Rob Thomas
@itsrobthomas
Newsletter editor at City Cast Madison. Movie writing on Substack at Not That Rob Thomas. He/him. "Mr. Minion Shorts Himself" -- John Hodgman
RIP Glen Hansard. Few performers are as present and alive on stage when they're making music as he was. This is a horrible loss.
What movie did you see in 2017-2018 purely because you had a MoviePass at the time? I’ll start: THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS.
Went to a showing of handpainted movie posters from Ghana and it was incredible. This should have been the official poster for CATS.
Rod Torfulson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk has dropped out of the White House concert
Just rolled credits on JEDI: SURVIVOR and, ANDOR notwithstanding, I think those games are the best STAR WARS storytelling of the past decade. So fun.
If you would like to be absolutely wrecked, have I got a movie for you!
RIP to film critic Rex Reed, who convincingly played himself being kind of a dick to Clark Kent in SUPERMAN.
Last night’s Marcus Mystery Movie was a sneak preview of TUNER, Daniel Roher’s thriller about a piano tuner-turned-safecracker. Really liked it — it’s a character-based caper movie with strong performances and clever sound design. And I’m starting to understand what everybody sees in Leo Woodall.
So much fun to see @jjdotbiz.bsky.social talking about BABE: PIG IN THE CiTY with three very regular and normal Madisonians at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
Was already enjoying @scalzi.com ‘s When the Moon Hits Your Eye and then I got to the part about two estranged brothers running rival cheese shops on the Capitol Square.
Sundance 2026: We're so inundated by AI slop that it was a breath of fresh air to watch @valerieveatch.bsky.social show the emperor has no clothes in GHOST IN THE MACHINE. notthatrobthomas.substack.com/p/sundance-2...
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Beginning Friday, some AMC theaters are showing ANNIE HALL and SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE in honor of Diane Keaton.
I guessed tonight's AMC Screen Unseen would be Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, but it was the new movie from another filmmaker I really like, Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND. Part heist thriller, part dry comedy, part immersive portrait of 1970s America. I was really into it.