Highlights of the NYFilm Festival 1st weekend: On screen, Wagner Moura in Kleber Mendonca Filho's searing The Secret Agent. Off-screen, Bruce Springsteen performing after Deliver Me From Nowhere. Honorable mention to Luca Guadagnino's glittery silver jacket on opening night. @FilmLinc #NYFF

We join our colleagues in @lafilmcritics.bsky.social and @nsfc.bsky.social in condemning the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air.

Can't wait to see this. Paterson is so lovely.

I love this weirdo movie. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Huge respect to Amy Sherald for not giving in. I'm sorry for the people in D.C. who won't get to see her show, one of the most bracing by a contemporary artist in recent years. Her Michelle Obama portrait is, frankly, the least of it. Show is still up at the Whitney. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

No one believes the CBS line that this is all about finances. No one. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c...

Typically astute, to-the-point take from @sulliview.bsky.social "The Mamdani story, however, fell far short of the newsworthiness bar."

They buried the lede: NYT is poring over the hacked confidential information.

In a word: Eww! Jurassic World Rebirth is pretty stinky. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Part zombie-apocalypse, part Heart of Darkness, but best of all: Ralph Fiennes. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Celine Song beautifully sidesteps the romcom www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Ryan Werner is exiting Cinetic Marketing to be Neon's President of Global Cinema.

Oh, apparently now he's calling foreign films "a national security threat" 😂 www.reuters.com/business/med...

Starry May: Julianne Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgard and more . . . www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

You *could* vote for him for this post alone.

Sinners is at the top of my list. Sex, blues and vampires – what more could you want? www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Being too faithful to source material is the worst thing an adaptation can do ... Posting my Last of Us (no spoilers) review now that the jaw-dropping event has happened. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

unprecedented protests this morning on heard and macdonald islands, as the population rises up against trump imposition of 10% across the board tariffs.

I'll be watching to see if Netflix edits out the Trump jokes when it drops there. No excuse for doing that. www.thedailybeast.com/savage-trump...

From 100 YEARS OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: “New cast member Zeppo Marx walked out in protest, but Lorne Michaels defended his choice of host for the 1933 Christmas episode. ‘You can’t deny Adolph Hitler is an interesting figure, and that’s what we do here — the new, the interesting.”

For everyone thinking movies are are great escape/ consolation, this is your weekend! I'm guessing Anora for Best Picture, but Conclave is a real possibility. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

I don't know where Coppola posted this, but it's the best acceptance speech since any of Kieran Culkin's (high bar).

Looks like this year's Best International Film at the Oscars. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

From @sulliview.bsky.social 's Substack. No one is better at analyzing what the media needs to do: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

Best to approach this season with lowered expectations. Some great actors but overall a wasted opportunity. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Not a great year at #Sundance, but still some excellent stuff — as usual. @david-rooney.bsky.social @thefienprint.bsky.social @carynjames.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

You have to love the fact that there's a goat tunnel.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

I would totally believe he wants a tariff on Columbia though.

Just waiting for the U.S. to be renamed Gilead.

But so many choices!

January 19

Severance season 2 is finally here to make your head spin (in a good way): www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Same. The show is somehow both depressing and escapist.

What are the Golden Globes good for? This www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Top of my list: The Bride, Frankenstein, and untitled films from Paul Thomas Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Nicholas Barber and I take on the new year: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

More relevenat every day . . .

A few of the year's best TV series to binge over the holidays. I promise you, unlikely though it seems, Rivals on Hulu is the perfect escapism. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

I was just one vote among 177, so I'm not responsible if you disagree! Overall a great list, and cheers to Marianne Jean-Baptiste who keeps winning Best Performances. @indiewireofficial.bsky.social www.indiewire.com/features/bes...

I have not seen a minute of this season's Yellowstone, but would give anything to see @markharris.bsky.social's imaginary Feud series about it.

I hope @michellegoldberg.bsky.social can figure it out, because my head is spinning.

Cast is great. Film is not. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Our best films, including Conclave, A Real Pain, Hard Truths, Emilia Perez, All We Imagine as Light, I'm Still Here. Numbers are not rankings; we counted to 20 and that's how they happened to land. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

I don't agree with every choice but we did really well on a lot, especially these: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Best Actress; Kieran Culkin, Best Supporting Actor @nyfcc.bsky.social

SPECIAL AWARD: To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: All We Imagine as Light

BEST FIRST FILM: Janet Planet

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Carol Kane, Between the Temples