Dom

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If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe... film critic: @portlandmercury.com, other stuff‬; Werner Herzog blog: wernerherzblog.substack.com; lb: https://boxd.it/9sMh; member: @portlandcritics.bsky.social and ‪@cascadiacritics.bsky.social‬

Jack and Jill2011 Watched 15 Jan 2022 Dom Sinacola’s review published on Letterboxd: *Billy Joel voice* Jared Fogle, Billy Blanks, Royal Caribbean thanks, ShamWow guy, deadnamed Jenner, pet bird drinking Jack for dinner, No Rob Schneider, he’s gone away—even Johnny Depp’s ok?
Roofman2025 Watched 26 Nov 2025 Dom Sinacola’s review published on Letterboxd: *Chris Cornell voice* Roofman Run from prison, clever plan Goatee Pencil-thin; Tatum, Chan
Dom Sinacola PRO 2026 Blue Heron nirvanna the bandi the show the movie The Napa Boys The Furious THE ODYSSEY The Christophers Mile End Kicks Maddie’s Secret CHOST ELEPHANTS HOPPERS Bone Temple Send Help
RECENT ACTIVITY: Man on Fire (1987), 2.5 stars; Spawn rw; The Odyssey, 4 stars; The Long Walk, 2.5 stars
Arts Criticism (Jim Ridley Award) First Place: Film Criticism – Dom Sinacola – Dom Sinacola – Portland Mercury A decent critic can get you to read something about a film you’re unlikely to watch. But one as talented as Dom might actually compel you to stream it. And so I am about to check out “Train Dreams” despite his rather brilliant warning that “A work like this, which is about the connectedness of all living things, does not belong on Netflix, where any sense of community goes to die.”
From Threads: layleezaara 22h * simu liu, what's one thing you're most excited to see/want for the future of shang-chi in the mcu? @simuliu O1.1K @178 G6 &7 simuliu • 22h + honestly just for his existence to be acknowledged
Screengrab of a Pitchfork thumbnail for their Over/Under video series: Peppa Pig Rates Pop Stars, Grown-Ups, and PinkPantheress
jessamichelle_ » Dating Threads 3d @threads Is this a safe space? I know this is toxic af but I get the biggest ick when a man tells me he took a nap. Something about that is so infantile and sassy to me. O737 Q2.4K G162 > 219
a black paperback cover with an old daguerreotype-like picture of a baby hanging with all four limbs from a wire, and the words in very unadorned and mid-70s font: Werner Herzog Screenplays Aguirre, the Wrath of God Every Man for Himself and God Against All Land of Silence and Darkness
poster for Werner Herzog’s Stroszek, the titular immigrant stuck in a giant bottle with an American flag coming out of the top
poster for Beavis and Butt-Head Do America… our two protagonists’ massive heads on each side of the poster overlooking a desert road with them on motorcycles, à la Easy Rider
screengrab from Reddit, user pale_lettuce1: Pittock mansion using AI then a picture of a mailer or brochure with a very bad AI picture on it a woman feeding a small dog, flanked by an impossibly horse-sized greyhound and a house cat that is comparatively at least 3 ft tall, all set on a part of the Pittock Mansion grounds that can't possibly be real, given the angle and vista
L to R: Star 80, 4 stars and heart; Flags of Our Fathers, 3 stars and heart; Unforgiven rw, 4.5 stars, heart; Midnight in the Garden of GOod and Evil, 3.5 stars
Banner from Hollywood Theatre’s website for Bleak Week: Star 80 in 35mm
George Burns doll replete with cigar
Two packs of Topps’ Desert Storm reading cards and a button that reads “Italians for Bush/Quale 88”
L to R: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, heart; Single White Female, 3.5 star rewatch; The Rookie, 3 stars; The Hot Rock, 4 star rewatch
Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Song
L to R: Dirty Harry, rewatched hearted; Heartbreak Ridge, 2 stars; Night of the Juggler, 4 star rewatch; After Last Season, hearted
L to R: Bad Company, 2.5 stars; Supervixens, 4 stars; Nekromantik 2; Nekromantik, hearted
Sitting at dinner, we catch a cherry red SUV outfitted with rocket exhausts spewing fire as it passes by, not maliciously, but more for spectacle on a busy Portland evening
L to R: Greenland 2, John Wick 4 rewatch, Still Processing rewatch, Breathless (Richard Gere remake)
L to R: To Die For; Warriors of the Year 2072; Blazing Revenge (aka The Farmer); Who’s Harry Crumb?
Dom and his buddy Joel basking in the love of a good Basinski, hugging and smiling and half awake
a man not doing much behind a desk on stage but still looking like a badass bitch, taken at a low angle, a montage of clouds behind him,
Smiling selfie c/o Will Oldham and Denis Lavant, both in hats
L to R: Fight Club, rw, heart; The Punisher (1989), rw, 3 stars; Jumpin Jack Flash, 2 stars; Mosquito Coast, 3.5 stars
1972’s Clube da Esquina by Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges
sign projected on a large screen in a venue, yellow background with red and (predominantly) blue text, friendly font: ON CINEMA AT THE CINEMA KINDLY REQUESTS YOU KEEP YOUR PHONES SILENCED AND EXTINGUISHED DURING THE SHOW, UNLESS SPECIFICALLY ASKED TO TAKE THEM OUT. PLEASE REFRAIN FROM FILMING THE SHOW OR POSTING ANY SPOILERS ON THE INTERNET, SO WE MAY PRESERVE THE SURPRISES THAT AWAIT NORTH AMERICA DURING THE CERTIFIED FIVE BAGS OF POPCORN TOUR. THANK YOU!
L to R: Romeo Is Bleeding, 2 stars; Normal, 2 stars; The Christophers, 4 stars; Number One with a Bullet, not rated
FILMMAKER: You can think about it in relation to an individual painter or filmmaker. Or how, in terms of the formal history of the mediums, they hit a wall around 1970. And perhaps, paradoxically, they are being revitalized by facing down the horror of AI. But maybe that’s too depressing to talk about. SODERBERGH: It’s worth talking about what that technology might be good at. I’ve been working with AI lately on the John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary that we’re almost done with. AI has been helpful in creating thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space. And that’s been really fun because you need a Ph.D. in literature to tell it what to do. But like every other piece of technology, it desperately requires very close human supervision.
Super Mario Galaxy, 2 stars; This is Spinal Tap, rewatch, heart; Gallipoli, 3.5 stars; Summer Horror Day, 3 stars
L to R: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; The Last Wave; Eternity; Rumble in the Bronx
two characters named Mario and Luigi, looking like sweaty black-and-white real-life bideo game characters, only the short stout one is Luigi and the tall lithe one is Mario
a sketch of Madonna at her peak, in a silver floor length, sexy-ass ballgown, I am really not the best person to describe these things, sorry
a sketch of a lithe Elton John with big pink sunglasses and a pink rhinestone embossed jump suit
an X-Men 97 hoodie, all bright blue and gold
Herzog, Werner. Director. Born in 1942, in Sachrang, Germany. From the age of 12 he lived with his divorced mother in Munich under conditions bordering on abject poverty. He developed a strong passion for cinema and at age 14 began submitting ideas for film projects to local pro-ducers. None materialized. While still at high school he worked nights as a welder in a steel factory and invested his entire income into the production of amateur shorts. Even-tually, two of them-Herakles (1963) and Spiel im Sand (1966), admittedly shot with a stolen 35 mm camera-reaped prizes at international festivals. With the help of a cash grant from the Bonn government he turned out his first full-length feature, Lebenzeichen/ Feuerzeichen/ Signs of Life (1968), about three German soldiers garrisoned in a Greek island fortress who are gradually overcome by the landscape. Landscapes were to remain a dominant element. in the imagery of Herzog's subsequent films, highly original and imaginative (if sometimes painfully slow and oddly vague) productions that soon earned him a leading position among the young filmmakers of the new German cinema of the 70s. He is the subject of a documentary, I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog. Herzog's films are deeply personal, so much so that in many instances he seems to fail in communicating his ideas
L to R: Project Hail Mary, 3 stars; Good Fortune, 1 star; Old Joy rewatch, 4.5 stars; Lessons of Darkness rewatch, 4.5 stars
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BASED ON THE NOVELS WRITTEN BY FRANK HERBERT SCREENPLAY BY DENIS VILLENEUVE AND BRIAN K. VAUGHAN DIRECTED BY DENIS VILLENEUVE WARNER BROS. LEGENDARY
Danny Devito as the Penguin, zoom in on his flipper hand, which looks remarkably similar to Trump’s rotting claw like hand
L to R: posters for Man’s Best Friend; Ghost Elephants; Black Orpheus; and Hoppers
Camas Liberty Theater marquee with Ghost Elephants
left to right: The Napa Boys, hearted; Man on Fire, rewatch, 3.5 stars; Essene, 4 stars; Deathstalker
The Notwist's Neon Golden
Movie posters, left to right: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, 4.5 stars rewatch; killer of sheep, heart; Africa Screams; McBain, 3 stars
Left to right movie posters: Rolling Thunder, 4 stars; The Exotic Ones, heart; The Rip, 2.5 stars; Karate Kid Legends, 1.5 stars
Best pic predic Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Sentimental Value The Secret Agent Sirat It Was Just An Accident Hamnet Blue Moon Frankenstein
Movie posters from letterboxd, left to right: Karate Kid Legends, 1.5 stars; Fight or Flight, heart; Dead Man’s Wire, 2.5 stars; Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning, 4 Star rewatch
Home page of TV shows Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans as a recommended movie on one of its included channels
Screengrab from Uncut Gems of Howard, beaten up, desperately yelling, "Oh this fucking guy?!"
One diary entry, on January 1st: Wicked for Good gets one star.
From the Letterboxd review again... my most wated theme of the year was "Humanity and the world around us" and my most watched nanogenre was "Shootout, Cops, Driving"
Screengrab from my Letterboxd year-end review, saying I logged 290 films, reviewed 250, and watched 547 hours' worth. My most wateched actor was Willem Dafoe and my most watched director was Yorgos Lanthimos.
4 posters, from left to right: Wicked for Good, 1 star; Blonde Death, 4 stars, hearted; Stick, 2 stars; Marty Supreme, rewatch, 4 stars, hearted