The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Wrote about the German film SOUND OF FALLING, which just premiered at Cannes and kind of blew the top of my head off www.vulture.com/article/revi...

bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Man, at a time when we've gotten so resigned to commercial interests trampling art and community, reading this is just the coolest fucking thing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...

Look at this massive lad, fresh from having rounded the talk show circuit, taking a break on the Angelika green room rug between Q&As

CINCINATTI ROBBED

This is such a prime weekend to go see BLACK BAG and take 94 minutes off from thinking about the state of the world to instead spend them thinking about how great it is that Steven Soderbergh has made a movie about how hot movie stars are again

🌴New in the Main Feed🌴 VACATION HORROR Drafted by @louispeitzman.bsky.social & @alisonwillmore.bsky.social Listen everywhere! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Spoke with Bong Joon Ho about the ending of MICKEY 17, autocrats, internalized blame, and why he thinks that, to be an optimist, you need to be willing to get bleak about our current reality www.vulture.com/article/mick...

Spoke with Bong Joon Ho about the ending of MICKEY 17, autocrats, internalized blame, and why he thinks that, to be an optimist, you need to be willing to get bleak about our current reality www.vulture.com/article/mick...

Possible I've wildly overinvested in the opening of this supermarket in hopes of continuing to feel anything at all, but look! A pelmeni bar! ny.eater.com/2025/3/6/243...

Filmspotting Fest begins

We are recording the VACATION HORROR draft with @louispeitzman.bsky.social & @alisonwillmore.bsky.social NEXT WEEK! Which films about horrors befalling people while on holiday NEED to make the list?!

What if we kissed in the weird condos above B&H Photo Video

Heyo Chicago, there are still a few tickets left for this Saturday's Filmspotting Fest screening of TANGERINE, followed by a post-screening discussion with ME (I am terrified, but you should still come!) purchase.siskelfilmcenter.org/websales/pag...

Saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the need to prove they can make a watchable movie out of the most random IP

Incidental now that the franchise is likely to be dissolved into a larger sea of synergized streaming content, but watching the Agatha Christie adaptation he was in last year got me convinced that David Jonsson would be a great Bond

BREAKING!

5,000 @NYMag readers & counting have told @VoxMedia they plan to stand with @NYMagUnion if we walk out. Tomorrow we're back in bargaining. The time for a fair deal is now. If you haven’t signed, tell Vox you support New York’s 150 union members: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

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97% of @nymagunion.bsky.social members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @voxmedia.bsky.social. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

Sleep well, king 👑

A small thing in light of this shitty news, but it would be lovely if today were the day this GoFundMe for TWIN PEAKS actor Carel Struycken and his wife, who lost their home in the Eaton Fire, reached its target www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...

Fuck variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Wrote about my favorite performance of the past year, and why what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in HARD TRUTHS really feels like it's in a league of its own www.vulture.com/article/give...

Seconding this, and want to add that the legal pressure frequently put on outlets and writers in efforts to defang or outfight kill stories like this is another reason they're so difficult to publish. Our subscriber base allows us to have the support of our own legal team!

Watch this and then donate if you're able! www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

hi! my annual video countdown of the year's best movies will be up on monday, january 13. on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live: gofund.me/ae3c2b9f

QUIET LUXURY

And one last Movie Club installment, on Radu Jude’s caustic, brilliant latest comedy, and on having not expected to fall in love with Clint Eastwood’s (maybe final) film slate.com/culture/2024...

Chicago! I'll be helping celebrate 20 years of the Filmspotting podcast at the first-ever Filmspotting Fest — join me for a screening and discussion of TANGERINE on 3/1, or better yet, come for the whole three-day event www.filmspotting.net/filmspotting...

Back at Movie Club with some thoughts inspired by a FYC email I got touting Matt Walsh's AM I RACIST? as the biggest doc of the year slate.com/culture/2024...

Hashtag blessed to be doing Slate Movie Club this year with @thehighsign.bsky.social, @bilgeebiri.bsky.social, @odienator.bsky.social, and Kam Collins. Here’s my first entry, on what it takes for a movie to feel big these days slate.com/culture/2024...

Reading @lizpelly.bsky.social's Spotify piece and @tavlin.bsky.social's Netflix essay back to back is a real (bleak) vibe harpers.org/archive/2025... www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

🚨 BIG NEWS: HELL GATE IS HIRING! 🚨 We're looking for a writer-editor to join our newsroom, as well as a part-time marketing and advertising manager. The application deadline is Friday, January 3, so don't delay! More details here: hellgatenyc.com/jobs/

Asking the important questions about KRAVEN THE HUNTER — namely, who is the weirdest guy in KRAVEN THE HUNTER? www.vulture.com/article/revi...

We are sequestered and will not leave until we have selected a new film pope

Eventually someone sat next to me but it took a LONG TIME

I have been trying to rediscover my will to post and am not sure whether I've found it yet, but in the meantime, @bilgeebiri.bsky.social and I have top tenned www.vulture.com/article/best...

I took a walk around the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with LONGLEGS director Oz Perkins, and we talked about how his horror movies have served as a kind of indirect autobiography www.vulture.com/article/osgo...

I feel terrible for Jordan (and for everyone else at the Messenger) but also this account is terrific and funny in the most apocalyptic way nymag.com/intelligence...

January

Cuddle weather

Pretty fantastic to get to look at some of Cynthia Lahti’s ceramic ladies irl after seeing them play the role of Michelle Williams’ artwork in SHOWING UP — they’re at James Fuentes through Jan 13

TIRED: THE KILLER is a comedy WIRED: NAPOLEON... is a comedy?

Juliette Binoche: Pours filling into a giant vol-au-vent MoMA Theater 1: