did I anticipate seeing young miko on the superbowl stage before most of our pop girlies? or watching bad bunny (🥵🥵) three times before finding out who won

finally completed my book reading challenge for the first time but man, some of art's harshest critics are the Claires and Katies on goodreads

not to be dramatic but HUNGER & THIRST from THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is finally available for streaming, which was a selling point for one of the best performances of the year

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

THIS PUSSY DON'T POP FOR YOU

Here's the Boston Society of Film Critics hunkering down to vote for the best movies and performances of 2025. I'll be posting the winners and runners-up as the day progresses (and hopefully we'll get out while it's still daylight). Stay tuned. #BSFC @bsfc.bsky.social

the stupid urge to keep typing PETER HUJAR'S DAY OFF

how does one convince their partner to watch BUGONIA instead of AFTER THE HUNT after their celebratory promotion dinner

cheryl hines' book tour is an absolute self-sabotage to her "i stay out of politics" history and admittance to Fahrenheit RFK. you could have just sat there and ate your food.

8/23/67: Roger Corman's The Trip (W: Jack Nicholson) w/Fonda, Strasberg + Dern & Hopper Crowther, confused: nytimes.com/1967/08/24/a... More @markharris.bsky.social: www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-... @annahoang.bsky.social: bostonhassle.com/go-to-the-tr... J Todoruk: collider.com/the-trip-mov...

i think FRIENDSHIP and WEAPONS happen in the same universe (or cul-de-sac)

it's probably because of that pose, but vanessa kirby's sue storm is marge simpson-coded. i will not elaborate.

This weekend @brattletheatre.bsky.social is screening a newly restored director’s cut of Masayuki Suo’s SHALL WE DANCE! The Hassle’s @annahoang.bsky.social has the scoop on this wonderful film. bostonhassle.com/go-to-shall-...

Today on the site, @annahoang.bsky.social spoke to director Dalton Coffey about his neo-western FALL IS A GOOD TIME TO DIE and the intricacies of subverting genre: bostonhassle.com/interview-da...

Boston friends! I’ll be hosting a Q&A with filmmaker Ben Sisto at the Seaport Drafthouse on Tuesday, 7/22, following a screening of Ben’s who-wrote-it documentary WHO LET THE DOGS OUT! Who? Who?!?! drafthouse.com/boston/event...

not the person to talk during movies but the person who shouts out the production company names before their introductory credit animation finishes

no matter how many times I see it, my brain activity ceases to continue every time i read THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN. we are not serious people.

somewhere out there, there's a man who sees himself aging through tom cruise in the mission impossible movies. give that man a pen and paper now.

cavill's superman will always be the one. his cold detachment and his immaculate bone structure is exactly how I imagined the concept of superman to be.

celine song and her damn bars!!

The new trailer for Celine Song’s Materialists, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans ✨ In theaters June 13 via A24.

couchella '25 thoughts (pt 1): - this term is thrown around a lot but MARINA truly looks timeless - weird to listen to a whole tiktok song - everytime LISA comes into the convo, I tell everyone shes one of kpop's best dancers + she's dating the son of the world's richest man

youtu.be/4jBrYkoP6eI?... looking back at the past awards season i don't think there was a movie that united audiences like conclave. i have recommended this movie to literally everyone just because it's so fucking juicy.

We join our colleagues in @nsfc.bsky.social, @nyfcc.bsky.social and @lafilmcritics.bsky.social in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.

white lotus s4 following lauren sanchez's crew in space

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

liquor stores hate to see me coming begging for their willem dafoe x mic ultra merch

there is horse-named musician propaganda simmerimg on pitchfork, which would seem pretty dorky if not for the fact that horsegiirL and horse vision rips

nosferatu (2024)

"holding space" may be the viral soundbite but the interviewer saying "but I am in queer media so..." is really for the community

the way my brain can't wrap around singing along to the ABRACADABRA chant...make this song a karaoke requirement for future exam schools

kdot's half time show: phenomenal, production and lighting magnificent, narrative out of this world, very charismatic bootleg jeans trending: not today pls

struggling to stop describing movies as john-wickian because it becomes a spoiler to the dog's fate

craziest thing about EUSEXUA is that there's a track where she sings a verse that doesn't sound like a feather on ice skates

ok TEARS

Tonight the @brattletheatre.bsky.social kicks off its annual (Some of) The Best of 2024 series! To help guide you through the offerings, the Hassle has compiled a handy roundup with links to our writers’ full reviews: bostonhassle.com/roundup-the-...

when will the gen z powers that be reclaim crystal castles for the next sweaty rave scene?? itsbeen84years.gif

finally caught up with the COWBOY CARTER halftime show. spaghetti will always be that banger but beyonce pls the people want the renaissance tour physical media not the jolene redux and reduced.

So this is neat: when I interviewed ANORA actor and Sean Baker regular Karren Karagulian a couple months ago he didn’t have a page on Wikipedia. Now he does, and my interview is heavily cited!

last one I got for the year. come for the lactose-privileged, stay for the "manic penis dream boy" bostonhassle.com/review-babyg...

BOBITA!!

BEST DOCUMENTARY NO OTHER LAND

watching KNEECAP while sitting alone in a spa is the kickstart I don't particularly deserve but need for the hail mary night of screener catch-ups

fitting for the roy children to find their way into the oscar conversation

holy as in transcended the physical world

For @bostonhassle.bsky.social, @annahoang.bsky.social reviewed the harrowing BLACK BOX DIARIES. https://buff.ly/3V4hYUC

TODAY! The Somerville Theatre is hosting a special preview screening of the fascinating new animated Hungarian documentary PELIKAN BLUE. Read Anna Hoang’s review on the site, then bop on over to Davis! bostonhassle.com/review-pelik...

thought long and hard and decided to commit to lowercase ruminations for the rest of my social media days