Looks like we’re building up to an all-timer of a lineup for Oscar gays whose truer sexuality is Best Supporting Actress.

Well folks. It's today. Today is THE day... ...where anything can happen.

Happy Halloween! 🎃🔪👻🦇

Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.

Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else

Top 3 Hitchcock (underrated division): MARNIE THE WRONG MAN FAMILY PLOT

Treat yourself.

Define our musical taste in 8 artists: Stevie Wonder Erykah Badu Björk Laurie Anderson Kerri Chandler Louis Cole Ken Nordine Prince I excluded Prokofiev and Ravel for ... well, no good reason really. Stuck with individual artists also; sorry, EW&F, KING and Masters at Work.

Trying to do this without naming any of the perennial top-10 placers on varied all-time horror lists… CREEPSHOW OUTER SPACE THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE PULSE

, or: How I Ended Up with a $55 Vinegar Syndrome Ultra Pressing of MAC & ME I Now Have to Forever Keep Hidden from My Husband

Not an original answer, but New Hollywood-era horror has certainly supplanted the contemporarily-acknowledged masterpieces of New Hollywood in overall esteem and canonical centrality. As for those who've fallen off, pretty much all of the '90s music video directors that aren't Glazer?

Jimmy Stewart almost certainly laid ears on KMFDM’s “Juke-Joint Jezebel”

“Literally Ironic”

Same. 4 1% picks, 3 at 2%, a 3% and a 4%. Vulture Cinematrix No. 532: Sep 9, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2691 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Finally wrapping up Wesley Morris’s THE WONDER OF STEVIE otherwise invigorating podcast and, while I’ll give credit for turning the mic over to Christgau, it only crystallized why a) writing about music is if anything weirder than “dancing about architecture” and …

Cate Blanchett, TÁR Laure Calamy, FULL TIME Jasna Đuričić, QUO VADIS, AIDA? Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS Franz Rogowski, GREAT FREEDOM

GÁR

It's not my favorite song on the album (maybe third or fourth), but taking this moment to stan for "Baby Be Mine." Vintage Q/Temperton genius and Chris Rock's famous hot take about it is extremely wrong. www.tumblr.com/fivestarjamz...

We streamlined our logo to get rid of the busy graphic elements, and we’re confident this will make everyone happy. Please continue to enjoy arbys

I think I’ve been cured of ASMR. If you’re interested, the cure is: no more than 5 seconds of exposure to influencers deliberately blaspheming the purity of unintentional ASMR.

I dunno, my most recent movie library acquisitions suggest I may have a problem loving bad movies too much.

he’s gay AND Tom cruise?? he really CAN do it all, wow

Most underrated/unfairly maligned/hidden/whatever of the '70s 70: MYRA BRECKINRIDGE 71: SUMMER OF '42 72: WINTER SOLDIER 73: FILM PORTRAIT 74: EARTHQUAKE 75: THUNDERCRACK! 76: LIPSTICK 77: THE PRIVATE FILES OF J. EDGAR HOOVER 78: THE WIZ 79: QUINTET

Earth, Wind & Fire's "You." That's it. That's the whole post.

I'm mellowing out a lot in my dotage and in general think opinions are to be discarded like used tissues, but thinking that Scorsese has never been better but Spielberg lost it decades ago is a bona fide "do not engage" red flag in my book.

Not sure I can defend this, but Stevie Wonder’s five mid-70s records (from Music of My Mind to Songs in the Key of Life) are the only music I ever play on the 4th of July. They are America to me. They’re my Sousa marches.

Of course I went (comparatively) long on THE WIZ. It's a movie I unabashedly love.

YEARNING HELLZAPOPPIN’ CRIME WAVE (Paizs) and a Bruce Conner box

Panahi, Trier, Mendonça Filho plus a special award for Bi Gan feels almost unusually au courant. Binoche understood the assignment!

Jafar Panahi has won the Golden Lion at Venice (THE CIRCLE), the Golden Bear at Berlin (TAXI), and now the Palme d'Or at Cannes (IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT). He is the fourth director to win top honors at all three festivals, after Clouzot, Antonioni, and Altman.

PANAHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Preferring BLUE VELVET to MULHOLLAND DRIVE (to say nothing of INLAND EMPIRE) will never not be a red flag in my book. Ditto preferring DEAD RINGERS to CRASH (to say nothing of COSMOPOLIS).

These two alone, I mean ...

First halftime show by a Pulitzer Prize winner since Annie Proulx and Aerosmith in 1998!

it ought to be interesting to see who wins the super bowl. at the end of the day you never know

Spent almost all of this list going “@rilaws.bsky.social is nuts! @rilaws.bsky.social is insane!” And then I got to #1 and was like, “OK, nice save!”

Good morning! I've never done my "Why Oscars Matter" spiel on bsky! So here 'tis. I talk a lot to programmers and archivists about how hard it is to get corporate permission to screen rare films, let alone restore them. The FIRST question the suits will ask is "Did it win an Oscar?" Every. Time.

Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.

Mangold's getting that 5th director slot ...

One underratedly fascinating aspect of this moment is just how long they’ve laid an on-ramp for a large section of users to see just how little they should trust anything that pops up in that section. Might still not matter in the long run, but it’s something now at least.

David Lynch consoling Robert Altman in 2002 is still my favorite Oscars cutaway.

I (re)watched Lynch's films in 2007. This seems to be all I wrote about the experience. I stand by it.

my timeline