After 9 whole months of dread, fear, impatience, desperation, anxiety, hopelessness, and out-and-out societal delinquency on the part of some fans, our long Cinegeek nightmare is finally over; SPIDER-MAN's finally getting a REBOOT! Hallelloo! Never make us wait this long again, knuckleheads in charge!!!!

New and continuing series this day include the overlapping tribs to filmmaker John Boorman and thesp Charles Laughton at Film Forum, Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents, 1968-86 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and John Carpenter: Master of Fear at BAM Cinématek. The big-screen bounty be thus;

Well, January was quite the knucklehead hoot, but February, I have to say, is shaping up as quite the successor. In sports, Pete Carroll literally handed over a sure Super Bowl victory, while Knicks owner Slippin' Jimmy Dolan told disgruntled fans everywhere, and one specifically, to go become a Brooklyn Nets fan. In politics, the Supreme Court told Alabama to grow the fuck up already, while Prez "candidates" Rand Paul and Chris Christie sided with parents who are still iffy about the whole childhood vaccination thing. And at Sunday night's Grammy's, Kanye West proved just one more confused soul to prove Barack Obama a solid judge of character. Here's praying things simmer down goin' forward. unless we're talking 'bout the weather, in which case it can't heat up soon enough.

Yep, that's my ba-dum-dum. It's February, okay, you got better?

Continuing series today include the Charles Laughton hot stone massagery at Film Forum, Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Cinema at MoMA, and Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-86 at the Film Society. The shenanigans be thus;

I don't give an infinitesimal good goddam what the Cinemascore, or Metacritic, or Rotten Tomatoes numbers say. I'm sticking with the Wachowskis. Loyalty's gotta still count for somethin'.

Continuing series this day include Screwball Classics at IFC Center, Film Forum Jr. and the Charles Laughton hot stone massagery at Film Forum, Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-86 at the Film Society, Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Cinema at MoMA, and John Carpenter: Master of Fear at BAM Cinématek. The wimwammery be thus;

The Oscars approacheth. I'm finalizing my reviews, securing my Picks. And planning the first and biggest bash this site has ever hosted. Still, if THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL gets snubbed, I'll be in bits.That's just me.

Continuing series this day include Screwball Romance at IFC Center, Nitehawk Naughties at the Nitehawk Cinema, the Charles Laughton backslap at Film Forum, Carte Blanche - Women Writing the Language of Film at MoMA, Tell It Like It Is: Black Independent Voices in NYC 1968-86 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and John Carpenter: Master of Fear atvBAM Cinématek.The results of the negotiations be thus;

New and continuing series this day include Screwball Romance atv IFC Center, the Charles Laughton hot stone massage at Film Forum, Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-86 at the Film Society, Acteurism: Ginger Rogers and Carte Blanche: Women Writing the Language of Cinema at MoMA, John Carpenter: Master of Fear at BAM Cinématek, the newly revived Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum, and the sophisticated smut entitled Nitehawk Naughties at my fave destination for porn, root beer 'n tater tots, Billyburg's Nitehawk Cinema. The hooliganism be thus;

Continuing series this day include the Charles Laughton Love-A-Thon at Film Forum, the Ginger Rogers footbathery & general inflatable castle romp dedicated to women in film at MoMA, and the silver halide worship otherwise known as Celluloid Dreams at IFC Center. The big screen blathery be thus;

January '15 lies in its frost-ridden grave. And GOOD, sez moi. Its younger brother, the equally insidious February, has just entered the fray, and its demise is equally desirable. And yet, within this foreboding 28-day cycle that looms, we have some occurances to be treasured...

A word of wisdom, to those who'll listen; the so-called Super Bowl is but days away. After that, it's BAAAASEBAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!!

Harrumph.

Ongoing rep film shenanigans today include Orson Welles 100 at Film Forum, the Gordon Willis smoochery at Museum of the Moving Image, the inventively entitled French Classics of the 1930's-40's at Anthology Film Archives, and the honest boast Heating Up January at Journal Square's Landmark Jersey Loews. Here be the shenanigans;

New and continuing series brandishing their wares this day include Orson Welles 100 at Film Forum, the Joan Bennett courting at MoMA, the bi-monthly Justice in Film at the New York Historical Society, See It Big! Gordon Willis at Museum of the Moving Image, French Classics of the 1930's-40's at Anthology Film Archives, and the weekend series Heating Up January at the Landmark Jersey Loews. Let the best collection of silver halides win;

Finishing up my year-end reviews, my Top Ten list of '14. Prepping the site's Feb '15 calendar, the new month's podcast. Scribbling my rookie commentary track. Prepping this site's inaugural screening. And somehow, in the middle of all this, I'm finding time for that most important action, the one that provides perspective; the eating of Funions. Masticating the plastic gold over here so they don't...uh...something something...over there oh let's just get to it shall we?

New and continuing series today include Orson Welles 100 at Film Forum, the Joan Bennett feather-fanning at MoMA, and French Classics of the 1930's-40's at Anthology Film Archives. The Jumping Jehosephats be thus;