this was, as always with Jen, so much fun and I hope you'll listen!

Man of the people, he is.

If you have a finals baby in 9ish months the middle name gotta be Knickerbocker. So we can all be like "Welcome to the world little Alexandra Knickerbocker Hernandez Washington!"

Think about if someone from any other nation had done this: A mainstream foreign official comes to US soil, straight up insults (and threatens) the mayor of the city he's visiting, and it's just complete crickets from the media & Washington

"What does American cinema think of the Black authority figure? Every film in this series, programmed by Steven W. Thrasher (it’s inspired by his book The Overseer Class) and Jesse Trussell, offers a singular take." https://bit.ly/4aiFm87

Deeply appreciaed the care and breadth of my 10 minute segment on @democracynow.org and the 40 minute (!!!) web chat Amy and I had afterwords. The producers and journalists of DN really did right by me in looking at my career and my book to help position me so I can continue doing my work 🙏🏾🙏🏾

A story about WORKPLACE STRUGGLE is great, but part of what I Love Boosters is doing is saying actually the imagination is bigger than the workplace; you not only have to steal into and steal from to make the thing you want to make, and need to make, but it's a lot more possible than you'd think

A week of celebrated, beloved films and worthwhile conversations about them at BAM, Brooklyn.

Just this article is a wild romp, I can't wait to see this season.

bumping!

THE INSIDER 2: in this suspenseful sequel to Michael Mann’s corporate thriller, a spoiled news anchor who thinks he’s smart tries to intimidate the new executive producer and is fired for being mean to some darned good executives who are just trying to regain the public’s trust in mainstream media

I made a trailer for my @bambrooklyn.bsky.social series “Black Cops, Spies & Overseers.” Join @craigsj.bsky.social @sorayanadiamcdonald.com @jcljules.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social & me at BAM, June 5-11! www.bam.org/film/2026/bl...

last august, I visited the Toronto set of the most ambitious, lush, erotic, "what the hell did I just watch?" show on TV. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is now THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. new package, same wild DNA. my dive into that creative process, @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/inte...

Big thank you to @criterion.bsky.social for shouting out the CRASH 30th anniversary essay I wrote for @letterboxd.social Journal.

One last time! Thanks for bearing with me, everyone!

honestly this is very rude to remmick

My Dad passed away a year ago today. The last 18 months have been some of the most trying times of my entire life. I wrote about my reflections during these horrible times (and also a little bit about why Springsteen is my constant). Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/everybody-...

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on August 16th in the UK and August 17th in North America on #4K and Blu-ray from @arrowvideo.bsky.social: #Troy (2004)! FOR LOVE. FOR GLORY. FOR TROY. From director-producer Wolfgang Petersen (Poseidon, Das Boot) comes Troy, an epic tale of love, war and devastation.

if you didn't listen to me at least listen to this guy

finalized a big, months-in-the-works feature I'm very proud of. ate a cinnamon roll while on vacation. everything coming up hadadi

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com

awesome stuff happening in the dumbest time in a failing country

Want to know why ANGEL HEART still has its hooks in modern audiences? Check out this piece by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social at @certifiedforgotten.com.

I don't use any of this shit. the guys who insist everyone's doing it are merely telling on themselves. I also did not cheat/take shortcuts on schoolwork and I know how to use a library. It's infuriating to be freelancing while laziness is rewarded with salary and healthcare.

sports jersey kameez ... humanity is still capable of inventing good things

The DNC being excessively rude online to Trump’s White House policy architect would hit harder if it were coupled with the party’s full stop blockade of voting for his appointees

Let’s make some (good) news. Here’s what we’re recording soon on Watch With Jen pod! Stay tuned for changes & additions. Nothing makes me happier than talking to creative friends about film!

ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data. n.pr/4dAMaAo

Happy birthday to the queen Pam Grier, who I interviewed for @Vulture.com: www.vulture.com/2018/11/pam-...

every day there's a new story of an elected rep quiet quitting and it would be amusing if these weren't some of the most useless and incompetent and morally repugnant people alive in charge of making some of the most important choices for "our democracy" or whatever we're still pretending it is

While at #Cannes, I visited the Palestine Pavilion where I attended a Nakba Day vigil, a panel on programming Palestinian cinema, and a celebration of life for Mohammad Bakri. I also attended a party hosted by Watermelon Pictures about the future of their distribution company and streaming service.

the crusades didn't do it for me but this man will

my latest instance of "yeah, she's a millennial child of immigrants" behavior: my local grocery store marked down the fancy rice brand by 50 percent bc it's not selling well enough and now my pantry has six different new kinds of rice

the pope is foucauldian. i repeat. the pope is foucauldian.

Spent 45 minutes trying to find any evidence of a television show I definitely watched that sounds apparently like three television shows it definitely isn't, and because Google search sucks so much now and because my brain hurts, I'm just going to assume this information is forever lost to time

only assholes drink Mr. Pibb

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

yeah I loved writing this one

You may know what story Boots Riley is always going to tell, but you will never guess the weird twists and wild turns the story will take.

Interesting reading. I don't know why this show (which was brilliant at first) deviated from the source material so much.

Watched the ending of this last night and it just felt so deflated. Not only this show but it seems like so many American shows don’t know how to wrap things up in a satisfactory way

As someone who never read the original comic, I had my own issues with the finale. This…. Is a fascinating read.

I don’t like how many Trump officials have moved from “Iran then Cuba” to warming to “Iran AND Cuba”

People who have withstood 64 years of economic blockade, including the so-called special period following the fall of the U.S.S.R. and a series of screw-tightening measures from that time onward, are not simply going to raise a white flag at the latest sign of adversity.

ten weeks of war with Iran and she’s throwing in the towel? probably didn’t even TRY to go snorkeling in the Strait of Hormuz

That thing when you record an episode of #WatchWithJen pod on actor Riz Ahmed & your brilliant friend @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social brings cool props, including the Criterion edition of SOUND OF METAL (featuring her wonderful essay) & her Riz pillow!

I wasn't very interested but then Roxana posted this... www.vulture.com/article/neme...

NEW: An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

the amount i just shouted “GREG POP??? YOU DON’T KNOW GREG POPOVICH????” in response to gus saying “i’m glad wemby is putting the spurs on the map because who ever thinks about the spurs”