Ah yes, just like all the millionaires who were going to leave NYC if Mamdani got elected. Stfu and pay your fair share, drama queens!

YEP. Meanwhile HEATED RIVALRY and THE PIT are dominating pop culture discourse for several weeks by… releasing their episodes over several weeks

An innovator!

I know it’s been widely remarked upon but Netflix releasing eight episodes of STRANGER THINGS in three installments is so funny to me They’re so close to getting it

Our GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC conversation with @scottderrickson.bsky.social on RASHOMON, released in NYC on this day in 1951:

On Scorsese's 'Kundun,' released on this day in 1997:

Imagine still using Twitter.

I’ve spent 4-plus hours so far interviewing McT for the book and he is still sharp as a tack, smart as hell, obsessed with film theory & technique. He’s 11 years younger than James L. Brooks and if that dude can get a studio to finance ELLA MCCAY than this man should get to make any movie he wants

DIE HARD has great lighting. Look at those blues and skin tones enshrouded in darkness, we got a light blasting through smoke in the next room to give you the contrast; you wanna know why I dunk on modern blockbusters? This is why, the visual poverty, the fear of lighting a set properly

This is really terrific. Do yourself a favor and watch

This is just beautiful. Sincere but understated. You can feel the ache of loss. Scorsese is as good a writer as he is a director and actor. My house is full of books that he contributed essays, forewords, and introductions to, and every one is a gem.

On George Cukor’s 'My Fair Lady,' released on this day in 1964:

My VICE series on the films of the fall of 1997 comes to an end with three of the big releases of Christmas Day, 30 years ago: 'Jackie Brown,' 'As Good As It Gets,' and 'Wag the Dog."

Frank, unsurprisingly, is right

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

You know it, I know it, we all know it.

Me and some of the @crooked-marquee.bsky.social gang put together our year-end lists for you!

Weird how you never hear about the U.S. Military facing a “tight squeeze” or “losing money”

For Christmas Eve, enjoy a supercut of my favorite tradition — Darlene Love on Letterman

Don't forget that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a Christmas movie for sickos (it's me, I'm the sicko).

Can confirm

My dude you are literally a media analyst, it’s YOUR actual job to judge “whether it should have been included or not,” my god

Good morning! The last disc and streaming guide of the year is live at @crooked-marquee.bsky.social, with thoughts on DIE MY LOVE, BUGONIA, PREDATORS, the new BOOGIE NIGHTS and DOGMA 4Ks, Shaw stuff from @vinsyn.bsky.social, @criterion.bsky.social's new PEE-WEE and AMERICAN UTOPIA, and more!

BUMP

The notably elusive, rarely-seen-on-television Tom Homan and Stephen Miller. The J.D. Salingers of the MAGA set!!

BREAKING: I obtained a 1945 letter written to director George Stevens and producer John Ford expressing concerns about Nazi Concentration Camps, the documentary film they plan to release.

So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year

Need a not-watched-to-death Christmas movie tonight? Want one with fantastic profanity and killer dialogue? THE REF (1994) is sitting out there waiting for you! Don't believe me? Read this great look back @jasondashbailey.com did on the movie a few years ago: www.flavorwire.com/594535/secon...

Had an absolute blast with this Time Out exclusive: 'Die Hard' screenwriter @stevenedesouza.bsky.social ranking 10 'Die Hard'-inspired action flicks www.timeout.com/news/10-die-...

One of my very favorite bad movies, 'Tango & Cash,' was released on this day in 1989. From the old site:

weissand effect

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Keep Circulating the Tapes

We are tremendously lucky that this entire cadre of evil motherfuckers are also drooling incompetents

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months. It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.

A personal anniversary: on this day in 2017, we debuted the NYT list of the best movies on Netflix. It's been a cornerstone of my ability to exist as a freelancer, and I like to think I've helped put more eyeballs on some good movies.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

“There’s something boldly refreshing about the idea that they’re such messes,” @jasondashbailey.com writes of ‘Is This Thing On?’ “You reach a certain age where you think you’ve got it all figured out, and not long after that, you may discover that you’re wrong.”

it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

pro tip: if you want your mom to be really happy around the holidays make sure you get her a copy of @jasondashbailey.com's Jim Gandolfini book, mine is stoked

It spawned one of the most ubiquitous memes on the Internet. The rest of 'Jeremiah Johnson' (released on this day in 1971) is pretty great too:

This month's Beyond the Algorithm column over at the NYT is an annual tradition: we always devote December to movies that came out this year, are on the streamers right now, and are well worth a look over the holiday break. Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/m...

the vice president is a klansman

There are no correct interpretations of texts or consensus exegetical strategies that would make LLMs “very good at summarizing texts.” There is no interpretive tradition with a constant, unchanging answer to the problem of a text. There are no texts posing only one problem. This isn’t arithmetic