BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

James Van Der Beek was a terrific, sincere, underrated actor. Rest Easy.

Co-sign

Wow oh wow. 5 stars for the new MUPPET SHOW. No notes.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

love him.

🧟MARCH🧟 '80 w @drewmcweeny.com & Bobby Roberts '25 w @dreaclark.bsky.social, @katiewalshstx.bsky.social, Ryan, & Daniel Waters HUNTER w Clay, @pmiscove.bsky.social, & Sponsor @jimlaczkowski.net ROMERO w @danielkraus.com & Greg Nicotero KEATON w @bryancogman.bsky.social & @oriananudo.bsky.social

Us too! It was in our wedding video at the rehearsal dinner. (sobs)

Amen.

I'm utterly shaken by Catherine O'Hara's passing. One of the greatest of all time-- in the pantheon with Carol Burnett, Madeleine Kahn, Gilda Radnor... SCTV, the Guest films, Schitt's Creek, After Hours, fucking Beetlejuice... 'Home Alone' doesn't work AT ALL without her... Heartbroken. RIP

So it's decided: Every documentary will begin with the subject getting miked in a sit-down interview, idle chit-chat with the offscreen director, and then cutting to the title card after they ask, "Have we started?"

Had a great time discussing Amy Adams and 'The Master' with @danemcdonald.bsky.social & @louispeitzman.bsky.social !

Very pleased to see Mike Makowsky nominated for his terrific 'Death By Lightning' scripts. And Mary Bronstein's 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' is an inspired surprise nod for Original Screenplay. Congrats to all the nominees!

TCM will become the “ongoing home” of the LOONEY TUNES library. A six-year licensing deal for more than 750 shorts starts in Feb. "We’re able to present these cartoons with the care they deserve alongside the classic films they helped influence." www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t... #FilmSky

To post about something fun for a second: the quick @praddenkeefe.bsky.social reference on tonight's episode of INDUSTRY solidified it as my favorite show on TV.

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Highly recommend the wonderful new production of RAGTIME at LIncoln Center. Some of the finest singing I‘ve seen on Broadway (three standing ovations DURING the show!) and the story is (sadly) more relevant than ever. Joshua Henry as Coalhouse is extraordinary.

My good friends Craig Barron and Ben Burtt--Academy Award winning visual effects artist and sound designer, respectively--sample their blades in this illuminating look into THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. Check it out here and on @tcmtv.bsky.social, because they hit the bullseye.

Since y'all asked nicely, here's my complete history of Robin of Sherwood. One of the finest TV shows ever made. Hugely influential. Most modern cinematic/TV Robin Hood tropes trace back to it. As Herne would say: "Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten." authory.com/JohnBull/Not...

i feel this way about CITIZEN KANE, which is a very fun and funny movie

As fine an actor as he was, Isiah was an even better spirit and the greatest gentleman.

If you’ve never seen #NeverSayGoodbye, it’s worth checking out today at 6 PM EST on #TCMParty. It’s a romantic comedy that manages to be sexy and funny, and Errol Flynn rarely gave a more winning performance. The script is a bit haphazard, but he and Eleanor Parker steam up the screen, so who cares?

Thanks largely to my participation in the great @screendrafts.bsky.social podcast, I watched some splendid movies this past year. My @letterboxd.social list of my favorite 20 first-time watches (in order of release date), not counting 2025 releases: boxd.it/QKLbc

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Well, shit.

Reiner tragedy proving once again most people do not understand how hard it is to get mental health treatment for a non-compliant adult

When I was depressed I thought everyone's life is defined by the worst thing that happens to them; the joy people are taking in Rob Reiner's work proves how wrong I was. Just as importantly, life on Earth is not defined by the worst things people do & say—please don't let this convince you otherwise

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.

Many, many hours of joy my whole life due to Rob Reiner.

I knew it! Starbucks is using POWDER this year not ACTUAL egg nog, the cheap bastards!!!

A heads-up to my physical media brothers and sisters -- especially if you're concerned about access to the WB catalogue in light of recent events -- Movie Zyng is doing a big Warner Archive year-end Buy 3, Get 30% off sale (plus free shipping over $70) with the code WARNER2025. Linky:

POLICE ACADEMY 5: ASSIGNMENT MIAMI BEACH

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

Well, I like this. :)

What I’ve been up to! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Hello. Here's my annual awards-season reminder/gripe that y'all are using the word "snub" incorrectly. Kisses and hugs, Bryan

if I could only listen to one kind of music for the rest of my life, the answer would be Memphis soul. RIP Steve Cropper, whose guitar and production defined the Stax sound as much as Booker T’s organ or Otis Redding’s shout

So I ended up doing exactly this (well not every episode but...) and it's not pointed out often enough that almost everybody uses this meme wrong. (Don is intensely jealous of / threatened by Ginsberg and thinks about him constantly!)

Why has no one manufactured a nutcracker modeled after Nosferatu in the Robert Eggers movie?

Tom Stoppard. Had the pleasure of seeing his plays performed many times -- my two faves being a student performance of THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, in the summer of '94 when I was at Interlochen Arts camp, and the wonderful 2000 revival of THE REAL THING w/ Stephen Dillane and Jennifer Ehle. RIP

Good morning! I took the opportunity of the BEATLES ANTHOLOGY's streaming debut to write about THE COMPLEAT BEATLES, the (imho) far superior Fab Four doc, and why, because of the ANTHOLOGY, it's so hard to see. Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/m...

The problem, as ever, is there are too many great options!

Incredible news for LA movie fans. The @amcinematheque.bsky.social continues to do the Lord’s work! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I remember this very well. This was must-see TV. And I had aged out of the show by then!

one of the best commercials ever made.

Matthew MacFayden is truly superb in #DeathByLightning on @netflix.com.

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

There are about a million things wrong with entertainment journalism these days, but one of my biggest sticking points is that I would give anything to dedicate time to hyping up hidden gems and independent productions, but no one (who will also pay) is willing to platform pieces about them.