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Mar 6, 2026 Podcast

Episode 245: 1996 - Year In Review

Mar 4, 2026 Blog

Failure to Communicate: The Coen Brothers' Fargo (1996)

Feb 28, 2026 Podcast

Dial P for Podcast #2: Easy Virtue, Champagne, Blackmail, Murder!

Feb 18, 2026 Blog

Catching Up (February 2026)

Feb 12, 2026 Podcast

B-Side Me #4: Beach House

Feb 4, 2026 Podcast

Episode 244: Frank Capra (feat. Ross Bratin & Tripp Burton)

Feb 2, 2026 Podcast

Episode 243: 50 Favorites Part IV: The Final Chapter (feat. Bill Ackerman)

Jan 31, 2026 Podcast

Dial P for Podcast #1: The Pleasure Garden, The Lodger, The Ring, Downhill

Jan 30, 2026 Blog

Gray Mirror: AI is not A-OK

Jan 23, 2026 Podcast

Bonus Episode: Chicago Film Critic Nick Digilio (40 Years, 40 Films - LIVE)

Jan 19, 2026 Podcast

Bonus Episode: Ryan Verrill (The Disc-Connected & Antenna Releasing)

Jan 15, 2026 Blog

Catching Up (January 2026)

Jan 2, 2026 Blog

30 Favorite Films from 2025

Jan 2, 2026 Podcast

Episode 242: Favorite Films of 2025 (feat. Patrick Ripoll + Bill Ackerman)

Dec 31, 2025 Blog

Bye Bye 2025

Dec 29, 2025 Podcast

Bonus Episode: Bloodbeat (1983)

Dec 24, 2025 Blog

25 Favorite Records of 2025

Dec 23, 2025 Podcast

Bonus Episode: Favorite Songs of 2025

Dec 23, 2025 Podcast

B-Side Me #3: Fiona Apple

Dec 12, 2025 Blog

Newsletter/Website/Everything!

Dec 12, 2025 Film

Silent Type (2025)

Dec 12, 2025 Film

The Switching Division (2025)

Nov 30, 2025 Podcast

Episode 241: Michael Ritchie (feat. Peter Sobczynski)

Nov 10, 2025 Podcast

B-Side Me Episode #2: Belle & Sebastian

Oct 31, 2025 Podcast

Bonus Episode: Jim & Patrick Watch The Entire Nightmare In Elm Street Series In One Day!

Oct 29, 2025 Blog

New Reviews & Mental Filmness Wrap-Up!

Oct 24, 2025 Podcast

Episode 240: Mike Flanagan (feat. Chloe Waryan)

Oct 18, 2025 Blog

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) (dir. Tobe Hooper)

Oct 14, 2025 Blog

2025 Mental Filmness Film Festival Coverage Part One

Oct 9, 2025 Blog

Mental Filmness Film Festival: A Groundbreaking Celebration of Mental Health Through The Art of Cinema

Oct 6, 2025 Blog

The Holy Mountain (1973) (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Oct 6, 2025 Blog

4 Blu Reviews + A New Documentary!

Oct 3, 2025 Podcast

Bonus Episode: One Battle After Another (feat. Bill Ackerman, Patrick Ripoll)

Sep 26, 2025 Blog

One Battle After Another (2025) (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

Sep 22, 2025 Podcast

B-Side Me Episode #1: Smashing Pumpkins

Sep 22, 2025 Podcast

Episode 239: Kenneth Lonergan (feat. Mitchell Beaupre)

Sep 19, 2025 Blog

Entropic Brain Hypothesis

Aug 24, 2025 Blog

Updated Archive & More!

Aug 17, 2025 Blog

New Movie Reviews (August 2025)

Aug 17, 2025 Blog

It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) (dir. Amy Berg)

Jul 27, 2025

New Movie Reviews (July 2025)

Jul 19, 2025 Blog

Eddington (2025) (dir. Ari Aster)

Jul 11, 2025 Podcast

Bonus Episode: 1999 Review - The Year In Music

Jul 7, 2025 Podcast

Episode 238: Michael Bay (feat. guest hosts Chloe Waryan and Luther Moss)

Jul 4, 2025

The Year In Film: 2025 So Far

Jun 23, 2025

"Live to Tell" - Madonna

Jun 13, 2025 Blog

Only The Lonely (and/or Help the Aged)

May 9, 2025 Blog

New Reviews, CCFF + Livestream Tonight!

