#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S7: E11 - Photography Movies with Leslie Byron Pitt The film blogger, podcaster, & photographer returns to the show for a wide-ranging chat about a variety of films, especially REAR WINDOW, ONE HOUR PHOTO, & CITY OF GOD. Listen everywhere: www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

Happy Birthday to Marilyn Monroe & to two of our best film writers, the insightful & lovely @kimmorgan.bsky.social & @candicefrederick.bsky.social! Read their work asap!

#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S7: E11 - Photography Movies with Leslie Byron Pitt The film blogger, podcaster, & photographer returns to the show for a wide-ranging chat about a variety of films, especially REAR WINDOW, ONE HOUR PHOTO, & CITY OF GOD. Listen everywhere: www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Wisdom from an extraordinarily emotionally aware child. op: @drelishagoldstein

Pretty fun that Springsteen managed to organize an America 250 concert line up that people actually want to see.

There’s a scene in THE LONELY GUY where Steve Martin has a party in his apartment with cardboard cutouts of celebrities that’s sad, funny, and cringe, and I’m thinking about it for no particular reason whatsoever.

Hey Bluesky! The first excerpt of my book is out! In the New Yorker! Read all about how the religious right fought to keep The Last Temptation of Christ from being released, and how the battle helped them refine the tactics they still use today. www.newyorker.com/preview/arti...

Reminder that Widow’s Bay creator Katie Dippold is behind one of the greatest Halloween tweets of all time:

Happy Pub Week to the delightfully clever Jenn McKinlay's newest romcom THE SUMMER SHARE! I've been excited for this one ever since she first told me about it & am always excited to read another terrific title from Scottsdale's own Jenn. She'll be back on #WatchWithJen pod this summer, too!

Scenes from Phoenix Art Museum, which remains one of the city's best kept secrets.

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!

“You tell ‘em coming and hell is coming with me!” Might’ve done my best Kurt Russell a few too many times today but when you’re in Tombstone, it’s required.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Scenes from our atrium. The bougainvillea grows out of control, but I love it when it blooms shockingly pink at the same time as the hibiscus. Hope this brightens up your week & timeline!

When you log onto BlueSky and everyone is arguing… about BlueSky.

35 years ago today this was the box office opening day lineup. What a time to be alive.

This wk, I had to get up at zero dark thirty to make a doc appt far away & queued up one of my desert island top 5 albums, HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED. A man saw me rocking out hard at a stoplight, & I laughed, thinking the last song he would’ve guessed it was was “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues.” HBD Dylan!

for the last 40 years— since the premiere of "the color purple" and as recently as "is god is" (2026)— black women's cinematic image has been haunted by the idea that our films 'further divide Black women and men'. for my newsletter, i write about black women's cinematic right to revenge.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I talked Joan Crawford with my pal @filmintuition.bsky.social. The three films I chose to discuss were HUMORESQUE, SUDDEN FEAR, and JOHNNY GUITAR, but we also spoke more broadly about Crawford’s life and career. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for having me, Jen!

As a film critic, I am pretty good at suspending disbelief but nothing cracks me up faster than watching the genius spy or cop go undercover, constantly touch their earpiece OCD style, shout into their lapel in public, & look behind them every few seconds like they’re being chased by Jason Voorhees.

#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S7: E10 - Joan Crawford with William Boyle The Brooklyn Bard & SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET author returns to the show to discuss the Old Hollywood icon’s life & career, plus HUMORESQUE, SUDDEN FEAR, & JOHNNY GUITAR. Available everywhere or www.patreon.com/posts/159040...

Dear Media, It’s possible for a person to die from cancer without calling it a battle. It gives the disease the power and unintentionally makes it the victor. Write about the way the person lived. Please spotlight the person. You can mention the cause of death without emphasizing it. Thanks.

I've always quoted BULL DURHAM more than your average bear, including more than 2 pro athletes I dated (soccer & football), which greatly amused them. But I found myself quoting it in at least a dozen conversations I've had since my birthday, & realized that by now, in life, I’ve become Crash Davis.

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!

So KING OF ASHES won the Netherlands Booksellers Award for Thriller of the Year! I won the same award for Razorblade Tears . Apparently im the first writer in the 47 year history of the award to win it twice! Thank you to all the readers and booksellers from The Netherlands!!!

Thank you for the kind & thoughtful birthday wishes. It was lovely & I’m touched.

Sponsored by “Be Best”

I had a wonderful time talking with the brilliant @filmintuition.bsky.social about Sunny for @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social!

Had the best time talking to the delightful @alisongaylin.bsky.social about her latest Sunny title for the Robert B. Parker estate, BOOKED. You can watch the @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social interview in full on YT here: youtube.com/live/emku_61...

happy birthday to the brilliant writer, peerless compadre, and all around good dude @filmintuition.bsky.social 🎉

This is 45!

Obligatory link to me and @filmintuition.bsky.social going long on THE MAN BETWEEN and The War Noir of Carol Reed (also: THE THIRD MAN, ODD MAN OUT and OUR MAN IN HAVANA) www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

It’s Dennis Hopper’s Birthday & one of the most ambitious things I did a few seasons ago on Watch With Jen pod was release a 3-part episode on over 3 decades of Hopper’s filmography, with over a dozen guests. Don’t miss it!

Busy week of recording #WatchWithJen pod. You’ll hear William Boyle on Joan Crawford & Leslie Byron Pitt on photography movies in the coming weeks!

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

Received THE TUCCI COOKBOOK as an early birthday present & it's making me want to get a little more ambitious in the kitchen... as in branch out beyond the 5-6 dishes I know how to make, lol. Asking for any advice & recipes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzFW...

One side effect of binge watching THE CLOSER & MAJOR CRIMES with my mom is that when I drive by a couch advertised as “free” on the side of the road, my first thought is now, “ooh, what if it was the scene of a murder & they’re getting rid of the evidence?”

My therapist called AI “The Beast” because of what it’s doing to the arts, humanities, jobs, the environment, communication, & education, & I feel like that should be its new name.;)

#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S7: E9 - Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy with S.A. Cosby The wonderfully gifted author of KING OF ASHES returns to talk Araki, plus the filmmakers, actors, video stores, & more of the '90s indie film scene. Available everywhere or www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

Revisited SOUND OF METAL for #WatchWithJen pod today, and shared my thoughts on Letterboxd. boxd.it/elT51z

Made baked stuffed shells & it was delicious!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers, sisters, aunts, friends, grandmothers, cousins, girlfriends, stepmom, teachers, neighbors, and everyone else who takes on that lovely role! And if this day is hard for you for any reason, my mom & I send you love & support! 💕

200 days meditating on Insight Timer & 50 days of cognitive brain games on Impulse has been awesome.

🧵Last year, a rude paramedic asked me why I didn’t have a husband or kid to help me since I had complex autoimmune disease. I told him most men bail, & I was so sick, I said “let’s ride in silence.” Then out of nowhere, he goes, “You write about movies. Have you seen CITY OF GOD? Do you like it?”

"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." It's so cheap, tawdry, and astonishingly tone-deaf, but most of all, stupid. The opposite of leadership.