Paul Matwychuk

PENTHOUSE and EIGHTEEN BRIDGES film columnist, co-host of the TRASH, ART & THE MOVIES podcast. Stairs in either direction are a nightmare.

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

At long last, it's @TrashArtMovies' annual year-in-review MEGASODE! @erinefraser and I gather over a few small beers to reveal our respective picks for the 10 best movies of 2025, and much, much more! Which film will reign supreme? And is it MARTY? https://t.co/SmZh0YIOmk

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

Tragic

[Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller @JohnnyCallicutt]

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
June 8,1950

[Joseph Bouchard @GeopolWonk]

Big capital will always side with misery, not progress. They will demand absolute perfection from the left, and always make excuses and justify the excesses of the right. Look at their pro-war op-eds, their genocide denial, covering for the far-right, all while smearing the left.

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

@gilmcgowan @RobinHoodlum Also, this is not how bootlicking works.

[Gay Gay Hunsecker @stockpiledclay]

Watched Damn Yankees the other day and I think this is the craziest move I’ve ever seen anyone hit

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

I don’t know why no other spoof film has taken this approach: take a sturdy little unknown programmer and do comic riffs on the situations and dialogue. It worked out great for AIRPLANE!… why not try it again?

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Zero Hour! (1957). "Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner!"

Troubled wartime pilot Ted Stryker must land a stricken passenger plane as the pilots and half the passengers have eaten poisoned fish. With his estranged wife Ellen as his copilot, and his angry former commanding officer Captain Treleaven in the control tower, can Stryker conquer his demons and land that plane?

Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker wisely bought the rights to Zero Hour! before they made Airplane! (1980) as they do borrow much of the dialogue, plot and characters. That said, the 1957 film is still a fine melodrama. "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking."

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

Congrats, Curtis! Well deserved!

[National Magazine Awards 🇨🇦 @MagAwards]

🏆 Congratulations to Curtis Gillespie, recipient of the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement, presented at the 49th National Magazine Awards. #NMA26

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Top of the Pops (6th June 1974). Sparks open the show with This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Scalia died in February 2016. It took Obama a full month to nominate a replacement and then he used no leverage and barely lifted a finger for Garland; the party was more focused in the moment at making sure everyone understood how racist and sexist Bernie Sanders was.

Plenty of Obama aides were actually glad when Dems lost the senate in 2014 because they were sick of Harry Reid pushing Obama to be more assertive and fight more.

They lost the Senate in 2014 largely because of Obama’s capitulation to/obsession with austerity and reducing the deficit.

He constantly insisted he had no real power — Neera will probably respond by saying he had no power — which Trump has proved totally wrong.

And when RBG died in September 2020 Trump nominated ACB the next week. They play to win.

But sure, a 5 minute segment from @chrislhayes would’ve made the difference. (And I’m sure he did do a bunch actually.)

[Scott Jeschke @ScottJeschke]

"Go make your movie" feels like an exciting and inspiring thing to say right now, but the reality for most people, who would love to, is that they don't have the access, or the ability to aquire $1mil, much less $10k. The interesting side-facet about this Obsession art director story is that (in another side of the spectrum) after college asking your friends to help you with your film that you're told in graduation speeches to go "shoot on your iPhone with your friends", means you're basically asking them to pay you with their time, gas and rent money to work on your film for free. If they're in their 30s they better take off work and hire a babysitter. None of this is a pity party or a throwing in of the towel, it's simply pointing out that making anything by your bootstraps is a miracle. Nonetheless, crazy fool that I am, I'll find a way, if it takes a generous lottery winner's donation or me, an empty wallet and a camera in my garage again. Here's to the fools who dream, I suppose 🥂

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This one's going deep in the Bad Tweets contest, I can feel it. Just exquisite.

[Liz Nicholls @lizonstage]

An 'industrial puppet symphony' at Nextfest 2026: Fantasies in Trash: in eleven movements. A 12thnight PREVIEW: https://t.co/B72x2PMoHi. @nextfestartsco @Theatre_Network #yegtheatre #yegfestivals #yegarts

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

@UpdateTheGrids Dear lord, this is terrible. The way the AOC actress has been told to deliver the line “I’m a threat!” out to the audience… Absolutely catastrophic acting and direction.

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

@RobinHoodlum Slop

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

This is the single greatest paragraph in American literature.

It comes at the close of chapter 93 of Moby-Dick. Young Pip, a Black cabin-boy, beloved by the crew of the Pequod, is inadvertently stranded alone on the open sea. The experience of being lost for hours in the middle of those “heartless immensities” drives the boy to insanity. But in that madness, Melville argues here, is a kind of wisdom. Pip had a vision of the inner workings of all things, and it drove him mad.

On the first day of my final year in college, my literature professor, Dr. Gaines, asked each of us to name a favorite work of art: song, book, film, it didn’t matter. When my turn came round, I opened a copy of Moby-Dick that I happened to have brought with me and read this passage aloud. By the time I had finished reading, Dr. Gaines was in tears. He said, “Class dismissed.” In all the years I knew him, he could never get through this paragraph. It haunted him. It haunts me.

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

I doubt any image will make me cringe harder this year

[Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 @ScottMGreer]

Rogan is like the average voter in that his views completely change from year to year and he's easily taken in by every shiny new object.

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. –S.R.

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

One of the greats.

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4

[Paul Matwychuk @Myelbow]

There’s still time to retitle it ONE BEATLE AFTER ANOTHER https://t.co/ichuWqo2ji