May 4, 2025 Blog

Synecdoche, New York (2008) (dir. Charlie Kaufman)

May 4, 2025 Podcast

Episode 237: Ross McElwee

Apr 29, 2025 Blog

Inherent Vice (2014) (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

Apr 25, 2025 Blog

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (2023) (Michiko Aoyama)

Apr 21, 2025 Podcast

Episode 236: Jack Clayton (feat. Rachel Bellwoar)

Apr 18, 2025 Blog

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) (dir. Jack Clayton)

Apr 11, 2025 Blog

New Reviews, CCFF, New Short Film!

Mar 31, 2025 Blog

New Reviews + New Short Film!

Mar 29, 2025

Past from the Blast: Episodes 1 + 2

Mar 21, 2025 Film

New Feature + Tomorrow's Saturday Night Livestream / Short Film Premiere!

Mar 14, 2025 Blog

3 Blu-Rays, 2 Movie Reviews (March 2025)

Mar 7, 2025 Podcast

Episode 235: 1995 - Year In Review (feat. Collin Souter & Erik Childress)

Mar 4, 2025 Blog

What's Happening?!

Feb 24, 2025 Podcast

Episode 234: Nick Digilio (Celebrating 40 Years As A Film Critic)

Feb 18, 2025 Blog

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Feb 7, 2025 Blog

Johnny Guitar (1954) (dir. Nicholas Ray)

Jan 31, 2025

New Reviews + Short Film Premiere!

Jan 28, 2025 Film

Announcing My Very First Short Film Premiere Coming Saturday, February 1st!

Jan 21, 2025 Blog

We Can't Go Home Again (1973) (dir. Nicholas Ray)

Jan 20, 2025 Podcast

Episode 233: Elaine May (feat. Sharon Gissy)

Jan 17, 2025 Blog

Mulholland Drive (2001) (dir. David Lynch)

Jan 8, 2025 Blog

"Let Down" - Radiohead

Jan 7, 2025 Blog

Top 25 Films of 2024

Jan 6, 2025 Podcast

Episode 232: Favorite Films of 2024 (feat. Bill Ackerman)

Dec 26, 2024 Blog

sometimes, i think about dying (2019) (dir. Stefanie Abel Horowitz)

Dec 24, 2024 Blog

Director's Club (Wrapped) (2024)

Dec 24, 2024 Podcast

Episode 231: Jackie Chan (feat. Sam Inglis & Gabe Powers)

Dec 21, 2024 Blog

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Dec 16, 2024

Bonus Episode: Joel Potrykus (Vulcanizadora)

Dec 15, 2024

Jim's Archives

Dec 10, 2024

THE BRUTALIST Leads With Nine Nominations At Chicago Film Critics Association 2024 Awards

Dec 3, 2024

20 Favorite Records Of 2024

Nov 30, 2024 Blog

Jim Vs. The Volcano (2024) (starring Sharon Gissy)

Nov 25, 2024 Podcast

Episode 230: Michael Mann Redux (feat. Brian Tallerico & Ryan Verrill)

Nov 10, 2024 Blog

New Movie Reviews (11.10.24)

Nov 2, 2024

Mental Filmness Wrap-Up

Oct 28, 2024 Blog

CIFF Wrap-Up

Oct 28, 2024 Podcast

Episode 229: Guillermo Del Toro (feat. Chloe Waryan)

Oct 25, 2024 Blog

Let's Get Physical Media: The Lee Gambin Memorial Column (October 2024)

Oct 15, 2024 Blog

CIFF & Mental Filmness: Part 1

Sep 30, 2024 Podcast

Episode 228: Jeremy Saulnier (feat. Mitchell Beaupre)

Sep 18, 2024 Blog

#60: The Master (2012) (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

Sep 14, 2024 Blog

The Becomers (2024) (dir. Zach Clark)

Aug 28, 2024 Blog

#59: "Morning Theft" - Jeff Buckley

Aug 19, 2024 Blog

Fan Expo 2024 (Wrap-Up)

Aug 16, 2024 Blog

FanExpo 2024 + more!

Aug 15, 2024 Podcast

Episode 227: Keith Gordon + Underrated Films of the 2000s

Aug 8, 2024 Blog

#58: "Not Dark Yet" - Bob Dylan

Jul 30, 2024 Blog

#57: The Last Starfighter (1984) (dir. Nick Castle)

Jul 29, 2024 Podcast

Bonus Episode: Longlegs & In a Violent Nature (feat. Patrick Ripoll)

Jul 22, 2024 Blog

Guest Contributor #8: Never Angeline North

Jul 22, 2024 Blog

Let's Get Physical Media: The Lee Gambin Memorial Column (July 2024)