end times energy

I’m very down for this approach. It somewhat falls in line with the kind of storytelling era the show evokes too, ie, mortality based gut punches

2025 started out less than great but ended up being pretty OK, thanks in part to the wonderful people who do this show with me, and the people who enjoy (or at least listen to and tolerate) it! Love you all!

lost a necklace. bought a replacement on ebay for said necklace, the only listing that was available. seller shipped it. then that package was also lost. there is something karmically concerning going on with this as a way to close out 2025 ...

strongly reported piece from Will Tavlin about MUBI & the backlash to its Sequoia Capital investment (along with the correct point that the money funding A24 is also quite compromised), and about the ideological evils of perpetual "growth." @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/mubi...

For the New York Times, I wrote about the creative implications of the potential Netflix/WBD deal, and why I hope Netflix learns more from HBO than HBO learns from Netflix (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

butlerian jihad now

RIP to isiah whitlock jr., who swung so perfectly in THE WIRE b/t jovial backslapping aw-shucks politics and incredibly petty, deeply menacing villainy. the elongated "sheeeittt" catchphrase was a delight and a threat. the number of THE WIRE actors who are dying ... I hate it.

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

y'all are in for some DRAMATIQUE drafting

once I walked a lost garrett hedlund to the green room for a vulture festival event. he was very polite! great voice! called me "miss"! firm handshake!

I'm sure everyone will be normal about my TOTALLY REASONABLE request for the STRANGER THINGS finale to kill off most its characters www.vulture.com/article/stra...

With his anachronistic score for ‘Marty Supreme,’ Oneohtrix Point Never, a.k.a. Daniel Lopatin, joins the ranks of star composers.

Lord God I have asked for so little but if this ever happens and if there is an essay needed, you know I am ready to serve

watching a TV show where everyone has a gutter-trash british accent of a different flavor. so comforting actually

One of my goals for next year.

It’s time for #Spotlight on the @ohmpods.bsky.social #DecadeProject so I enlisted the brilliant investigative and inquisitive mind of one of my favourites - @lindseyromain.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1j9T...

We have a fun lineup of movies and guests coming up! We couldn't book Payakan for A3 but maybe this summer?!?

I need a screener link so bad www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXTA...

“At the very least, Mr. Clarke deserves the key to Hawkins,” says ‘Stranger Things’ actor Randy Havens, who returns in season five to help the gang rescue Dustin.

sports are basically all I watch live at this point and there are only five types of ads in America, all of which are locked together in some kind of existential death march that prove the emptiness of our current reality: AI, gambling, cars, medications, insurance (that prob won't cover your meds)

my issue with people overly praising television that dares to go "slow" is that I think this degree of intentionality re: process is so much more interesting and worthwhile to the viewer and the narrative? basically I'm just saying for the millionth time that I love THE WIRE, I guess, breaking news

Tom just watched DRIVE (2011)

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

as I have been very open about, I love the Bosch books (nearly every cop bad except for Harry!), and I especially love that when Titus Welliver narrates the audiobooks he does an impression of Matthew McConaughey for Mickey Haller's voice, The Lincoln Lawyer endures as cinema

Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar winner (released 25 years ago today) retains its considerable power – thanks to an incongruent but potent mix of cynicism and optimism. From @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/lights-for-t...

“Our writing was held to the same kind of standard that Lowell Bergman uses in journalism, which is that it wasn’t authentic unless it could be corroborated at least a couple of times,” Mann says. “Every line of description in the script was subject to the most rigorous kind of fact-checking.”

Amos Poe — who co-directed OG punk film ‘The Blank Generation’ and helped give birth to the film branch of No Wave — died on Christmas Day. He was 76.

Back in June, I tagged along with the legendary Mira Nair for an afternoon canvass in Richmond Hill. Production delays (by yours truly) kept this from coming out during the election, but we wanted to share this one with you for the holidays. I hope you enjoy it - this is one of my favorites.

FYI for those aboard the Ann Lee train and looking for something to do with your family on the long weekend ... Choreography perhaps? www.vulture.com/article/the-...

It was a delight to talk to @thewheeler.bsky.social for this great essay on 2025's alternately dastardly and dashing pop culture dads. www.thecut.com/article/2025...

Depending on where you stand nine years into ‘Stranger Things’ run, Will’s big scene in penultimate episode ‘The Bridge’ might’ve moved you to tears — or fallen entirely flat.

the real question is how many Oasis jerseys I should buy for myself off eBay this Christmas

Merry Christmas! Let's gift ourselves the better world we deserve by making it. 💗

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

If you still haven't gotten a gift for the movie-loving friend or family member in your life, we're here to help! You can gift them a subscription to a full year of BWDR for less than $20!

Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. www.equator.org/articles/how...

to me, carlos-manuel vesga is giving the best performance on PLURIBUS as manousos, who'd rather take on the Darién Gap alone than have anything to do with the Others who've taken over the world. we chatted about catholicism, language, & migration, for @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/plur...

Did you know that the movie SHE RIDES SHOTGUN was based on a novel called SHE RIDES SHOTGUN and you can read that novel whether you liked the movie or not. Personally, I liked the movie - but I loved the novel. It's full of those good words and phrases and punctuationalism that good writers do

talked a little bit on @screendrafts.bsky.social last night about my dad and it sort of unlocked another level of love and grief and sadness and joy I have about him being in my life and now being gone. so uh yeah movie podcasting with your friends, it is Important, Soul-Nourishing, and Good

People might say that pre-ordering my book for someone would make for a lousy Christmas present. But! Not only will it gift your loved ones a sizzling piece of neon noir that may well end up chiseled on the tombstone of the American Empire, but it will also reach them about delaying gratification.

Well, everyone knows there’s a Crisis of Masculinity. What this essay presupposes is: who gives a shit? Join Mon Mothma, Michelle Williams, Betty Draper and me for @newrepublic.com's 2025 Year in Television! newrepublic.com/article/2033...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

1 of the craziest things about the Epst*in files is just how many photos there are. This was way before we had cell phone cameras, which means someone actually walked around with a camera documenting their crimes like it was a kid's bday party for these endlessly vain, endlessly dumb, grown-ass men

For my final big BUFFERING story of the year, I teamed up with @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social, @kvanaren.bsky.social and @nwquah.bsky.social to figure out which 5 streamers had the best 2025. The result: Our list of the hottest platforms of the year. Up now @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/stre...

A woman who leads something called “The Free Press” and who got the made-up job title CBS “Editor-in-Chief” openly says journalism is when you only run stories if your subject responds to you:

from me, about Josh Hutcherson's Dylan as the only sane, and also most passive, character on I LOVE LA. until now, massive spoilers ahead, yadda yadda

she's just doing what she was hired to do