, I admit, in response to this or that Golden Globe nominee losing or being ignored. Otherwise…

Mainly because it just lies there. It doesn’t boogie or build to a crescendo or heat up or anything.

Remember that overly emphatic, fleurescent-pink suit you wore to the Oscars in ‘21? Tonight’s Golden Globes get-up looks better. I just want Timothee Chalamet to win for Marty Supreme; ditto Josh Safdie for Best Director. (Marty has a problem with younger women, according to TikTok.) And I want Sinners to be brushed aside, or at…