Oscar Goff

@theoscargoff

Writer/movie rat. EIC and Senior Film Critic, Boston Hassle. Film columnist, Cambridge Day. Member: BSFC, OFCS, BOFCA. 🍅-approved. He/him.

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Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 12

Kyle MacLachlan as Evil Cooper in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, giving thumbs up in prison to show that everything is good and normal

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 10

Friendly reminder that you can just do this and no one can stop you.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 10

Macaulay Culkin in THE WRONG FERARRI.

Macaulay Culkin as a game show host with a face tattoo holding a giant bucket labeled “KETAMINE.” To his right is Adam Green of the Moldy Peaches.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 9

And his first mate.

Young Brian Eno, with long hair and a sparkly blouse.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 9

BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY

Brian Eno, wearing a black and gold striped shirt and doing a weird little hand thing.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 6

I like that I could post a pic of Grandpa from TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE with no caption right now and there’s like five different sitting politicians I could be subtweeting.

Grandpa from TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, hale and ready to complete his term.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 4

Now watching the only film appropriate for today.

Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in EDDINGTON

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 4

My founding fathers

Francis Ford Coppola, Mel Brooks, and Jean-Luc Godard

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 4

Sesquicentennial mood.

Russ Tamblyn as Dr. Jacoby as Dr. Amp in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. He’s wearing a red blazer over overalls, a lightning bolt bow tie, and (of course) red and blue sunglasses. Behind him is a tiny illuminated Statue of Liberty (The Lamp of Freedom). He’s sneering and flipping off the camera with a tiny rubber hand on his middle finger.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 1

Four faves at halftime.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 1

Molly says these two look like their Olive Garden orders are arriving at the same time.

Marker sketch of He-Man doing the face from the “HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA” video thumbnail

Marker sketch of the smilin’ alien from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jul 1

June ‘26 views 🎥📽️🎞️

MY WINNIPEG
CAPE FEAR (1962)
THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD
SATAN WAR
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (2026)

UNIDENTIFIED
ZODIAC
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
SUPERGIRL (2026)
IN THE HAND OF DANTE
SHAUN OF THE DEAD
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
LA ANTENA
MINIONS & MONSTERS
THE INVITE

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 30

Now seated.

Notebook reading “SOMETHING WILDE” held up in front of a screen for THE INVITE

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 29

(Flintstones bird voice) It’s a living!

Notebook reading “THE THINGS IN YELLOW” held up in front of a screen for MINIONS & MONSTERS

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 28

Also just some phenomenal face-acting in this scene.

Bobby Briggs and the screaming lady in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 27

I’m building a team:

Daniel Craig as the William S. Burroughs stand-in in QUEER

Peter Weller as the William S. Burroughs stand-in in NAKED LUNCH

Ben Foster as William S. Burroughs in KILL YOUR DARLINGS

Viggo Mortensen as the William S. Burroughs stand-in in ON THE ROAD

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 25

Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

The World’s Largest Chair (disputed), Gardner, MA

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 24

Delighted to report that I am able to install and run the 1998 X-Files CD-ROM game from the original discs onto my current laptop!

Laptop with a grainy Quicktime video of Mulder & Scully. Next to the computer is a foil-stamped X-Files box containing multiple CDs.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 24

We don’t talk enough about the time Jackie O judo-flipped a paparazzi photographer after watching I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW).

Jackie's Angry Day
At the Movies
United Press
New York
Jacqueline Onassis went to see the movie "I Am Curious (Yellow)" yesterday but when she discovered newsmen in the lobby, she stormed out, knocking over a photographer and leaving her husband to watch the rest of the film by himself.
According to the theater manager, Mrs. Onassis and her husban arrived at the 57th Street Cinema
named Rendezvous in separate cars at 4:15 p.m.
The manager, who asked that his name not be revealed, then called news media. Midway through the
movie, Mrs. Onassis left her seat to go to the lounge, and discovered photographers in the lobby.
New York Daily News photographer Mel Finkelstein said Mrs. Onassis asked the manager to make them leave.
"We are already leaving. "Finkel-steinsaid.
"We decided
we would
work at a discreet distance.
He said Mrs. Onassis followed
them out and then, going six feet out of her way, walked over to him and felled him with what he called a
"judo trick."
"She grabbed my right wrist, put her other hand on my left elbow, put out her left leg, and flipped me over her thigh," Finlelstein said.
He said he landed on his knees but recovered in time to get a picture of Mrs. Onassis walking away.
"That girl can handle herself," he said.
IP Wirephoto
Jackie, draped in a scarf, left the theater in high pique
Two bodyguards came in later and escorted Greek
shipping
magnate
Aristotle Onassis from the theater at the end of the Swedish film, confiscated in some communities as ob-scene.
It was Mrs. Onassis' second brush with New York photographers in as many weeks.
A free lance photographer
who
snapped a picture of Jackie and her son bicyeling in Central Park claimed he was roughed up by two security men who wanted his film.

Jackie O exiting a theater next to a poster for I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW)

Jackie O standing over a photographer she just beat the shit out of

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 24

Shot-in-the-dark question for the hivemind: what kind of bag is Rick Dalton carrying here?

Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. He’s carrying some sort of odd vintage briefcase; it appears to be hardshell, but also has a houndstooth cloth flap over it.

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 24

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 22

Finally transferring files from my old laptop before it shits the bed for good, and I’m 90% sure some of my old iTunes playlists are missing songs? Has anyone else experienced this?

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 20

It’s not the most memorable scene, but I really like Mike’s cameo in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. Like that is 100% who that character grows up to be.

Gary Hershberger as Mike Nelson in TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 18

Not gonna lie, it’ll be bittersweet to upgrade from this DVD shelf staple (though I have been slowly swapping out the discs!)

The original STANLEY KUBRICK COLLECTION DVD set from the ‘90s

Detail of the STANLEY KUBRICK COLLECTION DVD set. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE has been replaced with the 2-DVD special edition, and DR. STRANGELOVE and BARRY LYNDON have been replaced with Criterion blu-rays

Oscar Goff@theoscargoff· Jun 14

I was just talking with @kyleamato.bsky.social about this the other day, but not least among this series’ miracles is how David Lynch was able to find a wholly original way to shoot the New York City skyline in 2017.