Wait, the Fincher/Tarantino film has OFFICIALLY been retitled THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH? With the bewildering hyphen? Just how bad is this movie? Were the new reshoots of Pitt slipping on bananas and accidentally driving into the middle of a Cannonball Run?

May 15, 1981 opening day New York Times ad for Abel Ferrara's MS. 45.

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

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Laura Loomer is taking credit for Milo getting detained by ICE.

My stepmom has good taste in books!

Obscure YT of the day: An actress might be a murder in 1993's ACTING ON IMPULSE (aka ROSES ARE DEAD)! Linda Fiorentino (LAST SEDUCTION), C. Thomas Howell (HITCHER), Nancy Allen (BLOW UP), Paul Bartel, Isaac Hayes, Zelda Rubenstein star! Directed by Sam Irvin! youtu.be/J7xvqiM6cjU?...

My son playing JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF HAWKTHORNE, the COMMUNITY video game they played on the show that's still online(!)

Obscure Dolly of the evening: You knew I'd come through! Dolly Parton cowrote and stars in WILD TEXAS WIND (1991) about a singer w/ an abusive manager! Dolly stars w/ Gary Busey(!) & Willie Nelson as himself! Directed by Joan Tewksbury (OLD BOYFRIENDS)! ok.ru/video/561768...

My article on two unproduced David Mamet scripts, now published: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/05/26/d...

Difficult to Ignore: David Mamet’s Unproduced Screenplays DENTISTS WITH GUNS and RUSSIAN POLAND

Newly unleashed, unproduced screenplays by David Mamet are difficult to ignore.

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Obscure Chopin of the day: 1991's THE GRAND ISLE, an adaptation of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening." Kelly McGillis (TOP GUN), Julian Sands (WARLOCK), Ellen Burstyn (EXORCIST), Gleanne Headly (DICK TRACY) & Adrian Pasdar star! Mary Lambert (PET SEMETARY) directs. ok.ru/video/219797...

Milan Paurich writes about the greatness of ROBIN & MARIAN at TrembleSighWonder! tremblesighwonder.com/2026/08/25/r...

Richard Lester’s “Robin and Marian:” The Greatest Robin Hood Movie Ever Made?

…that’s what makes Sean Connery’s casting so inspired. The screen’s great embodiment of masculine invulnerability is playing a hero whose body and spirit have finally begun …

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Super obscure YT of the day: 1971's ONE OF THOSE THINGS, a Danish production with a U.K. cast! A nubile young women (💕Judy Geeson, TO SIR WITH LOVE!) blackmails an auto exec (Roy Dotrice) into an affair after a car accident! Directed by Danish vet Erik Balling. youtu.be/jvam5aBjMq0?...

Super obscure YT of the day: 1971's ONE OF THOSE THINGS, a Danish production with a U.K. cast! A nubile young women (💕Judy Geeson, TO SIR WITH LOVE!) blackmails an auto exec (Roy Dotrice) into an affair after a car accident! Directed by Danish vet Erik Balling. youtu.be/jvam5aBjMq0?...

Odd epiphany: I watched two Barnaby Jones this morning. A stiff show, but Lee Meriwether is actually rather good and natural in her thankless scenes. I was actually brought up short by her efforts to make her scenes play.

A good haul today from Forbidden Planet NYC.

Pleasant evening: Zooming with Steven De Souza (DIE HARD, 48 HRS, COMMANDO, THE RUNNING MAN) for my upcoming book of REX VENICE (an unproduced screenplay of his), plus he has a cool never-discussed Bogdanovich story for my PB book as well.

It'd be nice if someone could get a decent quality version of FORT APACHE, THE BRONX out again.

Obscure YT of the day: For Kim Cattrall's birthday, PALAIS ROYALE (aka SMOKESCREEN, 1989), a Canadian comedy mob film, w/ Cattrall, Matt Craven, Kim Coates & Dean Stockwell! Directed by Martin Lavut. youtu.be/qttuU9Z1GKU?...

Daily progress report from the shooting of SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS. Wardrobe continuity a big problem on Day 16! Peter Bogdanovich book on its way.

Obscure song I love of the day: The Aquanetta's mournful, beautiful, but damn catchy "Mind Full of Worry" from Hal Hartley's AMATEUR soundtrack. This song, and Deborah Schwartz's understated, aching vocals, are perfect. youtu.be/IhQ5-Op2SZw?...

Obscure John Irvin (RIP) of the day: From the director of DOGS OF WAR, RAW DEAL, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (original) & GHOST STORY comes FREEFALL (1994), starring Eric Roberts, Pamela Gidley & Jeff Fahey! ok.ru/video/139472...

Obscure YT of the day: SOME GIRLS & SINGLES' Sheila Kelly is THE SECRETARY (1995)! W/ Mel Harris (THIRTYSOMETHING), Barry Bostwick (ROCKY HORROR), James Russo (DONNIE BRASCO). Directed by Andrew Lane (VALLEY GIRL, JAKE SPEED). youtu.be/eRFDLX48uTA?...

Obscure song I love of the day: John Mellencamp's "Emotional Love," a 1997 track written by Toby Myers, his bassist. Mellencamp usually did his own material but said "I can't write a song like this" and did it. Eccentric, oblique, earworm kinda song. youtu.be/v69ghXvY3wI?...

Obscure YT of the day: 1979's DIARY OF A TEENAGE HITCHHIKER! Charlene Tilton (DALLAS), Dick Van Patten, Katherine Helmond, Christopher Knight (Peter Brady), Dominique Dunne (POLTERGEIST), Richard Sanders (WKRP)! Directed by Ted Post (MAGNUM FORCE)! youtu.be/XSkLIDKtbxk?...

Seeing ALMOST FAMOUS at the Low Theater in Queens, w my kids. They're showing a Charlie Rose interview with Cameron Crowe before the screening.

Obscure song I love of the day: Living Colour is best known as the hard-rock funk-metal band of color led by Vernon Reid, but "Solace of You" (1990) is an absolutely gorgeous, warm, lilting African rhythm sound to it. A masterpiece. youtu.be/vIUke0CCvDs?...

Obscure YT of the day: A 1966 episode of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook's sketch comedy NOT ONLY....BUT ALSO, an influence on MONTY PYTHON, SNL, etc, featuring John Lennon in a sketch. Image quality isn't very good, but it's almost lost material. youtu.be/y3vHyd0icHk?...

Guest writer Milan Paurich looks back at ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER a year later! New TrembleSighWonder article up now! tremblesighwonder.com/2026/08/15/r...

Reflections on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Looking back a year later, One Battle After Another is a movie that behaves as if Anderson suddenly remembered that the camera is a toy before it’s an altar.

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Obscure YT of the day: Abel Ferrara's doc about life during covid, funded by fashion house Saint Laurent and featuring him & Willem Dafoe, SPORTIN' LIFE (2000). Still only available via the Indiewire website! www.indiewire.com/features/gen... via @IndieWire

‘Sportin’ Life’ Streaming Premiere: Watch Abel Ferrara Pal Around with Willem Dafoe in His Experimental Doc

Exclusive: The Saint Laurent-funded, hour-long film gives viewers a chance to hang out with Ferrara and Dafoe on the festival circuit.

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Obscure song I love of the day: The Roots did a little two-minute song about familial love for the kids show YO GABBA GABBA (2000). The song, "Lovely, Love My Family," is one of the most charming, beautiful and indefatigable songs I've ever heard. youtu.be/-mLtdHQeIZA?...